MAKAREWA SCHOOL ENROLMENT SCHEME - HOME ZONE

All students residing within the zone described below and depicted on the map attached will be entitled to enrol at Makarewa School.

BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION (properties on both sides of the roads are included in the home zone).

Commencing at the intersection of the Oreti River with the extension of McCarthy Road then east along McCarthy Road to the top of Hamilton Road, then south on Hamilton Road to Collinson Road, east along Collinson Road including the northern extension of Ryal Bush School Road and along Collinson Road to the furtherest eastern point. Then south along Cox Road to Pullar Road. Then east to include Pullar Road. South from Pullar Road along Tomlinson Road to the North Makarewa Grove Bush Road. Then east along North Makarewa Grove Bush Road to Macadam Road and including the northern extension of Macadam Road. South on Macadam Road to Coveney Road and including all of Coveney Road. Then south along Bridge Inn Road to the Lorne-Darce Highway (SH98). Then west along the Lorne-Darce Highway to Aerodrome Road. Then south to include all of Aerodrome Road. Then west along the powerlines from Aerodrome Road to a point in line with the eastern end of Beaconsfield Road then south to the eastern end of Beaconsfield Road, then west along Beaconsfield Road to North Road. Then north along the west side of North Road to the powerlines, then west along the powerlines to Steel Road. Then north along Steel Road to the Wallacetown Lorneville Highway (SH 99). Then west along the Wallacetown Lorneville Highway (SR 99) to No 331. Then north along the west boundary of Lot 2 DP 9786 to the Makarewa River. Then north east along the Makarewa River to the Branxholme Makarewa Road. Then north-west along the Branxholme Makarewa Road to Turkey Bush Road. Then west along Turkey Bush Road and its extension to the Oreti River and then north along the Oreti River north to the point of commencement.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

Proof of residence within the home zone may be required.

Each year, applications for enrolment for the following year from in-zone students will be sought by a date which will be published in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.This will enable the board to assess the number of places which can be made available to students who live outside the home zone.

OUT OF ZONE ENROLMENTS

Each year the Board will determine the number of places which are likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone. The Board will publish this information in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received.

Applications for out of zone enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:

First Priority: will be given to applicants who who have been accepted for enrolment
in a special programme run by the school. This priority is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.

Second priority: will be given to applicants who are siblings of current pupils.

Third priority: will be given to children who are siblings of former pupils.

Fourth priority: will be given to applicants who are children of Board employees.

Fifth priority: will 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 in accordance with the instructions issued by the Secretary under Section 11G (1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of the ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.

Applicants seeking first and second priority status may require proof of a sibling relationship.