Dear families,

Welcome back to an exciting Term 2!

It has been lovely to start the term in our new Learning communities.  The children and teachers are discovering new and exciting ways to use all the new equipment and spaces.  I would like to thank the Campbell Primary School staff who attended the school site over the holiday period to prepare for the transition and to welcome students back on the first day of term.  With Covid-19 restrictions set to ease, we are looking forward to opening the school to parents.

On Monday the 23 May the P&C will be hosting a sausage sizzle and their Annual General Meeting followed by our first Parent walk through.  We would love to see as many parents as possible from our community attend and become actively involved in our P&C.

6.00pm: Sausage Sizzle

6.30pm: AGM and School walk through

Staffing

The staff at Campbell Primary School are working tirelessly to continue the learning during times of staff shortages.  Wherever possible the school actively seeks to employ relief teachers to cover classes. However, sometimes it is necessary to split classes, cancel special programs, combine classes and in extreme situations move to supervision only or remote learning.   Decisions regarding supervision only and remote learning are made in consultation with the Education Directorate.  We understand that this can cause disruption, but we ask our community for your continued support during this complex time.

In exciting news……

This term we welcome back Imogen Micieli and Samantha Gee from maternity leave.  Both members of staff are working as part of our early childhood team across Kindergarten to Year 2.

2023 Enrolments are open

Enrolments for the 2023 school year are now open.  Applications submitted by 3 June will receive communication regarding placement from 25 July. Further information for enrolling is available via the Education Directorate website: www.education.act.gov.au  or the Enrolments Telephone Service (02) 6205 5429.

Staff planning days, term 2, 2022

The ACT Government is supporting all ACT public schools to hold two staff planning days during Term 2. These days will provide public school teachers with some extra space to complete lesson planning, student assessment, moderation, and reporting.

Our school will hold staff planning days on: Tuesday, 17 May 2022, and Thursday, 9 June 2022.

Where possible, we ask that students do not attend school on these days.

Students who can’t stay at home will be able to attend school and be supervised while undertaking general learning activities. Please confirm via phone on 6142 3580 or email campbellps@ed.act.edu.au if your child will be attending school on these days.

School reporting

Semester 1 student reports

With the middle of the school year fast approaching our teachers will soon be preparing student reports for Semester 1. This semester we will be providing students with an overall A-E grade, and an assessment of achievement standard statements on a 5-point scale.

While Semester 1 reports won’t include detailed teacher comments, parents are encouraged to speak directly with their child’s teacher(s) if they have any questions or concerns about their progress. Our teachers will also continue to communicate directly with you when there are any concerns about student learning or other classroom updates.

From the DSM Desk

Sadly this week we farewell some of our wonderful new friends from year 1 and 3 who are off on an international adventure (and much warmer climates). We wish them very well on this new chapter!

We have also had the opportunity to also welcome several new students since the start of term and as always I commend our Campbell students and community for making them feel very welcome. It’s a joy to see and means a lot to our new friends. Welcome to our new families; we hope you love it here as much as we do!

Should you have any questions or concerns I am available to CPS families Monday to Friday 9am – 3:30pm. Should you wish to make contact please call the front office or email me directly at Karyn.heitmann@ed.act.edu.au

ANZAC Assembly

On Friday the 29^th of April Campbell Primary School paused to remember and reflect on the service and sacrifice of Australian Defence Force members past and present. Unfortunately, our whole school assembly with invited guests wasn’t possible this year, which gave us the opportunity to be creative in our commemoration delivery. Custom digital presentations were prepared for our 4 cohorts (Preschool, K-2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6) to suit their respective levels of understanding. This was supported by a gorgeous performance by our junior choir and video speaking roles from just a handful of our many special students from ADF families from those respective cohorts.

For those interested the following links are the feature video from each of the presentations:

Preschool: ANZAC Ted (story)

Kindy - Year 2: Here They Come, A Day to Remember (Story)

Year 3 and 4: ANZAC Special, the Gallipoli Story

Year 5 and 6: Stories of Service - Jim Murphy (Boy Soldier)

Unfortunately, we are unable to share the full presentation due to media consent restrictions but please email me if you would like a copy of your child’s speaking part. The choir performance has been shared with families via seesaw.

A huge thankyou to all of the students that spoke so beautifully on video; we have some amazing future public speakers at Campbell. Appreciation also goes to the junior choir led by Ms Dee and Ms Scott who worked incredibly hard on their song “The Last ANZAC” by Michael Travers. Finally, an acknowledgment of the respect shown by our entire student body throughout the services and especially during the minute of silence. They are the keepers of the future of our traditions of ANZAC Day; I am confident it’s in good hands!

Lest We Forget.

We hope to return to a traditional format with the opportunity for families to attend in time for Remembrance Day. Thank you to all the families that sent in items to allow students to represent their family members’ service; it was wonderful to see our long association with local ADF represented so proudly. Please enjoy a selection of the photos from Friday.

Year 6 Student Leadership

Now that we are settling into the new buildings, it’s time for the Year 6 students to nominate for leadership positions! Our budding leaders have been busy workshopping with Ms Herrington and Ms Deady, preparing their speeches ready for this Friday morning.

This year, we are introducing a new format for school leaders, which should allow for greater opportunity for students to lead in their areas of interest. Students have been given a clear job description for the school leader roles, which helped them to reflect on their own qualities and decide if they would like to self-nominate as a candidate.

School Leader Job Description:

School leaders at Campbell Primary School are expected to uphold themselves to high standards within our school community, by always doing their best to display the qualities of a safe, respectful learner. They must be friendly, approachable and easy for other children and school staff to get along with. School leaders need to strive to achieve the best possible outcomes for the Campbell Primary School community. 

• Communicate with teachers and school executive about upcoming school events
• Meet with team to discuss new projects/issues
• Be a positive role model who always tries to be a safe, respectful learner (this may be seen in behaviour, effort and by wearing the school uniform)
• Public speaking and presenting to school and wider community 
• Be an active member of the community (participate in sports carnivals and special school events)
• Be approachable to encourage other students (including younger) to seek assistance or share ideas

All Year 6 students will be a part of either the Health and Wellbeing, Sustainability, Technology or Community committees. This is to encourage the participation of all students.

Year 6 has been a hive of excitement and enthusiasm throughout the week as we have planned for leadership speeches, which we are very excited to see on Friday morning. We have a whopping 27 hopeful students who are in the running, which must be a record! Children who are interested in being house captains will present their speeches at house meetings on Monday 9 May. We are looking forward to updating the community with the members of our new school leadership team very soon!

Kate Herrington | A/g Executive Teacher

NOTICE: CPS P&C AGM 23 May 2022

It’s that time of the year to vote in your new P&C Committee, and we all get the opportunity to walk through the new buildings too!

You may have heard that five of our P&C executive positions won’t be re-nominating as our last little babes are graduating this year… This is a huge opportunity for new parents and citizens to drive the direction of our great school and P&C!

Annual General Meeting details:

23 May 2022

6pm: Sausage sizzle and nibbles

6.30pm: AGM hosted in the new year 5 & 6 learning areas

7pm: New building walk throughs

7.30pm: Term 2 GM

CASAC will be providing child minding too

To align with Directorate’s Covid Safety Action Plan (CSAP) this event must be ticketed and all parents who want to attend are required to adherer to appropriate social distancing measures. Please see the Eventbrite link below to receive your ticket:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agm-sausage-sticky-beak-at-campbell-primary-school-tickets-334187101617

Our P&C works in a really mature, well-established framework, it’s fun and we get to make a difference to the school community.

Nominations are open for all executive positions (Pres, VP, Secretary and Treasurer), support positions (CASAC convenor, canteen and uniform shop) and of course we’d welcome standard committee members too. Nominations forms, as well as the constitution, by-laws and previous minutes are in the attached sharepoint folder:

Next Meeting - AGM - 23 May 22 Documents

We’ve proposed some minor amendments to the constitution and by-laws to provide some clarity and flexibility to the committee to be voted on: that doc is also in the sharepoint folder.

We’re hoping to see you all there for some community bonding over a sausage/gin, a snappy meeting to vote in the new committee that shapes the direction of the CPS P&C, and a brilliant opportunity to tour the new buildings.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me at secretary@campbellpandc.com

Keirin (Year 6 Dad)

Keirin Joyce | Secretary
Phone: 0410 685 260| Email: secretary@campbellpandc.com
Campbell Primary School Parents and Citizens Association
www.campbellps.act.edu.au                        

NAPLAN

Next week our students in years 3 and 5 will participate in NAPLAN. Students will be assessed in writing, reading, language conventions and mathematics. NAPLAN is one of the many data sets that we use at Campbell Primary School to monitor student achievement and growth. If you have any questions about your child’s participation in NAPLAN, please contact me at kate.herrington@ed.act.edu.au

Kate Herrington | A/g Executive Teacher

Our amazing duo, Jessie and Vicki, are making preparations to start a lunchtime Garden Club! 

Before they can start inviting students along, we are asking our families for any donations of clean plastic pots to use.  The colour doesn’t matter.  We will happily accept any size up to 20cm high (nothing too big please).

If you have any clean plastic gardening pots at home which you don’t need anymore, please have your child/ren drop them off at the front office.

More information about the Garden Club will be sent home at a later date.

Campbell High School welcomes our in area Year 6 students and families on Thursday 19 May from:

Majura Primary School and North Ainslie Primary School from 5-6pm and

Campbell Primary School and Ainslie School from 6-7pm.

Please join us in our school hall for addresses from our Principal and Year 7 Coordinator followed by a school tour and teacher meet and greet.

Note that there are specific allocated session times as this is a Covid safe event.

For more information please visit the Campbell High School website: https://www.campbellhs.act.edu.au/home