Graduate Profiles

What is a Graduate Profile?

A graduate profile, “is a collective vision for student learning that is shaped by whānau (family), hapū (sub-tribe), iwi (tribe), and kura (school).”A true graduate profile should answer these questions:

• When your students walk out of your school’s or your classroom’s doors on their last day, who do you want them to be? What do you want them to know and understand?

• How did you co-construct these intentions with all your stakeholders?

• How do you know they have achieved these goals?

• How is this end goal embedded intentionally in all school practice?

A Graduate Profile centres the identities, histories, and cultural knowledges of the students it serves while also describing the mandated curriculum expectations for each student.

What a graduate profile is not is a vague checklist of values and aspirations that are left to chance—assumed to “rub off” on young people rather than being taught intentionally and assessed.

The graphics below show our expectations for each of the school’s units Te Whānau o Tupuranga, Fonuamalu, and Lumana’i.

Each one shows the goals we expect students to achieve at Years 3, 6, 9, 11, and 13 (Tupuranga) and Years 9, 11 and 13 (Fonuamalu & Lumana’i). Younger year levels are being developed for Fonuamalu’s Fatufatu Fala classes.