576 Mount Wellington Highway, Mt Wellington, Auckland
View on mapAkarangi | Quality Evaluations evaluate the extent to which early childhood services have 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 and Early Childhood Education (ECE) Improvement Framework (teacher led services) are the basis for making judgements about the quality of the service in achieving equity and excellence for all learners. Evaluations for improvement | Ngā Aronga Whai Hua is integrated across all of the above domains.
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 |
At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Piccolo Park Mt Richmond was established in August 2019 and is one of four services under the same ownership. The service roll and staffing reflect the ethnic diversity of the local community. Tamariki learn in two play-based learning spaces, catering for infants and toddlers, and for older children.
The centre is suitably resourced with a variety of indoor and outdoor furniture, equipment and materials appropriate for the learning and abilities of the children attending.
The curriculum acknowledges and reflects the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua. Teachers support children to be confident in their culture and to understand and respect one another’s culture. Children’s preferences are respected, and they are involved in decisions about their learning experiences.
Centre leaders have established an ongoing process of self-review, which helps the service maintain and improve the quality of its education and care.
Next steps include:
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Filivaifale Jason Swann
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
8 March 2022
| Early Childhood Service Name | Piccolo Park Mt Richmond |
| Profile Number | 47694 |
| Location | Auckland |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 56 children, including up to 15 aged under 2. |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 80-99% |
| Service roll | 54 |
| Ethnic composition | Māori 3, NZ European/Pākehā 4, Indian 14, Samoan 7, Chinese 5, Middle Eastern 4, Other Pacific 9, Other Asian 7, Other ethnic groups 1 |
| Review team on site | February 2022 |
| Date of this report | 8 March 2022 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | First ERO review of the service |
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 license 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: