Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara
Education & Care
172 Hutt Road, Kaiwharawhara · Wellington City
ERO assessed the service as Not well placed in February 2018. Our analysis of the ERO report identified areas for development across curriculum and learning, whānau partnership, and bicultural practice, with each dimension graded C.
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 · 2018-02-19
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.
"The learning programme for older children requires enhancing, particularly in relation to: providing opportunities for them to be creative and expressive and persist in their play over time enabling them to have opportunities to make decisions, ask questions and problem solve ensuring teachers have sufficient and current knowledge to guide and support learning."
Programme requires enhancement; assessment and planning cycle needs strengthening.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"A priority for improvement is to complete the philosophy review. This has recently been initiated with staff input. Parents and whānau have not yet been invited to contribute to this process."
Parents not yet invited to philosophy review; whānau partnership emerging.
"Leaders and teachers continue to build their understanding of te ao Māori and how this is implemented in the centre. Aspects of kaupapa Māori are evident in the programme. Extending te reo me ngā tikanga Māori perspectives across the curriculum is a next step."
Te ao Māori understanding developing; extending te reo and tikanga is next priority.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Source: Education Review Office review of Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara dated 2018-02-19, 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 Kaiwharawhara 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
172 Hutt Road, Kaiwharawhara. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara a free kindergarten?
- Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara?
- 65 children attend Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara (roll year 2025).
- Where is Active Explorers Kaiwharawhara?
- 172 Hutt Road Kaiwharawhara Wellington City
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #46196) ↗ · 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
Full source list, licence text, refresh cadence: /sources. How we match, clean, and rank: /methodology.
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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