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Patea Area School
Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
Background
This Profile Report was written within 9 months of the Education Review Office and Patea Area 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
Patea Area School is a year 1-13 co-educational area school located in Patea, Taranaki. The school’s vision is to “grow good people for a changing world”.
Patea Area School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
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Student Learning: To ensure that learners make academic progress and achieve to their potential
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Effective Teaching: Deliver quality teaching and learning
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School Culture: Celebrate diversity and accept differences
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Engaging Families: Engage with whānau and our community
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Governance: The Board works effectively to support student achievement.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Patea Area School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the school develops their new curriculum with their community to support positive outcomes for learners. The school has chosen to name this strategy Pūaotanga.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:
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the positive benefit it will have on equitable and excellent learner outcomes
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alignment to the school’s strategic goal of engaging families
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to provide a way to bring community knowledge and skills together to better ensure equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners
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to ensure that the school’s curriculum is local, future focused and caters for student pathways.
The school expects to see:
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all learners progressing and achieving according to their individual development plans
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the community engaged and fully participating in supporting learners
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a co-constructed curriculum framework established and enacted.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support it in its goal to evaluate how effectively the school creates their new curriculum in consultation with their community:
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school governance and leadership who have the vision, energy, and relationships to support this kaupapa
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a school learning climate that is relationship based and supports individual pathways of success
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increasing consistency using achievement and progress information to identify and support learning issues.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
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enacting the community consultation strategy, Pūaotanga
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developing a new school curriculum framework that incorporates the skills and knowledge of the community
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developing a Poutama graduate profile that supports equitable and excellent learner outcomes.
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.
Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui
29 August 2022
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
This school has an Alternative Education provider onsite.
Patea Area School
Board Assurance with Regulatory and Legislative Requirements Report 2022 to 2025
As of May 2022, the Patea Area School Board of Trustees has attested to the following regulatory and legislative requirements:
Board Administration
Yes
Curriculum
Yes
Management of Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Personnel Management
Yes
Finance
Yes
Assets
Yes
Actions for Compliance
ERO has identified the following areas of non-compliance during the board assurance process:
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undertake and record sufficient identity checks on the appointment of staff.
[Children’s Act 2014]
The board has since taken steps to address the area of non-compliance identified.
Further Information
For further information please contact Patea Area School Board of Trustees.
The next Board of Trustees assurance that it is meeting regulatory and legislative requirements will be reported, along with the Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report, within three years.
Information on ERO’s role and process in this review can be found on the Education Review Office website.
Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui
29 August 2022
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
Patea Area School - 30/08/2018
School Context
Patea Area School is located in South Taranaki and caters for students in Years 1 to 13. Of the 165 children enrolled, approximately 69% are Māori. A small number of other ethnic groups are enrolled. The school has experienced significant roll growth since the September 2015 ERO report.
The school’s vision is ‘Growing good people for a changing world’. The values of participation, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence underpin school operation and practices.
The school’s strategic aim is that all students will achieve personal excellence and academic success as measured by the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) and National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA). This supports a focus on Māori students’ engagement in their learning and achieving educational success as Māori.
Leaders and teachers regularly report to the board, schoolwide information about outcomes for students in the following areas:
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progress and achievement in reading, writing and mathematics in Years 1 to 8
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progress and achievement in literacy and mathematics in Years 9 and 10
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NCEA results
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whole school improvement, and other trends and patterns in achievement, attendance and retention over time.
A new principal and a number of new teachers have been appointed over the past three years. Longstanding and newly elected members make up the board of trustees.
The school is a member of the South Taranaki – Patea/Waverly Kāhui Ako.
Evaluation Findings
1 Equity and excellence – achievement of valued outcomes for students
1.1 How well is the school achieving equitable and excellent outcomes for all its students?
In 2017, most students achieved NCEA Levels 1 and 3, with all students achieving Level 2.
Achievement data from the end of 2017 indicated that the majority of students are achieving at and above NZC expectations in reading, writing and mathematics. Achievement in reading and mathematics improved from 2016 to 2017.
Disparity for boys in writing in Years 1 to 8 is well known by trustees, leaders and teachers. Strategies are in place to address this.
Learners with additional needs are well identified, their needs recognised and individualised programmes of support are put in place. External resourcing and expertise appropriately supports provision.
1.2 How well is the school accelerating learning for those Māori and other students who need this?
Student achievement data shows that most students successfully accelerate through class programmes and individualised pathways for learning.
Strategic practices and processes are effectively supporting acceleration in learning for those students not yet achieving at expected levels.
2 School conditions for equity and excellence – processes and practices
2.1 What school processes and practices are effective in enabling achievement of equity and excellence, and acceleration of learning?
Trustees have a strong focus on raising student achievement and promoting equitable outcomes for learners. They receive useful information from leaders to set priorities and resource appropriately. A clear strategic vision guides trustees’ focus on improving outcomes for students. An appropriate range of cohesive and well considered systems, processes and strategies are used to track, monitor and address individual needs of students to support their successful learning and wellbeing outcomes.
Leaders have established a range of effective organisational structures, processes and practices to promote the provision of an orderly and supportive environment for student learning and wellbeing. These are well aligned to school priorities to build teachers’ capability and the school’s capacity to sustain and improve outcomes. Well considered distributed leadership promotes coherence across learning programmes, enhances teachers’ capability and positions the school well for continued improvement-focused practice.
Meaningful partnerships with local iwi, the community, whānau and students enrich and extend the learning experiences provided for learners. Whanaungatanga, manaakitanga, ako and mahi tahi are highly evident across all levels of the school. The school is an inclusive environment, open to the community. A range of useful communication strategies engage whānau and share information about achievement and school developments.
Significant progress in developing and articulating the Patea Area School Curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners has occurred since the previous ERO review. High expectations for student success through a strong focus on promoting wellbeing, valuing culture, language and identity and accelerating learning, is highly evident. Responsive, flexible timetabling and the effective use of digital technologies supports the provision of meaningful individualised learner pathways, both academic and vocational.
A strong sense of collective responsibility for students to achieve success is evident across the school. Schoolwide collaborative opportunities for robust professional conversations and sharing of effective classroom practices supports learner success. This significantly contributes to curriculum coherence, shared pedagogical understandings and consistency of practice.
2.2 What further developments are needed in school processes and practices for achievement of equity and excellence, and acceleration of learning?
Continuing to further strengthen knowledge and use of evaluation should support the school to more fully understand the impact of the curriculum on student outcomes. Developing a shared understanding of evaluation across all levels of the school to better determine the effectiveness of actions and strategies should contribute to ongoing strategic direction and decision making.
3 Board assurance on legal requirements
Before the review, the board and principal of the school completed the ERO board assurance statement and self-audit checklists. In these documents they attested that they had taken all reasonable steps to meet their legislative obligations related to the following:
- board administration
- curriculum
- management of health, safety and welfare
- personnel management
- finance
- asset management.
During the review, ERO checked the following items because they have a potentially high impact on student safety and wellbeing:
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emotional safety of students (including prevention of bullying and sexual harassment)
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physical safety of students
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teacher registration and certification
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processes for appointing staff
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stand down, suspension, expulsion and exclusion of students
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attendance
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school policies in relation to meeting the requirements of the Vulnerable Children Act 2014.
4 Going forward
Key strengths of the school
For sustained improvement and future learner success, the school can draw on existing strengths in:
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a flexible curriculum that responds to students’ needs, promotes their wellbeing and supports their learning and progress
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the culture of collaboration among trustees, leaders and teachers that effectively promotes high quality teaching and consistent expectations for learning
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coherent schoolwide systems and processes that focus on improving student outcomes.
Next steps
For sustained improvement and future learner success, priorities for further development are in:
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building schoolwide inquiry and internal evaluation to better determine the effectiveness of the curriculum and actions on student outcomes.
ERO’s next external evaluation process and timing
ERO is likely to carry out the next external evaluation in three years.
Alan Wynyard
Director Review & Improvement Services Central
Te Tai Pokapū - Central Region
30 August 2018
About the school
Location |
Patea |
Ministry of Education profile number |
185 |
School type |
Composite (Years 1-13) |
School roll |
165 |
Gender composition |
Male 55%, Female 45% |
Ethnic composition |
Māori 69% |
Students with Ongoing Resourcing Funding (ORS) |
Yes |
Provision of Māori medium education |
No |
Review team on site |
August 2018 |
Date of this report |
30 August 2018 |
Most recent ERO report(s) |
Education Review September 2015 |