Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy

Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy

• Added wording and board assurance note to reflect updated curriculum and performance measures, including "one hour a day" requirements for schools with year 0-8 students.
• Updated policy to emphasise legislative requirements relating to:
  • health education
  • career guidance
  • curriculum and performance measures
  • National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP).
• Included information about supporting programmes and resources, and monitoring and reporting on progress.
• Moved policy information from Home Learning, and Environmental Sustainability and Management into Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy.

Assessing Student Learning

• Updated policy title from Student Achievement Information (for primary schools) and Student Assessment and Achievement (for composite and secondary schools).
• Emphasised NELP-related and legislative requirements.
• Removed previously optional list of assessment tools.
• Clarified NZQA requirements (composite and secondary schools only)

Distance Learning

• Wording and formatting changes for clarity.

External and Private Tutors

• Added wording about safety checking and police vetting tutors.

Religious Instruction

• Clarified religious instruction requirements under the Education and Training Act 2020, Bill of Rights Act 1990, and Human Rights Act 1993.
• For schools that do not offer religious instruction, updated the title of this topic to Religious Instruction Not Offered.

Religious Observances

• Clarified religious observance requirements under the Education and Training Act 2020, Bill of Rights Act 1990, and Human Rights Act 1993.
• Clarified school closure and attendance requirements.

Health Education

• Clarified legislative requirements for development and delivery of the health curriculum, including community consultation.
• Updated resources section.

Career Guidance and Learning Pathways

• Clarified the legislative requirements for career education and guidance.
• Added optional wording about Kāhui Ako.
• Grouped career and learning pathways that schools may use and clarified requirements that apply to these pathways.
• Primary schools that previously had the Career Guidance topic now have required information in the Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy.
• As part of this update, added Safety and Welfare for Students on Work Experience (previously optional) to all composite and secondary school sites.

Exchange Students

• Made minor wording and formatting changes for clarity.
• Moved from Curriculum and Student Achievement section to Student Wellbeing and Safety section within the Health, Safety, and Welfare Policy.

Feedback and Feedforward to Students: Monitoring and Marking

• Removed from sites. Relevant information added to Assessing Student Learning.

Home Learning

• Removed from sites. Relevant information added to Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy.

Intellectual Freedom

(composite and secondary schools)

• Removed from sites. Relevant information added to Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy.

Co-curricular activities

(composite and secondary schools)

• Removed from sites. Website links removed as this information is already publicly available.

Transitions and Pathways

(composite and secondary schools)

• Removed from sites. Relevant information added to Career Guidance and Learning Pathways.

Environmental Sustainability and Management

• Removed from sites. Relevant information added to Curriculum and Student Achievement Policy.