KingsWay School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 6 months of the Education Review Office and KingsWay 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 

KingsWay School is a state-integrated Christian school catering to students from Years 1 to 13. The campus is organised as three schools: the primary years 1-6, middle years 7-10 (including middle school 7-9 and junior secondary year 10), and senior years 11-13.

The schools’ values of God’s creation, all people, personal faith, character, and truth help them in their goal to create a Christian community of learning that nurtures young people towards their full potential as servant leaders in the Kingdom of God. The vision for KingsWay graduates is that they may be confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners who are growing in faith, hope and love for Jesus.

KingsWay School strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• Tū Rangatira | Leadership: The school leadership is evaluated to support all students to achieve their full potential
• Tuia te hono | Powerful Connections & Relationships: International engagement with our community is enhanced
• Te Kaiako whakaaweawe | Effective Teaching & Curriculum: Continue to develop KingsWay’s identity as a leading school of Christian education
• Ngā kaiako hiringa | Empowered & Capable Staff: All staff actively engage in professional learning opportunities to better support all students to achieve their full potential
• Te aro mātai | Evaluation for Improvement & Innovation: Data is used effectively to improve student outcomes and personalise learning programmes for all students
• Kia Kaitiaki | Stewardship: The Board increases its capacity and capability to govern for all students to achieve their full potential.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how to increase the consistent use of differentiated teaching and learning throughout the school, so ākonga have greater opportunities to be more agentic.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:

• create an agentic learning approach that develops higher-order cognitive skills and increases a sense of self-efficacy and resilience
• increase the opportunities for ākonga to be more agentic and take ownership over their own learning
• student agency becomes an intrinsic consideration within the teaching and learning process.

The school expects to see:

• teachers who explore innovative ways to differentiate their practice to cater for all ākonga
• ākonga who take greater control over what and how they learn
• ākonga who can articulate why and what they are learning and the next steps towards mastery.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to increase the consistent use of differentiated teaching and learning:

• KingsWay has a strong base of excellent academic achievement and student outcomes.
• Staff demonstrate a continuous improvement disposition to benefit all ākonga.
• School leadership has engaged expert educational partners to grow teacher capability.
• Kāhui Ako provide effective professional development for staff.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• the professional development of staff with specific focus on planning and the delivery of differentiation and development of student agency
• the identification of ‘bright spots’ of effective practice and practitioners who reflect the evaluation goal
• activating expert partners to support the school to implement the goal.

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