Under section 60A of the Education Act 1989, the National Administration Guidelines Notice ("the principal notice") published in the New Zealand Gazette, 29 October 2009, No. 157, page 3810, is amended as follows:
1. NAG 2 of the principal notice is deleted and replaced with the following guideline:
"NAG 2
Each board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to:
(a) develop a strategic plan which documents how they are giving effect to the National Education Guidelines through their policies, plans and programmes, including those for curriculum, Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki
Maori and/or National Standards*, aromatawai and/or assessment, and staff professional development;
(b) maintain an on-going programme of self-review in relation to the above policies, plans and programmes, including evaluation of information on student achievement; and
(c) report to students and their parents on the achievement of individual students, and to the school's community on the achievement of students as a whole and of groups (identified through NAG 1(c) above) including the achievement of Maori students against the plans and targets referred to in 1(e) above."
2. NAG 2A of the principal notice is deleted and replaced with the following guideline:
"NAG 2A
Where a school has students enrolled in years 1-8, the board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to, in alignment with requirements set in NAG 1, use Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or National Standards to:
(a) report to students and their parents on the student's progress and achievement in relation to Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or National Standards. Reporting to parents in plain language in writing must occur at least twice a year;
(b) report to the Secretary for Education by 1 March school-level data on Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or National Standards under four headings:
(i) school strengths and identified areas for improvement;
(ii) the basis for identifying areas for improvement;
(iii) planned actions for lifting achievement; and
(iv) how students are progressing in relation to Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or National Standards.
(c) report to the Secretary for Education by 1 March on the numbers and proportions of students achieving Manawa Toa, Manawa Ora, Manawa Aki, Manawa Taki in relation to Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or at, above, below or well below National Standards, including by Maori, Pasifika, European/Pakeha, Asian, gender, and by year level.
(d) report the NAG 2A (b) and NAG 2A (c) Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori and/or National Standards information in the format prescribed by the Secretary for Education from time to time."
3. This notice applies from the date of its publication.
Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of October 2013.
HON HEKIA PARATA, Minister of Education.
*Schools that have students in years 1-8 that use The New Zealand Curriculum must use National Standards for those students and schools that have students in years 1-8 that use Te Marautanga o Aotearoa must use Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori for those students.