If your child is an incoming Grade 1 student: Kids who will turn 5 years old within the school year can be accepted into Kinder as long as they pass the Philippine Early Childhood Development (ECD) Checklist.If your child is starting kinder/kindergarten: What does this amendment mean to parents? Here are some things you need to know: The good thing is, DepEd has been listening and has recently issued an amendment to its policy for the school year 2018 to 2019.
Unfortunately, a number of parents were not happy with this rule - because they have encountered problems in enrolling their kids into Grade 1 and even Kinder in some schools (most especially the big ones). We have published an article about this in our Kinder primer here. Our Department of Education (DepEd) has previously released guidelines regarding the age requirements for both the Kinder and Grade 1 levels, and this states that only kids who have turned 5 years old by August 31 can be accepted to Kinder while kids who have turned 6 years old by the same cut off date will be accepted to Grade 1.
