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Little Monkeys Learning Centre

Education & Care

📞 06-3546061 ✉ Email centre

35 Newbury Street, Awapuni · Palmerston North City

Total roll
30
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
50113

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 · 2025-05-30

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
↓D
"A curriculum that provides opportunities for all children to be confident in their own culture is not evident."

Non-compliance: curriculum does not support children's cultural confidence.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
B
"Positive steps are taken to respect and acknowledge the aspirations held by parents."

Parent aspirations respected; responsive to family engagement.

Bicultural practice
D
"A curriculum that provides opportunities for all children to be confident in their own culture is not evident."

Non-compliance: lacks cultural confidence curriculum despite majority Māori roll.

Health & safety
→B
"Health and safetyMeeting"

Regulatory standard met; one prior non-compliance now addressed.

Leadership & governance
↓C
"The service has a history of compliance concerns reported by ERO."

History of compliance concerns; developing management systems.

Source: Education Review Office review of Little Monkeys Learning Centre dated 2025-05-30, 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 Little Monkeys Learning Centre 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.

53 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2425)
25
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
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 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

35 Newbury Street, Awapuni. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Little Monkeys Learning Centre a free kindergarten?
Little Monkeys Learning Centre is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Little Monkeys Learning Centre?
30 children attend Little Monkeys Learning Centre (roll year 2025).
Where is Little Monkeys Learning Centre?
35 Newbury Street Awapuni Palmerston North City

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Sources & verification

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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.