Learners at the Centre

Inclusion, Belonging and Safety

Pt England School continues the commitment to ensuring that each child and their family felt loved, accepted and included.

In 2024 after having implemented the Mitey Programme which is focused on the wellbeing of every learner, it has been our responsibility to ensure that the programme was properly embedded. We need to continue our focus on this so our wellbeing programme is not diffused.

Our opening unit of work for the year, focused on the Aotearoa Histories curriculm with a particular lens on local history and our burgeoning relationship with Ngāti Paoa. This work moved from an emphasis on belonging, "knowing the ways" and understanding our whakapapa, to focusing more specifically on "where I fit in the scheme of things".

We have taken pains to consult with our community on multiple occasions and in multiple ways to find out what they want for their tauira, their school, their teachers and themselves. We have collated this information and are in the process of forming this into goals for 2025.

Pastoral care for our tauira and kaiako is a weekly agenda item at staff and management meetings and is reported monthly to our Board of Trustees.

Our Learn, Create, Share pedagogy is a great way for tauira to express themselves about how they feel and what is important in their lives. Each year we collect student voice via questionnaires to find out more about how tauira feel about their learning.

Below is a great example of Y1 tauira expaining what it means to be kind.

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As mentioned above, each year we collect Learner Voice about an aspect of their learning. Again, this year we collected information about how they saw themselves as Readers. As you can see, we have some real work to do in this area, not just in our own school, but also across the Manaiakalani Collective.

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To conclude this section, here's another Learn, Create, Share digital learning object, made by our Extension Group on the subject of Hope

High Aspirations

We continue to set the bar high for all our tauira.

Every class in our school has contributed a 3 minute movie to the Manaiakalani Annual Film Festival at Hoyts, Sylvia Park, which have been viewed by 3000 people over the course of a day and an evening.

Our representative mixed netball team did us proud at the AIMS Games and we have had 300+ children playing competitive sport this year, with many wins to our name.

Our academic goals are high, seeking for 1.5 years in a year progress for every child in Reading Writing and Maths, without losing sight of excellent performance in the Arts, Culture and improving the Health Profile of our children and raising their physical fitness along with focusing on healthy food. Our Kapa Haka roopu, Manaia-Ki-te-Rangi performed at the Kotuku Festival and made us all very proud. We connect our Y7/8 tauira with the Future Aspirations programme, to inspire them and to connect them with ideas of possible futures. Our Extension groups work with KPMG throughout the year to get tasters and experiences of various futures that coudl be available to them.

In the data and results sections of this report, the reader will be able to see a plethora of evidence for these goals and claims. You will also see, later in this report, the many and varied programmes we supply to take our children on the journey toward those high aspirations. We supply significant support for learners who need extra help to achieve.

We have begun work with Sir Ian Taylor and ARL to see just how high we can push the bar.

The video below, made by Y4 tauira is a great example of creativity applied to aspiration.

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Pt England School, has for years, ensured we are meting the needs of a variety of learners through an array of special programmes, many of which will be reported on more specifically in this Annual Report Site via their own special page.

Creative Space

Our Creative Space Teacher, Hannah West, went on maternity leave early in the year and was ably replaced by Paulitia Peleti, an alumnus of this programme who came back to us on an LAT and who is now enrolling in the 1 year grad course at Waikato University to become a teacher. We are SO happy with this outcome! Tia has had to get to grips with a very complex job, very quickly and has done extremely well.

The Pt England News Network, which Tia participated in as a student, way back, continues to thrive as a flagship for Learn, Create, Share in our school. Paulita has done a superb job of keeping this and the other Creative Space Programmes alive. She has kept the relationship with KPMG flourishing and did a great job helping to get our presenters ready for the Film Festival and then managing all 44 presenters on the day. Further information about these programmes can be found at the Digital Learning Page and the Extension Programme Page

Hannah West will be returning to the Creative Space in 2025

Maker Space & Garden to Table

Jackson Vogt, our usual Maker Space teacher, also had to take leave in 2024. We were blessed to have Jess Jarvie come and fill the gaps and doubly blessed by her commitment to Garden to Table along with keeping the Maker Space Programme alive. Our tauira continue to be fortunate to have been involved in Garden to Table, 3 D Printing and Robotics, Laser Cutting and Etching, and many more interesting, creative and varied programmes and crafts.

Jackson Vogt will be coming back 4 days/week in 2025 and Jess Jarvie will cover the 5th day.

For more detailed information about the Maker Programme please visit the Maker Space Programme Report.

Te reo me ona tikanga Maori

Safron Witika has led this work in 2024, bringing us two lovely kapa haka roopu as well as leading our te reo me ona tikanga Māori programme. We have been so blessed to have her. As in previous years we have continued with te reo Māori being the language we deliver to our Y7 & Y8's and all classes in the school have continued receiving te reo Māori as a subject on a weekly basis. The connection with Ngāti Paoa ahas continued and grown and we are now involved in 3 different deliveries with our mana whenua: Staff Meetings, In School Support of selected tauira and Cluster Based Activations for tauira and whānau Māori

Thanks so much Whaea Saf and Ngāti Paoa

Pasfika Success

Each Pasifik Language Week has been well celebrated on the Pt England News Network and supported by live performances of dance and language at Assembly on Fridays. In 2024 a Burmese Language Week was added to our "collection"!

As always, the kai has been outstanding! We continue to embed Tapa Sa and to improve our culturally appropriate delivery.

The Manaiakalani Cook Islands Teachers Summit in Rarotonga was a highlight and delivered wonderful learning opportunities to school staff and others in a bicultural/multicultural setting and delivery. Pt England Staff contributed to and learned from this delivery.

We are planning our next Fiafia for Term 1, 2025.

Families @ Pt England

During 2024 we have held our twice termly Families @ Pt England hui. They have been a combination of us informing families and families informing us. An example of this is the wonderful evening Mrs Nua ran demonstrating the BSLA Programme to our whānau. During these hui, we have also surveyed whānau regarding their desires for our delivery and have also captured whānau voice during the year via the Manaiakalani Whānau Surveys.

We will continue to do our very best to deliver on the things our whānau are asking for and this will emerge in our annual plan.

We are able to demonstrate with real confidence using the EdPotential interface, that learners who remain in the Manaiakalani Programme over time make outstanding progress and that this Learn Creat Share pedagogy really delivers to our Māori and Pasifika learners.

Our on going commitment to education research with Auckland University and our own R & D Team, means that we have robust metrics for analysing and discussing the success of this work.

Our Māori, Pasifika and other Fanau engage with us in discussing the children's work both at a parent community layer and at a Board's Forum level as well as with our own school based Boards of Trustees.

Y7/8 Specific Obligations

Technicraft

Our Y7's and Y8's have walked to Tamaki College twice a week for Technicraft. The programme gets evaluated twice yearly and we continue to work with Tamaki College to improve what our children receive. We will continue this programme in 2025.

Languages

Our whanau/aiga have continued to support our Y7/8 language for direct instruction being te reo Maori. This programme has continued its earlier success and continued to elevate the significance of Maori in our school. Our thanks goes to Whaea Safron for her work in this area. We expect to continue this delivery in 2025

Careers

Our Pt england Alumni continue to be a real blessing with their contributions in this space, presenting to our current students, as do KPMG. Thanks to Mrs Nua and Mr Wiseman for their efforts in organising this.

Sports Performance

We had 14 Netball teams this year, 6 Rugby teams and representative sides in all the other major codes, League, Volleyball, Rippa, Tag, Cricket and more. 52 children turned up to Saturday Soccer throughout the winter. Our large Sports Programme is very definitely part of how we express high aspirations for our learners, involve our families and practise inclusion for all comers. Many parents and teachers have contributed to this effort as coaches, managers, transporters and sideline supporters.

For more detail, view the Sport/PE Report in the Programme section of this Review.

Kiwi Sport/Sport Auckland

Sport Auckland helped us to part fund an area wide Sports Co-ordinator. I am very grateful to Chris Herlihy who applied for Tū Manawa funding which we were able to use to pay for Kelly Sports as an approximation of our previous Kiwi Sport programme. Many thanks to Allison, Carmel and Richard who have helped keep this going after Chris left. We have had excellent service from Kelly Sports and Sally has done a most capable job as the "in school" coordinator. Manaiakalani schools also contributed their Kiwi Sport funding to this programme approach

535 Pt England students have participated in Kiwi Sport and the school contributed all of its $7,923.00 Kiwi Sport Funding to the Manaiakalani Sports Cluster Fund to pay Kelly Sports for this delivery.

Programme Performance

Our Special Programmes are all reported on in detail by the people carrying out that work in the Programme Section of this Review.

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