Canberra Preschool Society

Statement of Mission, Aims, Values and Beliefs
This statement appears on all Annual Reports from this date.

Click on these titles to access all current and previous: Issues Papers, President's Reports, Executive's Reports, Annual Reports

Annual Report 2008 (PDF 3mb)

2009 CPS Constitution - effective 1st September 2009 (186KB PDF)

Welcome to Preschool Brochure  (2.9MB PDF)

PPA Handover Manual (3.2MB PDF)

An online version, with much more detail is available CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.

The PPA Handover Manual
This publication contains some very useful information for the incoming committee, including information about funding and insuring your association, practical hints about managing all the forms and a useful checklist for the incoming Preschool Parent Association President

The CPS Constitution - effective 13th November 2007.

Strategic Directions Working Party Outcome Statement.
Aware that there were some significant changes coming in 2006; a small working party, consisting of CPS Council members and general members met together over January and February 2005/2006 to establish some guidelines for the incoming 2006 CPS Council.

PPA What Happens in 2008?
Find out what will be happening for 2008 Preschool Parent Associations. Understand how the Preschool / Primary amalagamations will affect you!
Contact our CPS Office for more information about this presentation.

Assistance for Treasurers:
Suggested letters to members about the Voluntary Resource Donation: Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Managing every-day financial tasks: Recording petty cash

Current understandings for 2008 PPA operation
A letter signed by John Darcy, A/g President, on behalf of the CPS Council has been distributed to keep you up-to-date with information and understandings in relation to uncertainty surrounding Preschools coming under the administration of Primary Schools from 2008

CPS / ACTDET: Current Parent Partnership Statement
Fulfilling the request of Dr. Michele Bruniges to write a statement that outlined the existing ACT Department of Education and Training / Canberra Preschool Society and Preschool Parent Association relationship.

CPS Guidelines for Achieving Preschool Amalgamation and Closure (pdf 201kb)
Aware that there were no guidelines for Preschool Paent Associations to manage the potential of amalgamation or closure, the CPS President and the CPS Co-ordinator (now Exectuive Officer) wrote these guidelines in cooperation with the ACT DET. However, upon the final stage of Departmental approval, the guidelines were placed with the ACT Government Solicitor's Office - as the document accurately describes the contractual "legalities" that placed the individual Preschool Parent Association into a position whereby it could recommend the closure and/or amalgamation of an "un-viable" preschool (where there were not enough enrolments (or parents) to manage legal responsibilities in accordance with it's historial contractual agreement). To date, the document has not "re-emerged" from the Government Solicitor's Office.

CPS Position Statement - Closure and Amalgamation of Preschools (pdf 138kb)

CPS Preschool Amalgamation or Closure Management Planner (pdf 155kb)

Appendix 1 – Preschool Proposed Closure Working Party Proforma (pdf 51kb)

Appendix 2 – Stake-holders Consultation Plan (pdf 50kb)

Appendix 3 – Hard Asset (Object) Management (pdf 70kb)

CPS Toward 2020 Submission #3
Email communication between the CPS President and the Minister for Education, Mr. Andrew Barr - regarding the historial agreement that was made between the Preschool Parent Associations and the Department of the Interior - moving ACT preschool out of the ACT Education Act into the bounds of contract law. This email had the following attachments:

Original agreement.pdf (950kb); Pendred Report July 1944 (pdf 603kb) ; Combes steps to preschool establishment.doc (2 mb); Coombes 1950 PPA Movable Equipment list (pdf 1.6mb) and Pendred Dec 1944 Report (pdf 1.1 mb) Contact our office should you like to receive a copy of these attachments.

CPS Toward 2020 Submission #2
Email communication between the CPS President and the Minister for Education, Mr. Andrew Barr - regarding apparent inconsistencies in the existing ACT Education Act and the ACT Government's Toward 2020 proposal to close one quarter (22) preschools over the course of three years.

CPS Toward 2020 Submission #1
25th September 2006 - Written by the CPS Council President, with contributions made by general membership, this submission frames the 2007 CPS response to the ACT Government's Toward 2020 decisions.

CPS Beyond 2020 Proposal
Aware that many of the changes to the delivery of preschool education in the ACT would require a broader representational role, the 2006 CPS Council proposed that the Canberra Preschool Society shift it's constitutional aims from "preschool" to the internationally recognised term of "early childhood" - encompassing an interest in children from birth to eight years of age. This proposal supported the individual Parent Assoication's right to respond to needs of their own preschool community - it did not dictate nor require that the Preschool Parent Associations to shift their focus from "preschool" to "early childhood".