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Tigger's Montessori Preschool
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.
ERO’s Judgement
Regulatory standards |
ERO’s judgement |
Curriculum |
Meeting |
Premises and facilities |
Meeting |
Health and safety |
Meeting |
Governance, management and administration |
Meeting |
At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Background
Tigger’s Montessori Preschool provides education and care for children from six months to school age. There has been a change in ownership since the 2018 ERO review. It is now one of 11 services in Canterbury owned by the Provincial Education Group. A regional and centre manager oversee a team of mostly qualified and registered teachers. Children and teachers represent many different cultures.
Summary of Review Findings
The service curriculum demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning and their interests. Kaiako engage in meaningful positive interactions with children to nurture relationships. The design and layout of the building allows for ease of supervision. It supports the provision of a range of indoor and outdoor experiences and includes quiet spaces and different areas appropriate for ages, abilities and number of children attending.
There are suitable systems in place to monitor and promote health and safety. Parents and kaiako are provided with opportunities to contribute to the development and review of the service’s operational documents.
Key Next Steps
Key next steps are to make more visible in learning records:
- children’s identities, languages and cultures
- kaiako response to parents’ aspirations for their children’s learning
- goals that relate to the learning outcomes of Te Whariki, the early childhood curriculum, and the strategies teachers will use to achieve these.
Next ERO Review
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Dr Lesley Patterson
Director Review and Improvement Services (Southern)
Southern Region | Te Tai Tini
31 May 2021
Information About the Service
Early Childhood Service Name | Tigger’s Montessori Preschool |
Profile Number | 46462 |
Location | Christchurch |
Service type |
Education and care service |
Number licensed for |
90 children, including up to 25 aged under 2. |
Percentage of qualified teachers |
80%+ |
Service roll |
122 |
Ethnic composition |
Māori 14, NZ European/Pākehā 33, Chinese 29, Filipino 9, Indian 6, Middle Eastern 6, Nepalese 6, Pacific 4, Other ethnicities 15. |
Review team on site |
April 2021 |
Date of this report |
31 May 2021 |
Most recent ERO report(s) |
Education Review, January 2018. |
General Information about Assurance Reviews
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.
ERO undertakes an Akanuku | Assurance Review process in any centre-based service:
- having its first ERO review – including if it is part of a governing organisation
- previously identified as ‘not well placed’ or ‘requiring further development’
- that has moved from a provisional to a full licence
- that have been re-licenced due to a change of ownership
- where an Akanuku | Assurance Review process is determined to be appropriate.
Management Assurance on Legal Requirements
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:
- curriculum
- premises and facilities
- health and safety practices
- governance, management and administration.
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:
- 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; police vetting; teacher certification; ratios)
- evacuation procedures and practices for fire and earthquake.
As part of an Akanuku | Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through:
- discussions with those involved in the service
- consideration of relevant documentation, including the implementation of health and safety systems
- observations of the environment/premises, curriculum implementation and teaching practice.
Tigger's Montessori Preschool - 26/01/2018
1 Evaluation of Tigger's Montessori Preschool
How well placed is Tigger's Montessori Preschool to promote positive learning outcomes for children?
Not well placed |
Requires further development |
Well placed |
Very well placed |
ERO's findings that support this overall judgement are summarised below.
Background
Tigger's Montessori Preschool is a privately-owned education and care service. It is licensed for 90 children to school age, including up to 25 children under two years of age. Children are grouped into three age-based rooms. Each room is led by a team leader. Tigger's opened mid-2014 and this is its first ERO review.
The centre manager and teachers have a shared understanding of the centre's philosophy and how it works in practice. The teachers incorporate the strands and goals of the Te Whāriki, Early Childhood Curriculum with the Montessori approach and experiences.
The Review Findings
Children learn in calm, well-organised environments. The learning priorities of 'respect and values; diversity; individual growth; reciprocal relationships and social competencies' are clearly identified. These priorities are meaningfully reflected in the children's learning and development records. The centre values and celebrates children's cultural similarities and differences. Māori children have many opportunities to see and hear their culture and te reo Māori reflected in the daily programme.
Infants and toddlers experience sensitive and responsive interactions with their teachers. The nursery environment effectively provides for the physical and emotional wellbeing of the children.
Children's learning benefits from the teachers' intentional planning. Teachers establish purposeful learning relationships with parents to encourage carefully planned links between home and centre. Children are well supported to transition into the centre and between the rooms.
Planning is very responsive to children's interests. Teachers collaborate regularly to determine the learning directions for individual children. The Te Whāriki and Montessori curricula appropriately inform planning and teacher strategies to support the children's learning.
Centre leaders have developed effective systems to ensure high quality teaching and learning. Teachers carefully track and monitor children's progress over time. They evaluate the impact of their teaching on children's learning and development.
Useful centre-wide strategic planning has been implemented by the centre manager. Purposeful reflection and evaluation is used to identify strategic priorities. There is clear alignment of the strategic goals through to staff professional learning and development, appraisal goals and expectations of teaching practice. The centre is well managed. Centre management invests in building staff leadership capability.
Centre leaders are making effective use of external expertise in internal evaluation, strategic planning and governance. This includes the centre manager using effective change management practices to bring about identified improvements. Change is well paced and well planned to support staff to build collective capacity. Meaningful evaluation is used to monitor change and adjustments are made in response to the findings.
Key Next Steps
The next step is for the leaders and teachers to continue to embed and refine existing good practice, including strategic planning, internal evaluation/self-review and bicultural practice.
Management Assurance on Legal Requirements
Before the review, the staff and management of Tigger's Montessori Preschool 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:
- 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; police vetting; teacher registration; ratios)
-
evacuation procedures and practices for fire and earthquake.
All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
Next ERO Review
When is ERO likely to review the service again?
The next ERO review of Tigger's Montessori Preschool will be in three years.
Lesley Patterson
Deputy Chief Review Officer Southern
Te Waipounamu - Southern Region
26 January 2018
The Purpose of ERO Reports
The Education Review Office (ERO) is the government department that, as part of its work, reviews early childhood services throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. ERO’s reports provide information for parents and communities about each service’s strengths and next steps for development. ERO’s bicultural evaluation framework Ngā Pou Here is described in SECTION 3 of this report. Early childhood services are partners in the review process and are expected to make use of the review findings to enhance children's wellbeing and learning.
2 Information about the Early Childhood Service
Location |
Christchurch |
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Ministry of Education profile number |
46462 |
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Licence type |
Education & Care Service |
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Licensed under |
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 |
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Number licensed for |
90 children, including up to 25 aged under 2 |
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Service roll |
131 |
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Gender composition |
Girls: 71 Boys: 60 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori |
12 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers 0-49% 50-79% 80%+ Based on funding rates |
80% + |
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Reported ratios of staff to children |
Under 2 |
1:4 |
Better than minimum requirements |
Over 2 |
1:8 |
Better than minimum requirements |
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Review team on site |
November 2017 |
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Date of this report |
26 January 2018 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
This is the first review of this service |
3 General Information about Early Childhood Reviews
ERO’s Evaluation Framework
ERO’s overarching question for an early childhood education review is ‘How well placed is this service to promote positive learning outcomes for children?’ ERO focuses on the following factors as described in the bicultural framework Ngā Pou Here:
- Pou Whakahaere – how the service determines its vision, philosophy and direction to ensure positive outcomes for children
- Pou Ārahi – how leadership is enacted to enhance positive outcomes for children
- Mātauranga – whose knowledge is valued and how the curriculum is designed to achieve positive outcomes for children
- Tikanga whakaako – how approaches to teaching and learning respond to diversity and support positive outcomes for children.
Within these areas ERO considers the effectiveness of arotake – self review and of whanaungatanga – partnerships with parents and whānau.
ERO evaluates how well placed a service is to sustain good practice and make ongoing improvements for the benefit of all children at the service.
A focus for the government is that all children, especially priority learners, have an opportunity to benefit from quality early childhood education. ERO will report on how well each service promotes positive outcomes for all children, with a focus on children who are Māori, Pacific, have diverse needs, and are up to the age of two.
For more information about the framework and Ngā Pou Here refer to ERO’s Approach to Review in Early Childhood Services.
ERO’s Overall Judgement and Next Review
The overall judgement that ERO makes and the timing of the next review will depend on how well placed a service is to promote positive learning outcomes for children. The categories are:
- Very well placed – The next ERO review in four years
- Well placed – The next ERO review in three years
- Requires further development – The next ERO review within two years
- Not well placed - The next ERO review in consultation with the Ministry of Education
ERO has developed criteria for each category. These are available on ERO’s website.
Review Coverage
ERO reviews are tailored to each service’s context and performance, within the overarching review framework. The aim is to provide information on aspects that are central to positive outcomes for children and useful to the service.