Te Uku School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 6 months of the Education Review Office and Te Uku 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 Uku School is a rural school situated close to Raglan Township providing education for students in Years 1 to 8. The school’s vision is to ‘expand the hearts and minds of our students, to become confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners’.

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

• strengthen and promote our unique school identity

• implement a culturally relevant localised curriculum

• build professional capability and collective capacity.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively a range of data is used to inform teaching and learning to improve outcomes for all learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is that:

• systems and structures need to be strengthened to better report on student progress and achievement consistently throughout the school

• student achievement data needs to show value added over time.

The school expects to see:

• a range of data to be used, including student voice

• professional growth cycle to build professional capability and collective capacity

• achievement data showing improvement in student outcomes.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate the effective use of a data to inform teaching and learning.

• An assessment schedule is in place to support teachers to assess in varied ways to support student progress and achievement.

• Teachers collaboratively moderate and plan together.

• There is a shared understanding of a balanced curriculum to scaffold teaching and learning.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• the implementation and review of the professional development cycle

• further unpacking about what is happening for Māori learners, to inform targeted action

• investigating other types of data to better understand 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

28 April 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