Updated: December 19, 2024
Privacy Information for parents and carers
During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at BEPS, we will collect, use, disclose and, store student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing or health in the school context. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.
School Timetable
Our daily whole-school timetable:
- Sessions 1 and 2: 8:55am – 10.40am
- Outside Play: 10:40am – 10:55am
- Supervised Eating Inside: 10:55am – 11:10am
- Sessions 2 and 3: 11:10am to 12:55 pm
- Supervised Eating Inside: 12:55pm – 1:10pm
- Lunch outside play: 1:10pm – 2:10 pm
- Session 5: 2:10pm – 3:30pm
Your child’s learning community teachers can provide weekly timetables for your particular Learning Community – these are flexible and the details change in line with children’s changing learning requirements, and the events happening around the school.
Arriving at school on time is critical to successful learning outcomes, and is the respectful thing to do for teachers and other students.
We try to help out busy families by offering before and after school care for students as needed (OSHC). This service runs from 7:30 to 8:45 am and 3:30 to 6:00 pm. If your child has to be at school before 8:45am, either you have to remain with them or you need to book them into Before School Care. This is to ensure their safety.
Voluntary Financial Contributions 2025
Brunswick East Primary School is looking forward to another great year of teaching and learning and would like to advise you of Brunswick East Primary’s voluntary financial contributions for 2025.
Schools provide students with free instruction to fulfil the standard curriculum requirements, and we want to assure you that all contributions are voluntary. Nevertheless, the ongoing support of our families ensures that our school can offer the best possible education and support for our students. We want to thank you for all your support, whether that is through fundraising or volunteering your time. This has made a huge difference to our school and the programs we can offer.
Within our school this support has allowed us to: purchase screens in learning communities; increase the number of digital devices across the school to make a 1:2 ratio of access for students; purchase new decodable texts to resource our phonics program; update and extend the maths resources available to students such as calculators, scales and measuring tools; and to fund the purchase of new sports equipment.
For further information on the Department’s Parent Payments Policy please see a one-page overview on the link below.
2025 Voluntary Financial Contributions
Parent Helpers
Parent and community support in highly valued at BEPS. It offers invaluable learning opportunities to children and helps support school programs. We encourage you to speak to your child’s learning community teachers about how you might be able to hep out, including on excursions.
To ensure you are able to fully participate in school events we ask that you complete a Victorian Working With Children Check. This enables you to help us by supervising children in small groups and assisting on excursions. This check is completely free for volunteers. You can find more information on obtaining a check and card from www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au .
Gaining a Working With Children Check is incredibly helpful to the school. It means community members are able to work with small groups of children and you are able to support teaching staff with supervision on excursions, helping to keep costs down. For every 20 children we take out of the school we are required to take one adult supervisor. Without community support we would have to employ an extra staff member for the day adding significantly to the cost.
Once you have completed the process could you please provide a copy of your Working With Children Card to the office so we can keep a record of it.