Junior Data

Our Junior Data cover the 1st 2 years of schooling prior to the beginning of Norm Based Assessments which are available in NZ from Y3.

This Junior data is of high importance as it shows what the intake is like each year, and what kind of value add or progress acceleration we are able to make in those first 2 years of schooling.

On average our learners arrive at school with a functional academic level 2 years behind their chronological age.

Our teachers work well with this challenge and most of our learners show very significant acceleration of progress in these early years of schooling. The Better Start Literacy Approach is a new data set that is added to our data in 2022.

To note the extraordinary nature of 2021 meant that the usual collection of data was hindered and therefore the 2022 data is presented here alongside our 2020 data.

The information above shows that the number of students attending preschool has decreased with 90% of our New Entrants having attended Pre-School.

The bulk of the Kindergarten attenders were again from Pt England Kindergarten and had participated in the organised school visiting programme which when possible was happening on a Wednesday morning.

The New Entrant/Reception teachers and the School Management Team will continue to build a working relationship with the Early Childhood Centres in the area to help the transition to school for our New Entrants. This has continued to be a challnege particularly in the earlier part of the year when we were still under some COVID restrictions. We have continued to communicate regularly with the pre-schools in our area to maintain and foster the relationships we have made to date.

After 4- 5 Weeks at School New Entrant Testing Data

New Entrant Testing

All New Entrants are tested after their first month at school in a range of areas including the Marie Clay - Observational Survey components.

2022

Letter ID - All (37 chn., this data includes BSLA cohort) 10 chn - 27% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6, 1 child had a Stanine 8-9, 2 children scored 0 (Stanine 1)

NB: We are not doing the full SEA Assessments on this BSLA Cohort as they have their own assessments (see below) which these children complete.

This data set includes 27 NE children (this does not include the BSLA cohort)

Letter ID - 18% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6, 1 child had a Stanine 8-9, 2 children scored 0 (Stanine 1)

Written Words - 22% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (5 children scored 0)

Concepts about Print - 15% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6

Clay Words - 1 of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (7 chn. scored 0)

2021

This data set was an unusual year with only 26 of the New Entrant cohort being able to be tested in 2021 therefore no data analysis was made.

2020

This data set includes 62 NE children.

Letter ID - 34% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6, 4 children (6%) had a Stanine 7, 2 children scored 0 (Stanine 1)

Written Words - 40% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (5 children scored 0)

Concepts about Print - 18% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (1 child had a Stanine 9)

Clay Words - 42% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (9 chn. scored 0)

2019

This data set includes 60 NE children.

Letter ID - 30% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6, 3 children, 5% had a Stanine 7, 1 child had an 8-9 Stanine, 4 children scored 0 (Stanine 1)

Written Words - 53% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 , 6 children scored 0

Concepts about Print - 15% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6

Clay Words - 43% of the children scored a Stanine 4 - 6 (1 child had a Stanine 8)

BSLA 10 week data

The following graphs show the BSLA Baseline and 10 week testing results. The graphs show the progress of children who are working on that particular skill as they were not proficient at Baseline testing. It should be noted that this 10 week period commenced Week 4 of Term 3 so there was a holiday break in the 10 week period of teaching.

Marie Clay 6 Year Observational Survey Data 2022

Within 2 weeks of each child turning 6 years old they are tested on the 6 Year Observational Survey. The data is analysed and used both formatively by the teacher for planning, and as summative information for school wide data gathering and analysis. The lowest scoring students are considered for Reading Recovery our Quick 60 Programme or to a Specialist Service.

2014 reading level mean yellow 2 (Level 7/ 5.3 yr)

2015 reading level mean yellow 3 (Level 8/ 5.3 yr)

2016 reading level mean blue 1 (Level 9/ 5.6 yr)

2017 reading level mean blue 1 (Level 9/ 5.6 yr)

2018 reading level mean yellow 2 (Level 7/ 5.3 yr)

2019 reading level mean yellow 3 (Level 8/ 5.3 yr)

2020 reading level mean yellow 2 (Level 7/ 5.3 yr)

2021 reading level mean yellow 2 (Level 7/ 5.3 yr)

2022 reading level mean yellow 1 (Level 6/ 5.3yr)

The average Reading Level has seen a slight decrease from Yellow 2 to Yellow 1 level, with the average reading age still being 5 yrs and 3 months. 2022 has been another difficult year with a number of factors influencing these results.

This year we had 1 Child Support Worker from the Junior School training as part of the BSLA Programme. This is an area that we will need to keep developing and building capacity to ensure that we are able to give the required support to this programme.

With 60% of this cohort being 'at risk' we will need to continue to closely track and monitor the progress of these chn. via the 5 Week Graphs and ensure that we have targeted interventions to support these learners. It is great that we have one of our Year 2 teachers receiving BSLA Training in 2023.

Data for 40 students in this cohort was available at the time of writing this report. Most of these students were tested within 2 to 3 weeks of their 6th birthdays or after being at school for 40 weeks.

The cohort includes: 40 children

Male - 19

Female - 21

Māori - 6

Pasifika - 31 (11 Ck Is Māori, 1 Niuean, 9 Samoan, 13 Tongan)

Pakeha - 1

Others - 2

Expected level for a 6 year old: Green

2022

A total of 6 children, 15% are working at Green or above.

A total of 10 children, 25 % are working at the Yellow to Blue Level and are identified as the priority learners.

2021

A total of 8 children, 18% are working at Green or above.

A total of 15 children, 33 % are working at the Yellow to Blue Level and are identified as the priority learners.

2020

A total of 10 children, 20% are working at Green or above.

A total of 18 children, 36 % are working at the Yellow to Blue Level and are identified as the priority learners.

2019

A total of 20 children, 27% are working at Green or above.

A total of 23 children, 31 % are working at the Yellow to Blue Level and are identified as the priority learners.

Priority Learners:

Male - 4

Female - 6

Maori - 2

Pasifika - 6

Others - 2

Student's at Risk:

2022 24 = 60% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2021 22 = 49% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2020 22 = 44% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2019 31 = 42% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2018 37 = 47% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2017 16 = 31% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2016 18 = 29% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Quick 60 or Specialist Referrals.

2015 30 = 37.5% (Red and Magenta) are Candidates for Reading Recovery or Specialist Referrals.

We have a really significant number of children that will go in to 2023 needing a great deal of support. This is an area that needs close consideration and resourcing.

Our big goal for 2023 is to once again continue to build those Language Acquisition Skills and in collaboration with the MOE Speech Langauge Therapist we will be looking to continue and build on this focus with their support. All the Year One and Two teachers have continued to use the ENGAGE Programme in the classrooms and successfully which helps to support the development of self-regulation skills in children aged 3 - 7.