The Charter of

Turua School

2016 ‘My Best Always’ Ministry Number 2043

CHARTER 2016 - 2018 TURUA SCHOOL (My Best Always)

MISSION (Our school’s purpose)

Empowering our learners to access their future.

OUR VISION

To develop confident, creative thinkers and communicator

and successful, life long learners.

STUDENTS • are respectful and confident

• respect each other and their teachers

• feel important and cared for

• are encouraged and challenged

• take pride in themselves, their efforts and

achievements

TEACHERS • competently deliver the NZC with a focus on

Literacy and Numeracy

• are professional and positive

• model high standards

• have high expectations

• are committed learners themselves

• are supported by management

• are enthusiastic and encourage a love for learning

• are individual needs focused

• are caring and supportive, learner focused

• support each other

PARENTS • feel welcome and well informed

• encourage and support their children’s

learning

• respect and are supportive of the

professional knowledge and judgment of

the staff and work in partnership with them

• enjoy their involvement with the school

SUPPORT STAFF • are loyal and supportive to the staff and

school

• feel valued members of the team

• encourage and care for students

• are positive and professional

BOT • is future focused

• is a good employer

• is well trained and informed

• reviews student data and makes

appropriate resourcing decisions

accordingly

• meets all Government

requirements

LEADERSHIP TEAM • support, value and enable others

• give high quality leadership

• ensure high quality learning and teaching

• closely monitor progress and achievement of all students

• progress school goals

VALUES Responsible citizens possess and use these qualities

self management

honesty and integrity

empathy

reliability

cooperation

LOCAL GOALS

provide a safe, inclusive and challenging learning environment where students are able to enjoy, risk take, interact and achieve.

respect for self and others is modelled and practised

local activities and events are pursued and promoted when appropriate and lead towards enhanced learning.

Students are exposed to a range of experiences through technology, people resources and education outside the classroom.

annual planning allows for school programmes and resources to be updated, offering innovative and purposeful learning opportunities for students

OUR SCHOOL

OUR STUDENTS

situated in the township of Turua 74% NZ European

proud to be on the Hauraki Plains with our rural status

decile 5

U2

25% NZ Maori

1% Asian

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE MĀORI DIMENSION

How will the school reflect?

New Zealand’s cultural diversity

All cultures within the school will be valued and accepted through active encouragement of a non-racist school culture and ethos.

Staff members will ensure that students from all cultures are treated with respect and dignity, and will actively work towards maximising the

potential of each student

The unique position of the Māori culture

Turua School will endeavour to develop an awareness of Tikanga Māori and Te Reo Māori and provide the means

of fostering cultural understanding consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi.

What reasonable steps will the school take to incorporate Te Reo and Tikanga Māori into the school’s curriculum?

Classroom activities and school events will reflect Māori culture through signage, waiata, greetings, stick games,

commands, and language related to everyday objects, days, dates, numeration and kapa haka.

School wide Te Reo and tikanga programmes, using ‘Ka Mau te Wehi’.

We will endeavour to include components of Tikanga Māori as appropriate to the topic and the class level.

What steps will be taken to discover the views and concerns of the school’s Māori community?

The school will encourage Māori representation on the Board of Trustees.

The school will consult with the Māori community annually.

Strategic Section 2016 - 2018

Strategic Goals

Core Strategies for Achieving Goals

When…

Student Learning

The explicit raising of student achievement across the school – All students will experience success.

To improve Maori Student Achievement

Students with learning needs (including gifted students and children operating below/well below National Standards) are identified through data, to include OTJs, for support and extension programmes with specific individual plans implemented.

Students are clearly able to articulate their learning achievement and needs

The teaching and learning of writing and mathematics will grow in coherence across the school. Progress and achievement will show significant improvement in these areas(achievement targets)

Review expectations of goal setting, planning and reporting on target students.

Continue to track target students and build capability in analysing assessment to inform teaching. Assessment tools continue to be refined and moderated.

Establish a timetable for teacher to report back on each of their target groups in staff meetings to facilitate support and strategic suggestions from colleagues.

Use exemplars /ARBs to support assessment across all curriculum areas

Parents and whanau are well informed and involved in student learning

Teachers to participate in PD as identified by the appraisal process.

To continue programmes modelled around Ka Hikitia by providing opportunities for success across our school eg school sports, music, dance.

Review and increase knowledge and understanding of Tataiako as a valuable tool to improve outcomes for Maori as Maori

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To focus on engagement in learning for all students at Turua School

Develop our Physical Education Skill Base

To continue to develop literacy programmes to enhance the achievement of Maori students, especially boys so that they achieve within or above their cohort range across the curriculum

To regularly review achievement data for Maori students at both teacher and board level

Create student voice for Maori Students through leadership.

Build staff and student capability in eLearning integration, and in the use of N4L and Google to support learning and teaching and engage parents in learning

Ensure student voice in the teaching and learning process through technology/student leaders and formative practices to include self/peer reviews

To provide an innovative and engaging curriculum that meets the needs of the students

To develop a powerful learning culture through fostering leadership and responsibility in all students

Ensure learning time is used effectively, in particular transition times and extension/support programmes

Review how current curriculum initiatives are motivating and engaging boys.

Continue to review attendance rates to identify trends and implement strategies which promote expected rates

To ensure our school programmes reflect skill development as well as regular physical activities

Continue to prioritise EOTC opportunities

Continue to work with Project Energize and Sport Waikato to develop effective needs based programmes

To organise and support students to lead and run their own sporting and other EOTC activities at school break times. Teachers will support and encourage students to make this

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Students to understand the importance of our environment and sustainability for the future

inclusive for all students.

All students will become actively involved in Environmental Education through both class and schoolwide programmes

Review format and purpose of Enviroschools Student team

Environmental aspect to be included in all topic planning

To use student ideas to engage them in their environment(Enviro schools/School Leaders)

2016

Ongoing

2016-2017

Financial and

Property

management

focused on

enhancing teaching

and learning

School property planning to include an approved 10YPP, approved 5YA and 10 year cyclical maintenance plans

School financial planning to include an audited annual report and annually approved budget

Have new 10YPP signed off

Complete drainage, swimming pool resurfacing and Block B refurbishment

Complete roofing and removal of relocatables

Review property needs and contingency availability

Any contractor work organised to minimise disruption to school

Annual budgets to prioritise spending in line with school focus areas and Charter goals

Budgets reviewed by the board in June/July against year’s spending

Implement recommendations by auditor

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2018

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Health and Safety Provide a safe emotional and physical environment for the learning community

Identify all potential hazards and eliminate or reduce these

Work-safe ongoing review through staff officer and BOT representative

Regular reporting to the Board on relevant safety plans eg fire and earthquake drills

Maintain quality mediator and leadership programmes

Schoolwide behaviour plans reviewed annually to build

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Make explicit within the teaching and learning programmes the core values and competencies of our school

consistency by staff

Implement new Health and Safety legislation.

Full policy review to ensure they are aligned with current health and safety best practices.

Class programmes to include focus of school virtue each term and virtue awards selected at assemblies

Key competencies included in all unit planning

Student Leaders to share in developing understanding of what these core values look like.

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Personnel To provide students with highly effective educators

Teachers are funded for professional development that improves student outcomes and learning opportunities as identified by our appraisal process and achievement targets.

Continue up skilling staff in the use of ICTs and google docs to ensure teachers build capacity in using these as teaching tools to engage students and parents.

School wide distributive leadership practices are integral to the school management and leadership strategy

Lead teachers strengths valued and utilised to build teacher curriculum knowledge and effective pedagogy at staff meetings

Staff work together to moderate school wide writing samples each term

Use data from standardised tests such as STAR and PAT to help form our OTJ, then moderate as a staff to inform our teaching during terms 2, 3 and 4

Teachers will develop specific, ongoing targets and planning for those students at risk of not achieving the National Standards.

All teachers are expected to demonstrate formative practice through a range of methodologies. The Principal and senior staff will review practices through termly

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Provide personnel with high quality work place including performance management programmes

observation, discussion and feedback. Staff will use a range of practices to show formative assessment e.g. Modelling books, anecdotal notes and conferencing records

Ensure that Teaching as Inquiry is embedded in our classroom programmes

Staff are expected to share openly with parents the learning needs and learning goals of each student

A resourcing commitment to all staff by the Board to provide funds in the budget to develop current pedagogy and knowledge

Staff’s ICT capabilities encouraged through provision of up to date technology and it’s maintenance

To increase opportunities for teachers to work with colleagues and inquire into and strengthen their professional knowledge and practice by providing release and focus

Build and value leadership capability across the school through distributed leadership with support

Build on the professional learning aspect of performance management with a more explicit focus on the tracking and improving attainment of selected children through Teaching as Inquiry

Staff supported with robust appraisal process towards agreed outcomes

Principals appraisal linked to annual performance agreement

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Community Engagement

Continue to build a strong Home/School Partnership

School Assemblies are open to the community and become a focal point of students sharing their learning

Consult school community regularly about priorities for school programmes and planning

Encouragement of active and positive parent/caregiver/whanau involvement and communication throughout the school

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Ongoing

Parents and caregivers are well informed and involved in supporting their children’s learning

Continue to develop stronger links with our wider community

Develop a school website linked to Facebook and all groups within our school community

Increase profile of our Board members

Review Student Information Booklet

Provide information workshops in terms 2 and 3 and encourage parents to support them

Ensure student reporting is aligned to the competencies expressed in the school vision, and clearly understood by stakeholders

Parents and caregivers are well informed and involved in supporting their children’s learning through newsletters, Facebook, website, school trips, sporting events, shows, exhibitions and classroom help programmes

Consistently promote school achievements and events in the local media

Develop links with local schools through our Community of Learning

Continue to strengthen associations with local preschools through invitations to events and weekly preschool visits

Encourage community to utilise school facilities e.g. Pool, ICT Room

Continue to build on association with Kerepehi Marae

Wider community invited to participate in school and fundraising events

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2016-2018

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Ongoing (Biannual

visit)

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NAG 1 – CURRICULUM FOCUS Reading Recovery Programme available for identified six year

old students

The teaching and learning of writing will grow in coherence

across the school. Writing progress and achievement will show

significant improvement (achievement targets)

Continue to develop and implement Health and Physical

Education Action Plan with Project Energize.

Build staff and student capability in eLearning integration, and

in the use of N4L and Google to support learning and teaching

and engage parents in learning

Develop and implement stimulating programmes for GATE

students

Continue to track students At Risk of not achieving National

Standards and needs based programmes implemented.

Increase knowledge and understanding of Tataiako as a valuable

tool to improve outcomes for Maori as Maori

Empower students through opportunities to use oral language

skills in authentic situations (student voice)

Continue to consolidate coherence across delivery of maths

teaching and learning programmes. Maths progress and

achievement will continue to improve.

NAG 3 – PERSONNEL Ensure that employment processes meet good

employer requirements.

Staff have signed job descriptions and written

goals for 2016.

Guidance and mentoring programme in place for

Beginning Teacher

Achieve OSCAR registration for our After

School Care programme.

Students are provided with and seek increasing

opportunities for leadership

Continue to grow leadership and develop

distributed leadership amongst staff.

Professional Development to focus on effective

pedagogy for writing and the integration of

eLearning. Participants will acknowledge

themselves as learners, taking responsibility for

their own professional learning and use of

technologies through the use of appropriate

frameworks, teacher inquiry, and professional

networks

NAG 4 – FINANCE AND PROPERTY

MANAGEMENT FINANCE

Prepare / present a monthly financial

report

Draft and adopt a budget

Support funds for appropriate areas of

school development

Maximise the revenue generation potential

of the school to best support the learning

environment.

Actively seek funding for large projects

through grant applications.

Liaise with PTA to fund capital purchases

that support the strategic plan.

PROPERTY

Respond to on-going maintenance needs

Ensure the school site and environment is

safe and conducive to learning and

teaching.

Ensure our 10YPP is signed off and

projects managed accordingly.

- Storm Water Drainage/Entry

- Block B Refurbishment

- Swimming Pool Resurfacing

Continue with purchases of iPads and

chrome books for classrooms as funding is

available

NAG 2 – DOCUMENTATION AND SELF REVIEW Policy Review

Develop, monitor and deliver the schools charter including

Annual and Strategic planning

Report to parents and community on achievements

The teacher appraisal process will provide teachers with regular

and detailed feedback about their teaching practice linked to

school expectations.

Review and refine the format and timing of reports showing

progress against the National Standards of students in Years 1

to 3

Overall Teacher Judgement and moderation continue to be

refined to ensure they are fair and consistent schoolwide.

Reflection and review imbedded in teacher planning and

monitoring.

Yearly Targets continue to be set in Reading, Writing and

Numeracy against the National Standards that reflect those

defined by our Community of Learning.

NAG 5 – HEALTH AND SAFETY Maintain Cool School Mediator/Virtues Programme

Liaise with school agencies to support health and safety within school e.g. health nurse

Practise emergency evacuations

Hazard identification by Work Safe committee.

Pupil attendance monitored daily with trends identified by principal.

Unit plans to include cyber safety, sun safety, water safety and road safety.

Implement new Health and Safety legislation.

Full policy review to ensure they are aligned with current health and safety best practices.

YEAR 2016

ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT

PLAN

WORKING TOGETHER FOR

Students

Teamwork

Quality Teaching and Learning

Raising Achievement Levels

NAG 6 – ADMINISTRATION

Comply with school building codes – display current

WOF

Follow all planning and reporting requirements

Complete monthly building reports/ forward

Comply with attendance, length of school day/year

Ensure all students/teachers have signed internet

usage contract.

Beware of and act on all general legislation

New website becomes active and is a useful form

of communication for school community.

Involving Parents in Student Learning and School Weekly School Assembly

School prize Giving

Out of School Visits

Calf Club Day/Art Display/Cooking Competition

Speech Competition

School and Inter-school sports events

Boys Big Day Out/Mothers and Daughters Day

School Disco

Book week

School production

Grand Parents Day

PTA meetings

Parental Inclusion in classroom programmes

Pet Day

Open Day

SCHOOL / COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS The community are invited into school to participate in and / or view school

programmes and special events.

Meet the Teachers/Board Evening held at the start of the year.

Parent/Child interviews held twice a year.

Newsletter issued weekly with information to the community.

Annual newsletter celebrating success to surrounding community.

Regular media releases.

Students’ work displayed in Goldfields mall/Local Restaurant

Encourage use of new website as a forum.

Workshops for numeracy and literacy - Juniors

Leavers Dinner held for Year 8 students

Bible in Schools continues

There is close liaison with College and preschools

Parent community consulted regularly.

Utilise outside local community groups

Pool is open to community

ICT facilities open to community

Promotion of School Values and Vision School Leaders

Peer Mediators-Cool Schools

Library monitors

Enviro schools team

Virtues Programme

Weekly class Awards

Weekly virtues award

Attendance Awards

Road Wardens/Kea Crossing

Goal Setting by Students

Key Competencies display in classrooms

Citizen of the Term

End of Year Awards

Acknowledgement of students’ achievements outside of school

Leavers Awards

Academic/Service awards

Review and Reporting Cycle

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

2016 Health and Safety Policies and

Procedures

Student Information Book

Enviroschools

Understanding of Tataiako

Competencies

Reporting to Parents in years 1 –

3

Class and Support writing

programmes

Science Delivery

Student Voice in the classroom

Homework expectations

2017 Assessment

e-portfolios and learning

journals

Electronic tracking of guidance

and support

Mathematics Curriculum and

Programmes

Website structure and access

Health and PE

The Arts Curriculum and

Programmes

Formative Assessment within

the school

Gifted and Talented Programmes

and Outcomes

2018 Technology within the school

Consultation and reporting to

parents process and procedures

Reading and Support Reading

programmes

Social Sciences/Inquiry

programmes and outcomes

Appraisal Process

Core Values and Virtues

Key Competencies

Policies as part of their 3 year Review Cycle