Melissa Chan-Green

Can I just get you to explain what does your role entail?

OK, so let's look at what the current policy is and why that has been set.

So New Zealand has a rolling enrolment system.

Probably if you can just start by explaining what that is and why New Zealand uses it.

You mentioned that we were unique in that.

There have been other countries who had a rolling enrollment system, countries which we kind of compare to in terms of curriculum as well, thinking Australia and the UK.

They have changed.

Why have we continued on the rolling enrollment policy?

And what is it about it that you think

makes it work here when it doesn't work elsewhere?

Do you know why that was?

I'm not sure if you were in the ministry then, but do you know why that was adopted?

Was it something that schools in particular had been calling for as something that would work for them or an option that they wanted?

Have you ever looked at what a single entry point would mean for New Zealand and if there is any support for that?

Or what would be some of the biggest barriers or challenges to doing that?

So this would be, I guess, what you referred to in the UK, where up until a date, if you turn five before that date, you start school on that date.

If you turn five after that date, you basically wait until the entire next year to begin.

Has the ministry ever looked at whether that would be something that would be

welcomed here or work here in New Zealand?

Sorry to interrupt.