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CSEF - Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund 

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:

  • school camps or trips
  • swimming and school-organised sport programs
  • outdoor education programs
  • excursions and incursions.

Payments amounts for 2020 are $125 per year for eligible primary school students

Parents/carers wishing to apply for CSEF payments for 2020 must submit their application form to the relevant school before the last day of term 2.

However, a parent/carer will only be required to submit an application form to the school in the following circumstances:

  • the parent/carer is applying for the CSEF payment for the first time – i.e. an application form was not lodged with the school in the previous year;
  • or circumstances have changed – e.g. there has been a change in the care arrangement of the student, a change of name or CRN, or a new sibling has commenced at the school and the parent/carer wishes to apply for the CSEF payment for the new sibling also.

Who can apply?

Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply.

Please return signed forms along with a copy of your concession card via email to brunswick.nw.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au or drop into the school as soon as possible.

Premier's Reading Challenge

The 2020 Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge is now open. The Challenge encourages children to read a set number of books between now and September and record their efforts online.

How many books do children need to read?

Foundation and Junior students need to read 30 books, with at least 20 of them from the Challenge book list.

Middle and Senior students need to read 15 books, with at least 10 of them from the Challenge book list.

Please note, due to current circumstances and uncertainty as to when we will be returning to school, we are asking any students who are interested in participating to register as Home Based Readers.  You can do this by following this link: https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home

Although the Challenge will look a little different this year, we look forward to acknowledging any students who participate and complete it at a Community Assembly later this year.

If you are interested and would like additional information or support to get started, please feel free to contact us.

Thanks.

Kate & Emma

(BNWPS Literacy Leaders)

Remote Learning News from Unit MR

With everything that has been happening within our community and beyond it is important that we continue to manage our wellbeing, and one way to do this is to take time to be thankful and grateful for things in our lives. During the week, students in Unit MR were given the challenge on a daily basis to identify and discuss three things in their life that they are thankful or grateful for and share it in response to the morning welcome message. Some of the wonderful things in students' lives that they identified as being thankful and grateful for are below. 

 

Remote Learning News from the Foundies

Last week in Foundation, we had a big focus on play-based learning and linked this experience

to some literacy activities for the week. First, our Foundie students read a simple story on “Raz

kids” called “The Box,” about a little girl who used her imagination, making a plane out of a box

and flying to lots of fantastical places. The Foundies were then set a challenge. They had to find

a box or a recycled item at home and create something amazing out of it. “What could it be?”

“Where could it take you?” The box and recycled creations that the Foundies and their families

made were beyond amazing. Here is a couple from CB that I’d like to share with you.

Rose made a train for all of her teddies that would take them anywhere they wanted to go. It

even included a snow plough and a movie room at the back. Of course Rose was the driver of

her amazing box train. Arthur created an amazing robot that he named Ben. It had two

antennas, a foil tummy and lots of spots. Arthur’s robot Ben was given the star treatment,

sleeping under a blanket in his bedroom at night.