Community Hub

Community Hub

The Community Hub has had great success this term through the engagement of EAL families within our school community. We kicked off the first session as a soft launch with 30 attendees and introduced families to Compass and the daily routines of Craigieburn Primary School.

We are excited for the upcoming sessions as we are collaborating closely with Foundation house and providing 4 engaging sessions with Francisco Silva (Child Youth and Families Facilitator). The sessions include:

Session 1: Settlement and Attachment (brain development with play and attachment) ways and strategies to come together and foster connections and relationships.

Session 2: Identify rights, responsibilities, cross cultures and maintaining home culture.

Session 3: Introduction to the different needs of children related to the stages of development Social, Emotional, Cognitive and Psychological.

Session 4: Scaffolding children and parents with age-appropriate strategies to manage developmental differences.

So far, families have really enjoyed the connection and have found the sessions to be engaging and beneficial, we look forward to the continuation of connecting families into our school community through the Community Hub.

Whats next?

PINC (Parenting in a New Culture)

Foundation House and Spectrum will help facilitate a special program, PINC (Parenting in a New Culture) to our families, over a 6 week period.

PINC is designed to support migrant and newly arrived families in Australia by helping them build their parenting skills and improve family functioning.

In 6 weeks, parents will:

Discuss the challenges for multicultural families in a new culture
Learn how to teach their children about their culture
Develop parenting strategies and tools
Learn about Australia’s education & legal systems
Discuss the stages of child development
Connect with other family support services

The PINC Program will be held on the following dates:

Thursday the 7th of March - 1:00 to 3:00pm

Thursday the 14th of March - 1:00 to 3:00 pm

Thursday the 21st of March - 1:00 to 3:00 pm

Thursday the 28th of March - 1:00 to 2:30 pm

Thursday the 18th of April - 1:00 to 3:00 pm

Thursday the 2nd of May - 1:00 to 3:00 pm

We hope to see many new faces and look forward to the exciting events ahead!