Hi there

I'm so glad I found this thread but could you go through it again one more time for the dummies?? (ie me!)

I'm a NSW girl, living in Victoria at the moment but we are 99% positive we are going to relocat to Queensland and I'd only just got my head around the way the Vics do things.

In Vic, they do a 3 year old kinder which is twice a week for about 3 hours each time. When the kids turn 4 they do 4 year old kinder which I don't think is everyday. They then start primary school at the age of 5. The first year of primary school is called Prep. (In NSW it's Kindergarten, but anyhoo).

Sooooo......

Am I to understand that the first year of primary school" in Qld was originally Year 1 but a new year has now been introduced called Prep? And does this mean that kids are starting full time school a whole year earlier now?

Is the Community Kindergarten you talk about like preschool?

My DS will be 3 in September this year and has only ever been at home with me, I'm a bit alarmed to think that next year he will be going to preschool every single day. I don't know how that will go down! And we don't enrol them in 3 year old kinder in Vic till they turn 2 years old, have I missed the boat in Qld?
No you are fine. Your child won't got to prep (preschool) until 2012 - as he has to turn 5 by the 30 June in the year he attends - therefore as he doesn't turn 5 until Sept - he won't be allowed to go to prep until the following year - the year he turns 6.
Therefore he can do kindy from the age of 3 until he goes to prep. So I wouldguess that in 2010 he may start 2 day kindy then 2011 he'd do 3 day until he starts prep in 2012. AT least taht is what they tend to do here.

You've got ages yet!!!