Matong Street Dareton

Phone: (03) 50274586 Fax: (03) 5027 4680

E-Mail: dareton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Skye

Anthony L Andrew

Zandi

Jakydyn Anthony H

Dejanae Angus

Karniesha Tamzin

Skye

Jasmine Jamie-Lee Zephaniah

Ciera Dion

Kaylah

Andrew Angus Tyler

Rowena

Harry Zandi Janine Skye

Nemarlia Jakydyn Shianne Janine Malcolm Jasmine Kaylah Tyler Nicholas

Welcome to our second week of our final school term where we are promoting this week's Key Value of 'Being Strong' - making good choices and being in class, on task. Our Key Value will be discussed and promoted throughout the week at school and as always we sincerely appreciate the support you give by discussing with your child/ren the importance of this Key Value; what it looks like in words and actions and its importance to our learning.

The Combined Schools 3/4 Sports Day - Congratulations and well done to our students who had a wonderful day participating in the Year 3/4 Sports Day last Friday. A special thanks to Ms Gold who organised and co-ordinated the successful day with the support of teachers from local public schools. Well done everyone.

Special Forever - Voices of the Children. This Art Exhibition is currently on display at the Mildura Art Centre Gallery until the 27th November. The exhibition includes many pieces of our student work and is an environmental awareness and writing project. Students were encouraged to write and produce works of art about where they live, the local environment, local, national or global issues Later this term as a school we anticipate visiting the Gallery to see the Special Forever Exhibition and we thank Naomi & Ros for co-ordinating the selected pieces from our school and to Rosemary Zalec who has co-ordinated the event on behalf of all Sunraysia schools. If in Mildura, we encourage you to view the exhibition.

Amazing Aussie Animals - visited our school today. Our children enjoyed a wonderful exhibition of some of Australia's wildlife. The Show taught our students many interesting aspects of some of Australia's common and not-so-common wildlife; their habitat, lifestyle, food etc. Some photos have been included for all to enjoy. We thank Sarah and her team for visiting our school and for Mrs Bracken for co-ordinating the visit.

Thank you all for supporting our students and school and as always, if you have a concern about any aspect of your child's schooling, please come and discuss it with me.

Hugh Twaddle Principal

School Calendar of Events Monday 17th October—Aussie Animals Performance Thursday 20th October—Yr 5/6 Motivational Media excursion Friday 21st October—Transition/Playgroup 11am—3pm Friday 28th October -Transition/Playgroup 11am—3pm

Last week K/1 students listened to the picture book story, ‘River Boy.’ The story is about a grandpa and his grandson who go on a camping trip down the Murray River until they reach the sea. It explores many important aspects some of which include, the animals that inhabit the river system, changes that have occurred to the river over time and the environmental & human impacts on the river system. We will be visiting this book over the next few weeks to assist our learning and understanding of the Murray River in our community context. I am hoping to also organise a visit to a local canoe tree as the grandpa discussed to his grandson in the story. Following the reading each student shared both

verbal and written ideas with the class. I have put some student responses on todays page.

Last week we welcomed three new students to our classroom. Welcome back Jamie Lee and Jasmine who commenced the year in our room. We also welcome Andrew into our room and we hope you all enjoy being in our room.

This morning our class joined the Emu class in the culture room for an ‘Australian Animal Show.’ I will share some photos in next weeks newsletter of our experience.

The boy is in the boat. Jasmine The boy picked up the rubbish. Shylah The boy ate the yabby sandwich. Turker

Jasmine

Sylvia

Karniesha Olivia

Tamzin

Lamia Knomi Lashara

MurrayCodThe Murray Cod class a good first week back after holidays. Student of the week was Anthony Harris who had a fantastic week. Skye Jones received the Certificate of Achievement award for the week.

Michael Weinert, Wendy Searle, Dawn King, Tegan Williams and the Murray Cod class.

Student of the Week

Zandi

Hello my name is Dejanae. I am in year 2 I am 7 years old. My favourite colour

is pink. I like to play chasey and my favourite food is ice-cream and

chocolate.

Hello my name is Angus. I am in year 2. I am 8 years old. My favourite colour is green. I like

to play Lego games. My favourite food is spaghetti bolognaise.

Welcome back Elsie. I am in year 2. I am 8 years old. My favourite colour is blue. My

favourite food is banana yoghurt. I like to play babies.

We are very lucky to have some new students start in

the Emus class this term. Here are a few interesting

facts about each of them.

Hello my name is Zandi. I am the student of the week in the Emus class for week 2 I

am in year 3. I am 9 years old. My favourite colour is pink. I like to skip. I like to eat apples. I enjoy watching Home and

Away.

During assembly last Friday Certificates of Achievement were presented to Karniesha and

Tamzin, and our Student of the Week is Jakydyn. We also presented prizes for our footy tipping

competition. Dion won first prize which was a special glow in the dark Sherrin football which was well deserved as he lead the footy tipping all season.

Kaylah took out the “wooden spoon” prize for getting the lowest score and went home with some special art

and craft items. We all shared a special ice-cream Friday afternoon so no-one missed out, and we are already looking forward to the 2017 AFL season

Thank you to Knomi, Nemarlia and Domanic for helping run assembly in the Goannas room.

I apologise that I didn’t get a chance to publish a newsletter page last week and, for those of you that have been waiting, I hope you enjoy the

following pages of photos from our trip to Swan Hill. Have a great week,

Fiona Turner, Susan McGlynn and the Goannas.

Greeting families and friends ! We hope you had a nice weekend and that you had fun at the Mildura Show if you got the chance to go.

We started the term with a busy first week and welcomed another new student to our class, Tamzin.

We also began our literacy program being co-ordinated with our Learning and Support Teacher, Kerrie Robson. Ms Robson will be working in the Goannas room every morning this term from

Monday to Thursday during our literacy session.

We are working together on developing future learning goals and Individual Education Plans for each student.

Heading off for Canberra

Sound and Light Show

Last Friday Dareton Public School hosted the Murray Darling PSSA Year 3/4 Sports Skills Day. The day promoted student participation in a range of drills across a variety of team sports. It also promoted students being grouped with students and staff across all schools.

Staff and students from Euston, Gol Gol, Palinyewah, Pomona and Wentworth participated in this day. Apologies were given by Buronga School who had already committed to another event.

The focus sports were basketball, netball, cricket, touch football, T’ball, AFL, Soccer and Tabloid sports. To assist in the delivery of each sport we were lucky to have the support of Coomealla High School teacher Duncan Driscoll and some year 9 and 10 students. A big thank you to all who assisted in delivering the drills and engaging students positively in physical activity.

Dareton Public School Playgroup is support by Schools As Communities Centres

We are running Playgroup & Transition to school at the same time. Children that are starting school next year will start to get to know

the routine of school and familiarise themselves with things that happen at school.

Playgroup children will be learning how to play, share and enjoy others.

Parents will be able to do some scrapbooking, cooking etc

Friday 2nd December # Captain's & Prefect’s Speech for 2017

Monday 5th December # Year 6 Farewell

Tuesday 13th December # Presentation Day Friday 16th December # Last Day of Term 4

All members of the public are welcome 

Encourages fitness, fun and achieving  personal bests. 

Registra on/try outs 31st October, Dareton. 3rd November, 

Wentworth Training: 5:15pm every session 

Monday: Dareton Pool Thursday: Wentworth & Dareton Pools 

2016/17 Fees: 

$175 compe ve swimmer   $150 non‐compe ve                

$104 junior dolphin program   

 Fees do not include season  ckets to Dareton Public Pool (phone Wentworth Shire for enquiries) Fees en tle the members to training (5 months), insurance, Sunraysia Swimming Fees and entry to some 

compe ons.  

 For more informa on contact  Teresa Crisp (Coach) 

ph: 5027 4701    email: teresa@plummer.com.au or Amber Baird (President)

ph: 0428 272 271 email: amberbairdsp@gmail.com