Our Lady of Kapiti School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 17 months of the Education Review Office and Our Lady of Kapiti 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 

Our Lady of Kapiti is a state integrated Catholic school in Paraparaumu. This school provides education for students in Years 1 to 8.

Our Lady of Kapiti School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• maintain and strengthen its special character
• equip ākonga with the skills and attributes to achieve their highest success
• build on the local integrated curriculum so ākonga can ‘understand, know and do’ within a caring, safe environment.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on ​Our Lady of Kapiti School​’s website. 

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which the school's approach to teaching and learning is improving the academic outcomes of their ākonga.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• strengthen outcomes in literacy and mathematics to enable ākonga to access the broader curriculum
• ensure ākonga have greater ownership of their learning journey
• facilitate greater use of achievement information in the planning of curriculum delivery and meeting the needs of their ākonga.

The school expects to see:

• improved and equitable achievement outcomes in literacy and mathematics
• ākonga who can articulate their next learning steps
• teachers deepening their understanding of how best to teach literacy in a structured way
• effective use of achievement information to plan and deliver next learning steps.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its strategic aim of ‘Growing our Learners’ through:

• a senior leadership team that visibly promotes positive relationships
• a collaborative staff who promote a stimulating learning environment that prioritises ākonga wellbeing, progress, engagement and achievement of all ākonga
• enacted school FAITH values for meaningful learning relationships, growing leaders and promoting its Special Character across the school community.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• supporting teachers to implement consistent and effective literacy and mathematics practices to raise achievement and using assessment data as support
• building a shared understanding of learner agency across the school so that teachers cohesively foster active participation in learning
• strengthening teacher capacity in the development of sustainable structured literacy teaching practices to effectively equip early ākonga for ongoing success.

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

25 September 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