RETURNING PERMISSION NOTES Parents have been asking for an easier way to return permissions notes. Currently we are trialling a function using the Smartphone app – School Stream to get permission notes on time. We have put our first trial permission note out this week for bus transport to the district cross country. Thank you to those parents who have used the app. Please let us know how the new system works. In the future if your child’s permission note is not sent in by the due date your child will miss out the school event that has been organised. Once again thank you to all the parents who get their child’s note into the office on time.

DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY This Wednesday 23 May – Murwillumbah High

All students who made it to District Cross Country have returned their permission notes—Thank you. Mr Hollis will attending this day and will be in charge of Dungay PS students. The bus will be leaving school at approximately 9.15am and returning in time for regular home school buses. Thank you to all our parents that used our App to fill their permission notes for the bus trip. It seems to have been a

great success!

GYMNASTICS Thursday 24 May

Gymnastics will continue this Thursday. Please make sure your child has the correct clothing to participate Thank you to the parents who have provide feedback about this whole school PD/H/PE program.

NAPLAN TEST DATES Congratulations to all Year 3 and 5 students on completing this year’s NAPLAN. All the staff were proud with how you showed persistence and confidence to do your best. We should receive our results in September.

Have a great week.

MR JOSHUA STEPHENS

Principal

Week 4 | Term 2 21 May 2018

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DUNGAY PUBLIC SCHOOL

UPCOMING EVENTS

WEEK 4

Wed 23 May 2019 Kindy students and parents afternoon tea, 1.45pm Thur 24 May Murwillumbah Dist Cross Country

WEEK 5

Mon 28 May Debating PM, Crystal Creek Thur 31 May Wollumbin HS Targeted Writing Workshop (selected Yr 6 students)

WEEK 6

Thur 7 June Wollumbin HS Problem Solving Workshop

WEEK 7

Mon 11 June Queen’s birthday public holiday

WEEK 8

Mon 18 June Debating Gala Thurs 21 June Make Music Happen

WEEKLY

Assembly 2.15pm each Monday in

4/5/6J

Canteen each Monday, Wednesday

and Friday.

Hello, Bonjour, Buenos Dias, G’Day, Guten Tag, Konichiwa, Ciao, Shallom and Dobrey Dyen to all the beautiful parents, grandparents and carers of Dungay PS

Dungay PS ‘Big Day Out’ – Celebrating 125 years Thank you to all the parents who attended our last meeting. We have a name for our event – Dungay PS ‘Big Day Out’ – Celebrating 125 years. Kim Baker has worked hard to kick this event off and is slowly building a strong team of parents around her. Please find attached Sub Committee groups. We would love to have you part of the team.

DUNGAY PUBLIC SCHOOL

125 Year Dungay Celebration

Roles and Responsibilities - Draft 1

Team Leaders

Kim Josh Veda

Event Organiser Event Organiser Event Organiser

Publicity

Alyse Oakman Shaun Murphy Maryanne Online Media Poster Design

Newsletter ad Street Media

Example: Asking shops if we can display poster

Historical Displays / Information gathering

Dennise Kim Alice Woodgate

Annette Veda ? ?

Food Stalls

Gina Sam ? Shandelle? -Organise Coffee Van

-Organise another food stall -Payment price for each stall

holder

-Canteen / Cakes -BBQ

-Parent Roster for Canteen and BBQ

-BBQ + Burgers

Market Layout

Josh Kim Shari Basil

School Activities

Josh James Hayley Judi Cheryl Josh B Student

organisation

Snow Cones

Band to perform

Music speakers etc set up

Entertainment + Dance

performances

Student stall

Brother to perform

Maypoll Historical Photos displayed on projector

Extra Fun Activities

? ? ? Jumping Castles

Pamper Parlour

Dungay PS

Student Achievement

Week 4

Merit Awards and Achievement in one of the 5 Keys to Success

Merit Award Merit Award Key Key

K/1R Honey Seth Organisation—Eloise Getting Along– Nate

2/3/4S Charlie Cody Getting Along– Rupa Persistence-Joel

4/5/6J Dylan W Talitha Organisation—Brianna Persistence—Rohan

Congratulations to all

of the

Merit, Keys to Success

and Principal Award

recipients

Safe on Social Media

Turning off Location Services

Yes, your mobile device tracks your location!

This can be handy for services like weather, traffic, Find my IPhone and maps but most of the apps you use for entertainment purposes track

you as well.

The information gathered by these varies from sales and marketing purposes, to declaring your exact posting location on social media.

If you are not comfortable with this, it is easy to opt out, and just turn on location services when you need t.

Location history—this servies to show exactly where you have been throughout the day.

‘Frequent locations’ and ‘Significant locations’ pin point you pattern of movement.

This information is easily available on Appple devices or as part of googles location date on an android device.

Here’s How to Opt OUT:

When setting up a new device, or you are installing an app on your IOS device there will be a prompt to share any location data.

A ”Yes” or an “Allow” will feed your information to a data base. Convienient apps that tailor information specific to you and your movements

(weather, etc) also carry similar databases holding swathes of information about a variety of individuals.

Keep Your Awards! Children receive a variety of awards and certificates. The major goal for all students throughout their schooling at Dungay is to achieve a GOLD PRINCIPAL’S

AWARD and have their name on the Honour Board in the foyer.

To achieve this goal students collect four (4) of any combination of Class Merit Award, Keys to Success Award, activities/event participation certificate or

Writer of the Week award entitling them to one (1) Bronze Principal’s award.

Upon receiving four(4) Bronze Principal’s Awards they will receive a Silver Principal’s Award. Four (4) Silver Principal’s Awards entitles them to the Gold

Principal’s Award, their name on the Honour Board and they are presented a trophy/medal at Presentation Night.

Dungay PS

Clever Counters

Purpose: This page is designed to help you to teach our students become better mathematicians. Maths is the world’s

universal language. No matter where you are in the world you can communicate through numbers.

Adding and Subtracting - Teachers have lots of creative ways to increase fluency in these two basic

computations.

First grade marks a transition to a more academically oriented approach to learning. Children may now be in a full program after half-day kindergarten, and may now sit in rows instead of circles or in peer groups.

Math instruction becomes more academic, too. Lessons are more structured, and there are new facts to master. But unlike math

classes of days past, when 1st graders were given rules and facts to memorize and then practiced endlessly on worksheets, today's best teachers emphasize experiences that deepen and strengthen kids' understanding of the ideas behind the computations.

Focus on Sums

First grade teachers may spend half the year or more on addition and subtraction. Most states have standards that aim for all 1st graders to know the addition facts, and corresponding subtraction facts, for sums to 30. But before kids can master these basics, they need to understand the nature of adding and taking away. Subtraction tends to be a concept that is especially difficult to

comprehend. "There should be a lot of time spent on experiencing and understanding what the operations mean," says Cathy Seeley, President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. "If you introduce the rules when a subject is only partially

set in a child's mind, he'll become confused."

To that end, teachers use objects and games and challenge their first graders to think creatively about numbers. They may show children a group of objects and ask them, "How many ways can we make 6?" and together come up with 2 and 4, 3 and 3, 1 and 5, and 6 and 0. They will teach "fact families," a term for using the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction to solve

problems. For example, 5, 4 and 9 is a fact family. If 5 plus 4 equals 9, then 9 take away 5 must equal 4.

Shortcuts to Learning Most 1st grade teachers employ little tricks to help kids master addition and subtraction. They'll grab almost any object to show how to get 3 and 6 to make 9. They generally won't suggest counting on fingers, which can become a tough-to-break habit later.

But they have other time-tested learning aids, such as making tally marks with pencil and paper (a series of parallel lines, with the fifth line in every "bundle" crossing the other lines diagonally), and counting forward for addition and backward for subtraction.

Knowing the sum of doubles, like 8 plus 8, and learning to skip-count (count every other number) is another shortcut. Many teachers encourage 1st graders to memorize their doubles up to 20, and to be able to count by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100. For

example, if your child knows instinctively that 8 plus 8 is 16, he simply has to add one to know the answer to 8 plus 9.

Once the concept of adding and subtracting has clicked, kids need to gain fluency. Teachers play fun games that take advantage of the growing importance of peers in first grade. My son's teacher plays a game called "four corners." Kids rotate through four

different math centers in which they play different games. In the first, they take turns showing each other subtraction flash cards; in the second, they roll dice and add the two numbers that appear; in the third they use cards with fact families and try to create as many addition and subtraction facts as they can; in the fourth, they practice addition with flash cards. "Emotional and social

interactions are so important to first graders," says Addie Fasulo, a 1st grade teacher at Brookdale Avenue School in Verona, New Jersey. "Pairing children together is a great way to motivate them to learn math."

Money, Time, and More Word problems are a staple on standardized tests, and your child will get her first taste of them this year. She'll learn that word

cues like "all together," "put together," and "in all" indicate that the numbers should be added, while phrases like "how many more," "compare," and "find the difference" suggest subtraction.

Your child will also learn about place value, which provides the foundation for learning to "carry over" or "regroup" when adding or subtracting multiple-digit numbers. To help kids understand the concept of the 1's, 10's and 100's place, a common strategy is to

use a bundle of straws or Popsicle sticks to represent each place. For instance, to show 24 in Popsicle sticks, you'd put 4 sticks in the "ones" bundle and 2 in the "tens" bundle.

Money is also part of the 1st grade curriculum. A valuable skill in and of itself, it is also a hands-on way to practice adding and

subtracting and understand place value. Your child will learn to exchange dimes for pennies and count and make change, perhaps in a pretend classroom store.

Other continuing math concepts include telling time to the nearest half-hour, recognizing shapes, reading thermometers, and

using measuring tools, such as rulers. You can also expect your child to do elementary algebra with addition and subtraction problems that involve figuring out which part of the equation is missing, rather than the sum. (Eddie had 14 balloons. Some floated away. He had 5 left. How many did he lose?) He'll learn to organize and compare data, estimate, and continue patterns.

Perhaps most vitally, he'll learn the "why" behind his answers, and get in the habit of explaining his reasoning. Even though some parents may be eager for their kids to push ahead to regrouping and other higher-level math skills, teachers realize that these concepts will come more easily when they're built on a solid understanding of the basics.

Thank you to Bodhi and Kat from the Breath Team who came to our gorgeous school to teach our students powerful breathing techniques to help reduce stress and anxiety. Anxiety and stress is the number one cause of illness and depression. Our mission at Dungay PS is provide our students with as many strategies as possible to help them through stressful and anxious moments of their life. Go on and Breathe…

Breathe Project

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SAFE ON SOCIAL MEDIA – HIGH SCHOOL Save the date: 19th June 6 - 7pm Library.

PARENTS DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR CHILD IS SAFE ON SOCIAL MEDIA? ARE YOU SAFE ON SOCIAL ME-DIA? A WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS NOT TO BE MISSED Last year at Dungay PS our school ran a highly successful Safe on Social presentation. Safe on Social Media is giv-ing a range of age-appropriate presentations at Wollumbin High on June 19th, funded by our P&C. Safe on Social di-rector Kirra Pendergast works with schools, in Australia and internationally, and businesses with a focus on social media safety and welfare. Her presentations are powerful, punchy and incredibly thought-provoking. She will have you racing home to lock down your privacy settings, turn off your location settings, delete a few apps and reconsider what and how you post online.

Parents are invited to attend the free evening session from 6-7 p.m. This session will cover content that is not appropriate for younger people and hence they cannot be admitted – the session is strictly for parents.

Safe on Social presentations are inspiring, empowering and completely current. As a parent, you are encouraged to be proactive in understanding how to use social media in a positive way and protect yourself online. You will also have a clearer understanding of what your children are doing online and will be better equipped to have open and honest discussions about keeping them safe. Do not miss this memorable event – it will change your online habits forever.

For the community

It is important to know that most women diagnosed with breast cancer

do not have a family history of breast cancer.

Regular breast x-rays (mammograms) can detect breast cancer in its

early stages and early detection is the key to successful treatment.

A FREE mammogram every two years could save your life.

BreastScreen provides free mammograms for women aged over 40

years.

Appointments are free and take only 20 minutes. No referral is required. BreastScreen is at Tweed Heads Hospital. Enter by Powell

St. Free parking onsite.

The phone number is 13 20 50 to book a free appointment.

See also www.breastscreen.nsw.gov.au.

Good Oral Hygiene The Child Oral Health Service would like to remind parents and carers of the importance of regular,

supervised oral hygiene.

When children start school they are often keen to be as independent as possible. Most children

don’t have the skills to brush their own teeth well enough to prevent decay until age 8-10, de-

pending on their level of dexterity.

Thorough brushing twice per day prevents significantly more dental decay than brushing once

per day or less often.

Help your child gently brush their teeth and gums twice per day with a small amount of fluoride

toothpaste.