Enrolling your Child at St Anthony's
We encourage you to enrol your children as early as possible to ensure the best chance of attending St Anthony's School. You can download the forms and documents below or request an enrolment pack from the school by phone (04) 380 6971 or email office@stants.school.nz
How to Enrol at St Anthony’s School
Complete the online application for enrolment form.
Complete the preference certificate and have this signed by the Parish Priest. Father Bill Warwick is the Parish Priest for the Holy Trinity Parish and is authorised to sign preference certificates for this area. Please call 04 388 6953 to make an appointment.
Return the signed preference certificate and attendance dues agreement form to the school office along with a birth certificate or passport, baptism certificate (if applicable) and your child’s completed immunisation certificate.
Once we have received your application with the signed forms we will confirm the enrolment as soon as possible.
If you would like to visit the school, please call or email the school office to make an appointment. It will also be possible to have a personal tour of the school at this time.
Enrolment forms & documents links
Reminder: Baptism Certificate, Birth Certificate or Passport and completed Immunisation Certificates should accompany the above application forms for enrolment.
Enrolment Criteria
We have a quota of 5% of our maximum school roll allocated for non-preference children where enrolment space allows. The remaining percentage must be preference or Catholic students. If these spaces become filled then non-preference children can be placed on a waiting list and parents advised when a place becomes available.
At present, we have one non-preference space available at St Anthony’s for 2024. Please refer to the criteria given in the preference certificate to determine if your child would eligible for a preference placement.
Priorities for determining preference and non-preference enrolments
Please click here to read our school priorities for determining preference and non-preference enrolments.
Transition to School
Parents will be contacted by the class teacher at least four weeks prior to their child starting school. Up to three visits will be scheduled, at times that suit both parents and the teacher. Ideally, the first visit will take place in the morning (8.45am to 12.30pm) and the second visit a full day (8.45am to 2.55pm) so the child can see how the classroom programme works as well as school routines.
A Transition Morning is held in Term 4 for all existing and newly accepted students. This gives both parents and students an opportunity to meet with teachers and familiarise themselves with the school and their new class.
Helping Your Child Start School at Five
(Please note: these are suggestions only)
It would be helpful if your child:
Knows his/her full name
Puts things away after finishing with them
Takes off coats/jackets / polar fleeces without help
Takes shoes off and puts them on unaided
Knows how to wash and dry hands, and remembers to flush the toilet
Knows how to hold scissors and use them
Knows the basic colours
Knows how to sit and listen to a story
Recognises his/her belongings
Can recognise own name
Can write own name
Recognises and can name letters of the alphabet
Is able to dress/undress unassisted (necessary for swimming)
Please ensure your child has all clothing named, including hats, shoes, socks and sandals.
School Donations
As a decile 8 school, we receive less funding from the Ministry of Education per child than lower decile schools receive. As a result, we need to find other ways to fund all the programmes that we want to run for our children. That is why it is so important that we ask for a school voluntary contribution from our parent community.
Our children and school benefit greatly from the voluntary contribution donated by families. We are able to offer a number of extra activities and programmes to complement our curriculum from the donations received. For example, your voluntary contribution is used for in-class resources for literacy and numeracy, arts and culture experiences and resources, and additional professional development for our teachers to keep them up with best practice teaching.
Throughout the year, FOSA (Friends of St Anthony’s) do a significant amount of fundraising to assist the school with purchasing items that provide the children with extra resources. For example, in 2021, FOSA kindly contributed funds for our new Astroturf playground. However, if we relied only on our fundraising to cover providing extra class resources and staff professional development, we would then have to cut back on the improvements we have recently used our fundraising for. In other words, we very much rely on the voluntary school donation and we are very grateful to those who are able to pay this contribution.
General School Donation for 2024 – $215 per student
Note: School donations qualify for a tax rebate. We have created an informative PowerPoint that you can download here.
The 2024 General School donations will be used for:
* ICT classroom equipment
* Teacher Aide support
* New adaptive furniture that supports a vibrant and flexible learning environment
* Resources to support the Health and Physical Education programme, literacy and numeracy
Specific Donations
We are committed to providing excellent educational opportunities for our students. Below is the cost of these activities. Payment for these is very much appreciated as it enables us to provide rich learning opportunities for our students.
Class trips & activities: $60.00 ($15 per term)
Swimming (Term 2 - all year levels:) $65.00
EOTC (Education Outside the Classroom - Yr 7 & 8): These are extra trips to enhance the senior learning programme. $120.00
Technology (Yr 7 & 8) - paid to Mt Cook School for resources: $115.00
Purchase (online tools to support Mathematics and Literacy learning at school or home)
Mathletics $26
Reading Eggs/Mathseeds $29
Reading Record Book (Year 1-3) $9.00
My Faith Diary (Year 7-8) $10.00
Payment Options
We very much appreciate your contribution to the school donations. There are several ways that you can pay:
Automatic payment Please set this up with your bank
Internet banking Please transfer funds to bank account: 12-3140-0322099-00, with your child’s family name as the reference.
Cash Please hand to a member of staff in the office where a receipt will be issued.
Attendance Dues are charged by and paid to the Catholic Education Management Board (CEMB). The total of $545.00 per year may be paid in full by 30 May or in instalments throughout the year. On enrolment, a signed commitment for payment of these fees is requested.
School Stationery
The list for school stationery for 2024 can be found by following the link below: