Cranbrook Newsletter - 2024 Term 3 Week 6

Principal's Message

Welcome to our Week 6 newsletter.  The term is flying by!

Taking 2025 Enrolments now

Enrolments for all year levels are open and Prep enrolments for next year are now welcome.  Children born between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020 are eligible to enrol for Prep.  Early Entry Applications for students born in July 2020 may also be submitted for consideration.  An original birth certificate is essential for enrolment.  An enrolment form can be downloaded from this newsletter, our website or parents are welcome to pick up an enrolment pack from our front office.

Prep Transition Program

Our dates are confirmed for this year's transition program - a great opportunity for children and families alike, to feel more settled with moving on to Prep and to Cranbrook School next year.  

Please call our office to book your place. 

School Opinion Survey

Thank you to all the parents/caregivers, students and school staff who completed this year’s School Opinion Survey. We look forward to sharing our survey results with you when we receive our school report later this year.

Enjoy your weekend!

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

In Week 5 we looked at being respectful and learning how to be encouraging and supporting of others. 

This week, we looked at being responsible and being determined to improve.

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.  

Congratulations to this week's Snappy Draw winner,  Parker!                 

Our weekly $10 'Golden Snap' draw for this week, went to Alex!

From The Arts

** Tickets are now on Sale **

Imagine a Dragon

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

                                                   28 and 29 August

Buy your ticket via the Qkr! app or in person at the office.  Don't miss out - tickets always sell fast!

Instrumental achievements

Clever cookies, Cecilia and Arliah, earned their silver sash this week, for ukulele.  

Sophia and Amelia have both worked hard on their gold level and were duly awarded recently.

Sisters, Vivian and Julian, are doing everything side by side and this week together accomplished their white sash for recorder!  

Year 2 Arts

The challenge for Year 2 students at the moment, is to take an ‘old-style portrait’ using their i-Pads.

They needed to make sure:

• The subject is in the middle third of the photo.
•  The photo is EDITED to be in black and white OR sepia
• The subject/s are not smiling
• The background is plain
• The clothing looks old-fashioned

Here are some of their amazing results!

From 2A

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From 2B

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Week 5's Arts Class of the Week goes to.....

** 4A **

for working as a class team in musical rehearsal, opening their mouths and singing clearly in the musical songs and moving on and off stage with silent steps and no speaking.

Week 6's Arts Class of the Week goes to.....

** 1C **

for having safe, responsible play in the 'Clothes Shop', listening to each other and having great drama faces for the emotion hokey-pokey warm-up!!!

  Amazing effort. Well done everyone!

From the Sports Desk....

 Interschool Sport (Touch Football and Soccer) has now finished.

We hope you all had fun!

Touch Football Wrap Up

Thursday saw the conclusion of the 2024 Interschool Sport Touch Season. Cranbrook were well represented with 45 students and 6 teams participating in the competition. Our competitive teams performed strongly throughout the competition, with our Year 5 Boys going through the season undefeated to be crowned Premiers. Our Year 6 Boys played in a very tough Grand Final coming away winners 4-3. Finally, our Year 6 Girls were dominant throughout the season, this continued in the Grand Final with the girls winning 7-2.

Our Touch Players now turn their focus to preparing to go to Brisbane and compete at the QLD Primary School All Schools.  We are extremely grateful to our sponsors for this trip and their continued support afterwards:

Fair Dinkum Builds (Gold Sponsor)

Rowey's Plumbing & Gas (Silver Sponsor)

Weigh 'n' Pay (Bronze Sponsor)

Please support the businesses that support your children and your school.  Thank you.

Interschool Athletics

Last week, Cranbrook went down to 'Red Track' for the Interschool Athletics.  Overall, we did well and had some great individual performances too.

A special congratulations to:

First Place in 1st Division Boys 8yrs sprint  - Walla

First Place in 1st Division Girls 8yrs sprint - Malikah 

Third Place in 1st Division Girls 7yrs sprint - Maddison

Third Place in 1st Division 9yrs shot put - Luie

(Seniors will be announced next week)

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Learning at Cranbrook

Reading Awards

Congratulations to these dedicated little readers who have completed 150 nights of reading so far!

Well done to this group of amazing readers - 100 nights done. Great job, kids!

Academic Awards

This week, we acknowledged 2 high achievers from Year 3, who earnt Academic Achievement Awards for Semester 1.  Congratulations to Amelia and Kaiden.

Solid Pathways STEM Excursion

What a fun day we had!  Our Year 4, 5 & 6 Solid Pathways students were invited to spend a day out at our local university, JCU, doing a variety of very interesting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) experiments - some with disappointing results, some with outstanding results that had us amazed!

Thanks to the organisers of the day - especially for our yummy lunch!  

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Global Tropics

Our Global Tropics Program for Round 2 came to a conclusion last week.  

Our Year 5 students were doing 'Astro 101'.....To understand how galaxies formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes.  If you’re quick, you may even be the first person to see the galaxies you’re asked to classify.  Look at telescope images of distant galaxies.  Explore the sky.  What will you find? The newly launched James Webb telescope is allowing us to look further into space than ever before. This Grand Challenge introduces students to the concept of citizen science focusing on classifying galaxies.  Students are asked to investigate and use scientific tools to recognise and interpret characteristic galaxy patterns using the images taken by telescopes and stored in the Galaxy Zoo database.  Students explore galaxy properties in the context of their own research question using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.  The project is designed to be open-ended to provide students with the opportunity to experience how to conduct real research.

Here's what they thought about the program....

Sienna loved discovering the different galaxies that are in space.  She was surprised to learn that every single known galaxy is named!

Sienna's partner in GT was Annalise.  Annalise loved researching and discovering the colours of the elliptical galaxies.  She enjoyed discovering the many galaxies that there are and identifying them.

Kadisha was excited at attempting to learn the names (and names and names) of the many (many) galaxies.  Does she recommend Global Tropics?  Absolutely!

Flynn just loves learning anything and everything about space.  He was blown away by the number of different galaxies there actually are!

This is Sarah.  Unfortunately, Sarah wasn't able to talk at the time of the interview - she was about to do her presentation to the rest of her GT group (not just Cranbrook Students), on what she had discovered throughout this space journey.  You'll have to track Sarah down if you want to know just what she did discover!

International Day of the Tropics

16 lucky Global Tropics students were able to venture out to JCU for a STEM Grand Challenge, engaging with other GT students across Townsville, Ingham, Trebonne, Ayr, Home Hill, Bowen, Queens Beach and Abergowrie, to find ways to protect endangered species from feral pests.  The students were very fortunate to hear a presentation from Dr Conrad Hoskin, Associate Professor - Biodiversity & Conservation Biologist and his work with protecting quolls and frogs.  

Our students were split into different groups - none of our students were together, which was quite daunting for most of them!  It wasn't long though and through some ice breaker questions, they were talking with their new acquaintances and beginning to tackle their challenge together.  

The groups brain-stormed for the morning up until their break for lunch.  After that, they had just one more hour to work on their solutions, create a poster and practice their 3 minute presentation to the other small groups working within their building.

What these kids achieved - the ideas they came up with and their process and justification of it all, was amazing!  A big well done to them all.  A special congratulations to Faith and Jordon, who were part of winning groups.

A huge thanks to QVSA, JCU and local Townsville Power STEM Girls, for organising our day and supporting us throughout!

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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 

Thanks to Amelia in Year 3 for doing this week's book review!

Everyone can now enjoying reading Millie - the cutest puppy in the world.   The book is on the shelf and ready to be borrowed!

ONE MORE WEEK TO GO!!!

Don't forget about the Premier's Reading Challenge!  Not long to go now!

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.

Families of Year 6 Students

To add an extra special something to our Year 6 Graduation this year, please email through a photo of your child from their Prep year.  Many thanks!

admin@cranbrookss@eq.edu.au

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 thanks

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

We are very excited and grateful, to have received sponsorship from these amazing companies:

Fair Dinkum Builds (Gold Sponsor)

Rowey's Plumbing & Gas (Silver Sponsor)

Weigh 'n' Pay (Bronze Sponsor)

Please support these businesses when you can - they are supporting your children and your school.

Thank you!

Sports Pride Fridays

Community News

In celebration of National Water Week in October 2024, Townsville City Council is excited to invite students to participate in our drawing and social reel competition to showcase how they are accelerating action for water conservation.  This is a great opportunity for students to think about their water usage habits and how they can collectively create water behaviour changes while expressing their creativity!

Competition details:

Primary School Competition - Drawing competition where students can illustrate what actions we can take to save water.

Entries can be submitted individual, as a class or school.  Download the template via the link below.

Prizes: 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place winners in each category with the chance to have the winners featured at the Riverway Movie Nights screening in October.

Entry Period:  Entries are open now and close at 5pm on Monday, 14 October, 2024.

Please visit https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/water-waste-and-environment/water-supply-and-dams/our-water-smart-city/national-water-week for all the competition and entry details.

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information printed in this issue is up to date and correct at the time of publication.