Busy Bees Waitara
Education & Care
8 Queen Street, Waitara East · New Plymouth District
ERO assessed Busy Bees Waitara as Not well placed in November 2018. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in bicultural practice and health and safety (both B grades), but noted that curriculum and learning and whānau partnership required development (both C grades), with inconsistent implementation and emerging parent engagement practices.
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ERO Review · 2018-11-15· superseded by operator-wide review above
"Next steps for leaders are to build teachers' capacity and develop procedures to support consistent assessment practice. These include: regularly planning for individual children in a way that recognises their cultures, languages and identities formally seeking and planning to meet parents aspirations for their children's learning planning that adds challenge and complexity to children's learning and record their individual progress over time."
Assessment practice developing; inconsistent implementation; requires capacity building.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Next steps for leaders are to build teachers' capacity and develop procedures to support consistent assessment practice. These include: regularly planning for individual children in a way that recognises their cultures, languages and identities formally seeking and planning to meet parents aspirations for their children's learning"
Parent aspirations not yet systematically sought and planned for; emerging practice.
"Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori are valued parts of the programme. Children are offered many opportunities to experience te ao Māori."
Te reo and tikanga valued and integrated; opportunities provided for children.
"Useful systems are in place to monitor health and safety, recruitment and legislative requirements."
Systems in place; monitoring effective; compliance addressed.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Source: Education Review Office review of Busy Bees Waitara dated 2018-11-15, 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 Waitara 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
8 Queen Street, Waitara East. 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 Waitara a free kindergarten?
- Busy Bees Waitara is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Busy Bees Waitara?
- 60 children attend Busy Bees Waitara (roll year 2025).
- Where is Busy Bees Waitara?
- 8 Queen Street Waitara East New Plymouth District
How much will this cost you? Use our FamilyBoost + Childcare Subsidy calculator to estimate your weekly out-of-pocket after government support.
Nearby & related
Compare Busy Bees Waitara side-by-side with another centre →
Find your zoned schools near Waitara East
Our sister site schoolsnearme.co.nz covers every NZ primary, intermediate and secondary school with ERO reports, financials, and statutory-manager alerts. Enter your address to see which schools you're zoned for.
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 #45308) ↗ · 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.