Cranbrook Newsletter - Term 2 Week 9 2021

Principal's Message

Extra Curricula Activities

It is expected that some extra curricula activities will begin in Week 2 Term 3 and that a program of activites will be forwarded to students in week 1 of Term 3.

Year 4/5D New Class Teacher

Due to Mrs O’Brien taking extended maternity leave from the end of Term 2, we have recently been able to source the services of Ms Shannon Morgan and she has been appointed to the 4/5D class for the remainder the year.

Ms Morgan is an excellent and experienced teacher who has been working at schools in the Northern Territory in recent years.  Ms Morgan’s most recent position of Deputy Principal and prior position of Head of Curriculum, means she comes to our school highly accomplished and experienced.  Ms Morgan has high expectations of students and has achieved excellent outcomes with students at previous schools in the past.

Ms Shannon Morgan and Ms Amy Kennett, the Year 5 Cohort Leader, will co-teach the Year 4/5D class for the remainder of the year.  

Congratulations to Emily in Year 1 who was the recipient of the "Principal's Award" this week on assembly for keeping Cranbrook School tidy.  

Keep a watch on our school these holidays

Parents and students can help take care of our school by reporting any suspicious after-hours activity to School Watch on 13 17 88.  By keeping an eye out we can work together to create a safer school community and help to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in our school.

If you see something suspicious, please don't intervene.  Call the School Watch number and let the local police or State Government Protective Security Service deal with the matter.

 Jeff Capell
Principal

Positive Behaviour For Learning

Congratulations to Kenzie in Year 3, who is this week's PBL Assembly Draw Winner

Athletics Carnival

We had a fantastic attendance this year at our Athletics Carnival!    

Thank you to all the parents who came to support and cheer!  Balara was this year's winning House earning a total of 1771 points.  Following a close second was Wallaringa, Cooradilla took third place and Kalyara came in fourth.  

Thank you also to the kindergarten kids that came along to join in some of the activities.

This year, the 60m, 80m and 100m sprints were set up into an A and B Division in their age groups, based on their timed results during PE.  The Division A sprinters were the finalists (ribbon holders) and the winner in these races were announced as the age champion and received a medal on parade.  Students who ran in Division B were awarded points for their houses according to their placing in their race. 

Our sprints system was set up similarly to the Interschool Sports Carnivals allowing us to plan a more efficient Carnival day without having the children run multiple heats in each age group.   The 2013 High Jump event for the 2013 age group, was also successfully conducted on Thursday due to the large numbers of student participants.  

I would also like to congratulate all of our students for their excellent sportsmanship on the day and their willingness to "give it a go" and have some fun!

Ms Lara Von Wald
HPE and Year 3 Teacher

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Interschool Sports Game Draws

Season 2 - Interschool Sports Game Draws

Touch
Senior A2 Boys 1:15pm

15 Jul                     Week 4                 -  v Weir, Field 5A

22 Jul                     Week 5                 - v Holy Spirit, Field 5B

29 Jul                     Week 6                 -  TBA

5 Aug                    Week 7                   - TBA

Senior A2 Girls 12:30pm

15 Jul                     Week 4                 -  v Weir, Field 5A

22 Jul                     Week 5                 - v Shalom, Field 5A

29 Jul                     Week 6                 - v St Anthony’s Green 6B

5 Aug                    Week 7                   -   TBA

Soccer
Division 1 Boys

15 Jul                     Week 4                 -  v St Anthony's, Field 2

22 Jul                     Week 5                 - v Holy Spirit, Field 3

29 Jul                     Week 6                 -  TBA

5 Aug                    Week 7                  -   TBA

Division 2 Girls

15 Jul                     Week 4                 -  v St Anthony's, Field 5B

22 Jul                     Week 5                 - v Calvary, Field 4

29 Jul                     Week 6                 -  v Rasmussen, Field 5A

5 Aug                    Week 7                  -   v St. Anthony's, Field 5B

Union
To be advised

School Groundsman - Expression of Interest

Year 4,5 & 6 Camp Departure Times

Year 6 Camp to Mungalli Falls

Students must be at school by 8:30am.  Bus departs Cranbrook State School on Tuesday 22^nd June at 9am.

Year 5 Camp to Daradgee Environmental Education Centre

Students must be at school by 6:30am.  Bus departs Cranbrook State School on Tuesday 22^nd June at 7am.  

Year 4 Camp to Paluma Environmental Centre

Students need to be at school by 8:30am.  Bus departs Cranbrook State School on Wednesday 23^rd June at 9am.  

Camp Departure Meeting Area

Students are to meet and wait for their teachers on the grassy areas around the near the cul de sac at the end of the Staff Car Park.  Please contact your class teacher or Cohort Leader if you have any questions.  

From the Resource Centre - Week 9

Readers' Cup Competition

On Thursday 10^th June two teams of enthusiastic Year 5 and 6 Cranbrook readers competed in the North Qld Readers’ Cup competition.  The competition required students to read 5 selected books and then compete with other school teams to answer quiz questions from the books.  The Readers’ Cup competition challenges students to read widely, work collaboratively in a team and to analyse the content of the given texts. It allows students to compete at a regional and state level similar to sporting competitions and to meet other students with an equal passion for books.

Congratulations to our two Cranbrook teams:

• The Lords of Reading: Violet, Charlotte, Abagail and Lyddell who placed 21st
• The Book Thieves: Boyd, Amealue and Grace who placed 23rd 

Thank you to the students who showed a sensational passion for reading, awesome team work and were always enthusiastic, positive and committed!  A special thank you to the parents for supporting your children.

Come and check out the Animal Book Display.

We have a huge array of Animal Books in the Resource Centre!  Come along to our Library and borrow one today.  If you can't find what you are looking for don't forget to ask Mrs Shepherd or Mrs Davey for help. 

Paluma STEM Camp

From Wednesday to Friday in Week 8, five students and I set off to Paluma for a STEM camp.

We were lucky to have specialists STEM Punks to teach and show us some great things that can be done with Lego EV3s , Merge cubes and micro bits.

The Principal of Paluma EEC took us for a night walk in the rainforest, bird watching, played games and taught the boys the dance of the Victorian Rifle Bird.

It was VERY cold at Paluma, but we were lucky to have a fire place in the classroom.

I was very proud of how the boys interacted with the other group of students from Ingham and I was also impressed with how much the boys loved the clearing and washing up (it was probably the fun machine) each mealtime.

Ms Sam Negra
Year 2 Teacher

The Arts Space

Prep Dance Preview

This week Ms Earle had the privilege of filming our wonderful Preppies perform in class.

Ms Earle will be collating these videos in a film to show the preppies  all of their hard work, effort and enthusiasm in Arts class during their first semester of school! 

We have included just one small video to let you know what to look out for very soon…

Ms Sarah Earle and Mrs Suellen Onslow
Performing Arts Teachers

Music Activities & Rehearsals that are Cancelled in Week 10 are:

• Nightingale Chorus
• Recorder Ensemble
• Drama Excellence
• Ukulele Strummers
• Concert Band
• Junior Band
• String Orchestra
  
• Percussion Ensemble
• Monday after school Musical Rehearsal
• Wednesday lunch time Musical Rehearsal

Music Activities & Rehearsals that are Still ON in week 10 are:

• Piccolo Chorus – Monday 1st break play time
• Songbird Chorus – Tuesday 8:30am
  
• Guitar catch-up lessons
• Piano catch-up lessons
• Percussion lessons
• Musical Rehearsal– Monday 2nd lunch play time ONLY
  

Our Arts Room Gallery

What's On In Year 1

Shoebox Diorama

Year 1 students will be making night and day landscape dioramas for their Science Assessment in Term 3.  

Next term, please bring in an empty shoe box for your child to use as the base.  Some other materials you canbring in to create the scenery can include:

• cotton balls
  
• sticks, twigs, leaves
  
• pom poms
• coloured paper
• material
• small cardboard boxes 
• lego
• coloured rocks
• twine/yarn

Please put your child's materials in a clearly labelled plastic or ziplock bag and hand in to the classroom teacher. 

Jason Henry
Year 1 Cohort Leader

What's On in Year 4

Short Story Festival

The Adventure of Six Puppet Show

Some of our Year 4 students have been involved in an extension program and they have been compacting the learning time for English by an hour each week to work on a collaborative student chosen project.  

These students chose to create and perform a puppet show, "The Adventure of Six".  

Together they planned out what they needed to do over the allocated weeks which included writing the script, making the set and puppets, advertising the performance and of course performing to a group of students during their lunch break.  

Congratulations to Margaret, Charlie, Emily, Alice, Chlesea, Jane, Chloe, Eli, Fabian and Liam for their efforts and accomplishments on their project! 

Stacey Scipilliti
Year 4 Cohort Leader

Breakfast Club

Warm Toasties for Breakfast

Our Breakfast Club would like to thank Food Relief North Queensland, our major food donator to Breakfast Club and our Cranbrook families who have generously donated ingredients for our students to have a healthy start to the day and be better prepared for their learning.

As winter is here, we would appreciate donations of cheese to make warm toasties for the children. 

You are welcome to drop your donations to the Breakfast Club counter in the mornings before 8:30am or at the office.  

Mrs Juliet Winter
Breakfast Club Co-ordinator

Spring Carnival - School Fete 2021

CRANBROOK – it’s Fete Time!  

Save the Date!

Our ‘Spring Carnival’ is on

Friday, 10 September.

Our stalls, food and entertainment are being organised, but what we need you to do, is please DONATE.  

We want to have awesome dodger prizes and a fabulous cent sale and we really need your assistance in sourcing and donating prizes, both big and small.  

If you run a local business, please consider donating either a goods or service, or  maybe even a gift card/voucher.  Your business will receive lots of great, useful advertising!  

Even if you don’t have your own business, you can still help by talking to everyone you know - 
even the friendly pet shop owner, baker, café owner or your favourite retail assistant.

If you have any questions, please contact Louise on 0416281235 / louiseandian@hotmail.com

Come on Cranbrook!  Let’s join together and have some fun!

Attendance Award - Week 8

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

Absence For More Than 10 Days

What is an exemption and why do I need it?

Every parent of a child of compulsory school age has a legal obligation to ensure their child is enrolled and attending school. Parents can apply for an exemption from this obligation when their child cannot attend or it would be unreasonable in all the circumstances for their child to attend school for a period of more than 10 consecutive school days.

Situations where an application for an exemption may be made include:

• Illness
• Family reasons
• Cultural or religious reasons

If your child is exempt from compulsory schooling, you are excused from your obligation in relation to compulsory schooling. 

The school principal is not responsible for providing an educational program for your child, however they may provide advice on other educational options available. Decisions about exemptions for up to one school year are made by the principal and decisions about exemptions for more than one school year are made by the relevant Regional Director of the Department of Education, Training and Employment, responsible for the supervision of the school your child attends.   

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