From the Principal's desk

It was great to see all our children looking bright and bushy tailed this week after returning from the mid-semester break. There are many exciting extra curricular and learning activities planned for the weeks ahead. These include: book week parade, community reading sessions in Melville Street, Fathers' Day breakfast and of course our school concert.

This term our learning focus will be on building our reading culture at Numurkah Primary School. Each week teachers will acknowledge and recognise students who have extended themselves in their reading and pushed to improve their reading abilities and habits. Read certificates will be handed out at assemblies on Monday.

Parent Opinion Survey

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perceptions of school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday 23rd July to Sunday 26th August.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be available in a range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (hakha), Hindi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Punjabi and Greek.

The survey results will be reported back to the school at the end of September. The survey results will be communicated to parents in the school's annual report.