Environmental education is an increasigly important element of the curriculum. Fiordland College has won national awards and is seen as a leader in environmental education, boasting Green-Gold Enviroschool status.
The College offers a wide range of sporting and cultural activities including rugby, football, netball, basketball, volleyball, hockey, swimming, athletics, cross country, mountain biking, squash, music and drama. The Outdoor Education programme is a particular highlight and makes the most of our amazing natural landscape.
Other activities such as yachting, horse riding and golf are easily available in the local township. Fiordland College has a long tradition of hosting international students and we value the cultural diversity they bring to our school. The school year is from the end of January until the beginning of December, although exact commencement dates are flexible.
Both short term and long term programmes are offered. Our experienced Director of International Students ensures the social, academic and personal wellbeing of our overseas students. It is an internationally recognised qualification that enables our students to continue studying at tertiary institutions after leaving school. Our international students live with carefully selected New Zealand host families. Living with a host family provides students with a comfortable and friendly family environment.
Teachers showed best practice when they:. The school is suitably placed to sustain and improve its performance. The principal has made good use of the first year in her role to take a well-considered approach to planning next steps for school development.
She is now well placed to:. Performance management. Senior leaders have redeveloped the appraisal system so that it is comprehensive and robust. The next step is for all teachers to ensure that what they do for the appraisal process:. At the time of this review there were three international students attending the school.
International students benefit from high-quality pastoral care. Their education, progress, involvement and integration into the school and its community are closely monitored and supported. In these documents they attested that they had taken all reasonable steps to meet their legislative obligations related to:. During the review, ERO checked the following items because they have a potentially high impact on student achievement:.
Education Review Office. Fiordland College. Find out which schools have upcoming reviews. Education institution number :. School type :. School gender :. Definition :. Total roll :. Website :. Telephone :. Address :. Review report 16 Jul Previous review report 12 Dec School Context Fiordland College is a Year 7 to 13 state co-educational secondary school in Te Anau with a roll of students.
Leaders and teachers regularly report to the board, school-wide information about outcomes for students in the following areas: progress and achievement in each curriculum area for students in Years senior student NCEA achievement annual and triennial reports for all curriculum areas. Evaluation Findings 1 Equity and excellence — achievement of valued outcomes for students 1.
The school works effectively to achieve equitable and excellent outcomes for all students. In these documents they attested that they had taken all reasonable steps to meet their legislative obligations related to the following: board administration curriculum management of health, safety and welfare personnel management finance asset management. During the review, ERO checked the following items because they have a potentially high impact on student safety and wellbeing: emotional safety of students including prevention of bullying and sexual harassment physical safety of students teacher registration and certification processes for appointing staff stand down, suspension, expulsion and exclusion of students attendance school policies in relation to meeting the requirements of the Vulnerable Children Act Wide subject availability is achieved by: continuing to run classes in the senior school, despite small numbers making good use of tertiary providers beyond the school courses that link well with vocational pathways other distance learning.
The next step is to ensure that the guiding documents for all aspects of the curriculum: include well-considered shared understandings about all aspects of teaching and learning provide benchmarks for teachers to evaluate their own performance and that of others are used to identify the professional learning needs of teachers help teachers make best practice become common practice across the school for the benefit of all students.
The work of the board of trustees is well supported by: long and short-term planning to guide the school towards its vision for future learning clear and well-documented guidelines for trustees in their governance role useful processes for considering reports about what supports learning for students.
The next step is for all teachers to ensure that what they do for the appraisal process: is part of their agreed understandings about good teaching practice focuses primarily on improving what happens for students comes from the ongoing gathering of evidence from a range of sources about the impact of their teaching empowers teachers to improve their practice in a sustainable way.
Provision for international students The school is a signatory to the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students the Code established under section F of the Education Act In these documents they attested that they had taken all reasonable steps to meet their legislative obligations related to: board administration curriculum management of health, safety and welfare personnel management financial management asset management.
During the review, ERO checked the following items because they have a potentially high impact on student achievement: emotional safety of students including prevention of bullying and sexual harassment physical safety of students teacher registration processes for appointing staff stand-downs, suspensions, expulsions and exclusions attendance. This place is totally differnt from all the other places I've been to. I think I made the right decision. I chose to come to New Zelaand because of its beautiful nature.
I was looking for a small school with a friendly and familiar atmosphere. I found it. Fiordland College Education. Outdoor Ed Students learn about their own well-being, and that of others and society, in health-related and movement contexts. English Students study, use, and enjoy language and literature communicated orally, visually, or in writing. The Arts Students explore, refine, and communicate ideas as they connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings to create works and respond to the works of others.
Mathematics Students explore relationships in quantities, space, and data and learn to express these relationships in ways that help them to make sense of the world around them. Environment Fiordland College takes pride in its place at the edge of the Fiordland National Park and in the significant role it plays in its local community. Science Students explore how both the natural physical world and science itself work so that they can participate as critical, informed, and responsible citizens in a society in which science plays a significant role.
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