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Waikouaiti Playcentre

Playcentre

📞 03-448 6903

6 Mcgregor Street, Waikouaiti · Dunedin City

Total roll
30
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
81042

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

Education Review · 2025-07-17

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
B
"Children enjoy and engage in a rich curriculum. They, along with their parents, have fun together as they involve themselves in a variety of planned and spontaneous activities within and beyond the centre."

Rich curriculum with planned and spontaneous activities; Te Whāriki integration identified as priority for development.

Children's wellbeing
B
"Children and adults benefit from caring, respectful relationships. The inclusive culture is very welcoming and supports the focus on building relationships within the centre and with the local community."

Strong caring relationships, inclusive culture, positive peer interactions; supportive environment established.

Whānau partnership
→B
"The parents work well as a parent collective and there are good systems for ensuring the smooth operation of the playcentre."

Effective parent collective; good operational systems; identified need to deepen assessment involvement.

Bicultural practice
C
"Waikouaiti Playcentre's strategic plan identifies its priorities, which include: strengthening their bicultural practice"

Bicultural practice acknowledged in philosophy; identified as priority area for strengthening.

Health & safety
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Leadership & governance
B
"The leadership team is improvement focused. It has a succession plan in place to ensure the smooth running of the centre over time and into the future."

Improvement-focused leadership with succession planning; identified need to strengthen internal evaluation practices.

Source: Education Review Office review of Waikouaiti Playcentre 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 computed

One or more dimensions missing from ERO data

Where Waikouaiti Playcentre 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.

67 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2425)
70
Wellbeing
20%
Grade B · bottom 10% of band (n=1871)
70
Health & Safety
20%
Estimated from national average · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
66
est
Leadership
15%
Grade B · below band median (n=2400)
70
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=1880)
70
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

6 Mcgregor Street, Waikouaiti. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is Waikouaiti Playcentre a free kindergarten?
Waikouaiti Playcentre is a Playcentre service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at Waikouaiti Playcentre?
30 children attend Waikouaiti Playcentre (roll year 2025).
Where is Waikouaiti Playcentre?
6 Mcgregor Street Waikouaiti Dunedin City

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Sources & verification

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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)
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.