262 Birkdale Road, Birkdale, Auckland
View on mapAkarangi | Quality Evaluation evaluates the extent to which this early childhood service has the learning and organisational conditions to support equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners. Te Ara Poutama Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most are the basis for making judgements about the effectiveness of the service in achieving equity and excellence for all learners. Judgements are made in relation to the Outcomes Indicators, Learning and Organisational Conditions. The Evaluation Judgement Rubric derived from the indicators, is used to inform ERO’s judgements about this service’s performance in promoting equity and excellence.
ERO’s judgements for Nurserydale Childcare Centre are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) |
Whakaū Embedding |
Ngā Akatoro Domains |
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Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions |
Whakaū Embedding Whāngai Establishing |
Nurserydale Childcare Centre is a well-established, privately owned service. A qualified owner leads a team of 10 staff members supported by a ‘2IC’ and a head teacher. They have responsibility for day-to-day operations and curriculum development. At the time of the review, a small number of children were from Māori or Pacific backgrounds.
Children experience a natural, homely environment that provides them with a wide range of learning opportunities. These play-based experiences encourage children to imagine, invent and experiment, and explore a range of strategies for problem solving and working alongside their peers. Supportive teacher | child relationships encourage children to express their feelings and needs. As a result, children’s independence and self-help skills are fostered.
A long-standing teaching team ensures that quality relationships are maintained. This has resulted in the development of learning-focused partnerships that provide parents with opportunities to be involved in their child’s learning. Through these relationships, as well as those built with the wider educational community, transitions into, through and from the service are adapted to meet the individual needs of children. Continuity of care for children is a highly valued practice that is skilfully enacted by teachers at this service.
Changes to planning and assessment processes are continuing in a curriculum that is increasingly intentional and linked to Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Teachers undertake individualised planning to identify the learning needs of each child. Through building the collective capability of the team to engage in this practice, teachers will be better placed to respond to children’s increasing capabilities over time and to use assessment practices to enhance children’s identity as learners.
Leaders’ and teachers’ reflective practice is a strength of this service. They challenge themselves to question what they think they know about quality practices in early childhood education, with an aim to support improved teacher practice. Strengthening evaluation practices by developing and using observable and measurable success indicators, could help to identify the impact of improvements made on outcomes for learners.
Nurserydale Childcare Centre will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Continue to develop the collective capability of teachers to document children’s individual learning in a way that recognizes their increasing capabilities over time and enhances their learner identity.
Continue to develop a process for internal evaluation that focuses on identifying how changes made have resulted in improved outcomes for learners.
Before the review, the staff and management of Nurserydale Childcare Centre completed an ERO Assurance Statement and Self-Audit Checklist. In these documents they attested that they have taken all reasonable steps to meet their legal obligations related to:
curriculum
premises and facilities
health and safety practices
governance, management and administration.
During the review, ERO looked at the service’s systems for managing the following areas that have a potentially high impact on children's wellbeing:
emotional safety (including positive guidance and child protection)
physical safety (including supervision; sleep procedures; accidents; medication; hygiene; excursion policies and procedures)
suitable staffing (including qualification levels; safety checking; teacher registration; ratios)
relevant evacuation procedures and practices.
All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
During the review, the service provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliance:
Having a written child protection policy which includes a procedure that sets out how the service will identify and respond to suspected child abuse and/or neglect (HS31).
Patricia Davey
Director of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
12 June 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Nurserydale Childcare Centre |
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Profile Number |
20122 |
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Location |
Birkdale, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
45 children, including up to 10 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
100% |
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Service roll |
53 |
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Review team on site |
March 2023 |
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Date of this report |
12 June 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Akanuku | Assurance Review, June 2021 |
ERO’s Akanuku | Assurance Review reports provide information about whether a service meets and maintains regulatory standards. Further information about Akanuku | Assurance Reviews is included at the end of this report.
Regulatory standards |
ERO’s judgement |
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Curriculum |
Meeting |
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Premises and facilities |
Meeting |
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Health and safety |
Meeting |
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Governance, management and administration |
Meeting |
Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed non-compliances and is now taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Nurserydale Childcare Centre is owned by a qualified teacher. The owner leads a team of nine qualified teachers, two unqualified teachers, and a cook. There are two indoor and outdoor areas for children from infants to school age.
Adults providing education and care engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. The centre curriculum acknowledges and reflects the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua. Positive steps are taken to respect and acknowledge parents’ and whānau aspirations for their children.
A sufficient quantity of furniture, equipment, and materials is provided appropriate for the learning and abilities of the children attending. Ongoing monitoring of health and safety, and governance and management practices is required to ensure the licensing criteria are consistently met.
Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliances:
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Steve Tanner
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
4 June 2021
| Early Childhood Service Name | Nurserydale Childcare Centre |
| Profile Number | 20122 |
| Location | Birkdale, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
45 children, including up to 10 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
100% |
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Service roll |
57 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 10 |
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Review team on site |
April 2021 |
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Date of this report |
4 June 2021 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Education Review August 2017 |
All services are licensed under the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008. The legal requirements for early childhood services also include the Licensing Criteria for Education and Care Services 2008.
Services must meet the standards in the regulations and the requirements of the licensing criteria to gain and maintain a licence to operate.
All early childhood services are required to promote children’s health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements. Before the review, the staff and management of a service completed an ERO Centre Assurance Statement and Self-Audit Checklist. In these documents they attested that they have taken all reasonable steps to meet their legal obligations related to:
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO assesses whether the regulated standards are being met. In particular, ERO looks at a service’s systems for managing the following areas that have a potentially high impact on children's wellbeing:
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through: