Dernancourt School Newsletter

Thank you to the families who have informed us via our Skoolbag app that their child is not continuing their learning at Dernancourt in 2022. This information plays an important part in our class construction and placement processes.  We use the names provided via our Skoolbag app to construct our "leaving students" power-point shown at our final assembly. We ask that you please ensure that this method of communication has been used. 

Based on the information we have, we anticipate that we will have 315 learners with us in 2022. This will be 12 mainstream classes. Staff have invested a great deal of time, thought and consideration into class placements, with parent communication and feedback closing in week 1 of Term 4, changes and adjustments are unable to be accommodated.

In 2022 we will have four R/1 classes, a Year 2 class, two 2/3 classes a Year 3, two 4/5 classes and two 5/6 classes. We will also continue to have two Special Classes R-2 and 3-6. 

We are currently working with the Department for Education HR to ensure that we have the correct student to teacher ratios and continue to provide high quality teaching and learning programs. Not all of our contract positions have been announced yet, so End of Year Reports will state your child's 2022 Year level and class number only. We hope that we can share teacher names soon.

We are currently planning our End of Year Assembly. This is a celebration of 2021 and an acknowledgement of achievements. As part of our ceremony we also farewell members of our learning community who are leaving. This year as we have both Year 6 and Year 7 cohorts of students (over 70)  leaving along with a number of students from other year levels, unfortunately we are unable to have members of these families at the assembly.

In order for us to maintain the the density numbers in the gym we are only able to safely invite family members of award winners. We understand that this may be dis appointing for some of these families but appreciate your understanding as we endeavor to keep our community safe and healthy as we lead into the holidays.  

Our Concert Committee did it again!  Thank you to Mrs Whenan, Mrs Watkins, Mrs S, Sharyn and Sandra. Together they coordinated all teachers to prepare and rehearse items, upload music, write opening statements for the comperes, book stage and sound, construct a back drop, prepare programs and liase with leadership to ensure that we were going to comply with current (and changing!) COVID restrictions. Well done team! 

Thank you to the families who came along and supported our concert within the guidelines. This was not quite the concert we imagined at the start of the year when we were putting plans in place. We, like you, anticipated a concert with as many people that wanted to come along all in our audience, we appreciate your understanding and cooperation. We hope that we are able to return to our 'usual' next year.

We are proud of the way our students sang, choreographed, danced, spoke and performed. We heard stories about items being practiced at home  behind closed doors so that the item was a surprise or proudly practiced in front of the family trying to watch T.V.! What ever your experience in the lead up, we are sure that you agree our performers did an amazing job! 

Special thank you to the Fundraising Committee for arranging the LJ Hooker coffee van and to the parent volunteers who completed COVID Marshall training and then helped on the gate. 

We truly appreciate the collaborative effort of our community  - making memories with our learners.

 A big "Thank You!" to all of our 2021 Crossing Monitors for keeping us safe throughout this year. We appreciate the service you are providing to our community.

The Crossing Monitors for Week 9 are:-

Burak (P8), Aarav (P5), Alex (P10).

The Canteen will be open on Thursday 9th December, 2021 for lunch orders but will be CLOSED on Friday 10th December, 2021 for cleaning.