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CHPS eNewsletter
September 21st, 2017 – Term 3 Week 10 Croydon Hills Primary School
Principal’s Report
Busy Term Term 3 ends this week, so a reminder that school finishes at 1.30pm tomorrow. Classes resume on Monday October 9th for an 11 week Term 4. I wish all school families a happy, relaxing and safe holiday break. Let’s hope we have a fortnight full of beautiful spring weather to enjoy. Spring is a special time to be in Melbourne, so I hope your family can make the most of it. If your team is still in the Finals, good luck!
Student Disco
Thanks to our dedicated CHAPS parents who turned on a magnificent Disco last Friday night for our students. It was a great night with bumper crowds for both sessions. The students were well-behaved and enjoyed the whole experience immensely. Thanks also to the teachers and aides who gave up a Friday night to assist..
Junior Inquiry Learning Expo
Our Junior students had the opportunity to show off their work to their peers on Tuesday, when they put on an Expo for the other classes. There were some wonderful projects on display, showcasing enquiring minds and a great deal of talent and learning ability from our Year 1s and 2s – well done to all!
Prep Fairy Tale Ball
What an amazing array of costumes our Prep students (and their teachers)
Calendar
2017
September
Friday 22nd Free Dress Day - Gold Coin Donation
Friday 22nd Last day Term 3,
1.30pm dismissal
October Monday 9th Term 4 begins Tuesday 10th Prep Aquarium Exc.
Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th: Year 4 Camp
Friday 20th General Assembly
Friday 20th Year 2 Sleepover
Monday 23rd Art Show
Wednesday 25th – Friday 27th: Year 3 Camp
November Friday 3rd Presentation Assembly
Monday 6th Curriculum Day
Tuesday 7th Cup Day
Monday 13th – Friday 17th Year 5 Camp
NOTICES GOING HOME THIS WEEK: Year 3 & 4 Camp Reminders, including final payments MOTH Trivia Night
PLEASE RETURN ALL CHOCOLATE MONEY / UNSOLD CHOCOLATES BY THE END OF TERM
PLEASE CHECK YOUR COMPASS FEED REGULARLY
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arrived in on Wednesday for the Fairy Tale Ball. They have been working on the unit of Fairy Tales and have been looking forward to living out the experience, in what has become a much-loved annual event at CHPS. There are some great pictures later in this Newsletter.
AFL Experience
Footy fever has certainly hit CHPS today, with the much-anticipated AFL Roadshow giving all students the opportunity to sharpen their footy skills, while having an enormous amount of fun
School Website
If you have visited our school website lately, you will notice that many of the images have been refreshed and the content updated. Thank you to the Publicity teams for their work on this project. It is an important window into our school for prospective parents and a useful resource for current parents too.
Graeme Caudry - Principal
Last Day for Stickers is TOMORROW! If we don’t send them back tomorrow, we’ll miss out on the rewards they can earn! Please return all stickers and sheets (even if incomplete) to the office tomorrow morning, so we can
maximize our earning capacity for more learning resources.
Thanks to all those families who have supported this initiative with their shopping.
Science News
Congratulations to the winners of the Science Challenges this week. They were: Anna from JLS, Talia from JMP, Alex from MPB and Regan from MPB. Laura Kitching - Science
TOMORROW is the Junior School Council’s Fundraiser for the
Make-a-Wish Foundation On the last day of term, students are encouraged to wear
free dress to promote this initiative. Please bring a gold coin donation, which will raise money for Make-a-Wish
Australia.
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Make-A-Wish Australia was founded in 1985 and now, in their 30th year, they have granted over 8,000 wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. Make-A-Wish wishes gives very sick children and teenagers hope for the future, strength to face the challenges of their illness, and joy from their incredible wish experience.
For more information about this initiative, see the following website:
https://www.makeawish.org.au
Canteen News
MONDAYS ARE ONLINE ORDERS ONLY WHAT’S NEW? GLEE Juice Bubbles $2.00 (Very similar product to LOL which has been discontinued) 99% Sparkling Fruit Juice, No added sugar, Natural flavours & colours, No preservatives. Available in 4 flavours – Bubblegum Grape, Rockin Raspberry, Tropical Treat, Blackcurrant Burst.
FLEXISCHOOLS ONLINE ORDERING PLEASE BE SURE TO CONFIRM ALL ONLINE ORDERS AS WE HAVE AN INCREASING NUMBER OF STUDENTS WITHOUT AN ORDER AT LUNCHTIME. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM FLEXISCHOOLS. Please call the Flexischools help line on 1300 361 769 if you have any queries.
ROSTER. TERM 4 Monday 9th October – Gair-Amina Kerr. Tuesday 10th October – Jenny Thompson. Friday 13th October – Kati Wilkins, Fran Taddich. Karen Cyster - Canteen Manager
Uniform News LET’S GET RAGTAGD! The uniform shop is excited to announce that we have introduced Ragtagd, a young start-up company that helps parents find lost property at school. Finally a way to get on top of that mound of jumpers and jackets! Here’s how it works: Whenever your Smart Tagged garment reaches lost property, you will receive an automated SMS (text message) notifying you that it’s there, making retrieval quick and easy. In fact, collection is so simple that 90% of families using RagTagd at other schools get their lost property within a day of receiving an SMS. As part of our initial trial, we have a limited amount of tags available at the Uniform Shop that we can hand out. Once these have gone, future windcheaters, bomber jackets and polar fleece jackets will come already fitted with these tags.
PREP UNIFORM TIME! If you have children enrolled in prep next year and would like to make an appointment to try on the uniform, please do so at the office. There's no longer any need to place an order, as stock is ready in the uniform shop for you to purchase straight away. New girls’ leisure pants (straight leg style) $29.00 sizes 4 to adult Small
Girls Bootleg pants on SALE $15.00, HURRY! sizes are limited
2017 Uniform Shop Opening Hours: Monday 8.30am to 10am Thursday 2.30pm to 4pm
Orders can be placed any day through FlexiSchools.com.au. Your order will be processed during normal opening hours and delivered home via your child’s classroom. Order Forms can also be left at the office.
Orders and enquiries can be made by phoning the Uniform Shop during our opening hours.
All orders will be sent to your child’s classroom, unless otherwise specified. Anissa Silver - Manager
Conditional Happiness and what we focus on
The ‘If, then’ phenomenon in our society is making people miserable.
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It is an unhelpful thinking style that makes your happiness conditional, such as, ‘IF I find my dream job that fulfils me, THEN I will be happy’. In the book ‘Change Your Thinking (3rd ed)’ Sarah Edelman points out 2 major problems with this thinking style;
1. We miss the opportunity to fully enjoy and experience the present moment….postponing our happiness to
some future times means that we miss out on today…there are no second chances to re-live today.
2. If our problems are conditional to solving our problems, we may never be happy as problems will always be
with us….as some are resolved, new ones emerge, that is the nature of things.
‘The challenge is to fix what is fixable, accept what we cannot change and focus on all the many good things that we already have’. Pg 363 ‘We can practise appreciating every positive aspect of our lives no matter how small (the smaller and simpler the better) eg; finishing a task you have been meaning to do; a dinner invitation; a fascinating tv program; affection from a pet; the sunshine beaming through the window; a curious question from a child’. Pg 365 I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to improve their mental health. It is more than a self-help book - it is equal to 2 years of face to face therapy. If anyone wold like to borrow my copy of ‘Change Your Thinking,’ contact me on [email protected] Mia – Student Welfare
CHAPS Weekly News DISCO
What a night of fun, great music, super DJ and a lollipop to go home with when signing out your kids! Thanks for everyone that supported this great night. The CHAPS Fundraising Team goal was for our kids to have a fantastic night of music and dance and they sure did. Thank you to all the kind helpers, office team and teachers who donated their time leading up to the event and on the night and parents who were patient with our sign in /sign out list. We couldn’t have it done it without you. Most of all, our kids – you all were amazing and we are super proud of you making this night the successful one it was! The great news we raised just over $3,000 for the night, for our School.
Penny, Allison & Nicole.
CHOCOLATE MONEY Thanks for everyone who has paid their chocolate money this week. We still have some families remaining. Please can you organise this for Friday or at the latest by mid-week at the start of next term. We appreciate there may be reasons for the delay, so please contact the office directly to discuss. CHPS will make calls at the beginning of term for families who are still outstanding.
SAVE THE DATE Colour Run has been booked for November 22nd 2017, in conjunction with JSC. We will have more information to share with all families and children in the 1st week of term when we return from the holidays. It’s going to be great fun for all the kids and will also raise money for Auto Immune Disease.
NEXT MEETING – 7.30pm Come along and join us on October 16th 2017 – It’s a quick, efficient meeting, with a few laughs and some great like-minded people who enjoy taking time out to make our school even better. Why not give it a try and we would love to meet you!!
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Lastly CHAPS have an official closed group on Facebook to ensure you are up to date with all things CHAPS please join our group.
CHAPS committee [email protected]
2017 - The Year of Community
CROYDON HILLS PRIMARY TWILIGHT FAIR 30th Birthday Celebration
24th March, 2018 3-9pm Can you help?! Preparations are well underway for our School Fair next year and although we have a core group of parents already busily co-ordinating, we need many more! We have already organised rides, bands and fireworks, however we are still seeking parent volunteers to help us co-ordinate stalls and would love your assistance to make this our biggest and most successful Fair yet!
Anyone who is interested in assisting in any way, can you please contact us via the school email:
Thank you – Kylie Van Roosmalen and Natalie Wilson
THE WINNER!
Congratulations
JACK P MTC
Great work!
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Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514
Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514
Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514
Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514
Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week the Middle and Senior students were lucky enough to participate in an incursion through Starlab Victoria. This incursion took place inside a huge blow-up
dome in which images of planets and constellations were projected onto the inside. Nick, who ran the sessions, taught the students about the changing seasons, earth’s rotation around the sun, the constellations, planets and the phases of the moon. For more information about the program, visit: http://www.starlab.com.au
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SAVE THE DATE!
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