Assistant Principal Reports

Hello Everyone,

Child Safe Standards – Policy for Consultation and Feedback

Deer Park West Primary School is committed to providing a child safe and child friendly environment, where students are safe and feel safe. 

We currently have been reviewing our Child Safety Policy and will be sending a copy of the draft policy to our families via Compass. As valuable partners in promoting and maintaining child safety and wellbeing at Deer Park West Primary, we welcome and encourage your feedback. 

If you have any suggestions, comments or questions in relation to this policy, please contact me, Ms Scott, before Friday 21st February.

School Toilets

This is a reminder to all adults (Parents, carers, other family members, etc) that the student toilets are only for student use. You are not permitted to use them. 

Should you, or your young child, happen to need a toilet, 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. 

Last week’s class winners were: 

1B – Ermuun, 1B – Beyza, 2A – Hirad, 3B – Freya, 3C – Daniel, 4A – Abigail, 4B – Aamir, 5A – Emelia, 5B – Taylor, 5C – Vernika, 6B – Jeslyn, 6C – Ella-Ivy

The raffle winner was Hirad from 2A! Congratulations! 

Hirad received 15 PACs for Pride & Integrity

2025 Term 1 Challenge of the Week

Week 3: Alphabet Challenge – Ways we can move 

This term, the challenge of the week will be an alphabet challenge. I will set a topic and you need to find a word related to that topic for each letter of the alphabet, or as many as you can. You can find more than one word for each letter.

You must collaborate with at least one other person (a friend, parent, classmate, etc) and no more than 3 other people. If you do not collaborate, you will not receive a PAC for Collaboration.

Students collaborating for week 1’s Challenge earnt a PAC each. 

The students were:

Isla 2A (& mum and dad)

Alessio 4B (& mum and dad)

Yawer 5A (& mama and baba)

Please hand your answers to the office before 3.30pm on Wednesday 19th February.

Kind regards,

Deanne Scott

Assistant Principal 

Term 1 Information Sessions for families

Date: Tuesday 18th February for Foundation, Year 1 and 2 students

Date: Thursday 20th February for Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students 

Time: 3:30-4:30

Location: Your child’s classroom

Details: Connect with your child’s teachers in an informal setting. Learn more about the curriculum, classroom activities, and how you can support your child’s learning journey. Teachers will share key information about the year level and grade and answer your questions. Please return RSVP forms to your child’s classroom teachers so that we can plan accordingly.  

Maths at Home

If you are looking for ways to build your child’s confidence in numeracy and mathematics, the Department of Education has built and shared some great resources for all year levels. There are suggestions with pictures and videos in the link below. https://numeracyguidedet.global2.vic.edu.au/numeracy-at-home/ 

Joshua Fielding

Assistant Principal