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Parents and Citizens’ Association (P&C)

Our Parents and Citizens’ Association (P&C) is made up of parents and carers, teachers and community members. The P&C meets regularly to contribute to decision-making, developing policies and management plans as well as fundraising.

camdenhighpandc@gmail.com

Deborah Ferry - President

Simone Tunbridge - Vice President

Renee Jenkins - Secretary

Nicholas Vines - Treasurer

Our Parents & Citizens' Association (P&C) brings the school community together. Presentations from the executive staff and other staff members inform parents about programs at the school and other school news. It is an opportunity to be involved and contribute to decisions about the school, including uniform changes. The P&C has also been involved in raising funds that help finance improvements to our school and provide additional resources.

Meetings, held online, are usually held in week 4 and week 9 of each term (except Term 4 - only Week 4). The second meeting of the year includes the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM is held face to face.

All parents are welcome to attend these meetings and are invited to join the P&C for a small annual fee. This entitles the member to vote and to be on the executive of the P&C. However, parents can attend meetings whether they are a member or not, or they can become a member at any time during the year.

Links to meetings are published via socials and School Bytes.

Camden V Cowra

A History of the Camden-Cowra Sporting Exchange

The Robert Montgomery Memorial Shield this year celebrates its 54th year.  This makes it one of the longest running sporting exchanges in Australia.  Many thousands of young people have benefited from this wonderful sporting event, and lifelong friendships have been forged between city and country.

In the early 1970’s, Mr Paul Montgomery, an English teacher at Camden High School had the idea that a sporting competition with another school over a three day period would be a wonderful way of forging valuable links between students from different backgrounds.

With the Principal, Mr Phillip Patterson, it was decided that the school should be a rural school of comparable size and approximately a four hour distance from Camden. This would make the travelling time manageable while still providing enough distance to make the enterprise adventurous for the students.

Letters were sent to a number of schools and Cowra was eventually chosen as the perfect school with which to establish the competition.  In 1972, the first exchange occurred with Cowra students travelling to Camden for the inaugural games.

It was decided at this stage to name the competition in honour of the late Robert Montgomery who had been the Deputy Principal at Camden High from 1969-1970.

Fifty three years later, the games continue to provide many students with wonderful sporting, cultural and social experiences.  This is the result of the continued commitment of all staff at both schools and particularly the team coaches and the chief organisers.  In recent years, Mr Justin Garland from Camden High and Mrs Alison Buckley from Cowra High have spent a great deal of time and effort ensuring these games continue to flourish.

May the Robert Montgomery Shield continue to provide these wonderful opportunities for the young people of Camden and Cowra for many years to come.

Camden V Cowra is held every year in Term 2 Week 6 alternately at Camden High School and Cowra High School.

2026 venue is Camden High School.

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