2023 Timetable
2023 Enrolment Information
Children’s Starting Ages
Under the National Quality Framework, the minimum educator to child ratio for children under three is 1:4. For children over three years of age the ratio is 1:11. For services that can cover the required ratios for children under three years old, these children will be able to attend.
Services can work with families of children born between January and April to decide whether to enrol their children in the year they turn three, or the following year. These decisions will be up to individual families. Factors that might be taken into consideration include the individual child’s developmental and learning levels, family circumstances and preferred school starting age. Families should be encouraged to talk to your service’s kindergarten teachers and other early childhood professionals such as Maternal Child Health nurses to help inform their decision. Children under three will not be able to attend a funded kindergarten program until their third birthday.
Funding an Additional Year of Kindergarten
Currently, children in Four-Year-Old Kindergarten program who have developmental delays in two or more key areas of development and would benefit from a second year of kindergarten will be eligible to access a second year of funded kindergarten following an assessment by an early childhood teacher.
All children in Three-Year-Old Kindergarten will be expected to transition to Four-Year-Old kindergarten in the following year. A funded second year of kindergarten will only be available for children in the Four-Year-Kindergarten Program.
