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Chewton Primary School is situated on Djaara 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.
This week's kotowaza: It's ok to be mad but it's not ok to be mean.
This week's kotowaza: It's ok to be mad but it's not ok to be mean.
What's coming up
What's coming up
2 September Tabloid Sports P-2
5 September Pupil Free Day Staff Professional Practice Day
7 Sept, 12 October Connecting Country Workshops P-2
8-9 September Boomerang Camp Grade 2
9 September AFL/Netball sports day Grade 3-6
14th September Supporting children with anxiety information session for parents 6pm (3-4room)
16 September Footy Colours Day Hot dog lunch Last day of term: 2:30pm finish
3 October Term 4 commences
31 October Curriculum Day
1 November Melbourne Cup Day public holiday
From the office
From the office
Excursion permissions
Excursion permissions
Please ensure you have given permission for your child to go on the Tabloid Sports/AFL & Netball/Boomerang camp.
The payments required are:
P-2 Tabloid sports: $7
AFL & Netball Day: $4
Boomerang Camp: $143
Please see Kitty in the office if you would like to check on CSEF amounts.
Payments can be made in cash or by bank transfer
Chewton PS Official Account BSB: 063509 ACC: 00901892
Western Car Park
Western Car Park
Please remember to use the bus zone as a kiss and drop zone in the morning and use the car park only if you're stopping and walking your child into school.
Spare Pants
Spare Pants
We are running low on spare pants for the P-2 room. If your child has used some spare clothes at school, please send them back so they can be used again. Otherwise if you have some size 5-8 maroon or black track pants or shorts that your child has outgrown, we would greatly appreciate them.
Parenting anxious children
Parenting anxious children
Wednesday 14th of September 6pm in the 3-4 room
Please put Wednesday the 14th of September on your calendar to attend an information session on parenting anxious children. ARC Victoria are running a session for parents on how to support children with anxiety. We would love to see lots of parents attending the 6pm session. We know that anxiety is a growing issue for children and adults and this session is a great opportunity to learn more.
Resonance String Orchestra performs at Chewton Primary
Resonance String Orchestra performs at Chewton Primary
Thanks so much to our amazing Art teacher Kate Meade and one of our parents Heather Cummins for bringing the Resonance String Orchestra to our school this week. All students and staff enjoyed the performance, which was followed by the orchestra playing for the 5-6 students who created art works inspired by the music.
From Heather: The piece we presented was "Can't Put Out the Flame" Suite, by Melbourne-based composer Dindy Vaughan. The movements are entitled Gondwana, Earthfire and Volcano. Dindy's notes on the Suite state that "the work was premiered at the Lake Bolac Eel Festival and is a response to the ancient landscape of the small town of Lake Bolac in western Victoria, its large freshwater lake forged by volcanic activity millennia ago." Three Resonance students will be interviewing Dindy in the coming weeks, and will be sure to let her know that the work has been played on Djaara Country now, with Chewton PS students creating their own responses to the music!
Resonance String Orchestra have a concert coming up on October 16 .
https://www.resonancestringorchestra.org.au/
What's happening in the 5-6 room
What's happening in the 5-6 room
These last few weeks the 5-6 students have been indulging in Preparation for Puberty, Bike Ed with the high school students at Castlemaine Secondary College, and last week, we saw some amazing costumes for book week! We had a lot of fun getting costumes together. In class we have been working on our information reports, we also started something new on Monday this week- we have been working on reading and writing rotations, it has been so fun, we have been practicing our touch typing skills in one of these rotations!
By Arkie.
Pictures:
Published Report
Freya Model/vocabulary
Digital Escape Room with Scout on work experience
Bike Ed in costume!
What's happening in the 3-4 room?
What's happening in the 3-4 room?
Football training
Football training
Hello 3/4 parents, for the past five days we have been doing football/AFL, and no this is not Renee writing this. It is Cooper Blundell. Yes, I have been teaching your kids or kid football, my first lesson I had was okay. In that lesson I taught drop punts, handballing, and more. If you have a football please use it in this time.
Hello 3/4 parents, for the past five days we have been doing football/AFL, and no this is not Renee writing this. It is Cooper Blundell. Yes, I have been teaching your kids or kid football, my first lesson I had was okay. In that lesson I taught drop punts, handballing, and more. If you have a football please use it in this time.
By Cooper Blundell
By Cooper Blundell
The Bush
The Bush
By Eidi
The sun bursting through the canopy of trees,Lighting the nature around me.Bushes and plants everywhere,As far as the eye can see. The fragrant smell of flowers, Spreading throughout the forest.The warbling birds chirp, sing, and chorus. The summer’s laughter ringing in the ears of the plants, The beauty that mother nature grants.The leaves on the trees, green as grass,The blue, blue sky, like a screen of glass. The moss on the rocks, softer than a carpet,The wind races through the trees, faster than a bullet.But then the autumn comes, the leaves drift and fall,Yes, the change of seasons call. The leaves fiery, floating to the ground,Making a crackling, crunching sound. Then comes the winter, the cold, and the dark.All the birds disappear, the wrens, robins, and larks.All the animals know, it is coming soonWhen the grass is green and the flowers bloom Then finally the spring comes,All the birds come out, searching for crumbs.All the animals no longer strain.Yes, the world is alive again.By Eidi
What's happening in the P-1-2 room?
What's happening in the P-1-2 room?
Anna and Hadley from Connecting Country visited our class to teach us about local lizards and their habitat. We discussed the types of places that lizards would like to bask in the sun. We learnt that they bask because they are cold blooded, which means their body temperature is the same as the environment.
We went out into the bush behind the school to find model lizards in the same sorts of places as real lizards might be found. All the students eagerly engaged in the lizard search, and everybody found at least one lizard.
P/1/2 sorting through soft plastics to identify the most common product packaging at school. We found that muesli and other bar packaging was the most common. There was more than twice as much compared to any other types.
Making our school more inclusive
Making our school more inclusive
This week teachers met with Alana Wearne to learn about the Safe Schools initiative and begin our training. It was a really informative session with a very clear outline on how we can support our LGBTIQ students.
Schools must take reasonable steps to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex, gender and sexuality. The Department requires schools to support LGBTIQ students by:
providing a positive, supportive and respectful environment
respecting privacy and confidentiality in relation to all students
supporting students who want to affirm or transition gender identity at school
challenging all forms of homophobia and transphobia to prevent discrimination and bullying
giving proper consideration to the impact of any requirement to participate in school activities according to gender identity or an assumption of heterosexuality (for example, school formals, sports activities, camps)
inviting the young person and a family representative/carer to be part of the formulation of a school management plan
Schools should:
ensure that their policies, practices and activities are inclusive and do not have the effect of treating any student adversely because of their sex, gender or sexuality
take positive action to eliminate discrimination or harassment of students on the basis of their sex, gender or sexuality
You can find out more about safe schools here and Myths and facts here.
Inclusion is one of our school values!
If you would like to be part of our working group to make our school a safer place, please get in touch with Bernadette, Renee or Linda.
Maths in the Grade 3-4 room
Maths in the Grade 3-4 room
Aunty Kerri brought in a possum skin cloak for students to use in maths last week. Students were learning about co-ordinates and were able to locate different symbols on the cloak. The cloak was made on Wurundjeri country as a teaching tool, so the symbols are general rather than belonging to one person. We were so lucky to be able to touch it and try it on. Thanks so much Aunty Kerri!
Kimochis_ECC_Week-18-Mad.pdfBuilding update
Work has well and truly begun. It was incredible this week to see the 111 year old external boards come off our beautiful building. The builders are being very gentle and painstakingly making sure the boards are not damaged. The big reveal showed nothing in the wall cavity at all! Insulation was installed and the boards replaced. We are going to feel the comfort every day! A section of the internal wall has been removed to make way for a sliding door between rooms to enable classes to work together when needed, and glass panelling will go into the hallway to make this wonderful area become a "breakout" learning space. All heritage features from head height will be maintained, and lining boards are being reused elsewhere in the project.
Windows and shelves are about to go onto facebook, so please contact Bernadette asap if you would like to purchase windows or take the shelves for free.
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