Enrolments

ROSE RING KINDERGARTENS

If your enquiry is for a kindergarten aged child (3-6)

1. It is a prerequisite to enrolment for you to attend a Kindergarten Information Afternoon which are usually held once per term.
2. Please e-mail kindergartenadmin@waldorftga.nz to confirm the date of the next information afternoon or view the calendar on our website.

HOURS OF ATTENDANCE FOR KINDERGARTEN ARE 9:00am – 3:00pm

TAURANGA WALDORF SCHOOL

Eligibility for enrolment in the Tauranga Waldorf School, as with all NZ State Integrated Schools, occurs on the basis of a parent’s relationship to the school’s special character.  Providing a process to establish this relationship is the responsibility of the school’s Proprietors, the Waldorf Schools (Bay of Plenty) Trust, who hold the school’s integration agreement with the Crown.

Read a summary statement about the school’s special character here and a description of what is involved here.

In providing processes for prospective parents to establish the required preferential enrolment status, the school’s proprietors acknowledge various pathways.

Read here if you are interested in exploring enrolment with prior exprience via a Waldorf/Steiner school or kindergarten, and particularly the Rose Ring Kindergartens.

Read here if you are interested in exploring enrolment from a mainstream or other educational setting.

Non-Preference Enrolment Policy

1. The early childhood and primary school sections of our school operate as an integrated unit with enrolment in the school routinely occurring in the last year of kindergarten on or around the age of six when children are legally required to be on a school roll.
2. Before their child’s 6th birthday parents are required to complete a Special Character Preference process. This process is outlined in kindergarten and school policies. The children continue to be educated in the kindergarten setting as per a Ministry of Education Memorandum of Understanding.
3. The school operates with a maximum roll of 225 students and one class at each year level. Should a place become available in any class, parents of children registered on the waiting list for that class – having established their priority as per the waiting list procedure – will be approached to undertake the Special Character preference process and after completion enrolment may proceed.

If your enquiry is for a school aged child (6-13)

1. Please e-mail enrolmentofficer@waldorftga.nz.  On receipt of your e-mail, we will forward to you an enrolment enquiry form.
2. On receipt of your enrolment enquiry form, we will notify you if there is a place available in the relevant class.
3. If a place is available, you will be invited to attend a meeting with senior staff, who will introduce you to the school.
4. If, after this step, you wish to proceed with enrolment, you will be invited to interviews/meetings as needed/required to help you establish enrolment preference for your child.
5. Upon advice from the school, and with input as to your intentions, the Waldorf Schools (Bay of Plenty) Trust will confirm or decline the enrolment preference for your child.  If confirmed, a starting date will be agreed.
6. Parent and child begin orientation process with teacher of relevant class or kindergarten.

The process can take several weeks and is subject to availability of parties involved as well as available class positions

HOURS OF ATTENDANCE FOR SCHOOL ARE 9.00am – 3.00pm