Enrolment for 2025 kindergarten registration is now open
Do you have a little one starting kinder next year? 🤸♀️
We manage a central registration and enrolment service for 17 community kindergartens in Bayside.
To enroll at any of these kindergartens, families must first submit a registration between 1 May and 30 June. All registrations received during this period are treated as being received at the same time. It is not first in, first served.
Register for 2025 kindergarten now
Is my child ready for 3-year-old kinder?
To help you make an informed decision about your child's readiness, talk to your Maternal and Child Health Nurse, do some research on-line, or attend the upcoming online Kinder Readiness session with Melinda Vander Reest from the Early Life Foundation.
Melinda provides an evidence-based session to help you make an informed decision about when to start your child at kindergarten.
When: Tuesday 14 May, 7pm to 8pm
Location: Online - a weblink will be sent to you the day before the session
Suitable for: Parents and families with kindergarten aged children
Price: FREE
Book Kindergarten Readiness online session
About kindergarten programs
Kindergarten is an educational program provided in a stand-alone kindergarten or integrated in a childcare/long day care or early learning centre.
To set children up for success, give them the best start by considering when your child is likely to gain the most benefit from starting school, as this will help you determine when your child's kindergarten experience should commence. Your child must be at school in the year that they turn six years of age, this is the compulsory school starting age.
Once a child starts three-year-old kindergarten, their education journey has commenced with an expectation of moving into four-year-old kindergarten the following year and then school the year after.
