Extra Curricular Activities at BPS

Before School Running Club 2026

At BPS we offer a FREE Before School Running Club with the motto “You come, you run!”for all our Grade 1 – 6’s every Friday.

Our Before School Running trainings is commencing for 2026 on Friday 6th February with our BPS Running Club Volunteers. Thanks to our families who have volunteered to step up and help keep this worthwhile program “running”! 

We are ready to start our Before School Running Club 2026 and start preparing our runners for our BPS House Cross Country this term. This training is for any student in grade 1 – 6 who loves to run and are committed to doing their best and respecting the coaches at our sessions. A huge thank you to our wonderful volunteers for putting their hand up to keep this terrific initiative running for our students.

Our BSR program is a free program designed to get our kids active before school as well as preparing them for up-coming school events including cross country, athletics and House Sports etc.

Training Code of Conduct

The BSR Team would like to communicate to all families and children who would like to be involved our Training Code of Conduct, which is an expectation for all runners who attend. 

Our BSR Club training is not a before school care service and our volunteers reserve the right to ask a child/family not to come back should they consistently not follow the following code of behaviour. 

Code of Conduct for BSR

1. Please respect all volunteers and listen to their instructions.
2. Please respect other runners and their desire to want to train – “You come, you run” motto.
3. Please turn up for training on time and not earlier than 8.10am.
4. Asthmatics must bring their asthma medication to training to avoid medical issues.
5. ANY medical conditions need to be clearly outlined on the permission form and students must bring relevant medications to training, for example, asthma medication and Epipens.
6. Students must sign with one of our volunteers in at every training session they attend.
7. If a child is observed not participating (including playing on equipment or wandering off) over a series of sessions, the family will be contacted about their child’s future participation.

BSR suggests athletes also bring…

1. A piece of fruit or healthy snack to eat post training before going into class.
2. Your drink bottle.
3. A jumper in the winter months.
4. A change of socks if the weather looks wet.

Permission to Train Form

All families and runners MUST sign this form before commencing our Running Club. By signing this official form, you as the parent/care giver are giving permission for the volunteers, who have a current Working with Children’s Check, to care for your child while they are at training from 8.10 – 8.40am. 

*Parents/caregivers must sign the letter attached and hand it to one of the volunteers on the commencement of your child’s first training session.

Training schedule 2026

Friday mornings ONLY (except for Public Holidays or Curriculum Days) 8.10am – 8.40am.

First 2026 training – Friday 6th February – 8.10am (BPS Oval).

**WHATSAPP Group and CANCELLATION OF TRAININGS 

Our coaching volunteers will advise all current members of the BST community via a Whatsapp Group when a training session has been cancelled due to the heat or wet weather. You will need to provide a mobile number for them to invite you to this group.

IMPORTANT

Please send your child with this form completed on the morning of their first training session and ask your child to hand it to the volunteer coach. Athletes will also need to check in and tick their name off at the start of every training session.