Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North
Education & Care
25 Kipling Street, Roslyn · Palmerston North City
ERO assessed this service as Not well placed in April 2016. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in play-based learning, children's wellbeing support, and whānau partnership (all graded B), but flagged concerns in bicultural practice and health & safety compliance (both graded C), including a licensing non-compliance with outdoor surfacing.
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
Barnardos New Zealand Cultural & rohe
ERO operator-wide review
Governing Organisation · 2024-02-13 · covers the wider operator group
ERO's most recent review for this centre is an operator-wide review — ERO has chosen to review the parent group rather than this centre individually. The findings apply across all centres in the group.
Source: Education Review Office operator-wide review dated 2024-02-13, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier individual centre review
ERO review · 2016-04-21· superseded by operator-wide review above
"The programme promotes high levels of child engagement and purposeful play. Opportunities for creativity, exploration and collaboration with peers are many. Literacy, mathematics, science and the arts are well integrated in the context of everyday happenings."
Strong play-based pedagogy with good integration of learning areas, though intentional teaching strategies need strength
"The identification of key teachers for each child attending the service effectively supports their settling, attachment, ongoing wellbeing and communication with families and whānau."
Key teacher system effectively supports children's attachment and belonging; transitions well supported.
"Good communication with parents is seen as a priority to support partnership in care and learning."
Parents' input valued in planning; good communication prioritised, though some next steps identified.
"Teachers have identified the need to continue to improve their cultural responsiveness. They have developed a plan to strengthen the integration of a bicultural perspective in the programme and practices. A next step is to work on their approach to supporting children and families from Pacific ethnic groups."
Bicultural development in progress; plan developed but implementation emerging, Pacific perspective needs attention.
"ERO identified an area of non-compliance relating to premises and facilities. To meet requirements the service needs to improve its performance in the following area: the outdoor activity space must be suitably surfaced."
Licensing non-compliance identified with outdoor surfacing; ratios better than minimum requirements.
"The centre manager provides good leadership for practice and operation. Team work is well established. Teachers are highly committed to the philosophy and their roles in the centre. They are improvement focused and reflective."
Good leadership and team commitment; professional development undertaken; appraisal process needs strengthening.
Source: Education Review Office review of Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North dated 2016-04-21, 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 computedThe 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
25 Kipling Street, Roslyn. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North a free kindergarten?
- Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North?
- 38 children attend Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North (roll year 2025).
- Where is Barnardos Early Learning Centre Palmerston North?
- 25 Kipling Street Roslyn Palmerston North 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 #40239) ↗ · 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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