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Newsletter 11th October 2018

Issue 2018-30

Acting Principal: Jan Smith

Enquiries: 9773 2055

Argyle Avenue Chelsea Vic 3196

Web: www.chelseaps.vic.edu.au

Melways Reference: 97 C2

News from the Acting Principal By Jan Smith

WELCOME BACK

Welcome to Term Four. It has been wonderful to see everyone back after a very

relaxing break. Many families enjoyed the gorgeous spring sunshine and getting out

and about at the beach and local parks. It was lovely to visit classes this week and see

all the students well and truly back into the swing of school. Yesterday our Year 3/4s

headed off to Anglesea camp and from reports today they are all having a fabulous

time.

We have another fabulous term ahead. Highlights will include Light it Red Day next

week, Korean Day, Book Fair, Walk to School breakfast, whole school lifesaving

program, 5/6 swimming, Step up Transition Days, Year 6 Graduation and our fabulous

Christmas Concert. Exciting times ahead!

NAPLAN

Our NAPLAN results were received at the end of last term and once again our Grade 3

and Grade 5 students performed exceptionally well. Our results are a testament to our

agreed strategies and innovative learning approaches across the school, great teachers

and hardworking students. We should be very proud of our students who

demonstrated resilience and persistence in doing their best throughout the three days

of national testing.

During August, Chelsea Primary students completed the school readiness test in

preparation for the 2019 online NAPLAN testing. All students in Year 3 and 5 next year

will complete NAPLAN testing online except for Year 3 writing.

These results have been presented at both School Council and with staff. The overall

results indicate some very positive progress across the school. While NAPLAN only

measures student performance on one day of the year, it does provide us with

important data on future curriculum directions. Staff are have begun planning a range

of high impact programs to enhance our students’ learning as we develop our new

Strategic plan.

ENROL NOW FOR 2019

We are still taking enrolments for Foundation 2019. Please contact the office for a personal tour on 9773 2055.

Calendar of Events

October

17th

Light it red for Dyslexia

Parent workshop 6.30pm-7.30pm

19th

Walk to school breakfast 8.15pm

22nd Oct—2nd Nov

5/6 Swimming

26th

Walk to school breakfast

30th

Korean Day

November

2nd

It’s academic

6th

Melbourne Cup—public holiday

9th

Remembrance Day

13th and 15th

Bunjil Excursion to Como House

14th, 21st & 28th

5/6 STOMP

23rd & 30th

Step into Prep

26th

Curriculum day

29th

Year 2 Camp Preparation

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WORKING BEE - WHAT A DIFFERENCE AND WHAT A COMMUNITY!

Special thanks to our families who helped beautify our school last Sunday. Window washing, raking playgrounds and reinstalling mats, painting, weeding, trimming, replacing glass louvres and the list goes on. Many thanks to the Hedley, Williams, Sullivan, Field, Wragg, Bray-Brand, Pool, Rutland, Erlandson, Hickey and Blake families and Paul from the Freeway Church. Your time is really appreciated! (Apologies if I have forgotten anyone! Please let me know).

MORDIALLOC COLLEGE ART SHOW

Next Tuesday evenings, Mordialloc Secondary College will hold their Annual Art Show. Each year, local schools are also invited to display their students’ work. This year Miss Ebbott has collected some stunning work by our students to showcase.

We hope that families who visit the Art Show enjoy the array of work on show!

THIS TERM’S VALUE

As parents, teachers and children, building resilience is quite often one of the most difficult of our values to work through.

Last year, our Wellbeing Team held an evening presentation with well-known psychologist Andrew Fuller. Andrew’s books and articles are always entertaining, honest and logical. Here is one of a fabulous article about resilience and families.

10 Hints for Creating Resilient Families.

‘Resilience is the happy knack of being able to bungy jump through life. When the inevitable

pitfalls and setbacks of life occur, it is as if you have an elasticised rope around your middle

that helps you to bounce back from hard times’.

For the entire article please visit -

http://andrewfuller.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ten-resilience-hints.pdf

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Chelsea Primary School supports … Over the last two years, we have been on a professional learning journey on how to best support our students with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling. We have developed and implemented an explicit, sys-tematic phonics program from Prep to Year Two and are seeing fantastic progress for ALL of our students. We have a Prep to Year Six spelling program and intervention support program for literacy. We have purchased resources such as decodable books and APPS to further support our students.

Next week, we are hosting a 5 day Multi-Sensory Learning course at our school. Wendy Stansfield and I have been awarded scholarships to participate in this course. Becoming MSL trained will mean we can provide high impact, evi-denced based teaching and learning for ALL of our students. Our trainer has kindly agreed to run a FREE parent work-shop on Wednesday 17th October from 6.30-7.30. The workshop will look at ways you can help your children at home with reading and spelling. Everyone is welcome!

In support of the Light it Red and Get On Board initiatives, we will have a RED day on Wednesday. Students are asked to wear a red shirt or socks or hair accessories to LIGHT CHELSEA RED. We will be running a RED PAPER PLANE STEM challenge throughout the day. At 12.30 one child from each class will showcase their plane on the turf, followed by a whole school picnic. We have red ribbon, pens and lollypops to share.

Please send a gold coin donation which we will use to purchase more books!

Thank you for your support!

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Media Leaders By Jake and Dane

Today marks the start of the 4th and final term of the school year! We have decided to begin something new, instead of the Weekly Quiz we will have the Weekly Word Search!

The final answers of the Weekly Quiz: 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. 181 3. Dylan Webber

And now here is the first Weekly Word Search! Hope you enjoy!

WALK TO SCHOOL—October is Walk to School Month Our Ride to School ambassadors Isaac and Muskan will welcome you to our Walk to School Healthy breakfast on Friday October 19th from 8.15am. Thank you to the Kingston Council for sponsoring this event by providing a coffee cart and healthy breakfast treats. We look forward to seeing all of our community out and about in the sunshine during Walk to School month.

Displayed production photo are available for $2 at the school office

NEW PRINCIPAL UPDATE Last term I sent out communication regarding the process of appointing a new principal to Chelsea Primary School and wanted to keep you informed of current plans.

The recruitment process will begin in late October and will be completed in early December.

I understand that this seems like a long time but given it’s such an important appointment it requires a rigorous, merit-based process.

The selection process will be conducted by a panel of five people made up of; the school council president, school council parent representative, nominee of the Secretary of the Department of Education, a principal of a similar sized school and an CPS staff member, to ensure wide range of views. A final recommendation will then be made to the school council for endorsement.

Jan Smith will remain as Acting Principal until the commencement of a new principal.

Amelia Mastorakos, School Council President

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WEDNESDAY 17th OCTOBER

On Wednesday 17th October we are raising awareness for Dyslexia. Please come

dressed in school uniform with a touch of RED…hair ribbon, t-shirt, head band

socks etc.

All students will receive either a red ribbon, lollypops or pen. We will be running

a RED PAPER PLANE STEM challenge throughout the day. At 12.30 one child from

each class will showcase their plane on the turf, followed by a whole school pic-

nic.

PLEASE BRING A GOLD COIN DONATION

All money raised will go towards purchasing decodable books.

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HOT LUNCH ORDER REMINDER

Orders must be submitted by 9:30am on Monday mornings

for lunch delivered on Wednesdays.

Steak pie $4.00

Vegetarian pastie $4.00

Sausage roll $3.00

Meat and vegetable pastie $4.00

Tomato sauce 20c

SUBWAY LUNCH ORDER REMINDER

Envelopes are available at the office.

Orders must be returned to the office no later

than Wednesday morning.

Please ensure that your child’s name, class and

selections are clearly printed on the envelopes.

Please insert the correct amount of cash and seal

the envelope. No change will be given.

If the order is not legible or the money is

incorrect, your child will miss out.

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