Finances and Annual Donation

School Donations Scheme 

To enable us to provide a rich and diverse programme for our children, we request an annual donation of $150 per student from families, which helps towards covering the cost of various activities throughout the year that are not allowed for in our Operations budget. This includes day trips, swimming lessons, visiting performers to the school, some inter-school sports activities etc. 

So we are able to keep our school donation request as low as possible, you will also find that from time to time, there are additional donation requests added to your student’s Hero accounts for activities that have a significant cost and are only for specific year groups, such as the Year 7 & 8 Ski Trip, Koru games, and overnight camps. You will be notified of these directly prior to the activity taking place.

As the costs of camps (Year 5-8 students) are not known until closer to the time, budgeting for an additional $200-$280 per camp is a good guide. More detailed cost information is sent out closer to the time of each camp.

In addition to our donation requests, there are some fees applied to your Hero account for optional extra-curricular activities such as Miniball, Touch Rugby, Cycling, etc. These fees need to be paid in full before the activity takes place.  There is also a fee for the take-home component of the Christchurch South Technology for Year 7 & 8’s ($25.00), which can be paid throughout the year. 

The reason we decided on $150 per child for the School Donation is that this was the amount that the government had determined it would give to some schools, instead of the schools needing to ask for donations from whānau. Our school was not eligible to receive the $150 of funding from the government, as they believed that we could ask for this money, and more, from whānau directly.

If all of our families were able to make this contribution, or even a portion of it that they could afford, this would make a positive difference to our curriculum and activities budget.

You can pay the donations in full, in instalments, or set up a regular automatic payment. To cover the annual donation, a regular payment would need to be:

Per Child				Annual total
Weekly		$3.00		$156.00 /yr		or approx $7.50 per Y5-8 child in a camp year, to pay for most of camp across the year
Fortnightly		$5.75		$149.50 /yr		or approx $15 per Y5-8 child in a camp year, to pay for most of camp across the year
Monthly		$12.50		$150.00 /yr		or approx $32.50 per Y5-8 child in a camp year, to pay for most of camp across the year

To set up an automatic payment, please copy the school’s bank account number:

Beckenham Te Kura O Puroto Board (note there is no macron over the u in Pūroto in online banking):

12-3148-0131641-00 into your internet banking and use your child’s name as the reference.

To see your current statement, log onto HERO and click on Finance

(Click here if you haven’t yet set up HERO on your phone, and download the app)

If you need more detailed information on how to log in, click here.

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Claiming back 33% of your School Donations and Contributions from the IRD