Enrolment

Enrolling Your Child Waipu School is not currently zoned. As at the 1st of January 2026, a zone will be in place – please see details below.

Pre enrolment of your child is welcomed. Enrolment packs are available from the school office, or simply download the documents below. A completed enrolment form for each child is to be returned to the office along with a completed Student Support Agreement Form, a copy of a NZ birth certificate or Confirmation of NZ residency and Immunisation Certificate.

Administration of Medication, ESOL form and OSCARS (After School Care Programme) forms should be completed if applicable.

You are very welcome to visit the school prior to completing an enrolment form.
Please contact us on 09 432 0135 or email office@wps.school.nz to make an appointment.

ENROLMENT FORMS

Code of Conduct – Read Only
Cyber Safety Agreement – Read Only
Bus User Code of Conduct Agreement – Read Only
Enrolment Form
Student Support Agreement Form
OSCARS (After School Care Programme)
Administration of Medicine Form
ESOL Form (English for Speakers of other Languages)

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New Entrant Visits

Your child’s teacher will be in contact with you to arrange school visits, 6 weeks prior to starting school. We recommend 6 school visits for your child. These visits give your child an opportunity to interact with their peers and the teacher and assists in their transition to school.

 

Waipu Primary School Enrolment Scheme (Zone)

Commencement date: 1 January 2026

The guidelines for development and operation of enrolment schemes are issued under Schedule 20, Clause 3 (3) of the Education and Training Act 2020 for the purpose of describing the basis on which the Secretary’s powers in relation to enrolment schemes will be exercised.

Home Zone
All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school. The Home Zone includes addresses on both sides of the boundary roads mentioned in the description, and all no-exit roads off the boundary roads are included in the zone unless
otherwise stated.

Beginning on Cove Road north of the intersection with Tuaraki Road (not included), the zone travels north through Langs Beach and Waipu Cove townships. The zone turns left onto McClean Road, left onto South Road, then right onto Glenmohr Road. The zone then turns left onto State Highway 1 and continues south to the intersection with Artillery Road/the southern end of Brynderwyn Scenic Reserve. From here, the zone travels west overland to the intersection of Waipu Gorge Road and Gorge Road at the southern end of the Waipu Gorge Forest Scenic Reserve (Gorge Road addresses are not included).

The zone travels north along Waipu Gorge Road, turns left onto State Highway 1, left onto Brooks Road, then left onto Finlayson Brook Road. After 884 Finlayson Brook Road the zone travels north overland to connect with Millbrook Road at 1332 Millbrook Road/the north-western corner of Mareretu Forest Conservation Area. The zone travels east on Millbrook Road, turns left onto Helmsdale Road, left onto Shoemaker Road, then left onto Waipu Caves Road. The zone continues on Waipu Caves Road to the intersection with Mangapai Caves Road (not included), then turns right into Springfield Road and continues up to the intersection with Ormiston Road (924 and 917 Springfield Road are included in zone).

The zone turns east down Ormiston Road, including addresses 315-412 Kukunui Road (up to the northern end of the McKenzies of Limestone Hill Park Scenic Reserve). The zone continues on Ormiston Road and follows it east and south until it becomes Waipu Caves Road and then turns left onto Mountfield Road. The zone continues up until 465 Mountfield Road, then travels south-east overland to the intersection of McLeod Road and Rosyth Road. All Mcleod Road addresses and addresses up to 256 Rosyth Road are in-zone. The
zone travels south on Rosyth Road, turns left onto State Highway 1, and continues north until the Waipu Golf Course/3251 State Highway 1. From here the road turns east overland towards the coast and follows the coast back down to the starting point on Cove Road.

Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 states that: 
“the Secretary may authorise an enrolment scheme to permit a student to enrol at the school as if the student lived in the home zone of the school if, –
(b) in the case of a new enrolment scheme, the student,
1. lives outside of the home zone of the new enrolment scheme; and
2. has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the new enrolment
scheme is implemented.”

Special Programmes
This priority category is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a Special programme approved by the Secretary.

Out of Zone Enrolments
Each year the Board of Trustees 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 by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received.

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

First Priority – This priority is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary for Education.

Second Priority – will be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.

Third Priority – will be given to applicants who are siblings of former students.

Fourth Priority – will be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.

Fifth Priority – will be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the board of the school
or a child of a member of the board of the school.

Sixth Priority – will be given to 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 ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary, under Schedule 20, Clause 3 (1) of the Education and Training Act 2020. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school. Applicants seeking second or third priority status may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.

Waipu Primary School Zone Maps.pdf