Message from the Principal

Week 9 and10 Term 2 2026

Dear CNPS Families

As we reach the end of the term, I would like to thank everyone for your hard work, commitment and positive attitude, particularly as we navigate the final stages of the capital works project. I would like to give special recognition to the Year 3/4 team and Olivia for your flexibility and support throughout Term 2. It has been wonderful over the past week to see all Year 3/4 classes settle into their new learning environments. To the students of CNPS, it has been a pleasure to see your energy, enthusiasm, and dedication throughout the term. I hope you take pride in all that you have achieved and enjoy a well-deserved break. To our families and community members who are fortunate enough to enjoy some downtime, I hope you have the opportunity to rest and recharge before we commence the second half of the year.

Learning

Assessment and Reporting / Parent/Carer – Teacher Interviews

Term 2 has been a busy term for our teachers. Throughout the term, teachers have been working with students to assess their understanding of curriculum content and decipher future learning goals for Semester 2. Throughout Week 9 &10, parents/carers have been invited into CNPS to attend mid-year interviews. Can I again thank all students for their hard work throughout Semester 1, acknowledge our dedicated and hard-working teachers for their diligent efforts and finally thank our parents/carers for your ongoing commitment to your child/ren learning and support of CNPS.

Yarra and Darebin Network

On Wednesday 10 June 2026, Erin and I attended the DAYS network forum. The forum was another opportunity to connect with Principal Class colleagues and discuss what is happening across schools. A key aspect of the network meeting was hearing more about the Victorian Lesson Plans and their implementation across schools. The VLP’s are designed with a key focus on the cognitive load theory and supporting teachers in their planning, specifically preparing the teaching of lessons. We also joined our COP (Communities of Practice) to begin planning for school visits to see ‘Supported Applications – Varied Practice’ at work. The focus for the COP is looking at questioning and how questions are posed and received to support students learning.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

year of schooling
category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools.
consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools.
develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact Jane Bilby or Maddi Davis.

NAIDOC Week - National NAIDOC Theme 5-12 July 2026

For five decades, NAIDOC Week has celebrated the voices of our communities — steady, unapologetic, and proud. Each year, its themes have called for truth, celebrated culture, honoured resistance, and reminded the nation of who we are. Fifty Years of Deadly marks a milestone. It’s a tribute to the people who built this movement. the Elders who stood firm, the organisers who made space, the artists who turned resistance into expression, and the communities who keep showing up, year after year.

NAIDOC has always been more than a week — it’s a platform, a protest, a celebration, and a statement of survival.

This moment is about looking back at the stories, the marches, the languages, the art, the leadership. At the strength it took to get here. It’s about recognising how far we’ve come, not by chance, but because generations of people refused to be silenced. It’s also about the here and now, who we are today. Grounded in culture. Strong in our identity. Leading change across every field, from health and education to media, business, and the arts. We’re telling our own stories, in our own way, on our own terms. And it’s about the future. The next 50 years. The young ones growing up proud. The return of language. The return to Country. The fight for justice continuing with new tools, new voices, and the same fire.

Fifty Years of Deadly is a marker, not just of time passed, but of the momentum still building. It’s proof of what our people build when culture leads and community comes first. NAIDOC belongs to mob. It always has.

We honour what came before by continuing the work.

This is our story. This is our celebration. This is our future.

Foundation Enrolments

If you have a child starting Foundation in 2027, please complete and return their enrolment form to the office as soon as possible. This will support the school to know how many sibling based enrolments we have entering CNPS next year. If you have any questions regarding enrolment, please contact Gaby or a member of the office team.

School – Home Partnership

The hallmark of a strong school-home partnership is open and respectful dialogue, that embodies the school values. Please feel free to reach out to Jane, Erin, Maddi, Trish or I should you have any questions or queries when we resume school in Term 3.

Warm Regards

Matthew Ferguson

Principal