Feilding High School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 16 months of the Education Review Office and Feilding High 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 

Feilding High School is located in the Manawatū township of Feilding. The school provides a co-educational learning experience from years 9 to 13. The school has an attached hostel, LJ Wild House, which accommodates both boys and girls.

Feilding High School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• to enable excellence in student achievement
• to deliver the New Zealand Curriculum and offer courses within this that meet the needs of all learners
• to provide teaching and learning with a focus on high expectations, appropriate reporting, planning and self-review. 

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the effectiveness of school processes and systems to ensure pathways are responsive to the aspirations of every learner.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• as the only high school in the community of Feilding, the school is aware of its responsibility to support a range of pathway options for all learners
• the school has recently implemented new systems and processes designed to better support individual pathways. They want to know and understand the effectiveness of these processes.

The school expects to see:

• a broader understanding in the wider school community of what excellence in achievement means for all learners in the 21st century at Feilding High School
• evidence gathered from a wide range of stakeholders, to further inform future decision-making about the provision of pathways for all learners
• evidence that all learners are achieving equitable outcomes.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support it in its goal to evaluate the effectiveness of school processes and systems to ensure pathways are responsive to the aspirations of every learner:

• strategic intent to meet the learning needs of all learners
• school systems that increasingly support a broad education both in and beyond the classroom
• connections to, and relationships with, a range of local community networks.

Where to next?

Moving forward the school will prioritise:

• developing a shared understanding of what excellence in education means for all learners in the 21st century at Feilding High School
• collecting evidence from a wide range of stakeholders to inform decision making
• using the evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of pathway interventions and programmes, particularly for Māori and Pacific learners.

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

30 November 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