“Achieve wi th Honour” At DDHS we… Choose Respect , Be Responsible, Achieve our Best

13 Cave Way, Dongara, WA, 6525 I T: (08) 9927 0100

E: Dongara.dhs@education.wa.edu.au I W: www.dongaradhs.wa.edu.au

Congratulations to our Year 12 students on the completion of their education at Dongara DHS. The school said farewell to the Year 12s at a moving Valedictory Assembly. The Year 12s, family, friends and staff enjoyed an informal evening at Southerly's Tavern and said their last good luck and good bye. Thank you to Mrs Downes, Student Councillors and award donors.

On behalf of the school community, I wish our wonderful Year 12s; Caitlin, Savannah, Sarah-Louise, Elisha, Myah, Jayme and Jackson every happiness and success in their futures. Well done to Aaron Henderson and Caitlin Bunter on their nomination for Central Regional TAFE VETiS awards. The Year 6 students by all accounts had an amazing time on their camp at Kalbarri. Thank you to Mrs Jeffery,

Mrs Owen, Mrs Gundill and Mark our Chaplain.

You may have recently seen in the media that the WA Government and Department of Education WA have released a Student Mobile Phone Policy. Our current policy is closely aligned and we will only need to make a few changes. This will be sent home to families with student reports. Well done to Ibu and the Showcase Students who performed magnificently last Friday. Thank you to the many parents who attended in support of the students.

Last Monday, I attended the WA Education Awards. Mrs Ganfield was one of four finalists in the Premier’s Secondary Teacher of the Year Awards. Though she did not win this award, she will always be the winner in my eyes. I know that I also speak for the school and wider community. Congratulations to our YOH Fest Team who performed so wonderfully at the finals in Mandurah recently. They could not have danced any better and gave it their all. Thank you to Mrs Downes and all involved.

Our next whole school assembly will be held on Tuesday 21st November and will be hosted by the Year 5/6 class and Mrs Jeffery.

Kind Regards

Janine Calver

A MESSAGE FROM

THE PRINCIPAL

I m p o r t a n t

D a t e s

5 November Year 6 Health & Wellbeing Forum

5 November Year 5/6 Clean-up

Walk

7 November Count Us In

12 November Assembly

14 November Primary Slam

Basketball Perth

Yr 1 Phoebe De Beaux

Olivia Taylor

Yr 2 Jacob Giles

Darcy Melbin

Cooper Tong

Zebb Markey

Leah Mouchemore

Trent Lewis

Karitah Coyne

Yr 3 Nate Butcher

Marley Jackson

Bella Criddle

Yr 4 Peta Bicker

Jasper Campbell-Chaplin,

Hayley Toia

Karissa Pavelka

Yr 5 Kaleb Musulin

Thomas Wellstead

Keniesha Boyd

Yr 6 Huntah Coghlan

Jack Lawson

Chelsea Hulme

Owen Scatena

Mia Jones

Yr 7 Toby Hamilton

Yr 8 Jesse Giltrap

Mannelle Wilson

Kobie Coghlan

Te Ahi Howden

Brooke Thompson-Brown

Yr 9 Maddyson Atkins Kerry-Ann Gall

For showing the Value/Virtue of Cooperation

Year 1-3 Amali O’Brien Year 4-6 Cassandra Baxter Year 7-12 Myah TeAho

Thank you to Kristal De Beaux for the donation of a child’s life jacket. The children will enjoy playing with the jacket in the dinghy. Thank you to Mandy Taylor for the donation of wooden puzzles and toys for the children to enjoy.

Well done to all the Kindy and Pre-Primary students for being Responsible, Respectful and trying to achieve their best when playing in the playground. This fortnights prize winners were Jaedon Staley for being responsible by riding the bikes nicely, Ocea Downes and Norah Vick for being responsible by using nice manners in the playground and Sonny Samulkiewicz for being responsible by being helpful in the playground. Well done to this week’s prize winners.

Enrol now for VacSwim summer holiday swimming lessons! With swimming pools and beaches a big part of the Western Australian lifestyle, it’s essential that your children learn how to swim and stay safe in the water. VacSwim is for all children - from beginners to more advanced swimmers. Your children can start as young as five years old. There are over 180 VacSwim locations around Western Australia, so wherever your family is spending these summer holidays, there will be lessons near you. Enrol your children in VacSwim now at education.wa.edu.au/swimming

If your child/ren WILL NOT BE ATTENDING Dongara DHS in 2020, and you have not already advised the front office, please notify Administration staff as soon as possible. This information is vital in planning for 2020.

The lost property box is currently overflowing with numerous items. Please have a look through the lost property box and see if anything may belong to your children. The box is located outside the Canteen. School uniforms remaining at the end of the year will be donated to the P&C Second Hand Uniform Shoop in the Canteen and everything else will be given to Dongara Charities.

In order to keep our data base of student contact details correct, please notify the office if you have made changes to any of the following details over the holidays:

House and/or mobile phone number

Address details Emergency contact details Medical details

We would like to thank our amazing sponsors for the Year 12 Leavers Assembly: Cockburn Cement Dongara IGA Supermarket Dongara Guardian Pharmacy Dongara Newsagency Dongara Mitre 10 Honourable Melissa Price MP Australian Defence Force Caltex

CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT

KINDY PRE-PRIMARY NEWS

AUSSIES OF THE MONTH

VAC SWIM

KINDY PRE-PRIMARY THANK YOU

2020 PLANNING

LOST PROPERTY BOX

STUDENT CONTACT DETAILS

THANK YOU