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Our School

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We’ve taken some photos of our school. It’s a quick and easy for our Quadblogging buddies, Travel Buddies and online friends to see what our school looks like.

This year we have started the school year with 409 students from Reception to Year 7. There are 19 classes.

We have lots of different classroom areas – there is the Reception Unit, Year 1 and 2 classrooms, the Year 3 Unit, the Year 4 and 5 classrooms and our Middle School classrooms that have our Year 5/6 and 6/7 classes in them.

Mrs Raynor is our Music teacher. Mrs Pettmann is our PE (Physical Education) teacher. Frau James is our German teacher and Mrs Langham is our teacher/Librarian in the Resource Centre. Mrs Reid works in the Happy Room.

Mr Wait is our Principal, Mr Luke is our Deputy Principal and Mrs Gillespie is our Assistant Principal.

Here are some photos of our school – our classrooms, the gym, the Music room, our netball/ basketball courts, the oval and our gardening/environmental centre.

Tamika, Libby, Will, Emma, Cooper and Trent took the photos so we could put this slide show together – thanks team!

Craigburn Primary School 2012 on PhotoPeach

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What do ou think of our school and it’s grounds? How is it similar or different to your school?

SRC Elections

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On Monday we held election of our SRC Reps- Student Representative Council Representatives. We discussed the importance of being a representative for our class and the qualities our reps would need. Some of the ideas our class came up with were: being responsible, being co-operative, being a good communicator, being on time for meetings, representing the class not just your own ideas, fundraising ideas – just to name a few!
During the first week of school students could nominate themselves and were asked to prepare a speech.
Our Nominees were: Sienna, Jenny, Libby, Sarah and Lucy and Lachlan, Ned, Trent and Cooper.
Here are our nominees:

Here are each of the nominees giving their speeches. Some children chose to write their speeches down, others chose to speak without writing a speech beforehand.
The quality of the speeches were very high and interesting to listen to.

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After listening to the speeches each student was asked to vote for 1 girl and 1 boy representative.

Congratulations to ………….  Ned and Libby our 2012 SRC Representatives! 

Lachlan and Sienna are our proxies – they go to meetings if one of our reps is away.

 

Our first buddy class visit

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Every class at Craigburn Primary School has a buddy class. This means that each class has a buddy class to meet with during the year. It’s a great way for the children to care for one another and support each other, both in the classroom and outside during break times. Buddy class activities provide for older children to be mentors and positive role models for our younger students and our younger students are given guidance and help if needed. It’s a highly regarded programme in our school.

On Friday we had our first visit to our Buddy class. This year our buddies are Mrs Robertson’s Year 6/7 class. They work in the Middle Year’s Unit with 3 other Year 6/7 classes and a Year 5/6 class.

For our first visit we met our buddies and worked out who we would each have for a buddy. We work with our buddy for the whole year. Then we played Buddy Bingo – each buddy pair had a chart of questions to answer. We needed to move around the room and find out information about our buddies. Some of the questions were: find someone with blue eyes, find someone who is learning the drums, find someone who loves pizza, find someone who loves going to the beach. Each buddy pair needed to list as many names as possible in each square. It was lots of fun finding out information about each other!

Our classes will meet every Friday just after recess. We are really looking forward to doing lots of activities with our buddies. We already planned lots of activities that we’ll enjoy together – like reading, board games, outdoor games, cooking, gardening – just to name a few!
Here are some photos of the buddies in action!

 
2012 Buddies on PhotoPeach

Do you have a Buddy class? What type of activities do you like to do with your buddies? Please send us your ideas – we might be able to try them!
 

Travel Buddies

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Exciting news!!!!
This week we opened a parcel from the State of New York in the United States of America. It was a parcel from our travel buddies. Each year our class swaps a buddy with Mrs Griffin’s class in New haven Elementary School.
We we opened the parcel we found:
Chopper – the travel buddy
Chopper’s Dairy – where we write about Chopper’s adventures
Lead pencils
US flags
Lollies – Smarties and Reece’s Pieces – we don’t have these in Australia
Serviettes
Books
Stickers
Booklets and maps about the state of New York
A book all about the students and staff at New Haven Elementary School.

We will take turns at taking Chopper home for a visit and writing about it.
This gives us the chance to learn about schools and children who live overseas – what they like, what they do, learn about their school and the activities they like to do.
At the moment it is Winter over there and it’s been snowing – which is very different to us. They live in the Northern hemisphere and we are in the Southern hemisphere so our weather is opposite. We will be doing some activities to learn more about our buddies.
We are about to send our parcel to them.
Do you have any ideas for items that we should include that could teach them about our lives in Australia? Please let us know what you think we could send to them.

Here are some photos that Will took as we opened our special parcel.

 

 

 

 

 

                     

 

 

 

 

 

We’d like to say a huge “thank you” to our US Travel Buddies.

Meet the 2012 Class

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Hi Everyone,

It’s great to be back at school and it’s been a busy first couple of days! We’ve caught up on our holiday news, what movies we saw, where we travelled and which friends we saw over the long Summer break!

We’ve been getting back into our school routines. We’ve made some new friends in the class already, developed our class values, covered our books and started to learn our routines for a new class.

We have  8 students who were in this class last year and the rest of the class is new!

We’re really looking forward to our year of learning together – it’s looking exciting!

Here are the members of our class for 2012.

 
2012 Class on PhotoPeach

Hey Elf Yourself!!

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We’ve been having some Christmas fun today and decided to Elf Ourselves!

We used a website called Elf Yourself.

We think we look pretty cool!!!!

Here’s Matthew, Cooper, Louis, Hannah and Thomas.

Here’s Amy, Kasey, Sarah, Sam and Harry.

Here’s Katie, Will, Paul, Jordan and Maisie.

Here’s Mitchell, Layla, Amelia, Emma and Trent.

The lucky last group is Ella, Brodie, Jayde and Miss Sporn.

Have you tried to Elf Yourself? Give it a go!!

Christmas Craft Morning

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Today all of the Year 2 classes held their Christmas Craft Morning. Each class had 3 different craft activities that involve making a Christmas decoration. Our parent and Grandparent helpers run the activities and the teachers help out and get the activities ready. Some of the crafts we made were:

  • Pop stick ornaments
  • Tea light candle holders
  • Curtain Christmas wreaths
  • Foam cup snowmen
  • Serviette Santas
  • Christmas cards
  • Felt angels
  • Felt stars and
  • Peg reindeers.

We had a lot of fun and our rooms look very festive with all of our decorations on display. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the parent and Grandparent helpers – they helped every child at their activity, gave us really clear instructions and did an amazing cleaning up job!!

THANK YOU!

Here are some photos of our morning.

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What did you enjoy about our Christmas Craft morning? Did you have a favourite activity?