One record, infinite possibilities
Te Rito connects you with education information so when learners arrive at your school, they’re understood and are off to the best start. It’s the starting point needed when they move from one school to the next.
Check out the story of one school's experience of Te Rito's benefits.
[Background music]
[Ministry of Education logo on screen
[A large group of students’ feet dancing and jumping]
[Text on screen: A secure cloud-based service for schools that connects and shares data between SMS and education systems.]
[Te Rito wordmark on screen]
[Text on screen: Te Rito for Educators]
[Scene pans out to show blurred large group of students dancing together outside classrooms, one student wearing a hat is in the foreground, with back to camera]
[Scene transitions through additional different angles of the dancing group]
[‘Every child has a story’ unfolds on screen as voiceover starts]
Every child that walks through our gate has a story. And that story deserves to be known and needs to be heard.
[A range of different outdoor scenes show students in the school grounds, playing, sports and walking to class]
Children do tend to be numbers, if we don't create the narrative behind them.
[The principal walks through the school gate, greeting students as he enters the school buildings]
Our job is to see them, to know them, and protect their mana.
[Principal talking to camera, and appearing in playground scenes, where a small group of younger students are playing on a jungle gym]
Traditionally, what happens when a child moves schools, nothing goes with them. We have to reach out to their previous school and know the questions that we have to ask.
Often it is in response to something that is pressing or concerning.
[Principal talking to camera]
Te Rito will change that.
[A range of playground scenes continue]
[A group of students with backpacks and water bottles enter school buildings, talking and laughing, they’re then seen getting ready to start their lessons in the classroom]
With Te Rito, it's not just data, it's the narrative behind the data that comes together and it travels with you from primary to intermediate to high school.
[Principal talking to camera]
It creates a really rich tapestry for the learner and the educators to draw upon.
[‘Connecting data between systems’ unfolds on screen as voiceover of Deputy Principal starts]
[Deputy Principal walks into view]
[Deputy Principal talking to camera]
I think in a lot of parents' eyes, something like Te Rito, they just assume exists, and it doesn't.
[Scene transitions back to classroom where it’s now filled with students getting ready for their lesson with the Deputy Principal]
[Deputy Principal stands by whiteboard at front of class with students sitting on the floor raising their hands to answer questions]
And so they can't understand why we're asking the same questions that the teachers from previous years have asked. And I can imagine that would be quite frustrating.
Te Rito gives us the ability to weave things together, so we can track that child all the way through their year levels.
[‘Less admin, more impact’ unfolds on screen as voiceover of Deputy Principal continues]
[More classroom activities, led by the Deputy Principal, follow]
The way data transfer worked previously is that it was quite a manual task and it was done at a set time of year.
There were many spreadsheets – and some of them contradicted each other – and there were handwritten notes.
[The scene transitions to the Deputy Principal sitting with another staff member in an office, discussing what they see on a laptop screen in front of them]
[Deputy Principal talking to camera]
[Scenes transition between the Deputy Principal speaking with the other staff member, and him teaching in the classroom environment, where lots of students are actively engaged in learning]
A big advantage with Te Rito is the accuracy and the speed. It delivers both from numerous sources so we’re able to build a bigger picture of that child before they get to us.
That's probably one of the most important benefits to me as a teacher is the time that it's given me back.
[Whānau Leader walks into view, she is the same person Deputy Principal was speaking with in previous scenes]
[Whānau Leader working on a laptop]
Te Rito really helps us understand the child as a whole, their strengths, their challenges, and the connections that they have already made so that we as teachers coming into their life in the next phase could build on that more strongly.
[Whānau Leader talking to camera]
[Whānau Leader in classroom leading learning activities and students shown to be actively engaged and interacting]
So then as soon as the child steps into the classroom or the school environment, they feel that sense of belonging because we already know the child.
[Voiceover transitions back to Principal, and he appears on screen talking to camera]
One of the biggest benefits of Te Rito is cost saving – time, resourcing; we are more agile and able to meet the needs of our students and we can free up time for our core business, which is actually teaching the kids.
[‘Information protected as taonga’ unfolds on screen as voiceover of Principal continues]
[Scene returns to playground setting, where an outdoor assembly is taking place]
[A teacher stands behind a large audience of students sitting on rows of benches, their backs to the camera]
[The scene transitions to a close-up of students’ hands clapping]
[The scene transitions to a small group of students standing at an outdoor garden bed, where they are happily weeding plants and flowers. Beautiful bright yellow and orange flowers are visible in the foreground. Everyone is smiling]
[The Principal’s voiceover continues]
Te Rito’s like carrying a backpack of your educational journey and it may have little gems inside there, and I mean, that's priceless.
Know me before you teach me, that is the heart of it.
[Te Rito’s whakatauāki unfolds on screen:
Me tiaki te mana o te tamaiti me tōna whānau.
Protect the mana of the child and their family]
[Two young students reappear on screen, happily chatting and smiling, scene fades out]
[Ministry of Education logo with education.govt.nz url, and Te Rito wordmark with terito.govt.nz url, appear on screen]
[All of government logo appears on screen]
Video ends.
Sharing Te Rito across the motu
When you start with an understanding, tumuaki, principals, teachers and kaimahi are better able to know who learners are, what makes them unique, and what they need to achieve.
Te Rito now has:
- Over 1,000 schools signed up, and over 500 connected.
- Over 824,000 learner records, and as more schools connect, the records increase.
- New data from Ministry and other systems continuously added - including a record for every student; NCEA records (including co-requisites) for all current students; and more student health, language, identity and Ministry-funded supports information.
- An approved Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) validating the extremely high standard to which information is protected.
- Full IT Certification and Accreditation (C&A) and Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) badging.
