Shore Kids

Education institution number:
20040
Service type:
Education and Care Service
Definition:
Not Applicable
Total roll:
27
Telephone:
09 444 0709
Address:

9 Barbados Drive, Glenfield North, Auckland

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Shore Kids

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 Shore Kids are as follows:

Outcome Indicators

(What the service knows about outcomes for learners)

Whakatō Emerging

Ngā Akatoro Domains

 
Learning Conditions
Organisational Conditions

Whakatō Emerging

Whāngai Establishing

2 Context of the Service

Shore Kids is one of three services owned by the same company. The owners are actively involved in governance and management of each service. A centre manager leads a team of three qualified teachers and one unqualified staff member. The roll is culturally diverse and includes a small number of Māori children.  

3 Summary of findings

Infants and toddlers experience respectful care from teachers who know them and their individual preferences well. Older children have opportunities to care for the environment and each other. Teachers provide good opportunities for all children to develop their oral language skills.  

Some teachers use te reo Māori well in their work alongside children. Waiata and karakia are incorporated into centre routines. Consideration could now be given to how well the curriculum reflects Māori ways of knowing, being and doing. 

Teachers have established warm, positive relationships with parents. Processes are in place to gather information about children’s home languages and cultures. Teachers are yet to consistently use this information to increase the visibility of children’s cultures in the environment and assessment documentation. 

Children access their learning records and revisit their learning. A deeper engagement with the learning outcomes of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum, could support teachers to design and document a curriculum that better responds to the strengths and interests of children. A system for curriculum evaluation needs to be developed and documented. 

Leaders are working with an external agency to ensure policies and procedures are up to date. A process for internal evaluation is established, and strategic and annual plans are in place. Consideration could be given to how these documents link together to support ongoing improvement that includes a focus on children's learning. 

4 Improvement actions

Shore Kids will include the following actions in its Quality Improvement Planning:

  • Support teachers to implement a meaningful curriculum for all children through developing a shared understanding and use of the learning outcomes in Te Whāriki. 
  • Provide mentoring and professional learning opportunities to build the collective capability of leaders and teachers to provide a curriculum that is responsive to children’s languages and cultures. 
  • Focus improvement plans and internal evaluation on identifying outcomes for children’s learning Include regular monitoring and evaluating of progress towards achieving the service’s long-term goals.

5 Management Assurance on Legal Requirements

Before the review, the staff and management of Shore Kids 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)

12 December 2023 

6 About the Early Childhood Service 

Early Childhood Service NameShore Kids
Profile Number20040
LocationGlenfield, Auckland 
Service type Education and care service
Number licensed for 30 children, including up to 15 aged under 2 
Percentage of qualified teachers 80-99%
Service roll30
Review team on siteAugust 2023
Date of this report12 December 2023
Most recent ERO report(s)Akanuku | Assurance Review, March 2021; 
Education Review March 2017

Shore Kids

ERO’s Akanuku | Assurance Review reports provide information about whether a service meets and maintains regulatory standards.

ERO’s Judgement

Regulatory standards

ERO’s judgement

Curriculum

Meeting

Premises and facilities

Meeting

Health and safety

Meeting

Governance, management and administration

Meeting

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

Shore Kids provides all day education and care for up to 30 children, including 15 children under the age of two years. Children enrolled are from diverse cultures. There are five qualified teachers, including the service provider and centre manager, and three unqualified staff. Children are grouped according to age in three separate spaces.

Summary of Review Findings

Children attending the service experience a curriculum that is informed by assessment and planning and demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning and interests. Adults providing education and care engage in meaningful, positive interactions and nurture reciprocal relationships, particularly with children under the age of two. The curriculum respects and supports the right of each child to be confident in their own culture and encourages children to understand and respect each other.

A philosophy and annual plan guide the service’s operation. The service provider and centre manager need to monitor that processes and practices consistently meet regulatory requirements.

Compliance

Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliances:

  • the placement and suitability of outdoor equipment is safe for intended use by children (PF5)
  • furniture and items intended for children to sleep on, are covered or made of a non-porous material (PF30)
  • evidence of a current fire evacuation scheme approved by the New Zealand Fire Service (HS4)
  • heavy furniture, fixtures, and equipment that could fall or topple and cause serious injury are appropriately secured (HS6)
  • having a procedure for monitoring children’s sleep that that ensures children do not have access to food or liquids while in bed (HS9)
  • the water in the hot water cylinder is set to the required temperature 60°C (HS14)
  • maintaining a record of excursions that includes the times of excursions, the adult/child ratio, evidence of parental permission for ratio of special excursions and the signature of the person responsible for giving approval for the excursion to take place (HS17)
  • ensuring incident records show that parents have been notified of incidents that occur within the service (HS27)
  • documenting medication records that show medication is consistently administered at the times requested by parents (HS28)
  • ensuring all children’s workers who have access to children are safety checked in accordance with the Children’s Act 2014 and there is a written procedure for safety checking that meets the requirements of the Children’s Act 2014 (GMA7A)
  • maintaining attendance records that meet the requirements outlined in the Early Childhood Education Funding handbook for children currently attending the service (GMA11).

Next ERO Review

The next ERO review is likely to be an Akarangi | Quality Evaluation.

Steve Tanner
Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern)
Northern Region | Te Tai Raki

23 March 2021

Information About the Service

Early Childhood Service Name Shore Kids
Profile Number 20040
Location Glenfield North, Auckland

Service type

Education and care service

Number licensed for

30 children, including up to 15 aged under 2.

Percentage of qualified teachers

80%+

Service roll

29

Ethnic composition

Māori 1
NZ European/Pākehā 10
other ethnic groups 18

Review team on site

January 2021

Date of this report

23 March 2021

Most recent ERO report(s)

Education Review, March 2017

Supplementary Review, December 2013

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.