4038 Great North Road, Kelston, 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 Go Bananas Childcare Kelston are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) | Whāngai Establishing |
Ngā Akatoro Domains | |
Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions | Whāngai Establishing Whāngai Establishing |
Go Bananas Childcare Kelston is one of 15 education and care services governed by the Go Bananas Childcare organisation. A team of directors oversees organisational operations, and a centre manager is responsible for daily management of the service. Most of the children enrolled are from diverse backgrounds, including a small number of Māori children.
Children’s learning and development is supported by caring relationships with adults. Children up to the age of three years are well engaged in learning spaces that actively promote their physical wellbeing. They have opportunities to develop understandings of how to interact positively with others through teachers’ responsive and respectful practices.
The environment, and how teachers present resources for children, generally supports the learning and development of older children. Leaders and ERO agree that teachers need to better support these children to engage in complex play that extends their thinking and encourages them to explore.
Teaching strategies that recognise success for Māori children are at the beginning stages of being integrated into the curriculum. Leaders acknowledge the need to continue developing teachers’ shared understanding of culturally responsive teaching practices for Māori, Pacific and children of diverse ethnicities. Children with additional learning needs are supported to achieve their individual goals through positive partnerships with parents and external agencies.
Assessment and planning processes to support children’s learning processes are established. Leaders and teachers are yet to fully explore the learning outcomes of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, or use these to inform curriculum planning, assessment and evaluation processes. Parents and whānau have opportunities to be involved in their child’s learning at the service.
Relational trust within teaching teams supports collaboration in curriculum design. Leaders provide conditions that support improvements to teaching practices. The organisation’s planning and priorities for improvement are becoming aligned to their strategic goals and vision.
Go Bananas Childcare Kelston will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Before the review, the staff and management of Go Bananas Childcare Kelston 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)
14 August 2024
| Early Childhood Service Name | Go Bananas Childcare Kelston |
| Profile Number | 47879 |
| Location | Auckland |
| Service type | Education and care service |
| Number licensed for | 60 children, including up to 20 aged under 2 |
| Percentage of qualified teachers | 80-99% |
| Service roll | 46 |
| Review team on site | June 2024 |
| Date of this report | 14 August 2024 |
| Most recent ERO report(s) | Akanuku | Assurance Review, January 2023 |
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 |
At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Go Bananas Childcare Kelston is one of 14 education and care services governed by the Go Bananas Childcare organisation. A team of directors oversees operations with support from two area managers and a curriculum advisor. A qualified centre manager is responsible for daily management of the service. This is the first ERO review of the service which opened in 2021.
Adults providing education and care engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. The unique place of Māori as tangata whenua is acknowledged and children are given opportunities to learn about the cultural heritages of both parties to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
The service curriculum is consistent with Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. It is informed by planning and assessment that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning and development.
Teachers are taking positive steps to acknowledge the aspirations held by parents and whānau for their children. The service curriculum is responsive to children as confident learners. Children’s preferences are respected, and they are encouraged to be involved in decisions about their own learning experiences.
Next steps include:
evaluating how well the curriculum is helping to achieve the organisation’s priorities for children’s learning and how this information is used to improve teaching practices
continuing to develop the collective capacity of the new teaching team to have a shared understanding of children’s learning and development.
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
20 January 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Go Bananas Childcare Kelston |
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Profile Number |
47879 |
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Location |
Kelston, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
30 children, including up to 6 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
50-79% |
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Service roll |
20 |
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Review team on site |
November 2022 |
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Date of this report |
20 January 2023 |
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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 licence to operate.
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.
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 regulatory 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; safety checking; teacher certification; ratios)
relevant evacuation procedures and practices.
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.