ENewsletter

From the Principal

As usual this term has been very busy and children have made many gains in their learning. Last night the Reception/Year 1 choir combined with the Performing Arts program to present a spectacular concert show casing student learning in music and performance. Thank you for the many positive comments we received.

A special thanks needs to go to Tiarna Cooke for her organisation and dedication to teaching a successful and engaging Performing Arts program. As you are probably aware, Tiarna leaves us to take up an appointment at Burnside Primary School from next term. We wish Tiarna all the best.

Next term will see some staff movements with the arrival of our new receptions. Kathy Smith and Katie Hesketh-Smith will be with the new receptions in room 13. Kate Staniford will increase her time to four days a week with Jonathan Belton coming in Thursdays. Caitlyn Ogilvie will be stepping into the Performing Arts role in addition to her normal day in Room 10.

A big thank you to the Crafers School Community which continually supports the endeavours of our students and teachers.

Thanks

John

A Update from Ebony

As a cold and wintery holidays approach, I wanted to say that I have been impressed time and time again by the resilience and care amongst our students.

Something that I often find myself talking with students about is matching our reactions to our problems. Using images like this one from Grow Your Mind, children are often more readily able to recognise the size of their problem, and, even if they have already over reacted, reflect on the size their reaction and response should be.

If you find your child is often having big responses to little, easily solvable problems, why not talk to them about how different sized problems require different sized responses? When in a calm state, perhaps you could give examples of ‘teeny tiny problems’, through to ‘huge problems’ to help your child recognise the differences, and maybe even give them a chance to come up with suggestions for each of the problem sizes themselves.

For more ideas head to https://growyourmind.life/

'From Little Things, Big Things Grow"

'From Little Things, Big Things Grow"- both the picture book and the Paul Kelly song, were the impetus for these sonnets about the Wave Hill walk-off. Room 12 studied this event as part of the Reconciliation Week focus. They have carefully honoured the very strict parameters of a sonnet - alternate rhyming lines and only ten syllables per line, whilst still continuing to honour the task of telling a story.

Likewise for other students who wrote their own sonnets in praise of things close to their heart such as netball, the McLaren team and their friends.

In Art, Room 12 looked at the work of Hans Heysen, after whom this electorate is named. They then looked at a modern day artist who also paints landscapes, Tess Bartholomew, and tried to emulate her paintings before trying to paint their own picture in her style.

Year 5 Science

What do you have to think of when you are designing a house for Martian conditions?

As part of our work on states of matter, we were looking at Mars and learnt that things like water and carbon dioxide which exist as a liquid and gas on Earth, are a solid on Mars. So we had to design a residence that would bring water back to liquid, any gasses back to their gaseous form. Enjoy some of the designs.

Golf Excursion

Last Friday, 26 June, the Year 6’s from room 8 and room 12 went on an excursion which was golf. It was a fun and enjoyable experience for all of us. We learn new skills such as hitting long distance, positioning yourself to hit the ball and small distance hitting. We got to learn more about golf like the clubs and the golf balls. We all had tons of fun, it was a very enjoyable excursion!

by Eveline

Pedal Prix Update

Pedal Prix is an exciting sport that combines fitness, teamwork and endurance. Students works as a team to race custom made trikes around specific tracks decided before the season. Each student attends training twice every week for half an hour to make sure they’re fit for the race. With each team member playing an important role both on and off the track. Throughout the season, participants develop valuable skills such as communication, responsibility, perseverance and maturity. Whether they are driving, helping in the pits or supporting their teammates everyone contributing to the team’s success.

This year we’ve raced twice and came first once and second once. We’ve still got at least one race as well as another race that we might be able to do.

By Ethan

Check out our new swim caps!

We would like to express our gratitude to the Parents and Friends Committee for generously supplying our school swimming team with swimming caps.

We are confident that the caps will look striking in the water, and we eagerly anticipate seeing them in action in the pool early next year.

Crafers Primary School

Newsletter 4 July 2026