This Friday, 31 October 2025, we pause to honour the incredible dedication and impact of our teachers here at Chewton Primary School as we celebrate World Teachers’ Day.

Every day, our teachers inspire curiosity, foster confidence, challenge assumptions, and nurture futures. Whether it’s helping a student discover a love of reading, guiding a class through a new concept, or offering a quiet word of encouragement, their work matters.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every Chewton teacher: for your creativity, your patience, your commitment, and your unwavering belief in the potential of all learners.

We invite everyone, students, parents, colleagues, and community members, to join in the celebration: thank your teachers for all the hard work they do and the care they show for the students at Chewton Primary.

To all our Chewton teachers: hats off to you. Thank you for showing up, for making a difference, and for shaping the lives of our young people every single day.

We’ve had another busy and exciting couple of weeks in Prep/1!

In Writing, we’ve been learning all about persuasive texts — how to share our opinions and give reasons to support them. Last week, students thought about which animal would make the best pet and wrote some very convincing arguments. We then created our own paper pets and opened the Prep/1 Animal Adoption Centre! Our Grade 5/6 buddies were invited to visit, listen to our persuasive speeches, and (hopefully) be persuaded to adopt a paper pet. The good news — every single pet found a loving new home!

This week, we explored how people can have different opinions on the same topic. Working in pairs, students chose to either agree or disagree with a statement and took part in mini-debates. Some even argued for a point of view they didn’t personally believe! Helen, a passionate recycler, made a case against recycling, while Ruby argued that kids shouldn’t have to clean their rooms — even though she loves a tidy space. It was fantastic to see everyone sharing ideas and listening respectfully to different perspectives.

We were also thrilled to share some of our wonderful work with Bernadette, who visited our classroom this week. Students proudly showed off their achievements — including some very impressive handwriting samples!

Next week is a short one, and we’re especially looking forward to our Inter-School Kickball Day on Friday, November 7th. We’ve been practising hard and can’t wait to test our skills against other schools.

Wishing everyone a fun and spooky Halloween long weekend! 🎃

Congratulations to all the students who represented us on MainFM on the Wild show last weekend to talk about wtaer health and the River Detectives program. What a showcase of the learning that has happened with Serena in Sustainability! Congratulations everyone.

Grade 2-3-4 students have been learning to calculate a fraction of a collection and place value using conrete materials.

In sustainability students were potting up pumpkin seedlings and in Inquiry some students have been presenting their passion projects.

Class celebration of 100 SWPBS cards- keepy uppy; pin the tail on the donkey, bubble play and hoops/skipping, chalk