Foundation (Prep/Kinder) 2016 chatter

[xXHopeXx]

Oh good! Thanks teeki! Lol

[nickle730]

I'll join in, my DD2 will start Prep in Victoria in 2016. She will go to the same school as her older brother and sister. She starts ELC3 (3 year old kinder) at the same school this year and she is VERY excited. I'm hoping for an easy settling in as she is very familiar with the school and knows an awful lot of the kids. Her class this year is made up of 12 or 13 younger siblings of existing students (the remainder are new to the school) so she already knows most of her class. My other two attended the same ELC program and loved it, I'm sure DD2 will too. The transition to Prep in 2016 should be pretty smooth - same school, new classroom and some more friends!

[Rowellen]

The school we've chosen for DD is the one her big brother will be going to. I had narrowed it down to 2 by looking at the schools websites, googling and my schools. We actually ended up choosing my second preference based on location, cost and the fact I found second hand uniforms on gumtree lol. We have a public school with a really good rep walking distance from our house. So cheap, convenient & ticked all our other boxes.

My first choice was a private school, a 10+ minute drive away. Really impressive, not overly costly (about the same as I'm currently paying for daycare),christian based school with a great rep. I really liked that it went from p-12. We did a tour & were impressed in every way (cleanliness, friendliness & openness of staff & teachers, positivity of the students, opportunities available for sport, music etc). I intend to enrol both kids eventually. If local public school doesn't work out, I will enrol them earlier otherwise I'll enrol them for high school. I'm hoping that by going public for primary, I will be able to save enough that I might be able to allow them to go on trips in high school. The high school we want does a trip to Thailand where they visit poor communities and work with them, which I think they would be very beneficial for self absorbed teenagers.

[phebee]

This thread is for what you call Pre-Primary. SA also calls the four year old year Kindergarten

Oh so my DD would go in a 2017 thread then?

[~Kim~]

Oh so my DD would go in a 2017 thread then?

Yep

[peanutter]

This is so, so frustrating. I can't see this thread (or basically any others I'm interested in, at the moment).

I might need to self ban until this white screen thing is fixed.

[CinderToriella]

My DD1 will be turning 6 in march that year , she will be starting kindy then

[peanutter]

Investigating kinders ... Different thread, but linked!

[peanutter]

Sooooooooooo, I've set up 11 interview with local schools. April is going to be busy!!

[Beautiful Disaster]

I need to get our application in too. Just hadn't thought that far ahead.

Mildz how come you hold her back??

[TeniBear]

Wait, what? Should I be getting onto booking tours and such now? Or are you just being super organised?

I'm still not even 100% sure where the school is that I'm sending DD1 I need to go visit...

[feeb]

I am glad I don't need to go school hunting!!!

I do have days of thinking maybe I should send DS2 next year instead as he is actually doing more of DS1 things with no fuss than DS1 is. Wants to do the readers and the flash cards etc! But he would be so very young that I do know deep down waiting a year will be beneficial for him in the long term.

PN good luck with all of them!

Teni how can you not know where school is you have picked?? is it zoned is it close enough to be able to walk?

[TeniBear]

I mean I don't know the exact address - I know vaguely where it is in the suburb, I've just not been there

Not really close enough to walk, but simple enough with public transport and extremely easy if I have a car by then. It's actually close to where DH and I met!

I've heard a little more about the five-minute-walk-away one, and I'm very adamant the girls won't be going there. It doesn't have a great reputation, and that's saying a lot for this area!

[peanutter]

I'm super organised

I want to do the tours myself (with DH) which means taking annual leave for them, and we want to pick the school.before we decide the kinder. We need to book the kinder soon (probably by June) so we need to get a wriggle on!!

[Olive]

I wouldn't be waiting until June to pick a kinder, I'd be putting applications in every kinder you think you may go, in our council each kinder handles the enrolments, I know for our kinder, the enrolment forms are out now, given most criteria you'll need to get in ASAP to get the kinder and times you want.

[Lenny]

I am glad I don't need to go school hunting!!!

I do have days of thinking maybe I should send DS2 next year instead as he is actually doing more of DS1 things with no fuss than DS1 is. Wants to do the readers and the flash cards etc! But he would be so very young that I do know deep down waiting a year will be beneficial for him in the long term.

PN good luck with all of them!

Teni how can you not know where school is you have picked?? is it zoned is it close enough to be able to walk?

I feel the same way feeb. Ds2 is so different to ds1. Delaying school was the absolute most rewarding decision we made for ds1. Ds2, hmm. Don't know. It's tough!

[~clover~]

DD3 is the only one of my kids who'll be older. My others are all younger than their class mates, being born in March, April & early June.

DD3 is October. She'll start 4yo kindy next year - 2, then 3 days a week - then Preprimary in 2016. Looking forward to her going Kind of...

No choice of schools here. Its High schools I have to make a decision on for next year :/ Boarding schools...

[peanutter]

The kinders I've spoken to have all said 4yo enrolments aren't done until much later in the year ...?

Might make some more calls just in case!!