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CALENDAR

November

24 5/6 Dance December

4 5/6 Surfing Excursion 7 Carols Night 8 2016 Foundation Information Night 7pm 9 Final Foundation Transition 9.30am 15 Grade 6 Graduation 16 5/6 Maroondah Sports Centre 18 Last Day term 4. 1.30pm dismissal

Assembly dates November

27th

December

11th & Final Assembly 18th

Multi-Purpose Room at 3.00pm

All welcome

Lost Property Remember to check lost property for any missing items of clothing. All items need to be named so they can find their way back to the rightful owner.

Office news Please note that canteen and fundraising options are no longer on Qkr. However all excursion and student/family payments will still be available to pay over the Qkr app . Student Banking

The last week to order this years rewards is the

24th November. This allows us to get the item to

you by the end of the year. Any tokens not used

this year will be rolled over to next year.

FUNDRAISING At assembly last Friday Charise from Chirnside

Park Shopping Centre presented our school with

a cheque for $3000.Thank you for your support.

Vision: To create a community of lifelong learners

Mission: To provide opportunities for every child to learn and flourish

Our Values: Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Learning

Volume 38 Issue 16

19 th November, 2015

SUBWAY SOUNDS CONCERT

It is concert time once again for all Subway Sounds Instrumentalist.

Due to the success of recent evening concert’s we are continuing with the

evening events. This year we are having our concert on Thursday December

the 10th starting at 6.30pm in the school’s multi-purpose room. All children are

scheduled to perform at least one item. As with last year’s concert, door prizes

can be won and exam students will be presented with their certificates.

Children are welcome to dress in their finest attire for the evening; school

uniform is not a pre-requisite.

Concerts are one of the best ways for talented students to show their

great skills to all the mums and dads, so I hope to see everyone there and

would love to catch up for a chat at the conclusion. See you all there

Thank you.

Christian Duboudin

Subway Sounds

Prep B ...... Hannah S & Grace M Prep S……. Anthony H 1/2C .......... Jackson J 1/2W ......... Vivaan I 1 /2 U ……..Jaylen G 3/4A .......... Liam K 3/4K .......... Sierra F 3/4W ......... Charlotte M 5/6F .......... Marc M 5/6G .......... Blake M 5/6K .......... Blake G P/E ............ Aaron A & Kyla K Lote………..Zoe C & Hamish M


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From the Principal

Parent Payments

Shortly you will receive a letter about the parent payments for 2016. It clearly explains the difference between what is

provided by the school and classed as ‘free instruction’ and what is expected to be paid for by parents. The buildings,

facilities and staffing are included in the ‘free instruction’. School Councils can request payments from parents to cover

essential items such as stationery and text books (parents are expected to pay for these), optional items such as excursions

and camps and voluntary contributions such as buildings and grounds maintenance.

We have tried to keep costs to a minimum to support our families in these hard economic times and you will note that our

fees have gone down this year. Also as an incentive to pay early, if you pay in full before the end of the year there will be

a $10 discount. Parents who hold a current Health Care Card may be eligible for the Camps sports and excursions fund

(CESF) which is an annual payment of $125 per student to be used to pay for any excursions sports activities or camps.

School Uniform

I notice that many children are out of school uniform lately. I am seeing some children wearing non uniform jumpers.

Also children are forgetting that as a part of our school policy, jewellery is not to be worn and only school coloured hair

adornments are acceptable. This includes hair ties, head bands etc. Also nail polish is not permitted at school. It should be

also noted that although netball skirts are acceptable, they should be of a suitable length and dark blue in colour (bike

shorts or equivalent should be worn underneath for modesty’s sake). Please support us as we enforce our school uniform

policy as everyone wearing school uniform sends a strong message of pride in the school.

We are eSmart

Our school is proud to announce we are now officially an eSmart school. Since we first registered with the program, we

have introduced many new policies and activities to improve the way our school manages cybersafety, bullying and

cyberbulling..We feel confident our students, staff and the wider school community are now well supported to be smart,

safe and responsible users of digital technology. We encourage everyone in the school community to continue to uphold

and promote eSmart behaviours, at school and at home. If you are aware of any incidents of bullying, cyberbullying or

risky online behaviour, please contact the Principal or our eSmart coordinators Honnie Atkins and Cathy U’Ren.

CCTV

Next week we are having an upgrade to our security systems and more CCTV cameras will be installed. We take a lot of

pride in our school and need to do as much as we can to ensure that our school facilities are as well maintained as possible.

Expanding our security systems will ensure we can monitor any unauthorised entry and report accurate information to the

Police to prevent potential theft or vandalism.

School Council

At School Council this week a number of policies were updated and ratified. These will shortly be published on our web

site. Please look out for our new Sun smart, Camera and Parent Payment policies. School Council also approved the

purchase of a new portable building to be used as a Music Room. As we will have an extra class next year, making 12

classes in all, we were one room short. Unfortunately the Department will not provide us with an extra room until our

numbers reach 326. Currently we are 265. So a decision was made to purchase one ourselves. This will give us a great

deal of flexibility and increase our options in future years.

Reports

Currently teachers are in the middle of assessments and writing children’s reports. As you know we implemented a new

reporting system (Sentral) mid-year and in response to parent feedback have since modified it, in particular to include

more personal comments. We are very excited to announce that your child’s reports will be available online at the end of

the year and reports will no longer be printed out and delivered to you via your child. Rather you will be able to access

your child’s report via a parent portal and print it out yourself if you wish. The parent portal is an exciting new innovation

which has many aspects to it and over time more communications will be delivered that way. For example you will soon

be able to monitor your child’s attendance and explain absences by logging in and accessing your child’s details.

Jan Marinakos


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Physical Education http://cppsphysed.global2.vic.edu.au/ Walk To School October Now that October is over so too is the Walk To School month, I must say how fantastic it has been to see so many students and families walking to and from school, many making an extra special effort to do so. Congratulation to 1/2U and 3/4K who both had the greatest amount of walkers with 22 students each. 3/4A recorded the highest number of total walks with 210 for the month. An extra special congratulations to Bella, Mia and Charlotte R who walked to and from school every day, as too did Zeke C. Well done to everyone on an amazing effort. Let's now keep up the walking to and from school! 2015 Fun Run As this event was only on yesterday I will include all event details in the next newsletter. Tim Norton PE Co-ordinator Chirnside's Got Talent Auditions are taking place at the moment Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A notice will be coming home soon regarding our Chirnside's Got Talent performances. Sewing Club.

A group of 5/6 girls have been working during their lunch sewing giraffes. The girls have worked diligently trying to

complete these giraffes. The girls will be very proud to show them at assembly next week. Our next project is a xmas tree.

Students in grade 5/6 are welcome to join us Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime.

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Vegetable Garden

The 1/2s are looking after the vegetable garden this term. The vegies are coming along nicely, enjoying the

warm weather. Children are helping at recess and lunch to water and weed and soon we will be staking those

tomatoes.

http://cppsphysed.global2.vic.edu.au/


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From the Artroom

Term 4 has been a very creative and exciting time in the art room. The main building is full of

displays.

You’ll see the Grade 1 and 2s Sparkling sewn hangings, Margaret Preston styled colourful

flowers and impressionistic Monet gardens. Did you know that Monet would get in trouble for

drawing caricatures of his teachers? One of his teachers had a very large nose!!

The Grade 3 and 4s charcoal owls are looking very mysterious and their papier mache cats and

dogs are looking very cool, all dressed up in their bling.

The 5 and 6s wall art guitars for their bedrooms are something to see. They will brighten up any

room in your house. I’m sure the students will agree that this term has been a lot of work and a

lot of fun.

Now that we are nearing the end of the year it might be a good time to check art smocks. The

children have grown so much. For ease in the art room it’s always great when your child’s name

is on the front of the smock.

If you have any small Christmas decorations you no longer need they would be put to good use

by the grade 6s when they create the traditional Christmas bon bon table decorations. Once

again thank you for all the generous donations for the art room. It is very much appreciated.

Mrs Attwood (alias Mrs Artwood)


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Visualising with Jeanie Baker The scuba diver was in the crystal clear water, he was shivering and freezing. He felt the green

smooshy seaweed swirling round his feet. He tasted the salty yucky water and he smelt the salt

water. The scuba divers suit was keeping him a little warm.

By Abbey 1/2W

" I try to go up out of the water but the

seaweed stops me like a shield. I am getting

pushed down deeper and deeper and deeper. I

open one eye and then I open the other. I find

myself in the bottom of the ocean. I

see two beady eyes looking at me".

Sophie Leech, 1/2U

In the middle of the scorching hot desert in Australia I am boiling hot. I try to get away from the

bright sun but I could not get away. It felt like the blooming sun is watching me as I try to get

away. The pelicans flutter into the squishy mud. Splash! mud exploded all over me. The emus

doze as I walk past. The animal sounds, sound like music. I need nice cold water and food. But

all there is, is dust and red sand. I am surviving. I am going to die it's so hot.

-Chantelle 1/2C


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Remember Businesses that support

Chirnside Park PS REBEL PASS

When shopping at Rebel (any store) please remember to ask for the

points to go to Chirnside Park Primary School. For every sale at Rebel

the school gets a percentage towards equipment.

AMART

When shopping at Amart (any store) please remember to ask for the

points to go to Chirnside Park Primary School. For every sale at

Amart the school gets a percentage towards equipment.

BAKERS DELIGHT, CHIRNSIDE PARK AND

MOOROOLBARK

Please remember for every purchase you make at Bakers Delight

Chirnside Park and Mooroolbark the school receives 5% of all sales.

Before and After School Care

Newsletter - November This term Camp Australia is working in partnership with Oxfam Australia to provide Christmas

presents for Oxfam’s partner organisation, Sophakama Community Based Development, Care

and Support Organisation based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

At Before and After School Care we are busy making jigsaws featuring the children’s drawings

and making Memory Card sets using pictures of Australian animals to send over to the children

in South Africa as Christmas presents.

This week we are also focusing on learning about the African ‘Big 5’ and we are attempting to

make a life size drawing of an elephant with height measurements – so that we can all measure

ourselves against the size of the elephant

Bookings for Summer Holiday Club are open – program is available in the OSHC room or

online at www.campaustralia.com.au/holidayfun.

Don’t forget – at Camp Australia we make kids smile - and at Chirnside Park Heather, Chloe,

Shannon and Abbey - we are all doing our best to make this happen.

http://www.campaustralia.com.au/holidayfun

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