Prospective Parents
Enrolling at MEPS
How to enrol
Please come and visit MEPS to see our friendly administration staff. They will provide you with an information pack and an enrolment form. You need to fill out the enrolment form and provide us with important information about your child/ren, including:
- Evidence of your child’s date of birth (birth certificate, or, if they were not born in Australia, a passport or travel document such as a visa) Please visit the following site to arrange a birth certificate if needed; https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/births/get-a-birth-certificate
- Immunisation Status Certificate – Click on the following link for more information; https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/medicare/australian-immunisation-register/how-get-immunisation-history-statement
If you need an interpreter to help fill out the enrolment form, our administration staff can help organise this for you.
School Tours
Unfortunately due to the current situation with Covid-19, our school tours have been suspended until further notice.
If you require any information about our wonderful school, please contact our office staff on (03) 9787 1385 who will be able to help you.
We are taking enrolments now and look forward to welcoming you and your child to our school community.
Prep Enrolment
When to enrol
To start primary school your child will need to turn five years old by 30 April in the year that they start school. Your child must be at school in the year that they turn six years of age. This is the compulsory school starting age. At Mt Eliza PS, we begin taking enrolments in May.
How to enrol
You need to fill out an enrolment form at that school and provide the school with important information about your child, including:
- Evidence of your child’s date of birth (birth certificate, or, if they were not born in Australia, a passport or travel document such as a visa) Please visit the following site to arrange a birth certificate if needed; https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/births/get-a-birth-certificate
- Immunisation Status Certificate – Click on the following link for more information; https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/medicare/australian-immunisation-register/how-get-immunisation-history-statement
Health questionnaire
When your child starts primary school, DET has a requirement that you fill in the school entrant health questionnaire. Some of the questions are about your child’s vision. You will be asked if your child has had their vision screened: either the Melbourne initial screening test or a vision screening performed by your doctor.
Prep Transition
Prep families and students have many opportunities in the year prior to beginning their formal school education to engage with the Mt Eliza Primary School community.
Here is a general outline of what occurs:
- Prep Transition Program notice will be sent out to all enrolled families late Term 3.
- Early Term 4 your child will receive a letter inviting them to attend the Prep Transition Program with dates included.
- Children attend 2 x one-hour sessions during October-November. By attending Prep Transition Program students will experience what happens at Primary School and in Prep.
They will;
- Enjoy developmental activities
- Participate in songs, stories
- Complete simple fine motor activities
- Spend time getting to know each other
Prep Information night is held in December and an invitation, including the date and time, will be sent out in November. The Prep information evening is a session that:
- Provides a Prep Information booklet
- Getting ready for school information
- An opportunity to meet 2020 teachers
- Important first day procedures.
Transition Day/Up Day; this is in line with the Statewide Transition Day. The children meet their classmates and teacher for the following year in their classroom. The times are included in your December Prep Information booklet.