Week 19 of Primary Weekly Correspondence

Here is the following correspondence from Primary Office this week;

Primary Correspondence

• Please be informed that on Friday of our Language Festival Week, the 23rd, to showcase the diversity of languages we celebrate at Chatsworth, students are encouraged to come to school wearing plain white tee-shirts that will be used for writing on and their PE shorts. Students will be writing friendly messages in their mother tongues on their friends'' tee-shirts.

  
  

  Thank you very much for providing the white tee-shirt to be used in the activity.
  
  

Language Festival Week 19 - 23 January 2015

Language Festival Week Schedule

• Please take a few minutes to complete this survey for us  - Parent Survey 

• About Co-Curricular Activities (CCAs):
  We wish to remind you that last Wednesday, on the 14th at 7pm, we closed the Session 2 Online CCAs registration form. Students Confirmation emails will be sent to parents by Friday 23rd January at the latest.
  
  
  About External Curricular Activities (ECAs):
  Please note your have until Tuesday 20th January to register your child-ren in our ECAs. All registrations are done directly with our Providers. All information can be found on our website here.
  
  
  All Session 2 CCAs and ECAs will start on Monday 26th January and end on Friday 13th march 2015.
  
  
  For any further queries, please email me at lhebert@chatsworth.com.sg or Mr. Newberry at rnewberry@chatsworth.com.sg
  
  

• Netball Trials and Training year 5 and 6  starts Tuesdays 3.30 - 4.30pm  

• Year 6 - IBMYP Information Sessions Year 2014-15 (coffee mornings)

Malissa Rahman

Primary Admin

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From the PYP Coordinator

A warm welcome to all our new parents who have joined the school for the start of semester 2 - welcome to Chatsworth! (And welcome back all our existing parents of course!) Our primary school uses the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP). This is a very widely used educational programme around the world in many international schools. It's the first of three programmes from the IB, the others being the Middle Years Programme and then for the final two years of school the Diploma Programme which has world-wide recognition by universities as a high quality qualification for entry into degree programmes. Here at Chatsworth we use all three programmes so you can have the continuity of a high quality IB education.  

You can find some more information on the IB website

The PYP is an inquiry based programme, so if your family background is from a national state school then this will differ somewhat. We put much more emphasis on your child thinking, investigating, questioning and developing as a whole person. We aim to give them a much more international outlook and bringing into the classroom their prior knowledge and experiences, building on this in the units of inquiry they will be inquiring into.

In this blog you will be able to read in more detail about the aspects and components of the Primary Years Programme to gain more of an understanding of Chatsworth and the PYP and how it may differ from your previous educational experiences. Please also have a look at our Parent Cafe calendar here - a series of informal meetings where we will give talks about our school programme and you can have a chance to ask any questions you may have. Look forward to seeing you there!

Alex Inman

Week 18 of Primary Weekly Correspondence

Here is the following correspondence from Primary Office this week;

Primary Correspondence 

• Our next House Day is Friday January 16. We encourage all students to wear their house t-shirts on this day. The JYP event will be Human Rock Paper Scissors. The EYP event will be Simon Says (due to being rained out last month). We look forward to another great House Day!

• Parent Cafes 2014 - 2015

Primary Office(Malissa Rahman)
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Thoughts from the Chatsworth Primary Hallway

Today marks the end of semester one of the 2014-2015 school year.  We have had a great semester with lots of learning in our classrooms and the application of the learning outside the classroom. The learning continued to be fun, exciting and met with enthusiasm by the students throughout the semester.  Today's  performance at the wonderful Christmas Concert was a typical example of this enthusiasm.  We look forward to an exciting semester two as it begins in January 2015.

I wish you all a very happy and safe holiday, and a wonderful start to 2015.  Thank you for your support, and we look forward to a continued partnership in in semester two.

Mario Gauci

Head of Primary

Thoughts from the Chatsworth Primary Hallway

As we begin to wind down the calendar year, we reflect on the months since the school year began in August and plan for the 2015-2016 school year.  It seems crazy to begin so early, but the recruitment fairs begin in January 2015 in my home town of Melbourne, followed by Bangkok.  I am fortunate enough to be going to the fairs with the Senior Leadership Team so that we can seek out the best possible staff to join us in August 2015.  Exciting times lay ahead.

This week has been an exceptional week, kicked off by an excellent Parent Cafe titled Cultivating Creativity in PYP Maths led by Carla Heard, Michael Lucchesi and Ben Drury.  These teachers presented a hands-on workshop highlighting ways in we teach mathematics in the primary school here at Chatsworth.  If you have not had a chance to join us for a Parent Café, please give it a try, I can ensure you that you will not be wasting your time!

Preparations are in full force for the up and coming Christmas Concert next Friday.  Please remember that you are entitled to two tickets per family, please see this form for more details.  We hope you can join us. Please note that all the children will be returning to school by bus after the concert, so they can return to their classrooms and will be dismissed from school at 12.20pm.

The Year Six PYP Exhibition kicked off this week with a parent meeting.  The Year Six teachers and the PYP Coordinator discussed the process they will be taking (and already taking) to ignite their students' passion, the major focus for the Exhibition. A great presentation that gave the Year Six parents an insight into what's to come for their children.

The week ended with another fun " House Day" activity day, as well as a special visit from Santa and his helpers!  The students were very excited to be seeing Santa and very thankful for their special gifts. I would especially like to thank Santa and his helpers for spending the whole day visiting all of the classrooms. I noticed a while ago Santa's helpers in "Santa's Workshop" preparing all the gifts for the children, what a very special group of helpers we have at Chatsworth.

Enjoy the photos of the week, and I look forward to seeing you at the Christmas Concert on Friday.

Mario Gauci
Head of Primary

From the PYP Coordinator

Following on from last week, the IB website has lots of information for parents, students and teachers.

Please have a look here at the IB website

You can get further information about the Primary, Middle and Diploma Programmes, how the IB is different from other programmes and how it aims to inspire students and staff to become critical thinkers and life long learners.

Have a look at this video clip here

Alex Inman

Week 16 of Primary Weekly Correspondence

Here is the following correspondence from Primary Office this week;

• Kindly find the link HERE to read more about Primary Christmas Concert 2014

• Kindly find the link HERE to read more about the Early dismissal on Friday December 12.

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We Need Your Help 

for the 

Spring Musical 

The Drama Department will be putting on Ali Baba and the 14 Thieves in February at the Raffles Jubilee Theater.  The students and the drama department do the entire production themselves and have asked if there are parents who are willing to help with the production.  

They are looking for parents who have experience or are willing to help in the areas of:

• Costumes - sewing and creating costumes

• Set Design

• Lighting Design

• Playing a musical instrument

• Providing food for rehearsals 

If you have a background or an interest in any of these areas and can donate a bit of time please email us at cpg@chatsworth.com.sg.

It is going to be a fabulous production in a beautiful space!  Please consider donating just a few hours of your time.

Primary Office(Malissa Rahman)
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