In Victoria the cut off date for a child to start school the year is April 30. Any child with a birthday after then starts the next year. It use to be 30 June but was changed a few years ago

Prep is a wonderful year for children and parents.
There is a huge change from kinder to prep. They take a while to adjust to the longer days as in 9-3.30 5 days a week, being in class in hot weather and even the difference of eating snacks and lunch.
Prep at the start of the year is taught with fun activities but lots of learning and with lots of interaction with class members and even older children.
Many children have not had much interaction with older children and seeing a year 6 boys can be very scary and not just for the prep child