Enrolment Information

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Enrolment Process

In accordance with Section 11 of the Education Act 1989, Howick Intermediate School has an Enrolment Scheme.
The purpose of an enrolment scheme is:

• to avoid overcrowding or the likelihood of overcrowding at the school;
• to ensure that the selection of applicants for enrolment at the school is carried out in a fair and transparent manner; and
• to enable the Secretary to make the best use of existing networks of State schools.

Please see attached list of streets in our home zone.

Howick Intermediate School Zone

In-Zone Enrolment

Enrolment forms and information for the 2020 school year will be available from June 2019. We distribute enrolment packs to our local contributing schools in August when our Principal visits the Year 6 students. Our local contributing schools are Botany Downs Primary, Cockle Bay Primary, Howick Primary, Macleans Primary, Mellons Bay Primary, Owairoa Primary and Willowbank Primary.

You may also collect an enrolment pack from our office from June or download and print the enrolment form:

Click here to download the enrolment form

All in zone applications are guaranteed enrolment at our school, provided you live in our home zone and can provide the required supporting documents.

Supporting Documents for In-Zone Enrolment

Please ensure you provide the following documents with your completed enrolment form:

• Proof of address – this must be your current electricity account. This can be printed from your email if you do not receive one in the post. (If the electricity account is not in a main caregiver's name, you may be able to provide as a substitute: a rates account, official tenancy agreement or a telephone account as well as completing a Statutory Declaration if required)
• Copy of the student’s birth certificate if born in New Zealand or
• If not born in New Zealand, the student’s original passport and a parent's passport. This must be sighted and copied in the school office. You must also have current residency or student visa if applicable.
• The most recent school report.

Enrolment applications cannot be accepted unless all documentation has been supplied with the completed and signed enrolment form. We may also request further documentation to support your application.

Out of Zone Enrolments

Applications for out of zone applications are accepted in June for available places in the following school year. 

Applications for 2020 will be open from June 2019. Enrolment forms will be available from the school office or you can download an enrolment form from the website.

If we receive more enrolment applications than we have spaces available, selection will be made according to a ballot process determined by Ministry of Education guidelines.

Click here to download the enrolment form

 The order of priority is as follows:

• First priority must be given to any applicant who is accepted for enrolment in a special programme run by the school. (Not currently applicable to Howick Intermediate)
• Second priority must be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the school.
• Third priority must be given to any student who is the sibling of a former student of the school.
• 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.

Supporting Documents for Out of Zone Enrolments

Please ensure you provide the following documents with your completed enrolment form:

• Copy of the student’s birth certificate if born in New Zealand or
• If not born in New Zealand, the student’s original passport and a parent's passport. This must be sighted and copied in the school office. You must also have current residency or student visa if applicable.
• The most recent school report.

Enrolment applications cannot be accepted unless all documentation has been supplied with the completed and signed enrolment form. We may also request further documentation to support your application. 

Annual Enrolment Procedure

Term 3

• August - Our Principal, Deputy Principal and School Councillors visit our main contributing schools and enrolment packs are distributed. We welcome applications for in-zone and out of zone students.
• August - Open Day
• September - Out of Zone applications close
• September - Ballot for out of zone spaces is conducted if necessary. Applicants are notified.

Term 4

• November - Orientation visits for our year 6 students enrolled to attend Howick Intermediate. New parent information evening.  

Important Dates 

Applications for 2020 open: June 2019                                               

Visits to contributing schools:

Mellons Bay Primary:          Monday 29 July
Howick Primary:                    Tuesday 30 July
Owairoa Primary:                  Thursday 1 August
Botany Downs Primary:    Thursday 1 August
Macleans Primary:                Friday 2 August
Cockle Bay Primary:             Monday 5 August
Willowbank Primary:           Monday 5 August

Open Day: Thursday 8 August, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Out of Zone enrolments close: Wednesday 4 September, 4:00pm

Out of Zone ballot drawn: Wednesday 11 September

Out of Zone ballot result notification: Friday 13 September

Year 6 Orientation Visits: Wednesday 6 November 2019                        

New Parent Information Evening: Wednesday 6 November 2019, 7:00pm    

2019 Term Dates

Term 1: Monday 4 February - Friday 12 April
Term 2: Monday 29 April - Friday 5 July
Term 3: Monday 22 July - Friday 27 September
Term 4: Monday 14 October - Wednesday 18 December