Term 4 Week 8 - 28th November 2017

“Excellence through quality teaching, learning and community involvement in a caring, supportive environment”

Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility

Important Dates

Friday 1st December Kinder—Year 6 Assembly

Items by Stage 1 & Stage 3 Tuesday 5th December

Year 6-7 Orientation Day Presentation Night

Friday 8th December Kindergarten to Wahroonga Park

Tuesday12th December Year 6 Farewell

Wednesday 13th December Reports Go Home

Friday 15th December Stage 2/3to the pool

Last day of school for Students

From Sharon’s desk

Swimming School has begun for the next 2 weeks. It would be helpful if all students could have a plastic bag for their wet clothes and labelled clothing if possible. Lost property box is growing by the day with lots of jumpers and school clothing being left at the end of each day. Please ensure that clothing is well labelled for easy return. If clothing isn’t labelled, left over items are washed and placed in the clothing pool. End of year events are nearing. Presentation Evening for students in Stage 2 and 3 will be held on Tuesday 5th December commencing at 7:00pm. Student who are receiving an award will have a letter sent home. Any student receiving an award must be in full school uniform. Year 6 students may wear their Year 6 shirts. All Year 6 are required to attend. Students must remain for the entire evening and not leave after their award. The night has been organised to run smoothly and relatively quickly. Year 6 Farewell will be held Tuesday 12th December and of course the Stage 2 & 3 Big Day Out at the pool will be Friday the 15th December. It is important that we support our students to attend events such as the Farewell and the Big Day Out. All students are aware that they must be behaving well and following school expectations of being caring, respectful, responsible and cooperative students. These are all very positive events and will be a lot of fun for all. For students to attend they must be on track and not on behaviour monitoring. School Reports will be sent home with students on Wednesday 13th December. Staff have been working hard on completing these and making sure all assessments are completed. Any concerns please speak to your child’s teacher.

End of School will finish on Friday 15th December for all students. Teachers will return on Monday 18th December for a School Development day looking at Maths planning and training for 2018. School will return for 2018 on Tuesday 30th January for all students Year 1 to Year 6. Kindergarten have a staggered arrangement to allow for Best Start testing and all Kindergarten will begin school together on Monday 5th Feb. Have a great week! Sharon Murray, Principal. “Forward Always- Respect, Care, Cooperation and Responsibility”

Fitzroy St, Dubbo NSW, 2830 Ph: 6882 2529 Fax: 6882 4196

Email: dubbosouth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.dubbosouth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

2018 Book packs are

now available from

the Office.

Stage 2 $10

Stage 3 $12

MC $10

Don't wait

until next

year!

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Book Club Thank you to Emma and Jackie for tallying up and processing the latest book club orders. Books should be back by Friday 1st December. A big thank you to all families who have supported book club this year. We have just purchased $300 worth of books using reward points from orders. Lost and Missing Books Overdue lists were printed on Friday 24/11/17. If you receive a notice and books have been returned since please disregard the notice. It is a huge task to keep track of all books and students. Some students received notices for books from last year. It would be fantastic if these books could be found and returned. As we prepare for stocktake we do find some books that have been returned to the wrong spot. If you have any concerns please contact us. Premier’s Reading Challenge There was a technical problem with our certificates. This has been fixed and they will be printed this week, ready for distribution. Thank you for your patience. If your child does not receive a certificate, they may be due to get a higher certificate. If possible these will be given out at the next whole school assembly. Happy Reading Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

Good Luck & Farewell Year 5 will be hosting the

Year 6 Farewell 12th December 2017

Cost:$10 Year 5 students please pay your

class teacher.

P&C News Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be closed the last week of term for stocktake.

New price list becomes effective December 1st. January 2018 Opening Times for Uniform Shop Wednesday 24th January 2018, 3.00pm-6.00pm Thursday 25th January 2018, 8.30am-11.30am Monday 29th January 2018, 8.30am-11.30am We are looking for donation of second hand items, especially blue shirts, dresses and grey culottes. Please take items to the uniform shop or leave at the school office. Thanks for your support

P&C Christmas Party Wednesday 6th December

6.30pm Old Bank Restaurant

RSVP by Sunday 3rd December to: secretarydsps@gmail.com

Canteen Roster

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Wednesday 29th November Jacquie Gravitis

Thursday 30th November Ali Pusell

Friday 1st December Volunteer Required

Monday 4th December Volunteer Required

Tuesday 5th December Shona Howison

Engineers Without Borders Last Thursday, Stage 3 were invited to participate in some

fun, hands-on activities run by Engineers Without Borders.

We learnt about human needs and how some

communities do not have all these needs. We looked at

what houses are made of and how some houses float on

water. We were given a challenge to make a house that

could hold as many marbles as possible. We had 5 marbles

to ‘spend’ and we had to trade them in for materials to

make our floating house, you could trade your marbles in

for many things like 1 cup, 30cm of foil, 4x paddle pop

sticks, 30cm cling wrap, 1x cardboard, 4x elastic bands, or

1x balloons. Groups had 5 minutes to plan how to design

their house and what materials they would need. After

that each group only had 10 minutes to make the house.

Then come the fun part, testing how many marbles each

house could hold, the highest from the day was 169. Thank

you to Engineers Without Borders for a great activity. We

learned lots and had a really fun

time.

Mackenzie Powyer.

Girl Power The MC Girl Power and Sista Speak group

have been working on a variety of practical

activities this year such as: Jewellery

Making, Hairstyling and Care, Art and Craft, Sewing,

Drama, Cooking, Self-care and Hygiene.

The girls have been building their social skills and

demonstrating respect and cooperating with each other all

year. Great Job Girls!

Thank you to Deb, Dina and Denise for assisting with our

exciting program. Mrs Nolan

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PBL

This week we are focusing on the all setting

rule Respect. We are remembering to keep

our hands and feet to ourselves. Please treat

others as you would like to be treated, that is,

speak nicely to each other in a friendly

manner.

Talent Quest News The annual school talent quest will be held on the 15th December (last day of school). Audition slips have been issued outlining your child’s audition day and time. The cost of the audition is $1.00 payable on the day of the audition. They do not need costumes to audition. Students will be informed if they are in the final in Week 9. Thank you, Martel Farrell

Last Day of School for students

Friday 15th December 2017

Staff Development Day

Monday 18th December 2017

Staff Return

Monday 29th January

First Day Back for Year 1—6

Tuesday 30th January 2018

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