Prep 2023 Update 

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.

Class Placements 2023

At this time of year, we understand that families and children are eagerly anticipating finding out their class and teacher for the following year. Placement of students in classes is a carefully considered process involving teachers, specialist staff and information from the leadership team, and we appreciate your patience as we finalise this complex process.

Children will have the opportunity to meet with their 2023 teacher and classmates in the next couple of weeks. After their session, children will bring home a class placement note. This note will inform you of your child/ren’s class teacher and class placement for 2023. These sessions are very effective in supporting students transition to their new class.

Prep Meet and Greet:

Thursday 24 November - 9:30-10:30am. Our 2023 Preps will come to “big” school and meet their teacher and fellow classmates and have fun engaging in some activities whilst checking out their classroom.

Step Up Day:

Monday 5 December – 9:30-10:30am. Our Year 1-5 children will have an opportunity to meet their 2023 teacher, visit their classroom and engage in get to know you activities with their new class.

PBL & Social-Emotional Learning

This fortnight’s focus supports the expectation of Be a Friend by encouraging and supporting each other to be the best version of themselves. Teachers and students have been thinking of ways that they can show encouragement and support to each other especially at this busy time of the year with assessments starting. It has been wonderful to see how students have engaged with the concept and hearing of their random acts of kindness and encouragement.

At Craigslea SS this looks and sounds like:

• We support each other and work as a team
• We share and contribute
• We build trust through positive actions and words
• We encourage and inspire others
• We listen to understand
• We are happy when others succeed
• We keep our body calm and our hands and feet to ourself
• We allow others to participate in activities and share resources
• We respect others space.

Teaching and Learning 

This semester is quickly passing by as we are now over halfway through Term 4.  The students are busy consolidating their skills and knowledge and learning new concepts from across the curriculum areas.  

As this year draws to a close, students are beginning to enter the assessment-heavy period of the term. Teachers are working to a tight timeline to turnaround from teaching to assessing to reporting, so every day is busy. Assessments are an opportunity for students to ‘show what they know’ and they are really just an extension of the learning and activities that they have been doing in class.

Therefore, it is important that students are at school for those earlier lessons in order to have the best opportunity to indeed show what they know. Whilst teachers always do their best to catch students up on work missed, it is almost always an ‘abridged’ version of the lesson simply because of time constraints, human resources and the need to keep moving with the curriculum. Assessments are important and valued and we encourage students to do their best at all times, but we also teach them to understand that it is only one part of their learning process and there are always more opportunities in the future to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.

Active School Travel

Craigslea State School – Active school travel School of the Year 2022

We did it!!!! A big shout out and thank you to everyone who has gotten behind our active school travel initiative in our inaugural year. Last week, the AST team had the pleasure of representing Craigslea at the annual Active School Travel awards at City Hall where we were recognised at School of the Year 2022 – an amazing achievement!

Santa Walk – 7 December 2022

Join in on the Active School Travel fun on Wednesday 7/12 as we meet up at a one of two designated parks (Redbourne St and Craigslea St) for the final time this year and walk to school with the Active School Travel Team. As some end of year fun as we walk to school, we will be on the look out for Santa who may have a sweet reward for our eagle-eyed spotting!

Have a great fortnight!