This is the policy area that comes under National Administration Guidelines 2, 2A, 7 & 8
PT ENGLAND SCHOOL POLICY 2010
NAG 2.1
SELF REVIEW
INTRODUCTION:
School Self Review is one of the most important activities the Pt England Learning Community can engage in, in order to improve its performance across domains.
Our intention is to be positively self critical in a way that honours te Tiriti o Waitangi, includes all appropriate parties and brings about genuine improvement year by year.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To ensure Partnership, Participation & Protection of all members of the Pt England Learning Community
2. To go beyond consultation and co-construct programmes and deliveries that raise achievement and performance for all children and families across all identified domains.
3. To ensure that students, staff, whanau/aiga, BOT, external moderators/developers and other development partners are involved in planning and programme development
4. To ensure that essential areas of performance are examined and improved in a systematic way. These are: Student Learning, Effective Teaching, Leadership and Management, School Governance, School Culture, Community & family engagement, Resourcing Learning.
5. To ensure that new curriculum developments are well implemented in line with the NZC and other national developments.
GUIDELINES:Â
1. The Home-School Partnership and its various ethnic groups has served Pt England extremely well over years, for canvassing opinion, making plans, reporting to the community and making decisions. This group will continue to meet once or twice a term for the purpose of learning, reviewing, planning, discussing and deciding. Recommendations from this group will go to the staff, BOT and the whole Learning Community.
2. Regular Staff Reflection, with reflective results recorded in our Pt England Reflection Site has been a great help to us as learner/teachers. This is to be continued at a whole staff and team level on a regular basis and will culminate annually in recommendations formed at the management "Big Day In" planning day. Recommendations from this day will go to the Home-School Partnership and the BOT.
3. Staff will each inquire into their practice against goals set annually and the information from this inquiry will feed into the BIg Day In recommendations and the other data we have gathered throughout the year which are collated in the Pt England Annual Review
4. Students will reflect on termly basis via their blogs and student voice will be captured via representative groups such as the Prefects and the Health Team, as well as supplying direct feedback via surveys etc.
5. There will be regular communication with parents via Newsletter, FaceBook, School App and all parents can connect with Student work via the School Website and their child's class sites. Feedback from this communication will be included in planning that will emerge in the Pt England Annual Review.
6. Pt England School has used external researchers and reviewers on an annual basis for many years:
the senior management are externally evaluated by Kerry Mitchell of the Education Group
the whole school, along with the other Manaiakalani schools, is researched and evaluated by the Manaiakalani Research & Development Team, supervised by Woolf Fisher Research Centre of Auckland University.
we moderate our results along with the other Manaiakalani schools.
we work with external development partners each year.
7. Pt England Board of Trustees attends regular Board Training with the other Manaiakalani Schools. Most recently this training has been delivered by the Ministry of Education.
8. As well as reporting to parents twice yearly in writing, regarding their own child, there will be a twice yearly report to parents, staff, Board and others as part of our annual review cycle. The mid year report will be an "on Trackness" Report and is most likely to take the form of a presentation. The End of Year Report will be summative and will normally be in the form a standalone website which will ultimately be submitted to MOE as the Pt England Charter and Annual Report. This report will be made public to all our constituents and to the world at large once it has been passed by the BOT to meet the March 31 MOE deadline.
9. Because of the versatility of our online repositories, review material, policies and procedures will be able to be regarded as living documents and will be able to be updated at any Board meeting.
Formulated: 2010
Reviewed: 2013
2015
2018
2020
2023
2025