While the eight calls to primary and high schools were largely deemed to be part of an international hoax, the incident showed the success of the territory's emergency planning procedures.

The schools – Lanyon High School, Kingsford Smith School, Forrest Primary, Calwell High School, Canberra High School and Curtin Primary School – all passed the unsavory start-of-year trial with flying colours.

They, and the education directorate and ACT Policing, should be commended for dealing with the incidents in the calm and professional way they did – this should provide some confidence if in future such a threat turns out not to be a hoax.

It demonstrates that the government does not need to ramp up security at schools throughout the territory in the wake of the incidents.

The ACT was just one jurisdiction to be affected by the calls. Schools across Australia and around the world have also recently received specific threats of harm.

The incidents may well have been deemed hoaxes, but it is an unscrupulous force indeed to justify the targeting of children and teenagers in this way.

That the events this week have not led to the call for increased security in Canberra's schools should be pleasing for the territory government as a sign the system is adequate.

According to the Education Directorate none of the affected schools, or parents and care givers of students, had requested additional security measures.

The ACT government has recently trialled the use of CCTV at two Canberra public schools during the Christmas holidays, but it is not expected that this would lead to a widespread rollout.

The international hacking gang that's claimed to be behind some of the hoax bomb threats at Australian schools has said there will be more.

Such threats made to cause mass disruption are insidious enough, but truly terrifying is the thought that a Canberra school might one day face a call that's not a hoax.