Campbell Primary School
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25 Chauvel Street
Campbell ACT 2612
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Email: campbellps@ed.act.edu.au
Phone: 02 6142 3580

Principal's message

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Dear families,

It has been a very busy, but exciting time with students participating in our first Campbell Long Lunch event, attending the swimming carnival, and engaging in meaningful lessons within their classrooms.  As we get closer to the end of term, we look forward to celebrating Harmony Day, welcoming the Minister of Education Yvette Berry for a school visit, hosting Learning Journey sessions and conducting parent teacher interviews.

Learning Journey

This term, due to Covid-19 restrictions, Learning Journeys will look at little bit different at Campbell Primary. Opportunities for families to spend time in their child’s class will be staggered across Week 7 as follows:

Tuesday 16 March – Year 3, Year 6, Dolphins and Sea Turtles

Wednesday 17 March – Year 2, Year 4 and Year 5

Thursday 18 March – Kindergarten and Year 1

Friday 19 March – Whales

Time for all sessions – 8:45-10:00 am

Learning Journeys provide an exciting opportunity for students to take an active role in showcasing their own learning to families and carers. It allows our school community to celebrate and reflect together on what has been achieved throughout the term.

Please note that Learning Journey is not the appropriate time for an individual interview or in-depth conversation with teachers.  Parent/teacher interviews will be held during Week 8 of this term and provide a shared opportunity to receive feedback and discuss your child’s progress, learning needs and overall well-being. Information on how to schedule your interview will be sent home via email shortly.

We ask families visiting the school for Learning Journeys and interviews to follow social distancing practices by using hand sanitiser on arrival and registering their attendance either manually or by using the Check in CBR app (preferred).

Due to class sizes and current restrictions for indoor spaces we need to limit attendance for Learning Journey sessions to one adult per student.

We are looking forward to sharing your child’s learning with you.

Update on the school modernisation project

Construction work will start in earnest this week as our builders, Lendlease, install some hoarding along the inside of the corridor to the hall. This will allow the builders to demolish the remaining part of the annex, left over from the original two storey senior wing (which was demolished in the summer holidays of 2017/18).  The hoarding work will include framing, sheeting, insulation and painting.  Demolition of the external area will occur out of school hours.

Access to the hall and canteen will remain via the corridor, although it will be narrower than the current space. 

Delivery of site equipment and sheds will also occur over the coming week. 

Pedagogies

Within each newsletter, the Future Focused Committee (Timmy Holness, Alistair Scherer and I) will be providing a snapshot of different approaches to teaching and learning that we use across the school every day and will continue to use once we move into our learning communities. Each pedagogy highlighted over the coming weeks are taken from the ACT Education Directorate’s Enabling Pedagogies resource of evidence-based, high impact strategies for improving student learning and align with the ACT Public School Pedagogical Framework.

Agency and Co-construction snapshot

Agency is defined as being able to make choices and decisions to influence events and to have an impact on one’s world (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR], 2009). Agency recognises that students can initiate their own learning and have a right to make choices and decisions in matters that affect them.   Co-construction refers to learning that takes place in partnership with educators and other students (DEEWR, 2009).

Student Agency and Co-construction refers to students being the key drivers of their learning. Student agency gives students voice to their learning to set goals, regulate their learning and give feedback to the teacher. Co-construction allows students to co-create their learning and focus on areas of interest that align with their future goals. 

Students actively construct their own understandings and contribute to others’ learning. Educators recognise student’s capacity to initiate and lead learning, make choices and decisions, and influence and impact on their world.

As students become invested in their own learning, they gain a better understanding of what good learning is and the purpose of it. This enables them to evaluate their own work, and to more purposefully discuss progress and achievement with teachers, each of which has a significant effect size on achievement (Hattie, 2009).

Students

  • take responsibility for their learning.
  • understand the assessment process and is involved in the co-construction of learning goals.
  • can assess their learning and track their growth.
  • feel empowered in their learning.

Teachers

  • explicitly teach students how to write learning goals, plan learning tasks and self-assess.
  • regularly collect student feedback about their teaching to reflect on how the students are feeling about the lesson or assessment.
  • ask students to review learning outcomes and set goals for their learning.
  • include students in co-constructing learning plans.
  • make the learning visible to students by co-constructing learning intentions and success criteria.

 

Paula Kinsman
Principal