At Yendarra School, we are proud of our ability to ensure that every child every day experiences a tranquil haven with highly effective teaching and learning programmes. Yendarra parents are excited about their children actually wanting to come to school every day. They love seeing their children thrive in our safe and nurturing environment.
Education Review Office visit October 2025
We are humbled and incredibly proud of our latest ERO report from October 2025.
Our reviewers noted some of our many strengths.
Strenghts that ERO noted included:
*Children learn in a caring and inclusive environment and engage well in their learning. The school values are well embedded and celebrated, and a strong sense of well being is evident
.• Leaders and teachers have high expectations for all children to engage, learn and make progress to enable successful future learning pathways.
• Strategies to improve student attendance have resulted in significant lifts in student attendance since 2024.
• Leaders clearly outline expectations for planning, teaching and assessment to ensure consistency of teaching practice across the school.
• Professional development opportunities support teachers to embed a school wide structured literacy approach. Leaders are acquiring resources and professional training in a structured mathematics programme to support teachers understanding and implementation of the new mathematics curriculum.
• The curriculum fosters children’s identity, language and culture; classrooms and outdoor learning environments support the delivery of the New Zealand Curriculum and the school’s strategic goals.
Key priorities
• Further increase regular attendance for all learners.
• Improve achievement outcomes in reading, writing and mathematics for all learners.
• Align current school mathematics and literacy programmes and assessment practices with changes tothe New Zealand Curriculum.
• Strengthen leadership capability to sustain effective practice to promote equitable and excellentoutcomes for all children.
Read their full report here.
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LITERACY
Literacy is a learning priority at Yendarra School. We aim to develop competent, confident and articulate tamariki who can apply their reading and writing skills to everyday life.
Tamariki are provided with exciting, authentic and relevant literacy opportunities each day. Classrooms are print-rich, our library is fully-stocked and tamariki have ready access to quality reading and writing materials.
NUMERACY
We want tamariki to experience success in mathematics, so that they can continue to use their numeracy skills throughout their lives. We know it is important for children to understand how maths relates to their everyday lives, so when developing numeracy skills use authentic contexts as often as possible. For example: shopping for whānau food, sharing things with others, spending money wisely.
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
Play can be a gateway to learning, because it develops imagination, creativity, problem-solving abilities and social skills. One exciting learning environment is Te iti Pounamu, where our youngest children learn to develop important social skills such as sharing, working together and learning oral language through imaginative play.
INQUIRY LEARNING
Learning is no longer just about learning facts; it is more about learning how to learn. Through inquiry-based learning, students discover how to think about the strengths and weaknesses of their own thinking when they are learning, which helps them to make thoughtful decisions on what to do next.
The walls of classrooms are disappearing as we move away from the traditional teaching styles to embrace learning experiences that are more relevant and personalised to our students. We use classroom spaces differently, and we take learning beyond the classroom whenever we can.
In equipping students for the global workplace, we recognise the need to teach differently and embrace technology to develop the ‘knowledge worker’. Easy internet access and web-based tools allow schools to meet the demands of our rapidly changing society. We aim to equip our students with the thinking, problem-solving, self-management and resilience abilities needed to succeed in the employment world of the future.
FOCUSED LEARNING
We are proud of the classroom programmes that operate each day at Yendarra School. Tamariki are engaged in meaningful learning and visitors often comment on the peaceful-feeling that permeates our classrooms and playground.
Music, singing and dancing are a strength of our school. We make the most of the immense skills and talent within our teaching and parent communities. Every year Yendarra performance groups delight many different audiences around Auckland.
We believe in inclusive education, so we have created focused learning environments to cater for the different groups within our school. For tamariki who require an extra boost to their literacy and numeracy, we have ‘Learning Personal Trainers’ to provide further support over and above the classroom programme.
