New Shoots Childrens Centre - The Lakes

Education institution number:
47742
Service type:
Education and Care Service
Definition:
Not Applicable
Total roll:
92
Telephone:
Address:

2 Flack Street, Pyes Pa, Tauranga

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New Shoots Childrens Centre - The Lakes

1 ERO’s Judgements

Akarangi | 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 New Shoots Children’s Centre -The Lakes are as follows:

Outcome Indicators

(What the service knows about outcomes for learners)

Whakaū Embedding

Ngā Akatoro Domains

 
Learning Conditions
Organisational Conditions

Whakaū Embedding

Whakaū Embedding

2 Context of the Service

This service is part of the New Shoots Children’s Centre Group. Children play and learn in one of five rooms, sharing the outdoor playground. A governance team guides centre operations. A centre director leads the large teaching team. A small number of enrolled children identify as Māori. Children from a diverse range of ethnicities also attend. 

3 Summary of findings

Children have respectful relationships with each other and their teachers within the well-resourced learning-based play environments. Infants and toddlers experience a curriculum that promotes calm, unhurried care routines and interactions with teachers who know them well.

Children with additional needs are well supported to achieve their individual goals through partnership with parents and external specialists.

Children have many opportunities to lead their own learning. They hear and experience some te reo Māori and aspects of tikanga Māori through the curriculum. Leaders have identified that further developing the local bicultural curriculum continues to be an area for growth. They are yet to consistently include other children’s languages, cultures and identities in the centre’s environments and learning documentation.

Leaders and teachers have built trusting relationships based on collective responsibility for children’s wellbeing and learning. They intentionally place children and whānau at the centre of decision making. Internal evaluation systems are becoming established in centre practices. However, more work is needed to build shared understandings about the purpose and processes of internal evaluation.

Strongly improvement-focused governance and management implement a well-considered strategic plan and relevant systems that intentionally guide the organisation. They purposefully allocate resources that clearly align with achieving centrepriorities for children’s learning. Collaborative targeted ongoing professional learning builds leadership and teachers’ capabilities. Successful initiatives support children to access the inclusive curriculum.  

4 Improvement actions

New Shoots Children’s Centre - The Lakes will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:

  • Continue to develop the bicultural curriculum in partnership with whānau Māori
  • Develop meaningful ways to integrate the cultural identities of individual children and their whānau throughout the curriculum and learning documentation.

The New Shoots governance group has indicated it will include the following in its Quality Improvement Planning, to ensure that all services are working at a consistent level:

  • Provide support for centre leaders to build teachers’ collective capability and shared understanding of using all aspects of evaluation for improvement.

5 Management Assurance on Legal Requirements

Before the review, the staff and management of New Shoots Children’s Centre -The Lakes 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:

  • 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; safety checking; teacher registration; ratios)
  • relevant evacuation procedures and practices.

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 March 2024 

6 About the Early Childhood Service 

Early Childhood Service NameNew Shoots Children’s Centre -The Lakes
Profile Number47742
LocationPyes Pa, Tauranga
Service type Education and care service
Number licensed for 90 children, including up to 30 aged under 2
Percentage of qualified teachers 80-99%
Service roll116 
Review team on siteNovember, 2023
Date of this report7 March 2024
Most recent ERO report(s)Akanuku | Assurance Review, March 2022. 

 

New Shoots Childrens Centre - The Lakes 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.

ERO’s Judgement

Regulatory standards

ERO’s judgement

CurriculumMeeting
Premises and facilitiesMeeting
Health and safetyMeeting
Governance, management and administrationMeeting

At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.

Background

This service opened in 2019, as part of the New Shoots Childrens Centre Group. Children play and learn in one of five rooms, sharing the playground area. A centre manager guides centre operation and leads a large team of teachers. This is the first ERO review for this service. 

Summary of Review Findings

Infants, toddlers, and young children experience meaningful and positive relationships with their teachers, enhancing their learning and nurturing reciprocal relationships. They make decisions about their learning and their choices are respected. Children learn in a language-rich environment.

Children’s social and emotional competencies are supported through an inclusive curriculum. A variety of experiences are provided to enhance teaching and learning within the programme. The curriculum is informed by assessment, planning and evaluation that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning and development.

Management processes and health and safety systems are in place to support the service to meet regulatory requirements.

Key Next Steps

Next steps include:

  • to further explore and embed te reo me ona tikanga Māori within teacher practice to promote a culturally responsive curriculum
  • strengthening centre priorities by continuing to embed the centre’s localised curriculum and connections in the community.

Next ERO Review

The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.

Shelley Booysen
Acting Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui

15 March 2022 

Information About the Service

Early Childhood Service NameNew Shoots Childrens Centre – The Lakes
Profile Number47742
LocationPyes Pa, Tauranga
Service typeEducation and care service
Number licensed for90 children, including up to 30 aged under 2
Percentage of qualified teachers80-99%
Service roll97
Ethnic compositionMāori 6, NZ European/Pākehā 60, Indian 8, Chinese 6, Pacific 8, Other ethnic groups 9
Review team on siteJuly 2021
Date of this report15 March 2022
Most recent ERO report(s)First ERO review of the service

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.