Wakefield Playcentre
Playcentre
Treeton Place, Wakefield · Tasman 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
"The daily programme is largely child led with adults providing activities to provoke interest, new ideas and investigation. Children's choices, creativity and self-expression are valued and encouraged. Aspects of literacy, mathematics and science are introduced in play-based ways."
Child-led, well-organized learning experiences; literacy, maths, science integrated effectively.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"However, all parents' active involvement is expected and strongly encouraged. To strengthen assessment the CSW and session facilitators should prioritise: supporting parents to identify, respond to and record their children's learning facilitating and recording children's progress over time acknowledgement of te ao Māori in children's profile books response to parents' aspirations for their children's learning."
Parent involvement encouraged but assessment partnership needs strengthening; parent-recorded learning emerging.
"Members agree that the organisations acknowledgement of the importance of bicultural partnership has yet to be adequately reflected in centre practice. This should remain a strategic priority for the new organisation."
Bicultural practice recognized as important but not yet adequately reflected in practice.
"To improve current practice, the service provider should ensure that the centre has a complete set of up-to-date policy guidelines which members are supported to implement. Currently hazard and emergency management practices, risk assessment for excursions, and the administration of medication process do not match all the requirements of the new policies. In addition, the following need attention: clarify police vetting requirements for centre administration personnel ensure the impact surfacing under children's swings is kept at the required depth."
Policies outdated; hazard management, medication, excursion risk assessment and vetting need attention.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Source: Education Review Office review of Wakefield 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 computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Wakefield 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.
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
Treeton Place, Wakefield. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Wakefield Playcentre a free kindergarten?
- Wakefield Playcentre is a Playcentre service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Wakefield Playcentre?
- 30 children attend Wakefield Playcentre (roll year 2025).
- Where is Wakefield Playcentre?
- Treeton Place Wakefield Tasman 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 #65111) ↗ · 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.