Enrolment and Zone

At Redwoodtown School our goal is to enrolment not only the child but the entire whanau. Starting school or changing schools is a big change for a child and we aim to make the process as easy as possible. We know that all children are different and require different transition plans to support them. We advise you to come and speak with us as soon as possible, meet the principal, take a tour and ask any questions you have to enable us to make this as smooth as possible.. 

Enrolment can be completed online but we encourage you to come into school to meet our team and take an enrolment pack with you, which will contain all the relevant information. 

Any online enrolment will still need to be accompanied by a copy of their birth certificate and immunisation records.

Please call our office on (03) 5785200 or email office@redwoodtown.school.nz 

All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school.

The Home Zone includes addresses on both sides of the boundary roads mentioned in the description unless otherwise stated.

Starting from the intersection of Oakwood Lane and Hospital Road, the home zone follows:

• West along the northern side of Hospital Road until Maxwell Road

• North-east along Maxwell Road until New Renwick Road

• West along New Renwick Road until Arthur Baker Place

• From the intersection of New Renwick Road and Arthur Baker Place jumps north to the southern end of Burleigh Road

  • Including Arthur Baker Place

• North-east along Burleigh Road until Mckendry Street

• West along Mckendry Street until Maxwell Road

• South-west along Maxwell Road until Alabama Road

• East along Alabama Road until Scott Street

  • Including Howick Road between Alabama Road and Litchfield Street,

  • Including Burden Street,

  • Including Weld Street between Alabama Road and Litchfield Street,

  • Including Gill Crescent,

  • And including Newbourne Crescent

• North along Scott Street until Ida Street

• East along the southern side of Ida Street until Redwood Street

• South along Redwood Street until Nikau Drive

• East along Nikau Drive until Puketea Place

  • Including Pelorus Place,

  • And including Hitaua Place

• From the intersection of Nikau Drive and Puketea Place jumps south along the eastern boundary of 165 Alabama Road to Alabama Road

• West along Alabama Road until Redwood Street

  • Including Rosewood Place

• South along Redwood Street until Hospital Road

  • Including Brooklyn Drive and all the side streets off it,

  • And including Gaylee Place.

Each year, applications for enrolment in the following year from in-zone students will be sought by a date that will be published by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school. This will enable the board to assess the number of places that can be made available to students who live outside the home zone.

Ballot Process

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

• First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the following special programme(s) run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education. This priority category is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.

• 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 board 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 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 or third priority status may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.

The enrolment of out of zone students is governed by the provisions of the education act 1989.

Special Programmes

This priority category is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a Special programme approved by the Secretary.

Additional Entitlement to Enrol (Grandparenting)

For families of currently enrolled students whose addresses become out of zone as a result of the amendment to this Enrolment Scheme.

Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 states that;

“the Secretary may authorise an enrolment scheme to permit a student to enrol at the school as if the student lived in the home zone of the school if, -

(a) in the case of an existing enrolment scheme whose home zone is amended, —

(i)    the student lives outside the amended home zone; and

(ii)  the student has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the amendment is implemented; and

(iii) the sibling, at the time that the amendment is implemented, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment; and

(iv) the student, at the time of enrolment, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment:

The Transitional arrangements (“Grandparenting”) section within the Guidelines for the development and operation of enrolment schemes for State Schools further clarifies that in order to enrol as if the student lived in the home zone:

(i)  The sibling must also still be enrolled at the school at the time that the student wants to enrol

If applying for enrolment under this part of the Enrolment Scheme, the sibling’s name and evidence of a sibling relationship may be required by the school.

Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 sets out the definition of a “sibling” for these purposes.

The school will maintain a list of students enrolled at the time of the implementation of the enrolment scheme change by the Board in order to enable determination of eligibility to enrol under this provision.

Note: That this is a very tightly defined definition. It would not apply to:

1. Children who move into the withdrawal area after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment; or

2. Children of families/whānau who move out of the old zone after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment.

Out of Zone Enrolments

Each year the School Board will determine the number of places that are likely to be available in the following enrolment period(s) for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone. The Board will publish this information by public notice in a medium appropriate to 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.

See the school office for Out of Zone Enrolment availability and application and ballot details.