Cranbrook Newsletter - 2024 Term 3 Week 2

Principal's Message

Welcome back everyone to our next weeks of learning in Term Three.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend a very warm Cranbrook welcome to our new families who are joining us this Term.

It is always wonderful to see all newcomers settle in so quickly and adapt to our daily routines and culture. Term Three is always one of the busiest in every school year. There will no doubt be other activities and events along the way to keep us even busier. If you are not yet following us via Social Media, I encourage you to like our school Facebook page as another way to keep abreast of our news.

Extra Curricula Activities 

Our wonderful array of activities for Term 3 have begun.  Please let your children know about the activities, especially the extra lunch time ones:

Learn AUSLAN - Wednesday 2nd break in the 3D classroom

Soccer Skills - Thursday 1st break on the grassed area behind the library, beside the 2/3 playground

Scrabble - Tuesday 2nd break in the Year 4 middle room

Reporting

Report Cards will be distributed today by email and paper copy. While no official parent teacher interviews are offered as part of this process, please know that you can request a meeting with your child’s teacher any day about any concern that you have.  Our staff email list can be found on our website, or via the link below.

Year 5 & 6 students:  Please note that the students' Japanese results will be emailed directly from Cairns School of Distant Education to parents early in Term 3.

Procedures for Ensuring Safety

Parents and carers, a reminder to please ensure that:

• you sign your children in through the office if they are late to school, 
• you sign them out if you need to collect them early (including from sick bay), and 
• you sign them in and out if they are out of school for a period of time during the day.

You will be issued with an Early Departure/Exit Slip from our system when you report to the office to collect your child.  Teachers will be instructed not to release children who have not presented with the Early Departure/Exit Slip.  This is very important to track where children are, and also for our official record keeping. 

Daily Absence Notification

Queensland state schools are required to advise parents/carers when their child is absent without explanation as soon as practicable on that day, allowing time for parents/carers to respond before the end of the school day.  Are you receiving your text message when your child is absent? If not, please contact the school to update your contact information.

Parents can reply text the reason for their child's absence and then you won't need to write a note or call our Absence Hotline.

Term 3 Environmental Captains

Congratulations to our Environmental Captains this term. 

Our students have a very responsible job to ensure rubbish is emptied into the correct collection areas.  Thank you to our cleaners for helping to keep our students on task with this.

Term 3 Environmental Captains are:

PA - Chase and Kaylee

PB - Heidi and Noah

PC - Maisie and Angel

P/1D - William and Bianca

1A - Piper and student N

1B - Amity and Jack

1C - Marley and Jairus

2A - Ahmarni and Landyn

2B - Corbin and Rylee

2C - Eddie and Leiana

3A - Eddy and Logan

3B - Mitchell and Mackenzie

3C - Samuel and Vivian

3D - Kayden and student C

4A - Mia and Maleek

4B - Ella and Aaliyah

4C - Isabella and Ashton

5A - Asta and Kohen

5B - Samantha and Logann

5C - Leigho and Alana

6A - Ty and Student Y

6B - Tyler and Kai

6C - Mia and Ducez

Jeff Capell - Principal

Every Day Counts - Attendance

Regular, punctual attendance at school is expected of all students. 

Students should be present at school ready to prepare for the day's learning by 8:30am.

Late Arrivals

Students arriving after 8:50am must report to the office to receive a lateslip.  If a student is late, a letter of explanation from the student's parent/guardian must be presented to the office staff on arrival.

Absence

If a student is absent and the parent/guardian has not notified the school, they will receive an automated text message by 10am that day.  

Parents will receive a text message informing them that their child is absent. If you receive one of these text messages, please contact the school to explain the reason for your child’s absence.

A working mobile number should be registered with the school, if available.

Please remember that absence is only marked for the days specified by the parents. If you ring up on a Monday informing that your child is sick and they remain away from school for the following 2 days because they are sick you need to inform us that this was the reason for their absence. You can inform us after the absence via a message directly to the teacher or by contacting our absence hotline or email.

If your child is absent, please leave a message detailing:

• Child's name
• Class
• Reason for absence
• Dates or duration of absence

PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning

Starting the term off again, we looked at being responsible and making sure we follow routines and transitions.

This week, we looked at being safe and remembering how we must be safe all the time.

Below are the 'for families' poster of our lessons, which gives you a chance to continue these conversations at home and possibly apply them to your daily family life.  

Since it was a whole school parade to start the term off, we had 2 lucky winners.

Congratulations to Sharma!

Congratulations to Emma!

In Week 2, our snappy winner was Zion!

Our weekly $10 'Golden Snap' draw for Week 1, went to Mia

and for Week 2, it was Olivia. (no photo)

Uniform Reminder

As the cool weather approaches the Cranbrook P&C have reinforced that Cranbrook State School is a UNIFORM school. This includes the winter uniform of jumpers and jackets.

Thank you to those parents who have been able to ensure their child represents the school with pride by wearing the school’s Winter Uniform.

For those who haven't yet purchased a jacket or jumper, the Uniform Shop is open each morning from 8-9am and payment may be made by cash or card.  Alternatively, you can order via the P&C’s Big Commerce website and the purchase will be delivered to your child's classroom. 

The school jacket is $45.  The school jumper is $30.

The website is:  https://cranbrook-state-school-pc-association.mybigcommerce.com/  

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Each day students have a Cranbrook Jacket or Jumper with them, they will receive a 'snap' and go in the whole school draw for a chance to win a $5 tuckshop voucher each week.

Congratulations to our Week 1 winner, George and to our Week 2 winner, Liam.

From The Arts

Imagine a Dragon

is our 2024 Musical, being performed by our Year 4 and 5 students (with some additional Year 6 friends).

28 and 29 August

Musical Rehearsals will continue in Term 3.

Costume Note

Please remember that these items must be at school, no later than Friday, 16 August.

Week 1's Arts Class of the Week goes to.....

** 5B **

for their energetic and passionate rehearsal in musical practise, their memory of their musical songs and their teamwork and thoughtfulness of others in the room.

Week 2's Arts Class of the Week goes to.....

** 6A **

because they worked as a team, they respected each other and all class activities and they tried their hardest and participated in every task.

From the Sports Desk....

          Interschool Sport (Touch Football and Soccer) continues until 15 August.

Congratulations to Year 6 students, Peyton and Emelea, who were selected in the Northern 11-12 Years Girls Rugby League team.  They will compete at the State Championships in Brisbane at the end of the term.

Congratulations too, to Year 6 student, Dontrelle, who was part of the bronze winning Northern 11-12 Years Boys Rugby League team. 

Past Cranbrook students Harley Wakelin and Jordan Bye joined with our current students Tyson and Joel and won silver as part of the 10-11 years Norther Rugby League team.

A fantastic achievement for all involved!

Interschool Athletics Carnival

Cranbrook students have begun training hard, to hopefully receive a place in our Cranbrook Team, who will compete at the Interschool Athletics Carnival in August.

If your child received a note home about this, please support us by reminding your child when their training session is.  Please find the timetable below.

Learning at Cranbrook

Take a look at what we'll be learning this term and when our assessment will be.

Prep

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Last term, Year 6 student, Jasmine, created a 'Passion Project' - an extra non-assessment piece, on dance. 

Take a look at her amazing work via the link below.  (apologies - we had some technical issues with the sound)

From the Resource Centre

Class Borrowing Days

For students in Prep / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3…..you must have a library bag to protect your books.

It is very important that books are returned every week. 

Students are not allowed to borrow more books until any outstanding ones are returned.

Please return your child’s home reader and library books on the following days:

Book Review 

A Book Review by Year 1 student, Christopher, on the book 'Walk with Us'.

Christopher, please give us a summary of the book - It is about a young boy and his Mum going for a walk to their favourite park.  Then they saw Uncle Boris and followed him to the beach.

Which characters in the book did you like the most and why?  I like Harvey because he found a wallaby.

What did you learn from reading this book?  I learned Aboriginal language for different plants.

Will you recommend this book to your friends?  If so, why?  Yes because I can't believe he found a wallaby!

Thanks Christopher - that was awesome!  Walk with Us is now in our library and available to borrow from the Junior Fiction section. 

Don't forget about the Premier's Reading Challenge!  

The PRC is not a competition but a way to encourage students to develop a love of reading for life. Students are encouraged to select a range of fiction and non-fiction books suited to their reading ability and record books read during the reading period, from 7 May to 23 August. 

Thanks to all those students who have already sent back their forms.

Please find both the letter and the form, available to download via the link, below.

NAIDOC Week

Our NAIDOC Committee is working hard to create a fabulous week of activities for everyone! 

The Colouring Competition sheets have been handed out to each class.  There is a $5 prize for the winner of every grade!  

Activities will be held as follows:

Wednesday - for students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2

Thursday - for students in Years 3 and 4

Friday - for students in Years 5 and 6

Friday morning is our NAIDOC Parade - all are welcome to join us in the hall at 9am.

Friday afternoon is when our Kup Murri will be served at 1.45pm.  Again, our community is welcome to join us.  

Student Fun

Thanks to our Student Council for hosting a 'Guess the Chocolate' competition!

It's free to enter and students can have their guess in the library at every break this coming week.

Health Alert

Unfortunately, we've had several reported cases of Whooping Cough in our school.  

Please refer to the initial correspondence we received from Queensland Health for more details.

Further information can be found on the Queensland Health website via the link below.

From your P&C

Sponsorship Opportunity

Cranbrook State School Touch Football teams will be attending a Touch Football Carnival in Brisbane in November 2024.

We are seeking sponsorship for various parts of this trip.  Please have a read of the proposal via the link below and share it with family and friends.

Sports Pride Fridays

Community News

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