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GSA is offering a limited number of fully paid places for MUSport’s School Holiday Program (April/Easter Holidays 2025) to currently enrolled graduate students who are parents or carers to children aged between 5 – 12 years old.
The fully paid place covers one day of activities for one child, in the school holiday program happening between 7 April and 17 April.
Currently enrolled graduate students can already access a 30% discount on the cost of the school holiday program advertised on MUSport’s website. GSA will subsidise the rest of the cost for a one-day program, which means parents do not have to pay anything.
However, please note that the aftercare cost ($35.50) is not covered by MuSport or GSA. Aftercare is available if you’re unable to pick up your child at 3.30pm when the program finishes for the day. This will need to be organised directly with MuSport Holiday Program Staff when booking the date for the program.
Applicants will need to express their interest for the fully-paid place by completing the questionnaire at the bottom of the page. Please ensure you read all the information below which includes eligibility, Timelines and FAQ.
Eligbility
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- You need to be a currently enrolled graduate student at the University of Melbourne
- You need to be a parent/guardian of a child aged between 5 – 12 years old
- Max 1 per student per calendar year
- GSA staff and elected student representatives are not eligible for this support program
What is the School Holiday Program?
The School Holiday Program is regularly run by MU Sport and runs during the Victorian School Holidays. For this term, the program runs from Monday 7 April to Thursday 17 April 2025.
There are different sporting and non-sporting activities available like basketball, tennis, fencing, AFL, Arts & crafts and Coding.
The programs are suitable for children aged 5 – 12 years old and each program day runs from 8.30am to 3.30pm, with aftercare available for $35.50 extra from 3.30pm to 5.30pm. The fully-paid place does not include the cost of aftercare.
To find out the types of activities run each day, as well as the actual cost of the program each day, please refer to the MuSport website: School Holiday Program | Melbourne University Sport (unimelb.edu.au)
Please note that the cost quoted on the website is BEFORE the 30% discount for Unimelb students is applied.
If parents/guardians have any specific questions about the program, please email your questions to holidayprogram-sport@unimelb.edu.au
For questions about the fully-paid place provided by GSA, please email events@gsa.unimelb.edu.au.
Timelines
- Applications open at 9am on Saturday 22 March 2025.
- Successful applicants will be advised while applications are still open and advised how to redeem their fully-paid place.
- Successful applicants are required to book in the date for their child by 31st March 2025.
- Any unused places will be issued to other applicants after 31st March.
FAQ
Unfortunately, you need to be a current graduate student of Unimelb to be eligible for this program.
Please refer to MUSport’s webpage that outlines the activities for each day over the 2-week period. If the information there does not answer your questions, please email the Holiday Program representative at holidayprogram-sport@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to MUSport’s webpage that outlines the cost for each day, as well as the activities that will run on that day. Prices before the 30% discount from MUSport range from $78.50, $100.50 and $112.
Unfortunately, no. If you’re successful for this round, you will need to use it during this April 2025 School Holiday season. We will most likely do another giveaway in the next round of the School Holiday Program so you can apply again if you did not get a chance to take advantage of t this time.
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Once you and your child have chosen the date/activity that they wish to attend, you will need to get in touch with the School Holiday program Supervisor with your voucher code and they will help you process it manually. Contact details for the School Holiday Program Supervisor will be mentioned in the email we send you to advise that your application has been successful.
Food is not provided. You will need to pack at least 2 snacks and lunch for your child. Please do not pack food with nuts as there are other children who can get anaphylaxis. For more info about the day, please refer to the Parent Information Booklet on MuSport website: https://sport.unimelb.edu.au/pdfs/Holiday-Program-Parent-Information-Booklet-Updated.pdf
Yes, they do. Each activity is 1.5 hours long. Children are divided up into 2 different groups (5 – 7 yr olds & 8 – 12 yr olds) and they will rotate through each activity.
Application Form
Applications close 4th April at 5pm.
Thank you for your interest. Applications have now closed