Toorak College Preschool

NQS ratings

Issued Jul 2025

• OverallExceeding NQS
• QA1 Educational program and practiceExceeding NQS
• QA2 Children's health and safetyExceeding NQS
• QA3 Physical environmentExceeding NQS
• QA4 Staffing arrangementsExceeding NQS
• QA5 Relationships with childrenExceeding NQS
• QA6 Collaborative partnershipsExceeding NQS
• QA7 Governance and leadershipExceeding NQS

Previous overall rating: Exceeding NQS (Apr 2022)

Nature of care

• Long day care: No
• Preschool / kindergarten (part of a school): Yes
• Preschool / kindergarten (stand alone): No
• Outside school hours care (after school): No
• Outside school hours care (before school): No
• Outside school hours care (vacation care): No
• Other: No

Hours

Approval conditions

This service waiver only applies to specialist classes delivered by the service, for which the service must ensure: o the specialist class is conducted by a person who holds a primary teaching qualification (the specialist teacher); o with the exception of the specialist teacher, at least 50 per cent of the educators who are required to meet the relevant educator to child ratios for the service must have, or be actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification; o the specialist classes are limited to a maximum of 22 children, who must be of pre-school age; o an educator and either an educator or the specialist teacher accompanies the children to and from the specialist classes; and o the early childhood teacher remains on the service premises and is available to assist in the education and care of children as needed. During the delivery of the specialist class. for all parts of the service not actively delivering a specialist class, the service must ensure that at least 50 per cent of the educators who are required to meet the relevant educator to child ratios for the service must have, or be actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification.