98 Heads Road, Whanganui
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 Hundred Acre Pre-School Inc 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 |
Whāngai Establishing Whakaū Embedding |
This community-based service operates on Whanganui Hospital grounds. It is governed by a volunteer committee and managed by an established leadership team. Approximately one fifth of the children who attend are Māori. The service is becoming increasingly ethnically diverse.
Children engage in a responsive curriculum where teachers intentionally enable them to make choices about their learning. Social and emotional competence is promoted. Respectful and reciprocal relationships between children, teachers, and parents positively impact on children’s learning. Infants and toddlers have the time and space to lead their own learning in a calm and nurturing environment. Their verbal and non-verbal cues are responded to within a rich oral-language environment. Well-considered opportunities for learning foster children’s curiosity, exploration and creativity.
A Te Tiriti o Waitangi based curriculum is developing. Children hear and see aspects of Māori culture reflected in the environment. Tikanga Māori is increasingly considered within policies and practices. Teachers are beginning to purposefully seek whānau aspirations, including their cultural contexts, to inform the curriculum. The programme is yet to reflect all children’s identities, languages and cultures.
Assessment for children’s learning is solidly underpinned by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. It makes children’s interests visible and celebrates their learning. There is variability within the teaching team in how well children’s learning progression is documented over time. Teachers are refining assessment practices to identify Te Whāriki learning outcomes more clearly in planned learning opportunities for individual children.
Leaders promote a shared understanding of the service philosophy, vision, goals and priorities for learning. Systems and processes guide the building of teacher knowledge in a collaborative environment. Internal evaluation is established. However, the impacts of improvement actions on children’s outcomes are not yet fully known.
Hundred Acre Pre-School Inc will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
Increase the use of meaningful te reo Māori across the teaching team to enhance day-to-day experiences.
Work alongside parents and whānau to understand and respond to culturally valued learning within the curriculum.
Strengthen internal evaluation processes to identify how improvement actions are influencing the outcomes of individuals and groups of children.
Before the review, the staff and management of Hundred Acre Pre-School Inc 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)
11 July 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Hundred Acre Preschool Inc |
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Profile Number |
51901 |
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Location |
Whanganui |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
38 children, including up to 12 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
46 |
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Review team on site |
May 2023 |
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Date of this report |
11 July 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Akanuku | Assurance Review, October 2020 |
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 identified non-compliance with regulatory standards that must be addressed.
Hundred Acre Preschool Inc is a community-based service operating on Whanganui Hospital grounds. The service is managed and governed by a volunteer committee. Full day education and care is offered for up to 38 children, from infancy to school age, in two adjacent buildings.
The service’s curriculum informed by Te Whāriki and assessment and planning systems, reflects children’s interests. Children have a range of activities and opportunities to enhance their learning and development both inside and outside. Teachers understand the importance of culture, language and identity for children. An annual plan and philosophy guide the service’s operation and suitable human resource management practices are in place.
ERO found areas of non-compliance in the service relating to:
[Licensing criteria for Early Childhood Education and Care Centres 2008, HS17, HS28]
Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence of adding risk assessment and management for regular excursions to the enrolment form, providing the risk assessment to all existing whanau and using the updated medical form with the date included.
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
16 October 2020
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Hundred Acre Pre-School Inc |
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Profile Number |
51901 |
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Location |
Whanganui |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
38 children, including up to 12 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80%+ |
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Service roll |
49 |
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Gender composition |
Female 25, Male 24 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 10 |
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Review team on site |
September 2020 |
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Date of this report |
16 October 2020 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Education Review, January 2018 |
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: