Pt England has a very strong culture of self review that includes staff, parents, guardians, students, BOT, CoL Schools, Researchers and Manaiakalani partners.
Whilst the 2020 Education and Training Act has mandated that school reporting would be published on a website, we have been doing this since 2010! This idea was and is, in line with the Manaiakalani Learn, Create, Share pedagogy and is another way of sharing our learning and creativity. Some of the ways and the items we have reported on over those years remain highly valuable to us, so although the "NAG's" have been replaced by the "NELP's" we have retained some of our "high value" pages as well as reporting on the objective of the National Education Learning Priorities. We hope you, (the reader) enjoy browsing our self review, and find this format pleasing to use and experience.
Our school currently enjoys a "Strong ERO Review" based on our own strong self review and ERO's view of our sustainable performance. This position is greatly assisted by Manaiakalani and the Manaiakalani R & D Team, who support our review, research and development.
As mentioned previously in the report, we have held 4 whānau meetings this year and consulted our community and held discussions around whānau prioroties.
In 2024 we have consult and engaged over:
Our School Health Programme
The Manaiakalani Programme
Our 1:1 Digital Programmes and associated costs
Our te reo/tikanga Maori Programme
Our Pasifika Programmes
Our students’ academic progress
Academic performance and programmes for Maori & Pasifika
Strategic Planning
Reporting on annual targets and recommendations for the future.
Wellbeing Policies & Procedures
Y7 & Y8 Programmes for 2023, 202 4and on into 2025
Our meetings have been held in a very positive spirit and our whānau have felt free to give us suggestions and ideas.
Academic Programmes
We still have very steady and clear trends in Reading, Writing and Maths and we are clear about the need to implement the recommendations of the the Manaiakalani Research Team and our own co-constructed analysis and synthesis.
We are very pleased to report that on average our tauira have still made 1 Term more than 1 year's progress in a year in Maths, 2 year's progress in Writing and have kept pace with the norm in Reading. Our goal remains, to get sharp acceleration in all three, and to see school wide performance improvement in all three.
In order to improve three subjects at once, we have agreed that we will continue the focus on practices that lie behind successful learning and teaching in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. These are:
practices that build vocabulary, extend critical thinking and support extended discussion
Learning design with particular focus on progressions, identified "pillars of practice", differentiation and formative assessment.
The Manaiakalani Kahui Ako has also agreed to focus on:
Implementing the new curriculae with a continued focus of getting 1.5 years progress in each academic year.
Continuing to scale up the identified high leverage practices in Maths through the Maths Practice Intensive
Our cluster of 11 Manaiakalani schools has continued to share and moderate data across schools and a great deal of robust knowledge and information comes out of this sharing and discussion and out of the Teacher Inquiries into Practice.
We have continued working with Woolf Fisher Research Centre along with our own Manaiakalani R & D Team and enjoy the real time querying capability we now have with EdPotential, giving us class level data as well as individual student data along with the other larger data sets.
During 2024, we have had effective Principal and CoL Teacher Meetings, Middle Manager meetings, School Leader meetings, SENCO meetings as well as termly Boards Forum meetings and one two day long Wananga. These have all helped us to have effective self review. We have held regular meetings with Academics including Dr Rebecca Jesson, and the Manaiakalani Research & Development Team. These people have contributed to the development and increased understanding of Learn Create Share and effective practices with which to raise teacher capability and have enabled us to codify these practices in order to scale improvement.
Our current Board have been good at questioning, thinking through issues and and dealing with things in a compassionate yet thoughtful manner. It has been a relief to not to be holding loads of extra meetings and deciding what to about about the next challenging stage in response to a pandemic or some other crisis!
Our Board has held effective, purposeful and harmonious Board Meetings. Well done all!
Our BOT is once again to be congratulated for supporting us through our second "reset year". The Board has been reflective, responsive and extremely reliable.
This Board continues to support the Manaiakalani Programme and its Outreach and has continued to show great manaaki to other schools and organisations in this community, across New Zealand and into the International Community.
Thanks BOT.