Wainui Playcentre
Playcentre
60 Wairere Road, Wainui-Okitu · Gisborne District
Roll breakdown
By age
By ethnicity
Note: a child may be counted under multiple ethnicities (total may exceed roll).
Operator
Playcentre Aotearoa Cultural & rohe
ERO review
Education Review · 2025-07-17
"Planning for learning across the centre is at an early stage of development. While members are planning activities around a group focus, assessment and evaluation practices are not yet in place."
Assessment and evaluation practices not yet established; planning at early stage.
"Free play, fun, self-expression and independence are promoted. Children enjoy the learning experiences provided."
Children enjoy experiences; free play and self-expression promoted.
"The centre is not operating effectively as a parent collective."
Not operating effectively as parent collective; needs development.
"The environment and practices are developing to reflect an awareness of bicultural perspectives. There continues to be a need for commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to be more strongly acknowledged and strategically planned for at both governance and centre level."
Bicultural awareness developing; Te Tiriti commitment needs stronger strategic planning.
"ERO identified areas of non-compliance relating to health and safety, and curriculum. To meet requirements the service needs to improve its performance in the following areas: daily checking of hazards to children planning, implementing and evaluating an appropriate curriculum updating police vetting requirements ensuring excursion plans are fully implemented prior to trips out of the premises recording of emergency evacuation activities."
Non-compliance identified: hazard checks, police vetting, excursion plans, evacuation recording.
"The supervisor needs support to better manage requirements for operation and development of the learning programme for children."
Supervisor needs support; centre not operating effectively; governance development needed.
Source: Education Review Office review of Wainui 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 computedThe 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
60 Wairere Road, Wainui-Okitu. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Wainui Playcentre a free kindergarten?
- Wainui Playcentre is a Playcentre service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Wainui Playcentre?
- 25 children attend Wainui Playcentre (roll year 2025).
- Where is Wainui Playcentre?
- 60 Wairere Road Wainui-Okitu Gisborne District
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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 #55023) ↗ · 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.