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Clarkville Playcentre

Playcentre

Rice Park Heywards Road, Clarkville · Waimakariri District

Total roll
25
2025
Under 2s
20 Hours ECE
MOE #
70036

Roll breakdown

By age

By ethnicity

Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).

Cultural & rohe

ERO review

Education Review · 2025-07-17

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
C
"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.

Children's wellbeing
C
"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.

Whānau partnership
C
"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.

Bicultural practice
D
"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.

Health & safety
D
"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.

Leadership & governance
D
"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 computed
38 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2425)
50
Wellbeing
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
50
Health & Safety
20%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
25
Leadership
15%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
25
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=1880)
50
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2375)
25

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

Rice Park Heywards Road, Clarkville. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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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

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Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)

Service type, address, roll, ethnicity, Equity Index, 20 Hours, Takiwā, lat/lng

As of: Roll year 2025· Refresh: Nightly source · re-pulled on every deploy

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

As of: 545 centres covered· Refresh: Annual filings · re-ingested with each refresh

Per-centre review reports + 6-dimension letter grades (curriculum / wellbeing / whānau / bicultural / health & safety / leadership)

As of: 10,663 reports / 4,194 centres · latest review 2026-05-18· Refresh: On review publication · CC-BY 4.0 attribution

Safety score, crime/1k, 2023 Census demographics

As of: 2023 Census· Refresh: Quarterly police data · 5-yearly census

Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.