Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea
Education & Care
6 Tryon Street, Whakarewarewa · Rotorua District
ERO assessed this service as Not well placed in their 2017 review. Our analysis of the ERO report found B grades across all dimensions: curriculum and learning, children's wellbeing, whānau partnership, health and safety, and leadership and governance.
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
Learning Adventures Cultural & rohe
ERO review
ERO review · 2017-02-17
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.
"Earlybirds Educare - Keas curriculum is clearly defined and influenced by: a strong focus on the community and the wider world Reggio Emilia inspired programmes a mix of child-led and teacher-led responsive approaches to learning."
Well-defined curriculum with effective teaching strategies and assessment development underway.
"Children demonstrate high levels of confidence, competence and engagement in the life of the centre. They have developed strong and trusting relationships with teachers and their peers."
Children show strong confidence, engagement, and positive relationships with adults and peers.
"Teachers are developing an online portfolio system that is engaging parents and whānau as partners in their children's learning."
Active parent engagement through online portfolios and partnership in children's learning development.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Management assurance completed on legal requirements; ratios meet minimum requirements.
"Leaders and teachers have developed effective and useful systems for regular self review. The outcome of self review is informing positive changes to procedures and teaching practice, such as the environment, literacy, mathematics and teacher appraisal."
Strong self-review systems, professional learning, and strategic governance driving improvements.
Source: Education Review Office review of Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea dated 2017-02-17, 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 computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea 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
6 Tryon Street, Whakarewarewa. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea a free kindergarten?
- Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea?
- 100 children attend Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea (roll year 2025).
- Where is Learning Adventures Rotorua Kea?
- 6 Tryon Street Whakarewarewa Rotorua District
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #40336) ↗ · 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
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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
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
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