Jack & Jill is a non-profit community-based preschool servicing Hornsby and surrounding suburbs for children aged three to five years of age. At Jack & Jill we provide a caring and educational preschool program. Your child’s wellbeing and happiness is our top priority.
Welcome to the Jack & Jill Kindergarten – Hornsby
CURRENTLY TAKING WAITING LIST APPLICATIONS FOR 2025 & 2026
Waiting list applications are taken from 2 years of age. If vacancies arise, placements will be offered to children on our waiting list in accordance with our priority of access guidelines (below)
If you have any queries or would like to book a tour of the preschool*, please call 9477 3572 to speak to Carly, our Office Administrator, during office hours (Mon, Wed & Fri 8.30 to 12.30pm during school terms), or email us at [email protected]
*tours will resume from late February.
You may apply online here. Your child will be registered on our waiting list as at the date your waiting list fee payment ($30) is received. Please note that placing your child's name on the the waiting list does not guarantee a position and the waiting list fee is not refundable if we are not able to offer a preschool position.
Our preschool welcomes children to attend from 3 years old to 5 years old, prior to starting Primary School.
We are required by the NSW State Government under our Start Strong Funding Guidelines to give priority of access to:
In addition to the requirements above, our preschool gives next highest priority to returning families.
This service is a recipient of funding under the NSW Department of Education's Start Strong for Community Preschools program and fee relief is available for families of eligible children. Citizenship and residency status do not affect eligibility. Children are eligible as long as the fee relief is not claimed at another centre at the same time.
Please note:
Start Strong aims to improve affordability of early childhood education and increase the number of children participating for 600 hours in a quality early childhood education program in the year before school. In keeping with this objective it is a condition of enrolment at The Jack & Jill Kindergarten that children not be enrolled in another community based preschool at the same time. We understand that families may require additional days of care and suggest they use Long Day Care centres that receive Child Care Subsidy (CCS) as this does not then deny other families an opportunity to send children to our
centre.
Families may find this website helpful when searching for early childhood education options that best suit their family's needs: https://finder.service.nsw.gov.au/ecec
Waiting list applications are taken from 2 years of age. If vacancies arise, placements will be offered to children on our waiting list in accordance with our priority of access guidelines (below)
If you have any queries or would like to book a tour of the preschool*, please call 9477 3572 to speak to Carly, our Office Administrator, during office hours (Mon, Wed & Fri 8.30 to 12.30pm during school terms), or email us at [email protected]
*tours will resume from late February.
You may apply online here. Your child will be registered on our waiting list as at the date your waiting list fee payment ($30) is received. Please note that placing your child's name on the the waiting list does not guarantee a position and the waiting list fee is not refundable if we are not able to offer a preschool position.
Our preschool welcomes children to attend from 3 years old to 5 years old, prior to starting Primary School.
We are required by the NSW State Government under our Start Strong Funding Guidelines to give priority of access to:
- children who are at least 4 years old on or before the 31 July in that preschool year and not enrolled or registered at a school
- children who are at least 3 years old on or before 31 July in that preschool year and:
- are from low income families (parent has a current low income health care card, pensioner concession card or Veteran's gold card);
- have an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background;
- have English language needs;
- with disability or additional needs (placements limited)
- children who are at risk of significant harm (from a child protection perspective).
In addition to the requirements above, our preschool gives next highest priority to returning families.
This service is a recipient of funding under the NSW Department of Education's Start Strong for Community Preschools program and fee relief is available for families of eligible children. Citizenship and residency status do not affect eligibility. Children are eligible as long as the fee relief is not claimed at another centre at the same time.
Please note:
Start Strong aims to improve affordability of early childhood education and increase the number of children participating for 600 hours in a quality early childhood education program in the year before school. In keeping with this objective it is a condition of enrolment at The Jack & Jill Kindergarten that children not be enrolled in another community based preschool at the same time. We understand that families may require additional days of care and suggest they use Long Day Care centres that receive Child Care Subsidy (CCS) as this does not then deny other families an opportunity to send children to our
centre.
Families may find this website helpful when searching for early childhood education options that best suit their family's needs: https://finder.service.nsw.gov.au/ecec
