GENERIC EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SCHOOL TO RECEIVE TRANSITION STATEMENTS FOR NEW ENROLMENTS FROM EARLY CHILDCARE PROVIDERS
To facilitate the sharing of transition statements between early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools, the Department has created a generic transition email address for schools to receive transition statements for new enrolments.
transitions@blackbuttss.eq.edu.au
These new email addresses were developed to make it easier for kindergartens to send the statements to the correct school.
Prep Ways – A school based program at Blackbutt State School
What is Prep Ways?
Prep
Ways is
a school based program designed to help you and your child enrol in Prep for
2021
This
program includes:
One enrolment interview with the 2021 prep teacher and/or the Principal;
Attendance at one Prep Information session. This is a general information session that will answer your questions about Prep and help you with ways to get your 2021 Prep child/ren ready. This session will be on Monday 7 December 2020 from 9.00am to 10.00am.
Our Ready, Set, Prep program where your child/ren get the opportunity to experience a Prep classroom on Monday 7 December during the information session 9.00 to 11.30am and participate in the Under 8’s school activity held on in term 2 2020.
During Semester two 2020, our Prep teacher visits
the two Early Childcare providers in Blackbutt for half a day every
fortnight.
During these visits, our Prep
teacher will observe and interact with your prep to be children and staff from
both centres to help transition your child/ren into Prep 2021.
What
is Ready, Set, Prep?
Ready, Set, Prep is a part of a school
program that enables your prospective Prep child to participate in one
classroom session and meet the Prep teacher and participate in Under 8’s Day at
the school.
This
session will be held on Monday 7 December 2020 The timetable is as
follows:
9.00am to 10.00am
All 2021 Preppies go to the prep classroom to participate in prep class activities
All new parents and carers go to the hall for a school orienation session.
Introduction and Welcome, an Orientation
session in the school hall includes curriculum expectations in Prep, uniforms, lunches, fruit break, school day
times, toilet procedures, P&C information, tuckshop, getting your child
ready for Prep
10.00am to 10.45am
You can choose to accompany your child to participate in Prep classroom work or leave them to do this themselves.
10.45am to 11.00am
Eating
time-bring along a nutritious snack to eat with your child or for your child to eat
11.00am to 11.30am
Watch
your child play in the school playground
11.30am
Finish
and leave with your child.
Prep enrolment interviews
Individual
interviews of approximately 60 minutes, are arranged by appointment at
Blackbutt State School. The interviews will be conducted by the Prep teacher
with assistance from the Principal.
Prep enrolment interview appointment dates:
Time 1: Wednesday 2 September Week 8 Term 3 2020
Time 2:
Wednesday 9 September Week 9 Term 3 2020
Time 3: Wednesday 5 November Week 5 T erm 4 2020
If these times don't suit, please phone the school and arrange a more convenient time for the enrolment.
To
arrange an interview, please phone Blackbutt State School on (07) 4170 2222 and ask
for a prep enrolment interview time on your selected date from above. You will
be asked to collect a Prep Enrolment Pack from the school’s office.
Sensitive
or confidential matters will be discussed if required at the interview. This
information includes medical, legal, custodial and cultural matters that you
deem are important for your child to be successful at school.
You
will need to bring the following to the interview:
A birth certificate for your Prep 2021 child for us to sight;
Accurate completion of the Prep Enrolment Pack; and
Any documentation to support medical, cultural, legal or custodial issues for your child/ren.
The process to enrol your child in prep 2020
Step 1
Phone the school
on (07) 4170 2222 and arrange an appointment time with the office staff. Collect the Prep Enrolment Pack from the
office.
Step 2
Complete the Prep Enrolment Pack.
Return the completed Enrolment Pack to the school’s
office with all supporting documents.
Step 3
Accurate completion of information in the Prep enrolment pack.
We
enter the information you give us into our departmental database. Please help
us by completing all parts of the pack and be as accurate as you can so that we
have current emergency contacts, phone numbers and email addresses
Step 4
Birth Certificate.
To
enrol you should have your
prospective Prep child/ren’s birth certificate/s.
Transition Statements
Please bring
along your Childcare Centre’s Transition Statement with a copy of your signed permission form for the Childcare Centre to give the school this information.
Step 5
Booking a Prep interview.
Office staff will book your
enrolment interview
Step 6
Attend Ready, Set, Prep program on Monday 7 December 2020.