Our School Charter

Our charter sets out our school’s values and principles and how we will support student achievement. It reflects the values and aspirations of our school community.

Point Chevalier School (Rangi-mata-rau) is our Tūrangawaewae. A place where we feel empowered and connected. Pt Chevalier School is our place in the world, our home, a foundation for the future. A place where…

Our core values

Our school and our future

Point Chevalier School is full of engaged, positive, and inspired students, teachers and staff. Respectful relationships exist at all levels. We have a strong sense of wellbeing (hauora). We are all reflective, self-regulated learners. We keep the learner at the centre of everything we do.

Teachers facilitate an environment where no one is afraid to take risks. Students know what and how they are learning, why, and how to be successful. Students take responsibility and ownership of this. They are prepared and have the skills for the next stage of their learning. They have an open mind towards new challenges that come their way.

Our students demonstrate a humble confidence. Resilience is actively taught and allowed to build. Everybody has a chance to speak and is listened to; student voice is cultivated and encouraged. Teachers adapt their practice to meet needs of individual students with a flexible curriculum that bends to the child. Our students have time to follow their own interests and develop their own passions. Teachers are role models for risk-taking. Our teachers show compassion, empathy, and an understanding of a child’s struggle, demonstrating a willingness to support them through it. Above all else our teachers are creative, innovative, inspiring, adaptable and flexible.

Our school provides diverse opportunities and promotes an inclusive, integrated curriculum. We provide specialist programmes and ensure a balanced curriculum.

Our students know how to think and solve problems. We value lateral and critical thinking that generate alternative, outside-the-box ideas. We have confident and articulate individuals who have a strong sense of drive and identity. Students and teachers are free to positively challenge the status quo in order to promote progress and create their own future.

The Point Chevalier School community has a collective responsibility for student achievement. We have a strong home, school and community partnership with clear, positive, and open communication. Our parents and caregivers have trust in our school’s approach to learning and education. We actively build sustainable links with our Māori and Pasifika families.

Our students leave us as creative, forward thinking, empathetic, resilient individuals. They are able to analyse information, opinions and ideas with confidence and humility. They lead us into the future.

Rangi-mata-rau is committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi

We recognise the treaty by incorporating it into all aspects of our school including governance, structure and practices. In an education context:

Article 1 gives the government the right to organise and administer an education system

Article 2 guarantees to the chiefs, the subtribes and all the people of New Zealand the unqualified exercise of their chieftainship over education

Article 3 guarantees to Māori the same rights and duties as the descendants of English people have in respect of education

Article 4 protects Māori culture

We take steps to ensure our governance includes Māori to ensure a strong Māori voice in our consultation, strategy, planning and delivery.

We incorporate tikanga Māori into our curriculum and practices.

Pt Chevalier School values diversity

Rangi-mata-rau is committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, needs and abilities, and actively promotes a welcoming and safe environment for all our students, teachers and staff to belong and flourish.

All cultures within our school are valued, accepted and celebrated through promotion of an inclusive school culture. Teachers ensure that students from all cultures are treated with respect and dignity, and will expect and work to achieve high standards of achievement regardless of cultural background.

Te Kāhui Ako o Waitematā

Pt Chevalier School is a supportive and active member of our community of learning. The Waitematā Kāhui Ako brings together 12 kura located in close proximity to our harbour, whose name is derived from Te Matā, the Flint Stone, a pinnacle rock referred to on maps as Boat Rock and visible at low tide off Kauri Point.

With reliable charts and sustainable provisions as cooperative components, we give life to the words of our Kāhui Ako visionary, the late Ken Havill.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could create a community where it is impossible to fail?

– Ken Havill

Strategic Plan 2020–2022

WE LEARN
He Tūranga Ako

We take responsibility for what, why and how we are learning and how to be successful.

Focus	2020	2021	2022
Deepen Assessment for Learning practices across the school NELP Obj 1, 2, 3	Middle Leaders regularly support teachers to foster Assessment for Learning practices across the school	Middle Leaders regularly support teachers to foster Assessment for Learning practices across the school	Assessment for Learning practices are consistent across the school
Strengthen avenues for Student Voice NELP Obj 1, 2, 3, 4	Students regularly interact and use learning goals within Linc-Ed	Student voice is an integral part of our learning, planning and assessment	Student voice is an embedded feature in all our decision making
Build resilience and independence in the pursuit of life-long learning NELP Obj 1 & 4	Resilience and Gratitude framework is an embedded feature of all classes	Resilience and Gratitude framework is an embedded feature of all classes	We have resilient children who have a love of learning
Grow and sustain a culture of leadership NELP Obj 3 & 4	A growing culture of coaching is a feature of Senior and Middle leadership interactions	A growing culture of coaching through collaborative inquiry is a feature of Senior and Middle leadership interactions	Leadership is a collective responsibility that is fostered through a coaching culture

WE BELONG
He Tūrangawaewae

We feel connected and engaged in a community that fosters empathy and compassion.

Focus	2020	2021	2022
Deepen Assessment for Learning practices across the school NELP Obj 1, 2, 3	Reporting is aligned with the integrated reporting approach to curriculum	School-wide reporting is consistently aligned with the integrated approach to curriculum	Our staff, students and parents access and interact with school information purposefully
Live by the core values of Pt Chevalier School NELP Obj 1, 2, 3, 4	The school community are aware of the Pt Chevalier way and actively support the core values	The Core Values are a part of the integrated approach to learning in all areas	The Core Values are embedded within the school community culture
Grow our relationships with Māori and Pasifika families and their involvement in School life NELP Obj 1, 2, 3	Māori and Pasifika communities demonstrate greater agency in their relationships with school	Māori and Pasifika communities demonstrate greater agency in their relationships with school	High trust, active and connected relationships are evident with our Māori and Pasifika communities

WE PARTICIPATE
He Tūranga Kuhukuhu

We experience a curriculum that prepares us for our future and is inclusive of our needs and interests.

Focus	2020	2021	2022
Provide an integrated curriculum that encourages personalised learning NELP Obj 1, 2, 3, 4	Staff deepen their approach to integration and investigate implications for assessment	Students and Teachers experience an integrated Curriculum that is relevant, authentic and personalised	Students and Teachers actively construct learning pathways that are relevant, authentic and personalised
Become digitally fluent and creative users of technology NELP Obj 2, 3, 4	Staff and students are increasingly more creative in their use of digital tools in learning	Staff and students are increasingly more creative in their use of digital tools in learning	Staff and students are creative and discerning users of technology