Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
Background
This Profile Report was written within 18 months of the Education Review Office and Southland Boys’ High School working in Te Ara Huarau, an improvement evaluation approach used in most English Medium State and State Integrated Schools. For more information about Te Ara Huarau see ERO’s website. www.ero.govt.nz
Context
Southland Boys High School is located in Invercargill and provides education for students in Years 7 to 13. The school features a boarding house, Coldstream Hostel.
Southland Boys’ High School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Southland Boys’ High School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which an effective teaching profile framework ensures that each student has meaningful, sufficient and equitable opportunities to learn, as indicated by the student profile.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is because implementing a shared understanding of effective teaching and learning practices will underpin coherent, meaningful pathways for each student to experience educational success.
The school expects to see a Southland Boys’ High School teacher profile framework designed to improve outcomes for learners, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of this against the student profile.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its goal to develop a teacher profile to guide effective teacher practice:
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its refined and strengthened pastoral care conditions, actions and practices that promote student wellbeing
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its more regular scrutiny and use of learner achievement and wellbeing information to guide decision making for improved outcomes
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its commitment to building schoolwide capability in mātauranga Māori.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
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strengthening processes that build collaborative teacher practices to ensure all students have meaningful, sufficient and equitable opportunities to engage and learn
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the systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of its teacher profile on student outcomes.
ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. ERO will support the school in reporting their progress to the community. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report and is due within three years.
Dr Lesley Patterson
Director Review and Improvement Services (Southern)
Southern Region | Te Tai Tini
10 November 2022
About the School
The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement. educationcounts.govt.nz/home