1203 Goals 2012

Kaikohe East School Goals for 2012

Focus:                         Reading

Strategic Aim:              To create a community of learners with high academic achievement in literacy 

To create a community of Maori learners with high academic achievement in literacy

Annual Aim for 2012:   To raise the percentage of Year 6 pupils reading at or above the National Standard

To raise the percentage of Year 6 Maori pupils reading at or above National Standard

Rationale: 2011 results showed that our children are often slow to make early progress in reading but most (65%) are achieving by the end of year 6. If we could accelerate their progress earlier than year 4 or 5 we should be closer to achieving our aim of creating a community of learners with high academic achievement in literacy.

Measurable Targets: To increase the percentages of pupils reading at or above the National Standard to

·       For year 2, from 29% in February(17 pupils) to 50% at the end of the year (29 pupils)

·       For year 4, from 44% in February (19 pupils) to 60% at the end of the year (23 pupils)

·       For year 6, from 65% in February (20 pupils) to 75% at the end of the year (24 pupils)

Focus:                          Numeracy

Strategic Aim:              To create a community of learners with high academic achievement in numeracy

To create a community of Maori learners with high academic achievement in numeracy

Annual Aim for 2012: To improve the percentage of pupils working above the National Standards at years 2, 4 and 6.

Rationale:

·       Presently the percentages of pupils who are assessed at achieving at or above the National Standard in maths are 19% for year 2, 49% for year 4 and 90% for year 6.

·       2011 results show that while most of our pupils have little or no understanding of maths when they first start school, they catch up in the middle years. While we are happy with the percentage achieving “at” expectations, we have virtually none achieving “above” expectations. We would like to lift some of our achievers to high achievers.

·       In previous years we have concentrated our data collection on the understanding of place value. National Standards expect that, although 80% of our teaching will centre on the number strand, assessment must also take other strands such as geometry and measurement into account.

Measurable Targets: Move some of our pupils from “at” to “above”  the “above National Standards” category.

·       For Year 2 from one pupil  in February to 10% at the end of the year (approx. 6 pupils)

·       For Year 4 from no pupils  in February to 15% at the end of the year (approx. 6 pupils)

·       For Year 6 from no pupils  in February to 20% at the end of the year (approx. 6 pupils)

Focus:                         Written Language

Strategic Aim:              To create a community of learners with high academic achievement in writing.

      To create a community of Maori learners with high academic achievement in writing.

Annual Aim for 2012: To improve the percentage of pupils working above the National Standards at years 2, 4 and 6.

Rationale:  2011 results showed that we need to concentrate our literacy efforts on written language. Very few of our pupils are achieving at or above the national standard for writing and this will need to be an area for our staff to focus on in 2012. Presently the percentages of pupils who are writing at or above the National Standard are 18% for year 2, 3% for year 4 and 19% for year 6.

Measurable Target. To increase the percentage of pupils writing at or above the National Standard:

Writing goal for 2012. To increase the number of pupils writing at or above the National Standard

·       For year 2, from 27% in February (12 pupils) at the start of 2012 to 48% (24 pupils) at the end of 2012

·       For year 4, from 43% in February (18 pupils) at the start of 2012 to 60% (24 pupils) at the end of 2012

·       For year 6, from 36% in February 10 pupils) at the start of 2012 to 70% (20 pupils) at the end of 2012

Focus:             Attendance

Strategic Aim:  To create a community of Maori pupils fully engaged in education.

Annual Aim for 2012: To improve the percentage of pupils attending school.

Rationale:

·       There is a direct relationship between attendance and achievement.

·       Our 2011 figures showed we had an absence rate of over 17%. This means that on a normal day we have 39 pupils absent. The Ministry, however, had a much lower figure of 72%. We think this came from inaccurate roll marking.

MeasurableTarget. To finish 2012 with a whole-school attendance rate of 85% or better.