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Minnies Pre-School

Education & Care

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25 Strowan Road, Strowan · Christchurch City

Minnies Pre-School's 2024 ERO review identified effective health and safety systems meeting regulatory requirements. Our analysis of the ERO report indicates developing bicultural practice with improvement needed for deeper tikanga understanding and te reo use.

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

Total roll
42
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
70411

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 · 2024-08-16

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
→C
"Most teachers have personal goals relating to increasing their cultural confidence and capability through improving their use of te reo Māori and tikanga Māori within the curriculum."

Developing practice; improvement action needed for deeper tikanga understanding and te reo use.

Health & safety
→B
"Those responsible for governance and management ensure there are effective systems and processes to meet regulatory requirements. This includes ensuring that requirements relating to curriculum, health and safety, premises and facilities and human resources are met and maintained."

Effective systems and processes meet regulatory requirements for health and safety.

Leadership & governance
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Source: Education Review Office review of Minnies Pre-School dated 2024-08-16, 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 Minnies Pre-School 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.

68 / 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 B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Estimated from national average · below band median (n=2400)
66
est
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
est
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

25 Strowan Road, Strowan. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Minnies Pre-School a free kindergarten?
Minnies Pre-School is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Minnies Pre-School?
42 children attend Minnies Pre-School (roll year 2025).
Where is Minnies Pre-School?
25 Strowan Road Strowan Christchurch City

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Sources & verification

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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.