2024 Open Day
04/14/2024
Join us for our 2024 Open Day and see all that Ripponlea Kindergarten has on offer!
We are full for 2025. Please fill in our 2025 waitlist form if you would like to be considered for any place that may become available in the future, or add your name to the 2026 waitlist.
WELCOME TO 2024 AT RIPPONLEA KINDERGARTEN!
Thank you to our local community for all your support!
Our 3-4 year old and 4-5 year old play based programs offer a nurturing, dynamic and creative environment, indoors and out.
Complete our 2025 waiting list registration form here!
Our Sessional Kinder Timetable
In 2024 and 2025 we are proposing to offer two groups of funded 3yo kindergarten of 15 hours
and two groups of funded 4yo kinder of 15 hours.
The 3yo Warrin (Wombat - blue) group will run on Wednesday mornings from 8.30am - 1.00pm, Thursday afternoons from 1.00pm-4.00pm and Fridays from 8.30am-4.00pm
The 3yo Kurrborra (Koala - yellow) group will run on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8.30am - 4.00pm
The 4yo Gawarn (Echidna - red) group will run on Mondays and Tuesdays from 8.30am - 4.00pm.
The 4yo Walert (Possum - green) group will be at bush kinder on Wednesdays from 12.50pm - 3.50pm, and back at kinder on Thursdays from 8.30am - 1.00pm and Fridays from 8.30am - 4.00pm.
Take a virtual tour of Ripponlea!
Services
News
On the 1st of January 2012 the Federal Government introduced new quality standards that a service must meet, as a part of the National Quality Framework. The following is a brief outline about the new system:
Bush Kinder - what can it offer your child?
06/26/2023
Ripponlea Kindergarten is immensely proud of our Bush Kinder program and this article, recently published in The Guardian, highlights many of the wonderful skills students can learn within a program like ours.
Ripponlea Kindergarten acknowledges the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land where we learn, play and work. We pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their Elders, past and present.
Ripponlea Kindergarten is committed to creating a Child Safe environment. Protecting children from harm and abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all staff members.
Take a tour
Visit us at: 25 Carrington Grove, St Kilda East
Our entrance is to the LEFT of the main entrance at Ripponlea Primary School.
Please fill in the form on the Contact / Tours page to book your spot.