chris-nicola-ellie.

Hi all,

We are moving to Perth region in Feb/march 12 my eldest daughter will be 5yrs old in feb 2012, what age will she start school, as she will have done about 3/4 of her first year here in uk.

Thanks

Kim67

Your daughter won't start Year 1 (the first compulsory year of school in Western Australia until 1 February 2013.

Term dates 2013

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/t...es/future.html

Age calculator

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/ece/calculator.html

Some private schools may offer you age concession but if your daughter is gong into the free government school system, she will have to wait. You will have to find her a pre-school program, usually attached to your local school and places can be hard to get, but you may jag one.

Good luck.

HelenTD

Your daughter will be entitled to go into a pre-primary programme, which is full-time, the same number of hours as Year 1 onwards.

Sometimes you can't get into your local school where your child will be doing Year 1 and you are not meant to apply for kindy/PP at more than one school (some parents do and if found out, may be put at the bottom of the list for places). In your situation, if you have an idea of which suburbs you would like to live in, you should contact the schools or look online to apply for a PP place now. You also might find that a school is prepared to put her into Year 1, if they consider her ready.

northernbird

At our school it is already too late, Kindy and PP are both full for next year. Most schools will already be getting an idea of numbers for next year so they can sort out their teaching staff allocation.

Japonica

Yeah, our school does interviews for Kindy in July.

HelenTD

At our school they are still taking enrolments until the end of Term 3, almost upon us. Some people enrol later, though, and still get places. Some people change their minds and then a place is made available to someone else on the waiting list. It does vary a lot, depending on the demographics, so areas with large numbers of families with young kids will fill their places sooner. One day, maybe the Ed Dept here will look at the birth rate and the number of migrants and provide enough places in areas where people live.

al150n

There are going to be quite a few changes over the next few years as WA moves over to the National Curriculum. This means class sizes in Kindy & pre-primary may alter because of the staff to child ratio. Kindy will become part of the 0-5 Early Years Foundation (or wording to the effect) & although many will be on school sites they won't actually be part of the school. Pre-primary will become compulsory & change to Foundation year. The area that is going to cause a few problems is year 7 as to fall in line with the National Curriculum year 7 will be the first year of High School although that is not going to be possible here for a while yet.

But for now everything is still the same

Alison x

chris-nicola-ellie.

Fantastic replys all, thank you x