257 Broadway Ave, Palmerston North
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 Lots of Hugs Broadway are as follows:
Outcome Indicators(What the service knows about outcomes for learners) |
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Ngā Akatoro Domains |
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Learning Conditions
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Whāngai Establishing Whāngai Establishing |
Lots of Hugs Broadway is one of five services in the Manawatu/Rangitikei area governed and managed by Kids World Ltd. A recently appointed centre manager leads the teaching team and is supported by management. Of the children enrolled, a third are Māori. A small number of Pacific children attend.
Respectful relationships enable children to learn in an environment that promotes their sense of belonging. Children and teachers know each other well. Older children experience a curriculum that promotes their sense of independence and decision making. Infants and toddlers are well supported through caring, nurturing relationships that enhance their developing social competence and emotional wellbeing. Children demonstrate connectedness to their peers.
The curriculum aims to build on children’s individual learning, informed by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Assessment and planning do not consistently make visible the valued learning outcomes of Te Whāriki, or use of intentional teaching strategies to enhance children’s progress over time. Some te reo Māori is spoken, and tikanga Māori practices are evident. Teachers are yet to reflect all children’s cultures, languages and identities through the curriculum or documented assessment.
Leaders implement a strategic approach to professional learning. Teachers inquire into their practice to support curriculum choices. Leaders and staff benefit from ongoing professional mentoring and guidance to build understanding and use of internal evaluation. Inquiry and evaluation practices, focused on service priorities, are beginning to support improvement.
Developed systems and processes to improve effectiveness in centre operations are not yet fully implemented. The vision, philosophy, strategic plan and annual plan inform decision making and learning for children. Leaders and teachers prioritise children’s and their whānau sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Lots of Hugs Broadway will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Build teachers’ understanding of intentional teaching practices to improve planning and implementation of these practices.
Strengthen assessment practices to ensure that these consistently reflect children’s learning and the valued learning outcomes from Te Whāriki.
Increase the visibility of all children’s cultures, languages and identities through the curriculum and assessment, planning and evaluation practices.
Before the review, the staff and management of Lots of Hugs Broadway 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)
17 July 2023
| Early Childhood Service Name | Lots of Hugs Broadway |
| Profile Number | 47926 |
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Location |
Palmerston North |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
75 children, including up to 25 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers (delete if not applicable) |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
100 |
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Review team on site |
May 2023 |
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Date of this report |
17 July 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Akanuku | Assurance Review, October 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.
Part of Kids’ World Education Group, this service is one of three situated in the Manawatū region. Separate areas cater for infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. An ethnically diverse group of children currently attend. Approximately one third of enrolled children identify as Māori and a small number are of Pacific heritage.
The design and layout of premises includes spaces for physically active play, quiet moments, and a range of individual and group learning experiences appropriate to the abilities of children attending. Adults engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning.
The service curriculum is informed by assessment, planning and evaluation that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning, their interests, whānau and life contexts. It respects and supports the right of each child to be confident in their own culture.
A process of internal evaluation is being implemented to help the service maintain and improve the quality of education and care.
Next steps include:
continue to develop the local curriculum to reflect the things that are important to children and their families, to teachers and their wider community
continue to build teachers’ knowledge and understanding of relevant theories and research that underpin Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, particularly to support toddlers
increase the range of opportunities for children hear te reo Māori in meaningful learning contexts throughout the service.
The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.
Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui
20 October 2022
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Lots of Hugs Broadway |
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Profile Number |
47926 |
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Location |
Palmerston North |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
75 children, including up to 25 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
88 |
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Review team on site |
October 2022 |
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Date of this report |
20 October 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:
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.