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2021 into 2022 “Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning, but also capable of succeeding.” - Robert John Meehan
Prep Enrolment Process
1. Book in for a Principal Tour (Optional)
Experience our school and it’s classrooms. On the tour you will be guided through the school
personally by the Principal and provided a snapshot of our school’s opportunities, facilities,
teaching practice and values. The tour ends with time to ask any further questions
2. Contact us when you are ready to enrol your child by:
a) Picking up an Application for Enrolment Pack from our front office.
b) Calling the school on 4034 7333 to have a pack posted to your address.
c) Downloading an Application Form from our website.
https://whitfieldss.eq.edu.au/enrolments/enrolling-at-our-school
d) Sending in an Expression of Interest (from our website) and our enrolments officer will give
you a call to discuss enrolment.
Paperwork to be handed in when you Lodge your Enrolment:
• Application for Enrolment Form
• Your Child’s Birth Certificate
• Junior Resource Form
• Prep Questionnaire
• Proof of residency (if you live in our catchment area)
• Court Orders (if any)
3. Attend a Prep Enrolment Interview
Enrolment Interviews are being held on the following days:
Tuesday 16 March 2021
Wednesday 21 April 2021
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Thursday 26 August 2021
Thursday 9 September 2021
Friday 29 October 2021
Friday 19 November 2021
The purpose of the interview is to go through the information you have submitted on your enrolment
form and prep questionnaire and to clarify any details regarding these forms.
It is also a chance for you to ask any questions you have regarding your child’s enrolment.
Confirmation of Enrolment
After the enrolment interview you will receive an email within 1 week with information regarding acceptance /
non acceptance to Whitfield State School. If accepted you will be invoiced for your child’s Student Resources,
with payment due within 30 days. This will confirm your child’s enrolment.
Please see our website for information regarding out of catchment enrolments.
An email will be sent before school begins in January with the following information: If you have any
• Class and Classroom Teacher
• Uniform Shop Information questions in relation to
• School Map our interview process,
• Tuckshop Information
please do not hesitate
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on 4034 7333.
Pre Prep Activities
Come along to our Early Learning Fun (ELF) Day
Wednesday 9 June 2021.
Our ELF Day (Early Learning Fun Day) promotes ways to explore and celebrate young children. There are many
different ways learning occurs in the early years, and it is important for parents, teachers and community
members to foster this learning.
Some important areas of learning include:
➢ respect for others
➢ how to relate to others, both adults and other children
➢ how to resolve conflict
➢ problem solving skills
Every student
➢ communication is capable of
➢ getting used to the things that make people different from each other achieving
➢ self-knowledge - understanding of feelings, a sense of your own strengths,
talents and uniqueness success
➢ confidence
➢ behaving in acceptable ways and controlling your own behaviour.
Email the school on admin@whitfieldss.eq.edu.au to RSVP your attendance.
Join in on one of our Principal’s Tours
Experience what Whitfield State School has to offer by visiting our classrooms and school. See and hear about
our High Impact Teaching and Learning practices, the breadth of opportunities students have to grow and extend
their talents; and witness how fun, safe and enjoyable a place our school is for students to learn.
The best way to get a feel for our school is to experience it for yourself. We warmly invite parents or prospective
parents of our school to participate in a Principal’s Tour, followed by an opportunity to have a conversation with
our Principal and meet other school personnel. These tours are for adults only to minimise disturbing our
current students as you enter their classrooms.
Principal tour dates for 2021 are:
Thursday 11 March at 9.30am
Friday 23 April at 9.30am
Wednesday 19 May at 9.30am
Tuesday 15 June at 9.30am
Monday 26 July at 9.30am
Thursday 12 August at 9.30am
Monday 6 September at 9.30am
Tuesday 2 November at 9.30am
Wednesday 24 November at 9.30am
For further information or to arrange a booking please contact
principal@whitfieldss.eq.edu.au, or call us on 4034 7311.
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Pre Prep Activities (continued)
Attend our Prep Experience/Open Morning
Tuesday 19 October 9.00 to 11.30
Come and experience Prep the “Whitfield Way”.
All parents who have submitted an Application for Enrolment form will be invited to this event. Your child will be
allocated to a classroom with a prep teacher and teacher aides.
Each child will experience a combination of the following:
• A music /dance/drama/HPE lesson
• A library session
• Classroom learning
• Indoor play Don’t forget
that first
The Prep Experience Session, will provide you and
your child with information needed to: day photo!
• have a little taste of what prep learning will be all about
• gain vital information needed for a smooth transition to prep
• give your child more confidence starting prep at the beginning of 2022.
Parents are encouraged to attend the classroom visits. There will also be a question and answer session for parents
during this Open Day.
Fast Facts
Start and finish of day
• During the first two weeks, Prep Students must be signed in and out of their
classrooms
• School starts at 8.50am. Please note that the opening times of each
classroom can vary between 8.30am and 8.50am. Parents are welcome to
wait outside the classroom until the teacher arrives.
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Preparatory Learning
What will my child learn in the Preparatory Year?
Our school teaches the Australian Curriculum to all year levels. Your child Every Child
will participate in learning in English, Maths, Science, History and Social
Sciences, Technology, the Arts, including Music, Drama, Dance and Health
Every Day
and Physical Education.
Learning experiences in the preparatory year will help your child to;
• Take on responsibilities
• Become more independent
• Respect other people
• Cooperate with others
• Develop their physical skills
• Learn about the environment
• Develop their oral language
• Develop early literacy understanding.
• Use their imagination and creativity
• Develop early mathematical understanding
• Learn how to be thinkers and problem solvers
• Make sensible choices about personal health and safety
What will I see my child doing?
• Investigating
• Making choices
• Designing
• Singing and dancing
• Painting, cutting, pasting and drawing
• Listening
• Playing games inside and out
• Climbing, balancing and jumping
• Planning
• Sharing
• Using computers
• Constructing
• Writing and copying Measuring
• Reading
• Talking with other students and teachers
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Enrichment of Learning
Prep Programs delivered within the school are to support student learning and provide students with an
opportunity to ‘strive for the peak’ throughout their school journey. Students participate in daily literacy and
numeracy lessons within busy classrooms where students are engaged in collaborative learning
experiences which are explicit, scaffolded and rich with language.
Programs and lessons covered include:
Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics is a fun child centred approach to teaching synthetic phonics.
There are actions for each of the 42 letter sounds and motivating lessons
for students to participate in. The letters are delivered into 7 distinct
groups to support the beginning stages of reading and writing.
In-class activities are daily.
For more information please visit:
http://jollylearning.co.uk/
Sight Words
Sight words are words that need to be recognised quickly in order to be
read fluently. The Magic 100 words make up 50% of words that we
encounter when reading.
In Prep, students are expected to learn these Magic 100 Words.
Recognition of each word is to be automatic.
For more information please visit:
https://www.magicwords.com.au/pages/parents
Reading
Students participate in reading lessons daily to develop the necessary skills
and strategies to become life-long readers. Students use their knowledge
and practice of Jolly Phonics to decode texts using strategies like Chunky
Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Flippy Dolphin, Skippy Frog.
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Enrichment of Learning (continued)
Caterpillar Handwriting
The story of ‘Casey the Caterpillar’ provides a context for
children to identify basic shapes that later become the
foundations of letter foundation. The learning process breaks
down the different skills into manageable chunks and scaffolding
the learning for students in fun and enjoyable context.
Spelling Mastery
Spelling Mastery is a direct instruction program which enables
teachers to deliver interactive, structured lessons that help
students learn spelling skills through learning strategies, patterns
and rules. Students participate in these lessons 2x per week
starting at various stages throughout the year.
Maths (hands on, problem solving…)
Within the Maths sessions, students participate in a variation of
lessons to enhance their skills in number and algebra,
measurement and geometry and statistics and probability which
all involve hands on activities and games.
Fingergym
Fingergym is a fine motor school readiness program developed
to assist students in becoming independent in the classroom
through participating in fun and motivating activities. The
program encourages problem solving while developing
necessary skills required for schooling, while building
confidence.
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