We have developed a Conversations with families about Pre-Prep guide to help services share information with families.
From next year, Pre-Prep becomes available to more eligible children. Services may receive more questions from parents and carers.
To support these conversations, the new guide has information about:
- what Pre-Prep is
- benefits of more hours
- when Pre-Prep will be available
- how services will deliver Pre-Prep (hours, cost, program)
- support for children with additional needs
- registering and enrolling in Pre-Prep.
It also includes links to resources for promoting Pre-Prep to your community. This includes 4 Pre-Prep videos that you can share on your social media channels and your website.
Please share this guide with staff to support them to talk about Pre-Prep.
A reminder that Victorian funded kindergarten services and eligible early childhood support services can access free on-site, telephone and video interpreters. Funded kindergarten services can also access translation services for written information.
Further resources
- Four-Year-Old Kindergarten is becoming Pre-Prep – includes the full Pre-Prep roll-out schedule and a starting year calculator.
- Communicating about kindergarten to your community – includes communication packs, fact sheets, social media tiles and videos.
- Victorian Kindergarten Resources Portal – order printed materials about the Best Start, Best Life reforms and Pre-Prep, including translated resources.
- Change Management Toolkit – information and tools to help you work with your team and families to plan and implement Pre-Prep and continue delivering Three-Year-Old Kindergarten.
- ‘Your guide to’ information sheets on multi-age groups, rotational models, team teaching and teaching longer days. These include advice about planning, the benefits of program models, and communicating with families.
- Engaging with multilingual families guide – information about creating inclusive environments, different ways to communicate, and getting the right language supports.
Find out more
For further enquiries, or to provide feedback on these resources, contact the department’s Change Management team by email: bsbl.change.management@education.vic.gov.au
For tailored advice and local knowledge, contact your local Early Childhood Improvement Branch.
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