Dunedoo Central SchooL

NEWSLETTER 21st May 2018

P.O. Box 45

Digilah Street Dunedoo NSW 2844

T: 02 6375 1489

F: 02 6375 1152

E: dunedoo-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

W: dunedoo-c.schools@nsw.edu.au

WEEK 4: Monday, 21st May Shearing School → 25th May Tuesday, 22nd May Vaccinations (Yrs. 10 & 11) Wednesday, 23rd May Smiles Dental Visit, K—6, info session PSSA (Primary) WR Netball Knockout, Dubbo Thursday, 24th May Cross Country Carnival Friday, 25th May Go Go Golf - Kinder to Year 6 CHS Squash, WR Finals @ Dubbo

WEEK 5: Monday, 28th May Whole School Merit Assembly, 11.10am, DCS

Hall, all welcome to attend Smiles Onsite Dental Van @ DCS, all week Tuesday, 29th May ICAS Science Exam AEG, Stem Workshop, Lake Keepit → 31/5/18 Wednesday, 30th May U 16’s Central Schools Touch Thursday, 31st May Open’s Central Schools Touch Friday, 1st June Go Go Golf - Kinder to Year 6 Cyber Safety talk @ DCS

WEEK 6: Secondary Exams, Years 7 - 10, all week Tuesday, 5th June National Privacy Week, VC, Primary Boccia Knockout @ Orange Wednesday, 6th June Dubbo District Cross Country, Geurie School Captains visit to Sydney Thursday, 7th June HSC Enrichment Seminars @ Dubbo, → 8/6/18 Schools Cup Netball, Dubbo, Primary & Second-

ary Friday, 8th June Go Go Golf - Kinder to Year 6 Infants/Primary Assembly, hosted by Kinder/

Year 1, 12 noon, Hall, all welcome to attend WEEK 7: Monday, 11th June Public Holiday - Queen’s Birthday Wednesday, 13th June WSSA Cross Country ICAS Spelling Exam Thursday, 14th June ICAS Writing Exam 7/8 All Schools, Touch Football

Jayden Martin 22nd May Year 6

Marg Scifleet 27 May

Hope lovely surprises are coming your way

To make your birthday a wonderful day!

You’re invited to attend our

Whole School Merit Assembly

to be held at 11.10am on

Monday, 28th May 2018

in the DCS Hall. Students receiving an award will receive a note home.

WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY 2018

Last Friday was national Walk Safely to School Day, and DCS students had the opportunity to participate thanks to the generosity of staff who provided ‘walking buses’ from intersections around Dunedoo. Students enthusiastically joined in with their walking bus, and walked together full of chatter and excite-ment.

CONGRATULATIONS to all students who participat-ed, and a big THANK YOU to Mrs Gallagher, Ms Gavin and Lisa Johnstone (who walked despite her malfunctioning knee). It was a great way to start the day!

Welcome to Week 4

Congratulations to our “Art for Youth” Committee for another fantastic Whole School

Staffing Day. Our students are extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to work with a

variety of very talented Artists who willingly give up their day to provide these activities

for our students. Thank you to the Staff who coordinated the day: Ms Kelly Smyth, Mr Ben

Kline, Mrs Jen Armstrong, Mrs Belinda Fergusson, Mr Shane Hall and Mr Rob Lockett.

A huge thank you also to Mrs Margaret Scifleet, Staff and students from the Hospitality de-

partment who again catered for the “Art Unlimited” Cocktail Party. As usual the food was

splendid and plentiful!

Thank you also to the parent helpers who worked over the weekend for the P&C to Cater

for Lunch, Morning and Afternoon tea for visitors to the Art Show. A very special thankyou

to Ms Fiona Van Huisstede, Mrs Lisa Christensen and Mrs Sam Wentworth Brown who

worked both Saturday and Sunday, a great effort Ladies! Thank you to people who donat-

ed cakes and slices or assisted with cooking last Thursday evening.

Thank you to Lleyton Allison, Tyson Craggs and Byron Brown, who all assisted last week

with the hanging of the Art for Art Unlimited. It is wonderful to see young people willing to

assist with community events such as this.

Last week, students from years 3, 5, 7 and 9 all successfully completed NAPLAN. Thank you

to the Staff who helped with the extra breakfasts on each of the NAPLAN test days and to

the P&C for their donation towards funding this program. NAPLAN reports will be issued

during term 3.

Congratulations to Harry Cluff who was selected in the West-

ern Region PSSA Rugby Union team last week. Harry will

now compete at the State Carnival at Coffs Harbour in Au-

gust.

Good Luck to all students who will compete in the Cross

Country Carnival on Thursday. I look forward to seeing the

results!

Have a great week!

Donna Lane

Principal

INFANTS/PRIMARY ACE

ACE : Attitude Conduct Excellence

Congratulations to the following Infants/Primary students on reaching:

Level 2

Kinder/Year 1: Maddy Bull

K/1 Timmy Sweeney A mature approach to his work K

K

Isla Currie

Emily Sawyers

Fantastic participation at the Art for Youth day

Fantastic participation at the Art for Youth day

2/3 Daniel Nott Responsible attitude and excellent

effort in class

2

2

Tyson Wadley

Annalise Stanford

Improved work habits in class

Consistent work habits and being a reliable class

mate

3/4 Shyloh Watton

Hogden

Consistent application and effort

during all Writing tasks

3

4

Ned Callow

Montanna Smith

Accurate contributions during Maths

Improved work habits during morning sessions

5/6 Jack Rawling Demonstrating positive commitment

to DCS in all areas

5

6

Chloe Woodward

Sophie Kensit

A conscientious, thoughtful student at all times

Contagious passion and enthusiasm in PDHPE

Mrs Gallagher’s

Merits

Timmy Sweeney 1 Always doing the right thing in Science

Jozelle Green 2 Always trying her best in Science

Imogen Murphy 4 Participating well in HSIE activities

Laycee Kelly 5 Being an independent worker in Maths

STUDENT OF THE WEEK MERITS

Homework Centre Infants/Primary Homework Centre is open on Wednesday afternoons from 3:05 to 4pm in the library an-nexe. Homework centre is operated by teachers who VOLUNTEER their time to support students to com-plete their weekly homework tasks. Students are required to bring their homework sheets with them to homework centre. Students who arrive without their homework sheets will be given work to complete.

Everyone enjoyed the Art for Youth whole school staffing day. It was wonder-ful to see so many engaged and excited students participating in clay art, abo-riginal animal making, watercolour painting, story board drawing and screen printing onto tea towels. It was great to join and get a little dirty creating with the kids. A massive thank you to Mr Kline and the team who did a fantastic job organising the day. Thank you as well to St Michaels and the preschool; it was great to meet you all. Thank you to the artists who shared their expertise with us as well. We hope you get an opportunity to visit the Art unlimited exhibition in the hall if you haven't been already. We have a busy week 4 with normal routines of homework centre on Wednes-day. Our Cross country is this Thursday 24th May and we will continue to practise and get ready. Please remember to label all jumpers and jackets so that they can be returned if misplaced. Have a great week. Ms Michelle Gavin, Assistant Principal Infants

Kindergarten / Year 1: Art for Youth last Friday was an

amazing day. Students certainly unlocked their inner artist and the creative results were wonderful! Please remember with the tea towels: they need to be ironed before washing! A big thank you to all our helpers and skilled artists on the day. The Cross Country Carnival is happening this Thursday afternoon and I hope many of you can come down to the Golf Course to watch the children run. I recommend students come dressed in their house colours (Bass: blue, Sturt: green & Evans: yellow). I will remind Kinder students what house they belong to but let me know if you are not sure. The Infants will race from 12.30pm. In class this week, K/1 will be studying the properties of 3-D shapes in Maths, training in Fitness for Thursday’s Cross Country Carnival and Year 1 will focus on verbs in Grammar. Over the next four Fridays K-6 students will be participating in a Go Go Golf Program with Sharon Nott. The program has been fully funded thanks to a Government grant and the students will love practicing and showing off their golfing skills especially with a trip to the Dunedoo Golf Course in the final week! Have a good week. Mr Ben Kline

Year 2/3: We enjoyed having Wendy in our room on Friday showing us all how to do watercolour

painting. This week we are learning about ee and ea words as well as continuing practice for the upcoming Spelling Bee. We have introduced 2 personal words into our spelling so that we are practising words from our writing. Due to the cross country on Thursday any library books can be returned on any day and we will organise a borrowing time. Please encourage your child to read aloud and return home readers-thank you for your patience with getting readers home. We have all just about recorded our first reading sample and we are uploading the recording to See saw. If you are unable to join the seesaw app and would like to see your child reading I am more than happy to text or email them to you. Just let me know. Have a wonderful week and please see me if you have any concerns or suggestions for how I can support your child. Ms Michelle Gavin

Students in Years 3 and 5 are to be commended on their efforts and attitude towards NAPLAN testing last week. Tests are not fun, and can be stressful, however, our stu-dents put in their best efforts with some even saying that they enjoyed the challenge! Thanks to Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Gallagher for supervising NAPLAN tests. Results will be available later this year. Our annual Art 4 Youth activities were once again a huge success, providing students with the opportunity to experience a variety of art techniques. Congratulations to all those who submitted an entry—we certainly have some talent at DCS! This week we have our PSSA Netball taking place in Dubbo on Wednesday. Thanks to parents who have volunteered to support our team. Good luck everyone! This Thursday we have our annual Cross Country, for which we have been practising during fitness sessions. Parents are en-couraged to come along to the golf course to help support this event. It’s al-ways a fun day! Finally a reminder that homework centre is operated by staff who volunteer their time to support students to complete homework. Therefore students attending homework centre are expected to bring their weekly homework sheets. Students arriving without homework will be given worksheets to complete. Homework centre operates on Wednesday afternoons until 4pm. Mrs Georgia Shephard - Assistant Principal Primary

Year 3/4: Hello everybody and welcome to Week 4 Term 2! Last

Friday, all students were involved in Art for Youth Workshops. The students got to experience a range of art media in the form of Aboriginal art inspired by our natural environment, water colour painting, clay sculpting, screen printing on tea towels, cartoon storyboarding techniques and finally a guided tour of the Art Unlimited Exhibition in the hall and Art for Youth entries in the library annex. I certainly enjoyed myself along with students in Year 5! This Thursday, we will be holding our annual X-Country event at the Sports Club. It would be great to see all of our students out on the track earning points for their sporting house. Students who win/place in their respective age groups will be eligible to represent DCS at Dubbo District later this term. Have a great week everyone and lets get running! Cheers, Mr A Honeysett

Year 5/6: Well done to Year 5 for their attitude and effort towards NAPLAN testing last week.

We had some minor anxieties, however, students all left their tests feeling positive and some even asked if they could do them more often! Year 6 had the opportunity to experience high school on Friday’s Art 4 Youth activities, which has helped to support our 6 into 7 transition program. They worked very well in all activities. With Netball and Cross Country this week, students are reminded that school work must take priority over sports, and are encouraged to ensure they keep up to date with work and homework tasks. Speaking of homework—it was handed out today and is due in on Friday or Monday. Have a great week. Mrs Georgia Shephard

Attention Year 10 –11 Students: Meningococcal ACWY Vaccinations for all Year 10 and 11 students were handed out to students last week. Please complete and return forms to the Front Office ASAP. Vaccinations are to be held at DCS On Tuesday, 22nd May 2018. Attention Year 12 Students: Please return permission notes and money for HSC Enrich-ment day by this Wednesday, 23rd May. Mr Hall

Mock Interviews Last Tuesday 4 Skillset team members travelled to DCS to interview Year 10 students for a part-time job at Ferg’s Fresh Foods! All students came thoroughly prepared for this activity by dressing appropriately, preparing an-swers to set questions and completing a resume. Students were interviewed individually and provided with per-sonalised feedback. From here, the panel selected 5 students to go through to interview finals-Zac, Georgia, Ha-ley, Valentina and Annie. These students then had to apply for a sight-unseen job in hospitality, engineering, mechanic, AIS and nursing-depending on their areas of interest in front of a panel of 4 interviewers. Congratulations to Haley Cox, first ($30 canteen voucher), Georgia Lane, second ($15 canteen voucher) and Zac Green, third ($5 canteen voucher). Skillset members then addressed all Year 10 students with interview and resume improvement techniques.

Art Unlimited Cocktail Party A huge thank you to the staff and students who helped cater for the Art Unlimited Official Opening last Friday evening. We catered for 250 people and it was a massive job and could have not have been done without the generous support of staff and students. Particular thanks to Linden Ewin, Nola Powers, Lucy Besgrove, Michelle Gavin, Vince O’Brien, Adele Stoddart, Maree Smith and Carolyn Sullivan.

DCS Hospitality students gave up their Friday night to prepare and serve food, special thanks to Hayden Brydon, Julie Lecomte, Nicole Cooke, Geor-gia Lane, Nakita Martin, Elle Lane and Sally Christensen.

in partnership with DCS

HOMEWORK: ASSESSMENT TASKS:

Year 7 Year 7

Year 8 Maths Homework due Thursday Year 8 PD Diseases task

Year 9 Year 9

Year 9/10 English Son analysis—overdue Year 9/10

Year 10 Maths Homework due Wednesday Year 10 Geography Environments task—overdue

Year 11 Mathematics General Maths

Homework due Wednesday Homework due Tuesday

Year 11 IT Timber Prac & Portfolio - week 6

Year 12 Mathematics Year 12 CAFS IRP - overdue Homework sheet due today

NSW Universities Open Days 2018

NEWS We have a very busy week ahead celebrating our library. Activities will be available at lunchtime. Stu-

dents in Years 2/3 & 3/4 will be reading Hickory Dickory Dash on Wednesday. This story ties in beautiful-

ly with our Fractured Fairy Tale unit as well as our French unit about travel. New books continue to ar-

rive. Students who are completing the Premier’s Reading Challenge will be shown how to monitor their

own progress and add to their reading logs. Come and see us for all your reading adventures!

28th May – 2nd June 2018 Kinder to Year 12

Dunedoo Central School is collaborating with Smiles Onsite to promote healthier, happier smiles at our school! This incredible service is being offered for FREE under the federal government's Child Dental Ben-efits Schedule (CDBS), and comes along with the chance to grab some amazing prizes. All students will be given a consent form to bring home so that they can participate, and also so that they can go in the draw to win prizes!! How does it work? The Child Dental Benefit Schedule grants all eligible parents with $1000 worth of Medicare towards dental per child, over a two-year period. Eligible parents should receive a confirmation letter; however if you are still unsure, Smiles Onsite can check for you on completion of their consent form. Can I make use of this service if I'm not eligible? Of course! Smiles Onsite can do almost everything that your local dentist can do on board their state-of-the-art mobile Clinic. If you would like them to see your child for a scale and clean, fillings, fissure seals etc., these services can be offered with NO GAP payable. This service is a great opportunity to get kids into the habit of good oral hygiene, and we hope you're as excited about it as we are! You can fill out the dental consent form for your son or daughter by inserting this link on the web browser - https://form.jotform.co/81020553852854 If you have any further questions about this program or your eligibility, please contact Smiles Onsite di-rectly on 1800 276 453.

DCS BREAKFAST

CLUB REPORT Most people are aware that DCS runs a breakfast pro-gram on Thursday mornings before school, to provide students with something nice to eat before starting the school day. Our menu usually includes pancakes with maple syrup, scrambled eggs on toast, toast with vegemite or honey, and milo (warm or cold).

Most weeks we have an average of 55 students sign in for breakfast, from all grades K-12. This is a fantas-tic number, and it is great to be able to greet so many students in the morning to start the day off on a posi-tive note.

Last week during NAPLAN testing, our breakfast pro-gram was extended to ensure students had the op-portunity to eat a nourishing meal before heading in-to their tests. Thanks to the support of P&C, we were able to increase the amount of food as well as provide sausage sandwiches as a special treat. This was well supported by students, and each morning we had in excess of 75 students signing in!

Our breakfast program depends on volunteers, and I would like to thank all those who volunteered last week for the additional mornings. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Special thanks also to our regular weekly volunteers, in particular Tracey and Janelle, for your ongoing sup-port of this fantastic program.

Vincent O’Brien

Breakfast Program Coordinator

Year 11 Snow Trip Fundraiser BBQ On Friday 18th May 2018, during the Art for Youth Whole School Staffing Day, members of Year 11 prepared a deli-cious sausage sizzle at lunch time. So popular did it prove that a number of customers had to be turned away because we ran out of sausages and bread. Nevertheless, a tidy sum of $203 was generated which will now be added to the Snow Trip Fund. Thank you to everybody who bought a sausage sandwich. Thanks also to Alan and Julie Stanford for their assis-tance. And, in particular, a big thank you to Bella, Skye, Nathan, Lochie, Brad, Teighla, Hayden, Nicole and Sally. Mr.Hall

Hello and welcome to Week 4. Wonderful Manners Canteen Vouchers

are starting again this week. Over the coming weeks there will be

slight changes to the School Canteen Menu in line with the NSW Healthy School Canteen strategy. Please note Hot Dogs will NO longer be available after this Term.

A selection of fresh sandwiches and wraps are available daily.

Gluten free options will be available Have a great week. Plenty of Uniforms are in stock at the

moment. If you require anything or would like to order any Winter Uni-forms please come and see me be-tween 9am - 10am or 1pm - 2pm.

If you could volunteer anytime in the canteen, I would love to hear from you. Thanks Sherri

THIS WEEKS SPECIALS

TUESDAYS Salad Roll, Bottle of Water &

Popcorn

$5.50

WEDNESDAY Hamburger & Popper $6.50

THURSDAYS Chicken OR Beef - Gravy Roll,

Bottle of Water & Popcorn

$6.00

LUNCH ORDERS NECESSARY

Infants/Primary Secondary 9:00-10:30 Class Time 8:50-10:30 Periods 1 & 2

[as normal]

10:30-10:50 Recess 10:30-10:50 Recess 10:50-11:40 Class Time 10:50-11:40 Period 3 11:40-12:00 Lunch 11:40-12:00 Lunch

Time Event / Age Group Distance

12:00 Assemble in Primary quad and walk to Golf Club -

12:40 Infants Boys 1km 12:45 Infants Girls 1km

12:55 Boys 16, 17+years [17+ Girls wishing to compete at 6 km

1:00 Secondary 12, 13 years Boys & Girls 3 km 1:05 Girls 14,15,16, 17+ years 4 km 1:15 14, 15 years Boys 4 km 1:25 Non Competitive Secondary Girls 3 km 1:35 Non Competitive Secondary Boys 3 km 1:45 Senior Primary Boys 3 km

1:50 Senior Primary Girls 3 km

2:00 Junior Primary Boys 2 km

2:10 Junior Primary Girls 2 km

2:30 – 2:45 Presentations at Sports Club

2:45 – 3:00 Walk back to school

WHEN: THURSDAY, 24TH MAY 2018

WHERE: DUNEDOO GOLF CLUB

TIME: FROM 12 NOON (ORDER OF EVENTS BELOW)

BRING: DRINK BOTTLE, HAT & SUNSCREEN

WEAR: HOUSE COLOURS

WHO: KINDER TO YEAR 12

Note: Any infants aged 8yrs wishing to try out for District

may also compete in the 2km race with Junior Primary

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This coming Saturday (26/5/18) we are playing at Coolah, both Netball and Football, versing Gilgandra.

Don’t forget to check out our new Facebook page for the Draw.

Training is held every Wednesday af-ternoon, 4pm at Robertson Oval, Dunedoo.

Should you have any queries, please contact:

Brett Christensen: 0409 130 038, President

Spuz: 0427 751 622, Football Co-ordinator

Sam Wentworth Brown: 6375 0470, Secretary

Attention: Parents, Students & Friends

Expression of Interest

1 Day

First Aid Course Available dates: 6th - 11th June

Cost $100.00 per student

Must have a minimum of 6 to run course

Weekends or weekdays

With Karen Lane

Please advise Mrs Fergusson if you would

like to attend this course - ph: 6375 1489

Year 11 Snow Fundraiser

100 Club No. 1 Results: 1st Matt Court $60.00 2nd Matt Court $30.00 3rd Meg Christensen $10.00 We are halfway through selling our 2nd 100 Club, results next week. If you would like to purchase a ticket, please see Mr Hall. Thank you to everyone for supporting our Year 11 Stu-dents.

Year 11 Snow Fundraising Day

Sunday 24th June 2018

@ Dunedoo Sports Club