Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
Ahh. It gets confusing, as Kindergarten up here is followed by Pre-School (reception), and then year 1.
Yours is the similar to NSW, where my daughter did full time Kindergarten, followed by Year 1 starting at age 5yrs 8months.
Yours is the similar to NSW, where my daughter did full time Kindergarten, followed by Year 1 starting at age 5yrs 8months.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
Ahh. It gets confusing, as Kindergarten up here is followed by Pre-School (reception), and then year 1.
Yours is the similar to NSW, where my daughter did full time Kindergarten, followed by Year 1 starting at age 5yrs 8months.
Yours is the similar to NSW, where my daughter did full time Kindergarten, followed by Year 1 starting at age 5yrs 8months.
Nicky
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by fraser
Next Febuary.
My 6 year old did a year at school in uk, then did year 1 here last year and has just started year 2.
Also my 3 1/2 year old is just starting 3 year kinder (about 5 hours a week!) He started today and really enjoyed it! Hope Henry has fun!
Ruth
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by Pootle
Do you mean he'll start prep year next year followed by year 1?
My 6 year old did a year at school in uk, then did year 1 here last year and has just started year 2.
Also my 3 1/2 year old is just starting 3 year kinder (about 5 hours a week!) He started today and really enjoyed it! Hope Henry has fun!
Ruth
My 6 year old did a year at school in uk, then did year 1 here last year and has just started year 2.
Also my 3 1/2 year old is just starting 3 year kinder (about 5 hours a week!) He started today and really enjoyed it! Hope Henry has fun!
Ruth
He'll be doing 12 hours a week.
He can't wait he was used to being at nursery from 8am until 5pm in London.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by fraser
We thought he started school next year, certainly hope he is as he's ready o start now.
He'll be doing 12 hours a week.
He can't wait he was used to being at nursery from 8am until 5pm in London.
He'll be doing 12 hours a week.
He can't wait he was used to being at nursery from 8am until 5pm in London.
At least you get some gov funding for 4 year kinder - you don't for 3 years, so for 5 hours its more expensive than it will be for 11 hours next year. Looks like you're not the only one who'll be looking for work!!
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
The no choclate rule, is probably something to do with some children being highly allergic to Peanuts. As a lot of choclate products carry warnings about traces of nuts. The ruling about the Chips could possibly be allergy aspect there as well, but more likely a ruling about junk food.
Our older two children never encountered the no choclate rule, but our younger two, always had those rulings, at their respective kinders.
The lunch at kindy rule, is possibly aimed at the children that do aftercare on top of the Kinder, also could be a socialisation thing. Very big on the Socialsation aspect the early school years in Aussie.
Our older two children never encountered the no choclate rule, but our younger two, always had those rulings, at their respective kinders.
The lunch at kindy rule, is possibly aimed at the children that do aftercare on top of the Kinder, also could be a socialisation thing. Very big on the Socialsation aspect the early school years in Aussie.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by webgum
Sounds like WA is the same as Queensland, My son (aged 5) has just started pre-primary.
However QLD is altering the system soon to delay the starting ages.
The UK is investigating doing the same, a survey was carried out between Jan and Dec 2005 by the Institute of Fiscal Studies to determine what age children should start primary school, as there is increasing debate about the early starting age.
Currently it is common for children to go to UK school at the start of the term in which they will become five. Here in Australia they wait until the beginning of a full year before starting, hence the delay that people refer to as the different starting age.
ie: A January 2002 Child would start year one in QLD in 2007 at age 5
The same child would start in the UK also in January 2007 but part way into the year.
A child born one month later in Feb 2002 wouldn't start in QLD until Jan 2008, but would start in the UK in April 2007 ?
I think
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
It's a concern of ours too. Our son Josh (now 4 and a half) was born on Aug 29th, so he was the youngest in his year at the reception class at his primary. But they expect them to be pretty organised from the get-go - and he does a full day with no problems. We're hoping the local school let him go straight into the reception year rather than kindy because he'll find it *really* similar to the nursery he left nearly a year ago. He sure as hell isn't going private - every single one of them round there is some god-bothering church-related institute for happy clappers. Not that I'm anti-religion or anything.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
The no choclate rule, is probably something to do with some children being highly allergic to Peanuts. As a lot of choclate products carry warnings about traces of nuts. The ruling about the Chips could possibly be allergy aspect there as well, but more likely a ruling about junk food.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by fraser
We have to bring two lunch boxes one with a snack in and one with lunch even though he's never there at lunch time he'll do 3 four hour sessions and yet he needs a meal and a snack
They also said to buy a simple lunch box so that he can open it himself as they like to encourage the children to open their own stuff, FFS he could open a safe at two, the problem we have is finding stuff complicated enough so that the little sod can't open it.
They also said to buy a simple lunch box so that he can open it himself as they like to encourage the children to open their own stuff, FFS he could open a safe at two, the problem we have is finding stuff complicated enough so that the little sod can't open it.
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by Hutch
We're hoping the local school let him go straight into the reception year rather than kindy because he'll find it *really* similar to the nursery he left nearly a year ago. He sure as hell isn't going private - every single one of them round there is some god-bothering church-related institute for happy clappers. Not that I'm anti-religion or anything.
The private christian schools can actually be worth looking at. I never was one for Christian anything, church, schools etc. But some of these schools do not seem to be really religious at all. We had more RE lessons at school in UK than some of these do
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
hmmmm did u ask if they have covers over the dunnie....we know how the wee man gets very \flushed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by biggy
hmmmm did u ask if they have covers over the dunnie....we know how the wee man gets very \flushed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
Originally Posted by fraser
Wrong child
bugger so it is lol
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Re: Rachel has just been for Henry's kindy interview.
My wee man was born in July so he will be 5 and a half before he starts prep, which seems very late to me. Am I right in that kindie before then isn't compulsery so you have to pay for it? We live in QLD btw.
Katie
ps I hope your wee lad enjoys himself at kindie Fraser
Katie
ps I hope your wee lad enjoys himself at kindie Fraser