St Margaret's Pre-school
Education & Care
12 Winchester Street, Merivale · Christchurch City
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 · 2025-07-17
"The curriculum is strongly based on the principles and strands of Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Teachers have explored the learning outcomes from Te Whāriki and are increasingly intentional about using these in assessment for learning processes and in designing the curriculum."
Te Whāriki implementation well-established; intentional teaching emerging; assessment for learning developing.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Teachers are in the early stages of implementing a rich bicultural curriculum. They value and use some te reo Māori but do not yet have sufficient expertise to effectively engage children in daily conversations or use it meaningfully in written documentation."
Bicultural curriculum emerging; te reo Māori use limited; expertise insufficient for daily implementation.
"There are effective processes and procedures to guide the operations of the service. These help to enable the learning and well-being of the children."
Effective operational processes and procedures supporting health and wellbeing.
"Leaders are improvement focused and use self-review to make changes as required. All teachers are growing their capability to do and use effective internal evaluation with the newly introduced internal evaluation process."
Improvement focus and self-review evident; internal evaluation processes newly introduced and developing.
Source: Education Review Office review of St Margaret's Pre-school dated 2025-07-17, 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). · Centre has 3 individual reviews on file — showing most recent.
Composite score
How this is computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where St Margaret's 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.
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
12 Winchester Street, Merivale. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is St Margaret's Pre-school a free kindergarten?
- St Margaret's Pre-school is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at St Margaret's Pre-school?
- 50 children attend St Margaret's Pre-school (roll year 2025).
- Where is St Margaret's Pre-school?
- 12 Winchester Street Merivale Christchurch City
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Sources & verification
Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:
- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #46761) ↗ · 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.