Nurtured at Home Bay (2)
Home-based
103A Fifteenth Avenue, Tauranga South · Tauranga City
ERO assessed this home-based service as Not well placed in April 2018. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strengths in children's wellbeing and leadership, with B grades in both areas. However, curriculum and learning, whānau partnership, and bicultural practice all received C grades, indicating areas requiring development.
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Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
Nurtured at Home Cultural & rohe
ERO review
ERO Review · 2018-04-17
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.
"A next step for the service is to strengthen the intentional planning, assessment and documentation of children's learning. Visiting teachers and educators need to ensure planning adds complexity and interest to meet the needs of all children's learning."
Intentional planning and assessment need strengthening; complexity for all learners lacking.
"Children up to the age of two years, experience respectful, nurturing interactions during care moments such as feeding and nappy changes. Records show that care routines are responsive to the individual needs and rhythms of children. Babies benefit from the calm and unhurried practice of familiar and trusted educators. These interactions effectively promote their wellbeing and belonging."
Strong nurturing care and belonging for young children; responsive to individual needs.
"They need to enhance the learning partnership with families in relation to their child's programme."
Family partnerships in learning programmes need enhancement and development.
"The service recognises the need to continue to develop and implement a local, bicultural curriculum and embed practices that reflect the cultural values of Māori whānau and families and promote success for Māori children."
Bicultural curriculum and practices still developing; not yet fully embedded.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Leadership models reflective practice, and places a high priority on establishing meaningful, respectful relationships throughout the network. They take additional responsibilities for overseeing self-review practices for the organisation nationally. Leadership is collaborative and collegial."
Collaborative leadership with reflective practice; self-review oversight in place.
Source: Education Review Office review of Nurtured at Home Bay (2) dated 2018-04-17, 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).
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Nurtured at Home Bay (2) 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
103A Fifteenth Avenue, Tauranga South. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Nurtured at Home Bay (2) a free kindergarten?
- Nurtured at Home Bay (2) is a Home-based service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Nurtured at Home Bay (2)?
- 80 children attend Nurtured at Home Bay (2) (roll year 2025).
- Where is Nurtured at Home Bay (2)?
- 103A Fifteenth Avenue Tauranga South Tauranga City
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #46617) ↗ · 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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