Rockdale Park Kindergarten
Kindergarten
18 Farrar Street, Heidelberg · Invercargill City
ERO assessed Rockdale Park Kindergarten as Not well placed in its January 2019 review. Our analysis of the ERO report identified strong performance in curriculum and learning, children's wellbeing, and bicultural practice, with sound health and safety systems and leadership evident. Areas for development included governance information systems.
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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
ERO Review · 2019-01-31
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.
"The curriculum is well designed and implemented. It is strongly focused on children's rights, interests and growing complexity of learning. The learning environment is challenging, focused, well thought out, and clearly shows the learning that matters in the kindergarten."
Well-designed curriculum with intentional teaching and strong assessment practices.
"Transitions into and from the kindergarten are very well managed and appropriately meet the needs of children and their families/whānau. Teachers deliberately provide opportunities for children to be independent and to develop social and emotional competence."
Strong transitions and social-emotional development support evident throughout.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"The curriculum reflects the bicultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. This enables children, and especially Māori children, to understand the significance of Māori as tangata whenua through the inclusion of te reo and te ao Māori world views. There are authentic partnerships with whānau Māori and a genuine commitment from teachers to strengthen and improve their own bicultural practices."
Te reo Māori and tikanga integrated; authentic partnerships with whānau Māori established.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Legal requirements met; assurance statement completed on health and safety systems.
"There are very strong leadership practices in the kindergarten. The head teacher and teachers work as a cohesive team. They deeply inquire into aspects of their practice to bring about improvements for the benefit of children. Teachers use internal evaluation processes well to know what is working well and what needs further development."
Strong kindergarten leadership with effective internal evaluation; board needs improved information systems.
Source: Education Review Office review of Rockdale Park Kindergarten dated 2019-01-31, 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 Rockdale Park Kindergarten 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
18 Farrar Street, Heidelberg. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
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Frequently asked
- Is Rockdale Park Kindergarten a free kindergarten?
- Rockdale Park Kindergarten is a Free Kindergarten. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds — you may also be eligible for FamilyBoost and Childcare Subsidy.
- What's the roll at Rockdale Park Kindergarten?
- 37 children attend Rockdale Park Kindergarten (roll year 2025).
- Where is Rockdale Park Kindergarten?
- 18 Farrar Street Heidelberg Invercargill City
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #5626) ↗ · 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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