Chewton Primary School Newsletter 11th August 2022

Chewton Primary School is situated on Jaara Jaara Country.

We acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung people, the custodians and caretakers of the land. We thank them for the care they have taken and continue to take of Country: the rivers, mountains, trees and animals. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

We commit to Be Brave and Make Change.

What's coming up

10-12 August Lady Northcote Camp Grade 3-4

12 August Sushi

10 & 24 August, 7 Sept, 12 October Connecting Country Workshops P-2

5 August, 19 August, 26 August, 2 September Preparation for Puberty 5-6

17th August Planting with Post Office Hill Action Group Grade 5-6

18 August Supporting children with anxiety information session postponed

23rd August Welcome to Country, Uncle Rick 2:30pm as part of our Art & Music in the bush project with Kate. All welcome.

24th August Planting with Post Office Hill Action Group Grade 3-4

2 September Tabloid Sports P-2

8-9 September Boomerang Camp Grade 2

9 September Tennis Hotshots Grade 3-6

From the Office

Camps and Excursion payments

There are a few payments outstanding for the P2 Dinosaur excursion, Prep for Puberty and Year 3/4 camp. Payments can be made by cash to the office or bank transfer.

Please see the office if you would like to arrange a payment plan for camp.

Please note the school's bank details have changed, the new details are:

Chewton Primary School Official Account

BSB: 063509 ACC: 00901892

Student Absences

If your child is absent, please ensure the school is notified. This can be done via an absence request in Sentral, an email to the class teacher and myself, or by phone call.

Parent Payments 2022

We would like to thank all parents who have contributed towards the school this year. If you have not paid your voluntary contributions for this year and you still want to contribute, please contact the office for more information on how to do this.

Your contributions assist us to enhance and broaden the educational experience for our students.
Curriculum Contributions and Other contributions are voluntary.
If you are unable or choose not to make financial contributions, your child will not be disadvantaged or denied access to the resources required to deliver the curriculum.
Your contributions go specifically towards items and activities that will help improve your child’s educational experience.

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) teaching and learning resources have been developed to support schools to develop student knowledge, understanding and skills to build and manage safe and respectful relationships. In the Personal and Social Capability curriculum, students learn to recognise and regulate emotions, develop empathy for others and establish and build a framework for positive relationships. SEL is the process through which children and young people build and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to:

• Understand and manage emotions

• Set and achieve positive goals

• Feel and express empathy

• Establish and maintain positive relationships

• Make responsible decisions

• Develop resilience to deal with change

• Create positive gender norms

• Contribute to social cohesion.

TERM 3 STRESS MANAGEMENT

Children and young people experience a range of personal, social and work-related stressors in their everyday lives. Activities within this topic have an explicit focus on teaching positive approaches to stress management. Assisting students to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress, and to develop strategies that will help them to deal with stress effectively, will help students cope with future challenges. The activities focus on the ways in which self-calming strategies can be used to manage stressful situations.

On Monday I was able to join the Prep-2 class as they worked through one of their Respectful Relationships lessons. Students were learning to work collaboratively in a self-control game. Students used the game to help them talk about the place of quiet time in helping them cope with challenge. Students worked with the teacher in the second part of the lesson to develop a definition of stress. Students recognised how stress can be felt in the body. Students identified experiences that can cause feelings of stress.

Netball.by james

What you need:

You strictly need 14 players, bibs, a ball, a whistle, sneakers, and two umpires.

Rules:

1. No running with the ball.

2. You can not hold the ball for more than 3 seconds.

3. You need to be 90 cm away from the the person in front of you. If you don't do that they get a free pass and you stand next to them.

4. No touching players same as rule 3.

Positions:

C starts in the middle. GK and GS start in the semicircles. WA and WD starts in their quarters on the sides. Same with GA and GD. That's all good luck>:)

Grade 3-4 Lady Northcote camp

Here are a few pics that Miki has sent through!

Connecting Country

This week, Prep,1,2's were lucky enough to have a visit from Jess and Hadley of Connecting Country. We explored the bushland behind our school and found several boxes.

Upon inspecting the first box, we were amazed to find two mature sugar gliders and one juvenile. The remaining boxes we inspected had an assortment of honeycomb, chewed on boxes by cockatoo's, recently used nests, eaten honeycomb and two bat boxes which we didn't disturb.

What a lucky school to have such diverse wildlife and habitats surrounding us!!!

Parenting Anxious children

Please note the session on Anxiety has been postponed. We will let you know the new date in next week's newsletter.

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