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preparatory class
noun the first year in primary school. Compare kindergarten, reception class, transition.
Contributor's comments: Once again in all my years travelling this state and raising 3 sons I have never heard this phrase used. Once again an imported phrase from the toffs from down south. It's kindy, pre-school or grade 1 up here.
Contributor's comments: It would be useful to note that there is no preparatory class in Queensland anymore - and has not been for over 30 years.
Contributor's comments: This was usually abbreviated to "Prep". When I started school we had 4 prep years. "Prep 1" was where you started. For your first 2 years of school you were in "the preps".
Contributor's comments: When I was at school in Launceston (Tas) in the early 70's I went to Prep.
Contributor's comments: I can't say I have ever heard the term prep class being used for the 29 years I was in Qld. It certainly isn't particularly widespread.
Contributor's comments: Are you sure?? The only place I have heard of anything like this was in Adelaide, where they referred to a year before the commencement of school as 'prep'. The first year of primary school here in Brisbane is referred to as 'Grade 1'.
Contributor's comments: They refer to it as 'Prep' in Tasmania.
Contributor's comments: In Bendigo in the 1960s, "preps" was the class one year below grade one in primary school. Kingergartens were not common then.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Melbourne in the 60s & 70s the "bubs" were the little kids in their very fist year of school, after kindergarten (kinder) and before Grade 1. The kids in grades prep through 2 were generically referred to as the "littlies". Now my own kids are at school nobody refers to bubs, they are preps.
Contributor's comments: Prep was the term used for the first 2 years in Queensland schools. Prep1 Prep2 Prep3 and Prep 4 each covered half a year. I attend school in the nineteen forties. I do not know when the system changed.