Thank you for considering Willmott Park Primary School for your child's education.

OUR VISION

The vision of Willmott Park Primary School is to create an inclusive, supportive, and safe environment in which every child can learn, explore, and thrive. Students reach their full potential when they are happy, healthy, and safe, and all members of our community are welcome participants in our school. We acknowledge that student wellbeing is intrinsically linked to student learning outcomes and that our approach must emerge from that understanding.

Willmott Park Primary Strategic Plan 2021 - 2025

WILLMOTT PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL ZONE

Our school zone is available on findmyschool.vic.gov.au which hosts the most up-to-date information on school zones in Victoria.

Students residing within our school zone are guaranteed a place at our school, which is determined based on your permanent residential address.

Our school manages enrolments using the Placement Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and may enrol at another school, if there are available places.

For more information, you can:

visit School zones for answers to frequently asked questions
call the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) on 1800 896 950
email the VSBA at vsba@education.vic.gov.au

PLACEMENT POLICY

The DET website outlines the guidance used by schools to determine permanent residence, that supports the application of the Placement Policy and provides fair and consistent information for schools to assist in the verification of a student’s permanent residential address.

For the most up to date information, please see this link

2025 FOUNDATION (PREP) ENROLMENTS

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 Willmott Park Primary School.

All government primary schools will follow the timeline in 2024 to support Foundation (Prep) enrolments for the 2025 school year.

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).

You will be able to apply to enrol your child in Foundation (Prep) 2025 at Willmott Park Primary School from 15 April 2024.

What you need to do:

Contact our school Willmott Park Primary School to book a school tour or to learn more about our school and the enrolment application process.
Download the Foundation (Prep) enrolment information pack from Enrolling in Foundation (Prep) (available from 15 April 2024). This pack includes an application form, which you can also request from our school.
Submit an enrolment application for Foundation (Prep) by Friday 26 July 2024.
You will be notified of the outcome of your application between Monday 29 July and Friday 9 August 2024. If you receive an enrolment offer, you should contact our school to accept the offer by Friday 23 August 2024.
Take part in enrolment information and transition sessions during Term 4, 2024.
Prepare your child to start Foundation (Prep) from Wednesday 29 January 2025.

Enrolment applications submitted after 26 July 2024 will be processed by our school as they are received, in accordance with the department’s Placement Policy.

EVIDENCE OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Parents who wish to enrol their child/children at Willmott Park Primary School need to demonstrate that the child/children to be enrolled reside within the designated neighbourhood boundary area. Current proof of residency at the address indicated must be provided by way of the following:

Primary source: a current lease agreement or a contract of sale agreement and
Secondary source: electoral enrolment confirmation, council rates notices, other official documentation that demonstrates permanent residency at that address such as a driver’s license or health care card or utility bills.
The Enrolment Policy of the school will take account of all the requirements of laws relating to discrimination equal opportunity, privacy and immunisation.

We have an on-site Deaf Facility that provides access to comprehensive mainstream education for primary aged Deaf and hard of hearing students in the northern outer suburbs.

ENROLMENT FORMS

If you are interested in enrolling at Willmott Park Primary, please check whether if you live in the zone, you can go to: findmyschool.vic.gov.au.

If you live in our school zone, please complete an enrolment form.
If you live outside of our school zone, please complete an application form.

If you would like a paper form instead, please contact the school office on 9305 6639 during business hours.

Our school follows the Department of Education’s Enrolment Policy for the enrolment, placement, and transfer of students, students who live within the school zone are guaranteed a place at our school.

All other applications will be considered subject to available space, and prioritised according to:
1. Students with a sibling at the same permanent address who are attending the school at the same time.
2. All other students in order of closeness of their home to the school.

Student Enrolment Form Student Application Form

ACCEPTANCE AND NOTIFICATION PROCESS

Students must be currently residing within the ‘designated school neighbourhood’ before an enrolment will be accepted. Children who reside outside the school’s designated neighbourhood boundary who apply for enrolment at the school will be referred to their closest neighbourhood government school.

To assist Willmott Park Primary School in assessing your child’s eligibility for enrolment, please include in your enrolment application original or certified copies of:
1. Rental agreements or unconditional contracts of sale plus
2. A copy of two of the following:
• electoral enrolment confirmation
• council rates notices
• other official documentation that demonstrates permanent residency at that address such as a driver’s license, health care card or utility bills.

Documents should show the same address and parent’s/carer’s name as recorded on the school enrolment application form.
On request, you may also be required to complete a statutory declaration confirming the student is living in the address provided in the enrolment application and that the arrangement is genuine and intended to be permanent.

Note: Enrolment applications may not be successful if the requested documentation is not provided.

SUBMIT ENROLMENT FORMS

Enrolments will be confirmed by post or email once all documents are provided.

ORIENTATION / TRANSITION PROGRAM

An Orientation / Transition Program will be held in Term 4 for all Preps enrolled at Willmott Primary School for 2024.
Details of this program will be posted out in Term 3.

Please do not hesitate to either call or email our school with any queries.
We are more than happy to assist with any information.
We are looking forward to Welcoming you to Willmott throughout 2023.