Gosh I'm envious of all the orientations you guys get!! We get one morning (I think it's about two hours) where dd2 will go and join a kindy class and the parents have a big session on the run down of school life, all very general and not very informative really. And I think that's it for the orientation part.
Then the week before school goes back we go in for her best start test, where she goes off with a teacher and comes back when she's done.
We don't find out who her teacher is or anything until her first day where they pool them together in one big room and call out the classes one by one. Which of course you can never hear anything.
That been said we haven't had any info on the orientation date yet, I know from the school newsletter that it's in week 3 or 4 of this term (so sometime in the next 2 to 3 weeks), apparently they are sending out a letter to inform us soon..