Ruahine School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Ruahine 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 

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

To empower our Ruahine ROCKERS within an inclusive environment through

• high expectations within in a broad curriculum
• strong community spirit
• leadership, collaboration and hauora.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively teaching practices, expectations, systems and processes are challenging and extending all learners.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• that the school has identified the need to align and strengthen schoolwide teacher practices and expectations that support the learning of all tamariki
• leaders have identified that across the school there are students achieving well whose learning could be further challenged and extended.

The school expects to see the further strengthening of systems and building of capability in all leaders and teachers. This will include:

• using a range of reliable evidence from evaluation, inquiry and knowledge building activities to select, develop and review strategies for improvement
• developing and pursuing shared goals with a clear focus on the acceleration of all learners.  

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to evaluate how effectively teaching practices, expectations, systems and processes are challenging and extending all learners:

• every leader and teacher, purposely focuses on extending every child’s learning, every day with a clear intention on accelerating achievement
• reciprocal learning-centred partnerships based on shared understanding of curriculum goals effectively engage and involve learners and whānau
• leaders consistently share and model high expectations that promote continuous improvement.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• the collation, analysis and interpretation of schoolwide baseline information, quantitative and qualitative data, to inform next steps
• practice analysis conversations between leaders and teachers, focused on further developing effective teaching strategies and enacted practice.

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