Titahi Bay School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within two years of the Education Review Office and Titahi Bay 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 

Titahi Bay School serves the community in the northwestern suburb of Titahi Bay, Porirua City. It delivers learning opportunities to children in Years 1-6.

Titahi Bay School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to grow:

• relationships with children, whānau and the community

• student and teacher love of and engagement in learning

• improve attendance levels to pre Covid levels

• a curriculum that engages learners, incorporates local history and utilises new technologies.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the effectiveness of the school’s refreshed local curriculum and how well it is enriching student wellbeing, engagement and achievement of all students. 

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• to increase the engagement of students in learning opportunities

• to provide curriculum experiences that raise students’ awareness and knowledge of their local stories, histories, places and people

• for students to know and understand where they are culturally located

• to raise the achievement of students across the school, especially in reading and writing.

The school expects to see leaders, trustees, teachers, students and whānau actively engaged in learning the local stories and histories of the area, allowing students to develop an understanding of how stories affect people and place. It also expects staff to utilise information and modern teaching strategies to plan and implement programmes to improve student engagement, achievement, and wellbeing.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to develop and implement an engaging local curriculum.

• Positive relationships with students and whānau that support engagement in learning.

• School values that are well known and consistently enacted to support the wellbeing of all.

• Engagement with local iwi that supports the understanding the area’s history has guided the local curriculum and strengthening learning opportunities.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• the refinement and implementation of the revised curriculum that identifies meaningful learning opportunities using Titahi Bay as a context

• developing a shared understanding of the importance of local stories and their place in the curriculum

• review assessment practices and use of achievement information to better inform teaching practice and improve outcomes for learners across the curriculum.

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

20 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