NAG 2: Documentation

NAG 2: Documentation

Documentation and Self Review Policy

Each board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to:

1. develop a strategic plan which documents how they are giving effect to the National Education Guidelines through their policies, plans and programmes, including those for curriculum, aromatawai and/or assessment, and staff professional development;
2. maintain an on-going programme of self-review in relation to the above policies, plans and programmes, including evaluation of information on student achievement; and
3. report to students and their parents on the achievement of individual students, and to the school’s community on the achievement of students as a whole and of groups (identified through NAG 1(c) above) including the achievement of Māori students against the plans and targets referred to in 1(e) above.

The Fergusson Intermediate School board of trustees develops the charter as its major policy statement and the guiding document for the school. The charter is updated each year and provided to the Secretary of Education.

The board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff:

• develops a strategic plan
• reports to students and their parents on the achievement of individual students, and to the school's community on the achievement of students as a whole and of groups, including the achievement of Māori students
• uses benchmarks to report:
  • to students and their parents on individual student achievement and their progress in relation to benchmarks at least twice a year
  • to the school community on the achievements of students as a whole and in groups, including Māori
  • school level data under the headings:
    • school strengths and identified areas for improvement
    • the basis for identifying areas for improvement
    • planned actions for lifting achievement.
• maintains a comprehensive programme of self review including
  • plans and programmes
  • evaluation of student achievement information
  • implementation audits and reports
  • a triennial review of policies and procedures.