Belmont Public School
Transition to Kindergarten 2015 Program
www.belmont-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Date
Thursday
28th August
6:00 pm
Tuesday
28th October
12:15 pm – 1:30pm
Tuesday
4th November
12:15 pm – 1:30pm
Event
Parent Information Evening
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Venue
Kinder Classrooms
Readiness for Kinder
Transition procedures
How you can help your child prepare for kinder
Orientation to School
New kindies will meet their buddies and go on a tour of the
school and share some activities in the kinder rooms while
Parents attend an information session on school procedures
and kindergarten routines.
Everyone is then invited to enjoy a sausage sizzle lunch.
School Library /
Early Birds - Session 1
Kinder Classrooms
Infants playground
Parents and children participate in a variety of fun activities
with Kinder teachers
Recess with buddies so bring along a small snack and drink.
Tuesday
11th November
12:15 pm – 1:30pm
Early Birds - Session 2
Kinder Classrooms
Parents and children participate in a typical day in kinder – a
music lesson, a visit to the library and a game on the oval.
Recess again with the buddies.
Tuesday
18th November
12:15 pm – 1:30pm
Early Birds - Session 3
Kinder Classrooms
Children continue with a variety of learning activities.
Parents attend a Literacy information session where one of
the Kinder teachers will show you how we teach reading and
writing in Early Stage 1 and how you can help your child.
Recess again with buddies.
Tuesday
25th November
12:15 pm – 1:30pm
Early Birds - Session 4
Children participate in their final fun learning session.
Parents attend a Maths information session to explain what
your child will learn in Maths and show you how you can help
your child develop their number concepts by playing games at
home.
Final recess with buddies.
Kinder Classrooms
Outline of each ‘Early Birds’ Session and what your child will
need to bring:
 At the start of each ‘Early Birds’ session our buddies will be waiting to meet you and
your child outside the front office. From here the buddies will take you to where you
need to be.
 A sign-on sheet will be placed outside the kindergarten classrooms, please make sure
you sign on at each ‘Early Birds’ session. This is also where you will collect your child’s
name badges.
 For the Orientation Session we will be having a ‘Welcome BBQ’ so children do not
need to bring any snacks or drinks
 On each of the following ‘Early Birds’ sessions, children will have the opportunity to
eat recess with their buddies in our infants playground. Please have your child bring
along a small lunch box with a snack to eat and a drink bottle (NOTE: We are a nutfree school)
 During the final two sessions parents are invited to attend workshops led by our
kindergarten teachers. These workshops will provide you with information on how
we teach reading, writing and mathematics in kindergarten and how you can help
prepare your child for ‘big school’. We will also be providing activity packs containing
great readiness resources for you and your child to use at home. If you are unable to
attend one of these sessions please let the kindergarten staff know and we will
organise postage of your readiness packs.
 At the end of each session we will collect all the children’s badges to ensure they are
available again for following sessions
We look forward to getting to know you and your children
throughout our transition program and we will endeavour
to make this transition as smooth and exciting as possible.
If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to
contact us.