Four of the six playcentres in Marlborough need to focus on long-term strategies and evaluation, according to Education Review Office reports.
Two of them have also been told to include more te reo Maori into lessons.
Blenheim, Awatere, Renwick and Picton playcentres, which make up four of the six centres in the Marlborough Playcentre Association, received largely positive reviews from the review office team.
The Linkwater centre is a licensed playgroup and does not require an Education Review Office (ERO) report and the Spring Creek centre has just been licensed so has not yet been reviewed.
Each of the four centres was reviewed individually and all were praised for positive learning environments and respectful and nurturing relationships between adults and children.
But the reports say te reo Maori should be more widely used in the Blenheim and Picton playcentres, while at the Awatere and Renwick centres this was considered to be a strength.
Marlborough Playcentre Association centre support officer Ali Robins said some of the centres had more Maori adults than others.
A visit to Waikawa Marae was planned for later this month for all six playcentres.
The association would also look at more Maori resources, hiring part-time te reo Maori speakers who would visit each centre and had applied for a grant to support more marae visits, Mrs Robins said.
ERO recognised the strong commitment adults had to the playcentres, especially in Renwick.
Children took part in activities, but more work was needed on evaluating the effects of those activities, all the reports said.
The Picton playcentre had to work on developing its long-term planning, ERO found.
Mrs Robins said most evaluation happened on the spot with the children and was not usually well-documented.
Adults would usually see something a child had seen or done and would ask them more questions about it then rather than writing it down later, she said.
The playcentres have had professional development training to find different ways to document what the children were learning, she said. "They [ERO] just want more paperwork, really."
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