Rangitikei College

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 18 months of the Education Review Office and Rangitīkei College 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 

Rangitīkei College is located in the south Rangitīkei township of Marton where Ngāti Apa are mana whenua. The college is a co-educational high school catering for learners from year 9 to 13. The school has recently revised their pouwhenua to more purposefully re-establish, strengthen and celebrate their school culture.

Rangitīkei College’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are aligned with the achievement challenges of the South Rangitīkei kāhui ako:

• building teacher and learner efficacy

• developing and strengthening cultural revitalisation

• developing a localised curriculum through place-based learning.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent that all learners are supported to achieve their aspirations through a responsive curriculum.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is that the school knows that a new approach to curriculum planning and delivery will help to engage learners and better support them to achieve their aspirations.

The school expects to see:

• improved outcomes for all learners particularly in engagement, retention, achievement, and wellbeing

• a collective responsibility where learner aspirations are supported through a responsive curriculum

• culturally responsive teaching and learning that actively nourishes mauri ora

• reciprocal learning-centred relationships with iwi, community, families and whānau that support the realisation of shared aspirations.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate the extent that learners are supported to achieve their aspirations through a responsive curriculum:

• a shared vision that is understood and articulated through the school’s pouwhenua, providing a clear lens for decision making and ways of being

• alignment of strategic intent to that of the South Rangitīkei kāhui ako to better ensure a community wide response to the achievement and wellbeing of young people

• leaders who ensure a settled school environment that prioritises cultural connection, identity, language and belonging, to secure an effective platform for learning

• committed teachers who increasingly offer culturally responsive learning experiences.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• consultation with a range of stakeholders to ascertain what learning should include at Rangitīkei College

• continuing to build teacher capacity to sustain a culturally responsive learning environment that actively nourishes mauri ora

• developing, communicating, and implementing a carefully considered plan to support the school community with curriculum change

• ensuring that reciprocal learning-centred relationships support the realisation of shared aspirations.

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

22 September 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

This school has an alternative education facility that is located on school owned property across the road from the school.