ENROLLING AT BISHOP
Enrolment packs are available from our school office. These include:
On enrolment, we will ask your family for more information regarding your family's connection to the Catholic Church. This is to assess whether or not your child can be enrolled as a Preference Enrolment or a Non-Preference Enrolment. More information about this can be found below.
Enrolment packs are available from our school office. These include:
- Current Prospectus
- Information Form
- Contract regarding Attendance Dues
- Generic permission slip
- Photography permission slip
- Information share permission for support via our Kahui Ako (Community of Learning)
- Cybersafety Agreement
- Identification - Birth certificate or passport
- Baptism certificate (if baptised)
- Immunisation certificate
On enrolment, we will ask your family for more information regarding your family's connection to the Catholic Church. This is to assess whether or not your child can be enrolled as a Preference Enrolment or a Non-Preference Enrolment. More information about this can be found below.
PREFERENCE ENROLMENTS
Preference enrolments describe a Catholic connection to the child enrolling and their family. There are different levels of preference enrolment as follows:
5.1 The child has been baptised or is being prepared for baptism in the Catholic Church.
5.2 The child’s parents/guardians have already allowed one or more of its siblings to be baptised in the Catholic faith.
5.3 At least one parent/guardian is a Catholic, and although their child has not yet been baptised, the child’s participation in the life of the school could lead to the parents having the child baptised.
5.4 With the agreement of the child’s parent/legal guardian, a significant familial adult such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle who is actively involved in the child’s upbringing undertakes to support the child’s formation in the faith and practices of the Catholic Church.
5.5 One or both of a child’s non-Catholic parents/guardians is preparing to become a Catholic.
If your child being enrolled meets one of the above criteria, they will require a Preference Certificate (Preference Card) with their enrolment documents. In our school, these Preference Cards are available on request from our Parish Priest who is the one who usually will sign these. Our school office is able to help you and can make contact on behalf of your family to arrange a Preference Card and/or a meeting with our Parish Priest so that enrolment can be completed.
NON-PREFERENCE ENROLMENTS
At Bishop Edward Gaines Catholic School, up to 6 children with non-preference status may be on the school roll at any time, so spaces are limited.
If there are no non-preference positions at our school, parents are able to place their child's name on a waiting list. Children will be offered placement as vacancies occur in accordance with the following guidelines:
1) siblings of existing non-preference students
2) students living within our parish boundary
3) children of staff members
4) students living outside our parish boundary
The date on which names are placed on the waiting list will define the priority within each of the above criteria.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ENROLMENTS, CONTACT OUR OFFICE:
office@beg.school.nz
(07) 886 8021
