Fun Kids Learning Centre

Education institution number:
10343
Service type:
Education and Care Service
Definition:
Not Applicable
Total roll:
9
Telephone:
Address:

23 Hollyford Drive, Clover Park, Auckland

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Fun Kids Learning Centre

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 Fun Kids Learning Centre are as follows:

Outcome Indicators

(What the service knows about outcomes for learners)

Whāngai Establishing

Ngā Akatoro Domains

 

Learning Conditions
Organisational Conditions

Whāngai Establishing
Whāngai Establishing

2 Context of the Service

Fun Kids Learning Centre is privately owned. The owner oversees daily operations supported by a qualified head teacher, one qualified teacher and one staff member. Most staff are new since ERO’s 2021 review. The service is licensed for children between two and five years of age.

3 Summary of findings

Children benefit from calm and predictable daily routines. They are valued as individuals and provided with opportunities to make decisions about their learning. Children lead their play as they engage with and alongside their peers. Independence and social competence skills are fostered by teachers. Children’s ideas and thinking are valued and contribute to the curriculum provided.

The centre environment reflects aspects of te ao Māori (the Māori world), including basic Māori words and bicultural resources. Children learn about the languages and cultures of others through participating in language weeks and centre events.

Teachers know the children well. These positive relationships are reflected in children’s assessment records and displays within the learning environment. Teachers use an established assessment framework to record children’s learning. While they are beginning to make links with children’s dispositional learning, the team is yet to analyse assessment information to determine what is working or not, and for which children.

Parent participation is encouraged through building meaningful relationships with whānau. It is timely, to develop partnerships with parents, that focus on extending children’s learning and how the curriculum can be more responsive to children’s languages and cultures.

There are some opportunities for teachers to build on their knowledge through professional learning and development (PLD). Leaders and teachers discuss their learning from PLD and consider how they might include this learning in the curriculum provided.

The service has established a system of internal evaluation. Evaluations are descriptive, and yet to show the impact and effectiveness of improved practices on outcomes for children. Leaders and teachers implement procedures and practices to ensure regulatory standards are maintained.

4 Improvement actions

Fun Kids Learning Centre will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:

  • Analyse assessment information to identify what aspects of the curriculum are working for which children and use this information to inform changes to teaching practice.

  • Develop learning-focused partnerships with families that focus on children’s learning and how well children’s languages and cultures are celebrated in assessment documentation.

  • Improve evaluation processes, including identifying clear measurable success indicators, and evaluating how improvements have contributed to children’s learning.

5 Management Assurance on Legal Requirements

Before the review, the staff and management of Fun Kids Learning Centre 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 August 2023

6 About the Early Childhood Service

Early Childhood Service Name

Fun Kids Learning Centre

Profile number

10343

Location

Clover Park, Auckland

Service type

Education and care service

Number licensed for

20 children over 2 years of age

Percentage of qualified teachers

80-99%

Service roll

10

Review team on site

June 2023

Date of this report

23 August 2023

Most recent ERO report(s)

Akanuku | Assurance Review, July 2021
Education Review, February 2018

Fun Kids Learning Centre

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

Curriculum

Meeting

Premises and facilities

Meeting

Health and safety

Meeting

Governance, management and administration

Meeting

Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed non-compliances and is now taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.

Background

Fun Kids Learning Centre is privately managed and is licensed for 20 children from the age of two to five years. The owner manages the centre, with support from a team leader and two qualified teachers.

Summary of Review Findings

Adults providing education and care engage in meaningful, positive interactions to enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. The service curriculum acknowledges and reflects the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua. Children are given the opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the cultural heritages of both parties of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The service programme is inclusive and responsive to children as confident and competent learners. Positive steps are taken to respect and acknowledge the aspirations held by parents and whānau for their children.

Practices relating to health and safety, premises and facilities, and governance and management should be consistently monitored to ensure regulatory compliance is maintained.

Compliance

Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliances:

  • a list of safety and emergency supplies and resources sufficient for the age and number of children and adults at the service and details of how these will be maintained and accessed in an emergency (HS7)
  • when children leave the premises on an excursion, parents/caregivers have given prior written approval to their child’s participation and of the proposed ratio for regular excursions at the time of enrolment and special excursions prior to the excursion taking place (HS17)
  • if children travel in a motor vehicle while in the care of the service each child is restrained as required by Land Transport legislation, required adult:child ratios are maintained, and the written permission of a parent of the child is obtained before the travel begins (unless the child is travelling with their parent) (HS18)
  • a record of all injuries, illnesses and incidents that occur at the service; records include the child’s name, date, time and description of the injury, illness or incident, actions taken and by whom; evidence that parents have been informed about serious illness/injuries and incidents (HS27)
  • the design and layout of the premises support effective adult supervision so that children’s access to the licensed space (indoor and outdoor) is not unnecessarily limited (PF2)
  • any windows or other areas of glass accessible to children are either made of safety glass or covered by an adhesive film designed to hold the glass in place in the event of it being broken, or effectively guarded by barriers which prevent a child striking or falling against the glass (PF7)
  • activity space is enclosed by structures and/or fences and gates designed to ensure that children are not able to leave the premises without the knowledge of adults providing education and care (PF13)
  • processes for human resource management including selection and appointment procedures, job/role descriptions, induction procedures into the service, a system of regular appraisal, provision for professional development, a definition of serious misconduct, discipline/dismissal procedures (GMA7)
  • all children’s workers who have access to children are safety checked in accordance with the Children Act 2014 (GMA7A).

Next ERO Review

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

Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki

19 July 2021 

Information About the Service

Early Childhood Service Name Fun Kids Learning Centre
Profile Number 10343
Location Manukau City, Auckland

Service type

Education and care service

Number licensed for

20 children, including 0 aged under 2

Percentage of qualified teachers

80%+

Service roll

16

Ethnic composition

Asian 8
Indian 4
other ethnic groups 4

Review team on site

May 2021

Date of this report

19 July 2021

Most recent ERO report(s)

Education Review, February 2018
Education Review, June 2014

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.