DEANMORE PRIMARY An Independent Public School [email protected] School Newsleer Edion 9 17th June 2016 School Board 2016 George Craig Samantha Maddern Jo Marwick Barbara Harvey Jodee Eaves David Drury Alex Bradley Kim Foster Dan Rodgers Gerry Hopfmueller P&C Committee President: Troy Vukojevich Vice President: Barbara Harvey Secretary: Michelle Jahn Treasurer: Bree Day Website deanmorepandc.org.au Email [email protected] P&C Newsletter Contact Louisa Walker 0412 076 662 School Banking Undercover Area Thursday at 8:15am Second-Hand Uniforms Fridays 8.15am – 8.45am Karin Hunt 0412 112 987 New Uniform Sales Tuesdays 8.15am – 9.00am School Details 21 Deanmore Road, Karrinyup WA 6018 Phone: 9341 1610 Fax: 9245 2405 School Hours: Start 8.50am Recess 11.00-11.20am Lunch 12.20-1.00pm Finish 3.00pm Canteen Days Wed, Thurs, Fri Phone: 0409 618 759 Canteen Volunteers Coordinator Dental Clinic Phone: 9245 2664 Operated on Deanmore Primary School site. We are already close the end of not only term 2 but also the first half of the school year and in just two weeks students will be on their mid-year holidays. This means that in just over a week students will receive their Semester 1 reports. It is very important that parents sit with their child and read through the reports and discuss how they are progressing. A child’s grade is just one part of the report and must be taken into consideraon with the comments, effort and behaviours. It is important that parents understand what grade on a report indicates that their child is on track to meet the criteria appropriate for that year level. For students in Pre-Primary to Year 2 it is ‘Sasfactory’ and in Year 3 to Year 6 it is a ‘C’. All of this informaon can be found on the inside cover of your child’s report. On some reports parents will noce that a class teacher has indicated that they would like to meet and discuss certain aspects of the report or the child’s achievement. If this is the case please make sure that you contact that teacher and make a me. However if you would like to discuss your child’s report, even if the teacher has not requested this, you are more than free to do so. Just contact the teacher concerned and make an appointment. One of our parents (Sylvie Maiorana) is organising to have reading books sent to a school in Zambia. This is a wonderful iniave and as a school we are more than pleased to support this. There is a flyer added to this newsleer with more informaon. There will be a box placed out the front of the Deputy Principals’ office if you would like to donate any second hand books. The box will be collected on the last day of this term. At our last P&C meeng, the school was very generously provided with funds to pay for ‘Reading Eggs’ and ‘Mathlecs’ for students K-6 to access. This is a significant outlay by our P&C and is greatly appreciated by all staff. This means that your children can access these programs from home (and at school) for free. If you are not yet fully aware of what these programs entail please organise a me to speak to your teacher. The school will be organising a parent informaon session on these computer programs during Term 3. Recently it has been noced that there is a lot of dog poo on the open spaces surrounding the school and on our oval. Unfortunately we are limited as a school as to what we can do about this but we are looking into some alternaves. However parent and community support would be greatly appreciated. If you do walk your dog to school or on the oval outside of school mes, please pick up their poo and dispose of it correctly. If you know of community members who also walk their dogs in these areas, and you have the opportunity, please pass on this message. There have been mes when students have trodden on dog poo on their way to school and then entered classrooms. We would also appreciate parent assistance in geng children to clean their shoes if this occurs. George Craig Principal