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In Our Garden

Education & Care

📞 06-8767143 ✉ Email centre

920 Francis Hicks Avenue, Raureka · Hastings District

Total roll
25
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
55195

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 · 2026-02-17

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
B
"Infants and toddlers verbal and nonverbal cues are responded to in a nurturing, caring way."

Strong relationships support belonging; transitions and social-emotional outcomes well supported.

Whānau partnership
B
"Relationships between kaiako, parents and children are respectful and reciprocal."

Respectful partnerships evident; learning-focused engagement demonstrated.

Bicultural practice
C
"Leaders and kaiako are at an early stage of implementing a culturally responsive curriculum."

Te reo and tikanga present but emerging; leaders acknowledge need for strengthening.

Health & safety
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Leadership & governance
C
"Leaders are not yet monitoring and evaluating the impact of improvement actions on outcomes for children."

Internal evaluation emerging; systematic monitoring and impact evaluation need strengthening.

Source: Education Review Office review of In Our Garden dated 2026-02-17, 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 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.

Composite score

How this is computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where In Our Garden 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.

64 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
Wellbeing
20%
Grade B · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
70
Health & Safety
20%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
66
est
Leadership
15%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
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

920 Francis Hicks Avenue, Raureka. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is In Our Garden a free kindergarten?
In Our Garden is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at In Our Garden?
25 children attend In Our Garden (roll year 2025).
Where is In Our Garden?
920 Francis Hicks Avenue Raureka Hastings District

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Nearby & related

Busy Bees Hastings 0.3 km
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Sunnyside Early Learning Centre 0.6 km
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Te Kōhanga Reo o Tauparanui Ki Heretaunga 0.7 km
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Sources & verification

Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:

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)
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.