Ngahinapouri School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within seven months of the Education Review Office and Ngahinapouri 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 

Ngahinapouri School is located in the rural Waipa area of Waikato and provides education for students in Years 1 to 8. The school has strong links to its local community.

Ngahinapouri School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• to create a culture of resilient learners that enables students to be confident, courageous risk takers
• to support students to take responsibility for their progress and next learning steps
• to strengthen community engagement through consultation with families, whānau groups, iwi and marae.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the school’s curriculum is improving outcomes for all learners with a particular focus on wellbeing and achievement. Empowering students in their own learning through formative assessment practices and strengthening responsive partnerships for learning are ongoing priorities for the school.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• the school’s commitment to growing resilient learners and addressing the wellbeing needs of students

• the opportunity it provides to enable equity in the achievement of identified groups of learners and challenge learners to excel and achieve excellence

• the school’s strategic focus on strengthening partnerships for learning with parents, whānau and the Māori community.

The school expects to see further actions implemented to support student wellbeing, strengthen equitable outcomes, and enable success for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to increase student confidence, strengthen equitable outcomes and enable success for all learners:

• a positive school culture that supports high levels of student engagement and participation

• well established school practices that identify and respond to the individual needs of learners

• leadership of learning that promotes open communication, collaboratively develops shared knowledge, and supports consistency of practices to improve outcomes for learners.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• strengthening formative assessment practices to promote students’ understanding and knowledge of their own learning and next steps

• continuing to engage with parents, whānau and the Māori community to strengthen educationally powerful connections and partnerships

• strengthening evidence-based evaluation to further inform responsive school planning for continuous improvement.

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

12 December 2022 

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