9 Gladstone Street, Feilding
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 Puddleducks' Nursery and Preschool - Gladstone St are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) |
Whāngai Establishing |
Ngā Akatoro Domains |
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Learning ConditionsOrganisational Conditions |
Whakaū Embedding Whakaū Embedding |
The service is one of six within the Manawatū in the Aspiring Services Ltd group. The centre is supported by a senior leadership team and board, with day-to-day management overseen by a centre leader. The roll is ethnically diverse, and almost a fifth of children are identified as Māori.
Children experience a curriculum that positively promotes independence and decision making. Teacher interactions are responsive to individual needs. Children with diverse learning needs experience positive learning outcomes as a result of intentional teaching practices. Learning through play is prioritised, which enables children to develop their social and emotional skills. Infants and toddlers experience a curriculum where they are seen as capable learners.
Children’s learning and development is well supported by respectful relationships between families and teachers. A principle of care is a central feature of the curriculum for all children. This provides opportunities for children to set the pace of their learning.
Rich information about children’s individual languages, cultures, identity and learning is gathered as part of centre planning processes. However, there is variability in how well this information is used to plan the curriculum and reflected within assessment. Teachers use the learning outcomes from Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, to individually plan and evaluate children’s learning. The service is yet to fully evaluate and understand the impact of their practice and improvement actions on outcomes for all children.
Children and their families benefit from intentional actions of senior leadership and governance to support inclusion and equity. Stewardship provided at this level supports ongoing development for the varied experience of teachers and leaders. Positive and consistent outcomes for all children are the basis of decision-making at a strategic level. Organisational leaders are yet to use evaluation findings to understand progress toward strategic priorities.
Puddleducks' Nursery and Preschool - Gladstone St will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Ensure alignment between planning, the enacted curriculum and documented assessment, and reflect children’s cultures, languages, and identities.
Consistently maintain children as the focus of evaluation, using learning outcomes from Te Whāriki to better understand the impacts of shifts in teacher practice on all learners.
Senior leadership to use findings from centre-level evaluation to monitor, understand progress toward, and evaluate strategic priorities.
Before the review, the staff and management of Puddleducks' Nursery and Preschool - Gladstone St 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)
23 June 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Puddleducks' Nursery and Preschool - Gladstone St |
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Profile Number |
47849 |
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Location |
Feilding |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
79 children, including up to 30 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
91 |
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Review team on site |
April 2023 |
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Date of this report |
23 June 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Akanuku | Assurance Review, February 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 |
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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.
Puddleducks’ Nursery & Preschool – Gladstone Street is a new service. It is one of nine centres in the North Island operating under the same ownership. This is the service’s first ERO review. A newly appointed centre manager begins in January 2022.
Children’s interests, strengths and capabilities are responded to. Children experience positive, respectful and nurturing interactions with adults. Teachers’ practice and knowledge of relevant theories supports children’s developing social competence. Te reo Māori is heard and seen in the environment. The curriculum acknowledges and reflects the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua.
The purpose-built design and layout supports the provision of different types of indoor and outdoor experiences. The service provides opportunities to collaborate with parents and whānau about the service operation and their child’s learning.
Health and safety practices are consistently implemented. Workforce safety checking processes meet regulatory requirements.
Next steps include:
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
9 February 2022
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Puddleducks’ Nursery & Preschool – Gladstone St |
| Profile Number | 47849 |
| Location | Feilding |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
79 children, including up to 30 aged under 2. |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
88 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 20, NZ European/Pākehā 50, British 5, South African 4, Other ethnic groups 9. |
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Review team on site |
December 2021 |
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Date of this report |
9 February 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.
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: