School zone question
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Topic: School zone question
Posted By: Mikaela
Subject: School zone question
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 2:24pm
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How do you find out what school(s) your child is eligible for? Is there a website where you enter your address and it gives you a list?
I've been wondering this for ages but haven't been able to find any info. And yes, I'm a tad early to be enrolling bubs, but just trying to figure it all out  ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com"> 
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Posted By: Nic01
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 2:29pm
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Try http://www.schoolzones.co.nz
Except you have to enter the school name not your address which is a bit of a pain. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 2:43pm
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thanks for that - I've been wondering the same.
I've heard good and very bad things about the schools in my area. It's good to be prepared so that if the schools you are zoned for are THAT BAD you can always move Just thought of another question! I'm a Pom and we have Nursery (2-4), Infants (4-6), Primary (7-11) and secondary (11-16) There are so many different names for schools here I get very confuzzled! Can someone please clear this up for me 
And what's a "normal" or "special" school? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 3:36pm
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We have Primary (5-11) Although Your child doesn't have to start until 6 and some primarys go through to intermediate.
Intermediate (11-13) Two years at what ever age your pre teen was. And high school (12,13-17) or until they leave. A normal school I think is normally used if the same name is connected to a different group eg Elmwood visual centre (for blind and visually impaired children) and Elmwood Normal school (which is for all children) Special School's are usually for children who have similar problems or those that can't be in mainstream schools, for whatever reason. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 3:49pm
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A normal school (eg. Auckland Normal Intermediate) was orginially connected to the Teacher's College. It's not physically connected as closely now, but they often have a lot of student teachers going through.
You can also have a Full Primary, which is a Primary and Intermediate combined (5 - 12/13 years). There are pros and cons of a Full Primary VS an Intermediate for Year 7/8. I'd probably look at the schools closest to my road on the map, ring them up and ask if my street is in their school zone - and if it is, I'd get them to send me out an information pack. 2 birds with 1 stone ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:00pm
| thats a cool site - and they do have a function to search by your address. i did mine and 9 schools came up. |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:03pm
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Oh it does too - thats awesome! ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:39pm
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normal schools used to have seating at the back too so the student teachers could watch lessons in the classroom, good thing with them is the class rooms tend to be a bit bigger. ------------- "> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:41pm
| That is a great site. I put our address in and was a bit shocked with what came up. I thought we were in zone for a couple and shows we aren't. Interesting! |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:50pm
Some still have little windows up the top, where teachers used to go up and sit there to observe the teacher and class from above! Although those are covered now lol. ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow">
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Sarah Beth wrote:Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:54pm
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my cousin thought that when he saw the normal school it was really rude and then looked for the abnormal school hehehe ------------- ">
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 5:58pm
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A normal school just has lots of students teachers go through it. I've worked in both and I can see the positives and negatives about them.
Positive - the students are full of enthusiasm and really keen to be with the kids Negative - can sometimes be the opposite of the positive (they see teaching as good holidays). School zones depend of the school - some don't have any zoning. I recommend going for a visit to the schools in your area. You'll instantly get a 'vibe' and that's a good place to start... don't be afraid to ask Q's and ask for a school prospectus -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 6:12pm
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Grr lost huge post - just wanted to give you ero.govt.nz has all ero reports which give an idea bout schools.
happy to give opinions etc about schools if anyone wants to pm me :) -------------  
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 7:50pm
I just checked our addy and we're zoned for schools I would have thought were way too far away, and for others we're 10 mins away we don't get a look in  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 8:15am
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It's funny how that works aye Toni. The college that we are sending Christopher too seems to be zoned for all the expensive suburbs in Wellington - some of them are over half an hour away. Yet there are suburbs that are a 5 minute walk and they aren't included in the zone but are the cheaper ones to buy and rent in. Go figure... ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 8:48am
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we are in the process currently of looking for a new house in the zone for the school we want our girls to go to. it is a small zoning, but that's also because amazingly the primary school takes around 500 plus kids for that zoning, but it means that we will have to move a fair way away from the hospital which is annoying for me, but worth it. the zoning is crazy - one side of one street is in it but the other side isn't!! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Nic01
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 10:09am
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What a ditz! I'd never noticed the search by address button on that website before! Turns out there's heaps more schools we can send Matthew to than I thought.
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 5:36pm
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In Akld if you want one of the top public secondaries (pretty much AGs or EGGS), you are better off staying where you are and paying private school fees, than paying the huge mortgage than a school in zone! Depending on how many kids of course - but even putting 2 through private school in fees is cheaper than moving into the grammar zone
And we have had a number o school rezone to stop certain areas from being part of their zone any longer. Of course they explain it all away, but Wesley in Mt Roskill is a short flat walk to MRGS, but has been cut out of the zone, so now it is a long uphill walk to Lynfield college.  -------------
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