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Team Vic Girls Cricket Trials
A big congratulations to Jasmine from SED who was selected as an emergency for the Victorian Girls Cricket Team. The team will be heading to Darwin later in the year. This is a really big achievement to be recognised out of 101 girls who trialled and only 13 were selected. Well done Jasmine!
A ‘wheely’ great day
Wow! What an amazing turnout we had for National Ride2School Day last Friday. It was a lovely morning to be outdoors and active. Thank you for supporting active travel and helping to encourage healthy habits for our future. We had about 400 students participate in this wonderful event, which is about 100 more than last year, great effort everyone!
Senior Gala Day #2
Unfortunately, due to the weather on Monday, the tough decision from District was made to cancel Senior Gala Day #2. Mr Lewis and the Senior team have been busy trying to reschedule some play-offs for the CHPS teams that have scored the highest points and ranked in the top 2 from Senior Gala Day #1. We are hopeful these play-offs will go ahead tomorrow for the various sports, and we wish all the teams the best of luck as this will determine who progresses on to Division.
Term 2 - Middle and Senior House Cross Country
Date: Monday 1st May (week 2)
Dress code: House Colours, runners & spare socks
Time: 9:10am - 11:30am
Courses:
10 years and under (2km run around CHPS and Yarrunga)
11, 12 and 13 years (3km run around CHPS and Yarrunga)
*please note: students run in the age group according to the age they have turned OR will be turning this year
Event Schedule: guide only
Age Group | Distance |
| Race time approx |
| 12/13 Boys | 3000m | 9:20am | |
| 12/13 Girls | 3000m | 9:40am | |
| 11-year Boys | 3000m | 10:00am | |
| 11-year Girls | 3000m | 10:20am | |
| 10 & under Boys | 2000m | 10:40am | |
| 10 & under Girls | 2000m | 11:00am |
Students will have exposure to the course in their PE lesson prior to the event.
Students who finish in the top 10 - 14 will be nominated to join our training squad in preparation for District Cross Country.
Parent Helpers: In order for this event to occur, we require the assistance of parents/carers with a Working With Children's Check to assist for the morning. If you are available and would like to help out, please email laura.yorke@education.vic.gov.au
We greatly appreciate your support. Duties can include, standing on a check point and directing students the correct way, handing out finishing tags, lining up students in place order for the results table, handing out ribbons etc.
It is expected that all students in Years 3-6 participate in this event, as it is part of the CHPS PE program. There is no cost for this event.
Laura Yorke & Rob Lewis - PE/Sport
CHPS 2022 RESOURCE REPORT
At the end of 2022 the Year 6 School Leaders worked with Cindy McFarlane from the Resource Smart Schools network and Mr Crook to do an energy audit of different rooms in the school. The 2023 leaders Mia, Miranda, Christopher and Cooper, and the 2022 leaders Dougal, Jack, Chloe and Darby found that at CHPS we do really well when it comes to our energy use.
We use energy-efficient fluorescent lights and timers to turn off charging trolleys for the laptops. There are reminders above the light switches to turn off the lights, you are less likely to get eaten by a T-Rex! Most of our classrooms have the heating and cooling set to the most efficient temperatures and our ceiling fans have summer and winter settings to do the best job of circulating the air.
There is more we think we could do and we wrote down our suggestions and observations for Mr Crook to think about.
Mia & Cooper. Student Leaders for Sustainability
Sustainability Victoria
As a part of RSS accreditation the school's resource data is entered and compiled each year. At the end of 2022 we are happy to share this information with our school community.
You can see that here at Croydon Hills we are below the State benchmarks for a Primary School and reduced almost all of our resource usage.
What this means is that since we started in 2015 we have reduced our carbon emissions by 425 tonnes, equal to 283 cars; saved enough electricity to power 70 houses; reduced our water use by 2 Olympic swimming pools and cut our gas use by about 63%.
This translates to thousands of dollars in savings that the school can direct to the education, support and growth of our students.
Resource Type | StateBenchmark | 2015 usage per student | 2022 Total usage | Usage per student. | Below benchmark |
| Biodiversity | >75 | 40 | 60 | - |
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| Electricity | 250kWh | 397 kWh | 181,356 kWh | 240 kWh | Yes |
| Gas | - | 633 MJ | 178,503 MJ | 236 MJ |
|
| Water | 4 kL | 3.12 kL | 1519 kL | 2 kL | Yes |
| Landfill | 0.3 m3 | 0.34 m3 | 221 m3 | 0.29 m3 | Yes |
| Recycling | - | 0.24 m3 | 112 m3 | 0.15 m3 |
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Well done to staff and students.
Mr Crook - Science and Sustainability
Smile Squad is coming to CHPS
The Smile Squad team from EACH are coming to our school from 1st May 2023.
Smile Squad is the Victorian Government free school dental program.
This means all students can get a free dental check-up, preventive services, and treatment at school.
How to access free dental care
We need your consent before we can provide services. Consent is usually provided by a parent or guardian.
Sign up to Smile Squad at: https://bit.ly/smilesquadvic
OR use the below QR code:
Please complete and submit the consent form, this will be sent directly to EACH.
Dress Up for the Royal Children's Hospital
Dress up in your favourite rainbow colours for the last day of term, bring a gold coin donation and the Junior School Council will send it to the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal to help sick kids.
