31 Arabian Drive, Papamoa, Tauranga
View on mapERO’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.
The service is one of three under the Jemma’s umbrella. Two visiting teachers provide professional guidance to support educators, families, and children across Waikato. At the time of the review a small number of Māori and Tongan children were enrolled. The service returned to its full licence in July 2021.
Infants, toddlers and young children experience meaningful and positive reciprocal relationships with educators. They are provided with a range of experiences to extend their learning and development. The curriculum supports children to develop oral language and social competence and is inclusive and informed by assessment and planning.
Positive steps are taken to respect and acknowledge parents’ aspirations for their children. Information and guidance are sought from external agencies to support educators to work effectively with children with additional learning needs and their parents.
Next steps include:
continuing to explore and reflect te reo Māori me ona tikanga Māori in children’s assessment documentation
continuing to strengthen the extent to which information documented about children learning reflects their home culture, languages and learner identity.
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 January 2023
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Jemmas Homebased Childcare |
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Profile Number |
45331 |
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Location |
Papamoa, Tauranga |
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Service type |
Home-based service |
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Number licensed for |
50 children, including up to 50 aged under 2 |
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Service roll |
14 |
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Review team on site |
December 2022 |
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Date of this report |
20 January 2023 |
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Most recent ERO report(s) |
Education Review, June 2019 |
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.
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.
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.
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Not well placed |
Requires further development |
Well placed |
Very well placed |
Jemmas Homebased Childcare Morrinsville is well placed to promote positive learning outcomes for children.
ERO's findings that support this overall judgement are summarised below.
Jemmas Homebased Childcare Morrinsville is a privately owned service that provides education and care for children from birth to six years of age. It is licensed for 80 children. It is a family owned business with three home-based networks in Auckland, Tauranga and Waikato. The Morrinsville network has educarers in the Waikato. One educarer can have up to four children at any one time.
This network is overseen by three experienced, qualified and registered coordinators who work as a team. Children can attend a playgroup and socialise with other educarers and children. The coordinators regularly visit educarers' homes to promote positive outcomes for children's wellbeing and learning. Coordinators offer training workshops to support educarers in enhancing their understanding of children's development and how they learn.
The service's philosophy for learning is underpinned by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Coordinators are currently reviewing the philosophy with the support of an external professional development provider to further enhance the service's local curriculum. The vision is to provide high-quality home-based childcare in safe, caring and nurturing environments. Management and leaders have responded well to the areas for development in the 2016 ERO report.
Infants and toddlers are nurtured in small family settings. Close and trusting relationships help develop children's social competencies and communication skills alongside their peers and other adults.
Children access rich curriculum experiences that support learning about their community and the wider world. They learn concepts in literacy and mathematics through play. Māori children have their language, culture and identity validated in educarers' homes.
Coordinators successfully build the capability of educarers to respond to children's interests and strengths. Coordinators write comprehensive reports on the positive outcomes for children during visits to educarers homes. Educarers have access to internal and external professional development and are funded to undertake child protection and first aid training.
Children are well supported to develop as capable and confident learners. The service provides educarers with clear guidelines and expectations for their practice. A toy library provided by the service allows children to have access to a wide range of resources to extend their play, exploration and creativity.
The service provider and coordinators have established effective internal evaluation processes that support ongoing improvement. On-line assessment portfolios include multiple perspectives of learning from whānau, educarers and coordinators.
ERO and leaders agree that the key next step is for coordinators to continue reviewing and developing the service's philosophy and local curriculum.
Before the review, the staff and management of Jemmas Homebased Childcare Morrinsville completed an ERO Home-based Education and Care 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:
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 Region
17 June 2019
The Education Review Office (ERO) is the government department that, as part of its work, reviews early childhood services throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. ERO’s reports provide information for parents and communities about each service’s strengths and next steps for development. ERO’s bicultural evaluation framework Ngā Pou Here is described in SECTION 3 of this report. Early childhood services are partners in the review process and are expected to make use of the review findings to enhance children's wellbeing and learning.
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Location |
Morrinsville |
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Ministry of Education profile number |
45331 |
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Institution type |
Homebased Network |
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Licensed under |
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008 |
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Number licensed for |
80 children, including up to 80 aged under 2 |
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Service roll |
35 |
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Standard or Quality Funded |
Standard |
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Gender composition |
Male 20 Female 15 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori |
2 |
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Number of qualified coordinators in the network |
3 |
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Required ratios of staff educators to children |
Under 2 |
1:2 |
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Over 2 |
1:4 |
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Review team on site |
May 2019 |
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Date of this report |
17 June 2019 |
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Most recent ERO report(s)
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Education Review |
January 2016 |
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Education Review |
May 2012 |
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ERO’s overarching question for an early childhood education review is ‘How well placed is this service to promote positive learning outcomes for children?’ ERO focuses on the following factors as described in the bicultural framework Ngā Pou Here:
Pou Whakahaere – how the service determines its vision, philosophy and direction to ensure positive outcomes for children
Pou Ārahi – how leadership is enacted to enhance positive outcomes for children
Mātauranga – whose knowledge is valued and how the curriculum is designed to achieve positive outcomes for children
Tikanga whakaako – how approaches to teaching and learning respond to diversity and support positive outcomes for children.
Within these areas ERO considers the effectiveness of arotake – self review and of whanaungatanga – partnerships with parents and whānau.
ERO evaluates how well placed a service is to sustain good practice and make ongoing improvements for the benefit of all children at the service.
A focus for the government is that all children, especially priority learners, have an opportunity to benefit from quality early childhood education. ERO will report on how well each service promotes positive outcomes for all children, with a focus on children who are Māori, Pacific, have diverse needs, and are up to the age of two.
For more information about the framework and Ngā Pou Here refer to the draft methodology for ERO reviews in Home-based Education and Care Services: July 2014
The overall judgement that ERO makes will depend on how well the service promotes positive learning outcomes for children. The categories are:
Very well placed
Well placed
Requires further development
Not well placed
ERO has developed criteria for each category. These are available on ERO’s website.
ERO reviews are tailored to each service’s context and performance, within the overarching review framework. The aim is to provide information on aspects that are central to positive outcomes for children and useful to the service.