Te Miro School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 8 months of the Education Review Office and Te Miro 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

Te Miro School is situated in a small village farming community 13kms from Cambridge. It offers education for students in Years 1 to 8, and promotes the vision of growing our future, nurturing confidence and respect.

Te Miro School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• growing a great team of teaching and learning

• an environment that embeds ‘our rich local curriculum’.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively student achievement data is being used to inform teaching and learning programmes to improve student outcomes.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• that it aligns with the strategic initiatives of the school

• it supports strengthening of communication of student progress and achievement with parents and whānau

• to recognise students’ strengths and needs so that they experience success.

The school expects to see partnerships between school and whānau that are focused on the learner, a wide range of student achievement data being used to inform teaching and learning programmes, and students experiencing success across a range of curriculum areas.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to effectively use data to improve student outcomes:

• A collaborative and experienced teaching team.

• Authentic learning opportunities within the natural environment of the local area.

• Well-established partnerships that support the strategic direction of the school.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• investigating and deciding which data will be collected and why

• reviewing when and how to report to parents and whānau about student progress and achievement

• monitoring data to identify the impact of teaching and learning programmes 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

17 May 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