About Us




|Suzanne Parkinson |Sonya Van Schaijik |Teal Gray |Madeline Gunn
 |Andy Lawrence| Charlotte Ironside |Melanie Wait |Lisa Murphy |Jill Farquharson
|Steven Van Nees |Alix Osbaldiston

We are the Auckland Central Community of Schools Across School Leaders.

In 2020, there are 12 schools in the Auckland Central Community of schools.


Updated August 2022
Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa
Let us keep close together, not wide apart

As a community of Auckland Central Schools, we work collaboratively on strengthening the pathways for our students throughout their schooling journey. This involves developing a more holistic pathway, acknowledging each student’s strengths, as they transition through various schools within our community. Robust, rigorous data, around our students is shared across our schools. Culturally appropriate support comprises part of the student’s transition between schools.  For further information check out information regarding Community of Schools.

A little bit about us
The Auckland Central Community of Learning consists of one kindergarten, six primary schools, two full primary schools, two intermediate schools and one secondary school.  These 12 learning organisations are situated in central Auckland just south of the CBD.  The combined roll totals 8,733 students which includes 3,495 European, 410 Māori, 500 Pasifika, 3,623 Asian, 375 other and 230 International Fee Paying students.
The demography of the community has changed considerably in the last decade with all schools having growing multicultural rolls – particularly students of Asian heritage.
Our community is a very high performing Community of Learning and is characterised by exceptional levels of achievement by students, strong senior leadership, high quality teaching programmes and a professional environment that focuses on student progress.  The learning environments are settled and reflect a responsive curriculum that engages and motivates students.

Why are we called ACCOS?
The Auckland Central Community of Schools (ACCoS) was established in January 2015.  We were early adopters of this initiative and one of the first three to be approved nationwide.  At this time the union (NZEI) had not agreed to the final outcomes of the initiative.  It was not until later that year that the joint initiative Governance Group (a group of MoE and NZEI people) agreed on the recommendations, one of them being to rename the initiative to Communities of Learning.  Because we were already an established community, we kept the name Auckland Central Community of Schools (ACCoS).

What is our purpose?
Members of Auckland Central Community of Learning (ACCoS) include a strong network of passionate and motivated leaders and learners.  We are consultative and strongly motivated to improve our places of learning.  We recognise the need to break down silos of learning and refocus the dialogue on what works for us all.  We acknowledge that curiosity is key to the development of collaborative practices that strengthen learning for all, while at the same time maintaining strong equity and quality results.
As a community we want to strengthen pathways for our students throughout their schooling journey.  This involves developing a more holistic pathway, acknowledging each student’s strengths, as they transition through various schools within our community.  Robust, rigorous data, around our students is shared across our schools.  Culturally appropriate approaches are also an important part of the student’s transition between schools.

What is our approach?
ACCoS’s approach is to build teachers’ individual and collective capacity to attend to the needs of every student.  This approach is based on our community sharing teaching and learning practices that are currently working well and valuing best practice in schools.
·       We utilise a collaborative inquiry process to address our initiatives
·       We develop collective professional learner agency across our schools
·       We encourage professional curiosity and strengthen our inquiry mind-set
·       We develop hunches about what is leading to the current situation, before deciding what to do about it
·       We open up new ways of doing things, change practice and create more innovative approaches to learning and teaching
·       We contextualise and figure out what works now and in the future
  

   Who we are





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