REMOTE LEARNING-THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT 

Yesterday, the Acting Premier advised schools will be moving to remote and flexible learning to help curtail the current number of cases of Corona virus in the community. 

Friday 28th May: Pupil Free Day
Monday 31st May -Thursday 3rd June: Learn from home

Information is available via Compass and Dojo of the arrangements for the days ahead.

As with other remote learning periods, our school will provide on-site supervision for students in the following categories:

• Children where both parents and/or carers are authorised workers who cannot work from home, work for an essential provider and where no other supervision arrangements can be made:
• Where there are two parents/carers, both must be authorised workers, working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for on-site provision
• For single parents/ carers, the authorised worker must be working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for on-site provision.
• Children experiencing vulnerability, including:
• children in out-of-home care
• children deemed vulnerable by a government agency, funded family or family violence service, and is assessed as requiring education and care outside the family home
• children identified by a school or early childhood service as vulnerable, including via referral from a government agency, or funded family or family violence service, homeless or youth justice service or mental health or other health service.

If your child requires on-site supervision from Monday 31st –Thursday 3 June, please fill out and return the on-site supervision form by 5pm Friday 28 May– so we can complete the screening process and staffing can be put in place.
The majority of our staff will be working from home.
We will advise families of any further updates as we receive them.

PLAYGROUND UPDATE
It’s full steam ahead with our Inclusive Playground build. Pathways are formed, landscaping is in and we await the delivery of the new climbing equipment! So exciting!

          




National Reconciliation Week is held each year from 27 May to 3 June.  These dates recognise two milestones in the reconciliation journey: 27 May 1967 - the 1967 referendum that gave the Australian Government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognise them in the Census. 3 June 1992-the Australian High Court delivered the Mabo decision, leading to the legal recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of lands. This decision paved the way for Native Title.
National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and explore how each of us can contribute towards achieving reconciliation in Australia. 


2022 ENROLMENTS ARE NOW OPEN


CPS Siblings are you all enrolled?
We are currently taking enrolments for our Foundation/Prep classes for 2022.
If our current families or neighbours have not enrolled please contact the office for enrolment forms or access them via our website.

2020 YEAR 6 REUNION AND VISIT
What a fabulous afternoon we had on Tuesday as we held the CPS traditional ‘Welcome Back BBQ’ for our ex-year 6 students. It was fantastic to see this wonderful group re-connect and share their new experiences of secondary school. What a great group of young people.

     

     

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May

27^th

National Reconciliation Week 2021

31^st

Staff First Aid Training (postponed)

June

1^st

Division Cross Country (postponed)

4^th

Senior School Winter Lightning Premiership (to be advised)

7^th

Curriculum Day – no students at school

9th

Year 5 and 6 First Peoples' Excusion to Melbourne Museum

14th

Queen's birthday - public holiday

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Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) applications close on 23rd June 2021

School camps provide children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors. Excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how the world works while sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership.  All are a part of a healthy curriculum.
CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
 
The annual CSEF amount per student is $125 for primary school students.

Please read the information and application form on the Compass notification. You will need to supply a copy of your concession card to the office with your completed application form, either in person or email the school at chelsea.ps@education.vic.gov.au.

If you have any questions, please contact Ledam in the office.

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Athletics Carnival:
What an amazing day the Athletics Carnival was! The Year 1’s and 2’s had such a great time doing the long jump, sack race, 100m sprint, hurdles, javelin and a fan favourite, the chicken toss! We had such beautiful weather and it was awesome to see everyone dressed up in their house colours. The day was all about participation and having a go and the junior school did such a great job at representing what having a go looks like. It was lovely to see the great sportsmanship and support from all of the students. Well done to all!
     

Swimming:
The students are happy to be in the water as swimming has commenced this week. There are eight sessions in total with the last swimming session finishing on Friday 4^th of June. Thank you to all of the parents who have volunteered to help out- we couldn’t do it without you!

Literacy:
In writing at the moment, we have been looking at different text types. We have done a lot of work on the structure of a narrative and last week all of the student wrote their own stories. It was wonderful reading some of the ideas the students had and how creative they are. We have also focused on retell and this week we have started exploring information reports.

Numeracy:
In Year 1 we have been exploring different addition strategies with one-digit numbers such as making ten to add. We are now moving on to the addition strategies we can use when adding two-digit numbers. We have also been exploring measurement and capacity. We had a wonderful lesson where the students got a chance to measure with sand and we explored terms such as full, half full, half empty and empty. We posed the question to the students: is half full the same as half empty?
In Year 2 we have been focusing on division and multiplication strategies. We have also looked at the features of 3D shapes and explored measuring the areas and perimeters of 2D shapes. We will be starting to look at fractions in the next couple of weeks.

Other:
We have a curriculum day coming up on the 7^th of June and then the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on the 14^th June. Parent Teacher Interviews will be on the 21^st of June and the last day of school is the 25^th of June with a 2:30pm dismissal.

From the Junior Team, Maddie, Wendy and Chris.

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Thankfully the last few weeks have brought happiness and good times to the senior school – as apparent in these photos! This has filled our buckets and hopefully given students enough of the good stuff to take the next lockdown in their stride. Mrs Whiteside, Mr Pipella, Miss Ebbott and Miss Lawrence will be available via Google Classroom throughout the lockdown, supported by our wonderful Aides. We will communicate what is happening each day via Class Dojo and be on hand to answer questions from both students and families.
All we ask is for you to all look after each other and yourselves. Get enough sleep and exercise, fuel yourself with tasty, fresh and healthy food and remember ‘We’re all in this together!’
     

     

    


      

     

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On Friday 14 May our challenge was to use these five words in our writing. They could be used anywhere and in any order.

The words were:

• biscuit
• autumn
• unexpectedly
• curious
• ladybug

Congratulations to these winners:

The Autumn sunlight shone through my window as a curious smell filled my bedroom. I jumped up and got dressed while listening to the sound of trumpets in the distance. Running into the kitchen I see my mother rolling dough into a biscuit shape and I eagerly join her in cooking crunchy Anzac cookies. Placing the second batch in the oven, I turn around to pick up a cookie when, unexpectedly, a ladybug crawls onto the plate. “Mother…” I whisper, “it’s a ladybug.” I carefully pick it up and let it crawl on my hand “Maybe dad sent it to tell us he was safe on the battlefield?”

By Matilda and Pearl – 6E

 

On a lovely Autumn day, a very kind lady called Ricarda was preparing biscuits for year 5 at CPS. She was making the icing when unexpectedly she realized that she didn’t have enough ladybugs. She was really curious where to get more, she took out her iPad and started researching for more ladybugs. She finally found some ladybugs after half an hour. The next day, she drove to the shop and bought the ladybugs. After, she drove to CPS and was all ready to teach the year fives how to decorate. She could see the huge smiles on the children faces. Thank you Ricarda. 😊

By Liam G and Richard – 5W

 

This is a tale

Of an unexpectedly curious ladybug.

One day, in the pelting hail,

She went to get her coffee mug.

The autumn wind blew as ladybug

Dipped her biscuit into the cup.

When along came a purple,

Cute and gentle seal pup.

“Oh seal”, said bug in admiration,

Gazing at seal with glee

“Would you mind to come to my house

So you can live with me?”. “Alas”, cried seal “on land I can’t stay

For I fear I’ll dry out in the sun”.

“I see”, said bug “But I’m not sad

We can still have fun! I’ll go to the beach.”

“Oh yes!” cried seal.

“That’s an awesome idea, your best one!”.

By Declan – 6L

 

“The show will start in three minutes” the speaker yelled. Angela felt the autumn breeze on her face as she entered the studio. “Hi, my name is…” but before she could say anything more she was interrupted. “Hello, take a seat” a man with a mouth full of biscuit said. Angela was curious to get the game started… that was until it went on for hours. Finally, the last question: “Who is the wisest?” asked the speaker. “Is it A. Miss Ebbott, B. Mr Pipella or C. Mrs Whiteside?” Sweating like a hot ladybug, Angela hit the buzzer! “A. It’s A” Golden tickets flew from the sky and everyone cheered.

Keira – 6E

 

Plop! Alice’s milky biscuit unexpectedly fell into her warm hot chocolate as a huge gust of chilly wind opened the creaky windows in her small kitchen. The autumn air flew in a little red ladybug along with some colorful leaves. “Why hello there miss ladybug!” Alice said. “Why you must be cold! Here, come on inside!” Alice gently let the ladybug crawl onto her hand because she is very kind. The ladybug was very curious of this big room because it was not like her small shrub in Alice’s garden. The happy ladybug flew around and became Alice’s new companion!

By Lilli - 6E

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Prep:
Our preps have been singing Korean greetings and vowel songs every Korean lesson. They also learned new words, vocabulary with vowel sounds. They love to learn Korean by singing! Last week, our students started to learn numbers from 1 to 10.

     

Year 1:
Year 1s have been learning face and body parts. They enjoyed matching words with pictures. Most of all, they love to pronounce the word, hair in Korean.
Hair in Korean is meo-ri-ka-rak.



Year 2:
Year 2s learned seasons, days of the week, and months of the year. They used their understanding, thinking skills, and creative skills to create a calendar for the class!

     

Year 3 & 4:
Year 3 and 4s have been practising self-introduction in Korean. They learned how we need to speak in a formal form to elders by adding -ìš” (yo) at the end.
For example,
안녕하세요 An- nyeong- ha- sae- yo (formal)
안녕 An- nyeong (informal/casual)

     

Year 5:
Our Year 5s learned Korean Parent's Day, where Korean celebrates every 8th of May. On this day, Korean give carnations to parents and elders. With patience, our year 5s made lovely carnations with origami.

     

Year 6:
Year 6s learned about Korean independence activists and how they have sacrificed for the Korean independence movement. Students had to research about the activist and present their findings to the class.

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