PREP 2025: Enrolment Enquiry
Thank you for your interest in Marnebek School. Marnebek Specialist School welcomes enrolments throughout the year.
Foundation (Prep) 2025 Enrolment Enquires:
Your child must be turning five by April 30 of 2025.
The Department of Education has released an updated statewide Foundation (Prep) enrolment timeline for the 2025 school year.
The timeline advises families when and how to enrol their child into Foundation (Prep) at a Victorian government primary school, including Marnebek School.
You can find information and resources about the timeline, including factsheets and a poster at: Enrolling in Foundation (Prep). You can also download the ‘Foundation (Prep) Enrolment Information Pack for Parents and Carers’ from Enrolling in Foundation (Prep) (available from 15 April 2024).
Once you complete the online enquiry form, the Enrolment Coordinator will contact you and set a tour date with you.
CLOSING DATE FOR 2025 PREP ENROLMENTS IS: FRIDAY 8-NOV-2024
What you need to know:
Students enrolling at Marnebek School need to have a cognitive assessment completed to ensure they are eligible to attend a Special School. The Department of Education contract Assessments Australia to do this at no cost to parents.
The referral for the cognitive assessment is coordinated by our school Enrolment coordinator and it takes place at our school.
To be eligible for Marnebek School, the cognitive assessment must show that the student has an IQ below 70 and is diagnosed with an intellectual disability.
What happens next?
1. Complete the online enquiry form by clicking on the link.
2. Our Enrolments coordinator will contact you have a chat about your child’s needs, eligibility to attend our school and answer any questions you have. We aim to do this within 3 days of the enquiry being submitted. If for some reason you don’t hear from us, please feel free to call the Admin office on 5996 3858 and ask to speak to the Enrolments Coordinator.
3. We will organise a tour of our school for you to decide whether we might be a good fit for your child. School Tours will also be available from 15th April on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9.30am – 10.30am.
4. If you wish to go ahead with the enrolment, we will set a pre-enrolment meeting where we meet your child and gather information to help us decide where best to place them in the school. We will also decide on a mutually agreed start date.
5. Your child attends Marnebek School.
Our aim is for your child’s transition to our school to be as smooth and happy as possible, so if there is anything that you think will help this process, please discuss it with us. We look forward to hearing from you from 15 April 2024.