CHRIST CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE Issue No. 20 15 July 2016

FORTHCOMING DATES:- Tuesday 19 July Year 5-6 Swimming

9.00am-2.30pm - Division Football Championships (selected students) Wednesday 20 July 9.00am-2.30pm - Girls Soccer Division Championships (selected students) Thursday 21 July Year 4 Swimming

Dear Parents and Friends, A warm welcome back to all parents, friends and students to what will be a busy yet highly rewarding Term 3. I hope that you all had a wonderful extended break and some precious time together as a family. The children all seem very happy to be back with us despite the gloomy weather and it has been a treat to see them reconnect with their friends and teachers in such a positive way. This term is a particularly busy one for our Music students and teachers with the Music Alive and Hunter Fry events in early August followed by the School Concert later in September. We will provide updates about these events throughout the term and encourage you to note the dates in your diary. A reminder that the date for the musical performance of The Lion King has changed and will now be held on Wednesday 14 September at Xavier College in Kew at 7.30pm. Welcome to New Families I would like to welcome some new students to the School this term – Edward Chen, Matilda Allen and Aryav Shah have all started in K3, Albert Eggleston, Henry Hall, Selena and Bryan Wang and Lucas Hauser have all entered K4 and Daisy Hall has started in Prep. We look forward to catching up with you and your families throughout the term. Swimming Update Years 4, 5 and 6 commenced their swimming program this week at Klim Swim in Richmond. We have decided that sports uniform may be worn to and from school on swimming days as it makes it much easier when getting changed. Having said that, we need to ensure that student’s sports uniforms are neat, clean and most importantly adequately warm to venture to and from the pool. Year 6 hoodies, sports jackets and rugby tops are perfect for this time of year. Collection Forms Next week your child will come home with a Collection Form for you to complete and return to school. The purpose of this form is to provide us with the general school collection pattern for your child/family, particularly for those children who are travelling on public transport. Please return these to your child’s classroom teacher over the next week or so.

Child Safe Standards Some of you may be aware that Ministerial Order 870 (which contains new Child Safe Standards) will come into effect on 1 August 2016. This Order affects all parties that have contact with children and is designed to support cultural change within organisations to protect children from harm. The Order contains seven standards that organisations such as schools must address. The link below provides details of the Order together with some useful information about these standards which you may find of interest. Over the next few months, you will hear more from us about how the School plans to address and implement various aspects of these standards. Many of the policies that we currently have in place are already meeting or exceeding the requirements however this is a good opportunity to review and refine these. I look forward to sharing further details with you throughout the term. (http://www.vrqa.vic.gov.au/childsafe/Pages/default.html) Class Captains Congratulations to the class captains for Term 3.

2T Bella Park

Andy Liu

2B Zara Hirsh

Rex Walsh

2R Gabrielle Sofra

Roscoe Reid

3G Charlize Brown

Jacob Amenta

3N Milla Menegazzo

Hunter Tomeski

3S Lily Raines

Nicholas Miralis

4C Stella Jesudason

Kip Scarborough

4R Alice a’Beckett

Max Gration

4T Ella Dunlop

Freddie Jackson

5L Elle Sankey

Charles Harley

5R Alexandra Jackson

Jamie Dekazos

5W Cara Duffy

Mace Poole

6C Grace Farndon; Olivia Nigido-Scott

Jude Harrington

6H Lily Wertheimer

Gregory Hennessy

6MB Charlotte Myer

Max Sitch

Staff News This term there have been some important changes to our staffing that I am keen to share with you. As you would be aware, Mr AJ leaves us at the end of next week. I am sure that you will agree that Mr AJ has made an invaluable contribution to the introduction of Maths sets across the upper year levels and to the development and management of our extensive extra-curricular program so it is going to take many pairs of shoes to fill his big footprint! Ms Thea Blackler will be working with Mr AJ’s Year 4 and 5 Maths sets for the remainder of the year while also continuing with her classroom teaching role in 2B on Thursday and Friday.

The extra-curricular programs will be managed by Ms Jessica Close and Mrs Louisa Bolton. Louisa will manage the overall organisation of the program while Jessica will help with day to day management and attendance. I would encourage you to contact Louisa or Jessica if you have any queries concerning the extra-curricular programs. Cindy Jackman at Reception will manage the online calendar that can be accessed through Parent Lounge. Our lovely Teacher-Librarian, Elaine Mason, has taken on a new role from this term working 3 days per week teaching ICT. Elaine will also teach the Year 4 Religious Education program in place of Mrs AJ. Elaine has had prior experience in teaching both ICT and RE and is looking forward to integrating her knowledge in these areas into the classroom teaching program. Mrs Shaarn Montgomery will continue to work as the Teacher-Librarian and will be supported by Mrs Jacqui Cleary who has recently returned from a term’s Long Service Leave. Our teachers are a wonderful group of professionals and I am looking forward to another productive and engaging term as we all work to support and inspire your children. I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I look forward to our “heat wave” conditions of 15 degrees next week. Sandra Holland Christ Church Grammar School Scholarship

Christ Church Grammar School will be offering academic scholarships for entry to Year 4 & 5 in 2017. On Saturday 20th August, 2016 the ACER scholarship will be held. This is conducted by the external education provider ACER. The scholarship is for entry into Year 4 or Year 5 in 2017. All students registered from the current Year 3 or Year 4 cohort and any external applicants will sit the Primary assessment. The scholarship will be conducted here at Christ Church. On-line registration is available for parents of children who are currently in Year 3 or in Year 4. Registrations close on 10th August, 2016. The process for registration is by clicking on the following link and following the prompts: http://scholarships.acer.edu.au/intro/853.

Any parents with questions or inquiries should not hesitate to contact Mrs Johann Hudson

johann.hudson@ccgs.vic.edu.au or Mrs Sue Moir sue.moir@ccgsvic.edu.au .

Kinder News Jane Eddy - Head of Early Years Today an ambulance came to kinder. The paramedics did a surprise story and taught us about 000. We all had the chance to go inside the ambulance and sit on the stretcher

Music News

Danielle Arcaro – Music Director Music dates to remember

Hunter Fry Competition entries close on Friday 29th July. The competition is being held on

Wednesday 10th August

Entries for the Miguel L. Cornejo Cello Bursary close on Monday 25th July

The next Music Soiree is on Wednesday 27th and children are invited to come and put their name

Sports News Trent Brownjohn - Head of Physical Education,

Sport & Health House Skipping 2016 At recess and lunch time during Term 2 students in Years 2 - 6 practised tirelessly their house skipping routines for the grand finale – the House Skipping Competition. The competition was held last term. A big thank you to all the students involved, the staff who helped judge and supervise and the House Captains who ensured their house did a terrific on the job. Well done to all involved! The final results are as follows: 1st Yarra, 2nd Barwon, 3rd Murray , 4th Lachlan Sporting Achievements As stated in previous newsletters, if your son or daughter has had a significant sporting achievement outside of school during the year I would love to know about it. Please feel free to email me with the details. My email address is trent.brownjohn@ccgs.vic.edu.au This week we have some Football news. Well done to Angus Barrington who ran out with the Adelaide Football Club last Saturday. His influence helped the Adelaide Crows defeat Carlton at the MCG. What an experience it must have been for Angus and his family. He has done both himself and the school proud.

Congratulations to the Year 2 Christ Church Bullets who won their first premiership Noah Siolis (Year 6) was coach of the boys last year and has handed over the role to Murphy (Year 4) for 2016. The encouragement award was given to Sam Jamieson. Well done to all involved on a terrific season.

House Skipping

Kindergarten’s Ambulance Incursion

Kinder 4In the playground

Welcome back to the new term!

We hope you enjoyed the break, and are ready to get back into school life. After having a fantastic holiday, we are back on board and excited to see familiar faces returning – as well as some new faces.

To help get your family back into the swing of things, here are some tips that you might find handy for easing your children into after school care.

Tips for helping children (and parents) feel comfortable in after school care:

1. Give your child as much advance warning as you can that they’ll be coming to After School Care. 2. Pop into the program with your child to meet our Camp Australia team and find out what kind of

activities children can look forward to. 3. Speak with the Camp Australia Coordinator if your child is nervous, and let us know how your child

felt after their first visit. 4. If there is something in particular your child would like to play when they are in our care, encourage

them to let us know.

Child Information Sheets and Photo Consent Forms:

As a part of ‘house keeping ‘ for the beginning of term, we need to make sure that we have the correct details on your child’s information sheet. Can you please see me as soon as possible, so I can make sure that I have the correct details for your child?

Also, if parents could please fill out a photo consent form so that we will be able to take photos of your child engaged in the program and to share in our reflection journal.

Parents - please don’t forget that you need to inform us when your child will be attending aftercare. This is very important for the happy and safe running of the program. You can do this anytime by logging onto our website (www.campaustralia.com.au) or you can catch me on the mobile 0423 795 219

We hope that you all have a great week.

Christ Church OSHC team

Program Details

To find out more about our program, view fees and to register visit www.campaustralia.com.au