Think U Know: Online Safety - Parent Information Session | 5:30pm - 7pm, Wednesday 8 March @ Performing Arts Theatre: RSVP NOW!
Think U Know: Online Safety - Parent Information Session | 5:30pm - 7pm, Wednesday 8 March @ Performing Arts Theatre: RSVP NOW!
Dear Parents and Carers,
You are warmly invited to our...
What: Think U Know: Online Safety - Parent Information Session | 'It Takes A Village' Partnership Program.
- Includes Q & A Session on how you can support your son or daughter to engage safely online.
When: 5:30pm - 7:00pm, Wednesday 8 March 2023.
Where: Performing Arts Theatre – Canterbury College.
- Best parking via the Easterly Street Gates with plenty of onsite parking.
Who: For All Parents Of Prep - Year 6 Students.
Hosts: Junior School Leadership Team With Senior Constable Mitch Collins from the Edens Landing Police Beat.
Cost: FREE!
RSVP: If you would like to attend this valuable Parent Information Session, please RSVP via Humanitix HERE.
Dress Code: Smart Casual.
Contact: Junior School Admin - T: 07 3299 0847 | E:
As part of our Wellbeing Program here at Canterbury, our Prep – Year 6 students will be engaging in the Think U Know Online Safety Program.
Think U Know is a program developed by the Australian Federal Police, and will be delivered by Senior Constable Mitch Collins from the Edens Landing Police Beat, who has been working in partnership with Canterbury College.
The program will be delivered differently for each year level, so the information provided is age-appropriate and relevant.
The focus for the sessions will be to support students to engage safely online.
Some of the topics covered will include:
- Online safety - including online games.
- Online stranger danger.
- Challenges they may face when interacting online.
- How to report to a trusted adult if things go wrong.
Yours faithfully
Mrs Brittany Sinclair Mr Andrew Powell
Assistant Head of Junior School (Wellbeing) Assistant Head of Junior School (Wellbeing)
Congratulations! NEW Brisbane Capitals NBL 1 Men's Basketball Assistant Coach: Our Mr Kenta Shimizu
Congratulations! NEW Brisbane Capitals NBL 1 Men's Basketball Assistant Coach: Our Mr Kenta Shimizu
Congratulations to our Secondary Basketball Coach, Mr Kenta Shimizu, on his appointment as Assistant Coach of the Brisbane Capitals National Basketball League One (NBL 1) North Mens Team.
The Brisbane Capitals compete in the National Basketball League One (NBL 1) Conference, a semi-professional National Division Two level basketball competition.
It comprises both a men's and women's competition played across every State and Territory in Australia.
Established in 1986, the Brisbane Capitals gives players the opportunity to compete at the highest level of competition in Queensland.
It forms the centrepiece of the Player Pathway at Brisbane Basketball Inc. (BBI), for those who aspire to play at the State Junior and Senior Representative levels and beyond.
In 2022, BBI proudly fielded 30 Brisbane Capitals teams across junior and senior representative competition in Queensland.
Check out this team photo featuring Mr Kenta Shimizu from their big Media Day on Saturday.
Mr Shimizu has been our Basketball Coordinator and remains a Basketball Coach, and was previously involved in our eSports Program.
He has done a great job with our teams attending the annual Champion Basketball School of Queensland tournaments.
Congratulations Kenta!
Congratulations! 2023 Drama Queensland Committee Co-opted Member: Our Matthew Kopelke
Congratulations! 2023 Drama Queensland Committee Co-opted Member: Our Matthew Kopelke
Congratulations to our Creative Industries Teacher, Matthew Kopelke, for his appointment to the 2023 Drama Queensland Committee as a co-opted member, specifically assisting in the professional development space.
Matthew assists Drama Queensland with streaming events, as well as the organisation and presentation of key professional development opportunities.
Drama Queensland is the peak representative body for drama educators in Queensland, which works hard to provide meaningful professional development to early, middle and senior year teachers.
Matt will be a great asset as a member of this proud association.
Junior School | Term One, Week 3: Weekly Wrap Up
Junior School | Term One, Week 3: Weekly Wrap Up
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week our Prep families took advantage of the free Vision Screening Program provided by Queensland Health, our swimmers competed at the Beenleigh Zones Carnival, and many parents attended our Reading and Volunteer Induction Information Sessions.
I also enjoyed meeting some of our new students in Years 2, 3 and 4 while sharing lunch and some stories.
Our 2023 Canterbury Theme
Throughout 2023, our students, staff and the wider Canterbury community are invited to engage with the theme: A Community of Kindness.
Staff participated in workshops during the January Student Free Days, focusing on defining kindness and sharing strategies for ensuring kindness is embedded in all of our interactions with students, colleagues, families and the wider community.
Students are being introduced to the theme via Assemblies and in classrooms, and will investigate the scientific research around kindness and its effects, and work on incorporating kind thoughts and acts into their daily lives.
Research has proven that a little kindness goes a long way - both for the giver and receiver, so we intend that a wave of goodwill will travel across the campus throughout 2023, improving the quality of life and learning for all.
Carpark Safety
With kindness in mind, I ask that all drivers focus on the safety of our students when navigating our carparks.
I have received reports recently of near misses from cars moving too quickly, not reversing safely, or double parking to allow students to exit and enter cars.
Please ensure that safe driving practices are in use at all times - thank you!
School Canteen - MyStudentAccount
Canterbury operates a cashless campus, allowing students to store funds on their ID Cards via the external provider MyStudentAccount.
For students in Prep - Year 2, parents use this account to pre-order lunch from the canteen for delivery to classrooms.
For older students, the ID Card is used at the Canteen to make purchases.
For this reason, please ensure that students in Years 3-6 have their ID Card with them every day.
It is also used for students to access printing.
A MyStudentAccount How To Guide has been published and can be accessed via this link here: WEBLINK.
Please Note: To access documents stored on MyCC, you must be logged in as a parent using your Parent ID and Password.
Following a weblink received in an email will require logging in.
This may be blocked by some WiFi firewalls, so if you are experiencing difficulty with links, please navigate directly to mycc.qld.edu.au and follow the login process to access documents.
For any continuing issues, please contact our IT HelpDesk via their email -
Personal Sports Equipment
Balls for play are provided to students on the Prep - Year 2 Meadow, and from next week on the Junior School Oval during break times.
For this reason, I ask that students no longer bring their own balls from home for use during the day.
Prep - Year 2 Drop-Off Processes
A reminder that drop-off zones can be found in the High Road and Easterly Street carparks.
These zones are not for parking, but rather for parents to remain in their cars while students exit and walk into campus.
Now that all students are familiar with their classrooms, teachers, classmates and playgrounds, we strongly suggest that parents who choose to walk their children to their classrooms, develop the habit of a quick 'Kiss & Go' strategy.
All students are now capable of locating the items they need for their day and laying them out in the lining up zone, locating their friends, and moving to the play areas where they are under staff supervision.
Thank you for your cooperation in this area, as we work together to develop the independence of our young learners.
Open Classrooms
As mentioned last term, this term each year level will run one Open Classroom per week.
This means teachers will be in their classroom from 8:10am until 8:25am one morning per week, and parents are welcome to come into the classroom with their children, to look at the displays and view student work.
This is a time for your child to show you what they are learning in class, and how they are going about the learning.
If you would like to speak to your child's teacher, please make contact with them by email to arrange a time for a one-on-one conversation.
| Year Level | Day (8:10am - 8:25am) |
| Prep | Friday |
| Year 1 | Friday (1JOW Thursday) |
| Year 2 | Friday |
| Year 3 | Thursday |
| Year 4 | Thursday (4THH Monday) |
| Year 5 | Tuesday |
| Year 6 | Friday |
OSHC Opening Hours From 6:30am
Following feedback from our community, I am happy to announce that as of Monday 20 February, our OSHC: Outside School Hours Care service will be open for Before School Care from 6:30am.
Information regarding the service, as well as links to register and book, can be found on the OSHC MyCC Page Here: WEBLINK.
Partnership Article
We all use Mathematics every day, and mathematical skills help children understand and experience the world around them.
In early childhood, children develop mathematical skills by manipulating and playing with objects, and become acquainted with shapes, numbers and descriptions of objects.
In this week's Partnership Article, there are a number of easy and fun strategies you can use to help your child develop their mathematics skills - Article Weblink HERE.
Upcoming Events
| Saturday 11 February | Junior TAS Round 2 |
| Monday 13 February | Pacific District Swimming Carnival |
| Thursday 16 February | Years 6-12 House Breakfast: Becket and Goldsworthy |
| Friday 17 February | Years 6-12 House Breakfast: Cranmer and Kime |
| Saturday 18 February | Junior TAS Round 3 |
I wish our young sports people luck for Saturday's Junior TAS Round and look forward to seeing all students next week...
Yours faithfully
Michelle Leftwich
Head of Junior School
Getting The Numbers Right: Ways You Can Help Your Child Develop Their Maths Skills!
Getting The Numbers Right: Ways You Can Help Your Child Develop Their Maths Skills!
We all use Mathematics every day, and mathematical skills help children understand and experience the world around them.
In early childhood, children develop mathematical skills by manipulating and playing with objects, and become acquainted with shapes, numbers and descriptions of objects.
There are a number of ways you can help your child develop their mathematics skills...
Using Mathematics Every Day
We use Mathematics every day... We need to know how much things cost and how much we have to spend...
We need to know how things fit together and the weight, shape, size and area of objects, especially when packing things like school lunch boxes and bags.
And we all need to know the direction to take to get to school, work or the shops, and to estimate how long it will take us to get there.
Just like learning to read, your child will have already started to develop the mathematical skills needed as they experience the world around them.
These skills will be further developed at school by manipulating and playing with objects that develop links between their immediate environment and everyday language.
And also by participation in explicit teaching and activities that help them work on their counting skills, manipulate numbers, identify and name different shapes, create and continue patterns, describe and groups things using mathematical language and the list goes on…
What Can Parents Do?
Some of the things you can do at home to encourage young children to think about and explore Mathematics include:
- Asking your child to talk about or name the number of things in their picture story books.
- Going on a number hunt with your child: For example, get them to look for and identify cars with a number plate that has a number 2, or to look for and identify house or unit numbers with a 4.
- Collecting a selection of different coloured everyday objects and have your child sort them into groups of the same colour.
Alternatively, start a repeated pattern (blue, red and orange, blue, red and orange) and get them to continue the pattern. - Encouraging your child to count while they play – like how many times can they jump, bounce a ball or hear a particular sound.
- Talking with your child about the size and shape of things they see.
Get them to look for particular shapes and count how many times they see them: How many times can we see a circle, the number of windows in houses along your street, or the shape of your roof. - Collect food and grocery items and label them with prices written on sticky notes or prices cut out of shopping catalogues.
- Talk about how we pay for items using notes and coins.
- Make paper money or use play money to buy and sell goods from the shop.
- Order the food items by height (tallest to the shortest) or by cost (least expensive to the most expensive).
- Introduce kitchen scales to the shop to weigh some foods, such as a box of tea bags or a bag of rice and order items by weight. - Play 'I Spy' or other games to identify shapes, numbers and patterns.
- Dice are a great addition to any toy collection.
- Roll the dice and say, make or write the numbers identified.
- Roll the dice and add the numbers together to find the total. - Identify and explain visual patterns on clothing, wrapping paper, crockery, cards and furniture.
- Use coloured pegs, blocks, beads or cutlery to begin a pattern for your child to continue: For example, red, blue, white, red, blue, white.
- Encourage your child to draw, create and describe their own patterns.
Use them for borders or greeting cards or on materials. - Use a wall measuring chart to measure the height of people in your family.
- Cut a piece of string for your child - any length will do.
- Use this string to measure the objects in your house to find out what is longer or shorter than your ‘string measuring tape’.
- Ask your child to identify anything that is the same length. - Explore other ways of measuring using a cup, jug, teaspoon, icy pole sticks, foot prints or hand lengths.
- Build a tower of blocks that is taller than a favourite toy, then ask your child to count the total blocks to measure the height of the tower.
Related Links
- 201 Literacy And Maths Tips To Help Your Child – This webpage provides handy hints and activities you can do with your child at home.
- FUSE: Primary Students – Educational resources and activities for primary school children.
- Count Us In – Online games designed to help children understand basic number concepts.
- Mathletics – Switches kids onto maths: It’s fun and is suitable for all ages and abilities.
Canterbury College: Positions Vacant | Early Learning & OSHC Educators
Canterbury College: Positions Vacant | Early Learning & OSHC Educators
We are currently seeking Early Learning and OSHC: Outside School Hours Care Educators.
Come join our happy, bustling school right here in Waterford, Logan City - PLEASE CLICK HERE TO APPLY.
All Job Vacancies currently at Canterbury College - PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Years 5 & 6 Spark 'Pottery With A Purpose' Class | Photos
Years 5 & 6 Spark 'Pottery With A Purpose' Class | Photos
As part of their Spark classes, our Years 5 and 6 students are learning about 'Pottery With A Purpose'! 🏺
Throughout Semester 1, they will be learning the foundations of pottery and clay - including hand-building, wheel-throwing and glazing.
They will then follow the design process to create products for a client showing form and function that must hold something. 🤔🤩
Check out more of the photos HERE.
Year 2 Home Reading | Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Year 2 Home Reading | Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may notice some changes to the readers and reading activities that your child is bringing home this year.
Children require substantial practice to develop their reading skills to the point of fluency.
10-15 minutes of practice at home each day with a supportive adult can make all the difference.
This can enable children to apply letter-sound knowledge to reading simple texts.
The readers that your child will bring home will contain words that they can ‘sound out’.
You will notice that the vocabulary in these books is very controlled.
This is because, at this early stage of the reading process, words need to follow regular sound-symbol patterns, so that children are given opportunities to work out words for themselves, with your support.
Some of these decodable books may look ‘easier’ than some of the books your child may have received previously.
However, our teachers have conducted thorough assessments that have identified your child’s instructional level, so that learning that is occurring in class is being consolidated at home.
If your child is still learning letter-sound correspondences, a reader may not be appropriate for them yet.
If this is the case for your child, you will receive other phonics activities to work on, until such time that they are independently blending some simple words.
Readers for Year 2 students will be sent home with homework from next week.
Guessing words from a picture or from context should not be encouraged.
Instead, encourage your child to look at the letter-sound combinations and think about the sounds they represent.
When your child gets stuck on a word, encourage them to have a go at sounding out the word.
If necessary, demonstrate what this looks like first.
Please do not prompt your child to guess a word or use the picture to help them - reading is not about guessing.
This may have once been the case, however current research indicates that this is not an effective reading strategy for children.
Should you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher or myself directly -
Yours faithfully
Christina Jasem
Head of Literacy Development (Prep – Year 6)
Year 1 Home Reading: Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Year 1 Home Reading: Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may notice some changes to the readers and reading activities that your child is bringing home this year.
Children require substantial practice to develop their reading skills to the point of fluency.
10-15 minutes of practice at home with a supportive adult can make all the difference!
This can enable children to apply letter-sound knowledge to reading simple texts.
The readers that your child will bring home will contain words that they can ‘sound out’.
You will notice the vocabulary in these books is very controlled.
This is because at this early stage of the reading process, words need to follow regular sound-symbol patterns, so that children are given opportunities to work out words for themselves, with your support.
Some of these decodable books may look ‘easier’ than some of the books your child may have received previously.
However, teachers have conducted thorough assessments that have identified your child’s instructional level, so that learning occurring in the classroom, is then consolidated at home.
If your child is still learning letter-sound correspondences, a reader may not be appropriate for them yet.
If this is the case for your child, you will receive other phonics activities to work on, until such time that they are independently blending some simple words.
Guessing words from a picture or from context should not be encouraged.
Instead, encourage your child to look at the letter-sound combinations and think about the sounds they represent.
When your child gets stuck on a word, encourage them to have a go at sounding out the word.
If necessary, demonstrate what this looks like first.
Please do not prompt your child to guess a word or use the picture to help them - reading is not about guessing.
This may have once been the case - however, current research indicates this is not an effective reading strategy for children.
Should you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher or myself directly -
Yours faithfully
Christina Jasem
Head of Literacy Development (Prep – Year 6)
Canterbury Outside School Hours Care | Opening Earlier From 6:30am: From Monday 20 February!
Canterbury Outside School Hours Care | Opening Earlier From 6:30am: From Monday 20 February!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Following feedback from our community, I am happy to announce that as of Monday 20 February, Canterbury's Outside School Hours Care service will be open for Before School Care from 6:30am.
Information regarding this service, as well as links to register and book, can be found here on the OSHC MyCC Page: WEBLINK.
Yours faithfully
Michelle Leftwich
Head of Junior School