Principal Toby Morgan

Executive

Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Karina Woods (Rel)

Stage 2 Allie Harcourt (Rel)

Stage 3

Jemma Wallace & Shari Jackson (Rel)

Special Education Debbie Williams

Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah

Dates for your Diary

October

31st Infants Assembly 1/2S Hosting - 2.40pm

November

7th DNPS Remembrance Ceremony 11th Kinder Orientation 10am –11.30am 13th Primary Assembly SRC Hosting - 2.40pm 20th Whole School Assembly - 2.40pm 25th Kinder Orientation 10am –11.30am 27th Whole School Assembly - 2.40pm

Message from the Principal

Grandparents Day What a great day and an excellent rollup we enjoyed for Grandparents

Day last Thursday. Over 160 parents, grandparents and friends visited the school and enjoyed some classroom visits, an awesome assembly featuring performances from Kinder, 1/2J, Stage 2 and 5/6W and then a BBQ lunch on the school grounds. Grandparents, parents and guests also enjoyed the opportunity to visit the Library and purchase a book or 2 for students to enjoy. A huge thank you to Mrs Letfallah for organising the day, teachers for opening their rooms to everyone, students for their excellent behaviour and to all our guests who I’m sure all enjoyed the day. Planning will soon be underway for 2020 and any feedback people would like to offer would be gratefully received. Wudhagaragarra Awards On the 6th November these awards will be presented to very deserving people. Categories include Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal teachers, SLSO’s and students, encouragement awards, sport awards and whole school awards. Staff have nominated students for some awards so it will be an eager wait to see if any of them are successful. Regardless of the outcome of these awards, I’d like to thank everyone involved in the school for making it the great learning environment that it is. Year 6 Farewell Notes for this event will be going home with students this Wednesday, 30th October. The Year 6 Farewell is a highlight of the schooling calendar and a fitting way for Year 6 students to complete their final year of Primary schooling

Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being Responsible, Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”

Weekly Newsletter

Week 3 Term 4 2019

dubbonorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Tel: 6882 4689 Fax: 6884 3442

Week 3 Term 4

“Skill with Honour”

at Dubbo North PS. The evening is due to take place on Wednesday 11th December at the Dubbo RSL Club, with students permitted to bring along as many family members as they’d like, the only exception being that they need to be over 18 years of age. Being a school event this is a no alcohol evening and is always a great way to end the year. Please note, any Year 6 student suspended from school from this Thursday, 31st October, up until the 11th December will be deemed ineligible to attend this event. Wiradjuri Concert Our school was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in the Wiradjuri Concert at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) in yesterday’s workshop and then today and tonight’s performances. For this evening’s performance, students will need to be dropped at the back of the DRTCC at 6.30pm Tuesday evening already dressed in their black clothing. Parents can attend the concert for free which begins at 7pm. It will be approximately 1 hour in duration with students able to be picked up from back of the DRTCC after the concert. Water Restrictions Unfortunately with the worsening of the drought the new water restrictions, Level 4, will be in place as of this Friday. This means that we will be unable to water any grass areas at all but we should be allowed to keep gardens and hedges/trees alive. Hopefully the drought will break soon and then our grounds can return to their usual lovely appearance, as Mr Munro does such a fantastic job in providing lovely playing surfaces for the students to play on. Have a great week Toby Morgan Principal

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION

School Contribution Student $40.00 Family $80.00

(2 or more students) Easy to pay using POP

(Parent on-line payment).

Responsible Safe Respectful

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Students of the Week

Term 4 Week 2

KC Jace Beckett KW Grace Hutchins 1/2J Johnny Sergelen 1/2S Jacob Hudson 1/2T Destin Middleton 3/4B Lily Watts 3/4C Lucy Hocking 3/4H Maleigha Brown 5/6A Miley Shipp 5/6J Seanna Coady 5/6W Tyra Towney Blue Savannah Hodge Yellow Zak Stanley Uniform Award - T4 Wk 3 - KW & 3/4C

Congratulations

CANTEEN MEAL DEAL Thursday 31st October

Mini Cobloaf with a Popper - $5.50

News from the Library…

Don’t Forget Book Club orders. Issue 7 is jam-packed with over 400 titles to choose from!

Orders will be closing this Friday the 1st November, 2019.

Don’t forget to read, read, read.

Until next week, Mrs Jane Clark

PBL Focus - Week 3 Responsible, Safe &

Respectful

Safe, Responsible and Respectful on the basketball

court.

P&C UNIFORM SHOP

THE UNIFORM SHOP WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER

NOTICE.

PLEASE SEE THE OFFICE IF YOU HAVE ANY ENQUIRIES REGARDING UNIFORMS.

Please remember that there are new prices for the uniforms as of this term. If you would like an updated list, please

call into the office to pick one up.

Last Thursday the 24th October we had our Grandparent’s Day. During this day the SRC held a raffle with the prize bring a big chocolate and movie tickets. Congratulations to Zaylea Chandler from KC who won this prize.

Friday 1st November

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Get to know your Class Captains

Name: Shyla McNaughton Class: 1/2S

Q1. What would you like to be when you grow up? I would like to be a hairdresser. Q2. What has been your favourite holiday? Going to Sydney with my cousins. Q3. Would you rather be able to breathe underwater or fly through the air? I would rather fly through the air. Q4. If you could spend a day with one superhero, who would you choose? Batgirl.

The Department’s Revised Enrolment Policy While changes to the Department’s Enrolment Policy came into effect at the start of Term 3 2019, existing enrolments are not affected. The revised policy is designed to support schools to manage all enrolment applications, encourage greater consistency in decision-making and make sure the enrolment choices are clear for parents. During term 4, we will be highlighting information to help our parents, carers and school community understand some of the key changes. In the meantime please feel free to access some general enrolment information from the Department’s website https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/enrolment or make an appointment to meet with the Principal of your local school.

Get to know your Class Captains

Name: Tymir ja Towney Class: 1/2J

Q1. What would you like to be when you grow up? A teacher or a doctor. Q2. What has been your favourite holiday? Spring. Q3. Would you rather be able to breathe underwater or fly through the air? I would rather fly through the air. Q4. If you could spend a day with one superhero, who would you choose? R-men.

On Wednesday the 23rd October we had a Whole School Assembly. This included quite a few Student of the Week awards, a Principal’s Award, Win Bin prizes, Library

Monitor award and PBL Positive Behaviour awards as well. Well done to all the students who received awards.

Photos taken by Alexandra Clarke.

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Dubbo North Public School P&C Meeting

The next Dubbo North Public

School P&C Meeting will be held on the 13th November at 6pm at

the South Dubbo Tavern.

Photos taken by Alexandra Clarke.

On Thursday the 24th October Dubbo North Public School held their Grandparents Day. It was a great day and we had lots of grandparents, parents and guests attend and get to interact and see what the students do in class. There was a raffle held by the SRC and there was a book fair along with a sausage sizzle. Thank you to all who came and participated, it made a great day.