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- Principal's Report
- Deputy Principal's Report
- Upcoming events
- Defence Mentor's Report
- Shrek Jr: The Musical
- Year 3-4 Process of Inquiry
- Parent Portal is now available as a mobile app!
- Arriving after 9:00am?
- Let’s Make These Last Two Weeks Count! – St John's Care Food Drive
- ACT Children’s Week grants and award nominations
- Free travel during MyWay+ transition - starts Friday 20 September
- Sustainable Steps Poster Competition
- Early Intervention Team Parent Group Term 4
- Spring School Holiday Program
The ACT Government has invested $24.9 million to implement the recommendations from the Final Report of the Literacy and Numeracy Education Expert Panel. The Final Report from the Expert Panel provided the ACT Government with eight future-focused key recommendations to strengthen literacy and numeracy outcomes for all ACT public school students, with a particular focus on equity.
The new program of work is called Strong Foundations. The program will build on the good work currently happening across schools that ensures all students receive a high-quality and consistent start to their literacy and numeracy education.
The program is founded on evidence-based, practical suggestions that will strengthen the education system by working together as one system, delivering better learning outcomes for students, and better workloads for teachers and school leaders. This includes:
- support for evidence-informed and consistent teaching practices in every classroom;
- common assessments, including a Year 1 phonics test;
- advice and resources for parents, to support their children with literacy and numeracy; and
- multitiered systems of support for students in every public school.
As part of the Strong Foundations reform program, ACT public schools will begin a phased introduction of the Year 1 Phonics Check starting with 26 schools this term.
The Phonics Check is a quick and easy way for teachers to gauge the phonics knowledge of Year 1 students. It is designed to help teachers identify students who may need more help learning to read.
The first schools selected to participate were chosen based on demographic, location and size to provide a broad sample from across the ACT public school system. Insights from this first group of schools will inform a rollout of the Year 1 Phonics Check to all ACT public schools in 2025, including Campbell Primary School.
This is an important milestone as part of the Strong Foundations program designed to strengthen literacy and numeracy outcomes for all students. You can read more on the Education Directorate website.
Week 9 (16 to 20 September)
I will be on leave over Week 9 to spend some time with my Dad who is home from overseas. Whilst I am on leave, we will be welcoming David Ferguson, from Lyneham Primary School. David will act in the Principal role whilst I am on leave. I have taken David on a tour and he met some of our staff and students.
I will be thinking of you next week. I am very sad to miss Floriade, it is always such a highlight of the year but am so excited to be back for Shrek the Musical. What an incredible end to another fantastic term!
Take care, everyone,
Erin
Whole-School Floriade Excursion
The countdown is on until our whole-school excursion to Floriade! This is a key community event on the Campbell calendar, happening on Wednesday 18 September - next week! Families are invited to join us in a volunteer capacity or simply come along to enjoy the show.
Campbell performances will take place from 11:30am-12:30pm, with students from the Years 5 and 6 bands, choir and Shrek musical set to entertain us on Stage 88 for the hour.
Please remember there is no canteen available on the day. Students will need to bring their own food with them to Floriade.
We are very excited to celebrate our students’ participation in the performing arts, as well as spend time together as a community enjoying what Floriade has to offer.
| Upcoming events | Date of events | Permission note due |
| K-2 Footsteps Dance program | weekly sessions in Term 3 | some still outstanding |
| Preschool Nutrition Magician Incursion | Tuesday 17 September | Tuesday 10 September |
| Whole School Floriade | Wednesday 18 September | Wednesday 11 September |
| Shrek Jr: The Musical |
Tuesday 24 September Wednesday 25 September |
See below for informaiton |
| Year 3-4 Woden Cinema - Runt | Friday 27 September | Friday 20 September |
Additional copies of all permission notes, can be found in:
- in the CPS Dropbox tab on the school website (campbellps.act.edu.au); and
- in the Documents tab in the Parent Portal.
Campbell Primary School was extremely proud to send our four school captains to the Battle for Australia Commemorative Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial.
Evaan, Makensie, Arabella, and Jess represented our school alongside twelve other Canberra schools on the first sunny day of spring, September 4th. The ceremony recognized the courage and sacrifice of those who fought in the many battles between 1942 and 1945.
As the Defence School Mentor, I was incredibly proud of our four captains, who were respectful, professional, and grateful to be invited to this important event.
All four students were also fortunate to spend time with a very special veteran who had just turned 104 years old. Hearing her stories was a deeply emotional experience, and I know Evaan, Makensie, Arabell, and Jess will remember it with great gratitude.
A key message from the service was the importance of the younger generation remembering the sacrifices made by everyday Australians all those years ago. The admiration shown for the younger generation underscored this crucial point.
Year 3-4 have been thinking about 'the point of the past' in History.
We investigated life in Australia before and after 1788 and delved into why Australia was colonised.
We then looked at the effects of colonisation on the local inhabitants and how we can use our new understandings to work towards a positive future.
You can now access Parent Portal with the Sentral for Parents app. Download Sentral for Parents for free through the App Store or Google Play Store.
Parent Portal is a secure online platform used to share student information between you and your child’s teachers.
If you’ve already registered, you can download the Sentral for Parents app to receive notifications when new information is available.
If you haven’t registered for Parent Portal yet, use this Parent Portal access link to log into or create your ACT Digital Account. To access Parent Portal, you will need your access key, you should have received this by email when we launched.
If you can’t find the email with the access key, please contact the front office team for help.
Some reminders about what you can do with Parent Portal:
- notify us if your child is sick or explain an absence
- book parent-teacher interviews
- receive academic reports
- receive our school newsletter
- receive messages from your child’s teachers
- make payments
- access the school calendar and your child’s student timetable.
Head to our website for all the details: https://www.campbellps.act.edu.au/parent_portal.
Any students arriving at school after 9:00am, who are absent when the rolls are taken, will be marked as such. Absence notifications are sent home to families of students with an unexplained late arrive/absence.
Thank you to all our respectful learners who patiently wait at the front window to be acknowledged when they arrive late. We appreciate your patience and the support in keeping accurate attendance records.
When your child/ren arrive at school any time after the 9:00am bell, please escort them via the front office and stop for a moment to make sure we have recorded your child's name and their arrival time.
As you can appreciate, 9:00am is a hectic time of the morning and in people's rush to get to class, they may forget to stop for a moment. As much as we love a friendly wave, please take that extra few seconds to pause and make sure we have registered your arrival time.
We're down to the final two weeks of our St John's Care food drive, and this is our chance to make a real impact! Our school community has already shown such generosity, but with just a little more, we can truly make a difference for those in need.
Now is the time to dig deep into your pantries and find those non-perishable goodies—pasta, rice, canned vegetables, soups, and toiletries—that can help brighten someone's day. Every item helps, and together, we can build a mountain of support!
Representatives from St John's Care will visit our school to collect the donations, so let’s send them off with overflowing baskets
Thank you for being a part of this important cause. Let's show how powerful our community can be!
Thank you so much,
The Year 6 Leaders
The next major phase for MyWay+ will start from Friday 20 September ahead of the next generation ticketing system going live this November. To get ready for the new ticketing system, the old equipment will need to be removed and new MyWay+ validators installed in both buses and along the light rail alignment.
As a result:
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travel will be free from 20 September
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NXTBUS will not be available during this transition period.
For more information on the MyWay+ transition, including what changes are taking place, visit the Transport Canberra website.
The Sustainable Steps Poster Competition invites Canberra school students to create a poster that will inspire Canberrans to take a simple action for sustainability. The competition is open to school students from preschool to Year 8. Entries close on Friday 11 October 2024.
Finalists’ posters will be displayed and winners will be announced at the Sustainable Schools Awards in early December 2024. Winners will receive a book prize. Find out more and download the entry form.
School is almost out for the term, meaning it’s nearly time for some holiday fun! Get ready for some serious enjoyment with Libraries ACT's Spring School Holiday Program. Discover fun-filled activities, interactive storytelling sessions, craftwork, projects and more.
Check out the attached flyer to see what’s on offer these holidays.