Matangi School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Matangi School working in Te Ara Huarau, an improvement evaluation approach used in most English Medium State and State Integrated Schools. For more information about Te Ara Huarau see ERO’s website. www.ero.govt.nz

Context 

Matangi School is a semi-rural school located on the southern outskirts of Hamilton. It provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. A new principal was appointed in Term 1 2022

Matangi School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• raise student achievement in writing especially for boys and Māori students

• raise cultural competency across all school practices

• strengthen home-school partnerships, especially in areas of reporting student progress and achievement that reflects best practice.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Matangi School’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well school conditions are sustaining equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners and supporting Māori students to achieve success as Māori.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• maintain a focus on equitable outcomes for all learners through culturally response and inclusive practices

• develop collective capacity to implement a curriculum that reflects te reo, tikanga, matauranga and te ao Māori.

The school expects to see deliberate actions implemented to enable students to have effective and equitable opportunities to learn and succeed as self-empowered learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to strengthen equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners:

• a well-established plan that clarifies actions for improvement, builds collective capacity and contributes to effective evaluation of the school curriculum and teaching

• community partnerships that support ongoing growth and development within the school

• ongoing professional development that supports the pursuit of the school’s vision, values, goals and targets for equity and excellence.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to develop collective capacity to implement a curriculum that reflects te reo, tikanga, matauranga and te ao Māori and to enable Māori students to achieve success as Māori

• further developing tools for internal evaluation and reporting on student progress and achievement

• building on existing partnerships to promote educationally powerful connections with parents and whānau that support improved outcomes for learners.

ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. ERO will support the school in reporting their progress to the community. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report and is due within three years.

Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui

8 February 2023

About the School

The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement.  educationcounts.govt.nz/home