Papatoetoe High School

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within 12 months of the Education Review Office and Papatoetoe High 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

Papatoetoe High School caters for students in Years 9 to 13. Located in South Auckland, the school serves a culturally diverse community and is focused on meeting the needs of individual learners. School values are integrated into the life of the school and connection with the community. The senior leadership team are managing a period of significant roll growth. 

Papatoetoe High School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are: 

• culturally responsive and relational pedagogy
• educationally powerful connections with parents, families and whānau
• instructional capability
• evaluative capability
• organisational capability.

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

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively students are being supported and prepared to meet the updated NCEA qualification literacy and numeracy co-requisites. 

 The rationale for selecting this evaluation is: 

• the literacy and numeracy co-requisites become a mandatory component of the NCEA qualification from 2024
• all learners must succeed in the literacy and numeracy co-requisites to be awarded NCEA at any level
• to ensure all learners attain the literacy and numeracy co-requisites prior to leaving Papatoetoe High School. 

The school expects to see: 

• teachers consistently using effective culturally responsive and relational teaching strategies and practices in adaptive ways to promote equitable and excellent learner outcomes
• established educational powerful connections, communication and relationships with whanau, iwi, parents, families, and the community
• continuously improving processes, including collaboration and moderation, to improve the impacts of teaching on learning
• students assisted to develop and engage in their own coherent learning pathway
• school leadership continually adapting implementation and strategy to deliver on the school’s annual and strategic priorities. 

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how effectively students are supported to meet the literacy and numeracy co-requisites: 

• learners experience a responsive, rich, broad and deep localised curriculum, which continually improves and responds to their cultures, languages and identities 
• there is an explicit focus on Māori learners being able to experience success as Māori 
• teachers use effective teaching strategies and practices in adaptive ways to promote equitable and excellent learner outcomes 
• appropriate interventions support learners and focus on equity for Māori, Pacific and learners with diverse learning requirements
• systematic, collaborative inquiry and internal monitoring and evaluation processes, practices and actions are embedded. 

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise: 

• literacy and numeracy professional learning for teachers
• systemic improvements to accurately track and measure readiness of students for sitting the literacy and numeracy assessments 
• continued development of professional practice regarding culturally responsive and relational teaching and learning.

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

1 December 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