Review 28 March 2023
LatestTe Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
Background
This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Pinehill 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
Pinehill School is located in Brown’s Bay, Auckland. It provides education for students in years 1 to 6.
In the last few years there have been some changes to school leadership. A new principal and a new senior leader have joined the school’s leadership team.
Pinehill School has recently celebrated 25 years of service to the community.
Pinehill School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
- Ako/ Learning: A future focus in teaching and learning
- Hauora/ Wellbeing: Having an inclusive culture of care and equity
- Whakawhanaungatanga/ Partnership: Build partnerships and community.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Pinehill School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well schoolwide teaching pedagogies in writing promote student engagement and improve achievement to ensure equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:
- focusing on extending all students to make accelerated progress and achievement in writing
- ensuring all students engage in purposeful writing
- consistently building schoolwide teaching strategies and assessment practices
- reviewing the school literacy curriculum to align to professional development for teachers in writing.
The school expects to see a strengthened school literacy curriculum that aligns systems and processes, consistent schoolwide teaching pedagogies and assessment practices, and engages and extends all learners to enable equitable and excellent outcomes.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support it in its goal to evaluate how well schoolwide teaching pedagogies in writing promote student engagement and improve achievement to ensure equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners:
- students participate and learn in caring, collaborative, inclusive communities
- a highly collaborative leadership team promotes and participates in appropriate professional learning
- a staff culture that is committed to learner engagement and accelerating achievement
- community collaboration and partnerships that extend and enrich opportunities for students to become confident and connected in their identity, language and culture.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
- the collation, analysis and interpretation of schoolwide baseline information data to inform appropriate next steps for students through effective teaching practices
- strengthening inquiry processes so teachers collaboratively work towards sharing best practice to meet the needs of all 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.
Filivaifale Jason Swann
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
28 March 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