Broadgreen Intermediate

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Broadgreen Intermediate is located in Stoke, Nelson, and caters for students in Years 7 and 8. It is a member of Te Kāhui Ako o Ōmaio ki Tāhunanui. The school’s purpose is represented in the statement, Kia Whakamana, Kia Toa - Empowering for Life.

Broadgreen Intermediate’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• partnering with whānau and the community to deliver educational pathways that respond to students’ needs and provide them with a sense of belonging
• providing opportunities for students to progress and achieve success in an innovative learning environment
• using high impact teaching practices to engage and progress all students’ learning
• valuing students' cultures and abilities, supporting them to achieve personal success.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well all learners are supported to experience success by building mana ōrite mo mātauranga Māori through curriculum, teaching and learning, upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• data shows scope to further grow attendance, engagement and achievement, so leaders are purposefully reviewing, planning and growing improvements to the school’s localised curriculum, teaching and learning
• staff have been involved in associated professional development to promote positive behaviours for learning, greater engagement and a focus on accelerating progress and achievement in core learning areas  
• strategic planning aims to grow equity and excellence for Māori learners, with a deliberate focus and commitment that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi in partnership with local iwi, and whānau Māori.

The school expects to see equity and excellence in learning, progress and achievement that fosters hauora. The STAR values (safe, together, achieving and respectful) will be enacted visibly throughout the school, so that the climate is calm and settled, and students feel safe and secure with a sense of belonging. Teachers will weave te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and a deepening culturally located knowledge through learning experiences and in relationships that celebrate and promote students’ potential. Iwi, whānau and the school’s communities will be engaged in curriculum and learning, and their voices will inform decision making that promotes mana ōrite.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal of equity and excellence, through mana ōrite:

• a strong commitment to growing te reo Māori and weaving te ao Māori through learning and school culture, aligned to strategic vision, values and principles
• a reflective, improvement focused and supportive school board and leadership team, purposefully growing a schoolwide culture of collaboration and support that places learner success and wellbeing at the heart of decision making
• deliberate structures and systems of support to grow staff capability and consistency, to foster responsive, smooth and successful learning pathways for students.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to weave opportunities for student and community voices to influence and guide decision making, including embedding the aspirations and expectations of Te Tauihu through decision making using the document Ngā Kawatau me ngā Tūmanakotanga o Te Tauihu
• investigating the impact of professional development on current teaching practices to identify the consistency and sustainability of embedded practices, and opportunities for further growth.

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

21 July 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