The Challenge

All students enjoy and achieve education success that embraces languages, culture and identities:    

• When broken down into ethnicities, all sub-groups report the same level of enjoyment of success as “all students”.     
  
• Patterns of inequity are narrowed so that disparities in the achievement of ethnic subgroups are closed.  

What are we noticing?

What are we doing?

When our students are engaged in their learning they learn better. Part of being engaged is the sense that they belong and in order to have that sense of belonging our young people need to feel that they are in an inclusive environment. We have noticed that there are some patterns of inequity in our student achievement across our Kāhui Ako. Mathematics data reflects that there are currently disparities in the achievement of Māori and Pasifika students compared with All.
Andrew Becroft’s report, Education matters to me: Key insights notes that students want teachers and schools to know:

• To understand me in my whole world. Children and young people talked about how they want to be seen for who they are, and to be understood within the context of their home, life and experiences.
• That people at school are racist towards me. ​Many children and young people told us they experience racism at school and are treated unequally because of their culture.
• That relationships mean everything to me.

• We will focus on developing focus questions to ask samples in each year group we are measuring.
• Develop professional development opportunities that focus on inclusive practice in the classroom.
• Look at developing approaches to the curriculum that give opportunities for students to bring in their own language, culture and identity.
• Look at all our approaches in the teaching and assessing of subjects across the Kāhui Ako to identify aspects for teacher inquiry.