West Eyreton School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 24 months of the Education Review Office and West Eyreton 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 

West Eyreton School is a rural school in North Canterbury catering for children in the local area from Years 1 to 8. The school appointed a new principal 2022. The school is an active member of the Puketeraki Rangiora Kāhui Ako, which is made up of 18 schools all working in collaboration to improve outcomes for all learners. The school values and promotes five special qualities - Excellence through Effort, Example, Enterprise and Empathy.

West Eyreton’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• deliver equitable outcomes through collaboration

• provide quality, consistent teaching practice that improves student outcomes

• further embed a cohesive school and community partnership.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate literacy achievement and schoolwide assessment for learning practices.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• ensure equity, excellence and inclusion is at the forefront for all learners

   

• develop a manageable assessment and evaluation framework that is sustainable and makes a positive difference for all learners

• monitor progress against the National Education and Learning Priorities (NELPs).

The school expects to see:

• improved outcomes for all learners in literacy by using a more data driven and internal review focused approach to learning and teaching

• more robust data analysis driving change and improvement ensuring sufficiency of progress and achievement for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to better evaluate literacy achievement and school wide assessment practices:

• high quality teaching and learning that ensures students’ progress and achieve well across the curriculum

• highly supportive community, alongside a strong school culture, results in educationally powerful connections that enrich learning

• effective school leadership and stewardship that focuses on ongoing improvement to achieve equity and excellence for all learners

• strong evaluative review and the open sharing of effective practices informs high quality schoolwide strategies for teaching and learning.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• implementing an impact coaching model to enhance sustainability of high quality practices

• engaging in high quality professional development with a focus on Assessment for Learning and student agency to further improve achievement outcomes for all learners

• strengthen schoolwide evaluation for improvement practices to promote greater implementation fidelity across the school in the teaching of Literacy.

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

22 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