Right in Qld prep is the year before school. School starts with year one - pre used to be called preschool - till they changed it and confused everyone- two years on and we are still scratching our heads!

That's why I thought your daughter would be 19 finishing school, if you kept her back for prep till 6 she'd be 7 in grade one.

So with her being 5 in prep (year one here) she will be a year younger than children have to be to start year one here in Qld.

I thought the whole point with Qld changing was to bring us 'in line' with the other states - clearly this is not true.

I think it should be made uniform across the country and called the same thing too!