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Sunny Days Community Preschool

Education & Care

130 Commercial Road, Helensville · Auckland - Rodney

ERO's November 2023 review found Sunny Days Community Preschool meets regulatory standards for health and safety, with qualified leadership and governance in place. Our analysis of the ERO report identified opportunities to strengthen whānau partnership and bicultural practice, particularly in making children's languages, cultures and identity more visible in the centre environment.

AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.

Total roll
34
2025
Under 2s
20 Hours ECE
MOE #
20067

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

Akanuku · 2023-11-16

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Children's wellbeing

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
C
"increasing the visibility of the languages, cultures and identity of individual children in the centre environment and documentation about their learning."

Next step identified to increase visibility of children's languages, cultures and identity.

Bicultural practice
C
"increasing the visibility of the languages, cultures and identity of individual children in the centre environment and documentation about their learning."

Opportunity to improve visibility of languages and cultures in centre environment.

Health & safety
B
"At the time of the review, ERO found the service was taking reasonable steps to meet regulatory standards."

Service meets regulatory standards for health and safety.

Leadership & governance
B
"The service is managed by a qualified centre manager, who leads a team of four certificated and four unqualified teachers. A committee made up of parents and community members provides governance support."

Qualified manager leads team; governance committee provides parent and community support.

Source: Education Review Office review of Sunny Days Community Preschool dated 2023-11-16, 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 Sunny Days Community Preschool 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.

66 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=2425)
71
est
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%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=1880)
50
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2375)
50

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

130 Commercial Road, Helensville. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Sunny Days Community Preschool a free kindergarten?
Sunny Days Community Preschool is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Sunny Days Community Preschool?
34 children attend Sunny Days Community Preschool (roll year 2025).
Where is Sunny Days Community Preschool?
130 Commercial Road Helensville Auckland - Rodney

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Sources & verification

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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

As of: Roll year 2025· Refresh: Nightly source · re-pulled on every deploy

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

As of: 545 centres covered· Refresh: Annual filings · re-ingested with each refresh

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

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.