Port Ahuriri School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within six months of the Education Review Office and Port Ahuriri 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

Port Ahuriri School is in the port area of Napier city. The school provides education for learners from 
Years 1-6. A special feature of the school is a Montessori classroom. The school’s vision is for ‘Empowered learners in an inclusive, stimulating environment’.

Port Ahuriri School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• student ownership of their learning
• empowered and inspired staff
• safe and inspirational learning spaces
• positive relationships through whānau involvement.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively school programmes and targeted practices enable accelerated learning in literacy and mathematics. The school will inquire to identify those programmes and practices that are effective.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• recognition that school and teacher practices directly impact on learner progress and achievement
• a commitment to ensuring equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners and accelerated progress for those who require this
• the opportunity evaluation provides to further respond to school data and target teaching practices that result in accelerated progress for learners.

The school expects to see:

• an increase in accelerated progress for learners in literacy and mathematics
• identification of targeted practices that enable accelerated progress for targeted students.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how effectively school programmes and targeted practices enable accelerated learning in literacy and mathematics:

• an inclusive, caring environment for students that enables a sense of belonging and high levels of engagement
• collaborative leadership and staff, committed to growing their collective capacity in using evaluation for improvement
• robust tracking and monitoring systems to measure student progress and achievement
• access to targeted professional learning to support this goal.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• developing a shared understanding of accelerated learning and the conditions that support this 
• continuing to use internal evaluation at all levels to further support responsive planning and on-going inquiry into actions that accelerate learning 
• sharing of evaluation practice and on-going outcomes for learners 
• continuing the on-going monitoring of target students.  

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

18 March 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