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Entry to School:

Purpose:

To have in place a set of procedures to be followed as policy when a child enters and is enrolled at school.
To ensure a consistent procedure is taken for the entry of all children.

New Entrant Enrolment:

No child may be enrolled before their fifth birthday. Children must be enrolled by their sixth birthday. Induction visits are encouraged (visits are available to parents prior to enrolment).

Initial contact needs to be made with the Principal 4 weeks before the child turns five years.

Induction visits well then be arranged through the New Entrant Teacher. Please note - parents must be at school during all induction visits.

Parents must enrol their child on their first day of school. The child's;

Birth Certificate or passport is required as verification of the date of birth
Immunisation Certificate is required
Information re Iwi affiliation is required
An enrolment form will be completed at the time of enrolment with details such as; Child's names, Date of Birth, Caregivers name etc and Emergency Contacts.

Parents will receive an information booklet about Lepperton School, and a starting school kit outlying Room 6 programmes when initial contact with the principal is made.

After one month at school a new entrant checklist will be undertaken. This will give us an indication of early characteristics in; motor skills, expressive language, understanding of language and behaviour patterns.

Enrolment from Another School:

Parents are expected to enrol their child/children on their first day school.
An enrolment form as outlined above will be filled out.
A school information booklet will be given to the new family.

The Principal will request the child's records form the previous school. Parents are to have available; address and phone number of past school

Special Needs:

The school will enrol children with special needs but attendance is accepted after consultation with Group Special Education to ensure that the child's requirements can be met (refer to Children with Special Needs Policy).

Procedures for induction visits, enrolment and information booklet will follow as outlined above in New Entrant Enrolment.

Conclusion

These procedures should ensure that staff and parents have the information required to enter school effortlessly.

Lepperton School Enrolment Scheme

Over the last few years the Board of Trustees and the staff have worked hard to make Lepperton a high performing school. The success of this work and effort is to be seen in the steady increase in enrolments we have experienced. This increase in enrolments has also been helped by the fact that more houses are being built at Lepperton, bringing in more families and consequently more children.

As a percentage of our roll comes from outside what the MOE would describe as our home zone they will not supply us with an extra classrooms to absorb any growth in numbers. The MOE's answer is to require the implementation of an enrolment scheme which has the objective of controlling what is seen as overcrowding at the school and also of making the best use of the network of State Schools in the area.

The key features of an enrolment scheme are as follows;

Each scheme must contain a home zone with clearly defined geographic boundaries.

Students who live in the home zone have an absolute right to enrol at the school.

Out of zone students who apply for enrolment must be accepted in the following order of Priority:

Students accepted for a special programme run by the school.
Siblings of current students
Siblings of former students
Children of Board employees
All other students

(Do note that out of zone students can only be enrolled if there are places available)

All students who live within the home zone described below shall be entitled to be enrolled at Lepperton School.

The zone includes homes on these roads and on the roads that are within the area defined by these boundaries;

Kelly Road

Ackworth Road

Te Arei Road East to the junction of Kelly Road

Kairau Road East to Rural Rapid Number 78

Richmond Road to Rural Rapid Number 1180

Wortley Road to Rural Rapid Number 651

Mountain Road to Rural Rapid Number 1265

Devon Road from Rural Rapid Number 1237 to the intersection of Richmond Road

Te Arei Road West

Ninia Road to the junction with Corbett Road

Corbett Road from the junction of Ninia Road to the Junction of Manutahi Road

Manutahi Road from Mountain Road to the junction with Lower King Road

Lower King Road

Upland Road to Rural Rapid Number 500

Awai Road

Hursthouse Road to Rural Rapid Number 350