• Bangla Prosar Committee to meet the Bangla speaking community of NSW on September 17th at the Dulwich Hill Saturday School
• Enrolment starts for Bangla Course in NSW Saturday School
• August 2005 Meeting
• BPC Meets Saturday School Principal and others on August 6
• July 2005 Meeting
• Do we like to see our mother language Bangla to be established in Australian education system?
• Bangla Proshar Committee holds discussion fora and stalls at the Boishakhi Melas
• Meeting with K - 12 Curriculum Director of NSW Department of Education and Training (DET)
• January 2005 Meeting
• AGM 2004

Forms:

• Application form for new student in 2006 (pdf - 75 KB)
  First page of application form for 2006.
• Application form continued (pdf - 15 KB)
  Conditions of enrolment for new student in 2006.
• Application form Appendix 1 (pdf - 18 KB)
  Application for advanced standing or recognition of prior learning for all students applying late in Year 10 & Year 11 and new students applying for Year 12.
• Application form Appendix 2 (pdf - 19 KB)
  For students applying for the Year 11 Chinese Continuers course ONLY. Application for exemption from background speaker status.

If you could not get the form from your child’s school please contact Bangla Prosar Committee .
Abdul Jalil President Bangla Prosar Committee Tel: 9618 6131, Mobile: 0422 344 937 Email: ajal3149@bigpond.net.au

Bangla Prosar Committee to meet the Bangla speaking community of NSW on September 17th at the Dulwich Hill Saturday School

On September 15, 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 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.

August 2005 Meeting

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.

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 High School Centre. The meeting was focused on the soon-to-be implemented Bangla language program of Saturday School.

July 2005 Meeting

Date: 9th July 2005
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: Bangladesh Association of NSW Office, 65 Spurway Rd, Ermington
Agenda:

1. Approval of last meeting’s minutes as a true record of it
2. Meeting with Dept of Education and Saturday School in next term
3. Review of letter by Victorian Certificates of Education
4. Bangla Language Competition to be organised by BPC
5. Prizes and certificates for children attending Bangla writing in Boishakhi Mela
6. A common syllabus framework for Sunday Bangla Schools
7. Miscellaneous

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.

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.

Meeting with K - 12 Curriculum Director of NSW Department of Education and Training (DET)

Date: 22 February 2005
Time: 4pm
Venue: NSW Department of Education and Training (DET), 3a Smalls Road Ryde 2112
Agenda and outcome:
The Bangla Prosar Committee had a very successful meeting with the K - 12 Curriculum Director of the NSW Department of Education and Training on 22nd February 2005.
The followings are the outcomes of the meeting:

• Saturday School of Community Language (SSCL) will commence running Bangla course from 1st term of 2006 for year 7 - 10 students at Dulwich Hill centre of NSW.
• SSCL Principal will circulate the Enrolment Form at the end term 3 this year (2005).
• Student enrolment will be finalised at the end of week 4 of term 1, 2006.
• The minimum number of enrolled students has to be 10 to start the course. But this minimum number will not facilitate the language to be recognised in HSC level (LOTE). To get the LOTE recognition, the number continually needs to be 30 for at least 2/3 years.
• Bangla Syllabus for HSC is nationally recognised and updated in Australia, but it is suspended at the moment. It can be reactivated earliest in 2008 if SSCL students' number sustainably and continually remains 30 or above.
• More SSCL centre can be opened depending on the number of students and the availability of the space.

DET side:

• Mr. Robert Randall, K-12 Curriculum Director, DET
• Ms. Marjory Elsmore, Principal, SSCL
• Dr. Margaret Silink, NSW Board of Studies
• Ms. Nina Conomos, DET
• Ms. Christine Ellis, R/Director, Equity Programs and Distance Education, DET
• Mr. Len Ball, Community Language Program, DET

• Mr. Abdul Jalil, President, BPC
• Mr. Farouk Iqbal, Secretary, BPC
• Dr. Swapan Paul, Treasurer, BPC
• Dr. Fazlur Rahman, Member, BPC

BPC will be in contact with the wider community members soon regarding this issue.

May we request all the media to publish this issue attractively with greater importance? We would also like to urge others to take a very active part to popularise the issue among the community.

January 2005 Meeting

Date: 30th January 2005
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: Bangladesh Association of NSW Office, 65 Spurway Rd, Ermington
Agenda:

1. Charge handover
2. Work plan and strategic course of action for 2005
3. Saturday School issue and meeting with Mr Robert Randall, Director of Curriculum, DTEC
4. Should we have our own constitution?
5. Miscellaneous

AGM 2004

Venue: Glenfield Community Centre, Cnr Railway Pde and Salisbury Ave, Glenfield, NSW
Date: 4th December 2004
Time: 4.00pm - 8.00pm

In the Annual General Meeting held at Glenfield Community Hall on 4th December 2004, Bangla Prosar Committee has formed a new 15 members Executive Committee with the following office bearers and members:

• President: Mr. Abdul Jalil
• Vice President: Dr. Maksudul Bari
• Treasurer: Dr. Swapan Paul
• Secretary: Mr. Farouk Iqbal
• Members:
  1. Dr. Fazlur Rahman
  2. Mr. Nazrul Islam
  3. Mrs. Samsia Solaiman
  4. Mr. Fida-ul Haq
  5. Mr. Nehal Bari
  6. Mr. Rafuqul Hasan
  7. Mr. Abdul Wahab
  8. Mr. Masood Chowdhury
  9. Mr. Yunus Syed
  10. Ms. Lily Gomage
  11. Mr. M.N. Farid

The AGM has decided the following strategic directions and sought active cooperation from the community members to achieve them.

1. The BPC should locate some high schools which will be approached to incorporate Bangla in their school curriculum. The committee would provide the resources to develop a draft syllabus framework for submission to NSW Board of Studies and other logistic supports to those schools who agree to run the course.

2. Taking the instance of Eastlake and Matraville Public Schools, BPC can approach more public schools particularly in Campbelltown, Parramatta and Blacktown areas to include Bangla as a second language.

3. To make the above approach effective BPC could organize parents meeting in respective areas.

4. In addition BPC should organize some unique programs to build community awareness about itself.

5. BPC should take steps to revive the currently inactive Bangla Schools.

6. Apart from the above activities, BPC will continue pursuing its primary agenda of inclusion of Bangla as LOTE in HSC.