The Senior Leadership Team and the Board are overseeing a school involved in more failure than any in living memory. But the new leadership at Naenae College has outstripped it in the frequency and breadth of failure, while it still managing to maintain the College's genial image. It had done this in part by using others. This result is a new kind of mismanagement, failure and incompetency that is still rapidly impacting the students at Naenae College.
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CONCERNS 2023:
Drop in students attempting external exams.
Drop in students gaining excellence grades in externals.
High number of students choosing not to complete assessments at senior level as they know they can pass in other subjects (the "NCEA game").
Some grades at junior level recorded as incorrectly as 'Not Yet Assessed' or left single green tick.
Overload of assessments for Year 10 classes - with only two periods a week, the Year 10 course struggles to implement depth and robust learning.
Junior students lose 30 minutes of English (and Maths) per week over their junior years in comparison to a traditional five-periods-a-day timetable.
Poor internet coverage.
Chromebooks abused by students - no ownership so the students mistreat them. There is constant need for Chromebooks to be repaired and/or replaced.
REFLECTION ENG100 2023.
From a statistical point of view, an average of 12 credits per student sitting 5 subjects would only get students just above 60 credits. This is well short of the requirement of 80 credits in 2023. However; compared with the national statistics, Naenae College had a slightly better pass rate in English for Level 1 assessments.
The main area of concern for us is the poor performance of our Maori students. While our students did perform better than tl1e national rates, an average of 8.3 credits per student is very concerning.
The number of students gaining Merit and Excellence in externals is probably at the lowest point have seen in recent years. There are a number of factors that could contribute towards this, such as, students having passed NCEA already, students lack knowledge around study skills and students not aiming to achieve endorsement.
Staff reflections
"Most of the Service Academy students didn't engage well."
"More local texts especially Maori and Pasifika ones would be beneficial."
"A lot of students struggled to translate the text into essays in regard to linking the text to their own life." - a requirement of higher grades.
"Attendance was often low towards the end of the year; and this has had an impact on the assessments going on at the time."
"Students were majorly disengaged unless the credits were attainable at that point in time."
"Majoirty of students wasted their time unit thew finial two lessons before doing work."
REFLECTION ENG200 2023.
The ongoing tension with a Year 12 course is the number of students in Services, Trades Academy and Gateway, which leads to a lot of missed class time for these students. Often these students will drop out of assessments, and this leads to the poor average credits per student
A suprising results is only one student gained an Excellence grade in the exam, and two others gained Merit. There are students capable of gaining higher external grades but for reasons unknown the exneral results are the lowest I have seen at this level.
Over the last few years, greater emphasis has been placed on Maori and Pacific texts, and while this may have led to good results with the first assessment of the year (a close viewing of a film text), it has not translated into better results overall.
Maori and Pacific students did have a lesser average credit total, and this may be due to the impact that in Services, Trades Academy and Gateway has on attendance.
Staff reflections
"Students who did not pass the internals mostly had incomplete or unsubmitted assessments."
"Reworking writing pieces that they had already done worked well for the Writing Portfolio, through most were at Achieved."
""Students were entered them for 2 exam papers to help get them their UE Literacy, but perhabs I should have subsituted one with the research internal" - the research provides 4 credits towards reading UE.
''A lot of them wrote waaaaaaaay too much in their report." - students add a lot of redundant words to their writing. This is an area we can look at as a department
"A number of students pulled out of assessments as they didn't want to attempt it or didn't need the credits." - This is part of NCEA and students picking and choosing what they do.
"A high proportion of students are in the course as they didn't have anything better to do."
"Only offer one external"
MPV: "Students who remained on the roll were not at the level appropriate for the learning and achievement expectations of this course."
MPV: "I would not recommend teaching this course as a combined course as a combined Level 2 and 3 programme ... the Year 12s expressed discomfort, feeling as though they were encroaching on the Year 13s' space, given their majority in the class."
REFLECTION ENG300 2023.