GLENDOWIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
ENROLMENT SCHEME
Effective
from January 2005
Purpose:
The purpose of the enrolment
scheme is:
a)
to avoid overcrowding or the likelihood of overcrowding at the school;
b)
to ensure that the selection of applicants for enrolment at the school is
carried
out in a fair and transparent manner, and
c)
to enable the Secretary to make the best use of existing networks of
State
schools.
1. Glendowie School will
provide a full primary school education (years 1-8)
for
the children of the local community. The
enrolment scheme defines this
community
by designating a geographical zone and for the children living in
this
zone, this school is deemed to be reasonably convenient.
2. The Board of Trustees
will accept all pupils who apply for enrolment who
are
resident within the school zone.
3. Glendowie Primary
School operates a special programme for Montessori.
For
the criteria for enrolment please see the attached.
Review
This enrolment scheme will
remain in operation unless directed by the Secretary of Education who is able to
give instruction to amend or abandon the scheme.
Under
Section (11PA) of the Education Act, the Board will review the enrolment scheme
before the 1st May each year.
All
students who live within the home zone described below (and shown on the
attached map) shall be entitled to enrol at the school.
Commencing to the east fixed by
extending a straight line from and including 234 on one side and 327 on the
other side of Riddell Road to the sea called the northeast boundary point and
then running south along the coast line, bordering Tahuna Torea and down to
Tahaki Road. The zone would then run along both sides of West Tamaki Road as far
as the intersection of West Tamaki Road and Taniwha Street, including 250 and
greater and 227 and greater. The
zone then proceeds northwest to the corner of Mt. Taylor Drive and Crossfield
Road, then southwest to include all of Esperance Road. From Esperance Road the
zone progresses through to Modena Crescent, Emerson Street and Florida Place,
including Ashby Avenue numbers 52-60 and 59-67 only. The Zone proceeds east along Mt. Taylor Drive, turning left
along Wendover Road (down to 51 and 52 inclusive) to the corner of
Monterey Street. It will include Monterey Street, Pembroke Crescent
and Granada Place. Back
along Mt. Taylor Drive, turn left into Crossfield Road, then west along Riddell
Road down to number 52 and 77, including Bryant Place. Off Riddell Road, go
north along Rochdale Ave, then turn northwest into Chesterfield Ave. including
23-33 and 28-34. Continue northeast
along Robley Crescent, then left into Whitehaven Road. Proceed north along
Forfar Road (all of), then east into Chelmsford Ave, until it meets Riddell Road
where it will finish at 234 and 327. All
streets within this boundary are part of the Glendowie Primary Geographic Zone.
Proof
of residence within the home zone will be required.
Each
year, applications for enrolment in the following year from in-zone students
will be sought by a date which will be published in a daily or community
newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.
This will enable the Board to assess the number of places which can be
made available to students who live outside the home zone.
Special
Programmes
The school operates the
following special programme: MONTESSORI
Students
who live within the school’s home zone and meet the criteria for enrolment in
the special programme will be enrolled ahead of out-of-zone students.
The
criteria for acceptance into the programme are as attached:
Out-of-Zone
Enrolments
Each year the Board will
determine the number of places which are 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.
Applications for enrolment 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 programme run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education: Montessori programme.
Second Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.
Third Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of former students
Fourth Priority will be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school
Fifth Priority will be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the board of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school
Sixth Priority will be given to all other applicants
If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth priority groups than there are places available , selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued 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, third or fourth priority will be required to give proof of the relationship under the priority classification.
Schedule “A” (For any families who were in zone during 2004 and whose street was then excluded from the new 2005 Enrolment Scheme)
“ The properties described in Schedule “A” shall be deemed to form part of the home zone, provided a child residing at that address has a sibling who attended the school in 2004, and a sibling currently attends the school. When the family living in the address in 2004 ceases residing at that address, the property shall cease to be part of the home zone”