Te Ranga School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 6 months of the Education Review Office and Te Ranga 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 Ranga School is a rural school located 15 km southeast of Te Puke and provides education for learners in Years 1 to 8. The school is the hub of the country community and is proud of its learner-focused partnerships with whānau, community and iwi. School vision and values support learners to be confident, connected, actively involved, caring and responsible.

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

• students have maximum opportunity to learn and succeed at or above their appropriate curriculum level in reading, writing and mathematics
• empowering Māori to achieve success as Māori
• to develop smooth transitions into and from Te Ranga School
• for all students to reach their full potential.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well learning programmes and culturally responsive practices impact outcomes of equity and excellence for all learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• improve outcomes of success for all learners, particularly those at risk of underachieving
• strengthen consistency of teacher practice, particularly in the areas of writing and mathematics
• ensure all learners have a strong sense of identity and belonging.

The school expects to see consistent and coherent culturally responsive practices and programmes for learning, resulting in all learners successfully reaching their full potential.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to empower all learners to reach their potential.

• Committed and collaborative leaders and staff who are focused on improving outcomes for all learners.
• Internal expertise, enhanced by external expertise in the focus areas of literacy, mathematics and culturally responsive pedagogy, to facilitate and support high expectations for schoolwide consistency of effective practice.
• A committed board of trustees focused on enhancing school performance and learner outcomes.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise outcomes of equity and excellence for all learners through:

• consolidation and consistent schoolwide use of learning progressions for reading, writing and mathematics
• prioritising authentic, motivating learning experiences and high expectations of success for every learner as they journey through the school
• focusing on embedding te reo, te ao and tikanga Māori
• strengthening whānau and community partnerships to support valued outcomes for all 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

23 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