Term 3 19 September 2014

Caring and supportive teachers specialising in middle schooling

Dubbo College South Campus

“A Successful, Innovative and Caring Education for your Child”

Find us at: Boundary Road DUBBO 2830 T: (02) 6882 3744 E: dubbosouth-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Thank you to all students, staff and families for a great Term.

In this edition you will see many of the successful events that have taken place over the past fortnight.

These include:

Victory for South Campus in the Serisier Cup

A successful Clontarf excursion to Sydney to com-pete in the Ross Kelly Cup

Miss Ryan’s sports class travelled to visit the Aus-tralian Institute of Sport in Canberra

CHS athletes who competed in Sydney

A very successful week of textile workshops have been held.

It has pleasing for me to also hear of the continuing suc-cess of Jade Ledsham in qualifying for the Australian Na-tional Titles in Tae Kwon Do. Her Dubbo team came first in the demonstration section and Jade came 4

th in Point

Sparing.

Tara Williamson has also been selected in the Riverina Schools Band Tour. The trip in early November will take

her to Wagga Wagga, Young and Griffith. A great reward for all of her efforts with practice and performance.

Some exciting end of term activities have also been planned for this week. Our Year 10 students and the SRC are busy organising a Dancing with the Staff fund-raiser. This will take place today as a part of the last day of term activities.

Just a reminder also that in Term Four there is no School Development Day. Term Four commences on Tuesday 7 October following the long weekend.

I would like to encourage as many parents as possible to come along to our next P&C meeting which will be held on Monday 13 October. It will commence at 7.30pm in the Library.

Have a great break! Darryl Thompson

Principal

Boys Soccer

Girls Hockey

Girls Touch Boys Touch

Outstanding range of opportunities for individual success

Term 3 19 September 2014

This week has seen students complete some of their CA-PA Assessment Task hand-ins! It has also seen give students attend the Arts Unit Aboriginal Drama Work-shop Day.

This afternoon we will have a presentation by students and staff called “Dancing with the Staff” and initiative cre-ated by Ms E Kersley and the anti-bullying committee. Staff and students will create dance numbers to perform for the school. Thank you to all who have participated and attended.

Students have had a wonderful opportunity to visit the Western Plains Cultural Centre to view the current exhi-bition various classes have availed themselves of the exciting opportunity and more students will have the same opportunity next term.

On behalf of the CAPA Faculty we wish you all a wonder-ful, safe and happy spring holiday.

Ms J Marshall CAPA FACHEAD TEACHER

Congratulations to Dubbo College South Campus student Tristan Delaney, who received the "Most Improved Player" award in the Dubbo Touch 2014 Winter competition.

SPORT REPORT

From 4 to 6 September, students from all over NSW rep-resented their regions at CHS athletics.

Seven students from South Campus were representatives for Western Region. They were Blake Greaves, Hannah Bass, Ava Medley, Busta Nelson, Amelia Prince, Gabriel-le Magner-Pollard and Ned Randall.

All students are to be commended on their efforts at State Athletics. The competition is very competitive and pro-vides students with a great opportunity and experience. Many students whilst not placing came away with PB’s so they should be incredibly proud of themselves.

On the 7 September, the inaugural Dubbo Stampede was held at Taronga Western Plains Zoo! It was great to see so many staff and students out there participating! We had students and staff alike gain PB’s and we even had some placing in the top 3 of their age! Sam Bass came 3

rd in his age group for the 10km. Mr O’Connor from the

English department also came 3rd

in his age group as well! There were many other amazing times ran during the day from staff and students alike at Dubbo College South Campus and I want to thank EVERYBODY who participated on the day! Whilst we didn’t win the schools challenge this year there is always next year and hopeful-ly my nagging you to participate will pay off!

Congratulations: Connor Singh (1st), James Tucker

(2nd

) and Lucas Blattman (3rd

), for their outstanding effort in school sport this term. Special mention goes to Lauren Cook, Savannah Shelley and Milla Ross.

School sport has been going great, thanks to the awe-some PDHPE staff and remember with the warmer weath-er coming up it would be a good idea to bring your drink bottles and hats to school! Next term we will be offering swimming as a sport choice some mornings so keep that in mind when you do your sport choices next term!

Have a great holiday! Miss Ryan

Sports Coordinator

CAPA CONNECTIONS

DUBBO AND DISTRICT PRESCHOOL

The Fun Fair is to raise funds to help with the associated costs of building two new rooms. The new rooms will assist in relieving the current shortage of preschool plac-es in Dubbo.

Dubbo and District Preschool is a not-for-profit organisa-tion, therefore fundraising activities are an important way to raise much needed funds to contribute to the chil-dren’s learning environment.

Unique, innovative middle years programs within a wide and diverse curriculum

Term 3 19 September 2014

FREE LIVE ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION

Hear from our experienced Program Manager, find out more about discounts and scholarships available

and ask questions.

Thursday, 14 August 7.30pm (AEST)

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Visit www.studentexchange.org.au or call 1300 135 331 for more information

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We would like to invite your students and families to our next FREE Live Online Session on Thursday, 14 August.

The LIVE Online session gives students and families the opportunity to learn more about becoming an exchange student and the various scholarship op-tions that are available.

Students can find out more about our exchange pro-grams to over 25 countries, listen to former ex-change students share their experience and learn about our scholarships and discounts on offer in 2014.

"You come back a different person, with so much more confidence & you feel that you can conquer the world" Jessica, Semester Program to Italy

FREE LIVE ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION FOR

Dubbo College STUDENTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN

2014

RECREATIONAL Term 4: ONLY

$100.00 Registrations open NOW at PCYC

Limited Spots Available (10 years +) CHEERLEADING

Great opportunity for those who want to ‘TRY’ cheer-leading to see if they would be interested in ‘Competitive Cheerleading’ in 2015, existing cheerleaders are encour-aged to join and learn new skills for the upcoming year. Recreational Cheer will focus on:

Fitness

Flexibility

Strength

Stunting

Tumbling (use of the gymnastics equipment will also occur)

Dubbo PCYC

Tuesday’s 4.30pm – 6.30pm

TERM 4 Starting: 7th October

Finishing: 9th December

$50.00 deposit required at time of registration.

Feel like a laugh …………………………... The little boy wasn't getting good marks in school. One day he made the teacher quite surprised. He tapped her on the shoulder and said ..."I don't want to scare you, but my daddy says if I don't get better grades, somebody is going to get a spanking."

Teacher: Why have you got cotton wool in your ears, do you have an infection? Pupil: Well you keep saying that things go in one ear and out the other so I am trying to keep them it all in!

Teacher: If I had ten apples in my right hand and nine in my left, what would I have? Student: Huge hands!

Teacher: Billy, your essay on "My Dog" is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy it? Billy: No, Mrs. White. It's the same dog!

School community engaged in lifelong learning

Term 3 19 September 2014

DUBBO COLLEGE

SOUTH CAMPUS

Principal: Mr D Thompson Deputy Principal : Mr I Bryden

Deputy Principal:Mrs B Stevens

Deputy Principal : Mr R Gorrie

Head Teachers: Mr C Pettit Administration

Mrs M Olsen Teaching and Learning

Mr G Black HSIE

Ms C Koop Literacy Mr I Munn English

Mrs S Foran Science

Mr P Maher Mathematics

Mr D Stuart TAS

Ms J Marshall Creative Arts

Ms M Blanco PDHPE

Mrs H Jones Special Education

Girls Advisor: Mrs C Brown Year Advisors:

Yr 7 Mrs M McLachlan Mr M Paterson Yr 8 Mrs M Sharkey Mr D Oke Yr 9 Ms C Shirm Mr D Wood Yr 10 Ms C Gofers Mr N Jones

The P & C Associa-tion meets in the Library at 7.30pm on the second Monday of the month.

DUBBO COLLEGE SOUTH CAMPUS TERM 4 CALENDAR

T4

2014 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 OCT

6 PUBLIC HOLIDAY

7 8

9

10

2 OCT

13 Vaccination Clinic

14

15

16

17

3

OCT

20 XSEL exams

21 XSEL exams

TRANSITION Yr 6-7

12.00 – 1.30PM

22 XSEL exams

23

24

4 OCT/NOV

27

28

29 30 31

5 NOV

3

4 TRANSITION

Yr 6-7 12.00PM – 1.30PM

5 XSEL Residential

Camp COLLEGE SPORT PRESENTATION

NIGHT

6

XSEL Residential Camp

7 XSEL Residential

Camp

6

NOV

10 ESSA Testing

COLLEGE ACADEMIC

PRESENTATION NIGHT

11 Remembrance Day

YEApoppyRLY EXAMINATIONS

12 ESSA Testing

YEARLY EXAMINATIONS

13 ESSA Testing

YEARLY EXAMINATIONS

14 ESSA Testing

YEARLY EXAMINATIONS

7 NOV

17 YEARLY

EXAMINATIONS

18

YEARLY EXAMINATIONS

19 YEARLY

EXAMINATIONS

20 YEARLY

EXAMINATIONS

21 YEARLY

EXAMINATIONS

8

NOV DEC

24 Year 10

University Workshop

25

26

27

28

9 DEC

1 EXEC

2 TRANSITION

Yr 6-7 12.00PM – 1.30PM

3

Year 6-7

Orientation

4

5

10

DEC

8 SOUTH

PRESENTATION NIGHT

9

10 YR 7

TEA GARDENS EXCURSION

11 YR 7

TEA GARDENS EXCURSION

12 YR 7

TEA GARDENS EXCURSION

11 DEC 15

16

17

Last Day

For

Students

18 SCHOOL

DEVELOPMENT DAY

(Pupil Free Day)

19 SCHOOL

DEVELOPMENT DAY

(Pupil Free Day)

Does your teenager work? Many teenagers start a weekend or after school job in high school. A helpful guide to how much they should be getting paid and the minimum conditions can be found at: www.fairwork.gov.au. If you have any queries there is a helpline at 13 13 94. You can also lodge an online workplace com-plaint if you feel your child has been unfairly treated