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Enrolment Information

How To Enrol

We are a small and friendly school where children and parents soon make friends and make the school the centre of their social activity.

We have transition visits for new entrant students to help you and your child feel confident and happy before their first day at school.

Parents of four-year-olds are encouraged to enrol early. Please feel free to contact the office to pre-enrol and/or arrange for a school tour.

We are also accepting out-of-zone enquiries for 2026, years 0-1 and 4-6 only. We have no availability in years 3 and 4.

 Acceptance is subject to availability in classrooms and year groups. 

Enrolment Zone

Home Zone

Please check if you live within the school zone.

All students who live within the home zone described below (and shown on the attached map) shall be entitled to enrol at our school.

Start at the intersection of Pigeon Mountain Road (excluded) and
Compass Point Way (included),
Travel North along Ara-Tai to meet the water.
Travel North East around the marina
Travelling North, around the Howick Golf Course.
Continue South along the foreshore to meet Macleans Road Reserve.
Travel West along the Northern boundary of the reserve and
North West along the centre of Macleans Road (excluded).
Continue along the centre of Bucklands Beach Road (all even numbers & odd numbers 3-163 included)
Then South West along the centre of Takutai Ave (odd numbers only),
Then along the centre of Argo Drive (all even numbers and odd numbers 25 and above included), back to the starting point.

Out of Zone enrolments

Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office.

Acceptance for out-of-zone students is subject to availibility in classrooms and year groups. If we have more applications than spaces, we will be required to have a ballot.
Details of ballot dates are below.

Applications close 8th October 2025 (ballot, if required, will be on 15th October 2025)

  • On the ballot date, the ballot is drawn under the supervision of a Justice of the Peace, a practising lawyer, a sworn member of the Police or a local Government returning officer.
  • Names are pulled out of the ballot. If there are more names than ballot spaces, a waiting list is created.
  • Successful families are advised by email and asked to confirm acceptance (within 7 days) in writing of the place offered.
  • Unsuccessful families are advised by email and placed on a waiting list in the number they are drawn from the ballot.
  • If successful families decline the space, or do not respond within 7 days, the place is offered to the first/next family on the waiting list.
  • First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in a special programme run by the school & approved by the Secretary of Education. Our school has no such programme.
  • Second priority must be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.
  • Third priority must be given to applicants who are siblings of former students.
  • Fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.
  • Fifth priority must be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school.
  • Sixth priority must 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 ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary for Education 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 circulation in the area served by the school.

PB4L

Our school promotes Positive Behaviour

Our school promotes Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L).  We expect all students, teachers and whanau to demonstrate our values.

We support our students to follow these four values by teaching and practising our expectations, just as we do for reading, writing, maths and other curriculum areas.

These values are supported by the golden rules of circle time:

Rewarding Positive Behaviour

There are many ways that we acknowledge and reward students for following the school wide expectations of responsibility, respect and relationships and resilience. Some of these are:

  • Gotchas
  • Whanau Tokens
  • Classroom Rewards
  • Team Certificates
  • Principal’s Awards
  • Whole School Rewards

Curriculum

The building blocks of our curriculum are Reading, Writing and Maths.


While we acknowledge that students have different starting points and progress at different rates, our aspirational goal is for all students to meet or exceed the appropriate curriculum level. We focus on achievement but place a high value on progress as well as effort.

Our teachers provide a future focussed curriculum with an emphasis on Science, Technology and Inquiry. They explore significant future-focussed issues such as sustainability, digital citizenship, enterprise and globalisation. They benefit from up to date, evidence-based teaching and learning practices.

 

Stationery

Stationery & BYOD Requirements

Stationery is available from Paper Plus in Howick. If you prefer to purchase your stationery elsewhere, please select from the stationery lists below to download and print, based on the Year level of your child(ren).