Active Explorers Central Park
Education & Care
Building 9, 666 Great South Road, Ellerslie · Auckland - Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
ERO assessed Active Explorers Central Park as Not well placed in 2018. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in children's wellbeing and bicultural practice, with areas for development in curriculum planning, whānau partnership, and leadership evaluation cycles.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
Active Explorers Cultural & rohe
ERO review
ERO Review · 2018-10-18
This review predates ERO's current 4-point placement scale (introduced 2020). The overall judgement is omitted; the per-dimension grades below are extracted from the review prose and remain comparable.
"Teachers continue to refine programme planning for toddlers and older children, which currently has mainly a group focus. They should now review how well centre routines and current levels of resources support children to develop more complex play and learning."
Programme planning emerging; group focus limits individualisation; resource adequacy questioned.
"Teachers use effective strategies to support children's learning and wellbeing. These strategies include: creating a calm, settled atmosphere and providing easy access to resources for children varied experiences for children to investigate and explore, using their senses high levels of supportive care for infants and toddlers from a consistent teaching team supporting children to develop social competence and the skills they need to initiate and maintain friendships effective modelling to support children's language development."
Effective support strategies; calm atmosphere; strong social-emotional development; supportive teaching relationships.
"A deeper engagement with, and understanding of, Te Whāriki 2017 would better support all teachers to: develop a rich learning programme for each child consult with parents and whānau to establish an overall curriculum that is meaningful in this context build partnerships with whānau, based on children's learning."
Partnerships developing; need deeper whānau consultation; curriculum meaningfulness requires improvement.
"Te reo and tikanga Māori are visible in the centre environment and routines. Teachers use te reo Māori with children and are committed to deepening their knowledge and understanding of the Māori culture. A recent strategic staffing appointment should support this development."
Te reo and tikanga visible; teachers committed to deepening knowledge; strategic staffing supports development.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The centre is effectively managed. An internal evaluation process has been established, which has the potential to promote effective evaluation. This has yet to work through a full cycle."
Management effective; internal evaluation emerging; full cycle not yet completed; refinement needed.
Source: Education Review Office review of Active Explorers Central Park dated 2018-10-18, licensed CC-BY 4.0. The 4-point overall judgement is ERO's; the 6 dimension grades are our analysis of ERO's prose (see methodology). · Centre has 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Active Explorers Central Park hasn't been graded on a dimension, the composite uses the national average for that dimension as a placeholder. Each affected axis below is flagged est. When a new ERO review lands, the placeholder is replaced and the score may shift.
The composite is a weighted average of six ERO dimensions, each scored 0–100 (A=90, B=70, C=50, D=25). The "(p47)" style suffix shows where the centre sits within its EQI band (peer percentile, when ≥10 comparable centres in band). See methodology for the formula + limits.
Location
Building 9, 666 Great South Road, Ellerslie. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Active Explorers Central Park a free kindergarten?
- Active Explorers Central Park is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Active Explorers Central Park?
- 60 children attend Active Explorers Central Park (roll year 2025).
- Where is Active Explorers Central Park?
- Building 9, 666 Great South Road Ellerslie Auckland - Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #25000) ↗ · CC-BY 4.0 via data.govt.nz
- ERO reviews: ERO institution page ↗ · Crown copyright (reuse permitted with attribution)
- Suburb safety & demographics: SafeSuburbs ↗ · crimestats.co.nz ↗ · NZ Police RCVD + Stats NZ 2023 Census, CC-BY 4.0
- Funding policy (20 Hours / Childcare Subsidy / FamilyBoost): parents.education.govt.nz · WINZ · IRD · Crown copyright (policy only — we cite parameters, don't republish)
- Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap · © CARTO · ODbL + CC-BY 3.0
- Machine-readable formats: facts.json · markdown.md
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Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)
Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng
Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)
Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)
Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics
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