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Newsletter Number 3715th December 2014

Dear Parents, Students and Friends of Cheltenham Primary School

Our annual Carols Evening on Monday night this week was well attended. It was lovely to see so many families enjoy a relaxed evening on our Synthi-Grass, while our children entertained us with traditional and modern Christmas songs.

Last week’s Graduation was another major highlight. Our Year 6 students, teachers, parents and extended family came together at Sandringham Secondary College, to mark the milestone of the end of Primary Schooling for 48 children. An interlude of singing and instrumental pieces, among speeches by our School Captains; Meaghan and Matthew, School Council President; Geoff Geist, myself and Year 6 Teachers; Arthur Chronopoulos and Sonia Garbon-Uhe, culminated with the presentation of 11 prestigious Awards to students for outstanding achievement in various areas. Congratulations to the recipients, who are listed in this Orchid.

I would like to wish all our family as Merry Christmas and hope that you take the opportunity to enjoy family and friends over the summer holiday break.

I look forward to another year of support from parents and the school community which ensures Cheltenham Primary School continues to deliver outstanding educational outcomes for all students.

“Educating children to believe in their potential”

Yours sincerely,

Margaret McIntoshPrincipalCANTEEN NEWSThe Kitchen Classroom is in need of new aprons. If there is a parent who is a whiz at sewing and would love to volunteer their services to make 30 aprons (material will be provided), please email the school with your contact details to [email protected]

Jennifer LeasonCanteen Manager

BOOK CLUBAll orders were distributed to the children last week. Thank you for your support throughout the year. Your purchases

have resulted in just over $1000 in “Scholastic Rewards” going towards resources for our Library!

As my family will be living overseas for next year, I will no longer be facilitating book clubs at CPS.

With best wishes to all for a happy and safe holiday season.

Judy DaviesBook Club Coordinator

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SRC UPDATEA HUGE thank you to everyone who wore their casual clothes and donated a gold coin towards The Daniel Morcombe Foundation, in support of Rock Out in Red. We raised a huge $440.40 which has been donated to this very worthy cause. Thank you once again for all of your support for the SRC’s events throughout the year. We have been able to helps lots of worthy causes thanks to the generosity of the CPS community. We look forward to more fun filled events in 2015!

Miss Ellen HollowoodOn behalf of the SRC

2014 PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGEThank you to the CPS community for your involvement in the PRC this year. Since the program began in 2005, nearly two million students have read an incredible 34 million books. Placed end to end, that’s enough books to stretch from Melbourne to Sydney 10 times! An Honour Roll listing the names of children who met the 2014 Challenge is now available online at www.education.vic.gov.au/about/prc/Pages/honourroll.aspx?Redirect=1 View the Honour Roll and watch a special video with ABC3 hosts James Elmer and Tim Matthews created to recognise their achievements!

Happy reading!

Miranda Brett

PRC Coordinator

Important dates for your diary:

DECEMBERFriday, 19th LAST DAY TERM 4

–1.30PM DISMISSAL

2015JANUARYThursday, 29th First Day Term 1 2015

Prep – Half DayFriday, 30th Prep – Half Day

FEBRUARYTuesday, 3rd PTFA 10.30am in Hall

Are proud sponsors of our YCDI Program Please support them with your custom

TERM DATES 2015Term 1- 29th January to 27th March

Term 2 - 13th April to 26th JuneTerm 3 - 13th July to 18th September

Term 4 - 5th October to 18th December

Congratulations to Marli H-H our YCDI winner for November presented by Mr Peter Cutting.

NEW SHOESA reminder to parents over the school holidays when purchasing footwear for school, to please not support the purchase of fluorescent type shoes. Whilst our uniform policy is flexible about the type of shoes worn, as with hair, extreme colours and styles are not appropriate. We encourage all our students and their families to take pride in wearing the Cheltenham Primary School Uniform. We will be stepping up vigilance and follow up with warning/infringement notices for breeches. We appreciate your support in this matter.

REPORTSEnd of Year reports have been distributed and reports of those children not in attendance have been posted. Thank you to the teachers who prepared reports that require many, many hours of work providing parents with comprehensive information about student progress. Special thanks to my Assistant Principal, Bronwyn Morgan, who coordinated this complex task, supported also by our Technician, Haidong Lu.

CAROLS AND STAGINGOur ‘Best Ever’ Carols evening can be attributed to the generous donation of time and equipment given by the Gellatly family, Michelle and Linton. Their business, SCENE

CHANGE, has again, kindly supported us by setting up a very professional stage and sound system that elevated the children – physically and in voice, to the huge crowd of family and friends. Cheltenham Primary School are happy to recommend Scene Change for any upcoming events you may be planning at your work place. Linton can be contacted on 9939 4434.

GRADUATION THANK YOU’STo our Year 6 Teachers Arthur Chronopoulos, Sonia Gabron-Uhe, who together with Helen Griffiths, prepared the students for a wonderful, memorable evening.

To the Year 5 parents who put on a beautiful luncheon for Year 6 students and teachers in the school hall led by Michele Shepard and Lisa Bell. We are truly gratefully for this annual tradition, it looked fabulous and the Year 6 students and parents appreciated the efforts.

To Lottie Maroney for the hours of work facilitating the Graduation Awards.

Carly Toister and Steven Hogan for their technical support. To Ken Spencer and Helen Griffiths for musical accompaniment.

Sandringham College for the use of their venue.

THANK YOU LADIESOver the past few weeks, thousands of dollars in coin collections from the PTFA’s Election Day Sausage Sizzle, Second-hand Uniform Sale, and tonight’s Xmas Carols Raffle, as well as the Grade 5 & 6 Homeless Sleepover

and Cupcake Stall, have been counted, bagged, banked and distributed to charities. A very special thank you to our Office ladies Jezz, Robyn and Lottie, who have graciously managed this in their already busy Term 4 workload.

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 WinnerPA Jack WPB Ari MPC Toby P01A Abby K01B Charlotte S01C Alanah W02A Morgan G02B Poppy P3/4A Olivia M3/4C Leon C3/4D Sienna S

05A 5A05B Klaas M05C Sam A06A Jemma J06B Brian E

School Sport Everyone!Mathletics Lulu H, Arya K & Yigit Y

SCHOOL CAPTAIN SPEECH – Meaghan Sheehan & Matthew Nibbs

Meaghan: Good evening, Matthew and I would like to welcome our Principal, Mrs. McIntosh, our Assistant Principal, Ms. Morgan, our School Council President, Geoff Geist, distinguished guests, teachers, students, friends and families to Year 6 Graduation.

Matthew: On behalf of Year 6 we would like to say that we have enjoyed all our education at Cheltenham Primary School. For many of us it has been a seven year experience. We are very sad to leave. But our time has come to go off to secondary school where even though we will make new friends and memories, we will always treasure the memories and the special moments we have had at Cheltenham Primary.

Meaghan: For many of us the highlights of this year have been performing at our production, ‘Good Evening And Welcome To Television And All That Jazz’. We also had an amazing time at Roses Gap Camp, with the Year 5s. We won’t forget the wonderful moments shared with our teachers and friends at Cheltenham.

Matthew: Some of the exciting changes we have seen at Cheltenham have included: Our BER building The introduction of iPads and other technologies like Interactive Whiteboards and

notebooks Science classroom New playgrounds Choice of different languages Our chickens!

Meaghan: Next year our school will be 160 years old. We cannot help wondering what the school would be like if we were to come back in another 7 years when some of us will be 18 or 19. How will CPS continue to grow and change?

Matthew: At this time we would like to thank our amazing teachers from Prep to Year 6 and our specialist teachers who have always been there for us, and have organized everything for us. They definitely deserve a round of applause.We would also like to thank the school for giving us the privilege of being your 2014 School Captains.

Meaghan: Finally, we’d like to thank you, our parents and families, for supporting us and be-ing here tonight. Please enjoy yourselves and have an exciting and memorable night in celeb-ration of the graduate class of 2014. Thank you.

YEAR 6 GRADUATION EVENINGMONDAY, 8 TH DECEMBER

Last Monday evening, the Grade 6 students participated in their Graduation Ceremony, held at the Sandringham College DramaWorks Theatre in Sandringham. This very special evening provided the opportunity for them to reflect with family and friends, and share the many milestones and achievements of their primary years. This year our proud tradition of awards and certificates honoured the following students:

Meeres Medals Bendigo Bank Cheltenham – This award is given to two students who have achieved academic excellence and who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to achieving at the highest level in academic performance. This award carries the title of Dux of the School:

Felicity Barrow and Richard Jiang

The Clark Family Award – This award is given to two students who have achieved a consistently high level of academic achievement and demonstrated a positive attitude towards learning. This scholarship is to encourage further study:

Meaghan Sheehan and Samuel Thiedeman

The Cullen Citizenship Award - This award is given to two students who participated enthusiastically and responsibly in all facets of school life:

Holly Guthrie and Matthew Nibbs

The Carter Family Encouragement Award - This award is given to a student who tries their best at all times and has shown consistent improvement in their school work:

Mikaela Modra

Vawdrey Scholarship - Awarded to a student who has achieved a high level of excellence in mathematics and has the ability to successfully pursue mathematics at a higher level:

Donald Li

Cheltenham Rotary YCDI Award – Awarded to the students who has consistently demonstrated the values of the YCDI Program throughout the year and in all facets of school life:

Samantha Ellis and Billy Doran

Cheltenham Pharmacy First Value Award - These scholarships are awarded to two students who have consistently demonstrated to the school community sound knowledge and understanding of value education and citizenship:

Ella McGlashan and Dale Haycroft

Mitchell Family Performing Arts Award - Has demonstrated a strong commitment to the Cheltenham primary School Arts Program. This scholarship is provided to encourage further study in the area of performing Arts:

Ruby De Graves and Zac Duckett

Ray White Real Estate (Cheltenham) Sports Awards - These awards are given to two students who have achieved a high level of success in the school sporting program, participated successfully in a range of sports and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship:

Madeline Geist and Jack Roberts

Cheltenham Primary School Visual Art Award – This award is given to a student who has consistently demonstrated the ability to experiment with ideas, manipulate art elements and produce art works of an innovative and creative standard:

Emily Poulter

Cheltenham Primary School Reading Award - This award is given to a student who consistently demonstrated significant interest in literature has sought out opportunities to read and has fully embraced the potential of the written word in many forms. This student has established a keen passion for reading throughout their time at Cheltenham Primary School and has encouraged others to gain an appreciation for literature through obvious enjoyment:

Charlotte Bryan

At our final assembly on Friday, 19th December, our School Captains, Meaghan Sheehan and Matthew Nibbs will address the school for the final time. We will also farewell our outgoing Grade Six students and announce our leadership Captains for 2015. Early next year, a badge presentation assembly will be held to present these young leaders with their badges.

The staff at Cheltenham Pharmacy First wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season and we look forward to providing

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