Takapuna Grammar School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within seven months of the Education Review Office and Takapuna Grammar 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 

Takapuna Grammar School is a large co-educational secondary school on the North Shore of Auckland which caters for students in Years 9 to 13. It provides a dual qualification pathway, offering students a choice of the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and the International Baccalaureate (IB). The school’s vision is: Teaching that engages, Culture that empowers, Resources that enable, and Achievements that are worthwhile.

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

• provide world-class education with a personalised, dynamic curriculum, enabling aspirational outcomes for all
• strengthen connections; provide opportunities and support for students’ learning and future options.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well relationships and whanaungatanga between staff and students enable them to engage in and strive for excellence in all areas of schooling.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• deepen the school’s culture of aspirational outcomes for all by embracing the NZ

Curriculum and NCEA changes

• provide more opportunities that equip students to have open minds and resilience combined with good values and an understanding of who they are, that they utilise for personal and community benefit.

The school expects to see an enhancement of turangawaewae and an increase in active leadership by students and staff to support a wider range of ways to learn and succeed. This will enable more students to develop the values, skills and attributes for success and resilience in life.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how well relationships and whanaungatanga between staff and students enable them to engage in and strive for excellence in all areas of schooling:

• consistent, high quality educational outcomes across academic and extra-curricular activities
• a safe, inclusive environment built on traditions, manaakitanga and ako, enhanced by valuable insights provided through the well-established Special Education Unit and Tū Tangata programme
• effective stewardship and leadership that promote accessibility to a wide range of programmes.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• continuing to foster whanaungatanga in the school and wider community so students can embrace their heritage, establish their identity and connect with those who can help them
• enhancing tracking and evaluation to improve equity for excellent learning outcomes for all learners, including those with diverse learning needs.

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools

21 July 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

This school has a Special Education Unit.