The school is required by the Ministry of Education to have an Enrolment Scheme in place. The enrolment scheme policy has been formed for the purpose of controlling overcrowding at Fairhall School. It protects the rights of Fairhall residents to attend their local school.
View our Zone Map.
THE FAIRHALL ZONE
The Enrolment Scheme has been drawn so that it includes the whole land parcels of addresses on the scheme’s boundary roads, instead of straight lines between arbitrary points, which was used for the previous description of Fairhall’s enrolment scheme. This amendment of the description gives a more precise definition as to which addresses are within or outside the home zone.
Home Zone Description
The enrolment scheme takes addresses on bother sides of the boundary roads mentioned in the description unless otherwise stated.
Starting from where Battys Road intersects with Doctors Creek, the home zone follows;
- South on Battys Road until New Renwick Road (including Waters Avenue and Birchwood Avenue)
- West on New Renwick Road until Ben Morven Road (including East on New Renwick road until it meets the Taylor River, Waikura Street, Richardson Avenue, all the side streets off Richardson Avenue, Aerodrome Road, and all the side streets of Aerodrome Road)
- South on Ben Morven Road until Paynters Road (including Corletts Road) North on Paynters Road until New Renwick Road (including Bests Road and Paynters Road to the south of Ben Morven Road)
- West on New Renwick Road until Brancott Road (including the side streets off the southern side of New Renwick Road between Paynters Road and Brancott Road)
- South on Brancott Road until the end of Brancott Road (including Booker Road)
- From the end of Brancott Road jumps West to the end of Barracks Road
- From the end of Barracks Road travels north up Barracks Road until Falveys Road
- North-West on Falveys Road until Hawkesbury Road
- North-East on Hawkesbury Road until Dog Point Road (including Kahu Way and Hawkesbury Road to the south of Falveys Road)
- East on Dog Point Road until its intersection with New Renwick Road and Godfreys Road (including Dog Point Road to the west of Hawkesbury Road)
- East on New Renwick Road until Battys Road (including 155 Godfreys Road, Grahams Road, and Bells Road down to 109 Bells Road).
* Please note the school’s Enrolment Zone Map officially changed from a lined boundary to Land Parcels in 2018 as shown below.
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 students living outside the homezone.
The board will publish this information in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by school. The notice will outline how applications are to be made and will specify dates by which applications must be received.
Applications for enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority.
PRIORITY I: Special Programme. This priority category is not applicable to this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the secretary.
PRIORITY II: will be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.
PRIORITY III: will be given to applicants who are siblings of former students.
PRIORITY IV: will be given to applicants who are children of former students of the school.
PRIORITY V: will be given to applicants who are either a child of an employee of the board of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school.
PRIORITY VI: will be given to all other applicants.
If there are more applicants than places, selection will take place by ballot as under section 11g(1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating the area served by the school.
Families moving to the area, and those who strongly wish their students to attend Fairhall are encouraged to contact the school principal.
STARTING SCHOOL / PRESCHOOL VISITS
Before New Entrant students begin school we recommend three pre – school visits to provide your child with the opportunity to get to know their teacher and get a feel for what school is all about. These take place on a Friday morning.
Please contact the office to make an appointment for the first visit a month or two prior to your child starting. A meeting for new parents is held in December each year.