Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden
Education & Care
9 Walbrook Road, Manly · Auckland - Hibiscus and Bays
Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden is an education and care service in Manly with a current roll of 48 children. Our analysis of the ERO report from March 2022 found the centre demonstrated competent performance across all assessed dimensions: a responsive curriculum with intentional teaching; embedded te reo and tikanga with growing Māori whānau partnerships; legal health and safety compliance though monitoring consistency could strengthen; and sustained leadership with developing internal evaluation practices.
AI-generated summary of this centre's ERO review data — verify against the ERO report below. How summaries are generated.
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 · 2022-03-21
"Kaiako are embedding practices that support a responsive curriculum, which provides children with equitable opportunities to learn."
Responsive curriculum embedded; intentional teaching evident with individual scaffolding.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
Not explicitly evaluated in this review.
"Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori are evident throughout the programme. A growing partnership between Māori whānau and the service is enabling improved outcomes for Māori learners."
Te reo and tikanga embedded; growing Māori whānau partnerships improving outcomes.
"All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements."
Legal compliance attested; monitoring of regulatory requirements requires more consistency.
"Teachers benefit from a sustained mentoring and appraisal programme that holds them accountable for, and contributes to, their professional learning and teaching."
Sustained mentoring and appraisal; distributed leadership; internal evaluation developing.
Source: Education Review Office review of Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden dated 2022-03-21, 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 computedOne or more dimensions missing from ERO data
Where Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden 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
9 Walbrook Road, Manly. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden a free kindergarten?
- Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden?
- 48 children attend Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden (roll year 2025).
- Where is Walbrook Early Childhood Centre-Butterfly's Garden?
- 9 Walbrook Road Manly Auckland - Hibiscus and Bays
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #20183) ↗ · 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.