Principal Toby Morgan

Executive

Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Jemma Wallace

Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah

Stage 2 Sally Robertson

Stage 3

Sarah Jeffriess

Special Education Debbie Williams

RFF Anna Miller

Dates for your Diary

August

31st Infants Assembly 1/2J Hosting 2.40pm

September

4th Stage 2 Bathurst Goldfields Excursion

6th Whole School Assembly 2.40pm

13th Primary Assembly 5/6J Hosting 2.40pm

P&C Meeting 6pm Pastoral Hotel

14th NAIDOC

21st Infants Assembly 1C Hosting 2.40pm

Message from the Principal

Stage 2 Excursion

Our first overnight excursion for the

year is fast approaching and both staff

and students are getting very excited

about the trip to Bathurst. Thanks to

Mrs Robertson and the Stage 1 teachers

for not only organising this excursion

but also for giving up their time away

from family to supervise the students.

Overnight excursions are not mandato-

ry and only occur if the teachers agree

to participate. Please remember that all

money needs to be paid before students

can attend the excursion, unless prior

arrangements have been made with me.

Western Athletics Carnival

This Friday we have 2 students repre-

senting Dubbo District PSSA at the

Western SSA Athletics Carnival to be

held at the Barden Park Athletics Com-

plex. Deakyn Bailey and Casey Church

-Lenord will be participating in the 100

and 200 metres races and the Senior

Boys Discus respectively. I’d like to

wish the boys all the best for Friday

and I’m sure they’ll be excellent

ambassadors for the school.

2018–2010 School Management Plan

We are coming to the end of the 2015 –

2017 planning cycle and we now need

to commence planning and a vision for

the school for the 2018 – 2020 period.

We sought community input towards

the end of 2014 and we’ll be doing

likewise later this year. To have a suc-

cessful vision for our school we need

input from all stakeholders; staff, stu-

dents, parents/carers and the entire

school community.

NAIDOC Celebrations

The school’s NAIDOC celebrations are

locked in for Thursday 14th September

and I’d like to invite the entire school

Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being Responsible,

Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”

Weekly Newsletter Week 7 Term 3 2017

dubbonorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

community to come along and join in the

fun and activities. Students will be par-

ticipating in cultural based activities

such as cooking Johnny Cakes, Aborigi-

nal dancing, face painting, Indigenous

games and lots more. There’ll also be a

BBQ lunch and a flag raising ceremony

so mark the date down, dress the kids in

red, black and yellow and we’ll see you

on the 14th.

LMBR

The school’s financial system as we

know it will be changing from next week

as the old Oasis system makes way for a

new and improved system. As with all

things technological I’m sure there will

be hiccups, but the new way of doing

business promises to be more efficient

and user friendly.

Parent/Teacher Interviews Feedback

It was great to see so many parents/

carers at our Parent/Teacher Interviews

towards the end of Semester 1. There are

262 students at our school and 124 inter-

views were conducted, which equates to

approximately 47%. This doesn’t take

into account interviews conducted via

phone or after school on other days, or

the conversations teachers are having

with parents on a weekly basis. Feed-

back from the parent survey will be in-

cluded in next weeks’ newsletter.

Have a great week.

Toby Morgan, Principal

Tel: 6882 4689

Fax: 6884 3442

Week 7 Term 3

“Skill with Honour”

Principal’s

Award Congratulations to

Tahlarah Lawson

of 3/4S

who always meets

all school

expectations.

Responsible Safe Respectful

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Congratulations

CANTEEN Meal Deal Thursday 31st August

Dagwood Dog + Ice Block

$5.50

Students of the Week

Term 3 Week 6

KW Riley Rayment

Zali Apolony

1C Declan Hangan

1/2J Brock Chandler

2T David Hamilton

3/4H Arayana Cochran

3/4R Kieran McFarlane-Dowsett

3/4S Miley Shipp

5S Genevieve Campbell

6A Malcolm Elemes

5/6J Michala Lord

Blue Jasper Goedhart

Yellow Summar Freeman

Uniform Award WK 6 - 5/6J

News from the Library

Premier’s Reading Challenge – Is over.

The August deadline has passed. Give your

completed reading journals to Mrs Clark by the

end of THIS WEEK to be verified.

This shelf looks great! Recently Library Monitors

have adopted a shelf to look after,

and this is the result. Wow!

Until next week Mrs Jane Clark.

Parenting On-Line Payments (POP)

As a result of the school going over to a new

financial system in early September, POP pay-

ments will be unavailable from Thurs 24th Au-

gust until Tues 5th September. We apologise

for any inconvenience this may cause.

For Tender

5 Wooden benches

Good condition

Tenders in writing - close

Wednesday 30th August.

State Championships Well done to Jessica Woods who competed in the

State Irish Dancing Championships in Sydney in her

11 year age group & was placed 17th.

Stage 3 Fundraiser

Thursday 31st August Cookies ‘N Cream Ice-cream

in a cup

$2 At Recess

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Responsible Safe Respectful

Kindergarten were showing off their

marvellous echidna creations they had

made after reading the Dreamtime Story,

“Echidna and the Shade Tree”. Stage 2

students

enjoying the

opportunity to

work outdoors

on their

laptops with

the warmer

weather

coming.

Last week Miss Ferguson

and the SistaSpeak girls

were icing cupcakes.

Very delicious!

Look what’s been happening!

Primary Assembly - Hosted by 5S Well done to 5S who entertained everyone with an

item called “What I am”. (Top Left) Isabella Ward Williams received a Meal Deal voucher for always

wearing her uniform at school.

(Top Right) Students dis-

play their artwork

(Bottom Left) Stage 3 stu-

dents who were some of

many who received their

Merit Awards.

(Bottom Right) Congratula-

tions to the new Students of

the Week.

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Responsible Safe Respectful

PBL focus this week:

SAFE Right place, Right time.

Earn a Win Bin for a chance to go into the

draw to win a Kakadu badge and prize.

P&C Uniform Shop

The shop will only be open every 2nd

Thursday this Term, 31st Aug

and 14th Sept.

All other enquiries to the Office.

P&C Father’s Day Raffle

The lucky winner of the raffle who won either a

full car service or full car detail courtesy of

Brett Keizer (WOW Workshop on Wheels) was

Adam Fisk Ticket Orange F94

Kindergarten 2018

Orientation days We will be holding four sessions as follows:

Friday 27th October 10.00 - 11.30

(includes Parent Information Session in the Hall)

Friday 10th November 10.00 - 11.30

Friday 24th November 10.00 - 11.30

Friday 8th December 10.00 - 11.30

(All include activities for children in the

Kinder rooms)

(Please bring fruit, drink, hat & wear covered shoes)

Please contact the school if you have any further

questions.