Enrolment
To place your child’s name on our waiting list please complete a waiting list form. Each child’s name is added to our Waiting List according to 1) the date the name is put on the list, and 2) our Priority of Access policy.
If you have any issues with completing the form please call us on 4933 6589.
Fees
Beginning in 2023, the NSW Government has implemented the Start Strong Affordable Preschool initiative, as part of the Early Years Commitment, to provide fee relief to families. Maitland Community Preschool receives funding in accordance with the Start Strong Preschool Guidelines.
How the fee relief works:
- The funding for your child's fee relief will be provided to our service, directly from the NSW Government, and we will pass this fee relief on to you as a reduction to your fees billed each term.
- You cannot receive fee relief at more than one early childhood education service.
Our daily standard fees for 2025 are listed below:
|
Fee type |
Days |
Daily fee |
Weekly fee |
Standard term fee |
Fee Relief of up to $1086.75 per term ($4347 pa)– as per Declaration, if applicable, will be applied to each term invoice |
Amount of term invoice after fee relief applied (if eligible) |
|
Full fee - Non equity family |
2 |
$62.00 |
$124.00 |
$1,240.00 |
$1,086.75 |
$153.25 |
|
Full fee - Non equity family |
3 |
$62.00 |
$186.00 |
$1,860.00 |
$1,086.75 |
$773.25 |
|
Equity family |
2 |
$29.00 |
$58.00 |
$580.00 |
$1,086.75 |
$0.00 |
|
Equity family |
3 |
$29 x 2 + $62 (for 3rd day) |
$120.00 |
$1,200.00 |
$1,086.75 |
$113.25 |
Equity family fee = Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island heritage, child with diagnosed disability or NDIS number, family Centrelink Health Care Card/Concession card issued for low income reasons. This information will have been recorded by you on the enrolment form
Please further information regarding fee structure, please email: admin@maitlandps.com.au
Early Childhood Education
At Maitland Community Preschool we celebrate the ‘here and now’ of early childhood, but also recognise the importance of helping children prepare for kindergarten. We do this by actively facilitating the learning dispositions that set children up for life-long success, such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
School Readiness
We provide learning opportunities in both Literacy, including music, movement, dance, story-telling, visual arts and drama and Numeracy, including understandings about numbers, patterns, measurement and spatial awareness as well as mathematical thinking, reasoning and counting.
Transition to School
One of our goals is to support positive transitions to primary school, we have developed good working relationships with our local feeder schools, and we help to prepare all our students for their new educational setting.