We were lucky enough to have

some very special visitors to our

Monday morning assembly.

Six students from Dandenong

High School came to present at

assembly. These six children had

attended Dandenong North and all

graduated Year Six in 2007.

Fazan and Victoria are the School

Captains for Dandenong High,

whilst Monica, Jeremy, William

and Dexter have all been selected

as Captains of their respective

Houses.

These students are all part of the

current student leadership group at

Dandenong High and it was lovely

to see how much they have grown

educationally.

Fazan and Victoria spoke of how

every person can be a leader - it

doesn’t take a title like School

Captain to make someone a leader.

You might have a vision of creat-

ing or completing something and

you have to follow that dream -

lead yourself.

After presenting at

the whole school

assembly, these stu-

dents took the time

to speak to our cur-

rent Year 6 children

regarding their jour-

ney into Secondary

School next year.

All of the students spoke highly

of their time at our school and

how the school’s motto of the 4

C’s had helped guide them to

make the right choices and assist-

ing them in their journey through

life.

All of the students could not

speak highly enough of their time

at Dandenong North and how it is

important for students to make

their memories whilst at Primary

School, because they all miss be-

ing at DNPS!

We thank the students for their

visit and wish them all the very

best as they embark on their very

bright futures in the coming

years!

2nd August 2013

DANDENONG NORTH

PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Calendar of Events

School Pledge

School Website:

www.dandenongnorthps.vic.edu.au

August

2nd Uniform Shop Open

13th University NSW Maths

Competition

22/23rd Curriculum Days - students

are not required to attend

school.

September

5th Teddy Bear Hospital Visit

6th Gala Day

18th Divisional Athletics

20th End of Term

I will do all that I can to

make sure that Dandenong

North Primary School

remains a great school.

I will try my hardest to fol-

low the 4Cs to keep our

school a safe and happy

place.

I promise to treat others as I

would like to be treated.

News From the North

Dandenong High School Visitors

Josiah is a child who assists everyone whenever he

can and is the first to offer up his equipment to

those in need. Assisting the smaller children inside

on wet days or looking after a lost bag ,shows how

much Josiah cares about his peers.

We congratulate Josiah on his award and we are

sure that his Eyes, Ears, Hearts and Minds will al-

ways help to make whatever school he attends in

the future, a better place!

Eyes, Ears, Hearts and Minds Award At last weeks whole school assembly it was lovely

to see a student receiving the prestigious “Eyes,

Ears, Hearts and Minds” Award.

This award was created as part of our school Self

Esteem Program with the idea of presenting stu-

dents with a cloth badge as these children use their

Eyes, Ears, Hearts and Minds to make Dandenong

North a fantastic place to be.

Mrs Hilton presented Josiah with this award and

she gave a heartfelt speech that detailed why he

deserved this award.

She spoke of Josiah’s embarrassment at being

placed in front of the whole school as he is a par-

ticularly shy boy. She outlined what a dramatic

educational improvement that he had made, which

she has been lucky enough to have witnessed after

having him for one and a half years. From a child

who never completed homework tasks to the per-

son whose work is finished first within the class-

room.

Page 2 News From the North

Operation Smile Last Friday, the 26th of July 2013 the Year Three

students were lucky to have a visit from the volun-

teers at 'Operation Smile'. 'Operation Smile' is a

charity organisation run by volunteers who are all

student doctors. The organisation raises money and

awareness for a program that sends surgeons into

developing countries to perform surgeries on chil-

dren with cleft palates. The volunteers helped our

grade 3 students to make some very cute and col-

ourful puppets. The puppets will then be sent with

the surgeons to cheer up the children recovering

from their operations. Our students also wrote

'Get Well' cards to

accompany their

puppets. The stu-

dents in Year 3

thoroughly en-

joyed working

with the volun-

teers, and making

the puppets for a

good cause!

Mrs Slatter is a busy

lady! Not only does she

run a successful Prep

classroom, she also runs

a Knitting club at recess

twice a week.

Mrs Slatter is an accomplished knitter herself and

loves having the opportunity to impart this skill to

the children.

Some students have no experience with knitting

and they use a “Knitting Nancy” which assists them

to begin learning this skill.

Students then begin by knitting themselves a scarf.

At the moment, the more accomplished knitters are

knitting hats for the babies and children who are in

Dandenong Hospital.

Any students in Years 3 to 6 who are interested in

joining the knitting make your way to Mrs Slatter’s

room at recess on Monday or Tuesday and join in

the fun of knitting club!

Knitting Club

Greater Dandenong Maths Games Day

The Greater Dandenong Maths Games Day was

held last Tuesday with the event at Keysborough

Primary School, being the largest Maths Games

Day held in Victoria. There were 18 competing

schools with an overall total of 40 teams compet-

ing.

Students work in teams to solve problems, com-

plete geo-shape activities, maths detective, strate-

gy games, what number am I and mental maths

problems.

Dandenong North took thirteen students to partic-

ipate in three teams to compete against over 160

students from the surrounding schools.

The highlight of the day was when Geenath (6L)

came first in his mental maths round! Geenath

was the quickest and most accurate student within

his group of 40 students, to answer

the six questions in a knock out for-

mat. He was awarded a gold medal-

lion from the Mathematical Associa-

tion of Victoria.

Stefina (6M) and Atif (6L) also re-

ceived $10 gift vouchers for their

correct answers in the section “What number am I?”

Dandenong North was placed fourth overall on the

day.

We are very proud of all of the children who attend-

ed the event.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr

Williamson for his fantastic work in preparing the

children for this competition.

Art Scholarship

2nd August 2013 Page 3

Advertisement: We are always pleased to

celebrate student success at

Dandenong North as we

know that our school is full

of talented children.

In particular, as Ms Mac

will tell you, we have some

sensational artists.

One such artist is Anthony from 6V who was

recently offered The Gabrielle Blood Arts Schol-

arship to Lyndale Secondary College for 2014.

Anthony will be expected to demonstrate con-

sistent academic achievement and develop his

leadership skills throughout his time at Lyndale,

which we know Anthony will have no difficulty

in achieving!

His scholarship allows Anthony $300 to spend

on textbooks or uniform items per year every

year for the six years that he attends Lyndale

Secondary College.

We congratulate Anthony on this fantastic

achievement and wish him all the very best for

his future endeavours!

Page 4

Student’s Work Page This term grade 1/2HS are very excited to be learning about Space. There are so many interesting facts

to learn and lots of ways to find them out. We have been researching on the internet using the Official

NASA Website, as well as using Encarta Kids.

We have found out some cool things about space, such as what gravity means and why the sun is so im-

portant.

We have also learnt about galaxies, asteroids, comets astronauts and simulation.

On Friday we designed our own aliens from outer space. Named them and described their crazy fea-

tures.

We have also created a star gazing tent outside the room where we look at stars whilst we camp and read

about the Universe.