Principal's Post
Dear Parents/Carers,
FRANTIC FEBRUARY IS FINISHED FORTUNATELY
February is a busy month in schools. Settling students in for a new year, ensuring the classes that we have formed are in place and don’t have to be re-formed as part of the Day 8 process and the school’s Annual Implementation Plan, Investing for Success, School Budget and finalised staffing profile are submitted to the Department of Education. For your reference, see below for the Annual Implementation Plan for 2021. This will give you some detail on what the school plans to achieve and improve this year.
INQUIRY
In Weeks 4, 6 and 8 of this term teachers will have had two hours after school undertaking a book study the “Power of Inquiry” by Kath Murdoch. This will provide teachers with inquiry strategies that can be embedded in their classroom to deepen student learning and provides ideas to embed within our planning process for Term 2 which will occur in Weeks 8, 9 and 10. Each teacher will meet with the leadership team next week to discuss their professional learning goals going forward into 2021. This is a twice yearly process.
YEAR 6 CAMP
As I write this, Year 6 are getting ready to board the bus to Camp Maranatha at Boulder Creek in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. They will be accompanied by Mrs Bramley, Miss Franklin, Mrs Jones, Mr Kleidon, Mrs Canavan and Mrs Abdy. Camp is a wonderful experience for students and teachers. Stronger student-student and student-teacher bonds are formed hence our reasoning for sending students at this time of year. Thanks to Ms Wright for looking after the Year 5 students and a handful of Year 6 students back at school. No doubt she will get her taste of camp when Year 5 students go later in the year. We will post photos to share with you. It is a busy few days and we are very grateful to the teachers for volunteering their out-of-hours time away from their families.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Please note LIFE and Principal Awards announced in the newsletter are sent home with the students but then the student is presented at the next assembly. Parents whose children receive an award are encouraged to come.
Week 8
- Thursday March 18: Senior Leader Badge Presentations at 5/6 assembly 2pm. Parents are welcome. Parents of senior leaders take part in the ceremony if they are available.
- Friday March 19: Harmony Day Activities Children wear orange in recognition that harmony is saying 'no' to bullying. Children may also wear a national costume.
- Friday March 19: Year 2 Excursion to the Nudgee Beach Environmental Centre: they must wear full school uniform please for safety reasons but they can wear something small and orange to be part of Harmony Day. e.g. orange ribbon
Week 9
- This week parent interviews will be held. Teachers would prefer these be face to face but if zoom or a phone call is more convenient for parents/carers, please negotiate this with your child’s teacher directly. Please see link below to book your parent teacher interview before Thursday 18 March.
- Thursday 25 March: Prep assembly Year 1 shelter shed 2.00pm 3/4 Assembly Hall 2.00pm.
- Friday 26March: 9.00 am Coffee morning in staff room. This is where the leadership team and parents can share ideas and information. Please rsvp to kcana2@eq.edu.au as venue may need to change depending on numbers.
Week 10
- Thursday April 1: 2.00pm Prep Easter Bonnet Parade Yr 1 Shelter Shed. Each child will have access to a bonnet they have made at school. Parents are welcome without registering for tickets as it is an outdoor event.
- Thursday April 1: 2.00pm 1/2 Easter Bonnet Parade Hall. Each child will have access to a bonnet they have made at school. We will have up to 60 tickets available from 9am Monday 15 March . Tickets are necessary because it is an indoor event. Please see link below to book your ticket. We ask that just one parent per child come along. If we have enough tickets for each family that has made a request, we will release a second ticket at 9am Thursday 25 March .
CLOSURE OF THE CRAIGSLEA STATE SCHOOL SENSITIVITY UNIT (METROPOLITAN INCLUSION CENTRE)
Below is a flyer to mark the closure of the Craigslea State School Sensitivity Unit (Metropolitan Inclusion Centre). Attached is a letter, distributed previously, written by the Assistant Regional Director, John Faragher, announcing this decision that was made by Metropolitan Region late last year. Click below to view attachment.
PARENTS AND CITIZENS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Last Tuesday night, the P and C of our school held their Annual General Meeting. We are grateful to the parents who stepped up to take positions on the executive and sub-committees. It is an enormous responsibility and a large amount of time invested for them in volunteer activities to make the school a better place. Without the P and C, we would not have our beautiful top oval, our soon to be developed Year 1 playground, the cutting edge furniture and equipment in our Year 6 classroom, out of school hours care, our smart new uniform or food and beverages in the tuckshop. Their assistance with the Year 6 furniture, allowed some school budget monies to be available for additional funds to be allocated to all classrooms from 1 to 6 for new furniture and equipment.
Special thanks to the following executive members:
President: Elizabeth Lynch
Vice-President: Claire Krebs and Sarah Hands
Treasurer: Paul Madey
Secretary: Kirsten Wise.
Please support these members of our community by taking part in their activities whenever you are able.
Have a good week.
Kathy