ACT Education Directorate 2022 Leadership Conference 1-2 of June

Paula and I recently attended the 2022 Leadership Conference. It was the first face-to-face conference in two years. The focus for the conference was on Leading for All: Every child and young person, everyone classroom, every day and was designed to enable participants to hear keynote presentations, participate in workshops, engage with panels, and be stimulated by TED-Style talks.  These presentations aim to support schools implement the Future of Education Strategy. The four principals are:

• Equality
• Student Agency
• Access
• Inclusion

Hearing from our students is vital to fully understand and enact the conference themes. As a leadership team we will be working on ways we can collect student voice data and ways to implement students voices into our learning programmes and school initiatives.

Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) and Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs)

During this reporting period teachers are working with their students’ data to create, amend and update their ILPs or PLPs. During this review process we do not meet with families, however, a draft updated Plan will be sent home with your child at the beginning of next term.  We encourage families to read the Plans, make any comments and return to the school. If families believe the Plan is accurate, we ask that you sign it prior to returning it back to school. If you would like further information, please contact me: erin.minehan@ed.act.edu.au

Farewell to Ms Carney

We all have very mixed feelings about this one. Nicole Carney will be finishing up at Campbell Primary School at the end of this term to move to Toyko, Japan to teach! We are incredibly sad but also so excited for the adventure that is to come for her. Nicole joined the CPS community in 2018 and has taught right across the school. Her work around our Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) over the remote learning period was vital in sustaining a remotely connected community. This involved her handwriting post cards to every Campbell Primary student from Stanley Stag.  She has led the PBL committee and build/develop whole school initiatives, such as the highly sought after PBL student badges. DJ Carney will be very missed, and we look forward to hearing about all the exciting things in her future to come.

We welcome Florence Wellfair to the Year 3/4 team. Flo is joining CPS from Majura Primary School and will visit over the next couple of weeks to meet the teaching team and the lovely students in 3/4C.