CSPS Newsletter 28/3/2025
Principal's News
Dear Families,
One of our key focus areas at Campbell Street Primary School is our school values – Respect, Connection, Responsibility, Growth and Courage. These values align with the values of our Department for Education, Children and Young People. We embrace our values throughout each year and we have a focus value every 8 weeks. Our current focus value is Connection, a value that is highly relevant to our diverse, multicultural school community. One of the highlights of our school community is that we have children from a multitude of backgrounds and nations learning together and appreciating the value of diversity. This is the core of our school motto “Everyone Belongs, Everyone Learns.”
The DECYP design for Connection shows that, although we may have different backgrounds, experiences and diversity, everything is connected and what we do impacts others. Together, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Our staff are committed to supporting students in building warm and respectful relationships with familiar adults, to build and strengthen secure attachments that are fundamental to children’s learning and development. These relationships nurture, regulate and provide protective factors to support children’s wellbeing, resilience and learning. We are also committed to further developing our community connections, maintaining strong links with families as our partners in education. You may like to join us for our first Community Connections coffee afternoon, next Tuesday 1st April prior to our Whole School Assembly.
Harmony Week
We will be celebrating Harmony Week during the last week of Term 1 (postponed due to our busy school calendar). We have a number of events scheduled for that week – here is a sneak preview! In addition, classes will be participating in a variety of Harmony Week activities with their Buddy Classes.
CSPS Little Library
Our Student Representative Council have been busy setting up a “Little Library” in our courtyard. This is a great opportunity for students to share and enjoy more books.
Snack Shack
Yesterday we were thrilled to have our first Snack Shack for 2025, with stacks of sushi and tonnes of toasties consumed by hungry students and staff. A fantastic team effort by our wonderful volunteers. Thank you to the School Association for continuing with this much valued school tradition this year.
Playground Supervision
We continue to experience some issues in our school playground after 2:55pm. Duty of care for children is the responsibility of parents/carers after school ends for the day at 2:55pm. Supervising adults must be on site from 2:55pm and supervising children closely. Children without adult supervision must come to the office at 3:05pm if their adult has not arrived. Please be very aware that our playground rules are the same after school as during the school day, ie. No climbing trees, no re-entering school buildings, no bike/scooter riding, no fighting. Of particular concern of late is the habit of quite a number of students to play in bare feet after school. This is a real safety hazard. We conduct a playground check each morning to check for needles and other hazardous objects but playing in bare feet is still taking the risk of being injured by something sharp.
If there are any concerns in our playground after school, please do come to the office (ring the buzzer if after 3:30pm) and report your concerns. It is not appropriate to approach other parents about behaviour issues.
Susan Jeffery
Principal
Class News
Kinder
We have had a fabulous start to the year in Kinder Ferguson. This term we have been focussing on building our sense of belonging and connection to our classmates, teachers and school. Students wrote letters with their families about themselves to share with the class, we have been practising learning everyone’s names and doing activities about ourselves and our names. Here students created their faces using playdough and loose parts.
Students have been learning our structures and routines and developing new relationships through play. As well as the important social and communication benefits of play, learning through play is integral in the early years for developing imagination, creativity, problem solving and literacy skills.
This term we have been doing many learning activities around number. We have been practising counting out collections to 10, and for some to 20, recognising and writing different numbers, ordering numbers and showing our number of the day in multiple ways.
This term we have also been learning about reusing and recycling. We have read books, watched video clips and talked about rubbish and recycling and why recycling and reusing items is important. We have a worm farm in Kinder where many of our food scraps go, as well as a FOGO bin for other food scraps, a soft plastic recycling container and our paper and cardboard recycling bin. We have made a boxwork town out of recycled cardboard and reusable screws and made a turtle art piece using recycled cardboard and bottle lids. We are excited to visit the Sustainability Learning Centre next week for our first excursion to learn more about recycling and to create things using recycled and reused materials.
Lift
School Association Fundraiser
School Association Silent Disco
SRC Library
Our little CSPS Library
At Campbell Street Primary School, the SRC has now introduced, a new little library! You can find it in the courtyard near the library. It’s a bring a book take a book situation. Feel free to take a book, bring a book, share a book. Please come and look, bring some books from home you don’t need anymore, if you can. Any type of books are welcome: novels, picture books, graphic novels, etc. Written by 5/6A SRC’s Layla and Ellis!
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