Deputy Principal's Post
Active School Travel – We’re In!
Our school has been selected as one of 13 new schools joining Brisbane City Council’s Active School Travel (AST) program in 2022.
Active School Travel promotes clean and green, active and healthy school travel modes such as walking, cycling, scootering, carpooling and public transport. Over the next three years, our school will receive a range of free resources, tools, incursions from Council to enable active travel to and from school.
By choosing to actively travel to school, at least one day a week on our active travel day, we can reduce traffic congestion at the school gate, improve our students’ road safety awareness, create a cleaner environment, and improve our health and fitness! Or if you have to drive, park the car away from the school and actively travel the rest of the way. That’s Park & Stride.
More details to come early next year, and we strongly encourage you to be part of this great initiative to change our school environment and culture.
Start thinking how you can use your car less travelling to and from school next year.
Social-Emotional Learning
In the last few weeks, we have been, and will continue, to have conversations with the children around making responsible, safe decisions. This has been particularly relevant for the Year 5 children who are striving for a captaincy or senior leader role. This week alone, two unrelated incidents involving social media/iPad misuse, have been brought to my attention. It’s not all happening inside the school gates.
While staff are handing out classroom points to encourage children to make strong decisions in the classroom, and gotchas for demonstrating strong independent behaviours in the playground, conversations on the home front would take the support full circle.
All children need this motivation as they are tiring after a long term. Anything home and school can do together, to see that they get to enjoy all of the fun and festivity of the last few weeks, will mean a happy end of year for all.
Booklists and Student Resource Scheme
Craigslea, like many schools, is a booklist and Student Resource Scheme (SRS) school. 2022 Booklists have already been sent home but you can also find them on the school website.
Parents will be invoiced for the SRS on day 1 of the new year. Parents who wish to opt out will need to complete a form (even if done in previous years). Opting out requires that parents purchase the SRS resources themselves. Please note that this is a more expensive way of purchasing the resources.