PREP 20222 INTERVIEWS FOR IN-CATCHMENT FAMILIES.  Please contact the front office NOW if you are in the Craigslea SS catchment and you are enrolling your child into Prep next year.

First parent information session for Prep 2022 will be by Zoom on 6 May at 9.30am and 6pm.  This a courtesy session only.  No requirement for parents to attend.

Religious Instruction (RI) - change

While we still need to implement a COVID-safe plan, assemblies will be impacted for the children enrolled in RI.  The Yr 3 RI class ONLY will not attend assemblies in weeks 2, 6, 10 and will attend their religious instruction class instead.  This is unless they are receiving a reward or award.  In this case, children will be honoured on assembly and parents will be invited up.  Be sure to keep your eye on the newsletter for announcements.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS (ICAS)

If you wish to have your child undertake any of the competitions this year, please take note of the information below and log on to the website to pay and enrol for this to happen.  Go to the link at https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps and enter the school code: YZV875

Social-Emotional Learning

Set worthwhile goals and make plans to achieve them.

If we set small, achievable goals or steps, we have the best chance of succeeding with our learning.  It is important to remember though, that the mistakes we make along the way build our resilience, character and determination.  Who knows what can happen from that point?!  Create some discussion at home around the stories below and those that began with a failure.  What is special about each story?

Thomas Edison - When asked about the many thousands of failures he had when trying to create the light-bulb he famously said, " I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."

Albert Einstein had to apply to his ‘university’ twice before being accepted.  He never gave up and continued to try new things in an effort to learn more.

Are you scared to try something new?

Michael Jordan – considered by many to be the greatest
basketball player ever.
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.  I have lost almost 300 games.  On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and I missed.  I have failed over and over and over again in my life.  And that is why I succeed."

Dr Seuss had his first book rejected by publishers 27 times before finally being accepted.  He was just about to throw it in the garbage bin when a company decided to publish it.

The Wright brothers wanted to build a flying machine that would stay in the air for a sustained time.  They had to build many prototypes until they eventually constructed a design that flew for 10 seconds.  This changed the world forever. 
Sourced from https://www.developgoodhabits.com/successful-people-failed

 

Parent Information session: Bridge Builders

Parents are invited to learn about the Bridge Builders program via a live ZOOM session on Tuesday 27 April at 5:00 pm.  This session will be recorded if you can’t make the live session and will be available to view at a later date.  If you intend to join the live session, please email me ngree7@eq.edu.au  by 12 pm on Tuesday so that I can forward the link to you. 

Bridge Builder strategy:  Make an agreement

This is not an easy strategy, but children continually amaze me with their ability.  Ask your child if they have ever used this strategy.  Practise some scenarios over dinner.  You could teach them a highly valuable skill.

When you both want the same thing, aim to make an agreement for a win, win situation.  Making an agreement is about being fair to both, or all that are playing in the game.

First work out who gets to go first…

• Use Rock, Paper, Scissors to see who goes first
• Ask someone to think of a number between 1 and 10. You and a friend try to guess it.  The closest gets to go first.
• Hold a leaf in one hand behind your back. The players need to guess which hand it is in.

Then, what is the condition to ensure fair play?

• Ask a teacher to time each turn so that it is fair.
• Ensure both teams have the same number of players
• … and evenly matched.
• Have a signal when a player wants to query a ruling, then replay the point.

Principal’s Academic awardees – Year 3 & 4