Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within 20 months of the Education Review Office and Sancta Maria Catholic Primary 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

Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School provides education for students in Years 1 to 6 and is located in Flat Bush East Auckland. Since the previous ERO review in 2017, two school leaders have been appointed to the senior leadership team.

The school’s vision is to grow students with Catholic faith in their hearts, minds and actions, and who are confident, connected, collaborative and critically discerning. The school values aspire for students to be ‘Full of Grace, Obedient, Faithful, Compassionate, Thoughtful, Hopeful, Contented and Determined’.

Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• provide authentic opportunities that will foster and nurture spiritual growth

• strengthen and sustain capability so that teaching and learning is enhanced

• design concept learning through a localised curriculum so that students become critical, confident and connected learners able to engage in a rapidly changing world

• strengthen the partnerships within the South East Christian Kāhui Ako to empower all teachers to grow professionally

• embrace and strengthen cultural efficacy in order to live the shared Catholic faith.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on the Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the impact of effective teaching on learner progress and achievement.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to promote equity and inclusion for all students to access learning and to develop teachers’ consistent use of effective teaching practices.

The school expects to see:

• students who are achieving and progressing in their learning at expected levels

• students engaging with their learning well

• a shared vision and understanding of learning within the school’s learning community.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate the impact of effective teaching on learner progress and achievement:

• strong school values that guide and support students

• a positive and respectful school culture that promotes students’ love for learning

• a responsive curriculum that focuses on meeting all students’ learning needs

• committed teachers who are reflective of the school’s community

• an engaged, supportive and collaborative school community.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise:

• embedding and sustaining teachers’ use of effective literacy strategies to promote all students’ access to and expression of their learning

• continuing to promote culturally responsive practices to develop students’ sense of belonging and mana as learners.

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

25 September 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