287 Great North Road, Henderson, Auckland
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 Happy Kids Preschool 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 ConditionsOrganisational Conditions |
Whakaū Embedding |
Happy Kids Preschool is one of two education and care services under the same ownership. The owner is one of six qualified early childhood teachers and manages the centre with the support of a supervisor. The mixed-aged service provides for children over the age of two years. Families are from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Children experience a curriculum where they are well supported to express their feelings, curiosity, creativity, and independence. They are comfortable with daily routines and confident to initiate conversations with their peers and adults.
Leaders and teachers work collaboratively to provide a culturally responsive curriculum that includes:
aspects of te ao Māori, such as language, values, and beliefs, to support Māori children to succeed as Māori
valuing and integrating children’s home languages and cultural backgrounds
a welcoming and inclusive environment that enacts the centre’s values of manaakitanga and aroha
children’s cultures and identity in planning and assessment.
Teachers have a good understanding of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. They observe children’s interests and document their dispositions to inform teaching practice and assessment. Planning and assessment show children’s progress and learning over time. Teachers have begun to integrate a local curriculum to support children’s learning. Building teachers’ knowledge of how to provide a localised curriculum is an ongoing focus.
Leaders and teachers are working to facilitate collaborative learning partnerships with families, whānau and external organisations to improve equitable outcomes for all children. Their approach is supported by caring relationships that have a focus on children and families’ holistic wellbeing.
The service has a useful written strategic and annual plan to promote ongoing improvement. Strategic goals are consistent with internal evaluation priorities and professional development. A systematic evaluation process informs decision-making. Service leaders have identified that growing teachers’ leadership is a priority to support continued improvement.
Happy Kids Preschool will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
develop and embed a localised curriculum in partnership with parents and the local community
grow teachers’ leadership capability to promote learning and support equitable outcomes for children.
Before the review, the staff and management of Happy Kids Preschool 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.
Filivaifale Jason Swann
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
30 August 2022
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Happy Kids Preschool |
| Profile Number |
45656 |
| Location |
Henderson, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
45 children over 2 years |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
42 |
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Review team on site |
June 2022 |
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Date of this report |
30 August 2022 |
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Most recent ERO report(s)
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Akanuku | Assurance Review, March 2020 |
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.
Happy Kids Preschool was previously Kinderhaven Preschool. A change of ownership occurred in September 2018. The service was relicensed. The community is ethnically diverse. The service has had staffing changes and some environment refurbishment.
Leaders and teachers engage in meaningful and positive ways that enhance children’s learning and nurture reciprocal relationships. The service curriculum is informed by assessment, planning and evaluation that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning.
The service curriculum supports each child to be confident in their own culture. Children’s preferences are respected, and they are involved in decisions about their own learning. The design and layout of the premises support the provision of different types of indoor and outdoor experiences. A sufficient quantity and variety of furniture, equipment and materials is provided that is appropriate for the learning and abilities of the children attending.
The next ERO review is likely to be an Education Review.
Steve Tanner
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
13 March 2020
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Happy Kids Preschool |
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Profile Number |
45656 |
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Location |
Henderson, Auckland |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
45 children over the age of two years |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80%+ |
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Reported ratio of adults to children under 2 |
No children aged under two years |
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Reported ratio of staff to children over 2 |
1:8 Better than regulatory standards |
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Service roll |
45 |
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Gender composition |
Boys 26 Girls 19 |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 4 |
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Review team on site |
January 2020 |
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Date of this report |
13 March 2020 |
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Most recent ERO report(s)
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Previously licensed as Kinderhaven Preschool |
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 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 Assurance Review ERO also gathers and records evidence through: