Newsletter Number 08
16th March 2015
Dear Parents, Students and
Cheltenham Primary School
Friends
of
Last week Mrs
Kinsey and I
had
the
wonderful
opportunity to
accompany our
Marine
Ambassadors on
their
first
adventure to Port Phillip Bay to swim with seals
and to search for sea dragons. Our student
Ambassadors: Summer, Zoe, Will and Jasper,
conducted themselves in the highest manner,
displaying all key foundations of our Your Can Do
It Program of Organisation, Resilience,
Persistence, Getting Along and Confidence and in
doing so I was tremendously proud to have them
represent Cheltenham Primary School.
Our Ambassadors will have the opportunity to
share a report about their wonderful outing at
assembly early in Term 2.
Easter Egg Raffle
Our Easter Raffle will take place on the last day of
the school term, Friday 27 March. Due to the
official 150th Celebration of the Cheltenham
Cemetery, our final assembly will be held in the
morning at 9.00am.
The Easter Egg raffle grows bigger each year,
with more and more baskets. While this is a most
generous effort by all in our school community –
this year we are endeavouring to keep the number
of baskets to 1-2 per class. Please keep this in
mind when donating eggs.
School Photos
A reminder that school photographs have been
rescheduled to 14th April. Please place this new
date in your calendars.
Kind regards
Margaret McIntosh
Principal
2015-2016 School Council Elections
Following the School Council call for
nominations in the Parent category, there were 6
candidates that nominated for the four (4)
vacancies.
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Paul Beeston
Lionel Brett
Alison Chambers
Debbie Feben
Kathryn Shield
Ryko Valance
The term of office for each vacant position is two
(2) years. As result, there will be a ballot
required for positions on Council 2015-2016.
The ballot was sent out last Friday, accompanied
with candidate’s statements to allow the
community to gain some background about the
people standing for elections. DET guidelines
stipulate that no campaign literature supporting
candidates may be distributed or posted, and no
school resources may be used to support particular
candidates.
Please note the closing time and date of the ballot
to ensure that your vote reaches the school.
The Ballot will close on Monday 23 March,
2015 at 4.00pm. Ballot papers received after
4.00pm will be ineligible.
If posting your ballot in the accompanying
envelope this has already been addressed to:
Cheltenham Primary School
231 Charman Road,
Cheltenham, 3192
VIC
Specific Instructions for voting:
1. Complete the ballot paper. One (1)
ballot has been sent home for each
parent vote.
2. Place your ballot paper/s in the blank
envelope provided and place in the
envelope with your name/s and
address on the back.
3. Deliver to the School Office or post it
to the Principal.
For any further queries, please contact Margaret
McIntosh on 8585 3200
Margaret McIntosh
Principal, Executive Officer, School Council
Important dates for your diary:
MARCH 2015
Monday, 16th Friday, 20th
Sunday, 22nd
Friday, 27th
Grade 5/6 Camp
Coonawarra
Working Bee
Last DayTerm 1
2.30pm DISMISSAL
APRIL 2015
Tuesday, 14th
School Photo Day
CANTEEN NEWS
Thank you to Kylie Johanson and Samantha Sims
for helping me make the children’s lunches this
Friday 20th March, 10.30am – 1.30pm
Jennifer Leason
Canteen Manager
Jennifer LeasonTERM DATES 2015
CanteenTerm
Manager
1 - 29th January to 27th March
Term 2 - 13th April to 26th June
Term 3 - 13th July to 18th September
Term 4 - 5th October to 18th December
Are proud sponsors of our YCDI Program
Please support them with your custom
Confidence is the You Can Do It foundation for
this term. It means knowing that you will be
successful and believing in yourself. It means not
being afraid to make mistakes or to try something
new. It means looking and sounding confident.
These students have won YCDI awards this
week!
Grade
PA
PB
PC
1/2A
1/2B
1/2C
1/2D
1/2E
3/4A
3/4B
3/4C
3/4D
Kitchen Classroom
Winner
Evie T
Nate L
Samuel K
Mango F
Lewis W
Abby K
Barbara P
Lucy N
Blake D
Lewis K
Georgia C
Ella C
Djatotay W
photography/videography. This keeps me very
busy outside of school hours but has been a
great skill to bring to Cheltenham Primary
School. Music is a big part of my life and I try
to use its powerful influence to assist in my
students’ learning as much as possible.
Aside from being a musician my studies have
varied over the years. My initial degree was a
Bachelor of Business at Monash University
leading to me working as a project manager
for a period of time. I then had the unique
opportunity to be a teacher’s aide for several
years where my passion for teaching grew its
legs. This led me to complete my Master of
Teaching at Deakin University in 2014 with
distinction.
I have a passion for sports and am an avid
Carlton Supporter. I also follow Chelsea quite
closely in the English Premier League. I find
sport to be a great example of what can be
achieved with the right coaching, tactics and
teamwork. This is yet another form of
inspiration for me as a teacher as I am
constantly looking for ways to improve my
instructional practice in the classroom.
I look forward to meeting more of the
Cheltenham Primary School community and I
am excited for what the rest of 2015 will
bring!
Teacher Profile
Hi, my name is Todd Cummins and I am new
to Cheltenham Primary School in 2015!
Having grown up in the bayside suburbs of
Melbourne I consider myself a local boy with
a rich array of life experiences culminating in
my decision to become an educator.
I am a professional musician on weekends and
run my own wedding and corporate
entertainment agency ‘Calibre Entertainment’
and we provide live music, DJs, MCs and
Todd Cummins
Year 3/4 Teacher
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HOUSE SWIMMING SPORTS
Remember to check your local library over
the school holidays.
http://www.kingston.vic.gov.au/library/Whats-On
All the results from
last week’s House
Swimming will be in
next
week’s
newsletter, after the
results have been announced at Assembly on
Monday.
National Simultaneous Story Time 2015 is fast
approaching, so save the date for Wednesday
27 May at 11am to read The Brothers Quibble
by Aaron Blabey with over 450, 00 other
participants! As always we here at
Cheltenham Primary School will be happy
participants. More information will be
released next term.
LIBRARY NEWS
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we
have to stay where we are.”
-Mason Cooley
A big thank you to all school community
members this past term for your support with
the new library bag rule, I have already notice
a reduction in damaged items and an increase
of personal responsibility amongst the
students. Well done ALL.
I am very pleased to say that all the Prep
students have taken very well to the library
routine with most children changing books
weekly and showing signs of becoming
excellent library patrons. While your child
will be engaged in a variety of reading
activities at school, it is also important to
encourage your child to read outside the
classroom so please encourage your child to
read whenever possible. I cannot say enough
that children will not find reading pleasurable
if there is too much pressure on them to read.
Here are some ideas that may help you
support your child's reading development:
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Leave the teaching to the teachers. Your
job is to support the reader wherever they
are (help with the take home readers)
reading shopping lists, road signs, recipes
Make a regular time to share a story and
keep to it. If time is limited read a poem or
do a riddle – kids love riddles and jokes
If your child is tired you can read to them,
even older children like to be read to. I
read to my children until High School
Let your children see you reading
Talk about stories and retell stories to each
other
Isobel Rose- Library Technician
‘Once Upon A Time’ Junior School Concert
dates are as follows:
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Tuesday 28th April – Dress Rehearsal
9.10am-11am (at School)
-Thursday 30th April – Stage Rehearsal
9.15am -1pm (at Mentone Girls’ Grammar
School)
Thursday 30th April – Concert 7.008.00pm (at Mentone Girls’ Grammar
School)
Friday 1st May – Concert 10.00-11.00am
(at Mentone Girls’ Grammar School)
Permission form and costuming details to follow.
Christine Day
Prep A Class Teacher
Junior School Coordinator
Cheltenham Primary School is proud to be
participating in its 11th year of the Premiers’
Reading Challenge! The aim of the PRC is to
inspire the love reading and motivate students
to discover new authors, topics and
books. Sometimes all it can take is a
particular author or book to ignite a spark that
begins a lifetime of enjoyment in
reading! The Challenge runs from now until
the 9th September and is open to all
students. Registration forms have been sent
out to all students and copies of these forms
are available at the end of this newsletter.
login details and guidelines for the challenge.
The Challenge Book List is available from the
2015 PRC website which also has a wealth of
information, competitions and videos to
access
(
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/
prc/Pages/students.aspx ).
Prep – Year 2 30 books in total (20 or more
from Challenge list)
Years 3-6 15 books in total (10 or more from
the Challenge list)
Any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact me. Once registered, each student will
be given log in details. Contact me at
[email protected]
Miranda Brett
PRC Co-ordinator