Busy Bees Bottle Lake
Education & Care
1 Pohutukawa Crescent, Burwood · Christchurch City
Busy Bees Bottle Lake is an education and care service in Burwood, Christchurch, with a current roll of 100 children. Our analysis of the ERO report from June 2021 found the service graded B across all six dimensions: curriculum and learning, children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, bicultural practice, health and safety, and leadership and governance. Positive interactions support children's wellbeing and inclusive curriculum, with health and safety processes established and monitored.
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
Busy Bees Cultural & rohe
ERO operator-wide review
Education Review · 2023-09-20 · 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 2023-09-20, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier individual centre review
Akanuku · 2021-06-24· superseded by operator-wide review above
"Infants, toddlers, and older tamariki experience positive interactions with adults and an inclusive curriculum."
Positive interactions and inclusive curriculum evident; assessment focus needs strengthening.
"Infants, toddlers, and older tamariki experience positive interactions with adults and an inclusive curriculum."
Positive interactions support wellbeing; health and safety processes established and monitored.
"Parents and whānau contribute to the development and review of organisation documents."
Whānau contribute to document development and review; cultures and identities valued.
"The environment is respectful of local iwi knowledge. Whānau cultures, identities, home languages, are valued and visible."
Local iwi knowledge respected; whānau cultures, identities, home languages valued and visible.
"Health and safety processes are established and monitored to ensure the wellbeing of all tamariki."
Health and safety processes established and monitored; regulatory standards met.
"At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards."
Reasonable steps taken to meet regulatory standards; centre manager supported by regional manager.
Source: Education Review Office review of Busy Bees Bottle Lake dated 2021-06-24, 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
1 Pohutukawa Crescent, Burwood. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Busy Bees Bottle Lake a free kindergarten?
- Busy Bees Bottle Lake is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Busy Bees Bottle Lake?
- 100 children attend Busy Bees Bottle Lake (roll year 2025).
- Where is Busy Bees Bottle Lake?
- 1 Pohutukawa Crescent Burwood Christchurch City
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Sources & verification
Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:
- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #70063) ↗ · 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
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.