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Little Owls Preschool

Education & Care

📞 03-3862159

349 Woodham Road, Linwood · Christchurch City

Little Owls Preschool is an education and care service for 55 children in Linwood, Christchurch. Our analysis of the ERO report identified significant concerns with health and safety systems, with multiple non-compliances requiring urgent attention. Leadership and governance systems are in place to support operations.

AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.

Total roll
55
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
70035

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

Akanuku · 2025-11-20

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
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Bicultural practice
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Health & safety
↓D
"Implementation of practices relating to aspects of health and safety is not robust. Greater oversight and monitoring of health and safety procedures and practices is needed to ensure compliance with the regulatory standards and licensing criteria is maintained."

Multiple non-compliances identified; urgent attention required for health/safety systems.

Leadership & governance
B
"The SJGHT general manager and the administration services co-ordinator/manager facilities support, provide systems and processes to assist governance and management of the service."

Governance and management systems in place to support operations.

Source: Education Review Office review of Little Owls Preschool dated 2025-11-20, 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 Owls 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.

61 / 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%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
25
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
est
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Estimated from national average · near band median (n=2375)
64
est

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

349 Woodham Road, Linwood. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Little Owls Preschool a free kindergarten?
Little Owls Preschool is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Little Owls Preschool?
55 children attend Little Owls Preschool (roll year 2025).
Where is Little Owls Preschool?
349 Woodham Road Linwood Christchurch City

How much will this cost you? Use our FamilyBoost + Childcare Subsidy calculator to estimate your weekly out-of-pocket after government support.

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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.