Strategic Plan
Tamariki School Annual Plan 2025
Overarching Goals:
1. Teaching and Learning with Equity: To significantly increase student attendance and achievement across all areas and year levels, with a particular emphasis on writing for Years 2-6 and on accelerating the progress of Māori students. To fully implement the revised mathematics and English curricula, underpinned by robust assessment practices.
2. Treaty Partnerships: To deeply embed Te Ao Māori within our Kura. Staff and students will demonstrate increased and confident use of te reo Māori and regionally appropriate tikanga.
3. Community Engagement and Special Character Learning: To ensure our Kura community has a strong and lived understanding of our special character and its integral connection to community, teaching, and learning, fostering high levels of engagement and attendance.
Specific Actions:
Teaching and learning actions
to identify, extend akonga interests and record growth using HERO.
Increased rich learning opportunities for all Tamariki within the school planned and recorded covering the required 3 hours a day of reading, writing and Mathematics.
Quality assessment data sets recorded in terms 1 and 4 using MOE assessment tool and learning stories on HERO.
Next steps for each student within the school planned based on assessment data and displayed on HERO. Focus on developing clear expectations for student progressions across the breadth of the school
Further develop schoolwide assessment strategies pending (MOE approval) to better target literacy and mathematics teaching and learning.
Engage with PLD to develop a better understanding of the revised Mathematics and English curriculum that align these with the school's special character.
Treaty Partnerships
Implement targeted individual teaching strategies and interventions to accelerate the progress of Māori students in literacy and mathematics, closely monitoring their progress and outcomes.
Continued Board engagement with the Tuahiwi Education committee.
Termly te reo Māori goals set by staff.
A week-long Matariki celebration where staff, students, and whānau are free to teach and learn about te ao Māori.
The extension of the school kapa haka club for junior students and whānau.
Hold two well attended consultation Hui in Terms 3 and 4 to gain a deeper understanding of our Kura’s Māori whānau wants and needs.
Explicitly incorporate Māori perspectives and knowledge into curriculum delivery across all subject areas.
Provide professional development opportunities for staff to enhance their understanding and use of te reo Māori and culturally responsive pedagogy.
Increase Māori achievement within the senior school with the goal of most senior Māori students achieving at or above the expected curriculum outcomes for their age in reading, writing and mathematics.
Community Engagement and Special Character Learning
Increased student attendance with a goal of 80% of akonga being classed as regularly attending.
Special character talks with the parents of at risk tamariki around the importance of regular attendance.
Working bees with shared Kai and activities for Tamariki.
Articles related to our style of learning promoted on the school’s social media pages.
Past student achievements promoted and celebrated within the school community. Continued raising rates of student and whānau attendance at school and during community events.
High School returning student community talk.
Actively work to further improve regular student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism through targeted strategies and consistent communication with whānau.
