BUILDING UPDATE
Exciting news! Next week we hope to share our final designs of our new Art, Music and multipurpose rooms, toilets and kitchen areas. The design is absolutely fantastic and will be an exciting addition to our school environment.

WHAT’S COMING UP IN THE NEXT THREE WEEKS?
With only three weeks to go until the end of term…..we have many exciting events happening! These include Fathers and Special Friends Breakfast, RUOK? Day, 3-6 Hawthorn FC. Clinic and Footy Colours Day on the last day of term. (Go Saints!)

Our long awaited highlight will be …………..

……..THE PRODUCTION-WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CHELSEA’S CHALICE?
It’s only 19 more sleeps until our production begins, and there is a great buzz around the school!

Mr Rundell and his production team have been working tirelessly to produce this whiz bang event.

Our sneak peek of many of the acts shows what an exciting afternoon and evening of entertainment is in store for us.

The photo booth will be in full swing on Monday and Tuesday next week, where Mr Pipella and team will snap some amazing photos of our students. 

African animals, robots, flower children, sportspeople and Egyptian pharaohs will steal the show.

It’s sure to be a highlight of the Chelsea calendar!

FUNTIME LUNCHTIME CLUBS
What fun lunchtimes are CPS! So many options for students to select from-Yoga, drawing, computers, book sharing, Thirsty Thursday, dance, sewing, games and Discovery Play. Garden Time on Mondays has shown that Spring has nearly sprung! Daffodils flowering, veggies sprouting and herbs flourishing.

Thank you to our teachers and parents for their time to making this great lunchtime opportunities happen.

BOOK WEEK
What a fabulous week we’ve had celebrating Book Week. Our guest author-Nicki Greenburg’s visit last week and fantastic writing and art activities were highlights throughout the week. Our classes have spent time sharing the Book Week winning books and continuing to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge. (We’re nearly there!)

Our Dress up parade today saw our school filled with characters including-Things, Where’s Wallys, witches, princesses, Superheroes, Belles, fairies, Harry Potters, Hermiones,  onesie characters and a few very strange looking teachers!

Thank you to everyone for their amazing efforts dressing up and to our families for coming along and joining in the fun.

 2023 CLASSES
It would be helpful if any family intending to leave our school community in 2023 due to relocation or another reason, advises us as soon as possible. A phone call to the office or an email to the school would be most appreciated. This information is very important for future planning purposes for class structures and school staffing for 2023.

PREP ENROLMENTS
While we believe we have most of our sibling enrolments for 2023, if you are a current family of Chelsea PS and have a child commencing school next year, please complete the enrolment process as soon as possible, as we are now progressing towards our comprehensive transition to school program. 

PARENT OPINION SURVEY
Many families will receive an email with information regarding our Parent Opinion Survey. This annual survey is administered by the Department of Education and provides us with wonderful insight as to the experiences of you, our parents and carers, of your child’s education, quality of teaching and learning, school environment and more. We encourage you to take the time to complete it as the data is greatly valued and certainly influences our decision-making based on what it tells us we need to keep doing and what we need to focus more intently on or do differently. Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete it.

RAT TESTS
Student RAT tests will be sent home today.

SMILE SQUAD DENTAL PACKS
Smile Squad is a Victorian Government program that offers free dental care to all Victorian government school students. 

The friendly Smile Squad dental team visits schools to provide a free annual dental health examination and free follow-up treatment as needed.

Smile Squad is free for all students at Victorian government schools. This program does not include cosmetic treatment.

Smile Squad will visit Chelsea PS in term 1 2023. In the meantime, a dental pack will be sent home today.

 

 

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2nd September
Fathers Day Breakfast - under the gazebo from 7.45am to 8.45am
District Athletics @ Duncan McKinnon

7th September
Health and PE Day
Hawks for All Program - Blind and Wheelchair AFL - Yr 4-6

8th September
RUOK? Day

9th September
DISCO Evening
Foundation-Yr 3 @ 4.30pm-5.30pm
Yr4-Yr6 @ 5.45pm-6.45pm

12th September
Production Rehersal - no makeup, no costume

15th September
School Production @ Chelsea Town Hall
Matinee @ 12noon
Evening @ 6.30pm

16th September
Footy Colours Day
10am Parade

End of Term
Student dismissal @ 2.30pm

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On Friday 19^th August the preps went to the Big Goose. They were greeted by gaggles of geese and the Billy Goat Gruff. Shortly after some snacks were inhaled, preps were split into their groups and the adventures began!

A pirate playground, the kelpie dog show and feeding baby kangaroos were certainly the highlights but we also learnt about life on a farm, safe handling of reptiles and guinea pigs and various eggs.

We walked the entire day and laughed along the way. It was an incredible experience and a memorable day to say the least – a few preps shut their eyes on the bus ride home and then we called it a day. Thank you to the parent volunteers that assisted us on this program. Your help is always appreciated.

Justine, Bianca and Matthew.

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We can’t believe it is nearing the end of term three! What a jam-packed term it has been.

To celebrate book week, we had author Nicki Greenberg join us for our author visit last week. What can’t she do?!! Nicki is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist, author and illustrator.
We also learnt that she crochet’s and was a lawyer for 10 years prior to this. Nicki took us through the process of writing and illustrating ‘I’m Fabulous Crab’ which included meticulous planning and materials to create such a well thought out children’s book.
Students got to decorate some of their very own ‘Fabulous Crabs’ in the classroom!




In other news, the junior school and CPS are very lucky to have Wendy Stansfield’s therapy dog Tilly join us part-time (when she’s not snoozing and chasing balls). Tilly blends right in and has been officially accredited and certified, we think this is pretty PAWSOME.


In literacy, the junior school have been immersing themselves with various types of poems. So far, we have learnt about couplets, Limerick’s and Haiku.

We look forward to seeing everyone’s book week and production costumes!

Important dates coming up:

• Production photo day Monday 29^th of August (Costumes and face paint finalised)
• Father’s Day Breakfast 2^nd of September
• Production Thursday 15^th of September
• End of Term Friday 16^th September (early finish)

 

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Literacy
This term in literacy we have enjoyed our class novel, ‘Matilda’. This book contained wonderful examples of figurative language and visualisation. We have seen some great examples of these literary in the children’s’ work. Our writing this term has been information reports. We have utilised our ICT resources and the children are creating a PowerPoint on an animal of their choice. The task involves research and the technical construction of an entertaining and visually appealing presentation.

Numeracy
Term 3 has seen the children tackle fractions, decimals and percentages, in parallel with measurement. There was wonderful growth across the entire cohort. Currently our focus is on Geometric shapes and transformation. We have some hands on 3D creating activities coming up.

Inquiry
Our science focus in inquiry has seen the middle school students engage with biological science, including the classification and lifecycle of animals.

Our Twisted Science excursion gave a chance for the kids to engage with physical and chemical science activities. It was an awesome day out.

Production
All are busy compiling costumes and props for their grade act. The kids are polishing up their performance with regular rehearsal in Music class.

Camp
Our up and coming Camp Rumbug is set in the foothills of the Strzelecki ranges. Steep hills and magical rainforest create an adventure like nowhere else. At night we will enjoy the stars around the campfire, giving us a feeling that we a miles away from anywhere. Most of the adventure activities are set into the cool temperate rainforest that characterises the Rumbug experience.

Regards

Middle school team.

 

 

 

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Book Week with the senior school.  Can you guess who we are?

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It’s that time of the year, which we are bringing back the Chelsea School Production! It’s in full force and so many parts are moving to make this happen. So much we wish to share and present, but we don’t want to spoil all the surprises that Chelsea and the community have been working on.

This year’s concert will be ‘Where in the World is Chelsea’s Chalice’, an original story which follows two detectives attempting to track down the world-renowned thief: Wiley Weasel! This conniving criminal has stolen Chelsea Primary School’s precious chalice. It’s up to the detectives to travel the world to restore it to their original place and apprehend the criminal! Many hijinks and musical numbers will occur on their journey for your viewing pleasure.

So many staff, parents and people in the community have been working hard on making the costumes and props look phenomenal, students have been rehearsing their dances and singing, with the Grade 6s also acting! Coming up is our fantastic photoshoots on the 29^th and 30^th of August with our very own Mr. Pipella, so be sure to check Dojo and updates from your classroom teachers regarding this. Tickets are up and available for purchasing to see the amazing show on the 15^th of September, both Matinee at 12:00 and Evening show at 6:30pm at Chelsea Hall. They are going quick so be sure to grab them while there’s still some left, you can use this link if you are interested:https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=949397&

All of this wouldn’t have been possible with everyone’s effort. The students are pumped and so excited to bring back the magic after so many years. Here is just a glimpse of some of the work and effort they’ve put in. Hope to see you there!

Lachlan Rundell
Performing Arts Teacher

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