Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility

From Sharon’s desk

Well done to our Stage 3 students for you concert held last week, “The Greatest Show”. What a wonderful effort form all staff, students and helpers. The Greatest Show was a great opportunity to showcase the talent of singers Latana Eulo-Gibbs, Latiah McMillan and Bailey Auld as well as those involved in dancing and drama. It was a great way to conclude the concerts for the year. Creative Arts is definitely alive and well at Dubbo South! Our Kindergarten students for 2019 have been attending each Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday for the past two weeks. Parent Expos will be held on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons this week with representative from a range of services and staff members to engage you in answering any questions, queries on Office Procedures, Literacy Programs, Speech Pathology, Canteen and Uniform Shop to name a few. I encourage all parents to drop off their child and then stay around for these information conversations. Coffee and tea will be offered in our community room each afternoon from 2.15pm. Drop in and meet some other parents and ask questions. See you there. There have been a few issues over the past week of which I would appreciate parent support. Could you please discuss the following issues with your child or children as they are of major concern from a school and safety perspective. Supervision before school. Official supervision does not begin until 9am. From 8.30am executive staff are able to provide minimal supervision. Prior to 8.30am there are NO teachers on playground supervision. I understand that some parents work early and drop their children off at 8.15 when the gates open. It is obviously important for parents to un-derstand that even though the children are safely entering the school and sitting around the blue wall area they are NOT supervised until 8.30am. Technically you are responsi-ble for your children until this time. It would be helpful if you could find other options from family, friends or other parents who could accompany your child to school after 8.30am.

Behaviour for Stage 2 and 3 students are being tracked and monitored with their own personal monitoring sheets. Please be assured if any issued regarding behaviour both positive and negative for your child, you will be kept informed either by phone, email or remind app. All students are looking forward to events such as Big Day Out at the Pool, Year 6 Farewell, Talent Quest or end of year class parties. Students may be withdrawn from attending these events if correct behaviours are not followed. As you would understand all events are earned not expected. Dubbo South Public School is a phone free area. Any student who arrives at school with a personal phone must leave it in the office at all times. There is no reason for students to have a mobile phone whilst at school during the day. Phones have been used for the wrong reasons and privacy is of the utmost importance. Suspension has certainly been applied for misusing phones. We certainly educate children about responsible use of technology. If you have any concerns regarding these issues raised in this newsletter please feel free to contact the school. We can all work together on this. Sharon Murray, Principal

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

Term 4 Week 6 20th November 2018

Important Dates

Thursday 22nd November Year 6 Passport Program Friday 23rd November

K-6 Assembly—Item by MC Monday 26th November

Year 2 Swimming Continues Tuesday 27th November

Kinder Transition Continues Stage 3 Drought Expo

Thursday 29th November Year 6 Passport Program Monday 3rd December 2018 Presentation Night

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Premiers Reading Challenge General PRC (Premier’s Reading Challenge) certificates are ready to be printed. These are the standard certificates. They will be handed out at stage assemblies after this week. Platinum and other certificates are sent to the school. When these arrive they will be given out at a whole school assembly before the end of the year. Thank you to all parents and students who took the time to log their books. Congratulations to all students who completed the challenge.

Book Club Books should be back in the next day or two. The post office is busy at this time of year. Issue 8 is the final issue for the year. Pamphlets will be sent home this week. Orders for issue 8 will be due by Friday 30th November. A short time frame however it is necessary to get all orders back and sorted before the end of the year. Thank you for your continued support.

End Of Term As the end of the year is almost here, we ask everyone to find and return all school resources. If your child comes home with an overdue notice from the library, it is not a demand for payment but a request to search for that book or books. Sometimes books are returned without going via the computer or other errors may occur. We try to search for the books here at school but there is not always time. Thank you for caring. Year 6 and other students leaving our school – we would really appreciate the return of all resources.

Holiday Reading Start having a look at our e-books for something to read over the holidays. There are some audio titles available also. I will put some links in next week’s newsletter. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

News from Zahara our Sponsor Child We asked Moses (the founder of Life Charity Focus Uganda) to deliver a birthday gift for Zahara when he returned home after his visit to Dubbo South. We have received photos and a thank you letter from our gorgeous sponsor child Zahara in Uganda. Her new dress fits her perfectly and she loves her new doll. Zahara has written a thank you letter to the children and staff at our school. Many wonderful life lessons are learnt through this sponsorship, not only is Zahara benefiting, the children at our school are as well. Mrs Alexandra Prince

Stage 3 Drought Fair You’re invited!!!! As a part of Stage 3’s unit “Drought” they will be holding a small fair to sell items and raise funds to go towards supporting our local farmers. Pro-jects will be on display and products available for purchase. Sausage sizzle, cupcakes, handmade crafts and sideshow games will be available from 12pm until 2pm.

When: Tuesday 27.11.2018 Where: DSPS Hall and undercover area

Time: 12pm – 2pm. Please come along and enjoy a sausage sizzle lunch with your children and support Stage 3 in their plight to support local farmers.

Gundabooka National Park Eight Year 6 boys as well as 2 Year 7 boys from South Campus attended a leadership camp overnight at Gundabooka National Park near Bourke. Over the two days the boys were engaged in learning about Aboriginal Culture and participated in activities to create a sense of identity and self worth. The boys were well behaved and were a credit to their families and this school. A big thankyou to Contarf and Alan Hall for subsidising and providing this opportunity for these boys. It is a very worthwhile part of the transition program from Year 6 to Year 7.

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PBL

A friendly reminder from the PBL team that teacher su-pervision at school starts at 8:30am. Please keep this in mind when dropping your children off. During week 6 all class across the school will be participating in a lesson to revise how to gain attention from peers appropriately.

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Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility

Merit Awards Merit: Bella Auld

Credit: Thomas Pearce, Will Magann, Hamish Waghorn, Sam Turner

Distinction: Charlotte Redding Honour: Navreet Kaur, Zak Handley, Cobey Widdison, Nate Auld

Banner: Jordan West

Well Done Alex! On Friday, Alex competed in the state final of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking competition. He was one of 13 finalists from across NSW, with the winner coming from Bronte Public School. Alex gave a strong performance in both his prepared and impromptu speeches, tackling the topics Human Rights and Wrongs, and No Direction.

Soccer The senior boys and girls soccer teams travelled to Mudgee to play in a Western Sydney Wanderers Gala Day. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the game was cancelled. However, the students were able to participate in a 3 hour skills day. The students enjoyed every moment learning and playing modified games of soccer with the development officers. The development officers were extremely impressed with our students and we will now be working with Western Sydney Wanderers and will hopefully have them attend our school in the future to run more workshops.

P&C News One thing our P&C does is raise and donate funds to the school for the benefit of our students. All the money raised from the Colour Fun Run will go towards improving the Dalton St entrance area. Keep your eyes out for these improvements!

Did you know? Thanks to your support, in 2018 we have also been able to donate money for: - a carport for our school bus, plus signage & fuel ($9700) - a trailer for the bus ($5000) - classroom maths resources ($8800) - music room resources ($1000) - Beebots for coding ($1200) - Smart board for the library ($7000)

P&C Christmas Party Will be held on Wednesday 5th December at 6.30pm rsvp to Kathryn secretary.dsps@gmail.com

Uniform Shop Could you spare an hour a week? We rely on volunteers. To keep having the shop open twice a week next year, we will need one or two new volunteers. Please leave your name with Jodie at the canteen or at the uniform shop if you could help.

Holiday Help If you could help for three hours on Jan 24th or 25th, please let Jodie know.

Wednesday 21st November Jackie Gravitis

Thursday 22nd November Emma Marchant

Friday 23rd November Cathy Thompson

Monday 26th November Lorraine Kerr

Tuesday 27th November Volunteer Required

Year 6 Farewell The Year 6 Farewell will be held on

Thursday, December 13th. It is asked that all of Year 5 please bring in $10 to go towards the costs of the Year 6 Farewell. Dinner, drinks, dessert and

cake will be supplied on the night. Any parents of Year 5 students that

are willing to help with decorating on the Thursday afternoon please let

your classroom teacher know.

Save the date! Friday the 7th of

December Kindergarten Christmas

Item at the Week 8 Whole School Assembly.