Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility Important Dates Wednesday 28th May District Cross Country Wellington Sydney Symphony Orchestra Thursday 29th May Dubbo Eisteddfod - School & Signing Choir Friday 30th May Boys Hockey vs Orana Heights Dubbo Eisteddfod - 2R, KR & KP Wednesday 4th June ICAS—Science P&C Meeng From Sharon’s Desk Reconciliaon Week assembly was held yesterday to begin the week of celebraons. Students took the opportunity to recognise people across their school. Staff have also recognised previous students Kyuan Crawford and Maddi Fernando for receiving Youth Indigenous Leadership scholarships, Nathan Riley, who is working as an SLSO at school for his recerficaon, for his acceptance into the Robert De Castella Indigenous Marathon Project and Dina Moore for devong 20 years to educaon. We were entertained by our Aboriginal language choir and special guest Michael Donovan. Dubbo Show saw a huge number of entries for school work such as drawing, art and craſt. Well done to all of our students for having a go. Congratulaons to those who received awards. I trust that you all enjoyed the show - I loved the wonderful weather! Greg Prior, the Secretary General of the Department of Educaon spoke with Principals on Friday and provided informaon and updates on the direcon of our Department. He spoke of the introduced reforms (approximately 13 over the last 18 months). Local Schools, Local Decisions was discussed in regard to the direcons schools will take with their communies. We know what best suits our students and meets their needs at local levels and discussions will be held with all our school community. Dare to Lead snapshot has been completed and a report will be handed to me this week making recommendaons as well as a range of areas to celebrate. I want to sincerely thank our parents and community who made the me to aend a forum and contribute. I congratulated our students at assembly yesterday for their involvement, level of maturity shown and their willingness to share their opinions with our visitors. Good luck to our Cross Country team who will be parcipang in the District team on Wednesday. Try your best and enjoy yourself. Farewell to Mrs Kim Hillian who will be finishing up this Friday as Canteen Manager. Kim has been wonderful in working with our volunteer parents to provide a service to our students. We wish her luck in her new venture. The school will be nofied when the new Manager is appointed - unl then the Canteen will operate as normal with our parents. Over the next 2 days many of the Execuve are involved in training programs. Miss Marlene Rogers (AP) will be in charge. Please, if there are any concerns or queries, please contact her through the office. All staff will return by Thursday. Have a great week. Cheers Sharon WEB: www.dubbosouth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 6882 2529 Fax: 6882 4196 School Rhino Our rhino’s name is Woody. 3M named our rhino Woody aſter “Wild! Rhinos” student ambassador for Dubbo, Hamish Wood. Hamish was in our class at Dubbo South Public School last year. Woody is black with the school PBL Values and fluoro colours painted on with glow paint. It has stencil art, with mulple colours. Woody was painted by last years 3M students and with the help of Bridget Palin our community arst. We raised $352.50 with our cupcake stall last year for the Save the Wild Rhino! campaign. Woody has been on display in Bankstown but is back with us and will be on display at the front of the school. Please pop in and say hello to Woody. We would like to thank Bridgit Palin and Margo Caton for helping us create Woody. COMPETITION: The school has been given a family pass (2 adults, 2 children - valid ll 4/7/14) for Taronga or Taronga Western Plains Zoo and we would like to give it to one of our students. To enter, you must get your parents/carers to take a photo of you with Woody and write a story about your adventures with him. Entries must be given to Mrs McKenzie by Friday 5th June and the winner will be announced Tuesday 10th June. Stage 2 Excursion Deposit Extension Please note that the cut off date for deposits for the Stage 2 excursion has been extended by one week. You now have unl THIS FRIDAY 30th May to have notes and deposits returned. Sydney Symphony Orchestra The Sydney Symphony Orchestra excursion is on TOMORROW 28th May. An addional 10 students were issued notes. All notes MUST be returned tomorrow morning for your child to be able to aend. Positive Partnerships Autism Workshop FREE two day workshop for Parents/Carers of school age students on the Ausm Spectrum. Venue: Dubbo RSL Club When: Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June 2014 Registraons are now open at: www.posivepartnerships.com.au Term 2 Week 5, 27th May 2014
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Dubbo South Public School
Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility
Important Dates
Wednesday 28th May District Cross Country Wellington
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Thursday 29th May
Dubbo Eisteddfod - School & Signing Choir Friday 30th May
Boys Hockey vs Orana Heights Dubbo Eisteddfod - 2R, KR & KP
Wednesday 4th June ICAS—Science P&C Meeting
From Sharon’s Desk Reconciliation Week assembly was held yesterday to begin the week of celebrations. Students took the opportunity to recognise people across their school. Staff have also recognised previous students Kyuan Crawford and Maddi Fernando for receiving Youth Indigenous Leadership scholarships, Nathan Riley, who is working as an SLSO at school for his recertification, for his acceptance into the Robert De Castella Indigenous Marathon Project and Dina Moore for devoting 20 years to education. We were entertained by our Aboriginal language choir and special guest Michael Donovan. Dubbo Show saw a huge number of entries for school work such as drawing, art and craft. Well done to all of our students for having a go. Congratulations to those who received awards. I trust that you all enjoyed the show - I loved the wonderful weather! Greg Prior, the Secretary General of the Department of Education spoke with Principals on Friday and provided information and updates on the direction of our Department. He spoke of the introduced reforms (approximately 13 over the last 18 months). Local Schools, Local Decisions was discussed in regard to the directions schools will take with their communities. We know what best suits our students and meets their needs at local levels and discussions will be held with all our school community. Dare to Lead snapshot has been completed and a report will be handed to me this week making recommendations as well as a range of areas to celebrate. I want to sincerely thank our parents and community who made the time to attend a forum and contribute. I congratulated our students at assembly yesterday for their involvement, level of maturity shown and their willingness to share their opinions with our visitors. Good luck to our Cross Country team who will be participating in the District team on Wednesday. Try your best and enjoy yourself. Farewell to Mrs Kim Hillian who will be finishing up this Friday as Canteen Manager. Kim has been wonderful in working with our volunteer parents to provide a service to our students. We wish her luck in her new venture. The school will be notified when the new Manager is appointed - until then the Canteen will operate as normal with our parents. Over the next 2 days many of the Executive are involved in training programs. Miss Marlene Rogers (AP) will be in charge. Please, if there are any concerns or queries, please contact her through the office. All staff will return by Thursday. Have a great week. Cheers Sharon
School Rhino Our rhino’s name is Woody. 3M named our rhino Woody after “Wild! Rhinos” student ambassador for Dubbo, Hamish Wood. Hamish was in our class at Dubbo South Public School last year. Woody is black with the school PBL Values and fluoro colours painted on with glow paint. It has stencil art, with multiple colours. Woody was painted by last years 3M students and with the help of Bridget Palin our community artist. We raised $352.50 with our cupcake stall last year for the Save the Wild Rhino! campaign. Woody has been on display in Bankstown but is back with us and will be on display at the front of the school. Please pop in and say hello to Woody. We would like to thank Bridgit Palin and Margo Caton for helping us create Woody. COMPETITION: The school has been given a family pass (2 adults, 2 children - valid till 4/7/14) for Taronga or Taronga Western Plains Zoo and we would like to give it to one of our students. To enter, you must get your parents/carers to take a photo of you with Woody and write a story about your adventures with him. Entries must be given to Mrs McKenzie by Friday 5th June and the winner will be announced Tuesday 10th June.
Stage 2 Excursion Deposit Extension Please note that the cut off date for deposits for the Stage 2 excursion has been extended by one week. You now have until THIS FRIDAY 30th May to have notes and deposits returned.
Sydney Symphony Orchestra The Sydney Symphony Orchestra excursion is on TOMORROW 28th May. An additional 10 students were issued notes. All notes MUST be returned tomorrow morning for your child to be able to attend.
Positive Partnerships Autism Workshop FREE two day workshop for Parents/Carers of school age students on the Autism Spectrum. Venue: Dubbo RSL Club When: Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June 2014 Registrations are now open at: www.positivepartnerships.com.au
Term 2 Week 5, 27th May 2014
CANTEEN ROSTER
14th September Wednesday
Shift 1: Leanne Ryan Shift 2: Leanne Ryan
15th September Thursday
Shift 1: Nancy McNaught Shift 2: Nancy McNaught
16th September Friday
Shift 1: Ann Carling Shift 2: A Carling, Jodie Bruce
19th September Monday
Shift 1: Angela Blackett Shift 2: Anne Carling
20th September Tuesday
Shift 1: Julie Wood Shift 2: Sally Gleeson
Kim can be contacted at the can-teen on 6882 2957.
Library News NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge We now have 47 amazing readers who have finished the challenge this year! WOW! With the challenge continuing until week 6 next term, there’s still time to join them. Congratulations to our latest champions: Sophie Marchant 1L, Alexander Price 1K, Rebecca Mazzer 1/2T, Delaraya Stanley 1/2T, Tristan Waters 1/2T, Erin Gaydon 3/4K, Missaka Hennakaralalage 4T, Amelia Hogden 4R, Olivia Mazzer 4J, Zaland Yousafzai 5/6R, Natasha Clarke 5/6H and Darcy Wood 5/6T. You can enter your reading log online using your student portal name and password. See Mrs Smith for more information.
Donations Don’t forget to clean out your wardrobes as the SRC are seeking donations of dress up clothing (e.g. Scarves, hats, clothes, bags etc) They would also like 4 Litre square ice cream container lids to help set up a wonderful play area for Kinder and Stage 1. Donations can be left in the box in Miss Pengilly’s office.
Sports News School Cross Country Last Thursday Primary students participated in the Dubbo South Cross Country at Lady Cutler Oval. students enjoyed running around the river and despite the very warm weather achieved great results. Congratulations to all those students that have made it to the District Cross Trials to be held in Wellington tomorrow Wednesday 28th of May. PSSA Sporting Competitions: We wish our students the best of luck when competing at:-
Wednesday 28th - Dubbo District Cross Country Trials in Wellington. The cost of the bus is $10 which needs to be returned to Miss Temesvary with permission notes. The bus will depart at 9.15am so please ensure your child is here on time.
Friday 30th - Boys Hockey vs Orana Heights. The boys will be traveling by private car and require their hockey stick, shin pads and mouth guard. Players need to be at the field by 9am for a 9.30am game. Please return all permission notes to Miss Temesvary ASAP with your $7. Students will return in time for PSSA sports.
Upcoming Assemblies Friday 6th June 3/4K will present their item. Miss Kent would like her students to bring in their ‘super hero’ costume to school to practice in. Please place in a bag clearly labelled with your child’s name on all items of clothing.
Dubbo Eisteddfod Eisteddfod notes have been issued for all competitions. Our school choir, signing choir and kinder choir will start the competition. All per-forming students MUST wear full winter school uniform including grey pants and black shoes. Details as follows:
Years 3 to 6 Choir Primary Choir 29/5 10am School Signing Choir KB & KO 29/5 12pm Kinder to YR 2 Choir 2R, 2F & 1/2T and KR & KP 30/5 10am
Year 6 Shirts The year 6 shirt order should be delivered to us early next week. Once we have received them we will distribute them accordingly.
Hear our Heart Ear Bus The Hear our Heart Ear Bus Project is taking off but need more help as the demands on the Committee are mounting. They are committed in bringing you the Hearing Testing part of our Program while finalising the actual bus but to do this they need more help. If you are able to help with administration and event organisation, please contact Rachel Mills 0413 687 671 and Donna Rees 0419 534 447
An Enchanted Evening Isabelle and Stephanie Wong have an adventure of a lifetime ahead of them as they head to Japan with their violin teacher to attend the 2015 Japan Suzuki Summer School workshop. To help them, along with many other children, a fundraising event has been organised to be held Sunday 8th June at 6.30pm in the Dubbo Christian School Auditorium. For bookings, please visit www.eventbrite.com.au.
Kaishin Taekwondo On Friday, students were treated to wonderful display of martial arts presented by Kaishin Taekwondo. If you are interested in your child participating in Taekwondo lessons, outside of school, please con-tact Kim Housden on 6884 5201 or find out more information at www.KaishinTaekwondo.com.
CANTEEN ROSTER
Wednesday 28th May
Shift 1: Jackie Gravitis
Shift 2:
Thursday
29th May
Shift 1: Ange Smith
Shift 2:
Friday
30th May
Shift 1: Kristin Wells
Shift 2:
Monday
2nd June
Shift 1: Jody Toomey
Shift 2:
Tuesday
3rd June
Shift 1: Chanelle O’Brien
Shift 2:
Kim can be contacted at the canteen on 6882 2957.
PBL Positive Behaviour for Learning
The PBL learning goal for week 5 is RESPECT. This
week we are all learning to listen to others in the
playground. Teachers will be looking for students
who are listening to others in the playground and will
be handing out Olly tokens.
In the classroom, we are learning to respect other
people’s property. Students will be discussing the
importance of this with their class and what are
some strategies that they can use.
Teachers will be handing out PBL tokens to
the students who are taking care of other
people’s belongings.
New Uniform Shop Hours Tuesday morning 8.00am-9.30am Thursday morning 8.45am-9.45am
