Paeroa Central School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Paeroa Central 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 

Paeroa Central School is a small, dual medium primary school located in Paeroa with in the tribal boundaries of the Pare Hauraki iwi grouping. It caters for students in Years 1 to 8.  It provides education in both Māori and English mediums. An established principal continues in the role.

Paeroa Central School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• Ako Learning – learning progressions and kauneketanga ako are evident in teacher planning and assessment with an improved rate of achievement for all target students and a focus on accelerated progress and student agency.
• Mātauranga Knowledge – Māori cultural values and Haurakitanga are embedded, visible and practiced. The school will have a strong commitment to move towards bi-lingualism in all classes.
• Te Taiao – Our Environment – To have a well maintained and resourced school.
• Whanaungatanga Community – The Paeroa community will work together to make sure all students in Paeroa will thrive.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well teachers are using and understanding learning progressions and kauneketanga as a basis for accelerating the progress of those learners at risk of not achieving.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is the need for:

• greater capacity and consistency by teachers in their understanding and use of the learning progressions and kauneketanga for assessment and planning
• greater understanding of how to use the learning progressions and kauneketanga should lead to teacher understanding of how to measure and monitor student progress towards end-of-year national curriculum expectations.

The school expects to see:

• higher numbers of students making accelerated progress towards end-of-year national curriculum expectations, particularly those who are at risk of underachieving.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how well teachers are using and understanding learning progressions and kauneketanga, as a basis for accelerating the progress of those learners at risk of not achieving:

• the school culture is clearly underpinned by the tikanga and values of the iwi of Pare Hauraki that promotes a high level of support for the school in the local community 
• high quality and well documented systems and processes for planning and assessment
• high levels of relational trust between the school and its parents and whānau.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to induct and support new staff in the use of learning progressions and kauneketanga in an environment of high staff turnover 
• monitoring the impact of the strengthened use of learning progressions and kauneketanga on student progress and achievement.

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

15 June 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