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Dear Craigslea Community,
We are at the midpoint of our term and our students are engaged and focussed on their learning. Over the next fortnight I am visiting classrooms to speak with students about their English learning. During my visit I ask students the following questions:
- What are you learning and why? This lets me know if they have clarity of the learning intentions and understand why this learning is important.
- How are you going with this learning? It is important that students are able to articulate how they are going and what their next learning steps? This supports students in setting learning goals.
- Where do you go to get help? This is an opportunity for students to share how they are using their learning walls as a tool to support their learning progress.
These conversations are important so that students see themselves as active participants in their learning.
Our 2024 Priorities
Student Wellbeing: Refining and enhancing our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) processes and practices
This year we are working collaboratively to review and refine how we respond to student behaviour through our PBL processes. Craigslea has been a PBL school for a number of years and it is important for us to review, refine and enhance our ways of working to provide engaging, safe and supportive learning environments for our students. An important piece of this work is analysing student behaviour data to identify patterns and respond to evolving student needs.
Our students engage in a PBL focus lesson on Monday each week linked to our school expectations. These lessons explicitly teach expected behaviours within our whole school routines.
So far this year we have collaboratively developed flow charts to respond to student behaviour within the classroom and the playground to ensure consistency. We have also reviewed, refined and developed the reflection room flow chart to give clarity to all staff. The PBL committee and staff are now working to develop a consequences flow chart. Ms Marhinin is leading this work and will seek community input at the Coffee & Connect session on Friday 7 June.
Prep Open Mornings
Over the last fortnight we have welcomed over 60 prospective Prep families to our open mornings. I would like to acknowledge the leadership of Mrs Wiles in the organisation of these events. Our year 6 student leaders have also played an important role in showcasing our school taking families on guided tours after the information session. It is always wonderful to hear the pride in students as they talk about their school. I am looking forward to meeting many of these families at Prep interviews commencing in Week 7. More information about 2025 Prep transitions will be shared later this term.
Under 8’s Day
Our Under 8’s celebration is fast approaching. Our Prep to Year 2 teachers led by Mr Todd have been busy planning to ensure our students have a great morning celebrating early childhood and play. Our year 6 students are looking forward to supporting teachers in running these activities on the morning. We will welcome children from our local Kindy’s along with prospective 2025 prep families during the morning.
PWD Toilet
Our person with disability toilet attached to the infants’ toilets is almost completed. Construction fencing was taken away this week and we are now waiting for the painting to be completed.
Have a fabulous fortnight.
“One of the marvellous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.” Jean Vanier
Yours in Learning,
Melanie Rehm
Prep 2025 Open Days
Thank you to those who attended our Prep 2025 Open Days. We had plenty of prospective preppies come and hear about our wonderful school. Just a reminder, if you have a child who is due to start school next year, please approach our friendly office staff for an enrolment form.
AEDC 2024
Building a national picture of child health from May 2024, our school, along with thousands of others across the country, will participate in the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC).
The AEDC is a teacher-completed census (similar to a questionnaire) which provides a comprehensive picture of how children have developed by the time they start their first year of full-time school.
The AEDC is an Australian Government Initiative and is completed nationally every three years.
Children don’t miss any class time while the AEDC is completed, and parents/carers don’t need to supply schools with any new information.
The data collected through the AEDC is used by schools, communities and governments to better understand children and families’ needs, and identify the services, resources and support they need.
AEDC data is reported at a school, community, state/territory and national level. AEDC results for individual children are not reported and the AEDC is not used as an individual diagnostic tool.
Some teachers have found that completing the AEDC made them more aware of the needs of individual children and their class, and that the data was useful for planning for transitions to Year 1 and developing programs.
Participation in the AEDC is voluntary, however the AEDC relies on all schools with children in their first year of full-time school participating in the collection. Parents/carers don’t need to take any action unless they choose not to include their children in the census.
To find out more about the AEDC and how it is being used to help children and families visit: www.aedc.gov.au.
If you have any questions, you can contact DP Prep to 2 Erin Wiles via email by 24/05/2024 ewile2@eq.edu.au
Erin
Celebrating Our Students
National Representative
Last fortnight, I mentioned that Tate was off to compete at the 2024 Australian Gymnastics Championships on the Gold Coast. The competition finished on Wednesday this week, and the results are in…
CONGRATULATIONS to Tate!!!
Tate is the National All Rounder Champion for Level 7, Under 13.
Tate placed:
Gold for Pommel Horse
Gold for Rings
Gold for Parallel Bars
Silver for High Bar
This is a massive achievement and we are all very proud of Tate and the dedication and determination he puts into his sport.
Year 5’s Cosmic Adventure with Eclipse Chaser Terry
On Wednesday, the Year 5’s had a special guest – Asher’s grandpa – Eclipse Chaser, Terry.
The Year 5 students embarked on an extraordinary cosmic journey, guided by Terry Cuttle, an avid Eclipse Chaser. Terry's visit has illuminated our understanding of the universe, leaving an indelible mark on our young minds. From the awe-inspiring International Space Station (ISS), whose dimensions were vividly illustrated by Terry (it could comfortably fit on our school's bottom oval!), to the enchanting mysteries of the moon's craters and the intricate dance of celestial bodies, our learning has transcended the bounds of the classroom.
Throughout the sessions, Terry mesmerized us with his vast knowledge, seamlessly weaving together facts about planets, the ISS, and the mesmerizing phenomenon of eclipses. Through hands-on activities, including exploring eclipse shadows with models of the moon and Earth, scrutinizing lunar maps, and gazing through telescopes at the sky, we delved deeper into the cosmos than ever before. Terry's passion for astronomy was infectious, sparking our curiosity and igniting a newfound love for the wonders of space. As we eagerly anticipate the next opportunity to witness the ISS in the night sky, we reflect on the invaluable learning experiences and the unforgettable moments shared with our special guest, Terry.
Active School Travel
Walking Wheeling Wednesday’s
Every Wednesday will continue to be a walking, wheeling Wednesday. We encourage every family to use one or more of the five active ways to get to and from school – walk (or Park & Stride), cycle, scooter, car pool or public transport – as we work together to promote active and healthy school travel. Research shows only 41% of Australian children are active for the recommended minimum of one hour every day. Active School Travel is one of the easiest ways to incorporate physical activity into everyday life for all children.
We have 2 more events planned for the term. Please mark these in your calendar.
How will you actively travel to school next Wednesday?
Have a fantastic fortnight of fun and learning,
Natalie
It is important to us that students feel they are successful and empowered learners. Classroom Learning Walls contain information to support student learning in English and Specialist learning walls support learning in their specific learning area. The questions above are discussed with students and the students are beginning to develop the skills to articulate answers about their own learning. We are excited to hear what the students share with us when we visit the classrooms.
The focus for the fortnight is: Be a Friend – We respect everyone’s personal space bubbles.
Knowing how close or far away to stand from other people is one of our many social skills. For most of us, we don’t have to think about this, we just know. For some children, this may not happen naturally and they may require support to understand how far or close to stand to someone and why this is important.
Personal body space is the imaginary ‘space bubble’ that surrounds our bodies. We like to keep this area to ourselves most of the time. If people enter our personal body space we might feel uncomfortable and move away from the person. The complexity of personal body space deepens when we explore different relationships in our lives.
The space bubble is smaller with our immediate family, meaning that we can stand closer to them and feel safe and comfortable. With strangers and people we don’t see as often we need to stand further away. Other factors are also important, including age, gender, culture and emotions.
We don’t just have personal space around our bodies, we may have it on other spaces too. An imaginary zone forms around our desk space, table space at dinner and around us while we are on public transport. When someone invades our personal body space they become a ‘space invader’. If this person is a stranger, we may even feel scared as well as uncomfortable.
When teaching personal body space rules to children we can use our arms to show the distance you stand from someone. A fully outstretched arm represents the distance between people in your outer circles and the distance between the end of your hand and your elbow can represent the distance you can stand with people in your inner circle. This can be modelled by placing your elbow on your hip and reaching your arm towards the person. We can also tune children into other people’s body language when the child is too close and the person feels uncomfortable. Looking at spaces between characters in books and on television can also be useful. If your child participates in pretend play you can demonstrate personal space using characters and toys.
The SEL focus for the fortnight is Bouncing Back (Resilience)
Resilience is a term that most people have heard before. Research into mental health has found that a strong sense of resilience is an extremely good quality to have and that the presence or lack of resilience can have a direct impact on a person’s overall health and wellbeing. Since resilience begins to develop from birth and can grow over time, it is important for parents to have good understandings surrounding how to foster this valuable character trait in their children.
In very simple terms, resilience refers to the ability to cope when things don’t go as planned. Being able to deal with the ups and downs that come with life and being able to accept and deal with disappointments, hurts and surprises requires a good sense of resilience.
For children, developing resilience is important for helping them deal with life, but also for helping them develop the skills and habits they will need to manage difficulties and challenges as they grow up. A strong sense of resilience will support children to be persistent and not give up in the face of failure. Resilience will help a child to recover after difficult times, deal with challenges and just generally be able to cope with all that life brings.
Fortunately, we know that a child’s resilience is not fixed at birth. That means that whilst some children might seem to be more naturally resilient, there are certainly things that can be done to promote, support and build a sense of resilience. There are many ways that parents and teachers can support children to grow their sense of resilience. Encouraging children to have a ‘growth mindset’ will help them to place value on their effort rather than on the outcome. By utilising a growth mindset, children can see opportunities for learning rather than focusing on failures. When we are able to see that we are not defined by our failures, we are able to be more resilient in the face of disappointments and setbacks. Raising children to practice gratitude will also help them to build their sense of resilience. Being able to recognise and appreciate the good things that happen in life will automatically mean that there is less focus placed on the bad things.
Sleep Hygiene
What is Sleep Hygiene?
‘Sleep hygiene’ is the term used to describe good sleep habits. Considerable research has gone into developing a set of guidelines and tips which are designed to enhance good sleeping, and there is much evidence to suggest that these strategies can provide long-term solutions to sleep difficulties.
There are many medications which are used to treat insomnia, but these tend to be only effective in the short-term. Ongoing use of sleeping pills may lead to dependence and interfere with developing good sleep habits independent of medication, thereby prolonging sleep difficulties. Talk to your health professional about what is right for you, but we recommend good sleep hygiene as an important part of treating insomnia, either with other strategies such as medication or cognitive therapy or alone.
Sleep Hygiene Tips!
1) Routine, routine, routine
One of the best ways to train your body to sleep well is to go to bed and get up at more or less the same time every day, even on weekends and days off! This regular rhythm will make you feel better and will give your body something to work from.
2) Slow Down
Before your child's bedtime, get them to do something calming or boring. Sit quietly on the couch with the lights off (bright light will tell your brain that it is time to wake up), or read a story. Avoid doing anything too stimulating or interesting, as this will wake you up even more.
3) Bed is for sleeping
Try not to use your bed for anything other than sleeping and a book for bed. This will help your child's body to associate bed with sleep. If you use bed as a place to watch TV, eat, read, play their ipad or other things, your child's body will not learn this connection.
4) Sleep Rituals
You can support your child's sleep by developing rituals of things to remind your child's body that it is time to sleep - some people find it useful to do relaxing stretches or breathing exercises for 15 minutes before bed each night, or sit calmly with a book.
5) Bathtime
Having a hot bath 1-2 hours before bedtime can be useful, as it will raise your body temperature, causing you to feel sleepy as your body temperature drops again. Research shows that sleepiness is associated with a drop in body temperature.
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CLASS |
NAME |
REASON |
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Prep C |
Ridaan |
For his polite and friendly manner towards others and for being a responsible learner. |
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Prep K |
Billy |
For his positive approach to all learning tasks. |
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Prep N |
Mia |
For her amazing improvement in confidence when writing. |
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Prep T |
Moksha |
For great improvement in her reading and writing skills. |
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1B |
Amelia |
For actively working to improve her writing and giving all learning tasks a go. |
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1C |
Leana |
For trying her best to become a writer and giving all learning tasks a go. |
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1P |
Oliver |
For confidently participating in learning activities. |
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2B |
Freja |
For having a great attitude to her learning and always trying her best on her writing. |
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2D |
Ada |
For being a cooperative classmate and showing resilience when faced with challenges. |
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2H |
Lachlan |
For working hard to be a learner by demonstrating an improvement in being a focused and reflective student. |
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2S |
Leonardo |
For your spelling efforts while working on your character comparisons. |
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3DM |
Billie |
For being an active learner and her confidence in always trying new and tricky tasks. |
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3G |
Amelia |
For making meaningful and interesting contributions to our class discussions and sharing her knowledge about a variety of topics. |
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3H |
Cooper |
For being an independent learner and taking responsibility for his own actions. |
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3S |
Georgia |
For working on her confidence in class discussions. |
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4D |
Miki |
For working hard to improve her writing by using the learning wall and giving all learning tasks a go. |
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4G |
Thomas T |
For being a learner and never giving up on tasks that are perceived as difficult or challenging. Well done! |
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4M |
Xavier |
For being a great learner by using our English Learning Wall and independently bumping up his writing. |
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5B |
Owen |
For consistently displaying courtesy, respect and leadership qualities in the classroom and while representing the school. Owen is a conscientious student and loves learning. Well done, Owen! |
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5M |
Isla |
For creating a wonderful persuasive text in English this term. |
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5SK |
Anthony |
For being a great friend helping those around him complete tricky tasks. |
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5/6K |
Hayden |
For consistently demonstrating courtesy, active listening and diligence everyday. |
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6C |
Micky |
For being an independent learner by continuously working hard in class to complete all tasks and improve his work |
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6H |
Emelia |
For always being friendly towards and respectful of others in the classroom and the playground. |
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6W |
Rei |
For working hard to complete all learning tasks to a high standard and participating actively in classroom discussions. |
In this edition…
- Rockaeoke (Adult only event) – Saturday 18th May, 7pm School Hall
- Craigslea Cooler Charge – Friday 21st June, 2pm School Oval
- Bunnings Sausage Sizzle – Saturday 22nd June, Stafford Bunnings, All day event.
Also….
- We had a very successful Mother’s Day stall on Friday 10th Thank you to all of our volunteers and to Emily for organising such an amazing event. Together we managed to raise $2800 which will go towards our chilled water stations.
- OSHC Vacation care program is almost ready for the June/July holidays. Keep an eye out via the Xplor app and your emails for more information.
- Can you help? Volunteering opportunities available
- P&C Contacts – Get in touch
- Fundraising Opportunities
- Rockaoke (Adult only event) – Saturday 18th May 7pm in the school hall.
- There is still time to purchase your tickets to this adult only event happening this Saturday night. Ticket prices are $20 each, or you can pay $30 and pre-buy your first drink (e.g. can of coke / beer / glass of wine) and snack (e.g. bag of chips). Click here to purchase your tickets https://trybooking.com/1212833
Feel free to invite your friends but remember it is an ADULTS ONLY event.
- We have a live band coming who will be playing all of your favourite songs. If you choose to on the night you can nominate yourself to sing a song or just enjoy your friends singing on stage. Click on this link to see the selection of songs http://tinyurl.com/CSSsecretplaylist
- We will be selling a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as hot food (pizzas, garlic bread, potato gems) and snacks.
- There will be tables and chairs available for you to rest your dancing feet when you need.
- Craigslea Cooler Charge – Friday 21st June 2pm School Oval
- What better way to finish off the term besides some active fun on the school oval.
- This year the P&C have partnered with the crew from Holt Bolt to lead a fun filled afternoon for all children on the school oval. There will be some running, an obstacle course, some water play and of course some colour fun!!!
- Your child will soon be bringing home a flyer with a QR code that links to our fundraising page. They can then ask family, friends, neighbours etc to donate to their page – the child with the highest funds raised will win free tuckshop for a term (up to the value of $200) and the class with the highest funds raised will win free ice blocks from tuckshop.
- Bunnings Sausage Sizzle – Saturday 22nd June (all day), Stafford Bunnings.
- This will be our last fundraiser for the term and our last fundraiser for the school water coolers. We are so excited that come summer our school will have multiple water stations where children can fill up their water bottles or have a drink from a chilled water station.
- If you can help out at the Bunnings Sausage sizzle please click on the link below. You can nominate to help for 1hr or join the morning or afternoon BBQ group. https://volunteersignup.org/BJLF8
- If you are unable to help on the day please consider stopping by and purchasing a sausage (or 4!). Every sale helps to boost our profit which goes directly back to paying for our chilled water stations.
Can You Help?
Help to make Craigslea State Primary School a better place by volunteering for these activities:
- Tuckshop – tuckshop are always after volunteers during the week. Even if you only have a short amount of free time please reach out and get in touch with Deb (see the P&C contacts below)
- Bunnings Sausage Sizzle – 22nd June 2024 – click on this link if you can help out https://volunteersignup.org/BJLF8
P&C Contacts
P&C Executive (Joel, Raechal, Sophie, Kate)
enquiries@craigsleapandc.org.au
https://www.facebook.com/CSSPandC
http://tinyurl.com/2xkuvtx9 (link to download P&C 2024 Calendar)
Tuckshop (Deb)
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
Fundraising Opportunities
- Entertainment Books: Craigslea State School link - https://au.entdigital.net/orderbooks/225332?utm_campaign=2021-130521
- We currently have spaces available for advertising on our electronic school sign at the front of the school. Should you be interested, please contact us via email enquiries@craigsleapandc.org.au . Our prices are currently half price whilst we wait for our sign to be fixed.
30 Jun 2025 - 11 Jul 2025 All day 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM All day 28 Jul 2025 - 29 Jul 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM All day All day
School Holidays
School resumes
Assembly - NAIDOC
Eco Club - Term 3
Eco Club - Term 3
School Trees Day
2025 Life ED Talk About It
P&C General Meeting
OSHC Educators Day
Due (Consent & Payment) - 2025 Perform Education Year 1 and Year 2
