Dear Craigslea Community,

Welcome back to Term 3! I hope you had a wonderful winter break. The weather was glorious! We have an action-packed term ahead, and I hope you’re looking forward to it.

Term 3 Upcoming Events:

• NAIDOC Week
• Walking Wheeling Wednesday – PJ Day (17 July)
• Principal Afternoon Teas
• 2025 Preppies Come & Play Mornings (3 sessions)
• Pop-Up and Virtual Concerts by our Instrumental Music students and Choir
• School Photos
• P&C Disco
• ICAS
• Literacy Olympics
• Maths Tournament
• North District Athletics
• Science Week
• Year 6 Camp
• Book Week
• Walking Wheeling Wednesday – Dawdling with Dads
• P&C Father’s Day Stall
• Show & Shine
• Term 3 Parent-Teacher Interviews

Check our Schoolzine calendars for dates of these events.

2024 Learning Focus
This year, we are focused on three priorities:

1. Quality teaching in every learning environment
2. Student wellbeing and engagement
3. High expectations and learning success for all students

This week we have reviewed Semester 1 student learning data and are pleased to see improvements in student learning outcomes across all year levels, especially in the number of students achieving A or B grades. This success is due to our collaborative efforts in deepening teacher understanding of the Australian Curriculum and using learning walls as teaching tools. Well done to our teachers and students for their hard work. We will continue this effort in Semester 2.

NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week (7 – 14 July) celebrates the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year’s theme is “Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud,” with artwork ‘Urapun Muy’ by Deb Belyea representing fire which symbolises connection to Country and traditions. At Craigslea, we celebrated with a special assembly and classroom activities. Check out our classroom door displays when you visit the school over the next few days.

School Uniform Reminders
Our community has made a commitment that all students wear our school uniform.  With winter here, students are expected to wear school-coloured jumpers.  Beanies, scarves, and jewellery are not part of the uniform. Students with shoulder-length or longer hair are required to tie it back for health and safety reasons. Wearing our uniform correctly shows pride in our school.

Cooler Charge
Thank you to our P&C for organising the end-of-term Cooler Charge event. The funds raised from this event will go towards purchasing and installing water coolers, which our students will enjoy in warmer weather. We are grateful to have an active P&C and parent community committed to supporting our school.

Staffing Updates
This term, we welcome:

- Ms. Malvina Lal, teaching 5/6K

- Mr. Brendan McKeering, our new Schools Officer

Ms. Marhinin will be on leave for the first four weeks of this term.  Ms. Lynley Williams will be acting Deputy Principal working with students, teachers and families in years 3, 4, 6. Mrs. McGregor (Head of Inclusion) will work with year 5 students, teachers and families.

Facilities Updates
Over the holidays, the installation of a new front fence commenced.  This will provide increased safety and security. The Prep playground upgrade is delayed, with completion expected in early August. The Year 1 playground upgrade is our next priority and tendering will start this term.

2025 Prep
We look forward to welcoming 2025 Prep students and their families for stay and play mornings this term. There will be three opportunities for future preppies to experience Craigslea, helping with their transition and familiarisation with our school. If you are yet to enrol a 2025 Prep student please contact our school office.

“If we want to give children a gift, the best thing we can do is to teach them to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” Carol S Deweck

Yours in Learning,

Melanie Rehm

Erin Wiles

Parent Connect Mornings – Term 3

This term at our parent connect mornings, we will be sharing presentations on Autism and strategies for you and your child, the importance of music and the benefits on the developing brain along with Anxiety and what you can do as an adult to support your child.

Each session will begin at 9am and conclude at 9.30am. Refreshments will begin at 8.45am with coffee and cake. Please RSVP your attendance to rcrib1@eq.edu.au and we look forward to seeing you at our Parent Connect Mornings.

NCCD

What is the NCCD?

It’s that time of year again when the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place. The NCCD is a collection that counts:

• the number of school students receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability
• the level of adjustment they are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students.

Students are counted in the NCCD if they receive ongoing adjustments at school due to disability. This ‘help’ allows them to access education on the same basis as a child without disability. The NCCD uses the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

Why is data collected?
All schools in Australia must collect information about students with disability. The NCCD ensures that the information collected is transparent, consistent and reliable. Information collected provides better information that improves understanding of students with disability. It also allows parents, guardians, carers, teachers, principals, education authorities and government to better support students with disability.

What are the benefits of the NCCD for students?
The information collected by the NCCD helps teachers, principals, education authorities and governments to better support students with disability at school. The NCCD encourages schools to review their learning and support systems and processes. This helps schools to continually improve education outcomes for all students.

Who is included in the NCCD?
The definition of disability for the NCCD is based on the broad definition under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. The following students are examples of those who may be included in the NCCD if they need monitoring and adjustments:

• students with learning difficulties (such as dyslexia)
• students with chronic health conditions (such as epilepsy or diabetes).

Who collects information for the NCCD?
Schools identify which students will be counted in the NCCD. They base their decisions on adjustments provided for the student (after consultation with the student and/or their parents, guardians and carers), the school team’s observations and professional judgements along with any medical or other professional diagnoses. School principals must ensure that information for the NCCD is accurate.

What information is collected?
A student is counted in the NCCD if they receive reasonable adjustments at school due to disability. Each year, schools collect the following information about the student, including:

• their year of schooling
• the level of adjustment received
• the broad type of disability.

For students who have more than one disability, the school uses professional judgement to choose one category of disability. They choose the category that most affects the student’s access to education and for which adjustments are being provided.

How is the data used?
It ensures that support for students with disability becomes routine in the day-to-day practice of schools. The NCCD also supports students in the following ways.

• Schools focus on the individual adjustments that support students with disability. 
• The NCCD facilitates a collaborative and coordinated approach to supporting students with disability. 

Is the NCCD compulsory?
Yes. All schools must collect and submit information each year for the NCCD. This is detailed in the Australian Education Regulation 2013.

How is students’ privacy protected?
Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of all students is an essential part of the NCCD. Data is collected within each school. Personal details, such as student names or student identifiers, are not provided to federal education authorities.

Learn more about privacy in the Public information notice. FURTHER INFORMATION you can also visit the NCCD Portal. There is also a free e-learning resource about the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and Disability Standards for Education 2005.

Renee McGregor

In this edition… 

1. Kids “Showtime” Disco, put it in your calendar Aug 2^nd. Check for flyers coming out next week.
2. Thank you for your support of our successful fundraisers last term.
3. Keep connected and up to date with what the P&C is doing around the school on our Facebook page, Schoolzine app, and the newsletter.

 Also….

• Volunteer for our Father’s and Fella’s Day stall, Thursday Aug 29th. org/KTAYF
• The tuckshop butter chicken was received so well that we will be adding it to the menu as a Tuesday special every 2nd week. On the alternative week we will have a Tuesday special of Cheesy vegetarian Pasta Bake (the same as vacation care serves).
• Thanks to Kylie and the OSHC team for another great vacation care program, the kids loved it, and we got great feedback on how well behaved the children were when on excursions, they represented the school admirably.
• Thank you to everyone who came along to the garden working bee on the weekend. Garden club is back on every Friday morning if you are keen to be involved.

1. Kids “Showtime” Disco.

• Friday August 2^nd 2024, there will be two sessions.
• 5:30pm – 6:45pm, lower volume, more lighting. and a later session 7:00pm – 8:30pm we’ll turn up the tunes and lower the lighting (a bit).
• Your child will soon be bringing home a flyer with more details and a QR code to purchase tickets. Get in early to purchase tickets at https://trybooking.com/CSVBM.
• Each session costs $7.50 per child or $12.00 per child to attend both sessions.

2. Thankyou for your support of last terms fundraisers.

• The fun filled afternoon of colour charge raised $1,123.
• The Bunnings sausage sizzle raised $3,107.
• Together we have raised a total of $15.6k for the upgrading of the school water coolers!

3. Keep connected with the P&C, find out about events, volunteering, fundraising, and projects. 

• Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CSSPandC
• Did you know you can get all upcoming P&C Events in your personal calendar? Subscribe to our calendar today and never miss another event!
  • IOS (Apple) Devices: Click this link http://tinyurl.com/2xkuvtx9 and choose “subscribe” (to get any new events and updates)
  • Google Devices: Add a Calendar from URL using this link: http://tinyurl.com/2xkuvtx9. This video will help https://youtu.be/JBcPO-jO2eI.
  • Samsung Devices: Connect your Google Calendar to your Samsung Calendar. Then follow the steps above for Google Devices.
  • Other Devices: Google “subscribe to ical calendar on my [Your Device]”
• The schoolzine app.
• Keep an eye out for flyers.
• The Newsletter.
• All welcome to our P&C meetings, the next meeting is July 22^nd.

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

info@craigsleaswimming.com