Assistant Principal Report

Hello Everyone,

Volunteers

Should you wish to volunteer at any time during the school year, you must complete a Volunteer Induction Session. If you are interested in helping with excursions, in classrooms, in the library/art room, taking a lunchtime club, etc, this session must be completed before you are able to volunteer. You will need to complete the induction annually (every year).

For more information, please see the DPW Information and Upcoming Events section of this newsletter.

The first Volunteer Induction Session will be held on Wednesday, March 6th at 2.15pm.

Child Safe Standards

Deer Park West Primary School is committed to ensuring that all students can learn in an environment that is safe and supportive, and have the Child Safe Standards as part of our everyday practice.

The Victorian Child Safe Standards are rules everyone must follow to keep all children safe. 

We just call them the Standards.

When we say ‘everyone’, we mean: 

• the Victorian Government 
• organisations who work with children, like schools 
• businesses that provide services to children. 

OFFICIAL: Sensitive

The Standards help protect the rights of children and young people.

Rights are rules about how everyone should be treated:

•fairly

•equally.

The Standards also help support the wellbeing of children and young people.

This includes their:

•physical wellbeing– how your body feels

•mental wellbeing – how you think and feel.

They also want to focus on keeping First Nations children and young peoples safer. 

It is important we all make sure children and young people are not at risk of online abuse. 

The Standards include families and communities working with us to keep children and young people safe. 

Specific policies relate to our commitment around Child Safety:

• Child Safety Policy
• Child Safety Code of Conduct
• Child Safety Responding and Reporting Obligations Policy and Procedures
• Bullying Prevention Policy
• Complaints Policy
• Digital Learning Policy
• Visitors Policy
• Volunteers Policy
• Yard Duty and Supervision Policy

These policies are available via our website, and if required, from our 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 every day of the week, on time, they will have 5 entries into the raffle. 

Last week’s class winners were: 

1A – Muzi, 1B – Saanjh, 2B – Faneend, 2C – Edric, 3A – Jensen, 3B – Simon, 4A – Amal, 4B – Diana, 5A – Ella-Ivy, 5B – Gabby, 6B – Amos.

The raffle winner was Faneend from 2B! Congratulations! 

Faneend received 15 PACs for Pride & Integrity (Be a Learner).

2024 Term 1 Challenge of the Week

Students collaborating for Week 1’s challenge earnt a PAC each. 

Teddy Squares answer: 14 squares

The students were:

Sabrina (& mum & dad)

This week’s math's puzzle is:

‘Patterns’

The aim is to collaborate with 1 -3 friends or family members (no more than 4 people per entry) to solve the puzzles. There will be more than one puzzle so try to solve as many as you can!

Please hand your answers to the office before 3.30pm on Thursday 22nd February.

Thank you,

Deanne Scott

Assistant Principal

Many thanks.

Spira Antonopoulos

Acting Assistant Principal