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CSPS Newsletter 27/10/2025

Principal's News

Dear Families,

Welcome to Term 4! I would like to begin by thanking each of you for the friendly welcome I have received since starting at Campbell Street Primary School this term. I am really enjoying meeting staff, students and parents/carers and getting to know the Campbell Street Primary School Community. It is an honour to wander through classrooms and see the calm and orderly learning environments and to have conversations with students about their learnings and what they love about coming to school each day.

School Association Disco

I would like to thank the School Association for the organisation and hosting of our recent Emoji themed Disco. The evening was a huge success, with almost 150 students attending, across all year levels. There were many happy young people (and teachers and volunteers) calving up the dance floor throughout the night. Thank you to Kale Thompson for being an amazing DJ and also to the staff who attended to provide supervision for such an event. I look forward to sharing the fundraising outcomes of the Disco in the near future.

Swimming and Water Safety

A reminder about our Swimming and Water Safety Program which is held over this next fortnight (Monday 27th October – Friday 7th November) for our P-2 students. Please refer to previous communications for information regarding this program and contact the office if you have any questions. Thank you also the School Association for the support of funding to enable this program to be accessed by students across our school.

Classes for 2026

We have begun the early stages of class allocations for 2026. Students have been given the opportunity to submit friendship requests. Although we do not allow specific teacher requests, if you have an academic consideration for your child for 2026, please email me these directly – samantha.jesney@decyp.tas.gov.au

We have an action-packed Term 4 at Campbell Street Primary School. Each week we will put a Facebook post of the week ahead and recent communication home from class teachers will have included a calendar of confirmed Term 4 activities for your information. I am really looking forward to continuing to meet and get to know families over the coming weeks and at our celebration assemblies towards the end of term. Please feel free to contact me directly or via the school office if you have any questions or concerns at any time and once again, thank you for welcoming me into such a vibrant, wonderful, friendly school community.

Kind regards,

Sam Jesney

Principal

Class News

Year 3/4B

In the first week of Term the Grade 3/4 classes got together for a special event. A virtual talk with author Craig Silvey. Hundreds of schools around Australia joined in. Our students were inspired and entertained by Craig as he was asked questions from schools and explained his process in writing both the book and movie. He talked about the characters starting inside himself and allowing the story to emerge from there. We were amazed to hear that the movie was filmed in four weeks and that the rain was created by trucks and sprinklers!

We were all very excited to hear that the sequel has just been published and we were treated to him reading the first chapter aloud. It would make a brilliant Christmas present and is a book that could be read together as a family.

Prep/1

In Prep One we have had a great start to term 4. The children were excited to talk about what they did during the school holidays. Take a look at some of our writing.

School Association

Welcome back to term 4. The support we have received so far in 2025 has been fantastic. All funds raised go towards supporting our children including the early years swimming lessons, the Eco Warriors (did you see the fresh produce haul at the end of term 3), guided reading books for classes, the silent disco and so much more. There are still chances to volunteer so please reach out.

Some key dates for this term include: