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Admission at SSCL is going on for 2008. Please see the flyer for details.
Press release on 11th November 2007
Annual General Meeting of Bangla Proshar Committee (BPC) was held on 11 November at the Grange Public School, Minto. A constitution of BPC was passed and adopted, and a new Executive Committee has been elected for the year 2007-09 at this meeting. Mr Motahar Hossain acted as Election Commissioner. For details please check the pdf file.
BPC Annual General Meeting on 11th November 2007
Annual General Meeting 2007 of Bangla Proshar Committee will be held on Sunday 11 November 2007 at 4:00 pm at the Grange Public School, 8 Benham Road, Minto.
All members are requested to attend.
Read the PDF document regarding the AGM announcement
in Bangla.
Bangla Writing, Recitation, Story Telling and Debating Competition for school students organized by BPC held
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SSCL Bangla Class presented to the Bangla media in Sydney
All Bangla media in Sydney are invited to the SSCL Bangla Class at the Dulwich Hill Centre.
Please try to be present at the centre on time.
The details are:
Date: 17 March '07
Time: 09:30 am for 10:00 am meeting
Venue: Dulwich Hill, Seaview St
(Bangla Class is at E Block 1st Floor)
The program schedule is as follows:
9:30 am: Tea/Coffee (Staff Room)
10:00 am:
10:30 am: Close
Please find attached a PDF copy of the statement to be made by the BPC president in Bangla.
Your suggestions on the scheduled program will be appreciated. Please also try to encourage the media you personally
know to be present.
Bangla enrolment commences at the NSW Saturday Language School for 2007
Do you know that
- Bangla is an accredited subject in the NSW Education System for years 7 to 10?
- Your child can now study Bangla at High School just like any other language?
Read more
Read the full PDF document in Bangla
Bangla Prosar Committee holds AGM and launches syllabus
Morjory Ellsmore, principal of NSW Saturday Schools is holding the newly unveiled syllabus with Abdul Jalil,
ex-president of Bangla Prosar Committee as Farouk Iqbal, ex-general secretary of the Committee, looks on.
Richard Young, Dulwich Hill Saturday School Centre-in-charge is making a speech as Abdul Jalil, ex-president
of Bangla Prosar Committee (left) and Dr Maksudul Bari (right) the current president look on.
Bangla Prosar Committee's Annual General Meeting for the year 2006 took place on 5th August 2006 at Dulwich Hill High School, Seaview St, Dulwich Hill, NSW.
It started at 9.30am and finished by noon. BPC members and a lot of interested community members came to the AGM with their family and friends.
This year, Dr Maksudul Bari is elected as the new President, Dr. Mahabub Alam as the new Vice President, Mr. Masood Chowdhury as the Treasurer and
Mr. Mafizul Hoque as the Secretary. To view the list of the full committee, please visit the AGM 2006 page.
In addition to the AGM, an open discussion titled Opportunities and problems of learning Bangla in Sydney was held as the first program of the day. Quite a few community members, parents of Saturday Bangla school students and members of the Prosar Committee spoke in the discussion session reflecting on their views and experiences related to the topic. After the discussion, a brief but colourful cultural function was put up by the Bangla students of the Saturday school.
Read the press release (in PDF) of the AGM in Bangla.
Read the PDF document regarding the AGM announcement
in Bangla.
Enrolment starts for Bangla Course in NSW Saturday School
Dear All Community Members,
The Enrolment Forms and Brochures for Bangla course at Dulwich Hill High School Centre of Saturday School for Community Languages,
Seaview St, Dulwich Hill are now available in all NSW high and public schools. Please ask your children to obtain a copy from their
schools. The students need to submit the forms after they are duly filled and signed by both student and parent to their respective
school principals by the end of this term.
If you could not get the form from your child’s school please contact Abdul Jalil, President, Bangla Prosar Committee
Tel: 9618 6131, Mobile: 0422 344 937, Email: ajal3149@bigpond.net.au
Forms:
Bangla Writing, Recitation and Debate Competition for school students organized by BPC held at Matraville Public School
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Bengali students shine in Selective School Results!
Matraville Public School congratulates the Year 6 students who were accepted
to selective High Schools (10% of Year 6). As the Bengali Community Teacher,
it gives me great pleasure to remark that all of these successful applicants
were Bengali students!
We congratulate Abida Aura (St George Girls High School); Suhrid Sarker
(Sydney Boys High School); Meherun Rahman (Sydney Girls High School) and
Eric Cai (Alexandria Park Selective). Special mention goes to Fahim Hossain
who is on the reserve list for Alexandria Park Selective and to a former
student, Rahib (Sydney Boys High School).
Abida Aura's academic success started when she was awarded the Class
Achievment Trophy in Kindergarten. Further achievments included various
academic trophies and receiving first placing in the UNSW English Test in
2003 for NSW and the ACT. Her parents, Mrs Rahima Akter & Mr Mohammad G
Mustafa share our sincerest pride in her efforts.
As do, Suhrid's parents, Mr Abdul Latif Sarker & Mrs Jahan Arju of his
achaiements. Further, an especial thank you must go to all the students'
class teachers and parents who worked hard to support these successful
results.
We'll done to you all! We hope and pray for their continued success in the
future.
News by Shamsia Solaiman
Bangladesh Community Teacher - Matraville Public School
Campbelltown Bangla School Eid Re-union
Venue: Grange Public School, 8 Benham Rd, Minto NSW 2566
Date: Saturday 5th November, 2005
Time: 6.00pm
More info:
Campbelltown Bangla School will hold Eid Re-union program on 5th November, 2005 at 6.00pm at the Grange Public School, 8 Benham Rd, Minto NSW 2566.
The program will include talks about Eid and the Bangalee cultural activities.
All the community members are invited. Please come and join us to share the joy of our great Eid-ul-Fitr with your family and friends.
Please bring a dish of your choice to share with others.
View the PDF document in Bangla
Bangla Prosar Committee to meet the Bangla speaking community of NSW on September 17th at the Dulwich Hill
Saturday School
On September 17, 2005, the Bangla Prosar Committee will be describing to the leaders, organisations and media of the
Bangla speaking community of NSW about the soon-to-start Bangla lessons at the Saturday School of Community Languages at their Dulwich Hill High School Centre.
So please be at the Dulwich Hill High School, Seaview Street, Dulwich Hill 2203, NSW to see the premises where this historic event
is going to happen and learn more about the Bangla language program of Saturday School which the Bangla Prosar Committee has helped
to initiate.
The event will start at 11:30am and end at 1:30pm with lunch provided by the Prosar Committee.
More info
Please read the PDF document in Bangla
August 12 Meeting of Bangla Prosar Committee
On August 12 2005, the Bangla Prosar Committee held a meeting at the Bangladesh Association of NSW Office, 65 Spurway Rd, Ermington.
The meeting started at 4pm and dwelled mostly on the outcome of the meeting BPC had with the Saturday School Authorities a week before
and the Committee's future plans in view of the soon to be started Bangla Program at the Saturday School's Dulwich High School Centre.
Click here to read more info and agenda of the meeting.
BPC Meets Saturday School Principal and others on August 6
On August 6 2005, the Bangla Prosar Committee had a very fruitful meeting with Marjory Ellsmore, principal, Saturday School of
Community Languages and others at their Dulwich Hill High School Centre. The meeting was focused on the soon-to-be implemented Bangla
language program of Saturday School.
More info
BPC Meeting on 9th July
The Bangla Prosar Committee is holding its next meeting on the 9th of July 2005 at the Bangladesh Association of NSW Office, 65 Spurway Rd, Ermington.
The meeting will start at 4pm and all members are requested to attend.
Click here to read more info and agenda of the meeting.
Annual Cultural Program of Campbelltown Bangla School
Campbelltown Bangla School is holding its Annual Cultural Program on 23rd July 2005 at James Meehan High School Auditorium, Macquarie Fields, NSW,
at 5.00pm. The program will include performances of Bangla School's students and guest artists.
All are warmly invited to this program.
Please read the invitation to the Annual Cultural Program of Campbelltown Bangla School
.
Click here for more info
Open competition for Bangla storytelling, recitation and art at Campbelltown Bangla School
Campbelltown Bangla School has organised an open-for-all storytelling, recitation and art competition at the school premises
(8 Benham Road, Minto, NSW) on 26th June 2005, Sunday 10am. The event, first of its kind to be held in NSW, is already attracting a lot of
interest from the community. If you are interested too, see this
PDF document
for more info.
More: Here is a report in Bangla about the competition.
Campbelltown Bangla School forms new executive committee
On 8th May 2005, Campbelltown Bangla School formed its new executive committee with Abdul Jalil, who is also the current president of
Bangla Proshar Committee, as its chairman.
Good luck to the new committee.
Here is the full list in Bangla.
Do we like to see our mother language Bangla to be established in Australian education system?
Dear All,
Bangla Proshar Committee, Australia since its inception in 1998 has been endeavouring hard to establish Bangla in NSW Education System. As a result Saturday School of Community Languages (SSCL) of NSW will start Bangla course from 2006 for Yr 7-10 students. The schedule and other information for this course are as follows:
Enrolment process will start in September this year. SSCL will include Bangla in its list of languages for 2006 in the Enrolment Information Booklet that is to be circulated to all schools in Term 3 of 2005.
- Bangla classes will be held at SSCL’s Dulwich Hill High School Centre every Saturday from February 2006.
- The minimum number of students to start this course for the 1st year is 10. But the number of interested students must be 30 to get Bangla to be accredited for SSC in 2007.
- If this figure lasts for at least three years, Bangla can be accredited for NSW HSC in 2008 and its currently suspended status in Australian National Curriculum will be resumed.
Now it is a great challenge to all of us to establish Bangla in Australian Education System. This task can not be successful without your cooperation. Let us take this challenge as the most priority one.
We are all Australian but Bangalee too. Let us uphold this identity with pride.
ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO LEARN BANGLA AT HIGH SCHOOL FROM 2006 AND LET IT BE THEIR BELOVED LANGUAGE.
Register your child(ren)’s name in BPC’s interest list today.
Read the leaflet in Bangla
Bangla Proshar Committee holds discussion fora and stalls at the Boishakhi Melas
Bangla Proshar Committee is to hold discussion forums and stalls at this this year's Boishakhi Melas (Bengali new year's festival) in Sydney.
The first mela is on the 9th of April 2005 at the Burwood Girls School at Burwood organised by the Bongobondhu Parishad Australia.
The second one is on the 16th of April 2005 at same venue organised by the Bangabandhu Parishad Australia.
In both the melas, the Committee will hold discussion fora with the topic "Probashi Bangaleer Ditio Projanmer Bangla Bhasha"
(Bangla language of second generation Australian Bangalees).
Distinguished members from the Bengali community and members of the Proshar Committee and audience will speak in the fora about the
abovementioend topic.
The forum on the 9th is at 3:30pm and at 2:30pm on the 16th. You are cordially invited to participate in the fora.
Here is a
PDF
document in Bangla with more info.
In addition to the fora, Bangla Proshar Committee will also have its stalls at the fairs to inform everyone about the imminent
availability of Bangla in Saturday Language Schools (see BPC Meeting with NSW Department of Education and Training for details).
So feel free to visit the BPC stalls and learn more about this very important development in establishing Bangla in NSW education system.
Meet the top Bangladeshi Student in HSC this year (UAI 99.95)
Shafqat Inam scored a UAI of 99.95 in HSC this year (04-05) which easily earned him the title of the top student within the Bangladeshi community
and also one of the very top achievers among all the examinees.
He has enrolled in Medicine at UNSW. He attended Sydney Grammar School.
Here are his obtained marks:
Advanced English - 94, Extension 1 English - 47 (out of 50), Extension 2 English - 48 (out of 50), Maths Extension 1 - 100,
Maths Extension 2 - 99. Chemistry - 95, Physics - 96 and Latin - 99.
Shafqat lives in Eastlakes. His father is Shah Enamul Huda and mother Syeda Fahima Banoo. Younger brother goes to Sydney Boys High
school (a selective school) and is in yr 8.
Congratulations to Shafqat.
News and photo sent by Dr Maksudul Bari
Press release from Bangla Proshar Committee
on its achievements so far
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read it
Bangla Proshar Committee holds successful meeting with NSW Department of Education and Training
Bangla Proshar committee held a very successful meeting with with K - 12 Curriculum Director of NSW Department of Education
and Training on 22nd February 2005. In this meeting held at the DET premises at Ryde, among other things, the DET agreed to introduce
Bangla at Saturday School of Community Language (SSCL) from 1st term of 2006 for year 7 - 10 students at their Dulwich Hill centre of NSW.
The matter of inclusion of Bangla in NSW high schools and eventually in HSC now practically lies with the Bangalee community
in NSW as it will be the provider of the students.
BPC will be in contact with the wider community members soon regarding this issue.
Read all the details of the meeting
Tell your local library to buy books in Bangla
Bangla Proshar Committee is to embark on a major campaign to encourage State, Council, University and other libraries to buy books
in Bangla. In this campaign, which is to be the Proshar Committee's main activity in the month of February, the month in which
seeds of Bangladesh's struggle to establish Bangla as the national language was
sown, the Committee is to request all the State and major Council and University libraries of NSW to procure more books in Bangla.
Bangla Proshar Committee also requests all Bangla speaking and Bangla loving people of NSW to request their individual Council
libraries to procure more books in Bangla. Please tell your local library to buy books written in Bangla that you think is of some use
to you and the Bangla speaking community in your neighbourhood.
The BPC also plans to publish a list of Bangla reference books that it thinks every library should have on its site. If you have any
particular book or books in your mind that you think should make this list, please let
us know.
More Bangla ringtones
Saibul Reza from Sylhet, Bangladesh has sent us quite a few ringtones.
The tones include the national anthem, Ekushey February and a few very popular songs.
Check them out.
Annual picnic of Campbelltown Bangla School, NSW
On 16th January 2005, students of the Campbelltown Bangla School and their guardians had a picnic on Stanwell
Park Beach - about 60 kms from Sydney.
In addition to lots of tasty food and group conversations, there were cricket, some sprints and the fabulous
waves of the Pacific Ocean for the students to enjoy. In the afternoon, after the tea, the day came to an end
with a raffle-draw.
News and photos provided by Abdul Jalil.
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Commerce Minister of Bangladesh requests NSW Speaker to include Bangla in LOTE
The Commerce Minister of Bangladesh Altaf Hossain requests New South Wales Parliament Speaker John Aquilina
to include Bangla in the education system of New South Wales as a LOTE (Language other than English) and
in response the Speaker assures him that he would personally write to the Minister of Education for including
Bangla in the list of LOTE of New South Wales.
Read full story at News from Bangladesh
Bangla MP3 on Bangla Proshar
Listen to an exclusive collection of bangla songs recorded by artists either from Australia or while in Australia.
Singers include Saadi Mohammad, Akhter Jahan and the unforgettable duo of Sabiha Mahbub and Kaderi Kibria.
If you are an artist or band living in Australia and have something original and/or experimental that you want to
share with visitors of Bangla Proshar, then send it to us or just e-mail us.
Bangla music and Dance classes for children
Dr. Monjur Hamid (Kochi) and Nasreen Hamid run a Bangla music school where they teach Bangla music and Dance.
The details:
Name: Bangladesh Music School
Venue one: Matraville Public School (corner of Bunnerong Rd and Beauchamp Rd) in Hillsdale on Saturday mornings from 10:30 am to 12.00 am
Venue two: 31 Evelyn St. Macquarie Fields on Friday afternoons from 7:00 pm to 9.00 pm
Instructors: Dr. Monjur Hamid (Kochi) and Nasreen Hamid
Contact No: 9618 3194, 0401 002 320, 0419 204 186
More Info
Tabla classes for children
Rashedul Kabir Sweetie, an accomplished and renowned tabla player of the Bengali community in Sydney has come up with this fabulous programme for interested kids.
Please contact him if you want your kid to learn to play tabla.
Here are the details:
Venue: 35 Lenton Crescent, Oakhurst, NSW 2761
Time: 3:00 to 4:00pm every Sunday
Commencing: 4th of July 2004
Duration: 6 months each stage
Fees: $15 per session
Instructor: Rashedul Kabir (Sweetie)
Class size: Maximum 10
Contact No: 0401247424
Ring Tone of Bangladesh National Anthem for Nokia:
4#a1 4c2 4a1 4#a1 4a1 4g1 4f1 8g1 8f1 4#d1 2d1 4- 4d1 4#d1 8f1 8- 8f1 8g1 8a1 8#a1 4a1 4g1 8f1 8g1 4#d1 2f1 4g1 4a1 4g1 2f1
Keep the tempo at 140
More ring tones
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