Crawshaw School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within twelve months of the Education Review Office and Crawshaw 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 

Crawshaw School is a full primary school located in the Hamilton suburb of Nawton, catering for students in Years 1 to 8. 

The school’s vision ‘Give them wings so they may fly’ is underpinned by the values of be respectful, be responsible and be a learner. Together the vision and values promote the valued outcomes for learners to be successful.

Since the 2018 ERO report, there has been significant change to school leadership and staff. The present principal was appointed in Term 4, 2022. 

Ngāti Maahanga are recognised as mana whenua. The school is a member of the He Waka Eke Noa Kāhui Ako.

Crawshaw School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• consistent, equitable and excellence for all, particularly for Māori, Pacific and students with diverse needs
• building and sustaining leadership and teacher capability to increase equity of learning outcomes
• engaging with whānau and the community. 

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate to what extent leadership and teacher practice is progressing and accelerating equity of learning and wellbeing outcomes for all learners. 

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is: 

• learner achievement and progress are not yet equitable and excellent 
• leaders have identified the need to strengthen teaching strategies, practices and use of assessment
• that equitable access to learning opportunities needs strengthening.

The school expects to see: 

• accelerated learning outcomes for all students
• improved and sustained consistency in effective teaching practice
• all learners being well supported to achieve success.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the goal of to what extent is teacher practice progressing equity of learning and wellbeing outcomes for all learners:

• leadership is establishing a clear improvement agenda for teaching and learning
• school-wide professional development has a focus on raising achievement
• strengthening community partnerships to value relationships and engagement.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise: 

• strengthening systems to monitor and track learner achievement and progress
• consistent use of agreed assessment tools across the school
• using assessment information to better respond to learner needs
• engaging whānau as partners in their children’s learning.

ERO has concerns about 

• Learners' progress and achievement needs to significantly improve.
• The consistency of effective teaching practices schoolwide.

Recommendation

ERO recommends that Te Mahau | Ministry of Education appointed Limited Statutory Manager continues to support the board in its improvement journey to improve learner outcomes. This includes developing more robust school systems, processes and practices for managing compliance.

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

9 February 2024

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