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Department of Education

• Education – information for parents home
• Child care
  • Child care
  • Accessing child care guide
  • Preparing for child care
    • Preparing for child care
    • How to choose a quality early childhood service
    • Regulation of child care and kindergarten
    • Play-based learning for preschoolers
    • How to build your child's literacy skills from birth to year 2
  • Starting child care
    • Starting child care
    • Types of child care
    • Costs of child care
    • How to choose the best child care
    • How to enrol in child care
    • Childcare and kindergarten for Aboriginal children
  • Find local child care
  • Information for early childhood education providers
• Kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • Kindergarten programs and initiatives
    • Kindergarten programs and initiatives
    • Types of kindergarten programs
    • Early Start Kindergarten
    • Three-Year-Old Kindergarten
    • Kindergarten for Aboriginal children: Koorie Kids Shine
    • Kindergarten for culturally and linguistically diverse children
    • Kinder Tick
  • Starting kindergarten
    • Starting kindergarten
    • When to start kindergarten
    • How to choose a kindergarten
    • Costs of kindergarten
    • How to enrol in kindergarten
    • Tips for starting kindergarten
    • Does my child need a second year of kindergarten?
    • Going to kindergarten if your child is 6 years old
    • Moving from kindergarten to school
  • Find a kindergarten program
• School
  • School
  • Starting school
    • Starting school
    • Types of schools
    • School zones
    • Enrolling in school
    • Enrolling in Foundation
    • Tips for starting school
    • Starting primary school guide
    • Moving from primary school to secondary school
    • Starting secondary school guide
    • Changing schools
    • Selective entry high schools
    • Selective entry high school practice tests
  • Attending school
    • Attending school
    • Attendance and missing school
    • Homework
    • Student reports and parent-teacher conferences
    • Travelling to school
    • School uniforms
    • Mobile phones in school
    • Building a positive relationship with your child's school
    • Immunisation
    • Health and wellbeing staff in schools
  • Supporting your child's education
    • Supporting your child's education
    • How to build your child's literacy skills from birth to Grade 2
    • How to build your child's numeracy skills from birth to Grade 2
    • How to build your child's literacy skills from Grades 3 to 6
    • How to build your child's numeracy skills from Grades 3 to 6
    • Literacy and numeracy tips in your language
    • Tutor learning initiative - extra learning support for your child
    • Find a language program
    • Encouraging science, technology, engineering and maths skills
    • Ways to get involved in your child's school
    • Speak to your child in the language you know best
  • Costs, fees and funding
    • Costs, fees and funding
    • School costs and fees
    • Help with school costs and fees
    • Student scholarships
    • Find your school's funding
  • Home schooling
    • Home schooling
    • Home school your child
    • Partial enrolment - combine school and home education
  • Leaving school
    • Leaving school
    • Study options in year 11 and 12
      • Study options in year 11 and 12
      • School-based apprenticeships and traineeships
      • VET pathways in schools
    • Study and training after your child leaves school
    • If your child wants to leave school early
    • Talk to your child about their career
  • Find my School
  • School policies and guidance
• Disability and inclusive education
  • Disability and inclusive education
  • Disability rights and adjustments in school
    • Disability rights and adjustments in school
    • Disability rights and responsibilities in schools
    • Reasonable school adjustments for disability
    • Making school buildings and equipment accessible
  • Starting, attending and leaving school with disability
    • Starting, attending and leaving school with disability
    • Starting school for children with additional needs
    • Moving to secondary school for students with additional needs
    • Getting to and from school for students with disability
    • Travel training for students commuting to specialist school
    • Leaving school and career planning - students with disability
    • Understanding communication needs and getting support
    • Speech, language and communication assessment
  • Disability support at school
    • Disability support at school
    • Support for students with high care needs
    • Extra learning support for students with additional needs
    • Extra support from specialist staff in schools
    • Working with education providers if your child has additional needs
    • Student support groups for children with additional needs
    • How you can support your child with additional needs at home
  • Programs for students with disability
    • Programs for students with disability
    • The NDIS and schools
    • Disability program support groups
    • Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD)
    • Disability inclusion: extra support for children with disability
  • Physical disability at school
    • Physical disability at school
    • Understanding physical disability and health care needs for education
    • Hearing assessments
    • Understanding hearing loss
    • Support in early childhood for hearing loss
    • Support at school for hearing loss
    • Getting assessed for vision impairment
    • Understanding vision impairment
    • Support at school for students with vision impairment
  • Learning difficulties
    • Learning difficulties
    • Understanding learning difficulties
  • Intellectual disability at school
    • Intellectual disability at school
    • Getting assessed for intellectual disability
    • Understanding intellectual disability
    • Getting assessed for autism
    • Understanding autism
    • Support at school for students with autism
  • Help for children with additional needs at kindergarten
• Issues, incidents and feedback
  • Issues, incidents and feedback
  • Behavioural issues
    • Behavioural issues
    • If you have concerns about your preschooler's behaviour
    • If your school-aged child has difficult behaviour
  • Incidents
    • Incidents
    • Incidents at school
    • If your child is suspended from school
    • If your child is expelled from school
    • Repeating a year level
  • Feedback, complaints and reports
    • Feedback, complaints and reports
    • Make a complaint about early childhood services
    • Make a complaint or raise a concern about your school
    • Make a privacy complaint
    • Provide feedback about government schools or school staff
    • Report abuse if you’re a current or former student
    • Report racism or religious discrimination in schools
  • Independent Office for School Dispute Resolution
• TAFE & training
  • TAFE & training
  • Free TAFE for lots of jobs
  • Find training to get the job you want
  • Apprentices and trainees
  • Learn Local
• Services for parents and carers
  • Services for parents and carers
  • Triple P online program
  • Support for students and their families affected by the 2022 floods
  • Smoking and vaping: Advice for parents