Craigslea State School eNewsletter

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Cybersafety

These links provide important reading as a way of maximising your child’s safety online.

Social-Emotional Learning

Develop a Sense of Purpose

Our focus this fortnight is around our ‘purpose’ across different contexts. ‘Sense of purpose’ describes the way in which we connect, contribute, add value and take responsibility for the ‘goals’ of the group.

This includes our purpose within the family group, our friendship group, class group, sporting group. There are other groups too which are more specific to your family. A conversation around how individuals are important to each of these groups is important as it cannot be assumed the children are cognisant of their purpose.

What we see at school are young people who take pleasure in taking on responsibilities. They thrive on trust and independence and feel proud about the good they do. This builds their confidence and self-esteem. Once they have this, they are more prepared to be risk takers in their learning, opening up their world to the possibilities within.

Our children are so capable and, while they still need guidance, ensuring they know what their purpose is, day to day, and checking in with them around this is setting our future society up with huge potential.

Bridge Strategy

Make an agreement

Being part of any group requires consideration of impacts on all – including oneself. While sometimes it may be easy to make a sacrifice, sometimes it’s not. Work with your child at home with this strategy.

Say ‘what is it you want?’. Tell the other what you want. Agree on an idea to try and choose an unbiased way to decide on a strategy. Eg paper-scissors-rock.

Learning to do this in a fair way means sometimes we win, sometimes we lose but it’s more reasonable.