38 Devon Street, Stoke, Nelson
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 Nurture@Home Rua are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) | Whakaū Embedding |
Ngā Akatoro Domains | |
Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions | Whakaū Embedding Whakaū Embedding |
This is one of three homebased services under shared ownership. The owner and visiting teachers are qualified early childhood teachers who provide guidance and support to educators, children and their families. Most educators have completed a relevant qualification. A small number of children who attend are Māori or of Pacific heritage. As part of this evaluation, ERO visited a sample of educators’ homes in Nelson.
Children experience calm, unhurried, engaging learning environments. They follow their interests, learn in small groups, and regularly visit the local community with their educator. Children who require additional resources are well supported to meet their individual goals.
Visiting teachers, coach and mentor educators to develop an understanding about how children learn, and the importance of assessment, planning and evaluation for learning. A more clearly defined process is required to support educators to document children’s learning. As a group, visiting teachers plan and provide regular larger group learning-based play opportunities that support children’s social and emotional skill development. They support educators well through monthly visits to homes and ongoing specific communication.
Educators and visiting teachers incorporate learning dispositions and some learning outcomes from Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, into assessment documentation to show children’s increasing capabilities and development. There is some variability in learning documentation as visiting teachers work alongside newer educators. Children’s languages, cultures and identities are somewhat visible through the documented curriculum.
The leadership team creates close relationships with educators, children and whānau. They place strong emphasis on developing shared understandings about providing a local, bicultural curriculum. This work is helping to build visiting teachers’ capability. It is now timely to use this knowledge to support educators to increase their use of te reo Māori and tikanga Māori in their everyday practices.
Leaders engage in regular internal evaluation that improves systems and practices. Clearer steps to make the process more manageable, with a stronger emphasis on the key outcomes for children when monitoring and evaluating, is required.
Nurture@Home Rua will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Before the review, the staff and management of Nurture@Home Rua 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)
25 July 2024
| Early Childhood Service Name | Nurture@Home Rua |
| Profile Number | 47852 |
| Location | Nelson |
| Service type | Home-based service |
| Number licensed for | 50 children, including up to 50 aged under 2 |
| Service roll | 22 |
| Review team on site | May 2024 |
| Date of this report | 25 July 2024 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Akanuku | Assurance Review, March 2022 |
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.
Nurture@Home Rua is one of two home-based care and education networks under the ownership of Nurture@Home Ltd. The owner and two visiting teachers are early childhood qualified teachers. They are responsible for several educators and nannies who provide care and education for up to four preschool children, within home-learning environments.
The curriculum is informed by assessment, planning, and evaluation that demonstrates an understanding of children’s interests and opportunities for learning. Children experience different types of indoor and outdoor educational activities in the home and local community. If infants and toddlers or children not walking attend, there are safe and comfortable spaces for them to lie, roll, creep, crawl, pull themselves up, learn to walk and to be protected from more mobile children.
Leadership and management systems and processes, policies and procedures support the selection and induction of educators, and the health and safety requirements, within home premises.
Next steps are for visiting teachers to support educators to make:
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 March 2022
| Early Childhood Service Name | Nurture@Home Rua |
| Profile Number | 47852 |
| Location | Nelson |
| Service type | Home-based service |
| Number licensed for | 50 children, including up to 50 aged under 2 |
| Reported ratios of staff / adults to children | Under 2: 1.2 - Meets regulatory standards |
| Over 2: 1.4 - Meets regulatory standards | |
| Service roll | 42 |
| Ethnic composition | Māori 4, NZ European/Pākehā 22, British/European 6, Other ethnic groups 10 |
| Review team on site | February 2022 |
| Date of this report | 31 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 home-based 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 Home Based Education and Care 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 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 Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through: