Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kahu

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 19 months of the Education Review Office and Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu 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 

Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu is a contributing primary school, located in Christchurch. It provides education for learners in years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is learning together, soaring to new heights. Learning is linked to the school’s HEART values: Hauora, Explore, Aspire, Respect, Taonga. Formerly Sockburn School, Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu moved to its new site in 2019.

Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• deliver quality teaching that improve student outcomes, keeping learners at the centre
• improve achievement for all students, including those identified as needing to make accelerated progress.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the impact on student achievement, engagement, and progress of its consistent approach to teaching literacy and mathematics.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is: 

• significant roll growth is requiring thoughtful embedding of consistent quality practices across the school
• a high proportion of students in this multi-cultural school are English language learners
• groups of priority learners have been identified as needing to make accelerated progress in literacy and in mathematics.

The school expects to see:

• improved achievement, engagement, and progress for all students in literacy and mathematics
• teachers consistently using quality practices across the school, with confidence.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate the impact on student achievement, engagement, and progress of its consistent approach to teaching literacy and mathematics.

• The child-centred, collaborative nature of teaching and learning across the school supports best practice and embedding a consistent approach.
• A proactive, collaborative leadership team, informed by data and evidence-based research, strategically drives the school’s vision for learning.
• Professional learning is focused on supporting teachers’ knowledge and confidence of literacy and mathematics strategies.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• embedding consistent literacy and mathematics teaching and learning practices across the school
• growing students’ ability to articulate what they are learning and why, their progress, and next steps for learning
• strengthening learning conversations with the diverse community of whānau
• using agreed assessment practices to evaluate student achievement, engagement, and progress.

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

6 December 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