Chatham Newsletter Issue 34

2nd November 2017 chatham.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.chathamps.vic.edu.au Phone: 9830 1933

FROM THE PRINCIPAL The Year 3 Sleepover Our inaugural Year 3 sleepover was a great night, full of fun! Our Year 3s were awesome, and they loved every minute, espe-cially the late night movie! I want to give a huge thanks to the many staff who came along to help, Ms Briggs for initiating and organising the event and to Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Colombo, Mr Clark and Ms Kirwan who actually stayed overnight. It’s not many schools who could say they had so many staff in attendance. Well done and thanks to our Year 3s, you are all ready for your first camp in Year 4!

NIGHT MARKET: The Night Market is looking like another great event for Chatham, however we are still looking for a number of volunteers to look after stalls for a short period of time. I encourage all families to donate just an hour or two towards this event to help en-sure its success. The sign up link for the Night Market is: http://signup.com/go/FmgevqU

PARENT INFORMATION SESSIONS In light of the recent School Council announcement regarding the principal position at Chatham, and with preparations for 2018 slowly falling into place, I will be advertising a number of Parent Information Sessions later in the term where we will be able to outline how 2018 will look for Chatham and answer any queries you may have. Keep an eye on upcoming editions of the newsletter for days and times.

IS YOUR CHILD STARTING SECONDARY SCHOOL NEXT YEAR? Parents of our Year 6 students will tell you that it doesn’t seem that long ago that their child was starting school. The primary years seem to fly by and our Year Sixes are already four weeks into their final term of primary school. Secondary school can be a daunting thought for not only our students but parents as well. There are many questions, which I’m sure you have, which are not fully answered at information nights and orientation days. The Department of Education and Training has developed an informative site, which provides hints and tips on how to support your child through the transition to secondary school. During the school term you will receive emails that will include tips, advice and information on supporting your child to make the transition from primary to secondary school. Recent articles have included Preparing for next Year, Homework and Step-ping up to Secondary School. To receive articles please subscribe to Beyond Primary at: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/parents/secondary/Pages/bphome.aspx

Melbourne Cup Public Holiday A reminder that next Monday 6th November is a student free day when staff will be writing student reports and Tuesday, 7th November is a public holiday. The school will be closed on these days. This is a great opportunity to recharge the batteries in preparation for the event filled lead up to Christmas. I hope you enjoy these days with your family.

On Wednesday 1 November, the Chatham Chargers competed at the Hooptime Senior Fu-ture Stars Regional Finals at The Rings basketball stadium. We went through the pool games winning 3 out of our 4 games, finishing in second place. We played the Weeden Heights Wal-labies in our final. The Chatham Chargers played an amazing game, but unfortunately we lost by 4 points. Well done to Emma Ross, Emilia Minett, Madeline McDonald, Max Pattison, No-ah Atfeh, James Burnett, Ryder Smith and Jamo Smith for showing great sportsmanship and playing so well as a team all day.

In closing this week, a reminder to our parent community that under no circumstances is it acceptable for parents to approach another child to reprimand or discuss an incident that occurred during the day with their own child. Often when this happens the parent is not informed of all the facts, has only heard one side of the story and often they act on emotion rather than common sense! I encourage all parents to go through the school to resolve matters concern-ing students. Staff are skilled in dealing with these matters; they have the facts from both sides and take a balanced, less emo-tional approach to dealing with these matters. If you have any queries regarding this please don’t hesitate to contact me at school.

Have a great weekend.

Rod McKinlay

Dates for the diary Monday 6th November Curriculum Day—no school for students today Tuesday 7th November Public Holiday Wednesday 8th November Prep Transition—session one Thursday 9th November Night Market Friday 10th November Regional Finals Hooptime Year 3 excursion to Melbourne symphony orchestra Monday 13th November Year 1 excursion to the Aquarium Wednesday 15th November Prep Transition—session two Sunday 19th November Whole school working bee—2pm to 5pm Monday 20th November Prep and Year 2 Circus Skills School Council Wednesday 22nd November Prep Transition - session three Monday 27th November Parents’ Club meeting @ 9:10am in the library Prep and Year 2 Circus Skills Monday 4th December Prep and Year 2 Circus Skills Thursday 7th December Gingerbread House Night Monday 11th December Parents’ Club meeting @ 9:10am in the library Prep and Year 2 Circus Skills Monday 18th December Prep and Year 2 Circus Skills School Council Meeting Tuesday 19th December Year 6 Big Day out to MSAC End of year Class Parties—Prep to Year 5 Wednesday 20th December Visits to 2017 classrooms Reports sent home Thursday 21st December Year 6 Graduation Friday 22nd December Year 6 breakfast Last day of term 4 for students—1:30pm finish

PUPIL FREE DAY: A reminder that Monday 6 November, the Monday prior to the Tuesday Melbourne Cup public holiday,

will be a pupil free day. No children will be at school that day as staff will be preparing student reports.

Please lock this date into your calendar!

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC SOIREES Thank you to all the students who performed at the Soirees on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The audience were treated to lovely music from our very talented students on a variety of instruments and even 2 rock bands! It is such a pleasure to see the amazing abilities of these young chil-dren and thank you to the audience who were very enthu-siastic and considerate.

Year 1 Parents’ Drinks Thursday 16 November

from 7.30pm. Saint Barry ( courtyard)

595 Whitehorse Rd, Surrey Hills

RSVP by 10/11 to Kate, Jo, Narelle, Ingrid & Louise

(Class Reps)

PREMIERS READING CHALLENGE Certificates for the Premiers Reading Challenge will be handed out to all students who took part

at Assembly this Friday.

THANKS TO LILY E IN PREP SJ FOR THE NEWSLETTER HEADER

CHATHAM WALKATHON 2017 The Winning House was Fenton and the student who raised the most money was Rowan Hunt from 5HM who raised $218. Rowan is awarded the pogo stick kindly donated by Windmill. The Nunan Family raised a fabulous $320 are awarded 2 x family movie passes. Class that raised the most money was 1FH who win a pizza lunch kindly donated by Columbo's pizza. The total amount of money raised $9683.00 and this will be spent on replacing the djembe drums for the music program, replacing the school front gates so they are self closing and any additional funds will be spent towards continuing to improve the school facilities. We would also like to acknowledge the generous support from Anytime Fitness in Balwyn who provided our raffle prize and trophy, Windmill and Columbo’s for the prizes, and Ben the Butcher and Breadstreet for providing yummy sausages in bread for lunch on the day. Thank you to all the students and families that fundraised for this event. We also sincerely appreciate the support from all the teachers and those volunteers that helped on the day to make it a wonderful house walkathon!! Many thanks Rupert and Belinda

MATHS ACHIEVEMENTS! During our last assembly, we celebrated the achievements of a number of our students who have received an award for their efforts in either the Australian Mathematics Competitions or a recent Manga High online mathematical challenge. The Australian Mathematics Competition, administered by the Australian Mathematical Trust, was open to students across Australia in Years 3-6 and involved students solving thirty problems under test conditions. Questions covered a wide range of mathematical concepts and the following students received either a High Distinction award (top 3% of all participants), Distinction award (top 20% of all participants) or Credit award (top 50% of all participants) for their efforts: High Distinction: Patrick Lu Distinction: Anson Wang, Liam Stabek, Serena Wang, Syou Yoshino, Emma Feng, Owen Scott -Murphy, Sebastian Se-mercioglu, Lily Douglas, Barbie Mu, Zoe McGregor, Tom Ross, Matt Thomson-Hicks and Evan McLatchie. Credit: Matthew Ellis, Josiah Reichmann, Bill Sanders, Sharon Zhou, Daniela Ni Cathail, Sophie Pretty, Swastik Das, Simon Scott-Murphy, Ben Dewaele, Cate Eimutis, Isabel Tan, Sam Burnett, April Shand, Ben Ross, Caitlin Truong, Thomas Nunan, Hamish Mann, Elliot Walker, Jacques Dewaele, Will Elliott, Rowan Hunt, Madeline McDonald, Jemima Collings, Jamison Smith, Jono Baird, Emily Gray, Sarah McNulty, Noah Atfeh, James Burnett, Philip Lee, Rory Spicer, Will Ukich and Joshua Sharpe. Patrick Lu also received a special 'Best in School' award for his achievements. Many students in the senior school have been using the Manga High online Maths program either at school or at home this year and the following students received a certificate or medal for their efforts in a recent challenge: Gold medal: Emma Feng and Owen Scott-Murphy Bronze medal: Haimi Truong, Jamison Smith, William Ellis, Evan McLatchie, Sarah McNulty, Emily Gray, Sebastian Se-mercioglu, Sarah Marcun, Matt Thomson-Hicks, Cate Eimutis, Sacha Kennett, Isabel Tan, Elliot Walker, Lily Douglas, Will Stamper, Alex Tresidder and Henry Deayton. Certificate: Dane Godlee, Rowan Hun, Jono Baird, Noah Atfeh, Kalen McInnes, Emily Salins and James Reichmann. The results of the University of New South Wales Mathematics Competition and Australasian Mathematical Olympiad will be announced at assembly this Friday 3rd November and published in next week's newsletter. Thank you, Georgina Kirwan Numeracy Coordinator

Last week the environment leaders went to the Melbourne Water Kids Teach-

ing Kids two day conference. The conference we went to was all about being

more sustainable. It is run for kids, and by kids. You go to different workshops

on both of the days, and they are all run by kids. On the first day, we went to

Melbourne University and had lots of fun seeing other kids perform their

workshops. We also enjoyed the gala dinner afterwards, when about five

schools did performances on the stage. The second day was even more of a

blast. We got the chance to run our own workshop. We did that about platy-

puses. We were working with the Platypus Education Group and our work-

shop wouldn’t have been the same without them. We had such a fun time

and we would like to give a huge thanks to Kids Teaching Kids, Melbourne Wa-

ter, the Platypus Education Group and, most of all, Mrs Doherty, for being so

patient and nice, and driving us around. Thank you.

Sarah, Georgie, Will and Alex—Year 6 Environment Leaders

Can you help?

Please help make the Chatham Primary Christmas Night Market a great success by…

1. Volunteering on the night…Fill in your name on the sign up link for

one or 2 short shifts to help set up, decorate, serve food/drinks or clean up afterwards. Simply go to:

http://signup.com/go/FmgevqU

and select the time & volunteer role to help make the night a great one for Chatham! We can’t do it without your help:)

2. Sharing on Facebook to spread the word that the best Christmas shop-

ping is at the Chatham Christmas Night Market!

https://www.facebook.com/NightMarketatChathamPrimary

3. Inviting friends and family to the Night Market - the more people

who attend, the better the fundraising & the happier the stall holders. Huge range of stalls, great Xmas gifts, delicious food & a bar!!

4. Baking for the cake stall - plates have been sent home & there is oth-

er packaging available to make your baking look great!

Thanks so much!

Chatham Primary Parents Club Facebook Page

Our Facebook page allows community members to stay up to date with activities through a medium preferred by an increasing num-ber of people. Accessing and commenting on the Chatham Primary Parents’ Club Facebook page indicates you have read, understood and accepted our Facebook Page Guidelines as set out below.

Chatham Primary Parents’ Club Facebook Page Guidelines:

This page has been set up to assist Chatham PS’s Community Groups share details about the happenings at the School. Community groups include but are not limited to: Parents’ Club, Parent Class Reps, Building and Grounds Committee, Sporting Coaches, etc.

Posts are only visible to Group Members – this is to protect your privacy and the privacy of our School community. If you are associat-ed with Chatham, all you need to do is ask to join the group. We'd love for you to join in.

To ensure this page is a positive reflection of the great things happening at our School we ask you respect our Facebook Page Guide-lines.

Chatham Parents’ Club will manage and moderate this group. They are responsible for establishing users as members, and for those who have a need to add posts, as administrators.

Facebook users who have 'Liked' our page are able to comment on the posts and events and on comments by other users. Users are not able to author a post of their own or load media such as video or photos.

Authorised administrators may initiate posts and add photos.

All photos posted must have the permission of every person (or parent/carer for children under 18) in the photo.

The school does not endorse children under the Facebook age threshold of 13 years creating their own Facebook accounts. We do however support parents sharing our page with their children through their accounts and to use our Facebook page as a role model for appropriate communication through social media.

We encourage you to provide feedback and comments however we ask you be respectful and contribute in a positive and con-structive manner at all times.

This page is a community page and not administered by Chatham Primary School, so the school accepts no responsibility or obliga-tion for any posts that are made on this page.

Should you wish to bring a concern to the school's attention this should be done by contacting the school.

The school is not able to respond directly to requests or messages on Facebook. If you need to contact the school, please speak to your child's teacher or contact the office directly on 9830 1933.

You may use adult’s names in posts when you wish to acknowledge someone's great work or contribution. We wish our Face-book page to be used to build spirit and for 'patting someone on the back' publicly as we believe it goes a long way towards building a positive school and community. Where students are named they should be referred to by their first name only.

Page administrators may remove any content which they deem to be in breach of these Facebook Page Guidelines. This in-cludes offensive, discriminatory, illegal, obscene or misleading/fraudulent comments, spam or any content which may break intellectual property laws.

Should you fail to comply with the Facebook Page Guidelines you may be banned from the Chatham Parents’ Club Facebook Page.

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! Did you know Parents Club has a facebook group? It’s awesome and definitely something

you want to be a part of. If you haven’t already search ‘Chatham Primary Parents Club’

and request to join. Here you can keep up with school events, ask questions, share expe-

riences and generally connect with a great community of parents. If you’re already a

member tag a school friend who needs to be part of this. Thank you!