Clarkville Playcentre
Playcentre
Rice Park Heywards Road, Clarkville · Waimakariri District
Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
Cultural & rohe
ERO review
Education Review · 2025-07-17
"Assessment, planning and evaluation is variable and depends on the parent's understanding and commitment to the process. Parents are invited to set goals for their children but there is little planning or useful monitoring of children's progress. The children's learning and the ways adults support learning are not well documented or clearly evident in the programme. Assessment, planning and evaluation processes and practices are not aligned sufficiently to Te Whāriki 2017."
Variable assessment and planning; insufficient Te Whāriki alignment; limited monitoring of progress.
"The playcentre does not have robust systems and practices for children's health and safety. These include the supervision of children, maintaining sleep records and excursions from the centre."
Inadequate supervision systems; gaps in sleep records and excursion procedures.
"The Upper South Island Region has recently become more involved in the centre. Parents have begun to participate in the parent education programme."
Emerging parent engagement through recent education programme participation.
"The parent cooperative has yet to develop ways to regularly include and progress te reo and tikanga Māori in the programme."
No established processes for te reo Māori and tikanga integration in programme.
"The playcentre does not have robust systems and practices for children's health and safety. These include the supervision of children, maintaining sleep records and excursions from the centre."
Non-compliance identified in supervision, sleep records, and excursion procedures.
"Operational systems and practices to support the ongoing operation and improvement of the parent cooperative are either incomplete, new, or not well implemented."
Incomplete operational systems; limited internal evaluation; ineffective governance structures.
Source: Education Review Office review of Clarkville Playcentre dated 2025-07-17, 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 3 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
Rice Park Heywards Road, Clarkville. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Clarkville Playcentre a free kindergarten?
- Clarkville Playcentre is a Playcentre service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Clarkville Playcentre?
- 25 children attend Clarkville Playcentre (roll year 2025).
- Where is Clarkville Playcentre?
- Rice Park Heywards Road Clarkville Waimakariri District
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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 #70036) ↗ · 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.