These documents share the core values of our school, its vision for teaching and learning, and the path we plan to take to achieve our goals.

Our Strategic Plan focuses on three key areas for growth and improvement:

• Achievement- Learner/ākonga will reach their potential with success in literacy and mathematics

• Wellbeing- Learners/ākonga will build and sustain positive relationships.
  

• Learning Culture - Our kura will have a strong, unified identity within the community.
  

Our Annual Implementation Plan documents the actions we will take in 2025 to make progress in these areas. Our objectives for 2025 are centered on two key priorities:

1. Implementing new curricula and assessment requirements

• Teachers delivering the new English and Maths curricula, aligning it to the phases of learning and progressions relevant to the individual year level. 

• Ākonga reflecting on their learning and able to articulate their next learning steps. 

• Teachers using assessment data to inform curriculum planning, and to identify the additional learning support and extension required to meet individual needs.  

• BSLA, Numicon, and structured literacy being delivered with fidelity by all teachers. 

2.Lifting the Lid of Learning

• The implementation of the Pūtahi Belfast Local curriculum continuing to build on prior learning. Staff actively promoting extended discussion utilising Manaiakalani’s resources.

• Ākonga supported to have agency over their learning through an assessment capability that allows them to locate their current and next learning step within a progression. 

• SOLO(structure of observed learning outcomes) taxonomy being used to:

  -Expand teacher planning to include open-ended tasks linked to higher-order cognitive processes

  -Inform rubric development to underpin ākonga assessment capability

  -Develop summative assessment tasks

  -Track progress of school-wide cognitive growth

Kindly review the attached document for a more comprehensive version of this plan.

Ngā mihi nui

Jo Johnstone | Principal