Endeavour School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report

Background

This Profile Report was written within three months of the Education Review Office and Endeavour 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 

Endeavour School is located in the suburb of Flagstaff, north Hamilton and provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. A new principal and deputy principal were appointed for 2022. The school provides innovative learning in purpose-built environments.

Endeavour School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:

• to ensure that all students are progressing and achieving their potential in relation to the New Zealand Curriculum, with a focus on reducing the number of students considered to be not achieving
• to develop the capacity and capability of the team, with an ongoing lens to review and implement key strategic curriculum initiatives.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively school programmes and practices are enabling equitable outcomes for all learners. Strengthening students’ social and emotional competence and supporting students to excel and achieve excellence are ongoing priorities for the school.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:

• the opportunity it provides to further respond effectively to school data to improve equitable outcomes for identified groups of students and minimise barriers to learning
• the school’s commitment to supporting the diverse needs of all learners and ensuring students are progressing and achieving to their potential.

The school expects to see strategies further refined and implemented, to enhance the responsiveness of the school’s curriculum for continuous learner improvement and success.

Strengths

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal of equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners:

• an inclusive school culture and positive relationships that support high levels of student engagement and achievement
• teaching and learning programmes and practices that identify and respond to the individual needs of learners, and provide equitable opportunities to learn and succeed
• collaborative leadership that prioritises actions for improvement, strengthens collective capability through professional learning and promotes ongoing evaluation of the school’s curriculum.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise continuing to:

• strengthen responsive strategies to nurture social and emotional competence and support priority learners to make accelerated progress
• provide rich, authentic and challenging learning opportunities that enable students to excel
• strengthen and use evaluation and inquiry to sustain improvement in outcomes for 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.

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools

3 November 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