Enrolment

Online Enrolment Form

Home zone enrolments

If you live within the home zone, you’re entitled to enrol your child at Highfield School.

HIGHFIELD SCHOOL (3373)
Enrolment Scheme
Amendment Commencing 25 July 2022
Home Zone
All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the
school.
Starting from the intersection of Pukatea Street and Konini Street the home zone follows:

  • North on Konini Street until Wai–iti Road (391 and 388 Wai–iti Road included in zone)
  • East on Wai–iti Road until Mountain View Road
  • North on Mountain View Road until Benmore Street
  • East on Benmore Street until Morgans Road (including Monowai Place, Roxburgh Street,
    Aviemore Street, and Waitaki Street)
  • North on Morgans Road until Pages Road (including Dunvegan Close, Windsor Street, Lincoln
    Street, Edinburgh Street, Nikau Close and Cardiff Street)
  • East on Pages Road until Glamis Street (including Alpine Close and Lochern Rise)
  • South on Glamis Street until Lindsay Street
  • East on Lindsay Street until Balmoral Street (43 and 48 Lindsay Street included in the zone)
  • From the intersection of Lindsay and Balmoral Street around the Western side of Highfield Golf Course up to and including 131 Douglas Street
  • West on Douglas Street until Lindus Street
  • South on Lindus Street until Orbell Street
  • East on Orbell Street until Kitchener Square
  • East around Kitchener Square until Craighead Street
  • South along Craighead Street until Wrights Avenue
  • East on Wrights Avenue until Sealy Street
  • South on Sealy Street until Wai–iti Road
  • West on Wai–iti Road until Kiwi Drive
  • South on Kiwi Drive until Otipua Road
  • South–East on Otipua Road until Maltby Avenue (including 252 and 252A Otipua Road)
  • From 252 Otipua Road, the zone boundary follows west along the Southern boundary of 252 and 252A Otipua Road and continues west to the Otipua Creek North Branch
    • West along the Otipua Creek North Branch until the Creek comes to the end of Konini Street (31 Konini Street – all addresses on Konini Street are included). Addresses on both sides of boundary roads are considered in–zone unless specified otherwise.

 

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.

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Out-of-zone enrolments

Each year, we’ll announce how many places we have available in the following school year for children who live outside the home zone. We’ll publish this in the newspaper that’s local to Highfield along with information on how and when you can enrol your child.

Out of Zone Enrolments
Applications for enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:
1. First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the Special
Programme (Te Whare Maru) run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education.
2. Second priority must be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the
school.
3. Third priority must be given to any student who is the sibling of a former student of the school.
4. Fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is the child of a former student of the school.
5. Fifth priority must be given to any applicant who is a child of an employee of the school’s board
or a child of a member of the school’s board.
6. Sixth priority must be given to all other applicants.
Before the application deadline associated with each pre–enrolment period, a Board must, by public
notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school:
• confirm the already advertised dates for the receipt of applications and for the holding of the
ballot.
• state the likely number of out of zone places that remain available.
If there are more applicants in any priority group than there are places available, selection within the
priority group will be by ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary, under
Schedule 20, Clause 3 (1) of the Education and Training Act 2020. Parents will be informed of the date
of any ballot by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school.
Applicants may be required to give proof of address or sibling relationship.

Te Whare Maru enrolments

To be eligible for our special programme, Te Whare Maru, your child must be verified for the On-going Resourcing Scheme.

Each year of each year, we’ll announce how many places we have available on Te Whare Maru for the following school year. We’ll publish this in the newspaper that’s local to Highfield along with information on how and when you can enrol your child.

Highfield School operates ‘Te Whare Maru’ which is a special programme for up to 14 learners with multiple disabilities, verified for the On–going Resourcing Scheme.
Te Whare Maru students are included, wherever possible, into mainstream classes and are involved in the social life of the school. Students have access to all the school’s facilities and resources e.g. library,
swimming pool, playgrounds etc.

To be eligible for enrolment into Te Whare Maru, a student must be verified for ORS.
Each year the Board will identify the number of out of zone spaces available in Te Whare Maru for the following year. If there are places available, the Board will publish information by way of a notice in the community newspapers and on the school website. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which applications must be received.
If there are more applicants than there are places available, places will be allocated in priority order.

Places will be allocated to students in the following order:

  • Those who are already enrolled at the school (outside the special programme)
  • Those who have a sibling currently attending Highfield School
  • All other applicants

Where there are more applicants than spaces, selection within that priority will be by ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary under Schedule 20, Clause 3 (1) of the Education and Training Act 2020 (as described below). The ballot will also establish the waiting list for
vacancies.
Applications for Te Whare Maru can be made by contacting the school office.

FAQs

Complete this online enrolment form

Pick one up from the school office or request one by calling us during school hours on 03 686 1419 or emailing: office@highfield.school.nz.

Once complete, just hand it back to us at the office.

Your child can start at Highfield School on their fifth birthday. However, we recommend enrolling them well ahead of this; that way, they’ll have time to visit us and get comfortable with their surrounds before their first day.

Give Nicola Casey-Newton a call at the Office on 03 686 1419. She’ll schedule a time for you and your child to come for a school tour with our Principal, Amy Logavatu.
At this meeting, you’ll get a chance to see our learning environment, talk to some of our teachers, and get answers to any questions you might have. If you can, bring the completed enrolment forms with you. But if not, don’t worry – we’ll give you an enrolment pack with everything you need.

Before your child’s first day with us, we’ll need the completed enrolment form along with a copy of their birth certificate (if they are new to the school), their immunisation certificate, and their passport with valid visas, if applicable.