P&C News
P&C News
In this edition…
- Let’s Play! Playground upgrades will start during Term 4, with brand new Prep and Year 1 playgrounds and new softfall in the Year 2 playground.
- Keep Cool – we’re installing new chilled water stations around the school. Help us to fundraise!
- The pool is cleaner than ever, thanks to the P&C funded robotic pool cleaner.
Also….
- Friday night Swim club has started with a “boop”! We had 95 students sign up for swim club this term which is amazing. There is always room for more! If you are interested to find out what makes it so much fun get in touch with the lovely swim club family by emailing info@craigsleaswimming.com
- The P&C are hosting a Parent and Community session from Internet Safe Education on 26 October at 5:30pm. The session will be in-person at the School and online via Teams. Brett Lee founded Internet Safe Education in 2008 after working as a Child Exploitation detective for 16 years. The goals of ISE are to educate children so they can stay safe online; to enable children to use the internet in a healthy way and thrive online; and to educate teachers, parents, and caregivers so they can support children online. See Internet Safe Education. We strongly encourage you to attend. Please register (whether you plan to attend in person or online) here https://craigsleass.schoolzineplus.com/survey/236.
- There have been a couple of new additions to the tuckshop menu recently. There are two new hot snack combos and gluten free wraps available to be ordered through Munch Monitor. We are constantly reviewing the menu to ensure we are providing healthy and delicious food options for our children, so please let us know if there is anything else you would like to see on the menu! Also, please remind your child to collect their second break frozen items when they are ordered for second break – the tuckshop do not supply coupons for these unless the order is placed over the counter in the morning.
- Uniforms: Prep try on days are coming up. Please contact the uniform shop to make an appointment.
- Second hand uniforms: Did you know you can drop off your old uniforms and the uniform shop will sell them on your behalf (or you can donate them back to the school)?
- Booklists have gone live this week on cos.net.au. You can order online by entering Username: craigsleastate@cos.net.au Password: Parents-24. Hard copies will be coming home with your child next week.
- Suncorp volunteers will be on the school grounds later this term for a morning of planting with our year 1 students using plants provided by the Brisbane City Council for Arbour Day and the Woolworth Junior Landcare Grant. Thank you to the P&C Sustainability Subcommittee for assisting with recent and future planting around the school.
- Grade 6 graduation book order forms have gone out. Please complete the order form and payment (either on paper or online).
- Can you help? Volunteering opportunities available
- P&C Contacts – Get in touch
- Fundraising Opportunities
- Playground Upgrades
- Playground upgrades have been discussed and fundraised for over many years and multiple P&C’s. We are happy to announce that the P&C have approved the final quote and work will commence ASAP. We would like to thank the many, many people that have been involved in this process, especially to the large amount of fundraising that has been undertaken to allow the P&C to fund this playground.
- In addition to the new playgrounds, the P&C are funding new rubber soft-fall for the Grade 2 playground. It’s cleaner, greener, and will keep our kids safer as they play.
- Chilled water stations!
- The P&C will install 2 chilled water stations around the school and a non-chilled water station down on the bottom oval. We need help to fundraise!
- The school has proposed a gold coin free dress day in term 4 to assist with fundraising – details will be sent out by the school in due course.
- The P&C will use our “Containers for Change” account to raise funds for this initiative, with bins located around the school and also available at our upcoming events including Friday Night Swim Club.
- Did you know you can donate your recycling money to the Craigslea State School P&C Association when you drop off your empty cans at a Containers for Change location? Simply enter our code “C10984048” or scan the barcode which can be found on our Facebook page to have your containers registered to our account! Did you also know that you can have your containers picked up from home? For more information please visit Containers for Change.
- Our final fundraising event for 2023 will be our Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on Saturday 9 December If you can help out for an hour (or more) please click on this link volunteersignup.org/R8T7P .
If you don’t have an hour to spare why not just drop by and grab a sausage (or two) instead?
- Do you know someone who has everything? Why not give them the gift of experiences instead? Entertainment Books are currently running a special where you buy a pass for one city and get access to ALL cities for free! By using this link (https://tinyurl.com/6jv54zc7) you will be donating a portion of your Entertainment Book fee to our P&C.
- New pool cleaner
- If you have walked past the pool this term you may have noticed how lovely and clean it is looking. The P&C have recently purchased a Dolphin Wave 150 pool cleaner. This has made a significant improvement to the school pool with improved water quality and clarity. Safety around the pool has been further enhanced with one of the two recently purchased defibrillators (also funded by the P&C) being stationed at the pool canteen. While we hope to never need it, it is reassuring to know this device is close at hand for our children and visitors to the pool.
Can You Help?
Help to make Craigslea State Primary School a better place by volunteering for these activities:
- Bunnings Stafford Sausage Sizzle 9 December 2023: org/R8T7P
P&C Contacts
The Hub (Carol)
3350 8741 or operations@craigsleapandc.org.au
Tuckshop (Deb, Jolei, and Emily)
3350 8744 or tuckshop@craigsleapandc.org.au
Bookshop and Uniform Shop (Emily)
3350 8741 or uniforms@craigsleapandc.org.au
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) (Kylie)
3350 8724 / 3256 3688 or oshc@craigsleapandc.org.au
Sustainability Group (Jen)
sustainability@craigsleapandc.org.au
https://www.facebook.com/groups/223902536111469/
Swim Club (Andrew)
info@craigsleaswimming.com
Fundraising Opportunities
- Entertainment Books: Craigslea State School link - https://tinyurl.com/6jv54zc7
- We currently have spaces available for advertising on our electronic school sign at the front of the school. Should you be interested, please contact Carol on either 3350 8741 or operations@craigsleapandc.org.au