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Forfar Nursery And Preschool

Education & Care

📞 03-3558512 🌐 Visit website ↗ ✉ Email centre

82 Forfar Street, St Albans · Christchurch City

Total roll
47
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
70361

Roll breakdown

By age

By ethnicity

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

Operator

Standalone

Cultural & rohe

ERO review

Akarangi · 2024-12-17

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

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
↓B
"Leaders and kaiako establish and maintain responsive, respectful interactions and relationships with children, parents, whānau and the wider education community."

Responsive relationships with whānau established and maintained.

Bicultural practice
C
"Kaiako give priority to oral language development including integrating some te reo me ngā tikanga Māori into the learning programme."

Te reo and tikanga integrated but inconsistently; expertise being sought.

Health & safety
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Leadership & governance
↓B
"The collaborative leadership team has built a trusting and professional team that promotes opportunities for staff to reflect on practice and learn together."

Collaborative team; staff reflection established; internal evaluation in early stages.

Source: Education Review Office review of Forfar Nursery And Preschool dated 2024-12-17, 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

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Forfar Nursery And Preschool 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.

68 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
66
est
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2375)
50

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

82 Forfar Street, St Albans. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Forfar Nursery And Preschool a free kindergarten?
Forfar Nursery And Preschool is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Forfar Nursery And Preschool?
47 children attend Forfar Nursery And Preschool (roll year 2025).
Where is Forfar Nursery And Preschool?
82 Forfar Street St Albans Christchurch City

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Nearby & related

St Albans Community Preschool 0.3 km
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BestStart Montessori St Albans 0.6 km
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Sources & verification

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

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
Charities Services

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

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

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
Suburb context

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.