CSPS Newsletter 12/9/2025
Principal's News
Dear families
Thanks to the School Association volunteers and all other members of the school community who were able to join in the fun – or support through donations – at the recent quiz night.
Having so many parents and friends on site to enjoy a very competitive and brilliantly-hosted quiz (special thanks to Elle and Brendan) was wonderful to see and from all reports it has been a lucrative fundraiser which we know will ultimately benefit Campbell Street students.
I was also encouraged to see three tables full of school staff on the night which highlights to me a desire for genuine connection between school and community.
As well as these kinds of opportunities to connect informally, outside school hours, it’s also worth mentioning that teachers will always be available to book time for parent meetings to discuss student progress.
We’re not holding a formal ‘parent/teacher’ week this term, but I would encourage families to contact class teachers if they’d like to make a time to discuss learning or social-emotional growth.
These conversations can happen in person, by phone or Teams at a time that is mutually convenient.
Bunnings barbecue
The next opportunity to support your School Association is this Saturday, September 13th at Bunnings in Glenorchy.
Volunteers will be flipping sausages and feeding the masses with profits feeding back to the association to support their various initiatives.
There’s been plenty of hard work go into coordinating this fundraiser, so please try to support if you’re able to!
Survey season
We always want to hear from families via the School Satisfaction Survey to help us inform school-planning and decision-making.
Every year the Department for Education, Children and Young People conducts the survey to find out what you believe the school does well and where it may improve.
As of Thursday morning, only 13 families have been able to complete the survey and we’re targeting 57 families to represent a full cross-section of the school community.
If you haven’t already, I would be grateful if you take the time to participate in the online survey using the link below.
The survey is open until next Friday, September 19th and should take about five minutes to complete.
Each family can nominate one person to fill in this survey for their child(ren).
Take the online survey by clicking this Link, or pasting it in your browser: https://nam.dcv.ms/PF5TgNhXTW
The survey is carried out on a secure website and all responses are anonymous and confidential.
All Campbell Street families use the same survey link and no identifying information is collected. A summary of the survey results will be provided to schools. Responses from individuals or small groups will NOT be disclosed to any Department for Education, Children and Young People staff.
Staff update
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Mrs Nikki Docking will no longer be able to cover Mrs Linda Flude on our 1/2SF class during Term 4 while Linda is away on long-service leave.
I’m pleased to let you know Mrs Amy Paul will be joining the Campbell Street PS staff instead. Amy is an experienced early-childhood teacher who has already been in to start her transition process into the school and is excited to be joining us.
Class News
Kinder
In literacy this term we have been exploring rhyme with Eleanor Tong-Lee and Mrs Ferguson. We have been talking about what a rhyming word is, playing rhyming games, singing rhyming songs and reading stories containing words that rhyme. Students have been excited to listen for and share rhyming words they hear, see or come up with themselves. They have each created rhyming sentences with matching drawings to create a big class book of rhymes. Pictured below are some of the wonderful pieces of work students created for our class rhyme book.
Year 5/6B
It’s been another busy term in 5/6B!
One of our areas of focus this term in English has been explanation texts. We have read examples of this text, such as ‘How Chocolate is Made’, ‘How are Fossils Formed?’ and ‘What Causes a Tsunami?’ The students have learned about the text features of this genre, practiced their reading fluency by reading them aloud and answered different types of comprehension questions about the information they provide. The students are now finishing off writing their own explanation texts.
This has been integrated with our unit on our solar system this term in Science. We have used AI (Copilot) to find accurate, succinct explanations/answers to questions of personal interest, relating to how natural phenomena occur on Earth, in our solar system or beyond. As part of this, the students have been learning how to paraphrase information (write it in their own words by switching clauses in sentences and/or using their knowledge of synonyms and English in general to make it their own), so they are not copying / plagiarising. Some of the questions the children have researched and paraphrased/written an explanation about include; ‘How is a star formed?’, ‘How are boulders formed?’, ‘How are mountains formed?’ and ‘How are black holes formed?
We are currently finishing off a unit on reading/understanding/creating graphs and tables. One of the activities involved transferring the information in a classroom display showing when the students’ birthdays are into a bar graph and then answering questions about it - a lot of which involve fractions, which there has been a focus on in number. The students were asked questions such as: What fraction of the class have birthdays in summer / autumn / winter / spring? They have also learned about converting fractions into their decimal and percentage forms (and vice versa) and how to do this on a calculator if it’s too tricky to do mentally. E.g. 9/25 (or 0.36, or 36%) of the students have their birthdays in summer.
In the spatial area of Maths, the students have revisited the names of the different 3D shapes and identified how many faces, edges and vertices/apexes each has. They have also matched 3D shapes to their 2D nets and decorated the faces of a 2D net of choice and cut/folded/pasted it into its 3D form. Here are a few examples…
SRC Fundraiser - Sausage Sizzle
School Association
August was a busy month for the school association and was rounded off by our annual quiz night, which was a huge success! Such a fun night and a wonderful amount of fundraising achieved to benefit our kids. A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make it happen and to all who attended and made it such a great night. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who donated prizes for the quiz night and our Term 4 raffle (watch out for more info on that coming early next term).
The Father’s Day silly sock fundraiser did well, and we hope all the family members are enjoying their colourful new socks.
This weekend sees us team up with Bunnings Glenorchy for a sausage sizzle. You can support by heading down to enjoy a sausage on the day and say hello to the amazing volunteers making it all happen. We still have room for a couple more people to help with the cooking and selling so if you are free on Saturday, sign up here https://volunnteersignup.org/HMM8R
Our next snack shack is coming up on 25th September and we need a couple more volunteers to be able to make it happen, so please reach out if you can help (email cspsachair@gmail.com).
We have a lot more plans for Term 4 including a school disco and end of year colour fun run, so keep your eyes peeled for more details soon.
Join us for a Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser!
The Campbell Street School Association will be hosting a sausage sizzle at Bunnings Glenorchy on Saturday, 13th September. This is a fantastic opportunity to raise funds for our school—and we’d love your help!
If you can spare a couple of hours to volunteer, please sign up using the link below. Every bit of support makes a big difference!
https://volunteersignup.org/HMM8R
Thank you for being part of our school community!
Uniting Early Learning Closure Notice
Black Square Chess
Interschool Chess Tournament @ South Hobart Primary School- Thursday 28th August
The boys all played well and had a lot of fun. We were the smallest of six teams, and although we came last overall, we were only two points behind the next teams, who had three times the number of students. So not too shabby! Each student played 7 games: Will won 5 (and placed in the top 10% with a distinction), Oliver won 4 games (a credit), and Oscar and Archer won 3 games each. They were all excellent sports and represented the school wonderfully. – Nina Hamilton parent supervisor
We would like to encourage more students to join chess on Monday afternoons and be able to build a great Campbell Street Primary team at other Chess tournaments in the future.
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