Principal's Message
Dear Parents and Carers
The 2019 Fair is just around the corner - SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER. Now is time to send in your silent auction donations, sign up to volunteer on your class stall, buy your wristbands and keep your fingers crossed for warm weather!
The money raised at this year's Fair will predominantly be allocated to garden improvements around the school. We are looking at how to make our gardens more robust to the hustle and bustle of school life and visually pleasing when you enter the school grounds. Over the summer holidays, we will install the auxiliary door in the MPR, a commitment made with 2018 Fair funds. The Prep Courtyard upgrade (2017 fair funding) is on track to be completed during this period.
The Fair is our biggest fundraiser for the year and we look forward to it being another huge success
The Kaye Keane Writing Award
In memory of Kaye Keane, a much-loved teacher who we lost in 2016, we invite 2019 Grade 6 students to enter the annual Kaye Keane Writing Award. Kaye was passionate about Literacy, with a particular emphasis on writing. She had the ability to instill a love of writing in even the most reluctant of writers.
The writing piece must be a narrative and have themes and content related to one or more of the four school values (critical and creative thinking, kindness and empathy, gratitude and inclusiveness).
The narrative will be judged by the CHPS English Team.
The winner will receive a personally engraved pen, certificate and their name engraved on the Kaye Keane Writing Award Plaque that is displayed outside the school office. All entries will be compiled into a book to commemorate this award.
Entries must be submitted by 25th November to the classroom teacher and they will be passed on to the English Team. The winner of the award will be announced at the Grade 6 Graduation Ceremony (Tuesday 17th December).
Kaye Keane Writing Award Criteria
The word limit: 1000 words.
Due date: Monday the 25th of November
The narrative will be judged based on:
1. Style and language
2. Creativity
3. Story line and plot
4. Structure
5. Character development
6. Cohesiveness
7. Originality
SPEAKING IN FRONT OF YOUR CHILDREN
We often think our children are too young to understand our adult conversations. However, parents are often shocked by what their children have overhead and repeat to others. As soon as children can talk, they are listening to what adults around them have to say.
Children can become upset and confused by overheard adult conversations. But they may not tell you what they heard - until you become aware that they have repeated it to someone else.
In the school setting, we ask that you are mindful about what you say in front of (or to) your children about other children, families or even the class teacher. Reports of children telling other students what their parent may think of that child, another child or even the family, unfortunately, are not uncommon. We ask that all families are respectful of the needs of all students in our school.