Dernancourt School Newsletter

This year for Book Week we asked your children to embrace the theme “Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds”. This exciting invitation opened a world full of possibilities when it comes to book week costume ideas. This was an opportunity for your child to escape into another world and  be anything they want to be! 

Our parade was a little different this year.  With families unable to attend due to COVID restrictions, we decided to share our costumes with the surrounding streets. Students paraded their Book Week costumes  walking different routes to our assembly. Some members of the community lined the street to watch us walk by, we felt like we were in the pageant!  We hope that you are able to catch a glimpse of all of the amazing costumes. We thank families for their enthusiasm when it comes to dressing up for Book Week, a lot of thought and effort goes into preparing these. We appreciate your partnership in making the celebration a success. 

We also thank Sue Thornton and  the Book Week Committee,  Jacki Theodorou and Emma Salini  for all of their planning and coordination of activities. We admired their flexibility and the way that they  adapted to COVID restrictions along the way ensuring that as many activities as possible went ahead and we were able to celebrate the week.

It was wonderful to see students enjoying the Book Week activities, we tried to capture some of the excitement in the photos below, and will include more in our 2021 Year Books. 

Congratulations to Holly (P3) and Oneli (J4) - winners in the R/1/2 colouring-in competition.   Jacob (P5) and Tanvi (P8) were the winners in the 3/4/5 colouring-in competition.

Congratulations also go to Zara and Aryan both from P12 for winning the Emoji Book Title Competition.

Well done to all participants in all competitions.  We had some fantastic entries.

You may have seen or heard in the media this week that NAPLAN results are in!  Our school has been provided with some data,  however individual reports to families on their child's achievement  are not currently available for distribution. 

The preliminary data we have been provided with is pleasing, and we look forward to celebrating our Year 3, 5 and 7 data with community as soon as  complete data sets are available  to us. 

As a staff we will begin to look deeply at our data and use this to inform our 2022 directions. 

Thanks you to our rostered monitors. We appreciate your efforts in  keeping our school community safe.

WEEK 7 -  Rudra (P5), Rutva (P12), Tanvi (P8)

WEEK 8 -  Renesh (P5), Radhika (P8), James Z (P5)

WEEK 9 -  Oli (P14), Byron (P10), Nate (P5)

We are sad to inform our community that there will not be a Father's Day Stall this year. Unfortunately as we are unable to have volunteers on site due to the current DfE COVID  restrictions, this makes the ordering and wrapping of gifts, as well as preparing and supporting gift selection  at the  stall  extremely difficult.

Parent Association are working with us to find a creative way to acknowledge the role of a dad this year. 

 The students of Dernancourt School proudly wear our school uniform, which helps build and maintain school spirit, pride and a sense of identity and belonging. We ask that parents  ensure that their child is wearing the appropriate uniform.

Please check that your child has navy blue track pants / leggings/ shorts/ skorts. Denim, black or logo bottoms are not permitted. Tops must be navy with optional logo. These can be long or short sleeve. As hoods are a choking hazard they are not to be worn.

Only 2021 commemorative tops or regular DSR-7 jumpers are to be worn by Year 6 and 7 students.