Dunedoo Central School

NEWSLETTER

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

18th May 2020

Week 4: Phased return to school

Monday: Year 2, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 11, Year 12

Tuesday: Year 2, Year 5, Year 6, Year 9, Year 10, Year 12

Wednesday: K, Year 1, Year 3, Year 4, Year 11

Thursday: K, Year 1, Year 3, Year 4, Year 7, Year 8, Year 11, Year 12

Friday: Year 9, Year 10, Year 12

Our Community Garden is keeping us busy! We are excited about

adding a veggie patch this week. Just in time for the rain which has

been forecast!

P & C Meeting

Thursday 21st May at

DCS Library, 7pm

Welcome to Week 4 Term 2

Today the Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell

announced a return to full-time face to face teaching from next Monday 25th

May. Secondary students will be issued with a new timetable later this week and

K-6 classes will resume as ‘normal’. Schools will maintain increased cleaning, ac-

cess to hygiene supplies and compliance with hygiene practices. The Minister

stressed that “schools will need to maintain the measures and precautions they have put in place for the

foreseeable future, including no assemblies and excursions. Teachers will be focused on identifying where

their students are at in their education and we will be supporting them to recognise and assist those stu-

dents who need additional help.”

Advice from the NSW Government is that school students do not need to follow strict adult physical dis-

tancing guidelines, but should follow good hygiene practices like regularly washing hands, avoiding shar-

ing drinks or food, coughing or sneezing into your elbow or a tissue, which should be discarded immedi-

ately, maintaining physical distancing from teachers and school staff.

School attendance - All students should be at school unless:

• they have a medical certificate which states that they are unable to return to school due to an ongo-

ing medical condition

• they are currently unwell.

If your child is unwell, do not send them to school. If they are unwell at school, you or your nominated

emergency contact will need to collect them immediately. Please ensure your child’s contact details are

up to date. If a student is absent without a medical reason for more than three days, this will be recorded

as an unauthorised absence and will be followed up by the school.

With return to full-time schooling there are at this time still a number of activities that will not go ahead

including school excursions, work experience, inter-school activities, in-school activities requiring parent

or other volunteers.

School Grounds - There should be no visitors to school sites unless they are essential. Please remember

that students are to be dropped off and collected from the school gates and parents are asked not to con-

gregate at the school gates. If parents need to see a teacher, please come via the front office to make an

appointment. I will inform the school community as soon as these activities are allowed to go ahead.

Reporting and assessment - Half Yearly assessments will take place in Week 9 this Term, allowing more

time for students to demonstrate achievement of curriculum outcomes. Semester 1 Reports will be issued

for Year 11 in Week 10 of this term and K—10 Semester 1 Reports will be issued in Week 2 of next Term.

Please refer to our school Facebook page for further updates and information throughout the week for

return to school next week.

Have a great week.

Donna Lane

Welcome to Week 4! It certainly feels strange saying that. These last two weeks have seen a return to

school by most students. Each year group have attended at least their nominated two days of schooling

and it has been wonderful to have the children back in the classroom.

At the time of writing this, the return to full time schooling could be as early as next week. We are cur-

rently waiting to hear the directive from the NSW Department of Education and will notify students and

their families as soon as we are told. From next week the timetable will return to its regular structure, in-

cluding Maths and Literacy groups, and all students welcome to attend every day.

Please remember to return the work packs with your child so teachers can assess where each child is up

to, mark the work and return it promptly.

On Wednesday 27th May K-6 students will be participating in the National Simultaneous Storytime. Chil-

dren from all over Australia will be participating in a read aloud of Lucinda Gifford’s picture book,

‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’ with the goal of achieving 1 million

kids reading at the same time!

Have a great week everyone and stay safe.

Mr Kline

This week we continue with ‘Types of Numbers’. Yesterday prime and composite numbers were intro-

duced and today we continued identifying factors and determining the difference between these types of

numbers. Tomorrow we look at square numbers and their properties and to end the unit we take a brief

look at triangular numbers. For those at school we will hopefully have some time on Thursday to go back

through the booklets and complete any unfinished work. Those working from home are encouraged to do

the same. Once again, I encourage all students to keep practicing their multiplication tables (especially for

this topic) and a reminder that Mathletics can also be accessed for extra activities.

Mrs Gallagher

DCS Winter Jackets The Jacket order has arrived.

Could you please finalise your payment. Once finalised, you may take your jacket home.

Student of the Week Merit Award

Kindergarten - Mr Kline

Indigo Batty Excellent effort completing her

home learning work packs

Phoebe Kline Completing the Peak Hill Sight

Word program

Max Currie Excellent work with his sight words

and ‘rocket’ words

Year 1-2 Ms Gavin

1 Lachlan Brydon Being a kind, friendly classmate 2 Cayleb Martin For having a wonderful learning

attitude in Year 2

1 Aayeesha Martin A fantastic start in Year 1

Year 3-4 Mr Honeysett

4 Ethan Russell Demonstrating a willing attitude

to complete all set tasks for Week

3

4 Ivy Gale Enthusiastic approach to com-

pleting her learning from home

tasks

4 Robbie John-

stone-Greaves

Achieving excellent results in his

vocabulary skills program with Mrs

Johnstone in Week 3

Year 5/6S Mrs Shephard

6 Hamish Stan-

ford

Being an excellent role model

both in class and on the play-

ground

6 Imogen Murphy Excellent application to tasks

whilst learning from home

6 Simone Roach Consistently polite and hard work-

ing

Year 5/6G Mrs Gallagher

Shelley Cox Displaying excellent manners,

leadership and dedication to

school

6 Mya Clisby Working hard to complete set

tasks

6

5 Hughie Hogden Improved application to literacy

activities

Jayden Martin 22nd May Year 8

Have a fabulous day!

Dunedoo Central School

Expressions of Interest

Kindergarten 2021

We are now seeking Expressions of Interest for students enrolling in Kindergarten, 2021, at Dunedoo

Central School. If you are considering enrolling your child into Kindergarten next year, could you please

complete the slip below and return to the front office. Our Earlybirds (Orientation) program will begin

in Term 4.

Should you require further information in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the DCS

Front Office on 6375 1489.

Expression of Interest

Dunedoo Central School

Kindergarten 2021

Child’s Name: Date of Birth:

Parent’s Name: Phone Number:

Parent Address:

Parent Email:

K-6 will be joining in at 12pm after maths groups on May 27th

This week year 7/8 English students are continuing with the study of Parvana for their novel unit.

Students have researched into the background context of Afghanistan and the life surrounding

the main protagonist, Pavarna, a 10-year-old girl who must pretend to be a boy to provide for her

family. Students have begun to analyse the novel through each chapter and will explore further

once all reading is complete.

9/10 English have also begun their novel study unit focusing on Gothic Novels and

narrative structure. Students has been reading Neil Gaimen’s Coraline, exploring the story and the

characters that make up this dark and intriguing style of storytelling.

English Studies are currently working through their ‘English through Music’ topic. Investigating the use of language

through all styles of music. Students are beginning to discover the use of language devices and features within

their favourite music genres and songs, and how words impact their everyday understanding of music.

This term Year 11 Ancient History have begun digging into the remains of the

archaeological site of Deir el-Medina in Ancient Egypt. Students are working well

in deciphering archaeological and written evidence to piece together the inner

workings of the daily lives of tomb builders of the New Kingdom who lived at the

site over 3000 years ago.

Standard English are well into the Module B: Critical Study of Literature work. Students have

completed their assigned reading of Feed and are progressing toward unpacking the text and

determining the language forms and features used. Students will soon be moving onto themes,

issues and ideas surrounding the text and what this means to them regarding their HSC

responses.

with

7/8 TAS

All students should have the following completed in their Digital Technologies booklet:

Week 1— Read & highlight notes on page 2, watch video “Keeping Safe Online” & complete pages 6 & 7.

Week 2—Read and highlight notes on page 7, complete page 8 & define 5 glossary terms.

Week 3— Read PowerPoint notes on Coding and Algorithms. Complete pages 9 and 10.

Week 4—Complete activity on pages 11-13 (this lesson will be done in class for those attending) & define

5 glossary terms.

Students are asked to take photos of completed work and submit via the Google Classroom App for

progress marking. Remember not to rush ahead and only complete the lessons allocated each week with

accompanying resources.

9/10 Agriculture

Students continue to work on the topic Beef Production with weekly lessons uploaded to Google

Classroom or sent home for those students who have requested copies. All students should be up to

Week 4 work. Completed work can be submitted via the app so progress can be tracked and marked.

Mrs Mayes

THIS WEEKS SPECIALS

Soup - Pumpkin $3.00

Curried Sausages $4.00

Chicken Fettuccine $4.00

Lasagne $4.00

Curry Chicken $4.00

Pork & Gravy Roll $4.00

Nachos $5.00

LUNCH ORDERS ONLY PLEASE

Hello and welcome to Week 4.

Great to see last weeks specials were a HIT, so this week I will have

more new options. Please see the specials table.

Just a quick thank you to all students, parents and

staff for supporting your canteen.

My Wonderful Manners Voucher is back. Last week’s

winner is Zac Johnstone. Well Done Zac, for display-

ing such great manners at the canteen.

Thanks, Sherri

At Dunedoo Central School we use the FISH Philosophy to do “our best always!”

Sharing our understandings and expectations with students, families and staff is essential for continu-

ing our positive school culture.

We have provided an online module for EVERY student to complete to ensure this ongoing development.

Please check your email to find the link to start this e-learning.

We encourage all students to share this learning with a family member. Students will develop an individual action

plan. Family members are welcome to participate in any way- not mandatory but encouraged for clear understand-

ing at home and school.

Secondary Timetables Week 4 Year 12: Weeks 2 - 4

Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday

1 AG / PD AG / PD IT / TX AG / PD

2 MATHS MATHS IT / TX TX / MH / Ext M

3 IT / BS ENGLISH IT / TX ENGLISH

4 ENGLISH GEOG / BIO / CFS IT / TX CFS / BIO / GEO

5 TX / MH MATHS IT / TX IT / BS

6 GEO/BIO/CFS TX / MH IT / TX IT / BS

Year 11

Monday Wednesday Thursday

1 METALS / AG / AH PD / GEO METALS / AG / AH

2 TX / IT SLR / BIO MATHS

3 ENGLISH ENGLISH TX

4 PD / GEO MATHS SLR / BIO

5 MATHS IT / ART PD / GEO

6 SLR / BIO IT / ART ENGLISH

Year 10

TUESDAY FRIDAY

1 MATHS MATHS

2 ENGLISH ENGLISH

3 GEOGRAPHY IT / TX / PASS

4 PD IT / TX / PASS

5 AG / FT 10 WORK ED

6 AG / FT SCIENCE

Year 9

TUESDAY FRIDAY

1 MATHS MATHS

2 ENGLISH ENGLISH

3 HISTORY IT / TX / PASS

4 GEOGRAPHY IT / TX / PASS

5 AG / FT PD

6 AG / FT SCIENCE

Year 8

1 MATHS SCIENCE

2 ENGLISH ENGLISH

3 PD PD

4 ART HSIE

5 SCIENCE ART

6 TAS MATHS

Year 7

MONDAY THURSDAY

1 SCIENCE MUSIC

2 ENGLISH ENGLISH

3 MATHS MATHS

4 HSIE LOTE

5 PD SCIENCE

6 TAS HSIE