Morrinsville Intermediate

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within six months of the Education Review Office and Morrinsville Intermediate 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 

Morrinsville Intermediate school is located in the rural township of Morrinsville and within the boundaries of Ngāti Hauā, tumuaki o te Kīngi. It caters for students in Years 7 and 8. The school continues to be led by an established leadership team.

Morrinsville Intermediate’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• to enhance teacher capability and leadership by further embedding an effective coaching model
• to enhance the localised curriculum by creating explicit opportunities for learners to strengthen their key competencies.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which they are strengthening parent and whānau involvement as partners in their children’s learning.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• through meaningful involvement of parents and whānau in their children’s learning, progress and achievement should improve and result in more equitable outcomes
• through being effectively involved in supporting their children’s learning, the sense of belonging and engagement with the school should improve and positively impact on outcomes.

The school expects to see an increase in the number of students making accelerated progress and achieving at the expected curriculum level.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support it in its goal to increase parent and whānau involvement as partners in their children’s learning:

• whanaungatanga is prioritised to ensure students participate and learn in a culture that is caring, inclusive and collaborative
• students experience a broad, localised curriculum that is student-centred and highly relevant to emerging adolescents
• effective internal evaluation processes are in place with clear strategic vision; these drive and sustain school improvement, innovation, and enable equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• planning internal evaluation to ensure the voices of all stakeholders are considered
• research and inquire into effective ways of improving parent and whānau engagement in their children’s learning.

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.

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools

5 May 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