Busy Bees Mapua
Education & Care
86 Aranui Road, Māpua · Tasman District
ERO assessed Busy Bees Mapua as Not well placed in its 2017 review. Our analysis of the ERO report found strengths in health and safety and leadership and governance, with staffing ratios meeting or exceeding minimum requirements. Bicultural practice was identified as an area for development, with opportunity to extend integration into centre documents.
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
ERO review · 2017-06-14· superseded by operator-wide review above
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Elements of literacy, mathematics and biculturalism are successfully integrated into the centre's programme. The centre is inclusive of all. Staff value the culture and language of children and their families."
Bicultural elements present but identified as opportunity to extend integration into centre documents.
"Reported ratios of staff to children Under 2 1:4 Meets minimum requirements Over 2 1:8 Better than minimum requirements"
Staffing ratios better than or meet minimum requirements; legal compliance verified.
"The centre is well managed and led. Leaders are improvement focused and their decisions are well informed by critical reflection and regular self-review. Management practices promote collaboration, team work and good use of staff strengths to benefit their colleagues and children."
Effective leadership with improvement focus, self-review, and collaborative management practices.
Source: Education Review Office review of Busy Bees Mapua dated 2017-06-14, 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 Busy Bees Mapua 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
86 Aranui Road, Māpua. 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 Mapua a free kindergarten?
- Busy Bees Mapua is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Busy Bees Mapua?
- 60 children attend Busy Bees Mapua (roll year 2025).
- Where is Busy Bees Mapua?
- 86 Aranui Road Māpua Tasman District
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Nearby & related
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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 #65229) ↗ · 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.