Lots of things happening this term, so please put them in your calendar!

Working Bee

Sunday 13th November 9:30am- 12pm Mulching and weeding

Election Day Fundraiser

We are having a BBQ and cake stall fundraiser on Election Day, the 26th of November. Please add this to your calendars!

We will need a minimum of 12 volunteers on the day for 1 hour timeslots. Get in touch if you can help out. A roster will be available in the staff room to add your name to.

Donations of baked goods and preserves are greatly appreciated and can be delivered to the school on Friday the 25th of November or on the morning to the stall.

We need another 10 volunteers for this event!

Prep 2023 Transition Dates

22nd November 9-11:30am

29th November 9-11:30am

6th December 9-11:30am

13th December 9-2:30pm

Wanted: Wood rounds for seating at our outdoor fire circle

Do you have any wood you are not planning to use at home? We need some new rounds for our circle in the bush.

What's happening in the Art Room?

Weaving with Jacinta and Aunty Kerri

Last week we were very lucky to have Dja Dja Wurrung Artists Aunty Kerri and Jacinta Douglas come and run some weaving workshops with students.

Grades Prep, One,Two and Three learnt how to make woven snakes using sticks and wool. This was an exciting workshop where we had lots of discussion about snakes and gave each woven creature it's own name. Students then created drawings of their snake weavings and told stories about their adventures.

Grades Four, Five and Six learnt how to create woven cups and bowls. There was lots of discussion around the meditative benefits of weaving and Aunty Kerri and Jacinta showed us some of their amazing woven creations. Many students didn't want to stop weaving when it was time and took materials home with them to keep working!

Uniforms at Chewton

Next week's newsletter will have big focus on uniforms. We will share the outcome of our parent, student and staff surveys and we will share participants thinking about uniforms. If you haven't filled out the survey, please do so.

Community Notices

REMEMBER THE DIGGERS’ 1851 MONSTER MEETING

CELEBRATE THE 20 BIRTHDAY OF THE CASTLEMAINE DIGGINGS NATIONAL HERITAGE PARK.

SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER @ CHEWTON

MONSTER MEETING SITE GOLDEN PT RD

1.30 JUNIOR RANGERS PROGRAM

3.00 TRADITIONAL WELCOME & MUSIC & WORDS FROM THE DRAY

Again we will are gather at the Monster Meeting site in the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park to remember the Diggers who began a democratic protest movement that spread across the goldfields and kick-started the development of parliamentary democracy in Victoria . Their Meeting is a part of the Park’s unique history.

The Park, on DjaDja Wurrung land, is the largest historic mining landscape in Australia, and 20 years ago, in December 2003, it was listed in the Victorian Heritage Register . It uniquely still shows authentic traces of the tens of thousands who came to find gold at Forest Creek, the richest shallow alluvial goldfield ever discovered, and changed the land of the Djaara people who lived there for thousands of years and left the gold unwanted in the ground.

At 1.30 we will there will be some gold panning organised by Parks Victoria for Junior Rangers – pans will be provided.

At 3 pm there will be a traditional Welcome and then we will celebrate the Diggers’ Meeting with music from the Brasselmania Brass Band, including some of the music that the Saxe Horn Band played to the Diggers in 1851. And speakers will tell the Diggers’ story from the dray, including with the words from 1851.

Remember. Bring a hat ,water & a chair if you don’t want to sit on the grass.

Organised by Chewton Domain Society & Parks Victoris.