Awardees

Religious Instruction

Parents of children in Years 1, 2 & 3 have another opportunity to advise if you wish to have your child included in the Religious Instruction class on a Thursday afternoon.  The child will require a workbook which comes at a cost of $6.00.  This is paid on receipt of an invoice.

If you wish to include your child for this weekly instruction, please complete your expression of interest click here .

Social-Emotional Learning

Last Friday was an important day to celebrate the diversity within our school, where children of all ages came together to participate in the planned activities. 

They made friendship wristbands, worked on a collaborative Harmony poster, took on a chopsticks champion challenge, made a flag from a country of choice, synchronized as a team with parachute activities and played a multicultural game.

We have some ideas for next year and would very much like to hear yours, and have some parent involvement, too.  You could do this via the Cuppa morning this Friday in our school staffroom.  Hope to see you there if you can make it along.

Reminder:  In case you were thinking that we were swamped with volunteers, we still have not had a parent join our PBL committee.  Whilst many of our teachers are parents or grandparents, a parent voice is an important part of building and maintaining our school culture.  If you are interested and can spare 1 hour twice per term (3:15 – 4:15 pm), please let me know.  Even if you wish to join us by ZOOM, from home or work, we can arrange that.

The 2021 Positive Behaviour for Learning Action Plan can be viewed on the school website at https://craigsleass.eq.edu.au/supportandresources/formsanddocuments/documents/2021%20pbl%20action%20plan.pdf

Our final focus for the term is ‘be the change to stop bullying’.

Giving children the knowledge, the language and the confidence to deal with everyday conflict builds their resilience and self-esteem.  These qualities empower children and provide a repertoire of skills from which to draw should they encounter bullying – both from a bystander position as well as a target of the bullying action. 

Some important discussion that needs to take place is to know how bullying is different from conflict.  If children see everyday conflict as a bullying situation, this will not help them to understand that conflict is a normal, everyday occurrence.  Bullying, however, is far more serious.

What is bullying?

If we find ourselves in the position of bullying, we sit on the spectrum of power somewhere.

Discussion Points

Which children have the position of most power?  Least power?

How can the position of power shift?

Narelle