313A Pakington Street, Newtown, 3220 (03) 5221 2738 (03) 5221 8191

chilwell.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.chilwellps.vic.edu.au

School Council Email: schoolscouncil@chilwellps.vic.edu.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChilwellFair Out of School Hours Child Care Program Coordinator (0417 014 973)

NEWSLETTER No.28 - 3rd September 2019

Ongoing Wed NUDE FOOD DAY—Pack a wrapper free Lunch

Aug 30—Oct 25 Fri Bike Ed Grade 4 (Every Friday)

Sept 17 Tue School Concert

Sept 20 Fri Last Day Term 3—DISMISSAL 2.30pm

Oct 7 Mon Curriculum Day—PUPIL FREE DAY TERM 4

Oct 8 Tue Students’ First Day Term 4

Oct 23 Wed Geelong Cup Public Holiday

Oct 24 Thu Bravehearts Prep - Grade 2 9:30-10:30am

Oct 28 Mon Grade 5 Biocats Excursion

Oct 31-Nov 3 Thu-Sun Art Show

Nov 4 - 6 Mon-Wed Grade 4 Camp

Nov 11 Mon Prep Transition

Nov 14 Thu Graduation and Whole School Photo’s

Prep Transition

Nov 27 Wed Prep Parent Info Session 7-8pm

Nov 28 Thu Prep Transition

Dec 2-13 Mon-Fri Swimming Program—Geelong College Pool

Dec 20 Fri Last Day Term 4—DISMISSAL 2.30pm

2020

March 18-20

Aug 31-Sept 2

Wed-Fri

Mon-Wed

Grade 6 Camp

Grade 5 Camp Sovereign Hill

Prep Numbers: We are in the process of finalising our numbers for next year. Firstly offers will be sent out to all in the zone and siblings to ascertain available positions. When these offers are returned we will request all parents who have not been offered a position indicate if they would like to be kept on a waiting list. Speedy responses assist every family to bring clarity to 2020 . Golf Tournament: today’s newsletter will give details of the Primary School golf Championships to be held early August at nearby courses golf championships. If interested families need to complete the online entry. Building: Progress continues on the refurb. Windows are due to arrive this week. Once these are in position the viewing of the internals will be lessened. If you are in the school take some time to look into the rooms. The exit doors for the 2 rooms on the South side will not be used until stage 2 is nearing completion and the decking is installed. The plans continue to be around a hand over of stage 1 around mid August. This will signal the moving of the year 2s back into their spaces and the need to decant the remainder of the South Wing : 3JS, Prep classes, Art and STEM into temporary arrangements. Trivia Night: Tables are filling up quickly. The night is more about the opportunity to have a great night out, peruse the terrific auction items up for grabs and enjoy great food. The trivia is there to supply a challenge and some humour. Much of night presents an opportunity to think back and reflect on past experiences. Come along and enjoy the night!!!!! Thank you to the committee who have worked so hard to bring this night togeth-er. Also thank you to the numerous businesses and individuals who have freely donated items for the silent auction. Life Education: The Life Education Program for 2019 begins next week. The van in which the children visit to undertake the program will be in place this week. Details of the program was in last week’s newsletter and further details may be gained by attending the information session held this Friday, 2.30-3.30, in the van.

Dear Families, Out of School Hours Care: This service is a valuable addition to our schools operation, however it only operates if it does not impact on the core business of our school. Accounts (This seems to be constant!) We are currently over $2000 in debt for families. This is $2000 not available to the staff and children. The end of term is fast approaching so please set-tle these debts and maintain a positive balance. Care available on Curriculum Days. This is made available at our school to support families who need care on these days. The service operates only if numbers support a cost neutral situ-ation, currently this is 15 students. It is entirely separate to the Before School and After School programs, it is a school service which does not attract a CCB rebate. The payment for the day’s program is separate to this subsided program. Please note that due to our next curriculum day being the first day of term 4 we will not be offering this service. Curriculum days are conducted on Mondays and Fridays, if possible, to make it easier on families. However sometimes pre-senters are not available on these days. We also try to maximise the availability of our part time staff on these days. Concert: Tickets to the extravaganza are on sale now so please do not wait or hesitate!!! The performers are primed and ready, the costumes are fitted and the orchestra is warming up. Tickets are only available via trybooking link below. If you do not have access to the internet then the office staff can help. www.trybooking.com/BEEVM The ticket are for entry only. No allocation of seats is undertaken. The arena is a great venue for viewing which is one of the main reasons why we have the concert at this venue. Any special requirements will be addressed via the office. I Can Statement: As we are drawing to the end of term the Sentral portal with the I Can Statements will be made available in the last week of term 3, over the school holidays and the first week of term 4. Please access via your normal Sentral log on credentials. NAPLAN: These assessment reports are due very shortly. The results form part of the year wide assessments that are conducted in our school. The overall results also have an im-pact on the school’s review of our progress and programs. Each child in years 3 and 5 who sat the assessments receive an individual report and notes of how to interpret the results. The school receives both individual reports, breakdown based on gender, Year level and trend data over past years. Absent from School: We all are aware that the progress of all children is effected by at-tendance. Here are some interesting figures about the cumulative effect of absences. Absent Per year. Over 13 years of schooling. 1 day per fortnight. 4 weeks missed. Nearly 1.5 years missed 1 day per week. 8 weeks missed. Over 2.5 years missed. This brings into perspective the end result in available time for children to not only be in a class-room but also experience and develop social skills with peers. Welcome: We welcomed a new student yesterday. Raina has joined our school and 2KH. Kim and the class will ensure a smooth transition to our community. We also welcome Ashwani (Mum) to the Chilwell community. With the concert and our building program happening it is a most exciting time at Chilwell.

Gavan Welsh

Principal

This term, our You Can Do It focus is Confidence.

Confidence means having the belief that you will be successful in many areas

of your schoolwork, social relationships and extra-curricular activities (sports,

music, art). It means trying new activities that you might not be perfect at, not

being afraid to make mistakes or not being overly concerned with what others

think.

Congratulations to the following students who received a Confidence award last week.

Prep – Evie Carter Grade 3 – Molly Mann

Prep – Jackson Egberts Grade 3 – Bella Carter

Prep – Aggie Frost Grade 4 – Ava McLaren Williams

Grade 2 – Hanna Neylon Grade 4 – Victoria Ding

Grade 2 – Fred Kemp Grade 4 – Ari Klein

Grade 2 – Lucia Henrion Grade 4 – Nash Sheehan

Grade 3 – Aaron Muk Grade 5 – Clare Atkins

All Book Club orders need to be done online by

Thursday 5th September

No Cash Orders -Thank You

Sept 4 Aisha K

Tommy L

5SJ

6SW

Sept 5 George G

Zahra V

2OD

6JC

Sept 7 Alfred K 2RP

Sept 8 Evelyn J 1MW

Sept 9 Olive H

Matthew C

Isaac A

PCB

1JS

4CG

Sept 10 Lily M 2OD

School Concert – Tuesday, 17th September 7.00pm

at The Arena

Rehearsals are underway for this year’s School Concert.

Please mark the date on your calendar.

Grade Themes are the following .

Preps – Disco 70’s

Grade 1 – Rock ‘n’ Roll 50’s

Grade 2 – Stylin’ 90’s

Grade 3 – Soulful 60’s

Grade 4 – Hippie 60’s

Grade 5 – Leg Warmer 80’s

Grade 6 – Rockin’ the 70’s

The kids are really excited and looking forward to the big night in September.

See following page for more information regarding tickets, etc

Triple P at Chilwell Primary School Individual Sessions now available The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program ® is a parenting and family support system designed to prevent – as well as treat – behavioral and emotional problems in children and teenagers. It aims to prevent problems in the family, school and community before they arise and to create fami ly environments that encourage children to realize their potential.

Triple P draws on social learning, cognitive behavioral and developmental theory as well as research into risk factors associated with the development of social and behavioral problems in children. It aims to equip parents with the skills and confidence they need to be self-sufficient and to be able to manage family issues without ongoing support. And while it is almost universally successful in improving behavioral problems, more than half of Triple P's 17 parenting strategies focus on developing positive relationships, attitudes and conduct. Triple P is delivered to parents of children up to 12 years. This can be done in individual sessions of 45 minutes duration with our accredited facilitator at Chilwell Primary School. If you would like to make an appointment please email allport.melissa.j@edumail.vic.gov.au or leave a message at the school office on 5221 2738. Appointments are available on Wednesdays during the school Term.

Concert Rehearsal

The children will have a rehearsal at the Arena on Tuesday 17th September to familiarise themselves

with the set up. A separate permission form was sent home today with the details – please ensure this is

returned by Friday 13th September otherwise your child will not be able to go to the rehearsal.

No costumes required for the rehearsal. Grade 6 students need to be at school by 8.30am. ready

to get on the bus. The bus leaves at 8.45 am. sharp. Cost of the bus will be covered by the concert.

Tuesday 17th September.

Children are to be at The Arena by 6.45 pm. at the latest. Children are to arrive in

costume, ready to perform and will enter through DOOR 3 across from the cafeteria – follow

the signs. They will be taken to meet their teacher.

Parents/friends will enter DOOR 2 via the stairs in the foyer and sit in the stand. Parking available in

the railway car park behind the railway station.

Children must stay for the entire concert and can be collected after the concert from your child’s

teacher on the floor area in front of the stage. The children will remain with their teachers until

collected by a parent.

Children must remain with their teacher and are not to go upstairs to their parents during the

concert.

The concert starts at 7pm. SHARP, the doors will be open from 6.30 pm. onwards. Please be on

time to avoid your child missing out on their item. Please have your tickets ready to present to staff

on entry – No entry without presentation of ticket

Children should bring a named drink of water (no sweet drinks or food please).

Parents of children in the Instrumental/Ensemble Group may assist their child to change into

costume in the dressing room behind the stage.

Children should go to the toilet before leaving home or at the Arena before entering the stadium.

As there is only general admission, no special seats have been allocated.

Please alert office staff of any disabled/elderly access requests when purchasing tickets – use the

Special Requirements section and ring 5221 2738 with details ie. wheelchair ,

walking frame etc. so that arrangements can be made to locate seats downstairs. We will

endeavour to accommodate your request.

Videoworks has been hired to produce a professional DVD of the concert – Cost $30.00.

Orders must be made & paid for through TryBooking prior to the evening. These DVDs will be of

very high quality and will be a wonderful record of the event and children will spend countless hours re-

living their performances.

Thank you to all the children for your hard work, and to parents for your support in costuming your child.

I hope you all have a memorable night and delight in the performances of the children.

Kai Mann-Robertson

Bus leaving Chilwell Grade Bus leaving Chilwell Grade

8.45am. Grade 6 12.25 pm. Grade 5

9.55 am. Grade 3 1.10 pm. Grade 4

10.35 am. Grade 1 1.45 pm. Grade 2

11.10 am. Prep

District Athletics Carnival

On Wednesday 21st August, 55 students from Grades 3-6 travelled to Landy Field for the District Ath-letics Carnival. These students had qualified in our School Athletics Carnival held earlier in the year. All the students competed well and showed great sportsmanship and encouragement to their peers and competitors. There were some outstanding results and personal bests achieved throughout the day. All the students are applauded for their efforts.

Special thanks to teachers - Mr Blackall, Miss Robertson, Mr Gregory, Mrs Robins and Mrs Jeffreys for their organisation and supervision. Also to the parent helpers, Rachel Schutze, Peter Stephens, Penny Bywater and Natalie Lee. Your help was much appreciated.

25 students have now qualified for the Division Athletics Carnival to be held next week at Landy Field. We wish them all the best.

Basketball Lightning Premiership

Last Wednesday, our Grade 5/6 girls, boys and mixed basketball teams competed in the Summer Light-ning Premiership at the Geelong Basketball and Netball Centre. They played against schools across our district, showing great skill and sportsmanship all day.

Our mixed team faced some very tough teams and whilst they didn’t win their matches they certainly improved throughout the day. Our girls team competed well all day but succumbed to a very competi-tive Manifold Heights team in the semi-final. Our boys team were undefeated all day and won the Grand Final against Fyans Park in spectacular fashion with a 2 pointer on the buzzer by Ned McElroy. The boys now progress to the Division Carnival which will be held early next term. The students thank Nikki Sleep, Tez Kemp and Mrs Jeffreys for coaching on the day, the parents who scored and those who came to support.

Toucan Appeal

The Social Service Committee would like to thank the Chilwell community for

supporting the Toucan Appeal. Your generous donations will greatly assist families in

need in our local area. This is an appeal we support every year and it is wonderful to

know that we can make a difference.

Legacy On the 2nd of September, the Social Service Committee will start selling badges, wrist-

bands and pens. We will be raising money for the Geelong Legacy Club. The Geelong

Legacy Club raises money for widows and children of deceased army personnel. For

many years, local schools have greatly assisted Legacy by selling these badges, wrist-

bands and pens

We will be running the Geelong Legacy Fundraiser and hope you will participate by

buying the $2 badges, $3 wristbands and the $3 pens. We will be selling the items at

the buddy bench for the whole of next week at lunchtime. Please support this worthy

cause.

Jack Gross and Jack Troeth

Social Service Committee

Social Service Committee

This is a reminder to bring plastic bottle tops and bread ties.

This is for kids that need artificial arms. We would love our school to help these disadvantaged kids.

Collection Boxes will be located at the front office.

Thank you and we look forward to helping some disadvantaged children.

Social Service Committee

TERM 3 LUNCH ORDERS . Please place your order option on an envelope with your child’s name, grade and $6.00 and

hand into your grade teacher by 9.30 am on Thursday morning.

Orders are picked up before 1.00 pm. Thursday.

We ask parents not to drop late lunch orders into Steampocket. Lunch is provided on Friday.

Each student must have an individual order.

NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Each option $6.00 Contact the office if Vegetarian Option Required) Canteen Roster—Friday 1.15pm

If anyone is interested in volunteering, please contact the office.

OPTION 1 Chicken Strips on bed of lettuce, carrot,celery. Choc Brownie & Fruit

OPTION 2 Sausage Rolls, Choc Chip Muffin & Fruit

OPTION 3 Ham & Cheese Toastie, Muffin & Fruit GF

Fri 6 Sept Christie Reid

Fri 13 Sept Peter Stephens

Fri 20 Sept Susan Henderson

A gold necklace with the letter “R” on it has been lost in the playground.

If found, could it please be returned to Rumana in Prep B. Thank You

Chilwell P.S. Outside School Hours Care

All Parents/Caregivers PLEASE NOTE that BEFORE & AFTERSCHOOL CARE bookings need to be made in advance now with the winter months & wet weather coming to avoid being turned away at the door. Staff/Children must remain in Ratio's and if we aren't expecting your children we can't staff accordingly. Bookings can be made via text at anytime on 0417014973.

BEFORE SCHOOL CARE 7:30am - 9am $12 (CCSS REBATES APPLY) DAY PROGRAM 9am - 3:30pm $40 (NO REBATES) AFTERSCHOOL CARE 3:30pm - 6pm $17 (CCSS REBATES APPLY)

Regards Cheryl Minett, OSHC Coordinator, Chilwell PS

REMINDER to all families using this service if you need to cancel a booking you are required to call or text prior to the session to avoid being charged a late/cancellation fee.

Before school care to cancel TEXT or CALL before 7am

After school care to cancel TEXT or CALL before 2pm

After these times a charge will be incurred.

Term 3 – 2019 To book or cancel care please call Cheryl on 0417 014 973

OSHC ACCOUNTS: Parents please follow School Council Policy and keep your OSHC Accounts up to date to avoid refusal of service as unfortunately there are currently a large number of OUTSTANDING balances owing.

Accounts are emailed each Friday evening so if you’re not receiving your email please check with Cheryl that OSHC has your correct email address.

If anyone is experiencing financial difficulties in paying these fees please see Cheryl to make other arrangements.

Should your account not be showing your CCSS rebates then please check with Centrelink to make sure you have been assessed correctly for CCSS, only then can this rebate be applied and you will receive reduced fees. This can only be done by the parent with Centrelink, Cheryl or OSHC cannot do this for you.

Cheryl Minett

OSHC Coordinator

Chilwell Primary School

Term Dates 2019

Term 3: Monday 15th July to Friday 20th September

Term 4: Tuesday 8th October to Friday 20th December

(Monday 7th Oct Curriculum Day)

Term Dates 2020

Term 1: Wednesday 29th January to Friday 27

th March

Term 2: Tuesday 14th April to Friday 26

th June (Easter Monday 13th April)

Term 3: Monday 13th July to Friday 18

th September

Term 4: Monday 5th October to Friday 18

th December

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Year 2020 Enrolment. Return only if this affects your family.

Family Name ___________________________________________

1. We will not be at Chilwell in 2020.

2. Sibling enrolling in 2020. Child’s Name ___________________

Name of Pre-School/Kinder _________________________________________________________________

LOST PROPERTY

Please Note: Lost property is now located in 4EH Bag Room.

If your child has lost their jumper or other items please come and have a look.

PLEASE remember to name your students clothing.

Prep 2020 enrolments. If you have indicated that you have a sibling who will be com-

mencing school in 2020, parents will need to complete an enrolment form and provide a

birth certificate and immunisation certificate. Enrolment forms are available from the

office or you can download from the Chilwell website.

On August 17th Daniel Lim (2OD), competed in the

national dance finals at the

Gold Coast, Queensland with his hip-hop dance school, BC Beatz.

Daniel's crew of eight dancers won the

gold medal

and were named national champions!

Congratulations Daniel!

PE and Sport - Hockey Clinics

Over the past four weeks each year level across our school has been learning hockey during PE classes. Along with the school’s PE teachers, this has been taught by coaches from the Newtown City Hockey Club. Children have been taught the basics of hockey, through a series of fun games and activities. Thanks to Hockey Australia who donated a hockey equipment pack to the school to keep. The students have learned so much about the game of hockey during this month and even Mrs Jeffreys and Mr Blackhall have learned new skills! Interesting fact - there are only right hand hockey sticks, plus you can only hit the ball with the flat side, not the rounded edge! The students have learned dribbling, stop-ping, change of direction, tackling and protecting the ball, plus modified games such as hocktopus, traffic lights and end zone.

It has been a fun-filled four weeks of learning a new sport.

Sarah Jeffreys

Chilwell Primary School

Free Come & Try Day/Info/Coaching Day - Sunday 8 September, from 1pm to 3pm at Landy Field, organised by Athletics Chilwell. This is open to all athletes, new and current, of all standards, aged from 7yrs to veterans. A number of events will be covered on the day by our coaches eg: sprints, hurdles, long/triple jump/walks, high jump etc. Each participant will receive a show bag containing goodies! Bring your friends along to join in. Enquiries to Mary athletics.chilwell@gmail.com Ph 52 293920

During term 4, Newtown City Hockey Club are running an 8 week after school program that will fol-low up from what the children have learnt during PE. This program will be ran on the Chilwell oval immediately after school on Monday’s starting 14 October. The cost of the program is $95 which in-cludes an equipment pack for the children to keep. Parents are welcome to watch, or even take part with their child, but parents do not need to be present during the classes. Further information is be-low [refer to attached flyer]