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With the European Commission and the school we are planning a wide range of activities. We have grouped them in categories to make enrolment easier.

The APEEE (Association of Parents of students of the European School Brussels III), in conjunction with the school organizes extracurricular activities.
Mr Jacky Materna is the person responsible for after school activities and for organizing after school child minding. His assistant is Mr S. Chy.

The table below lists some of our colleagues. This list is purely for information and is subject to change at any time.

Primary and Kindergarten: from 8 September 2008 to 3 July 2009
Secondary: from 8 September 2008 to 30 May 2009

Prices of activities may be subject to change as we are constantly negotiating to get the best price/quality ratio. It may happen that certain courses are changed due to the number of enrolments.

Activities which are priced by semester (Fridays) are not automatically renewed for the second semester. It is mandatory to enroll for both the first and second semester.

Reductions: an reduction of 15% (up to a maximum of 25 € per activity) is granted for the 5^th activity and more per child.

Enrolment between         08-09-2008     and     30-11-2008:     full price
Enrolment between         01-12-2008     and     31-03-2009:     1/3 reduction
Enrolment between         01-04-2009     and     03-07-2009 :     2/3 reduction

These reductions are valid only for annual activities. There is no reduction for late enrolments for activities by semester or others.

From June 15^th until September 3^th on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10.30 til 18.00 at the office of the Periscolaire Activities OR by post to
“ Periscolaire Activities, 135 Bd. du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels “.

Enrolment will be suspended between September 4^th and 8^th to draw up lists of participants for the teachers.
After September 8^th requests for enrolment will be handled in accordance with course availability.

3. Wait for the confirmation of your enrolment by email or directly at the Periscolaire Office if you drop off the form. This will include an enrolment code for your child which is required for payment.

4. Send payment by bank transfer to account number : 310-1958677-42 with a message containing the your child’s enrolment code.

- We ask you to provide a valid email address. This way your enrolment confirmation and payment method will be sent to you.

For any cancellation within 21 calendar days of enrolment or after activities officially start, 30 € of the total paid will be withheld. After this deadline no refunds are possible except in the case of a long illness or departure from the school. In such cases the total amount will be refunded minus 20 € and an amount to cover the number of classes preceding the cancellation application. There will be no refunds for occasional absences by course participants or course leaders, for whatever reason. The extracurricular activities Group reserves the right to cancel or modify activities.

Late applications will be accepted only if there are places available. The price charged will be the amount due for the current term at the time of enrolment.

In the case of late payment or where payment is refused by the bank access to the activity will be immediately suspended until the situation is sorted out. In the case of a seriously overdue payment the Periscolaire Committee reserves the right to demand the payment of an administrative fee of 15 € with the first registered letter. If payment is still not received the file will be sent to a lawyer for collection with additional fees of at least 150 € per child.

We organize all transport connected with the activities (as long as the student is registered with the transport office). Parents are responsible for collecting children from activities which take place outside school and after the second bus.

Transport on the second bus is restricted to availability. The bus stops will not be changed. At present there are no supervisors on the second buses.

- Child in Nursery: the teacher will take your child to the kindergarten covered playground where extracurricular activities staff will take charge. The child should stand under the sign designating his or her activity (see description of activities), where the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge at 15h20.

- Child in Primary: the teacher will take the child to the entrance hall of the primary building (between buildings C and D) where the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge. The child should stand under the sign designating his or her activity, where the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge at 15h30.

- Child in secondary: the child should go to the kindergarten covered rotunda (building A rotunda) where the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge.

- Child in Kindergarten / Primary and has to go to the child minding service or snack-study: the teacher will take the child to the Kindergarten rotunda where the child minding service / snack-study staff will take charge.

- Child with Wednesday activity: if in Kindergarten the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge from 12h40 on. If in Primary the child must go to the Canteen at the end of lessons. For the first few days the Primary children will be accompanied from the entrance hall (between buildings C and D) to the Canteen.

- Child with Friday activity (Nursery): the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge in the kindergarten covered playground at 12h15.

- Child with Friday activity (Primary 1 – 2): the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge in the main hall (between buildings C and D) at 12h15. The changeover of activity is supervised by the extracurricular activities’ staff in the hall in front of the canteen at 13h45.

- if your child is in Nursery and does swimming : he must bring a packed lunch as the swimming bus leaves earlier. He cannot have a hot meal.

- If your child is in Nursery, Primary or Secondary and he is not enrolled in the after-school child minding service on Wednesdays :

· He can have a hot meal under the supervision of the periscolaire teachers if you contact the canteen and enroll him on Wednesdays

· He can eat is packed lunch under the supervision of the periscolaire teachers

- If your child is in Nursery, Primary or Secondary and he is enrolled in the after-school child minding service on Wednesdays : a hot meal is included in the enrolment fee for the after-school child minding service: He goes to the canteen with the supervisors of the child minding service and joins his extracurricular activity afterwards.

- For more information please contact the extracurricular activities office (02-629-47-75) or the canteen office (02-629-46-71).

Participants are expected to respect facilities and staff. If they do not, they may be sanctioned or even excluded.

In some cases activities begin a whole period after the end of lessons (e.g end of lessons 15h20 start of activity 16h30). Parents must enroll Primary or Nursery children for the child minding service or snack/study time. Children from 1^st secondary must go to secondary study for the hour between end of lessons and beginning of the activity. In addition the extracurricular activities organize sessions of « supervised study. » which require enrolment and payment.

· Parents collect their child straight after the activity : the meeting point is the kindergarten rotunda. Supervision lasts a maximum of 15 minutes after the end of the activity. After that time the extracurricular activities’ staff will take charge and parents will be billed 7€.

· Children who return home alone after the activity: Parents must supply their child with authorization to leave school and the extracurricular activities (this authorization must be in the child’s agenda).

· Children go to snack/study time or on-site child minding service: they are collected by the person responsible for child minding from the kindergarten rotunda .(see item 9 : child minding and supervision).

· Children who must take the second bus: Parents must indicate on the enrolment form the number of the bus the child has to take. When in doubt the extracurricular activities staff will keep the child at school and contact parents by phone. All bus changes must be notified to the Transport Office and the Extracurricular Activities Office at the latest on the day of the change. Parents are requested to get in touch with the transport service to check whether the first bus stops are the same as the second bus stops (see transport).

We must remind you that there are no second bus departures for Wilson and Beaulieu child minding services.

Send us your ideas and suggestions for activities we can organize together.
Class teachers hand out information sheets during the year to inform you about changes and new activities: PERISCOLAIRE NEWS

Individual music lessons will start again on September 08^th 2008.
Enrolment forms must be sent in before the first lesson and each student must get his 10 lesson card from the Periscolaire office.
Lessons will be held at the school. All students must contact the teachers to fix lesson times. There is a list of teachers in the extracurricular activities’ office.

The rate for music lessons is 185€ for ten 30 minute lessons. If the length of the lesson is over 30 minutes the price will be adjusted proportionately. Unless teachers are told by 7.00 pm the day before that a student will be absent, the lesson will be deemed to have been given and will be charged for. Parents are requested to notify teachers in case of an absence caused by the school (e.g. school trip, pedagogical day) .

The list of instruments includes the following, although it is not final. If the instrument you are looking for is not on the list, please contact the extracurricular activities' office.

The Commission organizes an after-school child minding service which is available upon payment for children of institutional personnel aged between 4 and 12 . This service is located at different sites : Wilson, Beaulieu ,Genève and at the school.

It is open every day from the end of school and during school holidays (All Saints, Christmas / New Year, Carnival, Ascension or Whitsun) and School training days.

For Easter and Summer holidays there is an open-air garderie for children from 4 – 14 years old.

If you have any questions on enrolment procedures, please contact the ‘garderies’ secretariat or call in at one of the garderies:
rue John Waterloo Wilson 20 à 1000 Bruxelles tel. 02/29 50945 - email OIB WILSON GARDERIES

For enrolment in the garderie at the School please contact the secretariat at 02/295-09-45
General information is also available on the European Institutions website (IntraComm):

A “snack-study” activity is also organized by the Commission in the framework of the after-school “garderie”. This activity is limited to children taking part in an extra-curricular activity only. No enrolment to snack-study time will be considered before confirmation of enrolment in the extra-curricular activity. Your child’s enrolment code or a copy of the confirmation email will be required.

The “snack-study” activity is provided for children taking part in extra-curricular activities, either before or after the activity, on the school premises, from 15h20 to 18h30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. The hours on Friday are from the end of school (15h20) until 17h45 and on Wednesday from 14h30 to 18h30 .

On Wednesday the Periscolaire office ensures the transition from the end of school to the beginning of activities.

For enrolment for the child minding service and the snack-study call 02/295 09 45 (‘garderies’ secretariat)

Category 3 children (whose parents have no statutary link with the Commission) have the possibility of attending the garderie or the snack-study activity via the Periscolaire Office. Please call 02.629.47.75.

In order to enable children to catch the second bus, kindergarten and primary classes from 15h30 to 16h30 will end at 16h15.The monitor will take the children to the buses. Please make sure you indicate the correct bus number on the enrolment form and in the school agenda.