Rangiora New Life School, Rangiora, New Zealand

Attendance Dues

	Per term amount	Annual Total	Special Character Donation *	Total	Discount amount  excl donation	Discount amount  incl donation
Year 1 & 2 students	$0	$0	$100	$0
1 Year 3-13 student	$255	$1020	$100	$1120	$969	$1050
2 Year 3-13 students	$510	$2040	$100	$2140	$1938	$2000
3 Year 3-13 students	$690	$2760	$100	$2860	$2622	$2665
4 or more Year 3-13 students	$820	$3280	$100	$3380	$3116	$3140

* Special Character donations are requested on a one per family basis. The Special Character donation is a voluntary payment that enables us to purchase the Christian Curriculum and other activities that fall under the special character of the school. (not paid for by the government)

If you wish to pay the full amount in one sum during the first term a 5% discount applies.

The Rangiora New Life Proprietors Trust is the proprietor of Rangiora New Life School, Denchs Road, Southbrook, Rangiora, an integrated school as defined by the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act, 1975.
The proprietor’s require the parents or other persons accepting responsibility for the education of any child enrolled at Rangiora New Life School to pay attendance dues.

1. The authority for proprietors of integrated schools to charge attendance dues is found in s36 (1.) of the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act, 1975 which authorises the charging of attendance dues as “a condition of enrolment and attendance” at an integrated school
   
   I. Thus, attendance dues are payable as a “condition of enrolment and attendance” of a child at Rangiora New Life School.
   II. This means that attendance dues are payable for as long as a child is enrolled and entitled to attend Rangiora New Life School.
   III. This means that attendance dues are payable on occasions when a child is absent from school for whatever period of time or reasons and the enrolment for that child remains in place.
2. The amount charged for attendance dues by the proprietors is approved by the Minister of Education.
   
   s 36 (2) Private Schools Conditional Integration Act
   
   Currently the amount the proprietor’s are entitled to charge for enrolment at Rangiora New Life School, as approved by the Minister of Education, is $1000.00 per child per year (plus GST.)  
3. Failure to pay attendance dues may result in the enrolment of the child for whom the attendance dues are charged being taken off the school roll
   
   s 36 (7) Private Schools Conditional Integration Act.
4. Unpaid attendance dues are a debt and may be recovered by proprietors
   
   s36 (6) Private Schools Conditional Integration Act. 
5. Attendance dues are not tuition fees. Their purpose is to enable the proprietors to -
   a. cover costs of improvements to the school buildings to ensure that they meet the standards required by the government; and
   b. meet the debts and mortgages associated with the school.
   
   s36 (3) Private Schools Conditional Integration Act.

This means that as in (1.) above attendance dues are payable on occasions when a child is absent from school for whatever period or reason and the enrolment for that child remains in place even though no tuition is being given by the teachers at the school.

• Attendance dues are payable in advance, however regular payments by term, or any other period, is acceptable.
• Where a child begins to attend school part way through a year, attendance dues are charged on the basis of the number of weeks of the school year the child will attend.
• Where an enrolment is cancelled part way through a term  and one terms notice has not been given, the attendance dues for the current term remain payable. Where attendance dues have been paid in advance attendance dues for the current term will not be refunded, but attendance dues for any subsequent full terms will be refunded.
• Where there is a genuine need for relief in the payment of attendance dues the proprietors will consider a written application from the parents or other persons accepting responsibility for the education of a child, and by whom attendance dues are payable.

 

Enquiries re attendance dues, and applications for relief, must be made to the Officer Administrator, Mrs. Ruth Russell, Rangiora New Life School.


Activity Donations

The school is allowed to charge a voluntary donation to cover activities and items which the operations grant does not cover.

These donations contribute toward class and course activities such as field trips, outings, invited speakers, instructors and coaches, subsidising transport costs, special performances, subsidising special events such as CASAFest, extra sport gears
and hirage of equipment and facilities. It also extends to payment toward employment of librarians.

Year 1 and 2 students	$60.00 per child per annum
Year 3 - 13 students	$110.00 per child per annum

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