Wild Things (Four)
Home-based
31 Police Street, Dunedin Central · Dunedin City
ERO assessed Wild Things (Four) as Not well placed in January 2019. Our analysis of the ERO report found strong performance across curriculum and learning (A), children's wellbeing (A), whānau partnership (A), health and safety (A), and leadership and governance (A), with bicultural practice graded B and identified as an area for continued development.
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
ERO Review · 2019-01-28
This review predates ERO's current 4-point placement scale (introduced 2020). The overall judgement is omitted; the per-dimension grades below are extracted from the review prose and remain comparable.
"Children's learning is enriched by a broad and responsive curriculum. They are provided with many opportunities for authentic, play-based and child-led learning in the home settings, playgroups and within the community."
Broad, responsive, authentic play-based curriculum with strong child-led learning opportunities.
"Children learn in secure and caring home settings. Their wellbeing is greatly enhanced due to the small group size where they are able to form close and enduring relationships with their educators."
Children thrive in secure settings with strong relationships and enhanced sense of belonging.
"Respectful relationships with whānau/family are fostered. This enables educators to sensitively respond to parents' wishes, when planning, assessing and evaluating their children's learning."
Strong respectful relationships with families; responsive to parent wishes in planning and assessment.
"The owner and visiting teachers are highly committed to valuing children's language, culture and identity. This work, along with strengthened bicultural practices have been identified as an ongoing focus for the organisation."
Committed to valuing culture and identity; strengthened bicultural practices identified as ongoing focus.
"Wild Things (Four) has effective systems for implementing and monitoring health and safety in educators' homes."
Effective systems for implementing and monitoring health and safety in home-based settings.
"The service provider provides strong strategic and collaborative leadership to the organisation. She and visiting teachers have clear roles and responsibilities. They have clear and high expectations of educators."
Strong strategic collaborative leadership with clear roles, high expectations, and improvement focus.
Source: Education Review Office review of Wild Things (Four) dated 2019-01-28, 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 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
31 Police Street, Dunedin Central. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · Brand-teal pin = this centre, 800m radius shown
Frequently asked
- Is Wild Things (Four) a free kindergarten?
- Wild Things (Four) is a Home-based service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
- What's the roll at Wild Things (Four)?
- 50 children attend Wild Things (Four) (roll year 2025).
- Where is Wild Things (Four)?
- 31 Police Street Dunedin Central Dunedin City
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Sources & verification
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- Centre identity, contact, roll, ethnicity, 20 Hours ECE flag: MoE ECE Directory record (Service #80070) ↗ · 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
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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
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