400 St Aubyn Street East, Parkvale-Napier/Hastings, Hastings
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 Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare 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 Whāngai Establishing |
Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare philosophy emphasises that children thrive through positive respectful and empowering relationships with people, places and things. At the time of the evaluation a quarter of enrolled children identify as Māori, nearly a quarter as Indian, and a small number as Pacific.
Children experience a rich curriculum where they can be curious and imaginative, develop theories about how the world works and explore literacy. They are well supported through caring, nurturing relationships that enhance their developing social competence and emotional wellbeing. Infants and toddlers experience a curriculum that maintains a calm, slow pace and allows them to lead their own learning. Māori children experience an environment where their culture is well reflected and tuakana/teina relationships are fostered. Shared outdoor spaces provide opportunity for challenge and connection with mixed-age groups. Children present as capable and confident communicators and learners.
Assessment and planning for learning is responsive to children’s strengths and interests. Daily setting up of the play space is intentional and invites their engagement, giving them agency over who and what they play with. Children’s learning progression over time is regularly documented and shared with whānau. However, learning focused partnerships are yet to be developed to support assessment practices that reflect children’s cultural identity. Children with diverse needs have equitable opportunities to learn through an individualised approach to planning.
Leaders and teachers collaboratively develop and effectively enact the service’s philosophy, vision, goals and priorities, and align resources accordingly. They are yet to formally draw on parent, whānau and community voice to inform priorities for improvement. Review and evaluation is clearly aligned to strategic goals. Leaders and teachers are yet to know the impact of the improvement actions on outcomes for children, in particular for Māori and Pacific learners.
Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:
strengthen assessment practices to reflect and build on each child’s cultural identity over time
continue to work closely with parents and whānau to reflect what matters most for children’s learning in this community
identify the impact of improvement actions on children’s learning outcomes through internal evaluation.
Before the review, the staff and management of Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare 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.
Phil Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services (Central)
Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui
21 November 2022
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare |
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Profile Number |
47604 |
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Location |
Parkvale, Hastings |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
66 children, including up to 20 aged under 2 |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80-99% |
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Service roll |
62 |
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Review team on site |
October 2022 |
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Date of this report |
21 November 2022 |
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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 found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards.
Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare is a privately owned service that opened in December 2018. A new centre manager, appointed in January 2020, is responsible for day-to-day operation. Children play in three separate rooms organised approximately by age. This is the first ERO review of the service.
Children experience a curriculum informed by assessment and planning for learning. Teachers demonstrate an understanding of children’s interests, whānau and life contexts, and apply knowledge of learning and development to their teaching.
The purpose-built service includes spaces for a range of learning experiences appropriate for the children attending. There are safe and comfortable spaces for children not yet walking to lie and move and be protected from more mobile children.
Systems and processes are in place to support the service to be effectively governed and managed. Some recent improvements have been made to reasonably promote the good health and safety of enrolled children.
Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliances:
[Licensing Criteria for Early Childhood Education and Care Centres 2008, HS17, HS21, HS28]
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
30 October 2020
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Early Childhood Service Name |
Laugh Observe Learn Early Childhood Educare |
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Profile Number |
47604 |
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Location |
Parkvale, Hastings |
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Service type |
Education and care service |
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Number licensed for |
65 children, including up to 20 aged under 2. |
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Percentage of qualified teachers |
80%+ |
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Service roll |
62 |
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Gender composition |
Male 30, Female 32. |
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Ethnic composition |
Māori 14 |
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Review team on site |
September 2020 |
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Date of this report |
30 October 2020 |
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Most recent ERO report(s)
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First ERO review of the service. |
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: