Right Mr Stephen Tisch– Deputy Principal
Deputy Principal of ACHIEVEMENT Ōtūmoetai College students continue to achieve NCEA results that are close to or well above the national averages. Provisional results for 2019 have seen our students comfortably achieving above the national averages in both Literacy and Numeracy. The Year 11 students achieved exceptional results in NCEA Level 1, with their pass rate of 78.1% being 10 percentage points more than the national average. The NCEA Level 2 pass rate of our Year 12 students was also above the national average. Our academic focus for 2020 will include increasing our success rate in NCEA Level 3 and University Entrance which were both just below the National Averages by about two percentage points. An Academic Achievement Group of staff has been tasked with the role of identifying students that are achieving below expectations and implementing strategies to give them the best opportunity of academic success in NCEA. Some tools they can use include a student Achievement Tracker, workshops, mentoring and partnering with home. In the Junior school, a writing framework for students has been developed by staff who are part of our local Kāhui Ako
(Community of Learning). This tool includes planning, sentence and paragraph structures, writing under pressure, editing and publishing. Students in Years 9 and 10 are being taught how to use the writing tool with the Social Science Department taking the lead. SOLO (Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes) provides a simple, reliable and robust model for us to gauge understanding. This will become the main way in which we classify learning to enable students to move from surface to deep learning. As Assessment Capable Teachers, we want to be able to respond to our junior assessment data to allow us to understand where students are at in their learning, to guide future interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions. This year, we will be further developing the capability of teachers in analysing assessment data with the goal of improving student achievement outcomes. We look forward to working with you in achieving this goal. Mr Stephen Tisch DP Achievement 18
