Week Beginning 27 April 2020 - Christopher Short, DCIS Principal

Dear Parents, Many thanks to all of you who participated in our Well-being and DOT questionnaire over the weekend. We are currently analysing the results and will use this to keep making improvements to our virtual schooling. Our Virtual Book Day was a great success last week, many thanks to parents who sent in photos that we have shared in our Social Media posts. Thank you to our staff who read for classes or videoed themselves. I am also grateful for the general DOT videos and photos you have shared with us. It is lovely to see all the activities and learning going on. Wednesday is World Dance Day so please look out for our compilation of the dance activities across the Primary School. There may even be a cameo from a certain School Principal! Friday is a public holiday so please enjoy the long weekend as best you can within the Circuit Breaker regulations. The holy month of Ramadan started last week so Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim members of the Dover Court community. Finally, a huge thank you to all the families who were involved in the video sent to staff over the weekend. I have talked before about the strength of community shown within Dover Court especially over the last 5 weeks and even emails sent to me where someone doesn’t agree with a message I have sent out (it does happen!) are always very polite and respectful – given the stress and uncertainty at the moment I would understand the odd rant. The video really lifted our spirits as a staff body. As you can imagine we are all going through the same pressures and uncertainties as our families. Have a great week.