Sheffield Contributing School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within ten months of the Education Review Office and Sheffield Contributing 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 

Sheffield Contributing School is located is Malvern, Canterbury.  It provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The school’s values of ‘Learning in Partnership, Reaching our PEAK’ underpins all aspects of school culture and practices.

Sheffield Contributing School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• quality teaching and learning

• hauora

• powerful partnerships.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the school’s curriculum is relevant, understood and consistent across the school.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to ensure:

• learning is purposeful and enables success for every learner

• there is a focused approach to the localised curriculum that is clearly understood across the school

• flexible teaching and learning that meets and reflects the school’s expectations for best practice.

The school expects to see learning and teaching programmes and practices that reflect the school’s localised curriculum and equips students to leave school with the dispositions to be lifelong learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal in knowing how effectively the school’s curriculum is relevant, understood and consistent across the school:

• Supportive and inclusive environment where learners are well known and needs are prioritised.

• Strong leadership that builds a cohesive and collaborative approach and utilises individual strengths.

• Positive relationships within the school and its community to support teaching and learning.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• clear, purposeful consistent assessment practices across the school

• evaluating the effectiveness of resourcing in the development of the formalised 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 Schools

12 May 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