Paying your fees & donations
You can pay your fees and donations via bank transfer online or visit us at the school office and pay with credit card or cash.
Schedule of Fees
2026 School Year
| Fees & Donations | Year 0, 1 & 2 | Year 3 & 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Year Level | Junior | Middle | Senior | Senior |
| (Whanake) | (Waipuna) | (Mātauranga) | (Mātauranga) | |
| Online Programmes (eg: Mathletics/Reading Eggs/Mathseeds/Writing Legends and/or Writers Toolbox) | $50.00 | $50.00 | $50.00 | $50.00 |
| Activity Contribution Fee | see school statement | see school statement | see school statement | see school statement |
| Garden to Table Contribution – Yr 3 & 4 only | $70.00 | |||
| Donation (Voluntary) | $450 | $450 | $450 | $450 |
Our parents help provide a quality education for our students by giving a voluntary contribution. The donations are used to give your child/ren opportunities beyond what is funded by the government. For those of you who are unaware, from this year the previous decile rating system which was used to determine various funding formulas for schools has been replaced by the Equity Index system.
Previously Maungawhau School was decile 10, now our Equity Index number has been assessed at 344. If you follow the link below you can see where we sit in comparison to other schools, and how our funding from the Ministry of Education has once again taken a hit.
The Ministry guidelines require that schools should not charge for curriculum expectations which would otherwise be a cost to school e.g. Mathletics/Reading Eggs, Mathseeds, Garden to Table for years 3 & 4, school trips to the museum (middle school) and beach education (juniors). In theory this is commendable however, in reality it creates a significant challenge when there is a strong community desire to offer these experiences, but our operational costs cannot stretch to fund them all. Up until now we have relied upon families to contribute to the ‘activity fee’ where in nearly every case costs were covered. It is worth mentioning that no student at Maungawhau has ever missed out on any of these activities due to not paying and this will continue to be the case.
Our Board of Trustees will need to ascertain throughout the school year whether there has been enough uptake in parents choosing to pay the curriculum donation as to whether some of the outside trips will be continued in future years.
School donations have been well supported to date, for which we are extremely grateful. Your donations enabled us to supplement our inadequate Special Needs grant to provide release time for our SENCO (Special Education Needs Coordinator), employ additional Learning Support staff in classrooms (11 staff), a music specialist, a sports coordinator plus many resources for specific learning needs.
We accept payments by cash or credit card in our school office, or via internet banking. Please clearly label payments with your child’s name and your reason for payment e.g. donation, activity fee, out of school care etc.
Maungawhau School Bank Details:
Account Name: Maungawhau School Board
Bank: ASB
Account Number: 12-3067-0197120-00
Activity Contribution Fee
Extracurricular activities refer to an activity that is not a part of the delivery of the core curriculum at school but is provided to our students to enrich and enhance their learning experience.
Families will be informed in advance of any such activity and the cost for their child to participate. Examples include school trips, visiting drama groups, senior school camp, mathletics and reading eggs online programmes, sport team zone competitions, netball and flippaball. We shall provide a permission form which you’ll need to sign in advance before your child can participate in the extracurricular activity. We appreciate any contribution to cover the cost of these additional fees. If there is genuine hardship in paying for any of these fees, please come and have a confidential and sensitive discussion with either the Office Manager, Student Administrator or Principal.
Mathletics, Reading Eggs and Mathseeds – the school pays an annual school subscription for these valuable online learning programmes and pass this fee onto parents. Children will be provided a login and password at the time of enrolment. During the rollover period (by end of February annually) the children are assigned to their new year group and classroom teacher. Login details remain the same and can be used during all term breaks and the end of year holiday period.
