13 March 2024

From the Principal

It's hard to believe we're in Week 6 already. It’s really been a wonderful journey so far, getting to know a new community, school and of course the wonderful students and staff at CPS. We have had 60 new students commencing at CPS this year and it has been a delight getting to know them and their families.  The Kinder students really have settled in well and the many older siblings have helped to ease this transition.

Cambridge Primary School is thriving.  Particularly in regards to the Department's "Lifting Literacy – Reading Priority".   Teaching staff, lead by Mrs Stevens, have successfully implemented a new whole-school Literacy screen for students from Kindergarten to Year 6.  The commitment to collaboration here at CPS is outstanding and teaching teams and their approaches and standards are aligned which helps to creating a positive and supportive learning ecosystem.

I would like to introduce and congratulate our year 6 SRC representatives: 

Sienna McG
Isla
Elsa
Indi
Ned
Grace
Eva
Lola
Sienna M
Evie L
Madi
Evie K

On Friday 6 March, I took the SRC on an excursion to The Hobart Conference Centre to attend the 2024 GRIP Leadership conference held at Macquarie Wharf. It was a fun day out together, team building and being vulnerable, meeting like-minded peers. The conference provided our students with a toolkit for embarking on new and exciting initiatives and I look forward to supporting their next idea! 

Cambridge Primary really is an amazing community to learn and grow together and I am looking forward to the next 4 weeks with you all. 

Kristy Hay

Car Park Safety

Thank you to parents and carers for your understanding during the redevelopment phase with the increase in number of vehicles in the car park. We have sectioned off an area near the large gum tree and pine tree to help the buses exit to the main road. See the photos below.

Election Day Sausage Sizzle – Volunteers Needed

The School Association will be running a sausage sizzle fundraiser on Saturday 23 March 2024 at the Cambridge School polling booth.

Make sure you come and see us after you have voted and grab your democracy sausage!

Volunteers are needed to help run the stall. So, if you can spare a couple of hours between 9am and 3pm on election day, please contact Matt Fenton on 0417 127769 or matt.fenton@bigpond.com.

Term 1 Surfing 2024

In weeks 3 and 4 this term, grade 5 and 6 students were given the opportunity to have three sessions at Clifton Beach with the Coastrider Surf Academy.  We had varied conditions in the water over the three days with the students getting to build their water confidence in rough and clean waves.

The program involved students spending one half of each session surfing and the other half learning about beach safety, beach fitness and surfing equipment.  The progress students made at surfing over the three days was remarkable with a great deal of grit and courage being shown.

Many parents lent a hand on the beach sessions and their help was greatly appreciated by students and staff alike.  These beach sessions will help all the students to be more aware of risks to their safety when they are at the beach and perhaps develop surfing as a lifelong passion!

Mr Thomas

2024 Athletics Carnival

On Wednesday in week 4, Cambridge Primary held its Athletics Carnival for 2024.  Even though it was a very warm day, students showed great energy and enthusiasm as they participated in a variety of events.  The event was well supported by Cambridge Primary families, and it was great to see and hear the encouragement for the students.

The athletics carnival is a great opportunity for students to compete and work towards qualifying for the interschool carnival that will be held in early April.  Many Cambridge staff put in extra work to make sure everything was ready for the carnival.

A special thank you needs to go to the parents who assisted with the timing of races, marshalling, recording, handing out ribbons and returning equipment for events.  That help was essential to the carnival being a success.  Our next school carnival will be the cross-country carnival in term 2 and students who qualified for the athletics interschool carnival will be receiving their invitations soon.

Mr Thomas

Cambridge Soccer Club 2024 Season

It’s not far away now!  Soccer Season 2024! Come and join all the fun……

To secure your child’s place in a team please ensure you have registered by Friday 15 March.

Don’t delay, please register online at:

If you have any issues registering, please contact the help desk on 02 8880 7983

The 2024 season kicks off on Saturday 4 May. 

It is so important that you are registered by Friday 15 March as we need time to place teams, organise coaches and forward our information to our local region for the roster to be prepared. Please note all coaches will need to have a valid Working with Vulnerable People card, you can register Here. Players not registered by that date cannot be guaranteed a place in a team.  Registration fees must be paid at the time of registration.

We’ll provide more information in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, please like our Facebook page and if you wish to coach a team or have any further questions, please contact us at cambridgesoccersocial@gmail.com.

Edsmart Messaging System

From Tuesday 12 March 2024 our School will be switching over to a new messaging platform for communicating with you.  

The new platform, called EdSmart is an Australian platform which is designed to improve communication in school communities by allowing electronic messaging i.e. SMS and emails. For now, it will be used to manage absences messages i.e. you will receive a SMS or email alert if your child is absent from school and we have not been notified by 9am.  You will be asked to respond to the message.

The platform will, over time, be rolled out across all Tasmanian Government Schools and new features will be added. 

You will receive a text message and/or an email with further details.  Note, the text message sender will be a shortened version of our school’s name - Please keep an eye out for it!

Further information is available on the Department’s website

We will still be using Schoolzine for our newsletters and general information, and Seesaw for sharing of learning.

Easter Raffle

Hey there, fellow chocolate lovers! Prepare to be amazed because we've got a chocolate so big, it'll make your eyes POP! This scrumptious delight is our grand prize for the school Easter raffle this year. You better hop on over and grab your tickets online by clicking this magical link

or scan this QR code

This Friday is like a fashion fiesta because it's free dress day! But hold your horses, we've got a little favour to ask in return for all this fun. Bring in an egg or other Easter treat to donate to our raffle and drop it off in your classroom. Let's make this Easter eggs-traordinary together!

The Fundraising Team

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Lucy C, Amelia B and Amely W from Gr5/6 who represented the Bears Touch Football Club at the State Touch Cup held in Devonport on 17 and 18 February. The girls competed in the U/12 Girls’ Competition and came away as the State Champions, winning the Grand Final.

Let’s Celebrate!

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