Dear Craigslea Community,

I hope all our Craigslea Dad’s had a wonderful Father’s Day last Sunday.  It was great to see so many come into school to enjoy the OSHC BBQ breakfast and coffee. Thanks to the OSHC and P&C teams! This week starts our last fortnight of term 3. Our students and their teachers are busy finishing off this term’s learning.  It is exciting to see our students proudly share their learning at our Show & Shine afternoon again this term.

Once again, this term we will be using a speed dating style of interviews with all interviews taking place in the hall.  We ask that parents and families are respectful of interview times and ensure any children who attend interviews are sitting quietly with or nearby parents for the duration of their interviews.  I would like to extend a very big thank you to the P&C on behalf of the staff for providing our dinner for the evening.

STAR Team
This year our staff are working in teams to undertake action research to build their professional knowledge and skills and to enhance our school wide processes.  This week our teachers had their final STAR team meeting for the term.  As I visited each group it was wonderful to see our teachers actively leading research in a chosen field that will benefit the learning and school experience of our students.  Our teams are undertaking action research into:

• Inquiry learning
• Inclusion
• Reading
• Engagement
• Social and Emotional learning

Next term the teams will share their work with the whole staff and their learnings and recommendations will be fed into our 2025 improvement priorities.

Prep Playground
On Tuesday our prep students were very excited to have their first play in their upgraded play space.  It has been a long time coming but our preppies had a wonderful time exploring their new space. On Friday our 2025 Prep students will have an opportunity to play on this new playground as part of their transition into Craiglsea.  We are very appreciative of the support of our P&C to enable this upgrade to our play space.  

Year 6 Legacy Project
Last week, I spoke with our Year 6 cohort about a special project to leave behind a piece of their legacy as our 2024 seniors. We have engaged a mural artist to collaborate with the Year 6 students to design a mural that will cover the cool courts side of the OSHC building. Students and teachers are working together to gather design ideas by the end of this term, with the mural set to be planned and painted in the first half of Term 4. I am excited to see what our students create to represent their time as seniors at our school.

R U OK?  Day

On Thursday 12 September we will make time to ask R U Ok? R U Ok day reminds us of the importance of connecting with each other and letting each other know we are there to listen and support if and when it is needed.  Every meaningful conversation we engage in builds trust and normalises talking about what is going on so that we can reach out when we are struggling.

This is the last newsletter for Term 3.  Where oh where did Term 3 go!  It has been a term filled with many wonderful experiences and learning adventures for our students.  I would like to congratulate our staff and students on their efforts this term and thank them for their commitment to learning.  It is hard to believe term 4 is just around the corner.

Have a wonderful fortnight and a lovely spring holiday.

“Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary” Dewitt Jones

Yours in Learning,

Melanie Rehm

Kindy Connections

On Tuesday, our wonderful friends at Bright Beginnings visited us to deliver a message. They have asked if next term, they could visit our garden. How wonderful to share our beautiful garden with our friends at the kindy. I also saw plenty of familiar faces of our futute CSS students!!

Prep Playground

A little information regarding illness

Erin Wiles

Many parents have concerns regarding their children’s appropriate use of social media and messaging platforms. Many social media platforms that your children may currently be accessing are NOT recommended for primary age children.  Please access the eSafety Commissioner's website (https://www.esafety.gov.au) is a great resource with lots of helpful information about keeping safe online.

In some year levels, students have reported receiving abuse and threats from other students on social media platforms. As a way of protecting themselves, students are encouraged to take screenshots of any inappropriate communications and share this with their parents. This usually occurs outside of school hours, however if it impacts students at school, the school will manage the impact and inform parents. I would encourage all parents and caregivers to monitor their children’s messaging and internet usage with the intention of maintaining their safety.

Sporting Wheelies will be at South Bank during the weekends of the Paralympics. They will be running some of their activities in front of the Brisbane sign. Go check them out!

Renee McGregor

In this edition…  

1. Water Coolers.
2. Breakfast Club.
3. Parent Teacher night, snacks, and drinks available.

Also….

• A huge thankyou to all the volunteers who gave up their time to help at the Fathers and Fellas Stall. It made for an easy and enjoyable day for the students, staff, and volunteers.
  
  
• Monster Jam Trivia Night! 12^th book tickets here https://www.trybooking.com/CUQGT jump in now for early bird prices.

• OSHC Christmas closure dates 23^rd Dec – 3^rd OSHC Christmas vacation care available 16^th Dec -20^th Dec. and 6^th Jan – 24^th Jan.

• We raised $550 through the Grill’d fundraising ($250 from fundraiser deals and $300 for being the bottle cap winners). Thank you to all families who supported this initiative.

Water coolers

• Thanks to some amazing fundraising last term we are upgrading the bubblers around the school, just in time for the hot weather.
• Over the holidays we will be replacing the bubblers near the Yr 1 block and near the OSHC building. Each of those will have 3 chilled bubblers, and 3 chilled bottle fillers.
• Early in term 4 we will also install coolers to chill the water in the existing bubblers around the Yr 5/6 area, and in the Yr2/3 covered area.

Breakfast club

• We aim to have a breakfast club available two mornings a week.
• So far, we have made great progress with free fruit available in the office for kids who are hungry in the mornings.

Parent Teacher night snacks and drinks available

• Next week parent teacher interviews are happening in the hall.
• P&C will be there to refuel you on the day with coffee, tea, and snacks available to purchase.