It's the start of another school year across the Parkes Shire and that means there's a new influx of kindergarten students and their families who have enjoyed their first official day of school.

The five primary schools in Parkes had their first days of kindergarten on Tuesday for Parkes Christian School and Thursday for the remaining schools.

Parkes East Public School has welcomed 31 kindy students this year.

Our journalists stopped in at some of the schools in town yesterday morning to capture the students, some with their families, on their first day of kindergarten.

Here are our photos.

There are multiple galleries and photos will appear in the print edition of the Parkes Champion Post from next week.