Little Tui Early Childhood 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 Glenview Park Kindy are as follows:

Context of the Service

Glenview Park Kindy is a privately owned all-day education and care service. It is one of two services under the same governance and ownership. The service provides learning for children from two years to school age. The service has responded positively to ERO’s previous recommendations.

3 Summary of findings

Children’s learning and development is effectively supported through a curriculum that promotes positive outcomes. This is achieved by:

• Teachers, children and their whānau participating in learner focused partnerships. Learning goals are set, and continued planning occurs.
• Te reo and tikanga Māori being intentionally integrated into practices. This supports Māori children’s confidence in their culture; and facilitates learning that aligns with the bicultural curriculum of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum.
• Other children’s home languages are purposefully integrated, this supports transitions and ongoing continuity of culturally responsive practices.
• Children with additional learning needs are fully included and well supported. Teachers use early intervention techniques to ensure continued progress.
• Teachers provide a play-based curriculum which promotes child agency, independence, and social competence.

Highly effective organisational conditions support children’s growth and progression over time. This is realised by:

• Relational trust and building of professional knowledge leading to ongoing improvements in practice.
• Shared leadership systems enabling growth for teachers.
• Effective systems and processes promoting change which help the service realise it vision.
• Thoughtfully prepared and appropriate equipment and resources that extend children’s learning.

Governance and leadership actively pursue ways to ensure social justice which promotes equity for all learners. This is accomplished by:

• A positive work environment that enables quality adult-child-whānau interactions.
• Networked relationships for children with additional needs that fosters and promotes positive pathways.
• Strategic planning, review and evaluation processes supporting focused growth and improvement over time for children and their whānau. The service is strengthening its consideration of what improvements are working for specific groups of learners.

 4 Improvement actions

Glenview Park Kindy will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:

• deepen and expand local curriculum networks to enhance children’s learning 
• refine documented planning within assessment to explicitly reflect intentional teaching
• strengthen evaluation focus on what progression is enabled and for which groups of children with explicit reference to the valued learning outcomes of Te Whāriki.

5 Management Assurance on Legal Requirements

Before the review, the staff and management of Glenview Park Kindy 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.

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; police vetting; teacher registration; ratios)
• evacuation procedures and practices for fire and earthquake.

All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.

Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui

7 June 2022 

6 About the Early Childhood Service