69 Hutchinson Road, Bucklands Beach, 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 Lighthouse Preschool are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) | Whakaū Embedding |
Ngā Akatoro Domains | |
Learning Conditions Organisational Conditions | Whakaū Embedding Whāngai Establishing |
Lighthouse Preschool is privately owned. Governance and management are provided by two centre owners who work alongside a qualified centre manager. Staff include 11 registered teachers, five unqualified teachers and a cook. The centre philosophy values positive relationships with families and the community.
Children experience a calm and unhurried environment in which they are treated with respect, dignity and valued as capable young learners. Teachers and leaders are aware of, and responsive to, infants’ and toddlers’ needs, preferences and capabilities. Teachers provide good support for children’s language development through meaningful conversations.
Teachers provide a play-based, inclusive curriculum, underpinned by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Learning environments support children to have fun, explore, and make discoveries. Children are encouraged to be kind, caring, and accepting of differences. They demonstrate a strong sense of belonging.
Teachers include te reo Māori and tikanga Māori into the daily routine. They are working towards strengthening Te Tiriti based practice and making individual children’s languages and cultures more visible in the environment and documentation.
Children’s planning and assessment records identify their strengths, interests, and dispositions. Parents are provided with opportunities to contribute to their children’s learning. Teachers could strengthen programme evaluation by recording the effectiveness of teaching strategies in relation to improved learning outcomes for children.
A robust and regularly reviewed framework of policies and procedures guides teaching practice and centre operations. Relational trust between leaders and teachers supports effective team collaboration. Internal evaluation has a focus on ongoing improvement in teaching practices and the benefits to children. Leaders and teachers now need to look at how they are recording the monitoring and evaluation of improvements, and how these have impacted the outcomes for learners.
Lighthouse Preschool will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Before the review, the staff and management of Lighthouse Preschool 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:
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:
All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
Patricia Davey
Director of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
5 February 2024
| Early Childhood Service Name | Lighthouse Preschool |
| Profile Number | 25292 |
| Location | Bucklands Beach, Auckland |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 55 children, including up to 15 under 2 |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 80-99% |
| Service roll | 61 |
| Review team on site | September 2023 |
| Date of this report | 5 February 2024 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Akanuku | Assurance Review, May 2021; Education Review, August 2017 |
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.
This is the first ERO review of Lighthouse Preschool since the new owners bought the service in 2018. Governance is provided by two owner/directors who work alongside a centre manager to support centre operations. Two age-based areas cater 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. Regular opportunities are provided for parents to be involved in decision making concerning their child’s learning.
The design and layout of the premises support the provision of different types of indoor and outdoor learning experiences. The service curriculum provides children with a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance and extend their learning and development - both indoors and outdoors, individually and in groups. An annual plan guides the service’s operation.
Since the onsite review the service has addressed the following non-compliance:
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
28 May 2021
| Early Childhood Service Name | Lighthouse Preschool |
| Profile Number | 25292 |
| Location | Bucklands Beach, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
55 children, including up to 15 aged under 2. |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80%+ |
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Service roll |
62 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 3 |
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Review team on site |
April 2021 |
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Date of this report |
28 May 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: