Nau mai, haere mai - Welcome!  Starting school is an exciting time and an important milestone in your child’s life and maybe also your life – particularly if this is your first child to come to school.

The staff at Māngere East Primary School welcome you and your whānau.   We look forward to working with you and your tamariki to make the transition from preschool or a different school to our school a positive experience.  

At Māngere East Primary School we have an open door policy and see communication between home and school as a very important part of your child’s learning.  If you have any questions, please come and see us so we can discuss these. 

The key people you will be in contact with initially are:

• Ange Koia - Receptionist.  She will contact you when she receives your online enrolment form to organise a time for an enrolment interview.

• Rudi Easthouse - Assistant Principal.  He will meet with you and your child to start our home-school partnership.

• Charmainne Tolich - Learning Support Coordinator.  She might meet with you instead of or as well as Mr Easthouse.  She will also help you get started with Te Ara Hāpai - our home-school learning programme.

If your child is starting in one of our Bilingual Programmes, the you will meet with one of the leaders below.

• Te Rauhī Brown - Rōpū Leader for Te Poho o Rāwhiti, our Māori Bilingual Programme (Years 0-6).

• Malo Sepuloni - Team Leader for O Lou Ala i Malo, our Samoan Bilingual Programme (Years 0-8).

• Sela Afungia - Assistant Principal, and leader of Kafa Taha, our Tongan Bilingual Programme (Year 0-3).

• Rimana Jailabdeen - Team Leader for Rotai'anga, our Cook Islands Bilingual Programme (Years 0-2).

If this is your first child at school often it is new for you as a parent as well as so much has changed perhaps since you were last a student. Some children are comfortable and gain confidence quickly while it is natural for some to take a little longer to settle into school life. 

We recognise that children bring many different skills and experiences to school with them so along with the literacy and numeracy skills that are focused on in the first year, we encourage the children to begin to develop the key competencies through our school programmes. These are the skills identified in the New Zealand Curriculum that they will need to be successful life-long learners. Thinking, Relating to Others, Using Language, Symbols, and Texts, Managing self, Participating and Contributing.

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Requirement to keep immunisation records revoked

Health New Zealand advises that on 8 January, the regulation requiring primary schools to maintain immunisation records was revoked. This means primary schools will no longer need to keep immunisation records.

Why is the change being made?

The Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR), introduced in 2023, is the national register of administered vaccines. AIR enables authorised healthcare providers to access immunisation records. Now that we have AIR, ECE and primary school immunisation registers are no longer required. You can read more about AIR at:

Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) – Health New Zealand

What this means for your primary school

• You will no longer need to collect and record immunisation information.

• Your school will remain an essential channel for promoting immunisation to parents.

• Retain existing immunisation records for seven years, in line with class 3.10 of the Schools Retention and Disposal Schedule:

Managing school records – Ministry of Education

When you have completed this enrolment Form, please bring it in with the following:

*    The Enrolment Form signed

*    Childs Birth Certificate

*    Childs Immunisation Record

*    Information on any relevant Health concerns

If you have any queries or would like some guidance while completing this form, please just ask at the Office.