Rangiora High School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 11 months of the Education Review Office and Rangiora High 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

Rangiora High School is a large, co-educational, secondary school located in North Canterbury which provides education for students in years 9 to 13. The school’s work is guided and informed by its values of aspire | wawatahia, respect | whakautea, and contribute | tohaina. There have been several changes to the leadership team recently and a new, experienced, principal began in the school in Term 2 of 2022.

Rangiora High School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• a guiding focus for teaching and learning that embraces scaffolding to start and feedback and feed forward to improve.

• a curriculum that engages ākonga and provides opportunities for all to succeed.

• enhancing the house system to support pastoral care to grow resilience and wellbeing.

• growing a culture that embraces the values of aspire, respect, contribute.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the impact on year 9 to 11 student achievement and engagement outcomes by its responsive curriculum implementation.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is that the school has identified:

• disparity in achievement for identified groups of priority learners.

• that mātauranga Māori needs embedding across the curriculum.

• student, whānau, and kaiako voice informed the curriculum review and the school is evaluating the ongoing impact as it is being implemented.

The school expects to see:

• ākonga deeply engaged in the process of learning, experiencing success through learning focused relationships and culturally responsive teaching practices.

• a dynamic curriculum delivered through relevant and responsive learning programmes that are inclusive and equitable with clear pathways to future learning, training, and employment.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate the impact on year 9 to 11 student achievement and engagement outcomes by its responsive curriculum implementation:

• the school’s mantra “know me, guide me” underpins and provides focus for tracking, mentoring, guiding, and informing ākonga, whānau, and kaiako across the curriculum and in pastoral areas.

• a systematic process of gathering qualitative and quantitative data is gathered from a wide range of stakeholders to inform curriculum review and implementation.

• teams of staff, formed from across learning areas, are supporting the upskilling and empowerment of kaiako in literacy, numeracy, culturally responsive pedagogy, and restorative practice.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• implementing a responsive curriculum to support and provide opportunities for all learners to succeed and evaluating the impact on student achievement and engagement outcomes.

• targeted professional learning in the use of feedback, feed forward, and scaffolding to guide individual learners.

• strategically gathering and scrutinising data to improve the tracking of individual students and identify and respond to those needing additional support.

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

13 November 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