Wainuiomata Primary School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report is the result of the Education Review Office and Wainuiomata Primary 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

Wainuiomata Primary School is situated in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata. It offers learning opportunities for students in Years 1-6.

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

• ensure every child achieves their optimum academic performance
• engage students in learning through effective teaching and a relevant curriculum
• further develop positive behaviour for learning evident throughout the school
• have parents and whānau engaged their child’s learning to support students to achieve.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the impact of recently introduced teaching practices on student achievement and engagement, especially in the areas of reading, writing and mathematics.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is leaders and ERO have identified the need to:

• raise the achievement of students in reading, writing and mathematics
• increase student engagement in and ownership of their learning.

The school expects to see students who positively engage in reading, writing and mathematics learning and who are experiencing increased success in these areas. It also expects to see teachers identifying, sharing and using those strategies that have most impact in their classrooms.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to improve student engagement and achievement in reading and mathematics:

• strong, well-established relationships with the school community provides a platform for the implementation of Mutukaroa - the home/school partnership programme, to support transition to school and student learning
• a strengthened response to behaviour management that has a positive impact on student engagement
• ongoing strengthening of cultural practices and understandings for a sense of pride and belonging.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• identifying and sharing the most highly effective teaching strategies in reading and mathematics to better enable students engage in their learning and improve student achievement outcomes
• further refining of assessment practices to align with changes to literacy teaching
• refining the school’s unique local curriculum to increase student engagement and opportunities for success and to capture expectations of effective teaching in reading, writing and mathematics.

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

12 June 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