Paparoa Range School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 14 months of the Education Review Office and Paparoa Range 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

Paparoa Range School operates over two sites, one at Dobson and the other at Blackball, on the West Coast of the South Island. The school provides education for students in Years 1 to 8.

Paparoa Range School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to provide:

• a responsive curriculum, effective teaching and opportunity to learn to raise student achievement.

• educationally powerful connections and relationships to raise student achievement.

• stewardship to raise student achievement.

• professional capability and collective capacity to raise student achievement.

• leadership of conditions for equity and excellence to raise student achievement.

• evaluation, inquiry and knowledge building for improvement and innovation to raise student achievement.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well culturally responsive practice contributes to positive student outcomes in terms of excellence and equity in achievement and wellbeing.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• support the attendance and engagement of students who are at risk of not meeting their potential.

• strengthen the consistency of culturally responsive practices to support the wellbeing of students.

The school expects to see improved outcomes of equity in student engagement, wellbeing and attendance.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its evaluation of how well culturally responsive practice contributes to positive student outcomes in terms of excellence and equity in achievement and wellbeing:

• Teachers share high, clear and equitable expectations for student learning, achievement, progress and wellbeing.

• Internal evaluation practices support the gathering, analysis and use of evidence of student learning and outcomes to improve individual and collective practice.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• progressing te ao Māori learning for all staff and all learners including tikanga Māori, te reo Māori and broader mātauranga Māori.

• ensuring that te reo me ōna tikanga and te ao Māori are actively promoted and prioritised.

• actively engaging with iwi, hāpori and whānau to develop the collective knowledge to positively transform Māori student outcomes.

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

30 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