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Nova Montessori Children's House

Education & Care

📞 03-3820503 🌐 Visit website ↗ ✉ Email centre

53 Owles Terrace, New Brighton · Christchurch City

Total roll
30
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
70057

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 · 2025-01-22

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
B
"The Montessori philosophy underpins the curriculum and has clear links to the principles of Te Whāriki – the early childhood curriculum."

Montessori curriculum linked to Te Whāriki with sound planning and assessment systems.

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
→B
"Since the onsite visit the service has provided ERO with evidence that shows it has addressed the following non-compliance: developing a written emergency management plan detailing roles and responsibilities that will apply during an emergency."

Health and safety standards met; emergency management plan now in place.

Leadership & governance
→B
"The service has a process of self-review to improve aspects of the curriculum and the service policies and operations."

Self-review processes in place to improve curriculum and operations.

Source: Education Review Office review of Nova Montessori Children's House dated 2025-01-22, 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 Nova Montessori Children's House 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.

70 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2425)
70
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 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

53 Owles Terrace, New Brighton. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Nova Montessori Children's House a free kindergarten?
Nova Montessori Children's House is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Nova Montessori Children's House?
30 children attend Nova Montessori Children's House (roll year 2025).
Where is Nova Montessori Children's House?
53 Owles Terrace New Brighton Christchurch City

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Nearby & related

New Brighton Community Preschool & Nursery 0.2 km
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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.