School zone question

Try http://www.schoolzones.co.nz
Except you have to enter the school name not your address which is a bit of a pain.

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.

thats a cool site - and they do have a function to search by your address. i did mine and 9 schools came up.

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.

Sarah Beth wrote: 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.

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.

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

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

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!!

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.