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Principal Toby Morgan
Executive
Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Karina Woods (Rel)
Stage 2 Allie Harcourt (Rel)
Stage 3
Jemma Wallace & Shari Jackson (Rel)
Special Education Debbie Williams
Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah
Dates for your Diary
December
4th Infants Christmas Assembly - 2.40pm P&C Meeting - 6pm
5th SRC Ice Cream Day SRC Speeches Yr 4- 12pm in Hall
6th SRC Speeches Yr 5 - 12pm in Hall
9th Kinder Orientation 10am –11.30am
10th Presentation Assembly - 10am
11th Year 6 Farewell 6pm - 8pm Dubbo RSL Club
18th Last day of Term
January 2020
29th First day of term
Message from the Principal
P&C Fundraiser Tomorrow, Wednesday 4th December is the last day to fundraise and choose your prizes. You can do this by logging your fundraising online or bring your money to your child’s classroom teacher.
SRC Speeches SRC speeches will be held this week on Thursday, for the current Year 4 students, and Friday, for the current Year 5 students.
These will be held in the school hall from 12:00pm on both days. Please ensure your child is prepared for this occasion as it takes plenty of courage to stand up in front of the school and ask for their vote, and students who participate in this learn a lot about public speaking. Please note, teachers are not able to assist students with speeches as teachers need to remain impartial thus speeches need to be prepared at home. Parents are openly invited to attend the speeches and support their children as they vie for positions on the Junior and Senior SRC for 2020.
Presentation Day 2019 Our annual Presentation Day will be held next Tuesday 10th December at
10am in the school hall. This will highlight individual student achievement over the last year. Students receiving an award will be notified with a letter by the end of this week. We invite our whole school community to come along.
Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being Responsible, Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”
Weekly Newsletter
Week 8 Term 4 2019
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Week 8 Term 4
“Skill with Honour”
PSSA Sport This Friday is the final PSSA sport for the term. For the majority of students this has been successful for Dubbo North PS throughout Term 4. I have received a couple of calls unfortunately for inappropriate behaviour but these have largely been outweighed by positive calls from other schools. We should all be proud of the way the students from DNPS have represented themselves and the school community this term.
AVID training in Melbourne Last week a team from Dubbo North Public School attended AVID training in Melbourne, which was a very eye opening and rewarding few days. The goal of this initiative, which the majority of Public Schools in Dubbo are implementing, is to close the achievement gap between students and to accomplish this through effective note taking skills and higher engagement of students. Mrs Wallace, Miss Harcourt, Mrs Couley and Mrs Morgan came back with some excellent ideas which they will be implementing across Stage 2 and 3 in 2020.
End Of Year Events We have a number of big events coming up over the next 2 weeks so please make sure you check your child’s bag for any important information that may be coming home. Have a great week Jemma Wallace Assistant Principal
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Students of the Week
Term 4 Week 7
KC Ryan Welch KW Chase Andrew 1/2J Tymirja Towney 1/2S Reyse Wilson 1/2T Sophia Abbruzzese 3/4B Katelynn Richards 3/4C Brian Freeman 3/4H Nathan Bromage 5/6A Paige Swinn 5/6J Demi Guihot 5/6W Jess Watts Blue Natasha-Skye Knibbs Yellow Martel Bamblett
Uniform Award - T4 Wk 8 - 1/2S
Congratulations
CANTEEN MEAL DEAL Thursday 5th December
Choice of either Mac and Cheese, Twister Pasta Bolognaise or a Lasagne with a Popper - $5.50
News from the Library…
Calling all books! The will be no more borrowing from the library for the rest of 2019.
Please return them to the library this week.
Why not visit the local library and complete the …
Don’t forget to read, read, read.
Until next week, Mrs Jane Clark
PBL Focus - Week 8 Responsible, Safe & Respectful
Safe, Responsible and Respectful in Assemblies
Week 7 Winbin Interview
Name: Emjay Clark Class: 1/2J Winbin Received for: Being safe, respectful and responsible. Why did you receive this winbin? For being safe, respectful and responsible in the hall. How could other students receive a winbin for this week’s focus? By walking up the side steps in the hall.
Get to know your Class Captains
Name: Dominic Cubby Class: 5/6J
Q1. You Accidentally ate some radioactive pizza. The good news is it tasted great! The even better news is that it’s given you one superpower of your choice. What do you choose? I would choose to control time so I can do whatever I want whenever I want. Q2. Your teacher is actually a witch! One day, she gets tired of you not paying attention and zaps you into a novel. Which novel would you hope she zapped you into and why? Harry Potter because people like to read Harry Potter. Q3. If you could time travel, would you go to the past or the future? The past to see what it was like back then. Q4. You can trade places with someone for one day. Who would it be and why? The Rock because he’s pretty famous.
The P&C Uniform Shop will be open over the school holidays on the following dates. This will be located in the Aboriginal Community Room. Please remember there are new prices and the updated order forms are available from the front office until the end of term. The uniform shop will be open from 9am from 12pm on the following days: Saturday 18th January and Sunday 19th January Saturday the 25th Januray And Tuesday the 28th January
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The Department’s Revised Enrolment Policy
What has changed? – part 2: the 100-point residential address check
Parents and carers planning to enrol their child at a school that is near or at its buffer or cap will be asked to complete the 100-point residential address check to confirm they live within the school’s designated intake area. This applies to all of the primary schools in Dubbo and means that parents and carers will need to provide documents to verify the child’s current address. A list of approved documents for the residential address check is available from the department’s website at https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/media/documents/Residential-address-check.pdf or from your child’s local school. To discuss this further, please feel free to make an appointment to meet with the Principal of your local school.
On Thursday 28th November, we had a special visit by Kirily who is blind and her support worker Annie. Students in Kindergarten, Stage 1, and the Support classes got to meet Kirily and find out about how she reads by using braille and also got to ask her some questions. It was a great experience for the students involved and they all enjoyed it. Thank you to Kirily and Annie.
Last Wednesday we held our last whole school assembly for the year. This was filled with lots of awards such as Principal Awards, Merit Awards, Students of the Week, Class Captain Awards, Staff Award, and along with many more. We also received the last two artworks that will be hanging in the office for the rest of the term. Congratulations to all who received awards and thank you to the SRC for hosting.
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Dubbo North Public School P&C Meeting
The next Dubbo North Public School P&C Meeting will be
held tomorrow 4th December at 6pm at the South Dubbo
Tavern.
Dubbo Tenpin Bowl are once again handing out Summer Holiday Booklets to all students and staff. These booklets will not only save your families lots of dollars from now until the end of January 2020.They will also earn our School Valuable Rebate Dollars. So please support this successful rebate program which has been running since 2011.