Enrolments

School Tours

We encourage you to visit our school and take a tour.

Tours are on the first Thursday of each month from 9-10am. We look forward to meeting you. Please either phone or email the school office to make a booking preferable at leat one week before.

Our office email is: office@richmondroad.school.nz

Scroll down for more information about enrolling in and out of zone, special programme applications and documents needed to enrol.

Zoning

To confirm whether you live in zone, visit nzschools.tki.org.nz and search using your home address.

Enrolment at Richmond Road School is governed by an enrolment scheme approved by the Ministry of Education. The enrolment scheme details our school’s ‘home zone’, and all students living in the ‘home zone’ detailed below are entitled to enrol at the school on the general roll (or Kiwi Connection / English Unit) at any time. However, living within the ‘home zone’ does not guarantee a place in the school’s Special Programmes.

If you would like your child to enrol in one of our bilingual units/ ‘Special Programmes’, please complete the application/enrolment form in the September of the year prior to your child starting school.  Applications must be received by 3pm, date to be confirmed for 2019 for your child to be included in the main enrolment round for 2020.  Your child may be enrolled after this period if there are still spaces left in these programmes.

Parents of students who live in the home zone should apply the year before to assist the school to plan appropriately for next year. Students who live in the home zone are entitled to enrol at the school.

Out of zone enrolments: see Out of zone

Starting school

Children can start school on the day that they turn 5, or any day following.  They must start by the time they are 6 years old.

Enrolment Forms (see below)

The ‘English Enrolment’ form (for In-Zone) and the Special Programme forms (for French, Maori or Samoan) are attached below. You can email the school these forms at office@richmondroad.school.nz.

Two to three months before your child starts school, or once your child’s place in one of our special programmes has been confirmed, bring the following documents to the office:

• Birth certificate or passport;
• Immunisation history card (from Plunket book); and
• Proof of address (recent power / phone bill).

While you are at the office:

• complete the dental and hearing/vision forms;
• complete the ICT agreement. (link to document here) Click ‘open’ to create your own copy.
• confirm the date that your child will start;
• organise dates for your child’s pre-school visits (usually 2-3 during the month before starting); and
• pick up a stationery list.

Out of Zone Enrolments and Special Programmes 2020

Each year the Board will determine the number of places likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone. The Board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received.

The Board of Trustees invites applications for enrolment for all students wishing to attend Richmond Road School in 2020. Students who apply for our special programmes (bilingual units) are selected based on criteria set out in the enrolment scheme.  If the number of applicants who meet the criteria exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot.

If you require a copy of the enrolment scheme, enrolment pack or more information please contact Lisa on 376-1091.

NOTE: Please call if you are unsure as at times we may have available spaces during the year.

Priority of Applications

Applications for enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:

First Priority will be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the following special programmes run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education.

(a) Te Whanau Whariki – Maori Language Bilingual Unit

(b) Mua I Malae – Samoan Language Bilingual Unit

(c) French Unit – French Language Bilingual Unit

Second Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of current students of the school.

Third Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of former students of the school.

Fourth Priority will be given to applicants who are children of Employees of the school’s Board.

Fifth Priority will be given to all other applicants

If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth or fifth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary under Section 11G(1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.

Applicants seeking second or third priority status will be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.

Bilingual class/Special Programmes Enrolment Interviews

Before children are accepted, they must attend a special programmes enrolment interview where there will be scored regarding the following criteria:

• Proficiency of the heritage language (scored on 10 points, see the detail below)
• Sibling of current students in the programme and/or of employee of the Board working full-time in the Programme
• Sibling of a former student in the programme
• Applicants who have attended our affiliated preschool (Aoga Fa’a Samoa, Ritimana Kohanga Reo or La Petite Ecole) on a full time basis for at least the immediate preceding year.
• Applicants who have attended any other preschool with language heritage for at least the immediately preceding year and/or applicants who have lived permanently with a parent or caregiver wh is a proficient speaker of the heritage language for at least the immediately preceding year.

All the information you need should be on this website (Enrolment forms are at the bottom of the page).  If you would prefer a hard copy of the enrolment information, it is available from the school office.

For more information please contact Paola on 376-1091.