As of 2012, families will need to choose either our long day care program or sessional kindergarten program for 3 and 4yo children. This is due to the ever-increasing demand for child care and sessional kindergarten and to give families on our waiting lists the best possible chance of being offered a place in either service.

The Department of Education & Early Childhood Development (DEECD) provides a per capita grant for every child attending a 4 year old kindergarten program. This funding enables the centre to employ qualified kindergarten teachers in our 4yo kindergarten programs in the long day care and sessional kindergarten programs, allowing children to receive a minimum 11 hours of kindergarten per week in the year prior to starting school. Each child can access this funding only once. Your child cannot be enrolled in two funded programs and the funding is for only one year although a child who is formally assessed as having significant additional needs may be entitled to a second year of funded pre-school. This does not include children who are delaying entry to school because their parents think that they are too young.

Families are required to sign a form acknowledging that they are aware that the centre is in receipt of this funding for their child and that their child is not enrolled in a funded program at a different childcare centre or kindergarten (or the alternative program within Poets Grove).

Lynne Mohr (Centre Manager and Long Day Care Enrolments)

frontdesk@poetsgrove.com

Theresa Mongan (Sessional Kindergarten Enrolments Officer)

info@poetsgrove.com