Kio ora e te whānau,

In 2020 we made the move to align our school donations scheme with Ministry of education guidelines. The decision was to remove the activity fee (the funding used to cover costs of all of our Outdoor education and extra curricular programmes). In essence we will no longer be asking parents to pay an activity fee each term. Instead to cover the costs of these activities we will be asking parents to pay a school donation that covers the cost of all of these Outdoor education experience as well as supporting the delivery of out school curriculum. This is a donation and of course no parent can be expected to pay. However our entire Outdoor Education programme will be funded by the donations so we rely on parents to support the scheme for us to have a viable EOTC programme going forward. We will monitor the donations and may need to modify/ replace activities if we don’t have enough funds to cover the costs.

The donation that we are asking for is based on cost of EOTC programme plus $55 per student to support the school curriculum (The amount we roughly receive per child per annum).

The only extra payments we may ask for will be to cover costs of voluntary activities that whanau/ children choose to opt into. Examples of these might be transport to a choir/ kapahaka or sports event. Mathsbuddy & Mathletics are also optional programmes along with the year 8 trip to Hanmer.

The Donations this year are based on team activities.

Please remember that Up to 30% of school donations can be claimed back through your tax return. See Sandi in the office for the right paperwork. Overall if you generally pay your school donation and activity fees you will now be paying less per annum with the tax rebate available.

There are numerous ways to contribute and these can be set up through Sandi in the office

For example:

Lump sum -you could choose to pay the full amount at any time

Term by term payments

Direct Debit (weekly/ fortnightly)

2025 DONATIONS

TBC