Two schools and a kindergarten in the Bay of Plenty region are among the finalists in the 2018 Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.
They are Rotorua Girls' High School, John Paul College, and Papamoa Kindergarten.
The kindergarten is a finalist in the Excellence in Engaging/Atahāpara Award, which celebrates working together as a community to transform relationships and achievement, leading to improved and sustained outcomes for all children and young people.
In a statement released by the Ministry of Education today, it stated the kindergarten was committed to supporting all children to become life-long learners. To help them achieve this, they collaborated with their community to establish an Assessment Whānau Group that will help develop and embed bicultural teaching, learning, and assessment framework into their practice.
As a result, learners have clear ideas about their learner identity in different contexts over time and they're able to understand some difficult concepts. This led to improved and sustained outcomes for all children.