Annual Implementation Plan 2025
Read the 2025 Annual Plan
VISION
Inspired learners. Proud contributors.
Whakataukī
Whāia te pae tawhiti.
Pursue your goals to the furthest horizon.
Mission
Waiheke High School will inspire pride. We are the waka that guides our rangatahi on their individual journey to success.
Core Values
Whanaungatanga: Caring for all
Independence: Managing ourselves
School Culture: Pride in our values, environment and community
Excellence: Striving for success
Strategic Streams
Strategic Goal 1: Curriculum | Marautanga
Waiheke High School maintains a broad curriculum which prepares students for a dynamic, modern world while grounding them with a deep understanding of their local people and environment.
Strategic Aspirations
Strategic Priorities
Waiheke High School will prioritise development in foundational skills and key competencies to enable all students to readily access NCEA and prepare them for transitions to work or further education.
- Build understanding across the curriculum of numeracy and literacy requirements and integrate these skills throughout the junior curriculum
- Develop key competencies and being explicitly teaching these skills in order to meet the demands of an ever changing world
Waiheke High School will prioritise development of a more localised curriculum; incorporating mātauranga Māori, local knowledge and history, and affirming Ngāti Pāoa as tangata whenua.
- Continue development and integration of localised curriculum content
- Continue development and integration of mātauranga Māori
- Collaborate with Ngāti Pāoa to ensure that said inclusion of localised content and mātauranga Māori is appropriate content in planning and delivery
Strategic Goal 1: Curriculum | Marautanga
Waiheke High School maintains a broad curriculum which prepares students for a dynamic, modern world while grounding them with a deep understanding of their local people and environment.
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise development in foundational skills and key competencies to enable all students to readily access NCEA and prepare them for transitions to work or further education.
Strategic Priority
- Build understanding across the curriculum of numeracy and literacy requirements and integrate these skills throughout the junior curriculum
- Develop key competencies and being explicitly teaching these skills in order to meet the demands of an ever changing world
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise development of a more localised curriculum; incorporating mātauranga Māori, local knowledge and history, and affirming Ngāti Pāoa as tangata whenua.
Strategic Priority
- Continue development and integration of localised curriculum content
- Continue development and integration of mātauranga Māori
- Collaborate with Ngāti Pāoa to ensure that said inclusion of localised content and mātauranga Māori is appropriate content in planning and delivery
Strategic Goal 2: Teaching and Learning | Ara Whakaako
Waiheke High School teachers are committed to continuously reflecting on their teaching practices to enhance the quality of education for their learners.
Strategic Aspirations
Strategic Priorities
Waiheke High School will prioritise the understanding of best practice teaching and learning and the implementation of these methods in every classroom to boost academic achievement.
- Build an awareness of teaching best practice and use this to develop a localised best pedagogy profile for all teachers at Waiheke High School
- Systematise engagement with academic data and student feedback to inform the effectiveness of practice and drive professional growth
- Grow a collaborative culture in teaching and learning – specifically including observations, collaborative planning and review, and sharing of practice
Waiheke High School will prioritise developing the ability of staff to differentiate for neurodiverse learners to ensure all learners feel supported to succeed.
- Strengthen collective pedagogy around differentiation and student agency through targeted professional development
Strategic Goal 2: Teaching and Learning | Ara Whakaako
Waiheke High School teachers are committed to continuously reflecting on their teaching practices to enhance the quality of education for their learners.
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise the understanding of best practice teaching and learning and the implementation of these methods in every classroom to boost academic achievement.
Strategic Priority
- Build an awareness of teaching best practice and use this to develop a localised best pedagogy profile for all teachers at Waiheke High School
- Systematise engagement with academic data and student feedback to inform the effectiveness of practice and drive professional growth
- Grow a collaborative culture in teaching and learning – specifically including observations, collaborative planning and review, and sharing of practice
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise developing the ability of staff to differentiate for neurodiverse learners to ensure all learners feel supported to succeed.
Strategic Priority
- Strengthen collective pedagogy around differentiation and student agency through targeted professional development
Strategic Goal 3: Engagement | Kōkiri
Waiheke High School aspires to be a safe learning environment for all where students have a strong sense of pride and belonging.
Strategic Aspirations
Strategic Priorities
Waiheke High School will prioritise fostering the continued development of a positive school culture to prioritising learning, healthy relationships and high participation in wider school activities.
- Develop and implement The Waiheke Way – Tikanga a kura as the positive behaviour framework that live by at WHS
- Strengthen the integration of WISE values and their associated recognition system
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of systematic best practice supports to promote high engagement for all learners in their education journey.
- Rebuild the pastoral system to build a consistent experience for all students
- Overhaul the interventions associated with our PB4L system with a specific focus on better support for highly disengaged students
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of strong relationships with students, whānau and the community and ensure that these are used to drive quality teaching and learning.
- Develop teacher skills to build learning focused relationships with students which are leveraged to maximise learning
- Strengthen connections with whanau which are leveraged to maximise learning
- Collaborate with Ngāti Pāoa to support the growth of all ākonga and to build an understanding of Te Ao Māori that supports all learners
Strategic Goal 3: Engagement | Kōkiri
Waiheke High School aspires to be a safe learning environment for all where students have a strong sense of pride and belonging.
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise fostering the continued development of a positive school culture to prioritising learning, healthy relationships and high participation in wider school activities.
Strategic Priority
- Develop and implement The Waiheke Way – Tikanga a kura as the positive behaviour framework that live by at WHS
- Strengthen the integration of WISE values and their associated recognition system
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of systematic best practice supports to promote high engagement for all learners in their education journey.
Strategic Priority
- Rebuild the pastoral system to build a consistent experience for all students
- Overhaul the interventions associated with our PB4L system with a specific focus on better support for highly disengaged students
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of strong relationships with students, whānau and the community and ensure that these are used to drive quality teaching and learning.
Strategic Priority
- Develop teacher skills to build learning focused relationships with students which are leveraged to maximise learning
- Strengthen connections with whanau which are leveraged to maximise learning
- Collaborate with Ngāti Pāoa to support the growth of all ākonga and to build an understanding of Te Ao Māori that supports all learners
Strategic Goal 4: Hauora | Wellbeing
Waiheke High School aspires to be a safe learning environment for all where students have a strong sense of pride and belonging.
Strategic Aspirations
Strategic Priorities
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of student leadership roles and forums for their participation in decision making to systematically ensure that student voice is built into strategic decision making.
- Develop a student executive commiee to collaborate with school management
- Build deeper pipelines for student leadership throughout all year levels
Waiheke High School will prioritise supporting students’ mental wellbeing within our school community and the connection that this has to each students ability to learn and feel safe at school.
- Launch and embed the KiVa programme at Waiheke High School
- Gather student voice around their wellbeing and respond to this systematically via our pastoral and student support services
Waiheke High School will prioritise the ongoing commitment to developing sustainable practices in line with the environmentally conscious ethos of our community.
- Develop our internal systems of recycling, composting and waste disposal
- Promote student pride in, and care for, their school environment
- Engage in wider community initiatives that affirm our connection to, and responsibility, for te taiao, our local environment
Strategic Goal 4: Hauora | Wellbeing
Waiheke High School aspires to be a safe learning environment for all where students have a strong sense of pride and belonging.
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise the development of student leadership roles and forums for their participation in decision making to systematically ensure that student voice is built into strategic decision making.
Strategic Priority
- Develop a student executive commiee to collaborate with school management
- Build deeper pipelines for student leadership throughout all year levels
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise supporting students’ mental wellbeing within our school community and the connection that this has to each students ability to learn and feel safe at school.
Strategic Priority
- Launch and embed the KiVa programme at Waiheke High School
- Gather student voice around their wellbeing and respond to this systematically via our pastoral and student support services
Strategic Aspiration
Waiheke High School will prioritise the ongoing commitment to developing sustainable practices in line with the environmentally conscious ethos of our community.
Strategic Priority
- Develop our internal systems of recycling, composting and waste disposal
- Promote student pride in, and care for, their school environment
- Engage in wider community initiatives that affirm our connection to, and responsibility, for te taiao, our local environment