For Victorian government schools, Foundation (Prep) enrolments for the 2025 school year will open from the start of Term 2, 2024, on Monday 15 April.
We are asking parents and carers of children starting school next year to apply to enrol by Friday 26 July 2024.
All Victorian government primary schools will follow this timeline.
We have developed information and resources to make the enrolment process simpler, available at Enrolling in Foundation (Prep). This page includes an enrolment information pack for parents and carers, and an application form. A fact sheet and poster are also available in more than 40 languages.
How you can support families
To help families of children in Four-Year-Old Kindergarten programs understand the enrolment timeline, please share resources from the information pack for the early childhood education sector. This pack is available at Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).
The pack has information about the enrolment process to provide to families and staff, with resources including a poster, fact sheet, website content, social media content and newsletter text.
Please share these resources through your own communication channels so families are aware of the timeline and children can get excited about the start of their school journey.
For information about transition to school, refer to moving to primary school, which has resources including:
As part of communicating this process, services may receive questions from families regarding access to a second year of kindergarten. Information about eligibility for a second year of kindergarten and guidance on the associated processes and resources to help you communicate with families can be found at Second year of funded Four-Year-Old Kindergarten.
Find out more
For more information, refer to Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).
For further enquiries, contact the senior transition officer in your regional office by email:
- North-east region: enrolments.nev@education.vic.gov.au
- North-west region: enrolments.nwv@education.vic.gov.au
- South-east region: enrolments.sev@education.vic.gov.au
- South-west region: enrolments.swv@education.vic.gov.au
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