Woodbury School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

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

Woodbury School is a small rural primary school, located at the foothills of the Four Peaks Range near Geraldine. The school caters for students in Years 1 to 6.

Woodbury School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• support learning with a detailed, responsive localised curriculum that addresses the needs of all students including competence in literacy and mathematics and their use in everyday contexts

• provide a safe and healthy supportive working environment for all staff and students and ensure students of all abilities and backgrounds are valued and included within classrooms

• foster healthy partnerships and interactions between home, school and the community and support parents to understand how their children are progressing and how they can support their learning and development at home

• accelerate the progress of those students below curriculum expectations in writing and mathematics.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which changes in teaching and learning of numeracy and literacy are continuing to improve achievement outcomes for all students.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• strengthen teaching programmes to continue to improve student achievement in mathematics and literacy

• support students to be more confident in reading, writing, and expressing themselves orally.

The school expects to see equitable and excellent outcomes in literacy and numeracy for all learners.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal support the excellence and equity in achievement of students in literacy and numeracy:

• collaborative practices and planning schoolwide ensures a coherent and aligned approach to improving outcomes

• well considered professional learning and development is extending teachers knowledge and understanding of effective strategies for acceleration

• leaders and teachers effectively evaluate practice and achievement information for schoolwide improvement.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to develop staff capability in data literacy to support assessment, monitoring and tracking of student achievement

• tracking and monitoring of students who are at risk of not meeting the required curriculum level and designing next steps for learning.

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

2 June 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