BE PREPPED FOR PREP!

Transitioning to Prep at Sacred Heart Yarrawonga

Starting school can be both challenging and exciting. A positive start to school leads to better learning and wellbeing outcomes for your child, both
during transition and beyond. It helps to support your child’s continuity of learning and development and supports them to feel secure, confident and connected to new people and places.

At Sacred Heart Primary Yarrawonga, we aim to make the transition as smooth as possible. We want children to view starting school as an exciting
adventure. We have a range of strategies in place to foster a stress-free transition, including Preschool Visits, Transition Statements, Buddies Program and a Parent Information Session.

Transition Program

Our Prep Transition Program aims to help children and parents become familiar with our school facilities. Incoming students will meet the Prep teachers and experience fun, engaging learning activities that introduce them to the structure of school.

Conducted over 4 sessions, it gives your child the chance to establish positive relationships with teachers and peers, as well as feel comfortable, confident and supported in their new learning environment.

Our extensive and exciting school transition program, is conducted in Term 4 for all children 

school at Sacred Heart the following year.

We encourage all 2025 enrolled prep students to attend all transition sessions where possible. 

Parent Information Session

Our Transition Program culminates in a Parent Information Session with lots of information and tips to prepare your child for school and what to expect from the learning programs. Parents meet other prep parents and our staff, and find out more about how to assist their children to prepare for school and what to expect from the learning programs.

Pre School Visits

We believe the transition between kindergarten and formal schooling should be as seamless as possible. We place an emphasis on talking with your child’s preschool educator. The conversations help us to make the right choices for class placements for your child.

Transition Learning and Development Statement

Your child’s early childhood teacher will write a Transition Learning and Development Statement (Transition Statement). This Transition Statement will summarise your child’s interests, skills and abilities. It will also identify individual approaches and teaching strategies so that your child’s prep teacher can quickly get to know your child and plan appropriate learning and teaching programs.

Buddies Program

Our Buddies program kicks off with the Transition Program. Incoming Prep students are matched up with a Grade 5 student who continues to be their buddy throughout Prep.

Buddies visit the Preschools and meet the children that will be attending Sacred Heart Primary the following year. Buddies will greet their Preps in the morning and have lunch together during Term One.

Our students really enjoy the responsibility of being a buddy. This is a highlight for many and a fond memory they look back on when they were in Prep at Sacred Heart Primary

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Children are admitted at the beginning of the year in which they are five years of age, on or before 30 April of that year, and it is encouraged that children previously attend kindergarten. Parents are required to present their child's Birth Certificate, Immunisation Certificate and (when applicable) a Baptismal Certificate.

Families wishing to enrol at Sacred Heart are expected to support the aims and expectations of all school policy statements. Whilst the primary school's aim is to provide a Catholic Education to Catholic families, families of other denominations are encouraged to apply for enrolment.

Where enrolment expectations exceed the positions available at the school the Enrolment Priority Criteria will be adhered to:

• Children baptised in the Catholic faith who are members of the designated parish communities.

• Siblings of other children already enrolled who are not baptised in the Catholic faith.

• Children baptised in the Catholic faith from other parishes which do not have a primary school or where the designated parish primary school has no vacancies.

• Children of other Christian Churches and faith traditions who, with their parents, respect and agree to support the Catholic mission of the school, including the religious education it offers for their children.

• Children who, with their parents, respect and agree to support the Catholic mission of the school including the religious education it offers them.

• Other considerations may include: children enrolled in the parish Sandhurst Early Childhood Education and Care facility; a family association with the school and being the sibling or child of a past pupil. These considerations should not preclude other relevant factors being taken into consideration when determining which children will be offered enrolment.

The final decision regarding the acceptance of enrolment applications lies with the school principal.

Non-Catholic children are admitted to the school with the understanding that they participate fully in the Religious Education Program.