Survey Results

Earlier this year, the DPTO asked for feedback, ideas and volunteers from the parents, administrators and teachers of the Discovery School.  The online survey was filled out by over 99 people (which is a great sample size!). 

     So thank you for your feedback.

Here are the highlights of the results:

Main points:

1.       The events that most people enjoyed in the past and/or want to see this year include: UN DAY; Fun Run and Pancake Breakfast; Movie Night at a cinema; BBQ Afternoon; Songfest; Garage Sale; and a couple more Parent Night Out evenings.  There was also interest in educational seminars for parents, so we will be working on that as well.

1.       When we asked how often you wanted to participate in school activities, about 20% said “monthly”, 40% said “every few months”, and 20% said a “couple times a year”.  Based on this, and the activities parents and teachers are interested in, our planned calendar generally has a major activity once per month. 

        One role of the DPTO is to help raise extra funds for the school to improve the experience of the students.  We asked you what this year’s fundraising should be targeted towards. Your responses varied, but based on a number of comments and further discussions, the fundraising initiative for 2013/14 will be around making the school more 'green' (recycling and composting etc.). This received 71% of votes. Some parents are interested in helping, and many things can be done without a lot of fundraising.

In terms of keeping in touch with parents, you suggested that the ‘Monday Memo’ (52%) should be used to put important reminders and messages, also send separate DPTO email (47%) 'if it is important information'. We will also be updating the blog (36%), so please check that as well!

 
 Please let us know if you have any more feedback or ideas!  We will need volunteers to help with each upcoming event, so please help us out if you can!

Cheers,
Your DPTO executive team