Dumbleyung Primary School

Dear Parents/Carers and Community Members

Chinese Mandarin Lesson Friday the 11th of August saw our rescheduled live streaming session to Beijing come to fruition. The students had a truly engaging experience and were thoroughly wrapped learning about China and talking to a Chinese Mandarin language tutor directly located in Beijing. The students answered and asked some very thoughtful questions. The students were shown what Beijing looked like via the webcam being placed out the window and saw first hand for themselves the sky scrapers and smog! We cheekily placed the webcam out our window and showed off Dumbleyung and our clear atmosphere! The children learnt how to say hello (ni hao) and good bye (zai jian) in Chinese Mandarin and are super keen to do more sessions in 2018!

Coding and Robotics Update It’s truly wonderful seeing our students engaging in coding and computational language. Though it has been around for awhile, it is now we see our students getting hands on experience through the use of their own Bee-Bot. What an experience watching students from the Junior Room direct their Bee-Bots to follow their own designed maps. Year 3/4 students are creating card board cars and adding motorised circuits to propel their vehicles and Year 5/6 students have now begun experimenting with EV3 Lego robots. This is a fabulous extension activity that requires critical thinking, problem solving and team work as students work with a partner to manipulate their robot to carry out challenges. Thank you once again to our P&C for purchasing these wonderful resources for our students at Dumbleyung Primary School.

Jeans for Genes Day raised $51 .Well done to all those who donated to this worthy cause. Since

Jeans for Genes commenced in 1994 they have raised over 67 million to help find cures and

treatments for childhood disease.

School Photos will be taken on Thursday, 17 August first up in the morning. Please wear school uniform. A package was sent home previously so could you please return even if not purchasing photos. Family photos available.

Cronin Vs Kersley 2017 Faction Athletics Carnival will be held on Thursday, 31 August 2017 commencing 10.00am with the jumps. Supporters should bring their own lunch, chairs and umbrellas, as there is limited shade and seating available.

Kind Regards Melanie Ball Principal

Number 12 15 August 2017 Phone 9863 4068

Email: dumbleyung.ps@education.wa.edu.au Web site: www.dumbleyungps.wa.edu.au

Dates to remember:

14-18 August Science Week 17 August Photo day Disco 5-7pm Stubbs Park

21-25 August Book Week Day 25

24 August Dress up book week day 31 August Thursday Faction Athletics 8 September Margaret Cotton Kulin

14 September Assembly Learning Journeys

15 September Interschool Athletics Wandering 22 September End of Term 3

Congratulations to the following students who are displaying ‘Commitment to Achieve’ :

Sophie Bennett, Isabel Koster, Hannah Cronin, Sara Hansen Kobie Smith, Cleo Ward, Flynn Bartram

Congratulations to the following students who have

reached 100 Nights of Reading:

Tiarna Hitchcock-Jose, Jaxon Smith, Eden Bairstow,

Estella Scally, Cleo Ward,

Sophie Bennett Emilee Biston, Darby Ball

200 Nights: Sydnee Wright

You could feel the students’ enthusiasm of what was about to happen, they were staring at the eBoard, waiting eagerly. You could hear a pin drop! Faces were smiling, giddy with excitement! Then it began! ‘Hello! Hello! Melanie?’ a clear friendly audible voice asked. ‘Yes, I am here! Is it Mai?” I asked with a great big smile on my face! ‘Hello’ ‘Oh, good, good, oh hello students I can see you all!’ Mai, our Chinese Teacher from Beijing replied. ‘Hello!’ A sea of Dumbleyung student voices echoed back, smiling and waving! Last Friday the 11

th of August, Dumbleyung Primary Students trialled a Chinese

Mandarin lesson streamed live from Beijing. We participated in the trial lesson to help inform our decision making for the 2018 compulsory introduction of Languages for all Year 3 students in Western Australian Schools. Like most schools in the Regions, we are faced with the challenge of attracting and retaining quality Language teachers who can teach a language we want our students to participate in. Why Chinese Mandarin? China is one of the lead economies that Australia engages with. We sell a large amount of our commodities to China, particularly in Food Production our major local economy here in Dumbleyung. China has a population of 1.4 billion people and growing, who all speak a form of Mandarin. Beijing, where our lessons will be streamed from also share the same timeline as Dumbleyung. The numbers and logistics make sense.

As a school the only infrastructure we had to invest in was a $130.00 webcam.

Our new eBoards and internet is all that is required to see the lessons come to

fruition.

The children sat on the ground in clear view

of the screen and talked normally, the

teacher in Beijing was able to pick up all of

the children clearly as they engaged in

dialogue. There was no delay at all.

It is really exciting to see our rural students

getting an opportunity to engage and

participate in quality Language instruction

that their city peers have access to. Our

geographical location is slowly becoming

irrelevant due to technology, which I find

truly exciting. Our other option would be for

our classroom teachers to deliver Language

instruction, but I would much rather see our

classroom teachers’ focus on Literacy and

Numeracy and leave the Languages

curriculum to a fully qualified teacher in

China who on a daily basis provides

Chinese Mandarin across our continent.

The students learnt how to say hello (ni hao) and good bye ( zai jian) in Mandarin, and were given a look outside of the Beijing

office with the webcam. The students saw sky rises and a smoggy sky line. We

returned the banter by poking our webcam out the window. Mai, our teacher, was

amused at the thought that the whole town of Dumbleyung had a population of 260 people, Mai’s office team had about 260

people she thought.

The students had a truly unique and highly

engaging learning experience. We are all

pretty pumped at the idea of this becoming a

weekly occurrence at Dumbleyung Primary

School in 2018.

Live Streaming to Beijing Dumbleyung Primary School students participate in Chinese Mandarin lesson live from Beijing

Ni hao-

hello

Zai jian-

good bye

Applications for enrolment are now open!

You must apply to enrol your child in a public school for 2018 if they are:

starting Kindergarten – 4 years old by 30 June 2018

starting Pre-Primary (first year of compulsory school) – 5 years old by 30 June 2018

starting Year 7 (first year of secondary school)

changing schools.

Applications forms are available at the front office.

Thank you to all the students, parents and teachers who ordered through Book Club in August. Issue 5 raised a whopping $112.00 in Scholastic rewards for our school! Money raised through Book Club will be used to purchase new reading books and resources for our classrooms.

Support the school & buy through Book Club! 20% of all orders goes directly back to the school.

UNIFORM SALE REDUCED

ITEMS

Dear Parents At the P & C Meeting it was decided that in preparation for the arrival of our new school shirts to reduced the price of the uniforms that have the old motto Persevere on them. Green and Yellow Polo’s $5 Rugby Jumper $10 Please contact me on mobile 0427634714 if you have any queries. Thank you Suzanne Cronin Uniform Co-ordinator

A big thank you to Darryl and Lynda Gaull for their donation of a music chair. Sgt Darryl Gaull with Principal Melanie

Ball delivering the chair.

A very big thank you to our ‘Garden Helpers’ Mrs Helen Gooding

and Mrs Maureen McManus. Your efforts in pruning our front

entry roses is so greatly appreciated.

Mud kitchen in progress with Graham Wilson and Dave Stephens

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week 17 July SDD

18 Jul Students commence Term 3

19 Jul

20 Jul Kindy

21 Jul Kindy

1

24 Jul

25 Jul Kindy

26 Jul

27 Jul Kindy

28 Jul National Tree Day Kindy

2

31 Jul

1 August

Kindy

2 Aug

3 Aug Kindy

4 Aug Jeans for Genes Day

Kindy

3

7 Aug

8 Aug Kindy

9 Aug

10 Aug Assembly Kindy

11 Aug Kindy

4

14 Aug Science Week

15 Aug Kindy

16 Aug

17 Aug School Photos

Kindy

DISCO STUBBS PARK 5-7PM

18 Aug Kindy

5

21 Aug Book Week

22 Aug Kindy

23 Aug

24 Aug Dress up as your favourite character Kindy

25 Aug

Kindy

6

28 Aug

29 Aug Kindy

30 Aug

31 Aug Faction Athletics

Stubbs Park Kindy

1 September

Kindy

7

4 Sept

5 Sept Kindy

6 Sept

7 Sept Kindy

8 Sept Margaret Cotton - Kulin Kindy

8

11 Sept

12 Sept

Kindy

13 Sept Scitech Robotics Day at School

14 Sept 1:30-2:30pm Learning Journeys Assembly Kindy

15 Sept

Inter School Athletics Carnival Wandering

Kindy

9

18 Sept

19 Sept

Kindy

20 Sept

21 Sept Kindy

22 Sept Last Day of Term Kindy

10

25 Sept Queen’s

Birthday

26 Sept

27 Sept

28 Sept 29 Sept

Students Resume Term 4 Tuesday 10 October

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Term Three Calendar 2017