Cranbrook Newsletter - 2023 Term 3 Week 8

Principal's Message

Welcome to our Week 8 newsletter.  

Taking 2024 Enrolments now

Enrolments for all year levels are open and Prep enrolments for next year are now welcome.  Children born between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 are eligible to enrol.  Early Entry Applications for students born in July 2019 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.

Our Prep Transition Program will begin on Thursday 9 November and will run each Thursday morning, 8 - 9.40am, concluding on 7 December.  

Please call our office to book your spot.

Environmental Centre 

Cranbrook State School is fortunate to have its own Environmental Centre, situated in the centre of our school. 

Our Environmental Centre has the following elements to allow for students to engage in: 

• Environmental Captains 
• Class Environmental Captains 
• Environmental Club 
• Chicken Coop and Chickens 
• Paper Shredding 
• Composting 
• Worms Farms 
• Tree Planting
• Vegetable Garden
• Reuse Caps Blanket Program
• Herb Garden 

2023 sees Cranbrook State School enter its final year of the 2020 to 2023 Strategic Plan and as such we have nearly completed our Quadrennial School Review (QSR) process. We are now in the development phase of the review to develop informed long term strategic foci for 2024 to 2027. The final phase of the review is to form working parties to develop the new strategies against the identified goals. The process will be:

1. Review the findings and recommendations from the 2020 to 2023 Strategic plan review.
2. Use the findings and recommendations to Develop long term strategies for implementation in the 2024 – 2027 Strategic Plan

To ensure all stakeholders are heard in the process we are seeking support from parents to be involved.

We are seeking support from parents in the development working parties process which will require a 90-minute commitment on Wednesday 13^th September of Thursday 14^th September to meet as a working party. If you can help, please click YES in the seperate SOBS email that will be sent out to you.  We will then contact you, regarding your involvement in the process. Nominations close Tuesday 12^th September at 3.00pm.

We hope our Dads enjoyed their special day yesterday.  

Have a great week, everyone.

Jeff Capell - Principal

Coming up....

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

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Congratulations to our Week 7 PBL snappy winner.....Pypah and Week 8 winner, Amelia.

Thanks for being safe, responsible and respectable students, girls.

Recently, we began a 'Golden (or Super) Snap' initiative.  Staff have one Golden Snap to award at each duty they attend.  Students have the opportunity to earn a Golden Snap at every play break and every lunch break.  The snaps then go into the weekly, whole school draw, with the winner being given a $10 tuckshop voucher.

Congratulations to our inaugural winner, Aijana and to our Week 8's winner, Bailey. 

In Week 7, our PBL lesson was about respect.  Our statement was 'I include everyone'. 

In Week 8, we focused on responsibly and actually accepting responsibility for what we do.

Here are the flyers with some handy hints with what and how to chat about this at home.

To finish off our term, in Week 9, we will look at being respectful and respecting others' privacy and property and for Week 10, we will look at being responsible and how to be resilient.

Cranbrook Learning

A huge well done to students who recieved Academic Achiement Awards for Semester 1.  Students were required to achieve at least 4 As on their Semester report card.  A special mention to Jasmine Eales for achieving an A in every subject and to Skye Pearson for achieving an A in all but one, of her subjects.  

Here is a photo of those students - still in their musical makeup!

The next fantasy story we'd like to share with you, is from Year 5 shining star, Odin.  Have a read of Odin's great piece for writing!

Look at these fabulous little readers!  

We encourage our students to read every night (and every day too!) and reward consistent readers with certificates when they reach various goals.  

Well done to these students, who have read for 100 or 150 nights!

In Year 6, students are exploring reversible and irreversible changes in cooking as part of their Science assessment and just look how their bread turned out!  Skylah said it was yummy!

Congratulations to Year 5 student Kenzie Seymour on receiving a Principal's Award for her outstanding behaviour on the bus.  Kenzie willingly assists the driver and ensures her fellow students are safe, responsible and respectful.  Thanks Kenzie - Mrs Ross appreciates you very much!

From The Arts

Well......we made it!  Our students did an absolutely amazing job and performed with energy and passion and made us very proud.  Well done to every one of you and well done parents too, for enduring the rehearsals, gathering the costumes and attending the shows.  

We'd like to include this note:

Hi everyone!

It takes a village to make a musical and the Cranbrook village has yet again been amazing! Sarah and I would like to thank EVERYONE who has done anything, big or small, that has helped make the children shine last night and again for 2 shows today! Some special thank yous go to:

Year 4, 5 and 6 teachers – Thank you for your patience with Sarah and I as we have made plans and changed plans! Thank you for your own time – before and after school, staying to assist students with supervision, missed lunch times and love for your kids. Thank you!

Ted and Kevin – the sets and stage look amazing! Thank you for all your help pre-show to set up, build and listen to us whinge about things that haven’t worked!  

Deana and office staff – thank you for your endless phone calling, updating, support, hair and make-up help and all that you do to make Cranbrook run like a well-oiled machine!

Amanda Flor, Cate, Teresa, and Terrena – Thank you for the incredibly stunning costumes! Oh my!!!!!!! They are a stand out on stage and have been commented on by nearly every parent who watched the show last night!

Hair and make-up staff including Racheal Asquith, Teresa, Amanda F, Bianca Gordon, Julia Hutchinson, Jenny Gordon, Amanda Ihle, Sallyanne Duncanson, Terrena, Cate, Kristine Elliott, Shannon, Maddi Wilson and other parents and friends who made the kids faces shine and hair glow! They looked soooooo 1920’s and quite truly glamorous!

Miin – Thank you to you and Annaliese for coming in your weekends to help paint sets and props. What would we do without you and your talent? Your willingness to volunteer your own time we are forever grateful for!

Shannon and Nicole – Thank you for your support our rehearsals since Day 1. Thank you for staying back in your own time to supervise the kiddoes and help with hair and make-up too! Isla must get it all from you, hey Nicole?

Lara – You and the baby have been to nearly every lunch rehearsal when you’ve been at school, supporting the kids to do their best. Thank you for being part of the specialist HPT and always supporting the Arts!

Jeff – Spotlight King – Thank you for spending literally thousands of dollars on the kids. The lighting was amazing and your spot light skills are second to none. The kids at Cranbrook are so lucky to have you steering the ship.

Royce – Grandmama. Say no more. Show stealer. Thank you for the HOURS of rehearsal you and Julia have done at home. I am sure it wasn’t fun at all! We owe you again superstar!

Bridget and Kyle – Thanks for your help in the canteen before the show – feeding the people helps them love the show more!

Gazebo donators – THANK YOU for providing the kids with shade during daytime performances and rehearsals!

Audience – everyone who has come to see the show – thank you!!!!

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We had so many photos of your children that we wanted to share with you, we just couldn't fit them in this newsletter, so please visit our photo gallery on our website, or click on the link below.  (from there, you must then click on 2023 and then view both Musical (a) and Musical (b) Hover over the first frame, double click and then you will be able to view the photos)

CONGRATULATIONS to our Arts Class of the Week for Week 7.....Mr Henry's P/3D!

This class was given the award for

• being kind to one another
• for having excellent 'freeze frames' in drama
• for keeping their 'bubbles' in during transitions

2023 Eisteddfod

We move on to the Eisteddfod now, beginning this week and with some performances next week also.  The link belows will take you to a copy of the note, for you to use as a reference.

We are on stage, so please remember to have a neat and tidy, clean appearance.

Please be on time to school - we don't get to perform if we're late!  Students must be in the music room at 8am on the day of their performance in order to get their music shirts on and their names marked off.

If you'd like to come and watch us (and we'd love you to!), tickets to each session are purchased directly from the Civic Theatre.  Please contact them directly with any questions you have.  Sessions are generally divided up into morning/afternoon/evening.  Although our students may perform in the morning session that begins at 9am, for example, they may not go on stage until 10.30am.  It is very hard to judge exactly what the time will be for our performances.

It's a busy couple of weeks - thanks for your support, everyone.

Sports News

There were some great results from our Senior students at our Interschool Athletics Carnival and even some records broken.  A big congratulations to these students.

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The Blackhawks U10s Challenge is on this Wednesday.  The permission note has been emailed out to selected students and should have been completed by last Friday.  Below is a link to the note, to have as a reference. 

Please don't forget to bring water and food, suncream and a hat and your mouthguard!

Make sure you are at school, at the hall, at 8am.

All the best team!

Congratulations to the HPE Class of the Week.....Mr Abraham's 2A!  

2A were awarded this for their fantastic answers in health and their hard work in skipping to the teddy bear rhyme.

Well done kids!

From the Resource Centre

Class Borrowing Days

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

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

Congratulations to our Book Week Colouring Competition award recipients.  

P&C News

Our OSHC still has a few vacancies for the September Holidays.  We have a ton of fun all the time, but the holidays are extra special.  Check out what we have planned and give us a call today.

How about this for a beautiful and practical fundraiser?

The P&C are using your favourite recipes to collate a 'Cranbrook Family Favourites' recipe book that you can then purchase and treasure.

Please send through Dad's favourite dinner, the kids' favourite snack, your favourite leftover concoction and add the story to go with it, if you have one.

Submissions need to be made via the link below and before 8pm, Friday 14 September.  If you're having difficulties, please send your recipe to Sheena at magicminions@gmail.com text her on 0459 776 515 or you can message via Facebook Messenger.

There are only about 32 spots left!!!  Make one yours. 

Coming up in October is our Movie Night!  Come and join us in the hall for a great family night out! 

Purchase your tickets via Qkr! or from the Uniform Shop or the Tuckshop.

Welcoming new staff

Recently we welcomed a few new staff members to our Cranbrook Community.

Have a read and find out a little more about them.....

Deputy Principal - Mr Kyle Sanim

Kyle is a born and bred Townsvillian.  Growing up, Kyle played football but now instead of being photographed, he takes his own photographs! Kyle was fortunate enough to have amazing teachers when he was a student. He loved his Year 2 Teacher so much (Mrs O’Connor) he wanted to be like her and support students, so headed off to Uni to do just that.  His favourite food - steak!  Favourite colour - black.  Kyle has 3 beautiful daughters: Asta (9), Lacee (3 ½), and Lexi (1), that keeps him busy! On the weekends, he likes spending time with my family, particularly getting out to his wife’s parents farm and taking photos.

2C Teacher - Mrs Kate Dowzall

Kate was born in Whakatane, a small town in the Bay of Plenty, in New Zealand.  As a child, I rode and competed horses. Once I left school, I worked at Riding for the Disabled training horses. It was here that I discovered my love for teaching and it wasn't long after that I started University. I don't really have a favourite food, although I do have a sweet tooth.  My favourite colour is pink and on the weekend, when I have a chance, I like to take to the skies as I'm part way through my private pilot licence. Other than that, I just love spending time outdoors with my daughter and husband.

Chaplain - Tim Canavan

Chappy Tim, as he is affectionately know as, was born in Melbourne, moved to PNG when he was 5 and then moved to Townsville when he was 18. Growing up, he loved fishing and playing soccer.  Tim became a Chaplain because he loves supporting people on their life journey. As a chaplain, Tim has that opportunity as he supports students and staff, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Seeing people grow in who they are, is especially incredible for Tim to witness - he loves when they have a life changing light bulb moment.  Give Tim lasagne or anything with seafood and he's a happy man!  Tim's favourite colour? Deep Blue - actually, to be precise, Dulux Wing Commander.  On the weekends, Tim loves to get out fishing, watch sport and go to church.

Welcome Kyle, Kate and Tim - thanks for being at Cranbrook!

Adopt-a-Cowboy Visit

Last week, we were unlucky that our regular Cowboy, Riley Price, was unable to visit us, but super lucky that Brendan Elliott could take his place!

2A started by telling Brendan how we’ve been using iPads as a learning tool in the classroom, and showcased how we use them. For example....using One Note for accessibility for learning areas, using education subscriptions to assign tasks, using photography to capture moments and share them on our class page. Then we had Michael and Charlotte host their first ever podcast with Brendan as their first special guest.  They asked many interesting questions and Brendan was very impressed with them. After this we asked some more questions about Brendan at the Cowboys and what he does outside of footy. Finally Brendan spoke with the leads of the musical about the similarities between sport and theatre and accepting your responsibility by turning up for the people alongside you.

Thanks for coming along, Brendan - we loved it!

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Sports Pride Fridays

Community News

Heatley Secondary College have their Disabilities Transition Information on Wednesday 1 November.  Students are invited to attend the school for the day, with parents/carers joining us afterwards for afternoon tea.

Please rsvp by 30 October to kharm48@eq.edu.au

Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information in this issue of our newsletter at the time of publication. 

For all enquiries please contact our School Office on 4726 1222.