Peace Cranes
During my recent trip to Japan, I visited The Children’s Memorial in The Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. I watched local school children present paper peace cranes hanging bunches of tiny, folded paper cranes into the large glass display cabinets. This was a very moving experience, so I investigated and found that schools from around the world send paper cranes to schools in Hiroshima who deliver the cranes on their behalf. With this, I thought that our students may like to become involved. By extraordinary coincidence, I found that for Term 4 our Stage Two children were reading Sudoku and the Thousand Paper Cranes! Stage Two students have expressed their interest in contributing the required 1000 paper peace cranes, so we are currently working on the logistics.
Our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.
Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.
The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted this term and run until Friday 8 November. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.
More information about the survey is available at: education.nsw.gov.au/ttfm. To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/zr6vs
The survey is available in 23 languages.
Another strength you can grow is HELPFULNESS. Being helpful means to think of ways we can be of benefit in the classroom, on the playground or at home.
When we show HELPFULNESS we use our SENSITIVE OCTOPUS and WISE OWL. This strength is important for our mental health because we feel rewarded and happy when we help someone.
You can display HELPFULNESS by:
Set yourself a ‘Be of Benefit’ challenge today!
Borrowing reminder K - 2
All books are due one week from checkout.
You need a library bag to borrow.
You need to bring a book to the library to renew it.
Respect | Responsibility | Integrity | Acceptance | Care & Compassion | Honesty & Trustworthy