Assistant Principal Reports
Deanne Scott/Spira Antonopoulos
Hello Everyone,
Parents / Caregivers / Guardians Survey
A huge thankyou to all of the families who have already completed this survey!
We would also like to extend the invitation to our families to come and make a time to speak with one of our school leadership team should you have any specific concerns, as the survey does not provide you with an opportunity to explain any concerns. If we are not aware of an issue, we cannot work with all who may be affected to make the situation better.
For those families who may not yet have done the survey, please know that the survey is conducted by an independent company, Orima, and all of your responses are anonymous.
If you are having trouble accessing the survey at home, there are some iPads available at school for you to use, please ask for one at the office.
The survey will now remain open online until Friday 20 September 2024.
We sent you an invitation to complete the survey via Compass and email on Monday 29th July. I have resent the invitation and instructions to access the survey on Tuesday 20th August.
The survey is available in English and 10 other languages: Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese. If you require assistance in another language, resources may be available for you.
Should you have any questions about the survey, please see the office.
Pride and Integrity Raffle
This raffle, recognizes all of the students who are attending school on time. This is to acknowledge the students demonstrating Pride and Integrity by being ready to learn each day.
Every student who is at school, and in their classroom, before the bell (9am) will have their name added to the class attendance box. So, if they are present on time, every day of the week, they will have 5 entries into the raffle.
Due to the Book Week Parade, there was no Pride & Integrity Raffle last week.
2024 Term 3 Challenge of the Week
‘How many words can you make from these letters:’
The aim is to collaborate with 1 -3 friends or family members (no more than 4 people per entry) to make as many words of 3 letters or more from a given lot of letters, as well as trying to find a word that uses the most of the letters as possible.
For example, if the letters are P, F, H, U, E, L, L you can make the words: help, full, elf, pull, fuel, helpful.
Last week’s letters were: T, E, A, R, L, U, E, I, T, R
The word using all of the letters is literature.
Some of the words you could make are: eat, ate, tea, late, later, art, eat, tear, rear, real, tree, lure, rat, rate, tar, air, lit, let, trail, trailer, utter, rule, ruler, turtle
Students collaborating for week 5’s Challenge earnt a PAC each.
The students were:
Alessio 3B (& mum and dad)
Boston, Ella, Francois & Kim 5A
Week 7’s letters are:
I, C, M, T, I, S, O, T, P, I
Please hand your answers to the office before 3.30pm on Wednesday 4th September.
Kind regards,
Deanne Scott
Assistant Principal
Dear Parents, Carers and Students of DPWPS,
We have had a couple of exciting weeks at Deer Park West Primary School!
Last week we celebrated our 2024 statewide Book Week ‘Reading is Magic’. It was brilliant to have so many students be involved in decorating their classroom door as part of Book Week. Students engaged in readings of shortlisted texts and listened to special readings in the library. I would like to personally thank Mrs Natalie Gara for coordinating various events during Book Week.
This week we celebrated Science Week! We opened our classrooms and invited our families to attend a ‘Science Fun Afternoon’. National Science week is Australia’s annual celebration of Science and Technology. It runs each year in August, and it features events around Australia. Science Week is designed for everyone, and it aims to encourage an interest in science to encourage children to be fascinated by the world we live in.
If you would like to explore some more science fun, please check out these websites.
Thank you for your ongoing support,
Spira Antonopoulos
Acting Assistant Principal