Craigslea State School eNewsletter

Dear Parents/Carers,

TARGET 90/50

Today I want to talk about Target 90/50. Target 90/50 is about 90% of our students achieving a C or better and 50% of our students earning an A or B particularly in English.

Congratulations to our staff and students because we are so close to our targets based on our Term 3 English Tasks. We have 86% of our students earning a C or Above (up from 80.7% in Term 2) and 49.4% of our students earning an A or B (up from 28% in Term 2). Our achievement is above or in line with other Metropolitan schools. We are pitching for Target 90/50 for the end of the year. Next Monday afternoon, all our teachers will be working with teachers from Aspley SS, Aspley East SS and Zillmere SS to make sure teachers across the four schools are assigning grades correctly to student work using the year level achievement standards.

HOW DO WE IMPROVE THIS?

Every assessment task in our school has a Marking Guide to assist teachers to assign a grade to the work each semester. In English, the teachers during their planning day each term put together an example of this task (on a similar topic) and pull this apart with students so that they are clear about the expectations of the task. We have attached an example of a Year 1 Bump it Up Wall that is displayed on the walls of the classroom so that teachers can discuss with students on what they need to do in order to reach the next level on the bump it up wall.

Teachers meet each fortnight to group the student work into above standard, at standard and below standard. They analyse the work to find where the learning gap is for each group and co-plan the teaching to fill this gap to try to "bump up" student achievement.

Each year an above standard, at standard and below standard student is chosen and the teacher tracks these students across the year in an attempt to improve their performance. By focusing on these students, the teacher thinks about strategies to use which assist other students performing at a similar level.

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL POSITIONS

Next week, our school will be advertising two Deputy Principal positions. Ms Green will taking long-service leave for the first six months of 2022. For some time, our school has had entitlement for an extra half deputy and we have decided to top this up to a full time deputy as the school will start with 600 students next year.

One of the deputies will be Deputy: Curriculum and Teaching and the second deputy will be Deputy: Student Services. The Deputy Student Services will take on most of the responsibilities of the Head of Special Education Services as the staff have made a decision to retain a Head of Curriculum position instead of a Head of Special Education Services from the start of the 2022 school year. The recruitment process will occur statewide to ensure we have a talented pool from which to select.

Have a good week,

Kathy

Social-Emotional Learning

We have talked before about safe friends, good friends and potential friends but when you consider that most conflict takes place between the friends who are playing together, it’s worth approaching the subject again. We have been discussing this of late. It would be great if you could talk to your child about who they consider their safe friends (friends you can trust), good friends (friends that need boundaries) and potential friends (friends that need strong boundaries). If your child can articulate this, they are in control of their friendship circle to a large degree.

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.

World Teachers’ Day: 28 October and Tuckshop and Cleaners' Day: 5 November
Over the next two weeks, we will be celebrating the important work that our teachers, cleaners and tuckshop staff do for the children in our school. We can vouch that every day, staff go above and beyond, in big and little ways, to help a child. You may hear of these acts of ‘love’ and you may not. Gifts are unnecessary but words can evoke a real sense of achievement and appreciation for what they do.

Families who may wish to write a message are welcome to submit it to the office, email directly to the staff member or send via the form attached to this link Please click here.

Prep to Year 2 Principal’s Academic Award

Excellence in Literacy

Criteria:

Reads a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction
Borrows regularly from the Library
Demonstrates an understanding of the written word
Demonstrates competency in year level skills
Able to write using a wide variety of genre
Demonstrates excellence in writing skills
High level use of spelling, grammar and punctuation skills

PA	Krisha

PD	April

PK	Mia

PT	Lachlan

1B	Maisie

1H	Clara

1R	Florence

2B	Charles

2C	Soham

2G	Elsa

2S	Zoe

Year 3 to Year 6 Principal’s Academic Award

Excellence in Literacy

Criteria:

Reads a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction
Borrows regularly from the Library
Demonstrates an understanding of the written word
Demonstrates competency in year level skills
Able to write using a wide variety of genre
Demonstrates excellence in writing skills
High level use of spelling, grammar and punctuation skills

3C	Cameron

3D	Tate

3H	Sariah

3HB	Niklas

4HN	Christina

4M	Sybelle

4Y	Sheba

5D	Daniel

5M	Heidi

5W	Zoe

5/6J	Troy

5/6W	Jackson

6F	Haira

6K	Dylan

PREP	Things are on the move in prep. In Science this term we are using inquiry to explore the way things roll, bounce, spin and slide. Students are exploring the movement of different objects on various surfaces. Students have also started going to the computer labs to explore basic word processing skills such as font and colour.

YEAR 1	Wow, what a fun start we have had to Term 4. In our Science lessons we have been exploring sound. We have learned that sound is created through vibrations that send sound waves through the air. In English we are having so much fun following and writing Procedures. This week we enjoyed writing a procedure to create a Witches Brew!!! Maths has been about exploring the language of Chance, might happen (possible), will happen (certain) and won’t happen (impossible). We are also interpreting and creating picture graphs.

YEAR 2	What’s the time Mrs Wilson? This is a question we are hearing less and less now that our Year 2 students have been working so hard to read and write time to the quarter hour. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs! Our Word Superheros are becoming experts at putting these together to make excellent command sentences for our procedures. In Science we have been exploring how important water is to our everyday life. What would you do if you had no access to running water for a whole day? In Hass the students are brainstorming ways we can all care for significant places. We’d love you to share any actions your family does when you are out enjoying your significant places. My family picks up at least 20 pieces of rubbish every time we go to a beach.

YEAR 3	The Grade Threes are becoming Eco Warriors due to our unit in Humanities and Social Sciences. We need to create a call to action that can be put in place at school or in our local community. We already have a SOE (Save Our Earth) club that was established and is completely run by our students, and they help to tackle the issue of litter at our school. Creating our clay sculptures from our Raw Art Day was a huge success, everyone is looking forward to painting and decorating our marine animals.

YEAR 4	We have wasted no time getting into our new science unit on forces and exploring friction, gravity and magnetism. In Maths we have been learning about decimals to hundredths and in English we are learning how to be more persuasive in our writing. Look out, parents! This might mean we are more persuasive at home too!

YEAR 5	As part of their English unit, the Year 5s have been learning about Banjo Paterson and some of his famous bush ballads. They have also been transforming poems into narratives. In Maths we have been practicing solving equations with unknown quantities and in Science we have been investigating various states of matter, including solids, liquids and gases.

YEAR 6	Term 4 brings a huge wrap up of a year of learning. In English we are working through advertising in the media and are about to start the reading comprehension task. In maths we have started to unpack a guided inquiry around the number of chairs that best fit into the hall. In Science we are covering earthquakes other natural disasters, and in HaSS, we are looking at Women’s Suffragettes. A nice busy period.

Peer Mediators Badge Recipients
Next week, the following peer mediators will be receiving their Bridge Builder badge: Vaoloka, Prescilla, Joshua, Eldho, Aldin. Parents of these children are welcome to come along to assembly.

Absent: Eldho

New Recycling Point
Drop any old pens and markers into the collection box that is situated in the library. Thanks to the sustainability team for leading this environmental project.

Reading Club Love
Happy faces from Tuesday’s reading club.

Sports News
Tate from Year 3 attended the MAG Junior State Championships at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre and placed Allround State Champion for the Under 10, Level 4. He also placed 1st on the Parallel Bars, 1st on the High Bar, 1st Pommel, 3rd Floor, 4th Rings and 5th Vault, meaning he placed in every apparatus. Tate trains 13 hours a week and hopes to make the 2032 Olympics. Congratulations Tate!

ICAS Awards

High Distinction (top 1%) of state

Distinction (next 10%)

Credit (next 25%)

Merit (next 10%)

Participation (all remaining students)

Digital Technologies : Jacob (High Distinction),

Lincoln (Distinction), Christina, Harshi, Kashvi (Credit)

Spelling Bee: Lincoln (Distinction), Christina, Aaron (Credit),

Wendy, Hugh, Kashvi (Merit)

Science: Kashvi, Charlie (Distinction), Aarav (Credit), Emma (Merit)

Mathematics : Kashvi, Charlie (Distinction), Hugh, Sophie, Jacob (Credit)

Principal’s Awards

Principal’s Award:Excellence in Digital Technology

Principal’s Award: Excellence in Arts – Dance, Drama and Visual Arts

Happy Tots Visit
Lovely to have the children from Happy Tots visit PK on Thursday. There was much conversation and reading taking place.

Strings At Honours Camp

Well done to Magsen, Lexer, Evelio and Lucas, who all worked extremely hard and played at a very high standard in the concert this week.

Magsen, Lexer, Evelio and Lucas.

30 Jun	School Holidays 30 Jun 2025 - 11 Jul 2025

14 Jul	School resumes All day

14 Jul	Assembly - NAIDOC 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

18 Jul	Eco Club - Term 3 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

25 Jul	Eco Club - Term 3 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

25 Jul	School Trees Day All day

28 Jul	2025 Life ED Talk About It 28 Jul 2025 - 29 Jul 2025

28 Jul	P&C General Meeting 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

30 Jul	OSHC Educators Day All day

31 Jul	Due (Consent & Payment) - 2025 Perform Education Year 1 and Year 2 All day

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