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Maungakaramea School new enrolment scheme
The Ministry of Education is establishing a new enrolment scheme for Maungakaramea School. The new scheme will come into effect for the beginning of Term 3 2025.
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Opened: 21 Oct 2024, 8:00 amCloses: 30 Nov 2024, 5:00 pm
Enrolment schemes are needed to help manage enrolments across schools. This allows boards to manage the risk of overcrowding, provides a fair and transparent process for enrolment and ensures we are making the best use of schooling facilities across the area.
School enrolment schemes in New Zealand
How school enrolment schemes work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Every child and young person in New Zealand has the right to an education. Not all schools need or have an enrolment scheme, but they are a way to help Boards of Trustees manage their school rolls so there are always places for local kids at local schools. When a school has more students than places, it’s at risk of overcrowding. Overcrowding affects the wellbeing and safety of everyone, because the learning environment and facilities can’t cope with the extra demand. Options considered to avoid overcrowding might include making changes to an enrolment scheme or putting one in place, adding new teaching spaces to a school, or building a new school. To ensure a balanced school network, Boards monitor their school rolls, and the Ministry monitors enrolments across all schools, so all students have the opportunities they need to learn and achieve. If a school has an enrolment scheme to manage the risk of overcrowding, it only accepts enrolments for the space it has. A geographic boundary called a home zone is drawn around the school. Home zones are different to zones for school transport services. If you live inside the home zone, you’re guaranteed a place at the school. If you live outside it, you can apply to enrol, but your enrolment depends on out-of-zone places being available. If there are out-of-zone places, applications go into a ballot, run by the Board. The Board advertises the number of places, application deadlines, and ballot dates. So it’s fair and transparent, applications are drawn under supervision and accepted in the order of the Education and Training Act’s six priorities – which includes siblings of current and former students. To maintain a balanced network, a home zone might need to shrink or expand as a community continues to grow and change. This means you might live near two local schools and be zoned for one, or the other, or both – or you once lived inside a zone and are now outside it. Population figures, new housing, transport or roading, and the space available in nearby schools are all considered as zone proposals are developed. If a change is needed, consultation is led by the Ministry of Education to gather the community’s views and explore options. This feedback informs the Ministry’s decisions. When making decisions, the Ministry always looks at what’s best for all local kids, and all local schools. Enrolment schemes ensure a balanced school network, with places and opportunities that strengthen wellbeing and learning – for every child and young person." For more information, visit www.education.govt.nz
Kaupapa whakauru
He mōhiohio mā ngā whānau me te hapori ā-kura
E mahi ana te Poari ki Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga hei whakatū i tā mātou Kaupapa Whakauru.
He rite tonu te aroturuki a Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga i te pikinga taupori, ngā āhua whakauru, me ngā panoni rārangi kura ā muri ake puta noa i Tai Tokerau. Hei wāhanga o tēnei mahi aroturuki, e whakapono ana te Manatū ināianei he mea waiwai tētahi kaupapa whakauru mō tō mātou kura Maungakaramea School.
Ko ngā ākonga katoa kua whakaurua kētia, e haere ana ki tō mātou kura kāore e pāngia e te panoni, ā, ka āhei te haere tonu ki te kura ahakoa kei hea e noho ana i tēnei wā.
Mā te kaupapa whakauru hou/panoni e:
whakarite kia whai ara matatika, mārama hoki mātou hei whakahaere i te rārangi ā-kura
whai i tētahi takiwā kāinga matawhenua. Ko ngā tamariki e noho ana ki roto i te takiwā kāinga matawhenua ka āhei te whakauru ki te kura.
He nui ngā mōhiohio ka kitea mō ngā kaupapa whakauru ki te pae tukutuku a te Tāhuhu, tae atu ki ngā pātai auau mā ngā whānau me te hapori.
Ina whakawhanake ana, panoni ana rānei i tētahi kaupapa whakauru, me mātua akoako te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga ki te Poari o te kura, me te mahi i ngā mahi tika kia mārama ki ngā whakaaro o te hapori pātata.
Help us understand
Enrolment schemes mean all families will have entitlement to attend a school that is reasonably convenient to them, but won’t have the same automatic entitlement to enrol at Maungakaramea School.
Important
Students already enrolled at a school before a home zone is implemented or changed are entitled to stay at their current school.
It is important that we hear and understand community perspectives before we establish these new schemes – especially the practical implication and whether the new boundaries accurately reflect the area. Please have a look at the maps and overview information available below before you participate in the consultation process.
Maungakaramea School proposed enrolment scheme map
The map shows the proposed enrolment scheme for Maungakaramea school. The zone starts at Maungakaramea School and travels west along Tangihua Road. It follows Tangihua Road to the right then turns right onto Codlin Road. All Tangihua addresses are included in-zone as are addresses on O’Carroll Road, Maddendale Place, and Crawford Road. The zone follows Codlin Road to the intersection with Otuhi Road to include addresses on both sides of the intersection from 430-748 Otuhi Road. The zone ends here and turns back down Codlin Road and left onto Tangihua Road.
Travelling east on Tangihua Road, the zone turns left at Bint Road, then right onto Porter Road, including Porter Road addresses to the left of the intersection as well. The zone follows Porter Road east up to the intersection with Snooks Road, then turns left onto Snooks Road to include addresses up to and including Wahakukopu Road. The zone turns back to the Porter Road/Snooks Road intersection and continues east on Snooks Road. Curd Road and Old School Road addresses are in-zone. The zone turns left onto Maungakaramea Road and follows it as far east as 345 Maungakaramea Road/the intersection with Keays Access. Addresses on Keays Access, Kendall Road, Marshville Road, and Glenn Road are in-zone.
The zone ends here and turns back west along Maungakaramea Road, then left onto Ormandy Road. Addresses on Purvis Road and Panekaira Road are included in-zone. The zone turns right at Mangapai Road and travels west to the intersection with Hayward Road, including addresses from 320 to 693 Mangapai Road. Note that addresses on McAlister Road are not in-zone, while addresses on Thompson Road are in-zone. The zone turns right onto Hayward Road, left onto Maungakaramea Road, and left onto Tauraroa Road. Stonehaven Drive, Meadowstone Lane, and Vera Heights addresses are in-zone. The zone travels up to the intersection with Bercich Road (not included in-zone). The zone ends here and turns back up Tauraroa Road, left onto Maungakaramea Road, and returns to Maungakaramea School.
This consultation process is about enrolment schemes, which determines the entitlement to enrol. It is important to note that a student’s eligibility to enrol may be different to their eligibility for school transport assistance.
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