Te Awamutu Intermediate

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report  

Background

This Profile Report was written within nine months of the Education Review Office and Te Awamutu Intermediate 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 

Te Awamutu Intermediate is located in the heart of Waipa, providing education for Years 7 to 8. The school promotes the value of SHINE; we Show respect, we are Honest, we Include others, we Never give up, and we seek Excellence. A new principal and deputy principal were appointed in 2022.

Te Awamutu Intermediate’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• build culturally relevant connections, knowledge and practices
• implement a Te Awamutu Intermediate curriculum that is targeted, engaging and relevant
• design school systems that are purposeful, responsive, and effective.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Te Awamutu Intermediate’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the school uses achievement data analysis systems to enhance student learning, achievement, and reporting.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• implementation of a new student management system
• continuation of informed teaching and learning programmes to meet student needs
• refined systems for reporting that are more purposeful for teachers, students, parents and whānau.

The school expects to see purposeful data gathering and analysis systems informing teaching, and learning, and reporting systems that are succinct and meaningful for students, parents, caregivers and whānau. As a result of enhanced processes for using high quality achievement information, outcomes for learners will be improved.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to improve student outcomes.

• Strong leadership capability that sustains a collaborative school culture.
• Well-established and an extensive range of co-curriculum opportunities for all students to engage in a broad and meaningful curriculum.
• Highly responsive and restorative positive behaviour for learning programme that effectively promotes inclusivity and wellbeing for all students and staff.
• Highly effective teaching and learning programmes that respond to the needs of students and promote learning progress.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• maximising reporting systems to clearly communicate student progress and achievement over time for students, parents, caregivers and whānau
• utilising analysis systems to inform teaching and learning so that programmes and strategies effectively meet the needs of students and provides meaningful schoolwide data.

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

11 October 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