KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENT

 

 

 

Kindergarten Enrolment

Tackle the paperwork early

 

Getting administrative details out of the way well in advance can reduce your last minute anxieties and also help keep things calm for your child. Kindergarten registration takes place some time before the actual first day. Orientation enables parents and children to familiarise themselves with our school. At the orientation session the enrolment procedure for your child’s first school day will be explained. 

 

Birth certificates and vaccinations

 

Parents MUST show legal proof of their child’s date of birth, prior to enrolment. Children MUST turn five years of age by 31^st July, of the year that they wish to enrol. There are special procedures to be followed where parents seek early entry into school for their child, whom they consider to be talented in certain area.  All such requests need to be discussed with the Principal.

 

Childhood vaccinations need to be completed before your child starts school. Parents must present an Immunisation Certificate at the time of school enrolment. This will enable the school to identify children who have not been immunised and require them to stay at home if there is a disease outbreak. This is for the protection of the children and their family and friends.

 

Be prepared to let go

 

Letting go may be harder for you than for your child, so don’t let your doubts dampen your child’s enthusiasm. Tension in your voice and manner will make your child fearful as you say goodbye.

 

Parents should arrive on time and leave after a few cheerful words. Don’t linger. This can cause unnecessary distress or distract children from their first group activities. Don’t stay unless your child has a special problem and you have made prior arrangements with the teacher

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Encourage a POSITIVE attitude

 

You can help to build your child’s confidence in a number of ways. Willingness to try new ideas is an important skill for learning, so before school begins, help your child enjoy using words, numbers and colours in games you play together.

 

 

Establish your credibility

 

Make it a rule to be where you say you will be at the time you say. This creates a secure pattern of departure and return. That way your child will more readily accept separation from you, secure in the knowledge that you will come back, or be at home after school. Encourage your child to stay overnight or during the day with close relatives or friends and so get used to being away from you.

 

 

Kindergarten dismissal procedure

 

Parents are to wait under the COLA area.  Teachers will walk the children from the classroom to the COLA.  For the first three weeks of Term 1, Kindergarten children will be dismissed at 2:30pm.  Beginning Week 4    (Term 1) the children will remain at school the full day until 2:55pm.  Parents are required to make the necessary arrangements to collect their children on time.

 

 

Helpful hints for the first day

 

· Practise writing name in lower case letters (small letters not capitals).

· Recognise school bag, drink bottle, lunch box. 

· Practise opening bag, lunch box and drink bottle. 

· Recognise which is recess food and which is lunch.

· Make sure everything is clearly marked with your child’s name.

· Please explain to your child that they need to ask the teacher to go to the toilet.

 

 

Some helpful suggestions

 

Conscientious parents are always looking for ways of helping their children do well at school. Here are a few hints that can be guaranteed to get results

· Help the youngsters to feel good about themselves and about learning. 

· Encourage every effort. 

· Try to praise rather than blame.

· Read to them from the earliest age. 

· There is no better way to create a desire to read.

· Give presents of simply written and well illustrated books on a whole range of topics – both fiction and non-fiction.

· Encourage the children to write regularly in a variety of ways – letters, diaries, factual accounts, imaginative stories etc.  and accept their scribble writing without criticism.

· Praise the amount correct.

· With the younger ones, especially, try to cultivate a sense of number, size, length, height, width, volume, area, weight and time in everyday life.

· Join in with them in estimating, counting, calculating and so on.

· Take time to discuss everyday happenings.  Encourage questions and show how answers can be found.

· Regularly give them one of the most precious gifts you can – your time.

 

 

Parent’s  checklist

 

Have I completed the following?

· Shown proof of my residence to the Office eg. land rates, electricity bill etc.

· Shown my child’s birth certificate to the Office.

· Presented my child’s Immunisation Certificate (complete/incomplete) to the Office.

· Completed enrolment form and contact card.

· Completed medical indemnity form.

· Notified the Office that my child is on daily medication and completed the necessary paperwork.

· Ensured an emergency contact has been recorded for my child.

· All address, telephone etc. information is correct as at today’s date.

 

 

The five year old at school (Reference:  “The Child from 5 to 10”, Gesel)

· Not usually communicative about school life.

· More interested in teacher’s immediate approval than taking things home.

· Enjoys routine and adjusts well to activity program which allows freedom of movement and yet maintains sequence of separate activities.

· Usually completes a task although attention may wander to watch another child.

· Will finish a task when asked by the teacher and will help put away materials before moving to the next activity.

· Rest – often resisted if imposed.

· Enjoys directed activity for about twenty (20) minutes or time to complete a simple task (concentrates fully for only part of the time).

· Enjoys stories with repetitive action and phrases, particularly when dramatising after reading.

· Works in short bursts of energy – various position of body.

· Demands teacher’s attention NOW!

· Is ‘good’ because of a liking to please.

 

 

My child

 

The following checklist may be helpful in preparing your child for school. You can use it to ascertain any area in which further practice is needed.

 

· Knows full name.

· Can give address.

· Can state telephone number.

· Understands the dangers of traffic, electricity, fire, water, high places, strangers, medicine.

· Can recognise own belongings.

· Speaks clearly in sentences.

· Can make people outside of family understand wants.

· Can remember little songs and rhymes.

· Recognise own name in print.

· Washes own face and hands.

· Can use the toilet unaided.

· Can use a handkerchief or tissue correctly.

· Can take short messages.

· Likes to help with small household tasks.

· Is interested in looking at books.

· Likes to have stories read.

· Likes to play with other children.

· Can dress self.

· Accepts correction calmly.

· Can/is learning to tie shoelaces.