Newsletter

James St Dunoon 2480

T 0266895208

E dunoon-p .school @det.nsw.edu.au

W www.dunoon-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Friendship & Learning Tuesday 21 May 2019 Term 2 - Week 4

Every student is known, valued and cared for in our school

Upcoming Events

Tue 28 May Yr 3/4 Landcare Excursion to

Whian Whian

Fri 31 May Zone Cross Country @

Corndale (selected students 8-13 yrs)

Mon 10 June Queen’s birthday holiday

Thurs 13 June Lucas Proudfoot visit(K-6)

- P & C Meeting 6pm

Thurs 4 July Eurovision-Dunoon Style!

Fri 5 July Last day of term

Cross Country Carnival

It would be appreciated if your note and money

($5) could be brought to school this week. Thanks!

Student Health and Wellbeing

There has been an outbreak of Hand, Foot &

Mouth Disease in the community. It is generally a

mild viral illness, sometimes with a fever, and

blisters around the mouth & hands and feet. If this

is the case in your family, please keep your child

at home until all blisters have dried so as to

reduce the spread of the virus school.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

K-2 Excursion: K-2 students enjoyed a beautiful day at Byron Bay, learning all about the Arakwal connections

to the past and the land.

“I loved being on the Solar Train because I love trains.” (Lucy)

“I liked getting my face painted with ochre. It protects you from getting sunburnt.” (Abby)

“I liked going to the beach because I made a sandcastle.” (Mary)

“Yesterday I went to Byron Bay. First we went to a National Park and when we were

in the National Park, we learnt about Aboriginal culture. Then we walked on the

beach and it was amazing.” (Daniel)

“Yesterday my class went to Byron Bay and we also went on a solar train.

We went almost everywhere in Byron Bay. We had so much fun and we had an Aboriginal

teacher with an outdoor classroom. Our teacher’s name was Aunty Delta

and she painted our faces with Ochre.” (Maeve)

Year 5/6 Year 5/6 students have started the term once again as motivated and engaged learners who are amazing collaborators,

enthusiastic sports people, sprinters, mathematicians, scientists, explorers and digital world gurus! Over the past few

weeks we have had a team preparing for the Robotics challenge at Southern Cross University competing on 31st May.

They have had to build a robotic car and have programmed it to navigate around a maze, dropping parcels at as yet

unknown sites. Their work looks amazing and we wish them good luck in the competition.

Our room has been filled with beautiful artwork while learning skills and techniques from the masters. We have also

been learning Chinese and Japanese art techniques. Good luck to Bill, Nuala and Iris at the upcoming art camp at

Dorroughby Field Studies!

We have started our gymnastics and what a display of athletic skills from great landings to high flying

from the trampoline!

In Maths, we have been working on negative numbers and are about to move to the Cartesian plane. We love our

maths and we have some brilliant and resilient mathematical minds in the class! Happy faces, even through Naplan!

Upcoming and needed

Crotchet hooks and wool for crocheting a class snuggle blanket. Any donations appreciated.

Our very own Eurovision Dunoon Style! It’s that time of year again for the quirky, and always entertain-

ing Eurovision. Who could forget Abba doing their Waterloo debut or the Buranovo Babuska grannies with

‘get up and dance’ or Sweden’s Euphoria or I’m sure you all have your own favourites! On the Thursday 4th

July we will hold our own little contest, starting at 9.30am There will be judges and they will award an extra

point for something from another country (although this isn’t necessary). It can be a dance, a song, a poem,

magic trick, a piece of music, or anything else you think might be entertaining. So start getting your group

together, shake out the tinsel and costumes and start thinking about how you can entertain us! It is not com-

pulsory to enter but is open to all those who would love to perform and the rest of us will be audience mem-

bers. Each act is limited to about 1-2 minutes.

Our writing sprint is almost completed. It has involved some excellent perfecting of skills around writing a complex

sentence and use and recognition of different clauses and connectives. A complex sentence from Evie and Jemma…

Evie– That night the wind blew, like a swooping owl, through the crooked woods.

Jemma-The ink drained onto the pages, pages that had been written in by others older than time, but the words did

not want to be written and disappeared into the diary.

Next up some rich vocabulary work with Mrs Slocombe. Get your dictionaries ready! We will also engage in some class

debates. Our first debates are on whether 16 year olds should have the vote-very topical after the elections!

Ministers

We have had our own mini elections and the class have taken on roles as mentors or ministers to organise and help

student-led organisation of events. They include sports ministers, environment ministers, entertainment ministers and

subject mentors.

Environment ministers have been busy working on our an acceptable ‘bug’ policy. Sports ministers did a sterling job for

the recent cross country and the entertainment ministers are currently organising and promoting our Dunoon Euro-

vision.

Dark Sky competition has our 5/6 scientists working on ways to stop light pollution, both for environmental reasons

with our wildlife and for astronomical reasons. They have investigated bortle scales of light, colour light waves, shield-

ing for street lamps and each team has come up with a couple of amazing entrepreneurial pitches to try to ‘sell’ their

solutions. They need to educate and also to help stop the light pollution. Teams have done research, sought out men-

tors (one team managed to email NASA!), made apps, created models, thought like entrepreneurs, used their creativity

to imagine some solutions and worked amazing well in teams. They will compete in a few week’s time, and the judges

will pick the top two teams to compete on an Australia wide competition. Good luck, everyone!

P & C N e w s

Congratulations!

Term 2 Week 3 Awards

Student of the Week

K /1 Mary

1/2 Daniel

3/4 Alannah

5/6 Evie

Merit Awards

K/1 Layla, Abby, Eden

1/2 Rosie, Cooper, Jasper

3/4 Felix, Rhett, Angus

5/6 Indigo, Matilda, Freya, Jemma

P&C Election Stall

Thanks again for our volunteers who helped out at another very successful election stall, which was embraced by our community.

Thank you to the parents (and kids!) that helped bake, set up and BBQ on the day. The stall raised $586.90, which was an excel-

lent result!

Along with the State election stall, the P&C has raised $1145 to go towards student learning in the last 2 months. The fantastic

marimba players also raised $70 in donations on top of this- so well done to them!!

Billy carts

Dunoon School cleaned up at the Billy Cart Derby on Sunday:

On Sunday we brought 6 billy carts to the derby at Bangalow. In the Traditional School Challenge 3 Dunoon billy carts went in it

and we came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Will and Wynn came 1st, Banjo came 2nd and Jack and Inda came 3rd.

In the other race we had 2 billy carts. Sam and Huey came 1st and Nirvana and Leo crashed out! (By Banjo and Will)

Jeremy and Russell deserve a big thanks for their energy and community spirit organising another successful day at the billy

carts. Thanks to the other families who got up early and joined in the school community spirit. See an exciting recount of the day

on the next page!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to

Mr Henderson!

Citizen Scientists

Year 3/4 students are undertaking a Citizen Scientist

program in conjunction with Landcare and a local Mac-

adamia Farm. Our aim is to see the real world applica-

tion of things we learn at school. There will be dip

netting, insect collection and dung beetle investiga-

tions. This will enable the farmer and Landcare to gath-

er baseline data of the insects in the orchard and

measure the health of the wetland area and to gauge

its success as a method of pollinating the macadamia

trees. We hope to learn lots about pollinating insects

(and also to get a little bit muddy).

What are P & C getting up to this year?

We are making contact with local Landscape Architects to come and help us create a longer term plan/vision for the school landscape. This will give us a focus for projects and also let us target our fundraising goals.

We are supporting individual class Kitchen Garden projects which will be teacher and student led.

We are funding a visit later in the year from well-known children’s author Roland Harvey who offers a unique workshop for all student levels.

We are starting our planning for our annual fundraisers: 2 x Athletics Carnival canteen stalls, The Channon Market and The Spring Fair.

We have just purchased a new chest freezer for the school canteen.

We have purchased some additional STEM lego items which will benefit the earlier year classes who have previously not been able to participate in the lego projects.

We are brainstorming other ideas for school projects/infrastructure to roll out this year.

Watch this space for opportunities to get involved in P&C activities and fundraisers!

Next meeting 13th June

@6pm!

A memorable 2019 Bangalow Billy Cart day was had by the kids and parents. The sun shone and the glorious

autumn rain fell on the Dunoon team throughout the day. Kids were exhilarated, eager, inquisitive, career-

ing with a dizzy sense of life, and what’s next!?

Will and Wynn rode The Lizard like a samurai’s arrow all day. They whiskermissed first place to Snoopy in

the final of 8 to 11 traditional final, after dusting it the heats. The double W’s rolled the field to first in the

Schools Traditional Challenge.

Banjo was close on their tail in Jenga the Whale spouting a certain victory after being beached on a reflector

at the starting line in most of the other heats.

Jack and Inda on The Shark came in third in the Schools Trad Challenge taking a big bite of bale to a boof-

stop at the finishing line.

Sam and Huey let out triumphant barks as The Dog had its day and outrun the field for the chequered flag in

the Schools Homegrown Challenge.

Leo and Nirvana crazyswerved their bucking sliding Punk cart out of every race. Bumping bales and side-

swiping fences proving that the most fun was in the meander and unexpected.

The P&C was also a winner with a tally of prize money $$$; cash donations from Smith Plant $200 Xootr

wheels $100, Higgins Real Estate $200; in kind donations to auction including a load of the quality roadbase

from Holcim Teven, a care wash detail kit from Repco. Other businesses who also donated items were the

Battery Boys, Watt Watt Cycles and North Coast Petroleum.

A big thank you to those businesses for their community support.

Thanks also to the parents who joined in the fun. Romany and Luke, Rebecca and Dan, Margie and Matt, George, Alison and Russell , Suz and Jeremy, and others who helped in the lead up.

Billy Cart Group

Billy Cart Derby