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The Tot Spot

Education & Care

📞 07-5430822

1440 Cameron Road, Greerton · Tauranga City

The Tot Spot is an education and care service in Greerton with a current roll of 84 children. An ERO review in July 2023 identified areas for development across curriculum, whānau partnership, bicultural practice, health and safety, and leadership. Our analysis of the ERO report found grades of C across most dimensions, with a D grade for health and safety due to non-compliance with food record-keeping requirements.

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

Total roll
84
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
45904

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 · 2023-07-11

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
↓C
"Teachers are not yet intentionally using the learning outcomes from Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum."

Te Whāriki outcomes not yet integrated into intentional teaching practice.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
C
"Parents aspirations are sought, and these are beginning to be responded to."

Parent voice emerging but inconsistent follow-through on family responsiveness.

Bicultural practice
C
"Recent steps to strengthen the bicultural curriculum have not yet influenced teacher practice."

Bicultural initiatives initiated but not yet embedded in practice.

Health & safety
↓D
"ERO identified the following areas of non-compliance: keeping a record of all food served (other than food provided by parents for their own children) for three months."

Non-compliance identified with food record-keeping requirements.

Leadership & governance
C
"The new leadership structure needs time and further support to embed."

New leadership structure requires further support for effective implementation.

Source: Education Review Office review of The Tot Spot dated 2023-07-11, 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 computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where The Tot Spot 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.

50 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2425)
50
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade D · bottom 10% of band (n=2319)
25
Leadership
15%
Grade C · bottom 10% of band (n=2400)
50
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

1440 Cameron Road, Greerton. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is The Tot Spot a free kindergarten?
The Tot Spot is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at The Tot Spot?
84 children attend The Tot Spot (roll year 2025).
Where is The Tot Spot?
1440 Cameron Road Greerton Tauranga City

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Data sources & freshness (4 sources · last refresh 12 July 2026)
MoE ECE Directory

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
Charities Services

Annual financial returns (community-based + umbrella orgs)

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

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
Suburb context

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.