July 2011

The Education Review Office has recently completed its review of Mt Carmel Primary.

The Education Review Office visits schools every three years and primarily looks at the quality of education being provided by the school and areas where the school may move to next. The written report also focuses on particular areas decided upon as a national focus by the Ministry of Education. This year’s review included a focus on Maori and Pacific student engagement, progress and achievement as well as students with special needs.

As a Board we are very pleased with the very positive comments made by the team throughout the review week and the resultant report. Please note that all ERO reports are now significantly briefer than in the past and while the team looks as all aspects of the school the written report concentrates largely on just a few areas.

The BOT was pleased to hear from the reviewers that the school is continuing to perform extremely well in terms of student learning and achievement, effective school management, professional leadership provided by the Principal and senior staff, and community support.  The school is well up to date and has very successfully implemented the new NZ Curriculum  (2009) and National Standards (2010).

As a Board we feel extremely confident the school is working as effectively as possible to meet the varied needs of our students.  This is demonstrated not only by this review,  but also our extremely positive Catholic Character Review undertaken in 2010 and through our own internal self review practices.

I wish to thank the Principal Annette Donnelly, Senior staff Belinda Perry and Sandra Gerrard and all our wonderful teachers and support staff for their hard work over the past three years leading to the success of this ERO Review.  

Moira Nelson

BOT Chairperson

Click here to view the latest ERO Report

Click here to go to the ERO website