[Miss_Missy_Moo]

Hi, Just wondering how your kindergarten is going to implement the 15hours min that comes in next year?
Our kinder currently runs 2 4yr old groups only with one teacher and one assistant…
They only have one room so it is going to be a bit of a juggle on how they are going to do it?
Is your kinder in a similar situation and how will they deal with it??
thanks

[SeaPrincess]

DS1's old school already does a 3 day week for kindy.

Our current school did 3 days last year, but this year kindy enrolments are up and they are doing a 5-day fortnight. DS2 goes on Thurs/Fri and every second Wed. The other group is Mon/Tues and the alternating Wed.
ETA: this option was decided after surveying the incoming kindy parents and holding a meeting. The alternative was 2 full days and one half-day per week.

R

This post has been edited by shmach: 25/03/2012, 04:50 PM

[allyr]

Ours has two rooms. In one room there are 2 classes, in the other there is one. The preschool runs a five day fortnight, so three days one week and two the other.

So my boy goes full days Mon, Tues, Wed one week and then Mon, Tues the other. My friends son goes the Thur, Fri one week and then Wed, Thur, Fri, the next.

[naturalgoodness]

Ours is dreadful. Its broken up in Group A and Group B and here are the times

Group A
Monday 8.30-11.30
Tuesday 8.30-3.00
Wednesday 8.30-11.30
Friday 8.30-11.30

Group B
The afternoons with all day Thursday

This means that we are at kindy 4 days of the week and have to use childcare (and pay for the whole day) to be able to continue working. Only 3 terms to go

[*Mumma-to-A*]

15 hours was implented this year for us (WA)

1 kindy class and 2 groups with 20 kids each. Each group has a different teacher.

Group 1

Monday morning 8.30 - 11.30 (I think)
Wednesday all day 8.30 -2.30 (early close on wednesdays)
Friday all day 8.30 - 2.50

Group 2 (DS class)

Monday Afternoon 12.10 - 2.50
Tuesday all day 8.30 -2.50
Thursday all day 8.30 -2.50

Other schools is the area also do a 3day/2day fortnight and local catholic school just does 3 days a week (but 29 kids and only 1 class) Also another school is doing 2 days term 1& 2 and 3 days term 3&4.

[tibs]

Our 4 year old classes already do 3 days so 18 hours. The 3 year olds go the other 2 days. We have two classrooms and each class has 1 teacher and 2 assistants with 20 kids.

[-Moxie-]

We already have 15 hours. They have a 5 day fortnight (mon, Wed, fri one week, then tues and thurs the next.)
There are 2.5 classes as one is a K/PP
The main teacher does Mon-thurday with a different one doing every Friday. There is also a third teacher than floats around doing relief days in the junior section. The assistant seems to be there every day, but I think she does 2 half days in there.

Im in WA so Kindy is 4/5 year olds.

[tkenhrb]

Ours has two rooms. There are four classes. The preschool runs a five day fortnight, so three days one week and two the other.

So my DD goes full days Mon, Tues, Wed one week and then Mon, Tues the other. My friends DD goes the Thur, Fri one week and then Wed, Thur, Fri, the next.

[judy_]

In WA where kindergarten is almost always at the school most schools are doing either 2 full days plus 1 half day OR 3 days one week and 2 days the next.

It is complicated by the fact that kindergarten and pre-primary teachers only do 4 days contact a week and 1 day non-contact. This is stipulated in their award. This worked well when kids did 2 full days.

My son will start in a british curriculum school in September. He will be almost 4 - it's straight up 5 days. 7.30 - 12.30 so 25 hours a week. He will be almost the oldest in the class, so some kids will be just 3 years old and going 5 days a week. Then the following year it's 7.30 - 2.15 every day. Some kids obviously will be just turning 4 years old.....

[spersephone]

We are trying to work out how to do it. I don't yet know whether it means we will reduce what we can offer to the three year olds or not. As it stands, it is impossible to keep up the current hours for three year olds as well as implement the 15 hours for four year olds.

I should add that we are a single room premises, so there's physically not enough room for us to make the change without something suffering.

This post has been edited by spersephone: 02/04/2012, 03:51 PM