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WonderKids Childcare & Preschool

Education & Care

📞 09-272 4275 ✉ Email centre

2H Torrens Road, East Tamaki · Auckland - Howick

Total roll
45
2025
Under 2s
—
20 Hours ECE
—
MOE #
46005

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 · 2025-05-14

Daycare Near Me's analysis of the ERO report — six dimensions with verbatim quotes (methodology).
Curriculum & learning
↑A
"Children learn through a play-based, responsive curriculum that is underpinned by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum."

Play-based, responsive curriculum strongly grounded in Te Whāriki.

Children's wellbeing
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Whānau partnership
↑A
"Parents and whānau who spoke with ERO were highly positive about the service."

Families highly positive; cultural knowledge from families contributes to curriculum.

Bicultural practice
↑A
"Bicultural approaches and Te Tiriti o Waitangi based practices are woven through the curriculum. Kaiako use te reo Māori in meaningful ways with children."

Te Tiriti practices woven through curriculum; meaningful te reo Māori use embedded.

Health & safety
→B
"Leaders need to monitor that all licensing requirements are consistently being met."

Systems generally sound but consistency monitoring needed for full compliance.

Leadership & governance
—

Not explicitly evaluated in this review.

Source: Education Review Office review of WonderKids Childcare & Preschool dated 2025-05-14, 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 WonderKids Childcare & Preschool 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.

79 / 100 Compared against EQI unknown
Curriculum
20%
Grade A · top quartile of band (n=2425)
90
Wellbeing
20%
Estimated from national average · top quartile of band (n=1871)
74
est
Health & Safety
20%
Grade B · bottom quartile of band (n=2319)
70
Leadership
15%
Estimated from national average · below band median (n=2400)
66
est
Whānau Partnership
12.5%
Grade A · top quartile of band (n=1880)
90
Bicultural Practice
12.5%
Grade A · top quartile of band (n=2375)
90

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

2H Torrens Road, East Tamaki. Nearby centres marked in grey — click to navigate.

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Frequently asked

Is WonderKids Childcare & Preschool a free kindergarten?
WonderKids Childcare & Preschool is a Education & Care service. 20 Hours ECE applies for 3-5 year olds at participating centres.
What's the roll at WonderKids Childcare & Preschool?
45 children attend WonderKids Childcare & Preschool (roll year 2025).
Where is WonderKids Childcare & Preschool?
2H Torrens Road East Tamaki Auckland - Howick

How much will this cost you? Use our FamilyBoost + Childcare Subsidy calculator to estimate your weekly out-of-pocket after government support.

Nearby & related

Riverhills Early Learning Centre 0.8 km
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Little Seed Early Learning Centre 1.2 km
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Sources & verification

Every fact on this page links back to its government source. Verify directly:

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.