48 Peachgrove Rd, Hamilton East, Hamilton
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 Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Rd are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) |
Whāngai Establishing |
Ngā Akatoro Domains |
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Learning Conditions
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Whāngai Establishing |
This service is one of four under the same ownership. The Reggio Emilia inspired philosophy values the environment as a third teacher and children as capable explorers. Over a third of children are identified as Indian, a quarter as Māori, and there is a small number of Pacific heritages. There has been some progress since the last ERO review.
Children over three experience a curriculum that promotes critical thought, wondering and creativity. The learning environment supports them to explore and be fully involved in a wide variety of learning. Children’s independence, decision making, emergent literacy and social competence are enhanced.
Infants and toddlers experience a curriculum that responds to their physical and emotional wellbeing. Deliberate decisions around staffing enable teachers to develop nurturing relationships with children. Intentional use of the learning environment supports these children to explore, and gain control of their bodies. Interrupted play and limited indoor access during sleep times are inconsistent with the service’s philosophy.
Leaders’ and teachers’ capability to respond to children’s cultures is at an early stage. Children’s cultures are reflected in wall displays, through some celebrations and language weeks when parents are invited to participate. Children hear regular waiata and a little te reo Māori. Teachers are not yet considering strategies that integrate Māori and Pacific ways of knowing, being and doing into the curriculum.
Significant staff changes have impacted on the service’s ability to build collective knowledge and embed systems and processes. A recent review of the philosophy is beginning to build shared understanding of valued priorities for learning. Teachers have variable understanding of children’s learning in relation to the learning outcomes in Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Useful frameworks and an external mentor are in place to guide teachers’ professional growth, assessment and planning, strategic planning, and evaluation for improvement. Policies and procedures to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance are not well established.
Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Rd will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Grow leaders’ and teachers’ understanding and enactment of the service’s philosophy in the daily curriculum for infants and toddlers.
Make visible the learning outcomes from Te Whāriki, through documentation of assessment, evaluation of children’s learning, and within internal evaluation processes.
Grow leader’s and teachers’ practice to be consistent with the competencies in Tātaiako: cultural competencies for teachers of Māori learners and Tapasā: cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pacific learners.
Before the review, the staff and management of Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Rd 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.
ERO identified the following area of non-compliance:
ensuring adults providing education and care are familiar with relevant emergency drills, and carry out each type of drill with children on at least a three-monthly basis.
Licensing Criteria for Education & Care Services 2008, HS8.
During the review, the service provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliance:
Ensuring records of safety checks include the results, the date each step was taken, and the risk assessment is completed after all relevant information is obtained (GMA7A).
ERO recommends the Ministry follows up with the service provider to ensure non-compliances identified in this report are addressed.
Patricia Davey
Director of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
15 August 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Rd |
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Profile Number |
47802 |
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Location |
Hamilton East, Hamilton |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
110 children, including up to 25 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
104 |
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Review team on site |
June 2023 |
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Date of this report |
15 August 2023 |
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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.
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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.
Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Road opened in February 2020. The service is one of five under the same ownership. A director takes responsibility for governance. A centre manager leads a team of qualified and unqualified kaiako. Three aged-based rooms provide learning for different groups of children. The community is culturally diverse.
Infants, toddlers and young children engage in positive, meaningful interactions with kaiako. Parents’ aspirations for their child are acknowledged. The curriculum provides children with experiences and opportunities that enhance and extend learning and support their developing social competence. The curriculum is language rich, inclusive and responsive to children’s preferences. They have opportunities to develop an understanding of the cultural heritages of both parties to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Children are encouraged to understand and respect other cultures.
A philosophy statement and annual plan guide the service’s operation.
Next steps include:
increasing opportunities for children to hear and speak te reo Māori in meaningful learning contexts
refining assessment practices, ensuring evaluation of children’s progress and learning over time.
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
16 March 2022
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Bright Beginnings ELC Peachgrove Rd |
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Profile Number |
47802 |
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Location |
Hamilton |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
110 children, including up to 25 aged under 2. |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
82 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 13, NZ European/Pākehā 8, Indian 33, Filipino 8, Pacific 5, Other ethnic groups 15. |
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Review team on site |
February 2022 |
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Date of this report |
16 March 2022 |
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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 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.