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Chelsea Heights Primary School Newsletter Term 4, Issue 1
Fri 10th November
2018 Foundation Transition #2
Wed 15th November
Walk-a-thon
Thur 23rd November
Parent Helpers’ Morning Tea
Fri 24th November
2018 Foundation Transition #3
Sat 2nd December
CHPS Christmas Market 9—2pm
Tue 12th December
State-wide Transition Day
2018 Foundation Transition 4
Wed 13th December NEW
End of Year Celebration and
Christmas Carols 5– 7pm
Thurs 21st December
Level 6 Graduation & Disco
Fri 22nd December
Last day of school — 1:30pm
dismissal
Reports published on Sentral
November 2017
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2018 Parent Payment Charges Welcome back to Term 4!
Chelsea Heights Primary
School is committed to
providing the best possible
education and facilities for
your child. To meet these
requirements for 2018 the
school will rely on your
continued support through
contributions, known as
Parent Payment Charges.
Government funding alone
does not provide for the level
of education and quality of
facilities that schools such as
Chelsea Heights Primary
School provide. We rely on
fundraising, school sourced
grants and the Parent
Payment Charges to continue
providing a high standard of
quality education, up-to-date
equipment and facilities.
The Parent Payment Charges are broken into 3 parts. Hard-copies will be sent
home shortly.
1) Essential Educational Items
2) Voluntary Financial Contributions
3) Optional Extras—Excursions and Incursions
Chelsea Heights Primary School strives to keep fees at a minimum to support our
families.
Principal Report
2018 Foundation Transition #2
Walkathon
Parent Helpers’ Morning Tea
2018 Foundation Transition #3
CHPS Christmas Market
Booklists will be distributed soon to our 2018 students. Booklists include not only the stationary items that
are required for the following year but also the essential educational items and voluntary financial
contributions. These contributions are:
1) Essential Education Items
These are items, activities or services that are essential to student learning of the standard curriculum. These
were previously known as curriculum fees. Government funding supports “free” instruction not the items
listed above which support student learning. We work hard to reduce these costs to support affordability for
our families and provide many options of support should this be required.
2) Voluntary Financial Contributions
The Buildings & Grounds and Library Contributions are voluntary. The Library Contribution is fully tax
deductible for you when completing your personal tax return. Families have the choice of contributing and
nominating an amount of their choosing. We certainly appreciate the support we receive from the families at
Chelsea Heights Primary School.
In 2018 our Buildings and Grounds contributions will be used to:
improve our playgrounds and general maintenance
create an ANZAC garden where our Gallipoli Oak “grandparent” tree, grown from acorns originally
sent to Australia by soldiers fighting at Gallipoli in World War 1, will be planted
assist with works completed through our School Working Bees.
In 2018 the Library will use their contributions to:
purchase new resources and take-home readers
repair and replace books
3) Optional Extras
In early December, you will also receive a breakdown of the Optional Extras (formally known as Excursion/
Incursion Levies). Optional extras are in addition to the curriculum and must be paid prior to attending any of
the activities. The word ‘Optional’ refers to the fact that attending the activities is optional. If you require
any financial assistance to support your child attending these events or activities you are welcome to make
an appointment with the school or alternatively we can provide Centrepay and CSEF forms which allows
health care card holders to fund camps, sports and excursions through government subsidies.
Jane Satchwell Principal
Principal Report cont….
A huge thank you to parents who are taking advantage of some
of the traffic management initiatives driven by the Kingston
council and not parking in the school car park...
3R’s Trial At Chelsea Heights Primary School we are committed
to the development of the personal and social
capabilities of our students. Social and Emotional
Learning (SEL) is defined as:
“…a process for helping children and even adults
develop the fundamental skills for life effectiveness.
SEL teaches the skills we all need to handle ourselves,
our relationships and our work, effectively and
ethically. Teaching SEL skills helps create and
maintain safe, caring leaning environments.”
Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional
Learning (CASEL)
To achieve these aims we are guided by the Play Is
The Way (PITW) philosophies and self-reflective
language. The PITW program has been in place for 5
years and has achieved great success in
building independent, self-motivated, empathetic,
lifelong learners. As a school community, we feel that
we are ready to delve deeper into this program and
further develop our wellbeing program by
implementing the PITW 3Rs Method (Reflection,
Repair & Restitution).
The 3Rs Method is an intervention to help all
students, especially those who are having difficulty
with their behaviour, develop the self-management
skills required to function effectively in primary
school.
The 3Rs Method uses Guide Sheets that, with the
assistance of the teacher, explicitly teach SEL skills.
Students are also given the opportunity to make the
restitution that facilitates the repair of relationships.
The 3Rs Method helps students to adhere to the
standards of behaviour expected by our school and is
for all year levels. It builds a sustainable culture of
safety and support.
3Rs Method Trial
To support the implementation of the 3Rs Method, the
CHPS Welfare team determined that a trial in one area
of the school would be the best approach. We have
reviewed incident data and selected a level within the
school which has the highest number of reported
incidents. Historical data was also reviewed and
evidenced a high level of reported incidents for this
cohort in previous years.
The trial commenced in Term Three. Professional
development was provided to the Trial Level teachers
through a Wilson McCaskill PD, professional readings
and collegial discussions. Throughout the
implementation, the staff have worked closely with
both the Sub-School Manager and Welfare teams.
Several teachers and Leadership also visited other
primary schools to observe and discuss their PITW
journey and 3Rs implementation.
The Trial Level teachers followed Wilson McCaskill’s
‘3Rs Process of Implementation’ as stipulated by the
PITW Enrichment Manual. The students were
introduced to the Rights and Virtues (The Pathway to
Empathy), which reinforce and support the current Key
Concept posters (e.g. Have reasons for the things you
say and do). Similar to the Setting the Climate process,
students participated in a number of activities and
circle time sessions to unpack each of the rights and
virtues. Weekly PITW sessions have been given the
highest priority by the Trial Level – they are targeted
and needs based sessions.
Assistant Principal’s Report
3R’s Trial cont... 3Rs Method Trial – The Results
The following graphs detail the number of major and moderate incidents for the trial level across each term for
the 2017 school year. Prior to the introduction of the 3Rs Method, the trial level accumulated 23 major and 24
moderate incidents. Following the implementation, the trial level has accumulated (to date) nine major and
eight moderate incidents. That is a 61% reduction in the level of major incidents and a 67% reduction is the
level of moderate incidents.
Graph 1: No. of major incidents for 2017 incurred by Trial Level
Graph 2: No. of moderate incidents for 2017 incurred by Trial Level
Assistant Principal’s Report cont...
Booklists Booklists will be distributed soon to students for the following year. Orders must be completed online - please
follow the link: https://www.officemaxschools.com.au/VIC/Chelsea-Heights/Chelsea-Heights-Primary-School
and our school code is:
3SQ7T Please do this as soon as possible to avoid delivery fees.
Our school booklist also include parent contributions known as Essential Educational Items and Voluntary
Financial Contributions. We aim to keep these contributions to a minimum to support our families within
our school; this is to ensure we can continue to provide a high standard of quality education and up to date
facilities and equipment and therefore we rely heavily on parent contributions.
Curriculum Report
It is hard to believe we are already in our final
term of the school year. What is most exciting
however, is the growth our students are making
both academically and socially, and the impact of
the learning and wellbeing programs offered at
Chelsea Heights Primary School. I would like to
take this opportunity to celebrate our 2017
Naplan data which reflects at least 25% of our
Year 5 students making high relative growth in
Reading, Writing and Number.
Relative growth data is obtained by looking at the
students who sat Naplan at Chelsea Heights
Primary School in Year 3, and measuring the
growth they have made in the two years between
Year 3 and 5. The most effective way to achieve
high growth is by providing a genuinely
differentiated curriculum which has been a huge
focus for all teachers over the last three years.
Early this term you will have received a Term 4
Overview that outlines the key concepts being
covered in the curriculum at each level. Please
familiarize yourself and if you have any questions
please direct them to your child’s classroom
teacher. Knowing what your child is learning about
at school is really helpful when initiating
conversations with them about how their day was,
and can help elicit a little more than a response of
“nothing” when you ask them what they learnt
about that day!
Towards the end of the year all staff will
participate in a review of our Non Negotiable
programs and models of teaching to ensure they
are consistently meeting the needs of our students
as we move towards planning for 2018.
Aleesha Wood
Curriculum Leader
It’s Academic Last week Kyeden, Anthony, Tulip and Jordan from
Level 5 competed in It’s Academic competition
conducted by Mordialloc College. They came 1st against
some tough competition from 7 different primary
schools. The students had to answer questions in
relation to History, Geography, Maths, general
knowledge and much more. Congratulations to our
Level 5 students and well done on their fantastic
performance!
Below are just a few of the questions from the competition:
1. In which country did the Olympics originate?
2. Who is the premier of Victoria?
3. What year did World War 1 finish?
4. Which American city is known as ‘the big apple’?
5. At what temperature does water freeze?
6. Who won Australian Survivor this year?
7. Who was Australia’s first Prime Minister?
8. What element is Au on the periodic table?
This story and many more are on the Senior School Blog at:
http://chps56.global2.vic.edu.au/
Office Reminders
FIN012 Refunds Policy Rationale
This policy is developed to provide guidelines and outline circumstances where payments made to the school can be refunded to parents/guardians.
Purpose
To ensure camps and excursions are organised at no cost to the school and if avoidable parents do not incur a loss.
Refunds are all subject to the discretion of the Principal on a case by case basis, and usually follow the guidelines below.
Essential Student Learning Items
Fully refundable if paid in the preceding year and student does not commence school.
Pro-rata – based on the exit date per term.
Nil refund after commencement of Term 4.
Refunds are not available for payments made for Essential Student Learning Items that are retained
by the student. This includes; student stationary
Camps, Sport and Excursions
Students withdrawing from an activity will not automatically be entitled to a refund.
Where the school is charged for the provision of a program or service as a bulk cost and not a ‘per
head’ cost, no refund will be given.
Where a ‘per head’ fee is charged, refunds may be given.
Where there is a combination of a bulk charge and a ‘per head’ charge in an excursion (e.g. a visit to
the zoo where the bus charge is bulk cost and the entry fee is a ‘per head’ cost) only the ‘per head’
component can be refunded.
Refunds may be considered under special circumstances and at the principal’s discretion.
Deposits paid for school camps and swimming will be non-refundable unless cancelled either by the
school or at the Principal’s discretion.
The ‘Camps and Excursion Refund Request’ form must be completed for all reimbursements within
14 days of the event. Form is available from the office.
Refunds will be processed once all outstanding costs are met.
Specific Procedures
If a refund is approved, a family credit note will be issued against the activity. The value of the credit may be applied to an outstanding invoice of the parents’ choice or left for the following year to be credited off an outstanding invoice of the parents’ choice. If there are no outstanding, invoices and the family are leaving the school the parent will be requested to provide their bank account details and the amount will be reimbursed through direct credit. Chelsea Heights Primary School is not permitted to reimburse cash to the student or parent.
Garden Club The vegetable gardens are looking incredible with
weekly garden club taking place on Thursday
lunchtimes. Mandy Munroe has been of huge help
in the garden as well as selling some of the produce
after school! All proceeds go back into purchasing
seedlings and materials for the garden so thank you
for all of your generous donations. The children love
to get involved in the gardens. It's a great place to
learn about caring for the environment, building
social relationships, science and to just have fun!
We look forward to many more fun-filled lunchtimes
in the garden and harvests to come!
Natalie Peacock
Sustainability Leader
Welcome Back BBQ Breakfast
Thanks to our students and parent helpers!
The 3 Keys to Resilience are:
Gratitude
Mindfulness
Empathy
Here is some food for thought about these 3 values.
Our Yarn Art 2017
Self-published Australian author Jim Poulter
celebrates our wonderful country in his books. He has
a long affiliation with the indigenous community. The
Secret of Dreaming is a wonderful introduction to
the story of creation, holding the land sacred.
Students have created native wildlife using yarn in a
style influenced by traditional Indigenous Australian
paintings and inspired by Jim’s illustrations.
Thank you to Claire and her team of volunteers for
this year’s Yarn Art Project!
RECENT EVENTS
Last month PFA had lots of fun hosting the Trivia Night.
We were very happy to see so many families attending
this night and everyone seemed to have a great time.
Thanks to all those whose came along, participated in
the games and dressed up in the diamond and denim
theme. Hope you had as much fun as we did. PFA
would also like to thank all the businesses that
donated items to our silent auctions and raffle.
The following week many students showed off their
dancing moves at our student disco. Much fun was
had dancing, singing and participating in games.
Students made a great effort dressing up in the rock
and bling clothes. Thank you to the parents who
helped out on the night.
PFA CONTACT
If you have any queries, questions, concerns or
suggestions then please feel free to contact Rowena
Clayton at email address [email protected].
SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP
The second hand uniform shop will now be open
every Thursday afternoon from 3.15 until 3.45.
If your children have out grown any uniforms still
in good condition please donate them to our shop
though the office.
Chelsea Heights Primary School
Parents and Friends Association.
Where everyone is welcome.
Walk-a-thon 2017
Please collect sponsorship for our up coming walk-
a-thon on the Despicably Difficult obstacle course.
This can be done as a set donation or pledge per
lap. Any parents who may be free to help out on
the day marking lap cards please let us know as all
help will be greatly appreciated.
RECIPE BOOKS
The CHPS recipe book is looking fantastic and is
currently going through the final stages of editing.
We are hopeful these will be printed and available
by the Christmas market, if not very soon after. As
soon as we can we will have these available for pre
ordering.
Japanese 日本語
Year 1 students have started learning the words for
shapes, square, triangle, circle and rectangle, - do
ask your child to repeat these at home—we have
Square, triangle, circle and rectangle
しかく、さんかく、まる、ながしかく
shikaku, sankaku, maru and
nagashikaku
Years 2 and 3 students are starting on adjectives—adding colours to animals, and
getting to make complete sentences and questions:
なに を みます か nani o mimasu ka is the question “what do you see?”
ちゃいろ の くま を みますchairo no kuma o mimasu is “I see a brown bear”
We use shuwa sign language wherever we can as it provides prompts and
encouragement, so do ask your child for a demonstration as it is real fun, and
helps you memorise whole sentences.
The photo here shows students matching up hiragana
animal names with the pictures. みなさん、がんばってね！
minasan, everyone, ganbatte ne- keep it up!
Deanna Wegman
Specialist Teacher—Japanese
Konnichi wa, everyone!
The month of November 十一月 juuichigatsu, in Japan it is
autumn, あき, aki, with leaves falling off the trees.
Foundation students are using the Japanese animal names
with more confidence- bear, bird, horse, cat and dog or
くま,とり,うま,ねこ,いぬ or
kuma, tori, uma, neko and inu
We are using shuwa Japanese sign language gestures to help
us learn and remember words and sentences. So if you see
your child flapping their hands above their heads, he or she is
probably signing and saying いぬ or inu for dog, with the
gesture that of floppy dog ears!
The Library staff and volunteers would like to thank the
families who have donated to our library fund this
year—without your support our library would not be
able to provide the students and staff with up-to-date
resources to support our student learning. Here is just
a sneak peek into what your donation does for our
library:
So from all of us in the library and
the staff and students of CHPS,
Library Update
To our CHPS Families,
Our library staff are always extremely grateful when parents come in and help, whether it be
helping with borrowing or simply sorting the shelves. We also are extremely grateful when we
have books donated to our library that students no longer want kept at home. To everyone who
helps us in any way we thank you.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge one family in particular, the Ingram/
Fennel family. Some of you may remember Leigh Fennel. Leigh was Cody, Jules and Alyx Ingram’s
grandmother who always walked her grandchildren every day to and from school no matter what
the weather was like. Leigh donated many posters and books to our library and every year she
would kindly purchase books for each of her grandchildren’s classes. Sadly Leigh is no longer with
us, her husband Tery Fennel has kept up with his wife’s tradition in her memory and this year the
Fennel family have again donated brand new books to three lucky classrooms.
Cody, Jules and Alyx each got to select what their class gets to read and from what we have heard
they chose well! So we would like to publicly acknowledge the ongoing kindness that this family
has always shown our school, to Tery Fennel and the Ingram Family, thank you most sincerely.
CHPS Library Staff.
Library Update cont….
Physical Education
Recent article from the Leader Newspaper:
ACTIVE kids from Chelsea Heights Primary are ditching the car and opting to ride, walk, skate or scoot to school.
Bicycle Network is helping by pointing out safe and direct routes with footpath stickers.
The school joined the Ride2School’s Active Paths program, which launched on October 24, to encourage more littlies and their parents to adopt healthy habits.
Physical education teacher Travis Stevenson said he was keen to see it happen.
On Thursday 19th of October Riley Gibbons competed at the SSV Southern Metropolitan Regional Track and Field Championships at Cranbourne Athletics Track Casey Fields in the 200m sprint. He finished in 1st place with a personal best (PB) time of 28.50 seconds which qualified him to compete at the State Championships.
On Monday 30th of October, Riley competed at the SSV State Track and Field Championships at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park. Riley was in the second heat of the 11 Yr. Boys 200m and finished 4th in his heat with a time of 29.48 seconds. Unfortunately, Riley just missed out on reaching the final by two places but he did extremely well and should be very proud of what he has accomplished. He finished 10th overall in the State of Victoria for 11 Yr. 200m which is an amazing achievement. The whole Chelsea Heights PS community is proud of Riley and just want to once again congratulate him on a brilliant effort. Way to go Riley!!
Well done Riley Gibbons!
Walk to School Month Class 5/6 Freeman won the Class of the Month for Walk to School Month with a total of 603 active travel trip to and from school by walking, scooting or riding. Well done!
Performing Arts
What an amazing year it has been for the Performing Arts department and all of the children
involved in the productions. We have achieved great success with the quality of the production
and the performances by the children that we have already started planning 2019!
Thank you to all of the Junior School parents who took the time to respond to our survey monkey.
The results were extremely positive and re-assured us again that we are doing a great job and
the kids are learning and having fun at the same time!
This term students have been exploring the two key elements of music, beat and rhythm. It has
been fun structuring lessons to appeal to the interests of the vast ages of the children. I have
managed to squeeze in some music appreciation and history in there, showing clips from Elvis
Presley, The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald and Guns and Roses. There has definitely been a lot of loud
singalongs and lots of laughs at the ‘old fashioned’ songs and ‘weird dancing styles’.
Speaking of laughter it’s almost time to start rehearsals for the annual Christmas Concert! That’s
right and the teachers have already started preparing for their number, it may be hard to top the
‘Men in Black’ show stopper from last year though, but we will try!! Can you believe that it is
almost Christmas, it must be the warm weather that’s tricking us! I hope all of the parents are
ready for the influx of the Christmas songs that will be coming home soon, ones that are going to
be played over and over and over again ( sorry).
Your child will shortly begin rehearsing for the concert which is held on the grass outside the
Green Zone. This year we are having a ‘Pot Luck’ theme, so there will be a real mixture of
Christmas and Celebration songs, where anything goes!
When: 5pm—7pm WEDNESDAY 13th DECEMBER
More information will arrive home at a later date.
Q: What Christmas Carol is a favourite of parents?
A: Silent Night Lauren Heazlewood Performing Arts Teacher
Chelsea Heights Christmas
End Of Year
Concert Extravaganza
Wednesday 13th of December 5pm – 7pm Green Zone Grass
Bring your blankets, picnic dinner and Christmas hats!
Visual Arts
Welcome to the final term in the Art Studio for 2017!
Foundation students have been exploring the
element of texture and discussing why we use it
in art. They enjoyed doing rubbings outside
looking for different textures on trees, paths,
concrete and buildings. Foundation are now
making colour choices to paint their clay fish
which they decorated with a variety of lines and
patterns.
Students in Level 1/2 have completed painting
their clay birds, making strong choices with
colour and design. They have explored how to
use line and pattern to create a variety of
different textures such as soft, fluffy, hard,
rough and spiky.
Levels 3/4 have been working on
completing an artwork consisting of three
pieces, they have created a superhero, a
background scene for their superhero and
a clay relief sculpture with their heroes
catchphrase. These three pieces will be
placed together to show a story.
Visual Arts cont...
Students in Level 5 have been challenged to use their
problem solving skills to design and make a 3D card
guitar that uses no glue or tape to join it together. They
have done an amazing job looking at ways to create the
guitars and have included some very interesting design
choices.
Level 6 have begun working on
submitting designs for their
graduation mural piece which at
this stage is top secret. I can share
that their work has demonstrated a
very strong understanding on how
to use the elements of line, shape,
pattern and colour and their final
pieces will look amazing!
Razz Brown
Visual Arts Teacher
You will be prompted to enter the Access
Key.
If you are new to the school and don’t have
your Access Key—please call the office and
we will tell you the key.
Ph: 9772 4139
Now continue to the next page...
If you are a NEW USER:
If you have never accessed the Parent Portal
before you must register first using this link:
https://sentral.chps.vic.edu.au/portal/register
Note: This link is on the front page of the
school website www.chps.vic.edu.au
Choose a valid email address and a
password and click Create your Account.
SIGNING IN TO THE PARENT PORTAL
If you are an EXISTING USER:
If you booked your Mid-Year Parent Teacher Interviews
using Sentral or viewed Mid-Year Reports, you should
know the email address you used and hopefully remember
your password.
You simply log in using this link:
https://sentral.chps.vic.edu.au/portal/
Note: This link is on the front page of the school website
www.chps.vic.edu.au
OR
VIEWING STUDENT ACADEMIC REPORTS
To practise viewing reports, Mid-Year Reports from June have been published on Sentral.
Go to the CHPS website and find the Sentral links on the front page.
http://www.chps.vic.edu.au/
Once logged in, you will see your child/ren’s photo on the screen.
Click on their photo and the screen below will appear.
Click on the green ‘Reporting’ button on the left to see your child’s report.
Click the buttons along the top of the window to see:
1) Self Assessment
2) Academic Results
3) Teacher Comments
4) Published Reports where you can download / print the report.
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office 9772-4139.
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