Taonui School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 10 months of the Education Review Office and Taonui 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 

Taonui School is a rural school located approximately 5km southeast of Feilding and provides education for students in Years 1 to 8. The school’s values – STRIVE – Success, Teamwork, Respect, Individuality, Vision, Enjoyment / Angitu, Mahi tahi, Whakaute, Tūhāhā, Whakakitenga, Ngahau are a school-wide priority focus to support and enhance learning and wellbeing.

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

• provide excellent teaching and learning opportunities

• provide an environment where the wellbeing and success of students is promoted and the school values are embraced by all

• enhance the professional development and wellbeing of staff

• provide a dynamic, high-quality learning environment

• maintain the family-like atmosphere between school and home.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school’s environment and teaching and learning programmes ensure enhanced hauora and success for all.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• ensure every learner has a strong sense of identity, culture and language

• strengthen understanding and connections with local history, hapū and tikanga Māori

• embed high levels of culturally responsive teaching and learning practice. 

The school expects to see all learners achieve personal success through a high-quality, engaging and culturally rich responsive learning environment.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goals:

• School-wide consistency for high levels of learner engagement and achievement.

• Collaborative staff who have high expectations for all learners to achieve success.

• Internal and external expertise across the curriculum to facilitate and support school-wide quality and consistency of teaching and learning.

• Embedded school values that support learning and wellbeing.

Where to next?

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

• strengthen the integration of te reo and tikanga Māori school wide

• enhance hauora and enjoyment of learning for all

• focus on effective practices of internal evaluation to sustain high levels of innovation and learner success

• celebrate and promote positive relationships with whānau, hapū and community.

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 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