Henley School (Nelson)

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 24 months of the Education Review Office and Henley School (Nelson) 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 

Henley School is located in Richmond, Nelson and provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The five values of Respect; Caring; Fairness; Honesty and Responsibility are central to all school operations. It is a member of the Waimea Kāhui Ako. At the time of this ERO report, there was an Acting Principal.

Henley School (Nelson)’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• provide the highest possible learning outcomes for all students
• recruit, retain and support the development of high-quality staff
• endeavour to provide a safe and effective teaching and learning environment.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Henley School (Nelson)’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively approaches to teaching literacy are improving outcomes for all students, particularly for those who need acceleration.  

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• to raise the achievement of identified priority learners, including boys and Māori
• to further support the development of teaching practices across the school to promote the consistent implementation of writing initiatives.

The school expects to see improved achievement in writing overtime throughout the school and sustained improvement across all literacy.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to know how effectively literacy initiatives are improving outcomes for all students, particularly for those who need acceleration:

• highly effective leadership across the staff, with good use of individual strengths to support building teaching capacity
• consistent schoolwide processes and systems to identify, monitor and respond to those learners who need additional support
• strong curriculum knowledge and resourcing to provide effective implementation of classroom programmes.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to embed a consistent approach to teaching and learning of literacy across the school to make sure that teachers’ practices are continuing to grow and sustain student achievement in writing
• evaluating the initiatives to ensure that teaching practices are making positive change to student achievement.

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 August 2023 

About the School

The school is host to the Maitai Satellite Unit.

The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement.  educationcounts.govt.nz/home