Assistant Principal Reports

Hello Everyone,

Bullying No Way: National Week of Action

This year, DPW is participating in the Bullying No Way: 

National week of action, 12 to 16 August 2024.

Bullying No Way Week is a commitment being made by thousands of schools and supporters across the country. It provides an opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to bullying prevention. It gives us an opportunity to connect with students, staff and school communities to implement workable solutions to prevent bullying. 

The new hero colour for the campaign is purple – symbolising peace, strength and empowerment to take a stand against bullying behaviour.

The theme for this year's campaign is Everyone belongs. This theme highlights the importance of creating a sense of belonging and inclusion for students. We recognise bullying often thrives in environments where individuals feel marginalised or excluded, and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that every student feels valued and respected.

“Positive school climates that value diversity and inclusion can foster a sense of belonging and provide a protective factor against negative peer relationships and reduce bullying.” (Australian Education Research Organisation 2023).

Our Junior School Council have organised an activity for the whole school, to create a DPW Family Tree. All students are adding their finger/thumb print to a painting of a tree to make the leaves and to represent that we all belong at DPW. 

For more information about Bullying No Way Week and bullying prevention, visit the Bullying No Way website.

Survey - WE WANT OUR PARENTS / CAREGIVERS / GUARDIANS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK! 

Our school is conducting the annual Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey and is seeking your feedback.

We sent you an invitation to complete the survey via Compass and email on Monday 29th July. If you have misplaced this, please reach out and we can resend this invitation to you.

The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey will remain open online untilFriday 30 August 2024.

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.

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. 

Should you have any questions about the survey, please see the office. 

Pride and Integrity Raffle 

This raffle, to recognize all of the students who are attending school on time, will continue this year.   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: 

FA – Sinthiya, FB – Rex, 1A – Arya, 1B – Te Maioha, 2A – Ethan N, 2B – Jolisa, 2C – Catherine, 3A – Allen, 3B – Winston, 3C – Skylar, 4A – Amal, 4B – Vernika, 4C – Nela, 5A – Ella-Ivy, 5B – Tha Tha, 5C – Justin, 6A – Nathan L, 6B – Amos, 6C – Samir.

The raffle winner was Jolisa from 2B! Congratulations! 

Jolisa received 15 PACs for Pride & Integrity

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: S, E, N, Q, T, E, I, L, A, U, S, N, I, T

The word using all of the letters is quintessential.

Some of the words you could make are: quest, last, ten, net, nuts, sit, queen, quiet, quite, slat, slate, slit, tilt, tan, sent, tent, quit, tale, tales, eat, tea, least, neat, teen, essential

Students collaborating for week 4’s Challenge earnt a PAC each. 

The students were:

Emily 1A & Andrew 3A (& mum)

Alessio 3B (& mum and dad)

Sabrina 3C (& mum and dad) 

Week 5’s letters are:  E, T, L, R, E, F, N, C, I, O

Please hand your answers to the office before 3.30pm on Wednesday 21st August.

Kind regards,

Deanne Scott

Assistant Principal 

Spira Antonopoulos

Acting Assistant Principal