Enrolment and fees
Our Kindy groups
Kindy is free from January 2024, for 15 hours per week for 40 weeks at approved Kindergarten providers. Stafford Heights Kindergarten is an approved free kindy provider, and has two group programs for families.
Optional additional care is available for families from 8am, in our Before Kindy Care program.
2 day group
Monday and Tuesday
8:30am - 4:00pm
3 day group
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
8:30am - 2:30pm
Introducing Before Kindy Care in 2025
We’ve listened to feedback from our community. To support the needs of families, we’re excited to offer Before Kindy Care in 2025!
Before Kindy Care provides care to children from 8am-8:30am Monday-Friday with our educators for a small fee, before their regular kindergarten program starts. Contact us to secure your place.
Enrolling with us
We’d love to welcome you to our community.
To enrol with us, you must first complete an Enrolment Waitlist application for your child. Once your completed application is received, you will be added to our waitlist. Places are offered in chronological order of waitlist applications.
First-round offers of enrolment are emailed out mid-year prior to the year of commencement. Further offers may be emailed later in the year if vacancies become available.
Eligibility
Use the Queensland Kindy age calculator to confirm when your child is eligible for kindergarten.
Fees
Kindy is free for 15 hours per week for 40 weeks at approved Kindergarten providers.
Stafford Heights Kindergarten is proudly an approved free kindy provider.
Our two group programs both offer 15 hours of free kindy.
The 2 day group program is 15 hours over two days - FREE
The 3 day group program is 18 hours over three days - $250 is payable each term to cover the cost of additional hours.
Fees payable include:
$100 enrolment fee upon acceptance of Letter of Offer
3 day group only - $250 per term additional hours levy
Excursions, incursions, and activities are all covered by the kindy and the fantastic fundraising efforts for our Kindergarten.
For more information on free kindy, refer to the Department of Education Free Kindy FAQ
Come for a tour, we’d love to meet you
We invite prospective families to visit us on a kindy day to meet the teachers and experience the welcoming Stafford Heights Kindergarten environment for themselves.