PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE
E tū ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā. 'Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face.' We translate this phrase to 'a learner pushing their personal boundaries to achieve success.'
Kia ora koutou
I was delighted to receive the following notification from the Education Review Office last Friday.
Kia ora Jennifer
I am contacting you to let you know ERO’s report 'Keeping children engaged and achieving in Mathematics,' which features a narrative from your school, will be released on Monday, 19 February. A copy of the report is attached for your information. We expect Stephanie Greaney to be interviewed about it on Nine to Noon on Monday. It’s the second in our series of reports on Teaching approaches and strategies that work.
We would like to thank you and your school for your involvement and support for this whole project. We hope other teachers and leaders will be inspired to adapt for their own contexts the approaches and strategies spotlighted in all eight exemplary schools.
Thank you again for your valuable input.
ERO Report on Teaching Strategies that Work
This Education Review Office (ERO) report is one of a series of reports on teaching strategies that work. It features strategies and approaches that we observed in 40 primary schools selected from across New Zealand. These schools came from a database of 129 schools, all with rolls of 200 or more, in which the proportion of students in the upper primary years (Years 5 to 8) achieving at or above the national standard had increased. In each case achievement levels were also above average for the decile.
We asked leaders in each school what they saw as the reasons for their school’s positive achievement trajectory and then investigated the teaching strategies that had been implemented, and the outcomes.
This report shares some of the strategies and approaches used by schools that had focused on improving achievement in mathematics. It also shares some of the simple strategies used in classrooms where achievement in mathematics had been accelerated.
Click on the link below to read our school's narrative.