Parent Information Booklet

Enrolment and Transition

Welcome

We would like to extend a warm welcome to all our families considering Toorak Primary as their school of choice for 2023. Below is information specific to Foundation enrolees and their families.

 

Enrolment

Students residing within our school zone are guaranteed a place at our school. Our school zone is available on  findmyschool.vic.gov.au 

Our school manages enrolments using the Placement Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and may enrol at another school, if there are available places. For more information, you can:

If you would like to enrol your child at Toorak Primary School, please contact the school on 9827 2959 or complete an expression of interest form and email to toorak.ps@education.vic.gov.au.

 

Additional Enrolment Documentation:

For Australian born students, we require a current immunisation certificate and an original birth certificate. For international born students, we require a passport, current Visa Sub-Class and an immunisation certificate. Please note, students holding certain types of visas may need to be enrolled via the International Student Unit. If you do not have the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register certificate, kindly take your immunisation records to the Stonnington City Council offices, corner of Chapel Street and Greville Street in Prahran. 

 

Transition

Toorak Primary School is committed to welcoming all our Foundation students and their families to the school community and to making the transition to school a positive experience for all. The Foundation Transition program traditionally commences in Term 4 in the year preceding school entry. The Program launches with an information session for parents, where the Principal, staff members, student leaders and representatives from the wider school community provide information about school programs and curriculum. 

Foundation students are invited to attend four separate, 50 minute sessions in the prep classrooms. During these sessions, they undertake a variety of literacy, numeracy and wellbeing activities and also have the opportunity to explore the classroom environment and meet teachers, senior student leaders and other students who will start school at the same time. While these sessions are running, further opportunities are provided for new parents to network and mingle. 

 

Literacy and Numeracy Assessments

To further support the transition program, your child will undertake a one-on-one literacy and numeracy assessment with his/her classroom teacher so that she/her can ascertain your child's strengths and future growth. Assessments are scheduled prior to your child commencing school.  You will be invited to attend book into one of these sessions.