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PH: 5996 1744 FAX: 5996 1370
Bakewell St.
PO Box 26
Cranbourne 3977
www.cranbourne-ps.vic.edu.au
The teaching and learning pedagogy at Cranbourne Primary School is developed on a
RECIPE (Relevant Engaging Challenging Innovative Personalized Enjoyable)
based curriculum that supports the members of the school community to develop intrinsic
PRIDE (Persistence Responsibility Independence Discipline Enthusiasm) in their learning.
CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS
1st Childers
2nd Bakewell &
Cameron
3rd Russell
Thursday, 24th November
Swimming-Last Day,
Whole School
Friday, 25th November
Year 6 2017 Beleza jumper
order must be in today! No
late orders can be taken.
Tuesday, 29th November
Footsteps
Thursday, 1st December
Year 6 Graduation Ticket
order due by 4 pm
Tuesday, 6th December
Transition Day
Issue 37
23rd November 2016
PRINCIPAL’S NEWS
In an effort to update our Emergency Management Plan, we have become aware that many families are changing their contact details eg phone, e-mail and not updating the information in our system. This information is critical to school in the event that your child is ill or sustains an injury that requires immediate attention.
To assist us in keeping our records current, please complete the details on the back page of the newsletter and return to school with your child next week. Paper versions are available at the office Thank you for your support in this matter.
To support all of our students, we have included a new addition to our transition program—every second Friday students move into their 2017 learning community groups to participate in social development activities during the session before lunch. This provides students with the opportunity to become familiar
with their 2017 peer group.
Students in grade 6 will be participating in the state wide transition day (Orientation Day) on
Tuesday December 6th.
Quote of the Week
‘Life is filled with challenges and opportunities
Life is what we make of it’
Cheryl Van Deursen Principal
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR
NOVEMBER BABIES!
KYLE J
MONIQUE R BAILEY A
MALIYAH C MADDISON M
Stars of the Week
These students have demonstrated intrinsic PRIDE (Persistence, Responsibility,
Independence, Discipline, Enthusiasm)
in their learning:
Learning community Student
FOUNDATION
JUNIOR
MIDDLE
SENIOR
ICT
PE
Assistant Principal Maggie M (JCM)
Principal Amira (SSL)
From the Office
Di Fernand
Assistant Principal
Curriculum Life Education Van
Each year we have the Life education van visit our school. In 2017, the
van will be with us in weeks 2 and 3 of term 1. to provide families with
ample time to pay for this incursion, we have sent notices home this
term. Payments are due by Friday 16th December 2016.
The Life Education Van program is an excellent resource for schools to
access, and it is an integral part of our school’s Unit of Investigation in
term 1 next year.
We organise excursions and incursions to complement and support the
Teaching and Learning taking place within learning communities, so it
is vital that all students participate in these learning opportunities.
If you would like further information regarding the Life Education
program, visit their website— www.lifeeducation.org.au/
CPS BANK DETAILS
BSB 013 593
Account Number
499102494
Please put your
child’s name in the
subject line.
Happy Birthday to those students who
are celebrating their special day
If anyone witnessed a car being sideswiped on Childers Street (facing
Russell Street) Thursday,
17th November between 2:30 & 4 pm
could you please contact the office.
GR6 JUMPER ORDER CLOSES TODAY!
DON’T FORGET!
LIFE ED PAYMENT DUE 4PM FRIDAY,
16TH DECEMBER 2016
Merata W
Christian F
Leah M
Shaykira R
Daniel M
Jai A.
Kakoda T.
Soul'Jah. P.
Joel M.
Jordan M
Madison F
Connor C
Julia J
Moshen A SMD
Robyn D (FSP)
Earning the right
By Michael Grose
Earning the right and not assuming a sense of entitlement is a life lesson parents, teachers and coaches must instil in children.
On talk-back radio recently I heard a caller tell a timely story about how as a child she was lucky enough to receive riding lessons from a renowned horse expert.
He had one condition. She had to earn the right to be taught to ride a horse. That meant she had to muck out the stables; brush and feed the horse; look after the gear and do everything else required to look after a horse. Only when she’d proved herself could she earn the right to ride a horse under his tutelage.
This caller said this powerful lesson shaped her entire life. It taught that there were no entitlements in life; to work hard and value her achievements. She never took anything for granted.
Contrast this with the extraordinary sense of entitlement of Australian tennis players Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic who routinely treat the public, players and the game that serves them well, with utter disdain. Their attitude of entitlement is mind-boggling, not to say embarrassing to reasonable-minded, hard-working people.
Our kids should earn the right
The talk-back caller’s earning the right story is a fabulous lesson for all parents and teachers. If we want to raise a generation to appreciate what they have, then we should-n’t give children or young people everything on a platter. In an era of small families, child pester power and relative affluence it’s tempting to simply give kids what they want.
“Dad, can I have a…?”
“Sure!”
The Rolling Stones were right four decades ago when they sang, “You can’t always get what you want!” Those words form a great child-rearing lesson. That is, just because you can provide something for your kids, doesn’t mean that you do.
They need to earn the right to have something by saving, working for or simply waiting until they are old enough to appreciate it.
Similarly, kids don’t automatically have a right to greater freedoms such as going out at night; those rights need to be earned by proving they are trustworthy.
Also, kids who think they are entitled to use a part of the house such as a living room without cleaning up mess are acting with a false sense of entitlement.
In fact, there are no entitlements, only rights. And rights are earned by being responsible.
A child has a right to use the living room but they also have a responsibility to clean up rather than leave it a pigsty. A night banished to their room is a reminder that spending time in the living room is not an entitlement. It’s a right that comes with conditions.
Earning the right! A simple phrase with so much complexity.
I suspect it’s a phrase that neither Nick Kyrgios or Bernard Tomic heard much when they were growing up. Maybe their parents thought their prodigious talents excused them from having conditions placed upon them. If so, they did them no favours as good manners, gratitude and graciousness appear to be lacking in their social repertoires.
It usually takes a parent, teacher or coach to remind kids that they have to earn the right to have things, to do things and ultimately to be respected. That’s a lesson that stays for life.
FRIDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2016
LAST BANKING DAY FOR THIS
YEAR!
BANKING WILL RESUME ON
FRIDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY 2017
UPDATED CONTACT DETAILS FOR:
FAMILY NAME—
_____________________________________
STUDENT NAME YEAR LEVEL
____________________ ________________
____________________ ________________
____________________ ________________
____________________ ________________
MAIN CONTACT PERSON PHONE NUMBER
____________________ ________________
EMAIL ADDRESS
_______________________________________
MAIN EMERGENCY CONTACT PHONE NUMBER
____________________ ________________
Please return to school asap.