325 Dunns Crossing Road RD8, Christchurch
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 Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) | Whakatō Emerging |
Ngā Akatoro Domains | |
Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions | Whakatō Emerging Whakatō Emerging |
Blossoms Educare Rolleston is one of 12 services in the Blossoms organisation. A qualified centre manager leads a team of ten additional qualified teachers, eight support staff, and one administrator. The community is ethnically diverse. A small number of children enrolled are of Māori and Pacific Island heritages. There has been staffing changes since that last ERO report.
Children are confident and challenge themselves physically in a play-based curriculum. Resources can be accessed independently. Children’s communication and increasing independence is supported by teachers.
Infants and toddlers experience an unhurried slow-paced environment. Their play is valued as a vehicle to learning. Equitable learning opportunities for children with additional needs is an area that requires further development.
Aspects of te reo Māori and tikanga Māori are integrated into the programme and is an area acknowledged as needing to be strengthened. Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum is used in assessment, planning, and evaluation. It is timely for the teaching team to begin using the learning outcomes of Te Whāriki in their planning for learning that shows children’s progression of learning overtime.
There is a process in place for internal evaluation. This is yet to be implemented by leaders and teachers and those in governance and management. Staff should continue to build a shared understanding on how to do and use internal evaluation to better identify the impact of their teaching practices on improving outcomes for learners.
The centre is in a period of change. There has been significant changes in staffing, including an interim centre manager. Teachers are beginning to work as a team. Governance and management must now ensure leaders and teachers are supported through:
Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Before the review, the staff and management of Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited 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)
7 May 2024
| Early Childhood Service Name | Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited |
| Profile Number | 47205 |
| Location | Ōtautahi | Christchurch |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 110 children, including up to 20 aged under 2 |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 50-79% |
| Service roll | 119 |
| Review team on site | February 2024 |
| Date of this report | 6 May 2024 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Akanuku | Assurance Review, December 2021; Education Review, April 2019 |
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 |
| Curriculum | Meeting |
| Premises and facilities | Meeting |
| Health and safety | Meeting |
| 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.
Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited is a privately owned early childhood education service. It is one of eleven nationally operated services by the same owner. The centre manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service. Families from a diverse learning community attend. Children from birth to school age play and learn in three separate learning areas.
The curriculum encourages children to be confident in their own culture and develop respect and understanding of other cultures. Teachers use te reo Māori in the learning programme. Parents have the opportunity to be involved in and contribute to the service through policy reviews, centre celebrations, and in their child’s learning. Resourcing is of sufficient quantity and variety appropriate to the learning and ability of the children attending the service. There are systems and processes in place to support the health, safety, and wellbeing of children. An annual plan and philosophy guide the operation of the service.
Next steps include:
Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliance:
Licensing Criteria for Early Childhood Education and Care Centres 2008, PF30.
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
21 December 2021
| Early Childhood Service Name | Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited |
| Profile Number | 47205 |
| Location | Rolleston |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 100 children, including up to 20 aged under 2. |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 80%+ |
| Service roll | 109 |
| Ethnic composition | Māori 1, NZ European/Pākehā 66, Pacific 4 Indian 14, Other ethnicities 24. |
| Review team on site | November 2021 |
| Date of this report | 21 December 2021 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Education Review, April 2019; |
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:
Not well placed | Requires further development | Well placed | Very well placed |
Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited is well placed to promote positive learning outcomes for children.
ERO's findings that support this overall judgement are summarised below.
Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited is a privately owned early childhood care and education service that opened in 2016. The service is part of a national umbrella organisation. It caters for children from birth-to-school age from a diverse learning community. This is the first ERO report for this service.
A cluster manager and a centre manager have worked together to establish the service and lead the day to day operation of the service. There were some significant changes to the teaching teams in 2018. Most staff are registered early childhood teachers. The purpose built property provides separate open-learning areas for children under two-years-old and for children over two-years-old. There are many opportunities for siblings and mixed aged groups of children to play with one another.
The philosophy for the service focuses on fostering supportive, respectful and responsive relationships. It states children are valued as individuals and supported to develop a positive sense of belonging and respect. It outlines a belief that children learn best through play and education at their own pace and when they are happy and having fun.
Children benefit from long periods of uninterrupted time to explore the spacious, well organised learning areas that offers a broad range of learning experiences. This includes giving emphasis to oral language development, creativity, social competencies and physical challenges. Literacy, mathematics and bicultural perspectives are integrated in ways that are meaningful to children.
Infants and toddlers have easy access to an environment that is well resourced and encourages exploration. There are comfortable, safe places that cater for children who are not yet mobile and for those who are crawling and learning to walk.
Leaders have a strong commitment to promoting teaching and learning practices that contribute to positive outcomes for children. They are building a reflective team culture, and understanding of inquiry and evaluative practice that is focused improving outcomes for children.
All teachers are actively involved in targeted external and internal professional learning and development (PLD). Ongoing support and mentoring is well-paced and personalised to meet the needs of individual teachers and teams to sustain and extend knowledge and skills. This includes the positive impact of recent PLD on Te Whāriki 2017 and on the planning for the learning that matters here.
At the time of this review centre leaders and managers acknowledged that they had sought guidance and support from the Ministry of Education to resolve some staffing issues. Through a systematic internal evaluation process they have now strengthened policies and practices to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children and staff, and have resolved the issues.
Leaders are implementing and are embedding effective systems and processes to support the new teaching teams and the operation of the service. These systems and processes are aligned to the national and local strategic priorities, centre inquiry and appraisal. Robust performance management processes and practices are building leadership capacity and teacher capability.
Blossoms Educare Rolleston is well-led and managed by a collaborative, capable leadership team. They are committed to establishing a shared philosophy that gives emphasis to fostering supportive, respectful relationships with children and families.
The service managers and ERO agree that the key next steps are to:
Before the review, the staff and management of Blossoms Educare Rolleston Limited 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:
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.
Alan Wynyard
Director Review and Improvement Services
Southern Region
4 April 2019
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.
| Location | Christchurch | ||
| Ministry of Education profile number | 47205 | ||
| Licence type | Education & Care Service | ||
| Licensed under | Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 | ||
| Number licensed for | 130 children, including up to 20 aged under 2 | ||
| Service roll | 108 | ||
| Gender composition | Boys 64 ; Girls 44 | ||
| Ethnic composition | Māori Pākehā Other ethnicities | 8 79 21 | |
Percentage of qualified teachers 0-49% 50-79% 80%+ Based on funding rates | 80% + | ||
| Reported ratios of staff to children | Under 2 | 1:4 | Better than minimum requirements |
| Over 2 | 1:8 | Better than minimum requirements | |
| Review team on site | December 2018 | ||
| Date of this report | 4 April 2019 | ||
Most recent ERO report
| No previous ERO reports | ||
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.
The overall judgement that ERO makes will depend on how well the service promotes positive learning outcomes for children. The categories are:
ERO has developed criteria for each category. These are available on ERO’s website.
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.