Home Grown Kids (South)
Home-based
189 Moffat Road, Bethlehem · Tauranga City
ERO assessed Home Grown Kids (South) as Not well placed in December 2019. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in curriculum implementation, whānau partnership, health and safety, and leadership, but noted that bicultural practice requires greater prominence in documents and 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
Home Grown Kids Cultural & rohe
ERO review
Education Review · 2019-12-12
This review predates ERO's current 4-point placement scale (introduced 2020). The overall judgement is omitted; the per-dimension grades below are extracted from the review prose and remain comparable.
"Leaders have made good use of external professional development to begin to build understandings of inquiry and reflective practices focused on ongoing improvement and positive outcomes for children."
Te Whāriki implementation evident; assessment and planning identified as next steps
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The network philosophy has a focus on small group in-home care, with an emphasis on treating children with dignity and respect, play-based learning, parent partnerships, and respect for the language, culture and identity of children and their families."
Parent partnerships evident in philosophy; family communication and responsiveness demonstrated
"give greater prominence to bicultural perspectives in key documents and practices, to support a bicultural curriculum for all children and success for Māori children"
Bicultural focus emerging but needs greater prominence in documents and practices
"Leaders have set high expectations in regard to maintaining regulatory requirements as a minimum, and building quality processes and practices."
Full licensing issued March 2019; regulatory requirements met; health and safety accountability prioritised
"The deliberate appointment of skilled and experienced leaders has resulted in a strategic and well considered approach to managing change. Leaders have set high expectations in regard to maintaining regulatory requirements as a minimum, and building quality processes and practices."
Strategic leadership established; professional learning supported; evaluation practices developing
Source: Education Review Office review of Home Grown Kids (South) dated 2019-12-12, 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).
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Home Grown Kids (South) 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
189 Moffat Road, Bethlehem. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Home Grown Kids (South) a free kindergarten?
- Home Grown Kids (South) is a Home-based service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Home Grown Kids (South)?
- 80 children attend Home Grown Kids (South) (roll year 2025).
- Where is Home Grown Kids (South)?
- 189 Moffat Road Bethlehem Tauranga City
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #30081) ↗ · 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.