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Principal Toby Morgan
Executive
Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Karina Woods (Rel)
Stage 2 Allie Harcourt (Rel)
Stage 3 Jemma Wallace & Shari Jackson (Rel)
Special Education Debbie Williams
Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah
Dates for your Diary November
27th Whole School Assembly - 2.40pm
29th Last day of Swim School
December
4th Infants Christmas Assembly - 2.40pm P&C Meeting -
6pm
5th Christmas BBQ Breakfast 8.30 am - 9.05 am SRC Ice Cream Day
SRC Speeches - 12pm in Hall
6th SRC Speeches - 12pm in Hall
9th Kinder Orientation 10am –11.30am
10th Presentation Assembly - 2.40pm
18th Last day of Term
Message from the Principal
Swim Scheme This initiative commenced last Monday with Miss
Clark, Miss Harcourt, Miss Haines and Ms Robinson taking 60 very
excited year’s 1 – 5 students to the pool. Students have been
participating in lessons ranging from basic survival skills to
stroke correction. Generally speaking, the behaviour has been very
good and everyone has been very lucky as usually when you mention
swim scheme the temperature plummets but so far the weather has
been very good for swimming.
Kindergarten Transition Today our new Kindergarten students for
2020 completed their 3rd Orientation visit where they participated
in craft lessons and school familiarity exercises. At present we
have 33 students ready to commence Kindergarten in 2020, but if you
have a child or know of one who is already 5 or turns 5 early in
2020 please contact the front office so enrolment papers can be
filled out. The 4th and final Kinder Orientation session will be
held on Monday 9th December where students will be placed into
class groups for the new year.
Absence Explanations Last week I met with our Home School
Liaison Officer with regards to our school’s attendance rates.
Across the board our figures are very good, but there are a few
students who are habitually absent and thus require HSLO
intervention. Please remember to explain absences when they occur
either in writing, over the phone or via our school phone app. If
they are explained, particularly with medical certificates, then
they will not be investigated by the HSLO.
Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being
Responsible, Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”
Weekly Newsletter Week 7 Term 4 2019
[email protected] Tel: 6882 4689 Fax: 6884
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Week 7 Term 4
“Skill with Honour”
Classes For 2020 Last Wednesday staff met to commence the
placement of students into classes for 2020, which is never an easy
task given siblings, cousins, students who need to be separated and
preferences for the new year. These classes are not based on
friendship groups, as class time is for working and break times are
for playing and socialising. These classes will be revealed at the
commencement of the new school year.
Moving In 2020 If you are moving over the Christmas break and
will not be returning to Dubbo North Public school can you please
let your child’s classroom teacher or the front office know, as
this saves us a lot of time at the commencement of a new school
year when students don’t return and we have to chase them up.
SRC Speeches These will be held next Thursday and Friday, 5th
and 6th December in the school hall from 12:00pm on both days.
Please
ensure your child is prepared for this occasion as it takes
plenty of courage to stand up in front of the school and ask for
their vote, and students who participate in this learn a lot about
public speaking. Please note, teachers are not able to assist
students with speeches as teachers need to remain impartial thus
speeches need to be prepared at home. Parents are openly invited to
attend the speeches and support their children as they vie for
positions on the Junior and Senior SRC for 2020.
Have a great week Toby Morgan Principal
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Students of the Week
Term 4 Week 6
KC Eloise Gaiter KW Austin Spencer 1/2J Michael
Thurston-Ferguson 1/2S Xhaarn Philp 1/2T Lachlan Johnson 3/4B Lucas
Briggs 3/4C Delma-Jean Riley 3/4H Noah Irvine 5/6A Colby Ross 5/6J
Beau Taylor 5/6W Temia Robinson Blue Savannah Hodge Red Bentley
Barnett Yellow Nate McCauley Uniform Award - T4 Wk 7 - KC &
3/4H
Congratulations
CANTEEN MEAL DEAL Thursday 28th November
Chicken Burger and Ice Block - $5.50
News from the Library…
Congratulations ...5/6A on winning the library award last week.
They are all doing a
fabulous job being safe, respectful and responsible for the
library books they borrow.
The winning library monitor was Violet Towers, who has been busy
helping out in the library. Congratulations to Cailey Hangan,
Lillian King and Kiera McNair
who completed the Premiers Reading Challenge independently again
this year.
The library has been a busy place with the end of the
year is fast approaching. Keep a lookout for library books which
need returning.
Book Club orders will close tomorrow. The orders
usually arrive back at school within the next 2 weeks.
Don’t forget to read, read, read.
Until next week, Mrs Jane Clark
PBL Focus - Week 7 Responsible, Safe &
Respectful
Safe, Responsible and Respectful in Assemblies
Week 6 Winbin Interview
Name: Heidi Sams Class: 1/2S Winbin Received for: Being
responsible Why did you receive this winbin? For packing up in the
classroom. How could other students receive a winbin for this
week’s focus? By helping others
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The Department’s Revised Enrolment Policy
What has changed? – part 1: the enrolment cap
The enrolment cap is the number of students that can be enrolled
at a school based on the school’s permanent accommodation. The
enrolment cap tells us whether the school may or may not have the
capacity to accept non-local enrolments. It is not a target or
limit on the number of local enrolments a school can take.
Each school with a local intake area will have a cap set by the
department from Term 4 2019. This applies to all the schools in
Dubbo. To discuss this further, please feel free to make an
appointment to meet with the Principal of your local school.
Photos taken by Alexandra Clarke.
On Monday 18th November the Swim School started. Spots were
limited to 60 students which filled up fast. All the students have
a great time and enjoy themselves while they get to learn to
swim.
On Wednesday the 20th November we had a Whole School Assembly.
This included quite a few Student of the Week awards, a Principal’s
Award, Win Bin prizes, Library Monitor award and PBL Positive
Behaviour awards as well. Well done to all the students who
received awards.
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Get to know your Class Captains
Name: Amber Freeman Class: 5/6A
Q1. You Accidentally ate some radioactive pizza. The good news
is it tasted great! The even better news is
that it’s given you one superpower of your choice. What do you
choose? I would have the power to fly. Q2. Your teacher is actually
a witch! One day, she gets tired of you not paying attention and
zaps you into a novel. Which novel would you hope she zapped you
into and why? Storm Boy because he has a pet pelican that follows
him around everywhere. Q3. If you could time travel, would you go
to the past or the future? Future. Q4. You can trade places with
someone for one day. Who would it be and why? I would trade places
with a racing horse so I could feel what it would be like to race
on a track.
The SRC will be holding an Ice Cream day on Thursday 5th
December. It will be an ice cream in a cup and the options are
below: Plain Ice Cream Plain Ice Cream with your choice of
Chocolate, Strawberry or Caramel Topping Or Plain Ice Cream with
100’s and 1000’s. Each one will be $2.
Tuesday 3rd December
Please join us for a Christmas BBQ. All Students, Staff
and Parents are welcome. It will be
from 8.30am to 9.05am
The Scripture Assembly will be following the BBQ Breakfast
and
will start at 9.30am in the hall. All parents are welcomed.
Dubbo North Public School P&C Meeting
The next Dubbo North Public School P&C Meeting will be
held on Wednesday 4th December at 6pm at the South
Dubbo Tavern.
