Contact your Early Childhood Improvement Branches (ECIB) for tailored advice. This may be particularly helpful if you have current or projected enrolments of eligible children (i.e., Early Start Kindergarten or Access to Early Learning), or there are families at your service who think additional Pre-Prep hours won’t suit their circumstances.
Further resources
- Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) — outlines the Practice Principles, Early Years Learning and Development Outcomes, and information about supporting transitions. All Pre-Prep program models should be designed with these front of mind.
- Change Management Toolkit — information and tools to help services work with their team and families to plan and implement Pre-Prep and continue Three-Year-Old Kindergarten.
- ‘Your Guide To’ information sheets (Multi-age groups, Rotational models, Teaching longer days, Team teaching) — advice about planning for and the benefits of particular program models, questions for reflective discussion and tips on communicating with families.
- Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) — includes QIP template, information about developing and reviewing your QIP, and self-assessment tool.
- Four-Year-Old Kindergarten is becoming Pre-Prep — information about Pre-Prep and the roll-out schedule. There is a calculator families can use to check their child’s eligibility for Pre-Prep.
- Early Start Kindergarten (ESK) — information about ESK, including translated brochures.
- Koorie Kids Shine — information and videos about the benefits of kindergarten for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and cultural safety at kindergarten.
- Supporting CALD families to engage in kindergarten — resources and programs to support communication with CALD families about kindergarten and its benefits, including in-language videos, a Community Event toolkit and information on the CALD Outreach Initiative.
- Foundation House Early Years Program — resources on identifying and building partnerships with families from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
- fka Children’s Services (fkaCS) — resources on engaging multilingual children in early childhood education, including eLearning series ‘Engaging with multilingual families about kindergarten’.
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