World Teachers’ Day

World Teachers’ Day, Friday 27 October, is an opportunity to reflect on the positive impact teachers have on young people’s lives and education. We thank and pay tribute to our teachers for their dedication, hard work and influence they have on our students and community. To celebrate, our P&C is kindly providing coffee or cola and cake vouchers for our teachers. Our young news cadets will also be out and about collecting stories about our teachers and we will share these in the next newsletter.

Day for Daniel

Our school is wearing red for Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day, on Wednesday October 25. It is important for children to learn strategies on seeking, giving or denying consent, providing them with the skills to communicate. Visit the Daniel Morcombe website for free resources to empower children to be and feel safe.

Cyber Safety Parent Session

The parent session is on Thursday 26 October starting at 5.30pm. This session has been offered in a variety of forums and we thank our parents who have registered for this event. The Parent Information Session is open to ALL Craigslea Families, grades Prep-Year 6. We have received feedback today that conflicting inforamtion has been distibuted, we apologise for any inconvenience this may have casued.

Have a great week,

Nikki

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 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.

Children up to eight years old should hold an adult's hand on the footpath, in the car park, or when crossing the road. Children up to ten years old should be actively supervised in the traffic environment and should hold 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 a stranger
• never accept gifts or sweets from a stranger
• never get in a car with a stranger
• 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.
• know where to go – identify safe houses along your child’s route, family friends, relatives they can stop at if they need help.
• go over phone numbers they need to know – if your child carries a phone, teach them how to dial 000 if it’s an emergency, how to access your number, relatives or friends who can help if the need arises.

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

Cyber Safety Presentation:

Cyber safety organisation, Internet Safe Education, will be attending our school and speaking with students, in Years 3-6, regarding staying safe in an online environment. These sessions will take place on Tuesday 24 October. All students in Years 3-6 will be able to attend due to the generosity and support of our P&C who are covering the cost. Consent forms have been sent home, please complete asap, thank you to those who have already done so.

As well as the student sessions, Internest Safe Education are presenting a parent session on Thursday 26 October, 5:30-6:30pm, in the OSHC building. This session is open to all Craigslea families to attend. The P&C will also live stream this via TEAMS for those who cannot attend in person. Please regisister as soon as you can for this important session to allow us to plan accordingly. Please register here: https://craigsleass.schoolzineplus.com/survey/236.

Active School Travel 

Walking Wheeling Wednesday’s

Wednesdays at Craigslea, are Walking Wheeling Wednesdays! Our school is a part of the Brisbane City Council initiative – Active School Travel.

Next Wednesday, 25^th October (week 4), we will be hosting our Day for Daniel Walk. On this day children are encouraged to wear red, donate a gold coin and walk to raise money for the Daniel Morecombe Foundation.

Donations can also be made at anytime online via the QRCode.

The Golden Boot award for October will be awarded to the class with the highest percentage of active travellers who walk to school.

Check out how your class is travelling: 

How will you actively travel on Wednesdays? #activeschooltravel

Have a great fortnight of fun and learning,

Natalie and Sarah

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Its that time of year again! Please show your support for this wonderful cause.

Craigslea State School's annual Christmas Concert Toy Drive.

All donations will support sick children and their families at Queensland Children’s Hospital.

We are collecting items such as rattles, stacking blocks, baby toys, play-doh, cars, barbies, Lego, colouring books, craft packs and sensory toys.

Collection dates will be between 9 October 2023 and 24 November 2023.

Please bring unwrapped gifts to the Music Room and place them under Mrs Stockill’s Xmas Tree.

Thank you

Pauline Stockill

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  

Best of British Musical Showcase

Music students attended Craigslea High School this month, congratulations on your wonderful performance.

Active School Travel Bird Watch Walk

Safety Warning

Please take care when using the Parent Carpark, swooping birds about!

P&C News 

In this edition…

1. 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.
2. Keep Cool – we’re installing new chilled water stations around the school. Help us to fundraise!
3. 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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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: 

1. 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