Term 3 Week 8 - 5th September 2017 “Excellence through quality teaching and parental involvement in a caring environment” Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility Important Dates Wednesday 6th September P&C Meeng Premiers Spelling Bee Thursday 7th September Project Platypus Community Expo Boys and Girls Cricket T20 Blast Friday 8th September Book Week Lunch Hockey Training Session Monday 11th September Basketball at Bathurst Tuesday 12th September Finals Day Girls Hockey Narellan From Sharon’s desk Congratulaons to our students who parcipated in the Western Area Athlecs Carnival. Congratulaons to the following students who will now compete in the PSSA NSW Athlecs Carnival to be held at Homebush: Will Cuthill, Zac Harding, our senior girls relay team of Millie Sutcliffe, Georgia Cudmore, Nakeisha Dennis and Bella Auld, Millie and Georgia will also compete in individual events. A huge thank you to our wonderful SASS staff who are very supporve and hard working people. They all have different jobs but their effort and commitment supports the learning of students with teachers in classes; keeps the school grounds beauful; provides cultural support to all; drives and leads administraon in the front office. Together they help make our school operate. We appreciate your smiles and sense of humour everyday at South! Online NAPLAN is underway with 3 days this week where Year 3 and 5 compleng the new tests on the computer. The quesons are devised so that as the students completes a number of quesons correctly they increase in difficulty! I believe the end result will be that the school will be provided with a more realisc result of student achievement. This test is a school readiness only situaon. Students in Years 3 and 5 have already completed their NAPLAN and have received their results. There is to be no stress with this week. It is just a test to see what bugs there are with the online program. The test is to be held again in 2018 for students in Years 3 and 5. Congratulaons to Mrs Luci Gray who received the Teaching Award Primary at the Aboriginal Educaonal Consultave Group Ball last Friday night. Jonah Raidaveta was also awarded the Primary Student Award for his outstanding efforts. A great night was had by all. P&C Meeng will be held tomorrow night in the Shed commencing at 6.30pm. There will be discussions about our upcoming 75th Anniversary. Come along and get in- volved. Well done to Alex Price who represented our school in the Western Area Mulcultural Speaking Compeon held in Wagga. Alex achieved a 3rd place—a wonderful experience and certainly a great effort! Check out our new Facebook page. Please get on and ‘like’ us. Up to the minute news and events! A reminder that we are accepng Kindergarten enrolments for 2018. A transion program is scheduled to commence early in Term 4. To ensure that you are kept informed of dates and acvies for your pre-schooler ENROL NOW! En- rolment packages are available from the school office. You will require proof of birth and immunisaon details. Have a great week. Sharon Murray Principal. K-2 Sports Carnival Day Change of Date NOW: Friday 27th October Term 4 Week 3 More information in next weeks newsletter Fitzroy St, Dubbo NSW, 2830 Ph: 6882 2529 Fax: 6882 4196 Email: [email protected]Website: www.dubbosouth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
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Term 3 Week 8 - 5th September 2017
“Excellence through quality teaching and parental involvement in a caring environment”
Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility
Important Dates
Wednesday 6th September P&C Meeting
Premiers Spelling Bee Thursday 7th September
Project Platypus Community Expo Boys and Girls Cricket T20 Blast
Friday 8th September Book Week Lunch
Hockey Training Session Monday 11th September
Basketball at Bathurst Tuesday 12th September
Finals Day Girls Hockey Narellan
From Sharon’s desk
Congratulations to our students who participated in the Western Area Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to the following students who will now compete in the PSSA NSW Athletics Carnival to be held at Homebush: Will Cuthill, Zac Harding, our senior girls relay team of Millie Sutcliffe, Georgia Cudmore, Nakeisha Dennis and Bella Auld, Millie and Georgia will also compete in individual events. A huge thank you to our wonderful SASS staff who are very supportive and hard working people. They all have different jobs but their effort and commitment supports the learning of students with teachers in classes; keeps the school grounds beautiful; provides cultural support to all; drives and leads administration in the front office. Together they help make our school operate. We appreciate your smiles and sense of humour everyday at South! Online NAPLAN is underway with 3 days this week where Year 3 and 5 completing the new tests on the computer. The questions are devised so that as the students completes a number of questions correctly they increase in difficulty! I believe the end result will be that the school will be provided with a more realistic result of student achievement. This test is a school readiness only situation. Students in Years 3 and 5 have already completed their NAPLAN and have received their results. There is to be no stress with this week. It is just a test to see what bugs there are with the online program. The test is to be held again in 2018 for students in Years 3 and 5. Congratulations to Mrs Luci Gray who received the Teaching Award Primary at the Aboriginal Educational Consultative Group Ball last Friday night. Jonah Raidaveta was also awarded the Primary Student Award for his outstanding efforts. A great night was had by all.
P&C Meeting will be held tomorrow night in the Shed commencing at 6.30pm. There will be discussions about our upcoming 75th Anniversary. Come along and get in-volved. Well done to Alex Price who represented our school in the Western Area Multicultural Speaking Competition held in Wagga. Alex achieved a 3rd place—a wonderful experience and certainly a great effort! Check out our new Facebook page. Please get on and ‘like’ us. Up to the minute news and events! A reminder that we are accepting Kindergarten enrolments for 2018. A transition program is scheduled to commence early in Term 4. To ensure that you are kept informed of dates and activities for your pre-schooler ENROL NOW! En-rolment packages are available from the school office. You will require proof of birth and immunisation details. Have a great week. Sharon Murray Principal.
Book Week Lunch: The lunch activity is for class dress
up winners and the winning team from the Trivia Afternoon. It is on this Friday, in the Olga at 12.40. Don’t forget your water bottle. Invitations have gone home to all students. Please return permission slips by Thursday 7th. Apologies to Amy Quilty. Amy was in the winning trivia team, sorry Amy.
Book Club: Pamphlets went to classrooms last week.
Orders will close this Thursday 7th September. Online orders will close on Friday 8th.
National Literacy and Numeracy Week I have included an interesting article that outlines the benefits of reading to and with children.
Reading Aloud to children. “Many argue that both children and adults miss something when there is no reading aloud: they lament the "fabulous illustrations" some children never see, as well as the "esoteric" vocabulary and "thrilling" adventures they may never experience. They say adults who don't read to their children forgo "a precious point of sustained connection" with their child and "a lot of goofy fun". Some experts say computers, televisions, tablets and phones have become fierce competitors to the bedtime story.” http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/reading-aloud-has-huge-benefits-to-children-but-many-parents-stop-too-early-20151123-gl5v85.html
A Challenge to families As part of National Literacy and Numeracy week can you attempt to read to your children every night for a week? Try reading from different printed formats, e.g. newspaper, magazine, book, brochure…… There are a lot of fantastic picture books around these days. Picture books are not only for little children. There are themes and concepts in picture books for all ages. Explore the end papers (the pages between the cover an dtitle page). Why are they there? How do they relate to the story? Explore the pictures in the book. Do they tell you more about the story? If you just look at the pictures, can you make up a new story? We have plenty of books here in the library waiting to be borrowed. Have fun reading. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian
Morph This Wednesday the Morph students will be working with the ‘Get Hooked’ fishing program which will fully begin in Term 4. If you require further information please contact Miss Kent.
We have been lucky enough to have Jamie and Donald come and help us start with our pallet tent projects. We are hoping to begin the projects this term ready to be used in Term 4. If you would like to be involved please let me know hop on Facebook and start sharing the Morph update so our fellow community members of Dubbo can get involved. Let’s keep Morphing.
Congratulations Alexander Price competed in the Western Multicultural Speaking Competition in Wagga on Monday the 28th of August. His speech was about refugees and he was awarded 3rd place! Unfortunately only first moves to the state competition but we are extremely happy with his result. He represented the Western region and competed against other students from the Riverina region. Alexander says it was really fun to compete and he met a lot of people from other schools.
P&C News Next P&C meeting is Wed 6th Sept 6.30pm in The Shed.
Canteen Roster Volunteers required—even for an hour or two! Please ring Jodie on 68822957 if you can help!
Project based learning Multicultural mini picnic. On the 21st of September students from 5/6S, 5/6L, 3/4D & 3/4T will be holding a small tasting picnic to showcase some foods from the cultures we have been studying this Term. Parents are invited to attend on the day to sample some cultural delights and also view the other products students have created. If you’re able to help with cooking in the lead up to the picnic please see Mrs Lunn.
Where: Undercover area outside Project based
Learning classrooms.
When: Thursday 21st of September.
Time: 1pm – 2pm.
Wear Yellow for Cancer Day This year, like many Australians, Paige will be taking part in Relay for Life. Her goal is to raise as much money as possible to help combat this horrendous illness. To help Dubbo South Public School students are asked to wear yellow on Friday the 15th of September with a gold coin donation. Every little bit helps! If you would like to donate to the cause please go to https://www.relayforlife.org.au/get-involved/donate/
Let’s Make a Difference It’s that time of year again where we can make a huge difference to another child’s life. Operation Christmas Child involves packing a shoe box full of wonderful and useful surprises for a child in need. It is a wonderful project to do with your own children to teach the important lesson of thinking of others as well as appreciating and valuing the life we have. To fill a box with gifts consider these categories: something to love, something to wear, something for school, something for hygiene and something to play with. Ideas include: T-shirts, thongs, washers, soap, toothbrush, coloured pencils, lead pencils, note pads, exercise books, match box cars, balloons, stickers, hairbrush, comb, tennis balls, plastic cups, soft toy (something to love). If you can’t manage a whole box, maybe think about donating a few items to be combined with other donations. Mrs Prince is currently coordinating donations. Boxes are available from the top office or Mrs Prince.
The Szymkow family – Ruby, Jack, Grace and Max have
supported Operation Christmas Child for many years and
are happy to make a difference for children in need.
Kinder Kinder assembly will be held at 9.40am in the hall this Friday. Kinder will be having an encore performance of their Rabbit item.
