hello how are you all it's me Vidya I’ve been waiting to make this video since long it's about
how are the schools here in New Zealand I really wanted to show you how the schools are so I made
a video long ago about the school my child goes to on how it looks and what are the facilities
that are available and all but before actually just posting the video itself without giving
so many details I thought I should quickly give you some details about the schooling system here
in New Zealand so you get more information other than just the video so here it goes
did you know the schooling here in New Zealand is free yes it is it is from age five till age 19
at the schooling is free here in New Zealand so it in terms of age five it is usually referred as
year one usually every child starts their schooling here in New Zealand from year one
year one can also be simply may be matched to first grade in India it's like first grade or year
one is like one and the same because there is no UGK / LKG/ kindergartens here so they just go to
preschool and then they start their schooling from year one which is age five so from age five to age
19 it is the schooling here in New Zealand is free it's just not free for citizens it is free for
citizens it is free for residents it is free for even the children whose parents are on a work visa
there is primary education secondary education which is basically free here in New Zealand so
primary education covers from year one to year eight that is again a combination of usually you
will find primary schools most of the primary schools here in New Zealand offer education
you know from year one to year six that is like every school provides from year one to year six
but then year seven and eight are referred as intermediate so year seven and eight usually
we'll have to you know move on to a different school in a different area so that is how it is
usually is but there are also some schools who actually have the schooling from year one to
year 13. so this school has the complete so you just had to join the school in your year
one and you can finish your primary and secondary education in the same school in case of my child
she goes to a school but the school provides pooling only until year six so she can go from
year one to six to that school and she needs to go to a separate school from seven and eight
and a separate school from year nine to thirty but the schooling is free until year thirteen
so by the time she reaches year thirteen plus five will be her age that is eighteen and also there is
a pre-schooling concept here in New Zealand which is it starts you know from from when the trial is
three months old until the child goes to school and especially from year age 3 of the child to
age 5 there is a concession that the government provides so that concession is actually called
ECE( early childhood education) wherein the government provides say for example on an average
I think every child will be in a day you know in a day-care for at least 10 hours a day so which
would which could be on an average like 50 hours a week but government provides subsidy for 20 hours
a week so you need not pay for the 20 hours but you can just pay for the remaining hours that you
are sending your kid to the day-care so it could be you it could also be that you only want to send
your child for 20 hours in a week and then you don't you want to support child by yourself you
can also do that so there won't be any fees for you but if you want to send your child full time
you can only pay for the time the excluding you know deducting the 20 hours of funding that the
government gives and surprisingly I got to know that this particular concession is just not again
for the citizens residence or work visa it is also applicable for somebody who is on visitor visa
and who is staying here for a bit long time for more than three months or so with their
children or something so this can be used by them as well so all this information like most of the
information which I’m sharing with you has been shared my dear friend Bhargavi I usually gather
information before making any videos I want to be really sure that I’m giving only proper and good
information so when I am trying to gather this information this particular lady the sweet lady
I usually address her like that so she called me and then she shared all this information so
thank you so much margarita if you're watching this video there are also private schools in New
Zealand so the schooling is free usually in the state school states schools or government schools
are one in the same but the standards would be slightly different to the private schools when
compared to the government schools me I send my child to a state school only which is a
government school because I find it is really good because even with the state schools or you know
the ornament schools there are desired ratings that are given to the school the dessert ratings
actually are derived from different factors it's just not about how the children perform in the
school it's also about the earnings of the parents and on overall you know on the overall community
the school is rated so usually the highest rate a school can be given is the decile rating is
10 it's 10 on 10 10 is the highest one being the lowest so my daughter she goes to a decile
10 school and then it is just near my home and we have taken a video on how the school is
and what are the facilities in the school so let's get started and see how the school is