Fingers on the School Pulse
The results of the School Pulse were presented at a meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Education Board this week and are considered extremely pleasing for the Hafnarfjörður primary school community. The purpose of the implementation is to ascertain the current situation and to give individual schools, and the municipality as a whole, the opportunity to identify opportunities, challenges and tasks for school development, as well as to map out what is being done well and/or what could be improved.
Increased satisfaction in primary school work
of the town
The schools' improvement projects
are delivering visible and positive results
The results of the School Pulse were presented at a meeting of the Education Committee.
Hafnarfjörður this week, and they are considered particularly pleasing for the local primary school community.
The purpose of the School Pulse and School Wagon, a special report by the City of Hafnarfjörður
publishes the results, is to assess the situation and provide individual schools with,
and for the municipality as a whole, opportunities to find opportunities, challenges and
Areas for school development, along with mapping what is being done well.
and/or could be improved. The findings have been used to shape
Improvement projects, both within individual schools and projects concerning changes
Overall, and including an improved working environment for staff and students.
Great and positive
changes
There has been a significant increase in satisfaction with the food service in primary schools.
Hafnarfjörður from the parents' perspective. At the same time as student enrolment
in food, have increased, and are still increasing, then the service seems to have taken a great
positive changes in the 2018-2019 school year compared to the previous measurement, and satisfaction
much higher than the national average in the School Survey. Likewise, parents are satisfied.
with the work of Hafnarfjörður's primary schools on bullying, and the town is behind it.
national average or sixth place among the participating municipalities
in Skólavogurinn. „It is extremely pleasing
to see in black and white that the improvement projects being implemented by the education council and the municipal staff, within schools and support services, are having an impact
is directly reflected back to students, parents and staff in the form of increased satisfaction
with the working environment and service, and the most satisfying thing of all is trust.
of students' own ability and activity. When the going gets tough
When it comes down to it, it's their well-being that matters most and that everyone
that a student is growing, maturing and strengthening at their own pace. That alone bodes well.
and is important food for the work now taking place to shape a new
an education policy for the City of Hafnarfjörður which will be unveiled next spring“ says
Fanney D. Halldórsdóttir, Director of the Education and Public Health Directorate
of the City of Hafnarfjörður.
Students are happy with
their effectiveness and have faith in their own ability
According to the results of the School Pulse, pupils in 6th–
Positively evaluates their own performance in Year 10 and their performance extends to their resilience in learning, belief in
their own ability and work methods and interest in mathematics. The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður is here among those
25% top among participating municipalities, or 5th place out of 33 municipalities. Results
individual schools are performing differently across subject areas and reflect that
to a large extent the focus and culture of individual schools and the influence of staff
The school atmosphere in interaction with the pupils.
The School Bus 2018-2019 report can be found here.
About Skólapúls and
School bus
The School Pulse measures students' attitudes towards school life in
primary schools annually and parents and staff in primary schools every other year. City of Hafnarfjörður
has been a participant in the School Pulse for six years so that all schools
of the town are participants in the same surveys at the same time, and thus a certain
story and comparison between years and periods. After the results from Skólapúlsinn
When available, the municipality publishes a report, Skólavogin, on the results for
Hafnarfjörður. This report is part of the municipality's legal duty to
to carry out an external evaluation of the council's school provision in accordance with the Basic Education Act
No. 91/2008. The purpose of all this is to collect reliable data on school activities.
to identify the challenges and opportunities for school development.