The College is limited in the number of places it is able to offer students at each level. As a consequence it operates an enrolment scheme. The maximum roll for Year 9 is 235 students. The order of priority for students is as follows:
1. Home zone enrolments
All students who live within the home zone described below shall be entitled to enrol at the school. Proof of permanent residence within the home zone is required.
2. Out of zone enrolments
Applications for enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority:
- Special needs (not applicable as we do not operate an MOE approved programme)
- Siblings of current students
- Siblings of former students
- Daughters of former students
- Children of BOT employees and Board members
- All other applicants
If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary under Section 11G(1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.
Applicants seeking second, third or fourth priority status may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.
Our enrolment zone
In the north the boundary of the zone shall be a line extending from the Ngauranga Railway Station north west to the junction of Fraser Avenue and Burma Road, then south along Burma Road to Kim Street, then north west between the ends of Baroda Street and Orissa Crescent to Mount Kaukau. (All housing in Kim Street and Kimberly Way is included in the zone). From here directly west to Mill Hill, then directly north west to Smiths’ Bay.
In the south and east the boundary of the zone shall be a line extending from the junction of Customhouse Quay and Jervois Quay south along Willis Street and Brooklyn Road to the junction of Bidwill Street. Then along Bidwill Street, Wallace Street and Hutchinson Road to the junction of McColl and Krull Street. Thence along Krull Street to the junction of Krull and Mana Streets bisecting at that point Mills Road to Veronica Street, then into the lower end of Mornington Road, bisecting Cheesman and Clarence Streets at their junction, proceeding along Borlase Street to its junction with Ohiro Road. From here south along the western side of Ohiro Road and Happy Valley Road to the junction with Owhiro Bay Parade and finally west along the northern side of Owhiro Bay Parade to the end of the road. From here south along the western side of Ohiro Road and Happy Valley Road to the junction with Owhiro Bay Parade and finally west along the northern side of Owhiro Bay Parade to the end of the road.
The address given at the time of the application for enrolment must be the student’s usual place of residence when the school is open for instruction. This means that if you currently live at an in-zone address but move to an out-of-zone address before your child’s first day of attendance at the school, your child will not be entitled to enrol at the school.
The Ministry of Education has advised that parents should also be warned of the possible consequences of deliberately attempting to gain unfair priority in enrolment by knowingly giving a false address or making an in-zone living arrangement which they intend to only be temporary eg.
- Renting accommodation in-zone on a short-term basis;
- Arranging temporary board in-zone with a relative or family friend;
- Using the in-zone address of a relative or friend as an “address of convenience”, with no intention to live there on an ongoing basis.
Before enrolment takes place (ie. before attendance begins), if the Board has reasonable grounds for believing that the given in-zone address will not be a genuine, on-going living arrangement, the Board may withdraw any offer of place which it may have made on the basis of the given address. After attendance has begun, if the school learns that a student is no longer living at the in-zone address given at the time of the application for enrolment and has reasonable grounds to believe that a temporary in-zone residence has been used for the purpose of unfairly gaining priority in enrolment at the school, then the Board may review the enrolment. Unless the parents can give a satisfactory explanation within 10 days, the Board may annul the enrolment. This course of action is provided for under section 110A of the Education Act 1989.
Please note that in-zone students cannot be guaranteed an immediate place at the College if their enrolment is received AFTER the closing date. On acceptance of enrolment every student and their parent or caregiver is invited to an interview. The purpose of this is to help ensure each student selects an appropriate course and to facilitate smooth transition to the college
Key dates in 2011 for students who start school in 2012 are:
Year 9
- Prospectus available through contributing schools from late May
- Open morning Thursday 16 June from 9.00 – 12.30
- Enrolments close Monday 8 August at 4.00 pm
- Ballot held Friday 26 August
- Notification of ballot results by Wednesday 31 August
Year 10, 11, 12 & 13
- Enrolments close Friday 4 November
- Ballot held Friday 11 November
- Notification of ballot results by Wednesday 16 November
For further details please contact:
Louise Laurenson (Principal’s Executive Assistant)
wgc@wgc.school.nz
Telephone: (04) 472 5743
Fax: (04) 494 6129