Pahoia School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Pahoia School is located north of Tauranga in the Western Bay of Plenty and provides education for students in Years 0-6. The school is committed to developing collaborative, active, innovative, life-long learners.

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

• to promote effective teaching and learning for engaged, successful learners

• to develop a school culture that promotes safety, inclusion and a strong sense of belonging

• to engage community and whānau in effective home-school partnerships.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which an engaging, coherent and integrated curriculum is promoting success against the school’s graduate profile.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• the need for greater coherence and integration across a broad and varied curriculum

• a commitment to pursuing the valued outcomes defined in the school’s graduate profile.

The school expects to see excellent and equitable outcomes resulting from:

• the graduate profile providing a focus for a coherent, integrated, localised curriculum

• students consistently experiencing rich, responsive and engaging learning experiences, tailored to their needs and interests

• students demonstrating increasing confidence and competence in the skills and dispositions outlined in the graduate profile.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to enable students to become collaborative, active, innovative, life-long learners:

• teaching practices that prioritise ‘knowing the learner’ and responding to each student and their learning journey

• an inclusive learning culture that promotes connection and wellbeing

• leadership that deliberately pursues the school’s valued outcomes.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• building a coherent and integrated curriculum framework based around the graduate profile

• continuing to develop a rich variety of meaningful and engaging learning experiences that respond to student need and interest

• developing tools and gathering data to measure the impact of the localised curriculum on student progress, particularly Māori students, against the graduate profile.

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

7 July 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