The establishment board of trustees of Queenstown's newest planned school will liaise with the boards of existing primary schools and the Ministry of Education to discuss enrolment schemes and catchment borders in the next few weeks.
Establishment board of trustees chairman Roy Thompson said many residents were inquiring how the Remarkables Primary School enrolment scheme would work.
Establishment trustees wanted to confirm the scheme with the ministry as soon as possible, he said.
"Our scheme would impact to a lesser or greater degree on those schools, so we're anxious to ensure we have mutual agreement on those schemes and the transition process."
Mr Thompson said parents would be surveyed on which school they intended to enrol their children in once agreements with the boards and ministry were reached.
It was hoped a facility to determine parents' intentions could be online on the school's website by the end of April.
Remarkables Primary School's catchment was likely to border with Arrowtown Primary School's catchment, "but because Queenstown Primary School doesn't have an enrolment scheme yet, the question is where that border will be".
Representatives from the establishment board, the Ministry of Education, project managers Coffey Projects NZ Ltd and Naylor Love met this week with the aim of refining the school's innovative concept design.
Additional changes went back to the architects, Mr Thompson said.
"We're finalising the design so Naylor Love can put together a gross maximum price [GMP] contract.
"We have to make sure there aren't going to be any design changes after March 24 because Naylor Love will be committing to the GMP after that date.
"After that, Naylor Love put together the contracts, it's approved by the Ministry of Education and, we're estimating, site works [start] on the week of April 20."
A Maori blessing by a Wakatipu iwi representative would be given on a date to be confirmed but before site works begin.
The board hoped to place signage displaying the school concept plans on the 1.6ha site on Lake Ave this week or next, Mr Thompson said.
Former Southland principal Deborah Dickson has been selected to head more than 20 teachers and 460 pupils, including special needs children, in years 1 to 8, within 20 classrooms.
The school is expected to open partially (to some years) in the first term of 2010, before its full opening on the first day of the second term.
The new Government announced capital funding of $17.3 million for Remarkables Primary School in December.
Education Minister Anne Tolley identified Frankton as the suburb with the largest roll pressure in Queenstown.
