The year 5 students from D20 and D18 held a showcase of their learning which included Geography, Maths, Literacy and Art. This gave an opportunity for the students to feel proud and celebrate all their hard work over the term. The classes excelled at discussing their achievements and demonstrating their …
We would like to invite families and friends to come along to our ‘STEM Family Evening‘ on Monday 5th November. Where : Craigburn Primary School – lower basketball court, library and deck areas Time : 5.00 – 7.00pm Our STEM Family Evening will be an opportunity to check out some of the amazing …
In Science last week Mrs Hepworth’s and Mrs Bellette’s Year 5 classes investigated the properties and nature of light. This included light travelling in straight lines from a source and how it interacts with different materials, how light can form shadows and be refracted or absorbed and how light can …
As part of the Middle School Unit inquiry this term, students have been looking at world or community problems and thinking about possible solutions to help overcome them. We have been following the “6 Ds” for this process which asks students to Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver and Debrief the …
For over twenty years, Craigburn has entered teams into the annual Tournament of Minds competition held in September at Flinders University. Tournament of Minds (TOM) is a problem solving programme for teams of students from both primary and secondary years. They are required to solve demanding, open-ended challenges from one …
We are offering additional BYO iPad parent induction sessions over the next 2 weeks for parents and caregivers of students in Years 2 to 7 who wish to have their child participate in the BYO iPad Program. Feel free to come along to one of the following sessions: Monday 9th May – …
We now have some brand new ‘whisper’ phones in our class to use during reading activities, as a part of our Daily 5 Reading tasks. We LOVE our whisper phones which were made by John Nuske, Isaac’s Dad from our class. John made 80 whisper phones – a class set …
We have started a Coding Club on Thursdays at lunch time in Room 4. Students from Reception – Year 7 are taking part in in the club run by Miss Sporn, Miss Grant and Mrs Langham. We are using a programme called Scratch. This is a free online programme that …