Timetable & Fees

2025 Timetable

Parkdale Preschool has only one group with 3 teachers and up to 33 children attending at any one time.

  • Our three-year-old groups attends kindergarten for 15 hours per week. Banksia attend Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30am – 1:30pm. Waratah attend Monday and Wednesday from 8:30am - 4pm.

  • Our four-year-old group attend for 15 hours across two days on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30am – 4pm.

2026 Timetable - coming soon

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2025 Timetable

  • MONDAY

    3yo session

    Banksia 8.30am - 1:30pm

    Waratah 8:30am - 4:00pm

    “session times are indicative only & subject to change”

  • TUESDAY

    4yo session

    Myrtle 8:30am - 4:00pm

    “session times are indicative only & subject to change”

  • WEDNESDAY

    3yo session

    Banksia 8.30am - 1:30pm

    Waratah 8:30am - 4:00pm

    “session times are indicative only & subject to change”

  • THURSDAY

    4yo session

    Myrtle 8:30am - 4:pm

    “session times are indicative only & subject to change”

  • FRIDAY

    3yo session

    Banksia 8.30am - 1:30pm

    “session times are indicative only & subject to change”

2025 term dates

We follow the Victorian school terms. Kindergarten sessions do not run during school holiday periods.

  • TERM 1: 29 January to April 4

  • TERM 2: April 22 to July 4

  • TERM 3: July 21 to September 19

  • TERM 4: October 6 to December 19

“Play is the highest form of research.”

— Albert Einstein

Fees – Free kindergarten for 2025

Continuing in 2025, Parkdale Preschool is pleased to provide free kindergarten as part of the Victorian government’s “Best Start, Best Life” reforms.

This means for 2025, a free 15-hour per week program will be available to children attending four-year-old kindergarten, and a free 15-hour per week program will be available to children attending three-year-old kindergarten at Parkdale Preschool.

If your child will be attending childcare in addition to sessional kindergarten, then you must elect for Parkdale Preschool to receive the free kindergarten funding.

This government initiative is likely to continue for 2026, however once confirmed by the Victorian government more details will be provided.

Early Start Kindergarten is available for children who turn three by 30 April in the year they will be attending kindergarten, and whose family is known to Child Protection (including those referred directly from Child Protection to Child FIRST), or are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Please see this brochure for more information or contact our Administration Officer.