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Dunedoo Central School Newsletter 29th July 2019
P.O. Box 45, Digilah Street
DUNEDOO NSW 2844
T: 02 6375 1489
F: 02 6375 1152
Dunedoo Central School
Invite you to join us in our education week celebrations
Tuesday 6th August 2019 10:40 am Morning Tea
11:15 am Special Assembly
12:00pm Tour of School & facilities
Primary & Infants - open classrooms & activities
Secondary - display in Hall
12:30pm Picnic Lunch - bring a blanket & picnic lunch or
pre-order at our canteen
Week 2 Tuesday, 30th July ICAS English Exam Thursday, 1st August Australian Mathematics Competition Headspace @ DCS, Yr’s. 7/8 & Yr’s. 11/12 Yr. 10 into Yr. 11 - 2020. Subject Selection
Meeting, 5pm (DCS Library) Friday, 2nd August Western Athletics - Secondary NRL Workshop & Tennis Lessons, Kinder to
Yr 5 Sport
Week 3 Year 11 Snow Trip - all week
Tuesday, 6th August ICAS Mathematics Exam EDUCATION WEEK CELEBRATIONS -
Assembly, Open Classrooms & Lunch on the Lawn
Wednesday, 7th August HSC Study Day @ DCS Thursday, 8th August Boccia Championships @ Sydney P&C Meeting, 7pm, Library, everyone wel-
come to attend Friday, 9th August NRL Workshop & Tennis Lessons, Kinder to
Yr. 5 Sport
Week 4 Monday, 12th August Captain/Prefect Luncheon @ Warrumbungle
Shire Council, Coona Tuesday, 13th August Life Education Van, Kinder to Yr. 6 @ DCS
→ 14/8/19 Wednesday, 14th August Nadico Public Speaking @ DCS Hall Thursday, 15th August I.T. Major Work due Friday, 16th August Infants/Primary Assembly, 12 noon @ DCS
Hall, hosted by Yr. 6, everyone welcome to attend
Wear your representative gear to school day, e.g. PSSA, CHS, WSSA
Hello and welcome to Week 2.
School Uniform is available to pur-chase from the DCS Canteen be-tween 9am-10am OR 1pm- 2pm. If you're available to volunteer to help in the canteen, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks
Sherri
THIS WEEKS LUNCH SPECIALS
TUESDAYS Salad Roll, Bottle of Water & Popcorn
Curried Sausages and Mash
$5.00
$4.50
WEDNESDAY Primary Meal Deal (K - 6)
Mash Potato & Gravy Pots
1 x Cup Strawberry Milk, 1 x bag Popcorn &
1 x Lemonade Fizz
$5.00
THURSDAYS BLT Wrap & Bottle of Water $6.50
LUNCH ORDERS NECESSARY
ATTENTION Yr. 10 Students
going into Yr. 11 for 2020
Subject Selection Meeting Will be held on
Thursday, 1st August 2019 at 5.00pm
in the DCS Library. Parents & Year 10 Students are required to
attend this meeting.
Welcome to Week 2, Term 3!
Congratulations to Fletcher Hogden and Georgie Lane who both compet-ed at the State Cross Country Carnival at Eastern Creek last Friday. Fletcher finished 43rd out of the 11 Years Boys PSSA runners and 59th out of 75 overall (including Catholic and Independent Schools); Georgie finished
42nd out of the 17 Years Girls CHSSA runners and 68th overall out of 93. Well done to both stu-dents!
Youth Frontiers Mentor Training - last week we had our first 3 Community Mentors trained for this program. Youth Frontiers is an initiative of the NSW Government that targets secondary stu-dents, with the capacity to benefit from the support of a mentor. The mentors will spend some time each week with the students supporting them to achieve their goals. The program gives mentees an opportunity to build life skills and self-confidence through mentoring support and by undertaking a community/school engagement activity. I would like to acknowledge our volun-teers, particularly for giving up their time to attend the training and for the invaluable support they will give to our nominated students. Thank you to Mr Sandy Cox, Mr Peter Gilmour and Mr Angus Stuart.
Yr 10-11 Subject Selection Meeting—I look forward to seeing all Year 10 students and their par-ents at this important Transition meeting on Thursday @ 5:00pm in the Library. At this meeting I will speak about the NSW Education Standards (NESA) requirements for Stage 6 students. We will also look at credentialing for the Higher School Certificate and Vocational Education Options for students in 2020.
Welcome—to Mr Matthew Guihot, who is completing his final Internship at our school this Term with Mr Cranston in PDHPE. We look forward to working with Mr Guihot this Term and hope that he enjoys his time at our school.
Headspace—On Thursday, Headspace will visit our school to speak to both Year 7/8 students and Yr 11/12. Headspace visit our school annually to help students learn about mental health chal-lenges and ways to maintain a healthy headspace. Headspace centres act as a one-stop-shop for young people who need help with mental health, physical health, alcohol and other drugs or work and study support. This is an information service for students at our school.
Yr 11 Snow Trip— Next Monday our Yr 11 students will be attending the annual Snow Excursion to Mt Selwyn along with Mrs Gallagher and Mrs Hogden. We hope that they have a great week and that there is lots of snow. We look forward to hearing of their adventures upon their return.
Education Week—next Tuesday, 6th August 2019, we will be celebrating Education week for 2019. The theme for 2019 is “Every student, every voice”. We invite all parents and community members to join us for our Open Day from 10:15am and Lunch on the Lawn.
Have a great week.
Donna Lane
Principal
Assistant Principal News Education Week is next week and we will be hosting
the DCS Open Day next Tuesday. I invite all of you to
join us for the festivities including ‘Lunch on the
Lawn’. The day begins with Morning Tea from
10.40am followed by the Education Week Assembly,
open classrooms and a picnic lunch. More information
will follow in this newsletter.
Frogs will be the big talking point this week as DCS will
be hosting the ‘Australian Museum in a Box’. This
great resource provides a wonderful insight into frogs
and some very interesting facts regarding frog speci-
mens, habitats, way of life and their rapid decline in
numbers. A big thank you to Dunedoo-Coolah Land-
care for making this possible.
This Friday, in addition to the weekly tennis lessons
with Coach Nathan, K-6 students will be involved in a
footy skills clinic with the NRL. The sessions will be
held at the Sports Club and will follow on from each
class’ tennis lesson. Again a big thank you to Spuz for
the use of his bus to transport students to and from
these activities.
The Life Education Van (featuring Healthy Harold) will
be coming to DCS in Week 4. Each class will visit the
van for a lesson linked to its PDH curriculum. Notes for
this went home with students today. The visit costs
only $5 due to being heavily subsidised thanks to a
large donation by the late Arthur Upston.
Mr Ben Kline - Acting Assistant Principal
We had such a positive start to Term 3 last week, and
it was great to see students get back into the routine
of school with enthusiasm and positive mindsets.
They are helping to look after the new plants in our
gardens, and the new sand in our sandpit was a big
hit! Our tennis lessons with Nathan have been a high-
light, with the final session taking place this week,
along with an NRL workshop for students K-6. Fletch-
er represented DCS at State—see his report in this
week’s school newsletter. Well done, Fletcher!
If you want to see some of the wonderful things we
have been working on this year, please take ad-
vantage of the open classroom next week as part of
Education Week. We look forward to sharing our love
of learning with you! Keep an eye on the school calen-
dar for this and other key dates coming up.
Have a great week.
Mrs Georgia Shephard - Assistant Principal
ACE : Attitude Conduct Excellence
Congratulations to the following
Primary students on reaching:
Level 2 ACE:
Year 6: April Dominey
Level 3 ACE:
Year 6: Maddison Godfrey
PRIMARY
EXCURSION
PT WOLSTONCROFT
30/10/19 - 1/11/19
Please don’t forget to
make regular
payments. Cost of
this excursion is
$350. Thank you!
KINDER: Kindergarten begin their homework adventure this week. Each child will receive a double sid-
ed sheet of Maths and Literacy activities plus their usual ‘rocket’ words, sight words and home reader. Home-work will be given each Monday and is due back on Friday. Don’t forget: Homework Centre is available to K-6 students every Wednesday afternoon until 4pm. This term in Science Kindergarten are studying the unit, ‘On the Move’, where they will be exploring the push and pull forces which make things move. Their first taste of physics! In Geography, students are learning about the location of Australia in the world, its states and territories, and the significance of local and national land-marks in the unit ‘Where am I?’. Morning Literacy lessons have begun well. Expectations are high this term as students increase their reading and writing skills and build on what they achieved last semester. Kinder has also now been introduced to lined paper for writing and handwriting lessons. Have a great week. Mr. Ben Kline - Classroom Teacher
YEAR 1/2: Welcome to week 2, years 1-2 have another busy week ahead. Students are reminded to
revise their spelling words at home each day ready for their test on Friday. In maths this week we are revising addition and subtraction facts. We will also finish off our class book study of Charlotte”s Web in readiness for all things “Frogs” next week. A very big thankyou to our reading Mums for their help with Home Readers. Have a great week. Mrs. Kerry Dorman - Classroom Teacher
YEAR 3-4-5 S: Students made a positive start to the term, and there were some very prepared
and enthusiastic learners in our classroom last week. We had a number of discussions (called ‘Verbal Ping-Pong’) where students had to consider multiple perspectives on given topics. This week we look further into Exposition (Persuasive) texts, with a focus on advertising tricks and traps. Students have been asked to pay attention to ad-vertisements on tv at home, to help identify the various techniques used to get people’s interest. Homework commences this week—I hope we have as many returns as we did last term! Have a great week eve-ryone. Mrs. Georgia Shephard - Classroom Teacher
YEAR 3-4-5 G: This week will be resuming our spelling activities
which means homework will also commence. Year 5 have a different style this term and I have explained that to them in class this morning. If they need any help just let me know. Homework is due back on Fridays but I am happy if it is handed in on Mondays :) We started looking at exposition texts last week and will continue on with that this week. (an exposition is a persuasive text) We started coming up with ideas and the students had to persuade me to buy their product. This looks like it is going to be lots of fun. Have a great week everyone! Mrs. Tammy Gallagher - Classroom Teacher
YEAR 6: Hello everyone and welcome back to Week 2 of Term 3! We had a good response from our
Primary Students last week in regards to participating in the NSW Premier’s 10 Week Sporting Challenge. The Challenge Log Books have been sent home and students have already started recording their physical activity. Remember the aim of the challenge is to get all children being active at school and at home. Term 3 Homework will start today and can be handed in on Friday. P.S – Stay tuned for a date for the upcoming PSSA Boys Touch game against Kandos PS. Permission notes will be handed out tomorrow for the students selected in the team. Have a great week everybody! Cheers. Mr. Honeysett - Classroom Teacher
YEAR 6 MATHS: This week in Mathematics we will look at division strategies and Order of Opera-
tions using the mnemonic BODMAS (Brackets, Orders (square roots and exponents), Division, Multiplication, Addition
and Subtraction). Homework sheet due on Thursday. Mrs. Cathy Gallagher
On Friday, Georgie Lane and Fletcher Hogden travelled
to Eastern Creek race course in Sydney to compete in the State Cross Country. It was an enjoyable day and everyone had fun. Georgie ran 6km and came 42nd,
Fletcher ran 3km and came 43rd.
Fletcher Hogden
STUDENT OF THE WEEK WEEKLY MERITS
KINDERGARTEN - MR. KLINE K Zac
Johnstone Excellent grasp of his numbers
K
K
Angus Roberts
Benji Chapman
Excellent decoding skills with his reading Excellent effort during Scripture
YEAR 1 / 2 - MRS. DORMAN 1 Josh
Bampton Excellent effort in all areas
1 1
Beau Hall
Lachlan Batty
Settling back in well Choosing a great attitude in class
YEAR 3 / 4 / 5 G - MRS. T. GALLAGHER 4 Ned Callow Having a positive
approach to his learning 4 5
Sophie Large
Simone Roach
Showing confidence in her writing and speaking An enthusiastic start to Term 3
YEAR 3 / 4 /5 S - MRS. SHEPHARD 5 Will Kline Celebrating the successes
of his peers 3 4
Ivy Gale
Robert Watton
Creative thinking during writing and discussion activities Being a good friend to peers facing challenges
YEAR 6 - MR. HONEYSETT 6 Riley
Fagerstrom Working well with his peers and particularly during citizenship activities on Friday
6 6
Georgie Gillard
Laycee Kelly
Being there for her class mates and supporting others to make good choices Concentrating on only things she needs to do, and allowing others to learn
LIBRARY & COMPUTERS - MISS BESGROVE 1 Beau Peters Showing lots of
enthusiasm in Library lessons
4 Chelsea Gallagher Working well in all Library lessons
PRIMARY CAPTAIN’S AWARDS 5 Shelley
Cox Great sportsmanship in the playground
K Ashton James Great sportsmanship in the playground
DCS SCHOOL WINTER JACKETS
SMALLER SIZES AVAILABLE
COST: $45.00
AVAILABLE AT THE DCS FRONT OFFICE
29TH JUL ETHAN RUSSELL YR. 3 31ST JUL NATALIE WILLIAMS YR. 7 2ND AUG ASTHON JAMES K
WISHING YOU A GREAT DAY
KINDER TO YEAR 5:
Kinder to Year 5 students will be doing Tennis Lessons and NRL Training for Sport on Fridays. Please read League Stars information, in the Community News.
YEAR 6: Students have sport on Wednesday afternoon, with
Secondary students. They have selected a new Winter Sport. Please wear DCS Sports Uniform and pack
appropriate sports equipment.
NSW PREMIER’S 10 WEEK SPORTING CHALLENGE: Challenge Log Books have been sent home and stu-dents have already started recording their physical
activity. Remember the aim of the challenge is to get all children being active at school and at home.
PSSA BOYS TOUCH: Stay tuned for a date for the upcoming PSSA Boys
Touch game against Kandos PS. Permission notes will be handed out tomorrow for the students selected in
the team.
MR. HONEYSETT, SPORTS COORDINATOR
In an effort to REDUCE, REUSE & RECYCLE, DCS are involved in
THE BOTTLE CAP
PROJECT!
We ask that you send all your bottle caps into school, any shape, colour or size.
Mrs. Shephard
Secondary Afternoon Study will be supervised by Mrs Stoddart on
Wednesday and Mrs Gallagher on Thursday. Afternoon study runs from
3:15pm until approximately 4:30pm. As usual, please see the supervising
teacher if you are leaving school and then returning to afternoon study.
We hope to see you there!
Former student, Beau Boyd is in the second year of his apprenticeship as a
heavy diesel mechanic with Peabody Wilpinjong and was recently nominated
for the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Trainee of the Year award.
Beau is one of four finalists. The winner of the award shall be announced at
the Skillset Awards in Bathurst on 9th August.
Well done Beau.
Thursday 19th September 2019
10:00am - 2:00pm
TAFE Campus, Narromine Road , DUBBO
10:00am Welcome to the launch & SBT/SBA: Opportunities (Melissa Wortman) 10:10am Promotional video careers in the wool industry 10:25am Questions from participants/explanation on workshop day workings (M. Wortman) 10:30am WORKSHOPS ( 30 minutes each): 3 workshops 10:30am - midday 12:00pm LUNCH (networking with employers/careers advisors & potential apprentices) 12:30pm WORKSHOPS (30 minutes each) 1:30pm Conclusion/thanks and photo opportunity
5 workshops will be 30 minutes in duration. The workshops will consist of 4 hands-on workshops, (working dog demonstrations/ drafting sheep, shearing demonstrations, sheep selection, wool handling/wool classing) and 1 session with wool industry employers, shear-ers and key stakeholders’ questions and answers.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT BELINDA FERGUSSON PH: 6375 1489.
We are starting our last unit on “Families and Communities” This unit will again focus on methods
of research along with family structures and how communities interact in fulfilling the needs of
both individuals and families. The class is working hard to ensure that they have sufficient time
for revision and completion of all course requirements during this busy term. Mrs Scifleet
We have started our last unit of the HSC course relating to “Work and the Individual” The Trial
HSC exam will be conducted in Week 5.
Congratulations to Teighla Hickson on her high quality independent research project. Teigha's
project was based on lowering the voting age to 16. Her end product was highly professional,
well presented and well researched. Mrs Scifleet
In Week 10 of last term I was fortunate enough to be selected to attend a Hospitality Immersion week. Along with other teachers across the state, I worked with chefs from the William Anglis In-stitute and Master Chef, Alessandro Pavoni. It was an extremely busy week culminating in a 5 course luncheon and dinner for industry and department leaders. The week was gruelling yet sat-isfying and I have come away with new skills and knowledge which I shall incorporate into my classes. Sessions included molecular degustation, poke bowls dessert making (I never want to make another macaron in my life) Gelato making (love that) and everything from deboning and stuffing quail to barbajada and everything in between. It was also reaffirming to know that my skills and knowledge are current, based on industry requirements. It’s all about the POKE bowls. Mrs Scifleet
MR LOCKETT’S CLASSES
THIS TERM Year 7/8 English: This term, students will be working on the Art of Persuasion, focusing on the tech-
niques used by famous people to promote ideas and shape meaning in historical speeches. This will pre-
pare them for their own compositions as part of the DCS public speaking competition. They will also ex-
amine how filmmakers persuade modern audiences in our focus on Documentary film.
Year 9/10 English: This term our year 9/10 students are exploring the topic Persuasive Voices to pre-
pare them for the DCS public speaking competition. They will analyse great historical speeches and hip-
hop culture to explore how composers convey key political and historical issues of their time.
Year 11 Standard English: Our year 11 students are completing a close study of a text by reading the
novel Raw by Scott Monk as part of their coursework. Students will examine key issues, values and the
language devices utilised by the composer to convey ideas and shape meaning.
Year 12 Advanced English: Year 12 students will be completing their last term working diligently on the
module The Craft of Writing, examining the Eulogy for Gough Whitlam by Noel Pearson and The Politics of
the English Language, an essay by George Orwell. As well as these short prescribed texts, students will be
examining texts of their choice and composing meaningful extended responses that showcase their
knowledge of advanced language techniques.
Year 12 Modern History: Our Modern History students have almost completed the National Study of
the USA from 1919-1941 and will soon complete their last year 12 module , focusing on the Civil Rights
Movement in the USA. Students will be able to recall prior knowledge of this topic studied in Year 10.
Congratulations to Fletcher Hogden and
Georgia Lane who competed at the CHS &
PSSA Cross Country at Eastern Creek last
Friday. Fletcher finished 43rd out of 75
PSSA competitors and crossed first out of
the Western Region team. Georgia finished
42nd out of 68 CHS competitors.
Commences 30th July
Contact Kylie
Ph: 0427-637 266
Email: [email protected]
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