Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way
Education & Care
3 Mataki Way, Glen Eden · Auckland - Waitākere Ranges
Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way is an education and care service in Glen Eden with a current roll of 60 children. An ERO review in December 2023 found the centre demonstrates strong relationships and wellbeing support (B grade), uses play-based learning with problem-solving (B grade), and maintains health and safety standards (B grade). Our analysis of the ERO report identified leadership and governance as an emerging area (C grade), with internal evaluation systems and teacher capability development as priorities.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
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 · 2023-12-07
"Children benefit from a play-based curriculum that promotes their independence and decision-making. Teachers use appropriate strategies to encourage children to problem-solve and experiment, individually and in groups."
Play-based curriculum with problem-solving evident; Te Whāriki understanding needs development.
"Warm, reciprocal relationships between teachers and children are evident. Transitions into, within and from the service are well considered and aim to meet the individual needs of children and whānau."
Strong relationships and well-managed transitions support children's belonging and emotional wellbeing.
"Teachers provide opportunities for children, parents and whānau to celebrate different cultures though service-wide cultural events."
Family involvement in cultural celebrations evident; broader partnership communication not explicitly evaluated.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Management assurance on legal requirements completed; no non-compliance issues noted in review.
"Systems and practices for internal evaluation have been established. Increasing the capability of all teachers to undertake service-wide evaluation for improvement is now a priority. Leaders have begun to develop the relational trust needed to support team collaboration."
Internal evaluation systems emerging; building shared understanding and teacher capability are identified priorities.
Source: Education Review Office review of Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way dated 2023-12-07, 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 2 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way 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
3 Mataki Way, Glen Eden. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way a free kindergarten?
- Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way?
- 60 children attend Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way (roll year 2025).
- Where is Our Kids Early Learning Centre - Mataki Way?
- 3 Mataki Way Glen Eden Auckland - Waitākere Ranges
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #47714) ↗ · 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
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)
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
Last build refresh: . See full methodology + data sources pages for licences, refresh cadences, and known gaps.