School Leadership Team
Principal Jason Holmes
Deputy Principal Matthew Eyles (Wellbeing & Inclusion)
Deputy Principal Patricia Marton (Teaching & Learning)
General inquiries/School Reception 6142 1930, info@calwellhs.act.edu.au
Communication
Newsletter
A school newsletter is published once a week. The newsletter is emailed directly to families and a link is added to our website and shared via our social media pages.
To see our Newsletters click on the following link: Newsletters
The newsletter contains interesting and important information that students and parents need to know and is a wonderful way of keeping in touch with the Calwell High School community.
Social Media
Calwell High School has a presence on Facebook. This is a brilliant way of keeping up to date on important news and events at the school.
We encourage parents and guardians to use email for their contact with teachers regarding teaching and learning, excursions, concerns, achievements and other non-urgent matters.
We hope that email will allow teachers to provide more timely and detailed feedback to parents and guardians about their students. Email will become our primary method of communication for non-urgent, one-to-one messages. It is also the method we use to send reports home at each stage of learning throughout the year.
Email also allows parents and teachers to make contact without requiring them both to be available at the same time. Your email address will not be shared with other entities or used for any other purpose.
If you need to contact staff directly, email is often the best way. All staff emails use the same format and are constructed via: firstname.lastname@ed.act.edu.au.
Parent Portal
Using the Parent Portal on your mobile phone, tablet or computer, you will be able to:
- notify us if your child is sick or explain an absence
- book parent-teacher interviews
- receive academic reports
- receive our school newsletter
- receive messages from your child’s teachers
- make payments
- access the school calendar and your child’s student timetable.
One of the many benefits of the Parent Portal is that it will be used by all ACT public schools from preschool through to year 12, so there will be no need to use a different system as children change schools during their public-school journey. If you have children at nearby schools you will not need to sign up to the system twice. You will be able to easily add a student to your account once their school has access to the Parent Portal.
Sign up now
To access the portal, you will need to create or have access to an ACT Government Digital Account. You can sign up now and complete the level 2 identity verification process to get ready for our launch this term.
The Education Directorate website’s Parent Portal page provides detailed instructions about how to register for Parent Portal including identification documents.
Visit the ACT Digital Account website to create your account: https://www.myaccount.act.gov.au/
If you have any issues with creating your account and completing your level 2 identity verification you can get in contact with ACT Digital Account to resolve by calling 13 22 81.
You will receive an email in term 2 with an access code to link your existing account to your child’s records. If you have any questions, please contact Student Services at {insert email} or on {insert phone number}.
For more information about Parent Portal, visit the Education Directorate website: https://www.education.act.gov.au/public-school-life/parent-portal.
