YEAH! IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN – BOOK WEEK Curious Creatures, Wild Minds This year’s theme is ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds.’ Each year across Australia, The CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) brings children and books together celebrating CBCA Children’s Book Week. During this time schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators and children …
This month is global awareness for Children with Cancer. We have decided to organise a casual and odd socks’ day to raise money for children with cancer. To do this we would like you to donate a gold coin, dress in casual clothes and wear odd socks. The money will …
As you would be aware from our previous post Craigburn has introduced Interoception – being activities and processes to equip all children with skills to self regulate. To further implement Interoception across the school, School Service Officers, Aimee and Jack, visited Hackham East Primary School who have implemented a highly …
Prepared by: Jack Walton & Nicky Taylor Interoception Update Your children have most probably been coming home from school, talking to you about their day and may have dropped Interoception into the conversation. Due to this, there could be some unanswered questions that you may have and leave you wondering …
We are excited to announce the new dates for Book Week. Traditionally Book Week is held in August Term 3. As we all know during these unprecedented times many events have been postponed. Good news! CBCA Book Week 2020 will now be held in October on the following dates: OCTOBER …
Scholastic Book Club Term 2 In these unprecedented times we’re all being asked to change the way we work and live. Our tradition of putting books into the hands of kids isn’t going to change, but for Term 2, we’re doing things a little differently. To access the Virtual Catalogue to …
Last year our staff engaged in professional learning in the area of Interoception. After trialling this we found it to have many benefits for our students. We will be implementing interoception activities a minimum of 2 x day after recess and lunch. What is Interoception? Interoception is our 8th sense. …
The 11th November 2019 marks the 101st anniversary of the Armistice of World War 1. It is an important day – a day to remember all of those men and women who have fought for their country. We will mark this occasion by having a whole school assembly on Monday …
We have decided to organise a casual day to raise money for the RSPCA. To do this we would like you to donate a gold coin and dress in casual clothes on Friday 20th September. The money will be donated to our local RSPCA. This will help out a lot …
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check It is that time of the year again where all Year 1 students in government schools will undertake the phonics screening check. Year 1 teachers will be undertaking these checks with their students this week on Wednesday 22nd August. Phonics is vital in learning …
YEAH! IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN – BOOK WEEK This year’s theme is ‘Reading is my Secret Power.’ Each year across Australia, The CBCA(Children’s Book Council of Australia) brings children and books together celebrating CBCA Children’s Book Week. During this time schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators and children celebrate Australian children’s literature. …
2019 Craigburn Primary School Reconciliation Week Assembly. Congratulations to the SLEG Reconciliation Team who spent many hours collaborating to produce this well presented assembly for National Reconciliation Week. Special thanks to Tristan Fergusson for liaising with the SLEG Team and co-designing this video of the assembly. Nicky Taylor – Senior …
Thank you to all of the Reception/Year 1 parents who were able to attend the reading workshops held in the last weeks of Term 1. The feedback was very positive re understanding children’s reading development. We have scheduled additional workshops for the beginning of Term 2 and urge everyone to …
Thank you to the families who have offered to take on a Korean student/s for our school’s second Korean Homestay Program. We still require a small number of families to take on a student or two as per the details provided in the previous post- see below. For any questions …
