Enrolment forms are available on the school website https://craigsleass.eq.edu.au/enrolments. Please email your completed forms to enrolments@craigsleass.eq.edu.au as soon as possible.

Parents of children enrolled to start Prep in 2023 have been invited to attend a prep experience session. These sessions started off this week and it was so great to see some of our 2023 Preppies have a wonderful time in one of our prep rooms – we can’t wait for them to be with us full time next year!

PBL & Social-Emotional Learning

The focus for the fortnight is:

Be a safe in all Environments – We travel safely to school and around the community.

 With so many students from Craigslea taking the healthy option to walk or ride to and from school each day, it is important to talk about some aspects of safety. This fortnight’s Positive Behaviour for Learning focus is on “Safe Travel” to and from school. Whether students are travelling by foot, bike/scooter, car, taxi or bus there are many aspects to consider in order for students to keep themselves as safe as possible. That may be by wearing protective equipment such as a bike helmet, planning a safe route, getting out of parked vehicles on the “safe” side, standing back from the gutter as a bus or taxi approaches and having a plan of what to do if something has not worked out as expected.

Most young children are still developing the skills needed to judge safe road situations such as the ability to judge distances, speed of vehicles and distinguishing traffic sounds. As such they should not be left to make their own way to school until these skills are developed. This is usually around 10 to 12 years of age.

Road safety experts advise that children up to eight years old should hold an adult's hand on the footpath, in the car park, or when crossing the road. Further advice suggests children up to ten years old benefit from being actively supervised in the traffic environment and holding an adult's hand when crossing the road.

Children learn most of their road safety skills through the observation and imitation of adult behaviour, so even if your children are not with you, it is important that you set a good road safety example near the school and at all other times.

You can also help your child learn road safety by explaining to them the hazards they face and how to negotiate them while travelling to and from school. You can use examples to explain the difference between safe and unsafe behaviour. For children this can be a fun activity. You can also try a different mode of transport each week such as walking, riding a bicycle or using the bus.

Some personal safety tips for children travelling to and from school are:

• leave school as close to 3:00pm so they are walking together
• never go anywhere with an unknown person. If your child is unsure, advise them to return to school for us to check arrangements.
• never accept gifts or sweets from an unknown person.
• never get in a car with an unknown person
• never go off on their own without telling parents or a trusted adult
• stay with their friends and not to go e.g. to the park on their own.

The Daniel Morcombe Foundation also has some tips for traveling safe to school.

Bridge Builders

Congratulations to our Bridge Builders who have been continuing their duties in the playground as peer mediators for our younger students. Please see below for those who have earned badges and/or certificates. Silver and Gold certificates will be handed out on assembly in week 10.

Active School Travel

Bling your RIDE to School Day

Decorate your Bike or Scooter and ride to school on Wednesday 14 September.

To celebrate the last Walking, Wheeling Wednesday of the term we are planning a day full of fun and colour where students, teachers and parents will discover the fun of riding to school.

We are inviting all students and families to Bling Your Ride to School on Wednesday 14 September 2022 to coincide with our Active School Travel Day. Everyone is encouraged to dress up their bikes, scooters, wheelchairs with bright, colourful decorations. The best decorated ride from P-3 and Years 4-6 will win a prize, so start planning your creations!

Have a great week!