New Shoots Children's Centre - Matamata

Education institution number:
47494
Service type:
Education and Care Service
Definition:
Not Applicable
Total roll:
116
Address:

6 Peria Road, Matamata

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New Shoots Children's Centre - Matamata

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 New Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata are as follows:

Outcome Indicators

(What the service knows about outcomes for learners)

Whakaū Embedding

Ngā Akatoro Domains

 
Learning Conditions
Organisational Conditions

Whakaū Embedding

Whakaū Embedding

2 Context of the Service

This service is part of the New Shoots Childrens Centre Group. Children play and learn in one of five rooms, sharing the playground area. A governance team guides centre operations. A centre director leads the large teaching team. A small number of enrolled children identify as Māori. Children from a diverse range of ethnicities also attend.

3 Summary of findings

Children’s learning is well supported through the enactment of a philosophy that prioritises relationships and exploration. Strong relationships between teachers and parents foster meaningful connections between home and the service. Children with additional learning needs are provided good support by teachers who work alongside parents and external agencies. Children’s wellbeing and sense of belonging is enhanced.

The curriculum responds to children’s interests and needs. Infants and toddlers experience care that is calm and slow-paced. Children have opportunities to hear and use te reo Māori and tikanga Māori. Some assessment information reflects children’s home contexts however individual assessment stories are yet to consistently reflect children’s cultures, languages and identities.

Teachers and leaders share their learning, take responsibility for, and actively contribute to each other’s professional growth. Processes of teacher inquiry, reflection and review contribute to children’s learning and the centre’s improvement journey. Improving evaluation processes to better monitor the impact of teaching practices on improved outcomes for children, is a next step.

Strongly improvement-focused governance and management implement a well-considered strategic plan and relevant systems that intentionally guide the organisation. They purposefully allocate resources that clearly align with achieving centre priorities for children’s learning. Collaborative targeted ongoing professional learning builds leadership and teachers’ capabilities. Successful initiatives support children to access an inclusive curriculum.

4 Improvement actions

New Shoots Children’s Centre – Matamata has identified the following action in its Quality Improvement Planning:

  • Continue to develop the bicultural curriculum in partnership with whānau Māori.
  • Develop meaningful ways to integrate the cultural identities of individual children and their whānau throughout the curriculum.

The New Shoots governance group has indicated it will include the following in its Quality Improvement Planning to ensure that all services are working at a consistent level:

  • Provide support for centre leaders to build teachers’ collective capability and shared understandings of using all aspects of effective evaluation for improvement. 

5 Management Assurance on Legal Requirements

Before the review, the staff and management of New Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata 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)

7 March 2024 

6 About the Early Childhood Service 

Early Childhood Service NameNew Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata
Profile Number: 47494
Location: Matamata
Service type Education and care service
Number licensed for 95 children, including up to 34 aged under 2
Percentage of qualified teachers 80-99%
Service roll101 
Review team on siteDecember, 2023
Date of this report7 March 2024
Most recent ERO report(s)Akanuku | Assurance Review, December 2020

 

 

 

New Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata - 21/12/2020

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.

ERO’s Judgement

Regulatory standards

ERO’s judgement

CurriculumMeeting
Premises and facilitiesMeeting
Health and safetyMeeting
Governance, management and administrationMeeting

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

New Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata opened in July 2018 and this is its first ERO review. The centre is one of 12 privately owned and governed as part of the wider New Shoots Tamariki Group. Full day early education and care is offered for up to 95 children.

Summary of Review Findings

The service curriculum is inclusive. Children make decisions about their own learning and their choices are respected. Kaiako engage in meaningful and positive interactions to enhance learning and nurture reciprocal relationships.

The service curriculum is informed by assessment and planning and practices demonstrate an understanding of children’s, interests, whānau and life contexts. The service curriculum provides a language-rich environment that supports children’s learning.

Children are provided with a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance their learning and development – indoors and outdoors.

The service is effectively governed and managed.

Key Next Step

Strengthening the extent to which information documented about children’s learning reflects their identity, language and culture.

Actions for Compliance

Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows heavy furniture, fixtures and equipment that could fall or topple and cause serious injury or damage have been secured. [Licensing Criteria for Early Childhood Education and Care Centre 2008, HS6]

Next ERO Review

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

21 December 2020

Information About the Service

Early Childhood Service NameNew Shoots Children’s Centre - Matamata
Profile Number47494
LocationMatamata
Service typeEducation and care service
Number licensed for95 children, including up to 24 aged under 2.
Percentage of qualified teachers80%+
Service roll96
Ethnic compositionMāori 13, NZ European/Pākehā 58, Other ethnic groups 25
Review team on siteNovember 2020
Date of this report21 December 2020

Most recent ERO report(s)

 

First ERO review of the service

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.