Newsletter: 16th September 2013 Digilah Street Dunedoo NSW 2844 T: 02 6375 1489 F: 02 6375 1152 E: dunedoo-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Dunedoo Central School

Week 10 Monday 16th September Whole School Merit Assembly Tuesday 17th September Green Team Lunch in the Park Wednesday 18th September Vaccinations—All Yr. 7 + Yr. 9 Boys ACE Rewards (Primary & Secondary) Thursday 19th September

Yr. 12 Farewell Friday 20th September Last day of Term 3

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to Effie Fergusson and Kyle Smith, School Captains for 2014.

As the inaugural winners of the 3 – On – 3 Soccer Competition, Hatrick F.C (Henry Kensit, Jack Copeland and Jock Stuart) had

the opportunity to take on The Dream Team (Mr. Honeysett, Mr. Kline and Mr. Wilson) on Tuesday during lunch-time. This match proved to be a very close encounter with some great exhibition of skill by all players on the pitch. There was a huge crowd at the ground to watch this eagerly anticipated grudge match and they were cheering very very loudly for their ‘home’ team Hatrick F.C. The game started out with both teams fighting for possession of the ball and working out the opposing team’s strengths and weaknesses. The tide then turned The Dream Teams’ way when they found Hatrick F.C standing back and not attacking the football. The teachers produced some crisp clean passing to unleash a flurry of goals to take a commanding 5 – 0 score line into the half-time break. Both teams were exhausted and needed some H2O after a frenetic first half of football and they had to regroup for a tough 10 minute second half. It was Hatrick F.C who came steaming out of the sheds with an improved game plan and they had The Dream Team back peddling as they rolled in goal after goal thanks to a superb Jock Stuart hat-trick and two classy goals from striker Jack Copeland. With only 2 minutes remaining the scores were locked up at 5 – 5. The game was in the balance, Hatrick F.C definitely had the advantage in crowd support, fitness levels and speed but they just couldn’t find the back of the net. In their favour was Henry Kensit who repelled wave after wave of goal attempts from The Dream Teams’ strikers, single handedly keeping them in the contest! With 60 seconds remaining Mr. Honeysett intercepted a cross pass from Hatrick F.C and dribbled past the lone defender who tried valiantly to stop him, he sized up the goal keeper and squeezed it into the back of the net past Henry’s outstretched left hand. The Dream Team then held on during the frantic final seconds to record an historic win. The crowd cheered as both teams shook hands after their epic battle. The Dream Team is now the undisputed CHAMPION of 3 – on – 3 Soccer, well until Term 4 that is…. The final score: The Dream Team 6 (Goals: Mr. Honeysett 4, Mr. Wilson 1, Mr. Kline 1) defeated Hatrick F.C 5 (Goals: Jock Stuart 3, Jack Copeland 2). A big THANK YOU to all spectators, parents and teachers/staff that came out to watch the game.

Mr. A. Honeysett

Joel “Drogba” Wilson

Ben “Beckham” Kline

Jack “Ronaldo” Copeland

Adam “Hazard” Honeysett

Jock “Messi” Stuart “The WAGS”

NOTE: Didier DROGBA (Chelsea FC)—RENOWNED for taking a Dive!! David BECKHAM—no explanation necessary!!! Eden HAZARD (Chelsea FC) - Striker extraordinaire! Lionel MESSI (Barcelona) - The Hat trick King! Rio FERDINAND (Man U) - Indisputably the greatest Defender in FIFA, UEFA—the World!! Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) - Speedy little Striker!

Henry “Ferdinand” Kensit

“The FANS”

In Weeks 7 and 8 all students from K-12 participated in the annual Dunedoo Central School Writing Competition. Stu-dents had to write a narrative around the theme of belonging and were given a variety of written stimulus material to inspire their creativity. This year there was a focus on planning, drafting, editing and producing a final competition entry. Over a period of 3-4 days each year group went through the process of brainstorming ideas and planning their narrative. This was followed up with some intense drafting and editing before the final competition entry was written. All students appeared to enjoy participating in the competition and many were happy about being given the opportunity to polish and refine their writing. In each year group, the winner receives a certificate and prize, while two runners-up in each year group receive a Highly Commended certificate and prize. I would like to thank all of the staff members who volunteered to be judges this year. Your time and effort is truly appreciated and without your goodwill, these competitions would be far more difficult to organise. Mr. S. Hall

Year Winner Highly Commended

Kindergarten Luke Redding Jaxon Clifton, Ellie Wentworth-Brown

Year 1 Evie Hogden Will Bampton, Ella Rigby

Year 2 Meg Christensen Hollie Copeland, Tameka Martin

Year 3 Siggy Hogden Lexi Gallagher, Charna Williams

Year 4 Jack Copeland Katie Lovegrove-Carpenter, Jack Seis

Year 5 Meg Abbott Annie Christensen, Julia Stuart

Year 6 Kayla Brown Lily Gibson, Megan Seis

Year 7 Tyson Craggs Jayde Bauer, Paige Thomson

Year 8 Lauren Sullivan Sarah Fitzgerald, James Stoddart

Year 9 Ceara Smith Dimity Jamieson, Rachael Sweeney

Year 10 Maren Niemann Kate Gallagher, Codi Page

Year 11 Effie Fergusson Bonnie-Sue Hogan, Jacob Potbury

Year 12 Mitchell Squire Meredith Shipsey, Josh Trudgett

INFANTS IN FOCUS Kinder, Year 1 & Year 2

The Infants Tabloid Excursion was a great success and I have heard that everyone was well behaved. Thanks to Mrs. Yeo and Mrs. Armstrong for a great day. Congratulations to students who received awards today at our Term 3 Merit Assembly and thankyou to all who attended to support our children. The ACE Reward Afternoon is on this Wednesday for children who have reached Level 3. This is a Computer and Games afternoon so children are allowed to bring iPad’s and iPod’s to school. I hope you all have a relaxing holiday. Mrs. M. Abbott Kinder/Year 1: Welcome to the last week of Term 3. We have had a very busy time full of fun and learning. The K/1 children had a great time at the Tabloid Day in Coonabarabran last Friday. It was wonderful to see them interacting socially with children from other schools. Kinder will revise the sounds ‘z’ and ‘w’ this week and again concentrate on learning their Capital Letters. Yr. 1’s spelling words contain the ‘oi’ sound and their Grammar Focus is adverbs and how they describe verbs. In Math’s Kinder’s topics are Ordering Time, Number Patterns and Graphs whilst Yr. 1 will complete the Term 3 Diagnostic Test and Revision activities. A big thankyou to all the parents who have helped in any capacity in my room this term. You have been a wonderful support to me and the K/1 children. Congratulations to Jordan Stanford our Student from last week and to Laycee Kelly and Nick Stoddart who received Merit Certificates. Mrs. E. Yeo Year 1/2: Welcome to Week 10. I had a fabulous time in Sydney on the Primary Excursion. I’m sure the children enjoyed their time with Mr. Wilson. This week in Spelling, Yr. 1 will study the ‘oi’ sound as in Boil and Yr. 2 will study the ‘are’ sound as in Hare and Stare. In Maths, both classes will complete the Term 3 Diagnostic Test and Revision activities. We will finish writing our procedures this week. The children have enjoyed learning about this text type. Thanks to the students who have been returning homework sheets and changing readers. Your learning is improving all the time. Thanks to the Reader’s Mum’s—Your continuous support of our students is greatly appreciated. Let’s hope the rain continues for the next few days and I hope you all enjoy your 2 week break. Mrs. M. Abbott

Wednesday 18th September at 7.00pm

PRIMARY NEWS Our last week before the holidays. Our Primary Excursion to Sydney was a huge success! All the children had a fun and educational time visiting such landmarks as the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Taronga Zoo and Darling Harbour to name but a few. Thanks to Mrs. Abbott and Mr. Kline for leading the excursion, and a huge thanks to Mrs. Leeson, Mrs. Stoddart, Mr. Hogden and Mr. Gallagher. Last Thursday our 3-6 students went to Bathurst for the Archibald prize exhibition. All students represented our school with pride and thanks to Mr. Honeysett and Mrs. Fergusson for travelling on the excursion. Congratulations to all students who received a merit award at today’s assembly, and well done to all our award winners in the Writing Competition this term. I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday, and if your footy team is still in the finals, good luck! (Or better luck next year as the case may be!) See you next term! Joel Wilson—Assistant Principal Primary

Year 3/4: Hello all! What a wonderful time we had on the Primary Excursion! 55 students and 6 adults left Dunedoo at 6.30am Wednes-day and we returned very happy (and exhausted) on Friday night. There were too many highlights to list them all, so the newsletter includes the highlights in pictures, and no doubt we’ll be talking about it for the rest of the year. Well done to all involved. Our last week of term is upon us. In class we have our end of term assessments including the Maths Diagnostic test. We also wrap up our units in Science and HSIE. A big thankyou goes to Tash and Belinda for all their help this term with our home readers. Have a great week and happy and safe holidays. Mr. B. Kline

Year 4/5: Hello everyone, welcome to the end of Term 3. Last week was a very busy time at D.CS with The University of NSW visiting as part of the ASPIRE program, the Primary Excursion to Sydney and the Archibald Art Exhibition excursion to Bathurst. This week will see a return to normal programming. We have our Whole School Merit Assembly today – the highlight for me will be the presentation of the Narrative Writing Competition for each year group. As part of the marking process I had the pleasure of reading some extremely well written Narratives. All authors should be very proud of their efforts. Homework will resume as per usual also. In Mathematics, Year 4 will complete their Term 3 Diagnostic review this week. Hope you all have a great week and make sure you get all your rest in this week before the HOLIDAYS!!!!! Mr. A. Honeysett

Year 5/6: With so much happening last week, we are continuing our assessment of units this week and finishing up our Democracy, Energy and Maths topics. If you would like to see me about any matter, please make an appointment at the office. Have a safe holiday. Mr. J. Wilson

INFANTS/PRIMARY ACE Congratulations to the following Infants/Primary students on reaching:

Level 2: Year 3 / 4: Sam Bennetts, Cody Sampson

Year 4 / 5: Becky Holland

Level 3: Kinder / Yr. 1: Jaxon Clifton, Shane Hall

Year 1 / 2: Eliza Caldwell, Jack Farley, Karly Green, Izaiah Hall, Jack Rawling, Rebecca Redding, Harry Rookyard

Year 3 / 4: Bailey Fogg, Dylan Martin, Laura Moorhouse Year 4 / 5: Christie Bauer, Charlotte Cluff

Year 5 / 6: Kayla Brown, Bianca Fitzgerald, Brad Hellegers, Lochie Stoddart

Level 4: Year 1 /2: Harry Cluff, Evie Hogden

Wishing you all a great day! 17th September  Bailey Fogg  Year 3 

17th September  Daniel Lane  Year 10 

23rd September   James Stoddart  Year 8 

24th September  Kate Gallagher  Year 10 

24th September  Beau Taufa  Year 6 

1st October  Jacob Potbury  Year 11 

4th October  Erica Stuart  Kinder 

7th October  Laura Moorhouse  Year 4 

 

TÇw àÉ áàtyy‹AA 27th September  Mr. Kline 

1st October  Rosie Stuart 

3rd October  Alison Kensit 

6th October  Mr. Smith 

 

Library Report

Welcome to spring in the library.

Thankyou to Mr. Kline’s class who helped to decorate our space with springtime jokes. Students from Years 3-11 are encouraged to borrow over the holidays. Year 12 students need to look for text-books and library books and return them as they finish their exams. Overdue notices for all students will go out this week. Our next Book Fair is Week 3 and will run from Tuesday 22nd October to the 31st. The Spring Book Bag ‘Sale’ will begin the beginning of next term. Stocktake has finished and fiction titles that have been on our shelves for almost 20 years are being disposed of to make room for the hundreds of books we add to our collection each year.

Mrs. E. Abbott

Hello for the Lucky-Last week! A big thank you to Nola who looked after the Canteen for me last Monday while I had an xray on my foot (we can thank my horse!), everything ran smoothly for her. Thank you to Debbie, Nick, Donna and Belinda for your help last week. I hope everyone has a good and restful holiday and see you all next term. Thank you Jenny Farley

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 3

16/09 Debbie

17/09

18/09

19/09 Annette

20/09 Donna

CANTEEN NEWS

On Thursday 5 September our primary and sec-ondary chess teams travelled to Dubbo for an intense day of chess. Each student played 6 games which lasted up to 30 minutes.

In the Primary Schools One-Day Tournament for Western Division, there were 25 teams from 8 schools. Our team of Declan Stanford, Harry Hogden and Dally Caldwell earned 7.5 points for a ranking of 10th overall. Harry and Dally each won 3 games and Declan played admirably on Board One with one win and one draw. The Secondary tournament included 22 teams from 9 schools and our team of Claire Moorhouse, Codi Page and Kyle Lewis placed 5th overall with 9 points. Our students played teams from Dubbo, Wellington, Baradine, Coonabarabran and Narra-bri. Codi and Kyle each had 3 wins and Claire had 2 wins and 2 draws. Our high-est ranked player on the day was Kyle Lewis who was 8th of 22 on Board 3. In Round 4, we won 4 of 6 games. Thankyou to Spuz Hogden who joined our cheer-ing squad. Training will continue in Term 4 for our 2014 season.

BARADINE & COONABARABRAN HORSE SPORTS

Thursday 10th October 2013 & Friday 11th October

Cost: $20 per student per day Entries close: Friday 13th September 2013

Entry forms available from the front office.

School of Tennis

Junior Competition

Saturday Mornings commencing 19th October to 23rd November

$20 per child

To enrol now, contact: schooloftennis@bigpond.com

Andrew: 0428-517 757 or Kylie: 0427-637 266

Friday 18th October Kindergarten to Yr. 12

$20 per child

Entries close: Friday 20th September

Forms available at the Front Office

FOR SALE Spring is in the air and the Hens are laying…. $2.50 per dozen Available at the front office

SECONDARY NEWS Week 10

WHAT’S DUE THIS WEEK? Year 7 Maths Tuesday—Homework

Year 8 Maths Tuesday—Topic Test Friday—Homework

Year 9 English Monday—Autobiography

Year 9/10 Maths Wednesday—Topic Test

PDM Wednesday—Test

AG Wednesday—Homework

Year 10 Maths Tuesday—Homework Wednesday—Test

Science Assessment Task OVERDUE

Work Education Monday—Portfolio Tuesday—Deportment Day

Secondary Ace Reward

Movie & Morning Tea

Wednesday 18th September Periods 1 & 2

Eligible students will receive notes tomorrow which Must be returned by Wednesday morning.

Community News

DJRLN News Presentation Day!!! Don’t worry we haven’t forgot about it… We can advise that presentation day will be held after the school holidays. We apologise for the delay however the end of year gift has been a longer process than anticipated.

We can confirm the presentation day will be held at Robertson Oval this year and a date will be ad-vised to all players as soon as it is available. Our AGM is coming up so please start thinking about your commitment to our club next year. A date will be advised shortly.

SWIMMING CLUB The AGM on the Monday 9th September. This is the Committee for our 2013/2014 Season.

President Not filled Vice President Brett Christensen Secretary Victoria Seis Treasurer Not filled Race Secretary Cathy Gallagher (Assistant—Adele Stoddart) Registrar Mel Bampton Publicity Officer Teena Besgrove Public Officer Tammy Gallagher Western District Representatives Brettt Christensen, Cathy Gallagher

The positions of President and Treasurer are yet to be filled. If you would like to volunteer for either of these, please contact Brett Christensen. There will be further information in next Term’s Newsletter and the Diary.

Saturday 21st September O.L. Milling Park, Dunedoo

BBQ, Raffles, Chocolate Wheel, Plants, Cakes, $2 Stall, Pre-loved Kids Clothing, Jewellery .......and much more

Fabulous Day out for Everyone!

DUNEDOO

Want to play Touch Football?

Dunedoo Senior & Junior Touch Association

AGM Wednesday 18th September

6:30pm Sports Club INTERESTED IN : HELPING RUN YOUR LOCAL COMPETITION? BEING ON THE COMMITTEE?

HELPING OUT AT JUNIOR TOUCH ORGANISING INTERTOWN GAMES?

TAKING PHOTOS/PUBLICITY ORGANISING BBQ : JUNIOR , SENIOR, BOTH?

COME ALONG TO OUR AGM

DUNEDOO

JACKEROO RANCH at

Bingletree Station Upper Turon Road

Upper Turon NSW 2795

SPRING SCHOOL HOLIDAY RIDING CAMPS Jackeroo Ranch (est. 52 years) and recently relocated to Bingletree Station at Upper Turon, are again running their popular horse riding camps in the Spring Vacation.

1st Week: Saturday 21st September—Sat 28th September 2nd Week: Saturday 28th September—Sun 6th October

Shorter stays are possible if camps are not fully booked. These camps are for “horse-mad” children aged from 6 to 16 years. Five to six hours per day are devoted to horse activities including a one hour lesson and three hours trail riding in the beautiful Turon Valley—with tuition still being given. As well, campers are taught grooming, saddling, haltering, catching a horse, safety aspects and many other facets of horsemanship. Previous experience is not necessary as beginner to advanced riders are catered for. We specialise in teaching nerv-ous riders and developing their confidence.

Other activities include gold panning, cattle feeding / checking, cattle mustering, camp fires and native wildlife spotting. (The prop-erty abounds with kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, wonderful bird life as well as being a working cattle farm and Quarter Horse Stud. There are Poll Hereford calves and Quarter Horse foals now being born.)

This is “not just a camp” - it’s a wonderful farm experience your child will treasure forever. Enquiries: Mrs. Pattie Hudson Phone (02) 6337 7173 (nights are best).

Leadville Community 

Association 

 

Dance Night 

 Saturday, 21st September 2013 

At 7pm 

 Come along & dance the night away to 1.30am 

with  

Jason Hall from Dubbo performing songs from  

the 70’s & 80’s. 

 

Ticklets $30 per couple—$20 single 

(available from Jacqui Mate Ph: 6375 0337) 

 

BYO Basket Supper & Drinks 

2013 Holiday Clinic

Dubbo

NRL Development will be holding a clinic at Dubbo in the upcoming school holidays. See information below: Dubbo Holiday Clinic Two clinics will be held at the same time for 2 different groups - according to the ages of the children. Date: Thursday 26th September, 2013 Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm (Children aged 5-16) Cost: $20 includes football, boot bag and drink bottle. Contact: Kyle Myers on 0400 367 558 or kmy-ers@nrl.com.au Go to the address below to register and pay online. http://www.westernnswdevelopment.leaguenet.com.au/

Free Speech Pathology Clinic in Dunedoo For young children, not yet attending school

Speech Pathology clinics are available for children who have not yet started school and are open to families from Coolah, Dunedoo and Mendooran. The clinic is designed for children who may be having some difficulty with their communication skills or developmental milestones/play skills. Clinics are free.

Thursday 19 September 2013 Thursday 31 October 2013

Thursday 28 November 2013 Should you feel your child may benefit from attending a Speech appointment please contact Meg directly to arrange a time. Appointments are limited.

Meg Sheridan: Speech Pathologist Ph: 02 6378 6236

DEB BALL PHOTOS

Anyone wishing to pur-chase 2013 Deb Ball Photos, Please do so

ASAP.

Photos available from Sue Milson at the Westpac Bank.