Enrolment & Fees
Enrolments
You can register your interest to enrol your child with us by using the preschool registration of interest form. These are available online or directly from us.
Priority will be given to children living in our catchment area. If you do not live in our zone you are encouraged to enrol at your closest preschool first.
If we can give your child a place with us we will contact you when the time comes making you an offer of placement. You can accept the offer by filling in and sending back the acceptance slip by the due date.
Enrolment forms will be sent out with other documentation required. Proof of date of birth, address and immunisation will also be required before transition visits start.
Please note proof of address is as follows:
If you own your home, you need to show both documents listed below:
- contract of sale for the property or a recent council rate notice
- recent gas or electricity bill for the property.
If you rent a home, you need to show both documents listed below:
- rental agreement and a bond receipt lodged with Consumer and Business Services showing the current place of residence. The rental agreement should cover at least the first 12 months at the school.
- recent gas or electricity bill for that property.
Preschool Fees
Public preschools in South Australia are administered by the Department for Education. Our preschool receives some funding from the Department to pay salaries and to assist with day to day running costs. We still rely heavily on fees and fundraising to cover the cost of consumables, new projects, new equipment and resources or replacement of these, to maintain a high quality learning environment for the children. Fees are set by the Governing Council each year and are invoiced at the beginning of each term, fees must be paid within the first 2 weeks of each term.
The fees are $100 per child, per term which equates to $400 per year for those attending 15 hours per week or $70 per child, per term which equates to $280 per year for those attending 12 hours per week.
Fees can be paid directly in cash at the preschool or via online banking (see below).
Account Name: Stirling North Childhood Services Centre
BSB: 105-028
ACC: 071254540
Please write your child’s name in the reference box.
If you are having trouble paying or what to set up a payment option please to not hesitate to come in and see us.
Immunisations ‘No Jab No Play’
Department web link
Upon enrolment parents/caregivers must provide up to date ‘approved immunisation records’ prior to start date. ‘No Jab No Pay’ legislation approves these exemptions:
- the child has a medical contraindication to a vaccine, such as anaphylaxis
- the child has natural immunity to a particular disease
- the child is part of an approved vaccine study
- the vaccine is temporarily unavailable
- the child is vaccinated overseas*, or
- the Secretary (see below) has determined that the child meets the immunisation requirements.
These exemptions are applied through the Commonwealth Medicare system. They are usually applied by the child’s medical practitioner and reflected on the child’s immunisation history statement. Parents and guardians will need to speak with their medical practitioner for exemptions to not being vaccinated are to be considered valid.
*A child vaccinated overseas will not automatically be granted an exemption; the overseas schedule for which that child was vaccinated will need to meet Australian immunisation schedule requirements. An immunisation provider will need to assess if this meets the Australian requirements and enter all doses administered overseas into the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
Further information regarding exemptions and the process to apply for exemptions is detailed on the Commonwealth Government’s Department of Social Services Family Assistance Guide, Immunisation – approved exemptions webpage.