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DUNGOG PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Dungog Public School 9 Chapman Street |P.O. Box 120 Dungog NSW 2420 Phone: (02) 4992 1384 Fax: (02) 4992 3150 Email: dungog-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Monday 25th February 2019, Term 1 Week 5

Dungog Public

School

Calendar of Events

P&C Meeting – Monday 25th February.

B&G Zone Basketball Trials – Tuesday 26th February.

Infants Scripture & Ethics – Wednesday 27th February.

School Banking – Wednesday 27th February.

Drumming – Thursday 28th February.

P&C Disco – Friday 1st March.

Zone Rugby League Trials – Friday 1st March.

Clean Up Schools Day – Friday 1st March.

Hearing Awareness week – Monday 4th to Friday 8th March.

School Photo’s – Wednesday 6th March.

Stage 2 Excursion – Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th & Friday 8th March.

Whole School Assembly – Thursday 7th March at 2.10pm.

National Day of Action Against Bullying & Violence – Friday 15th March.

Harmony Day – Thursday 21st March.

Cross Country – Friday 22nd March.

OUR WEEKLY

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Welcome to week 5 at Dungog Public School! We have another busy week ahead with a few extra-curricula activities. Congratulations to all swimmers who competed at the Zone Swimming Carnival last week. All students did some personal best times and represented DPS with pride. Our new swimming caps looked fantastic! A HUGE Congratulations to Bella Martin, Sienna Gordon and Grace Hancock who have made it to Regional Swimming in individual races. Also to our Junior Boys (Dane Chivers, Charlie Lovegrove, Mason Daniel & Hugo Felton-Taylor) and Junior Girls (Gracie Martin, Lara Kemp, Sienna Gordon & Hayley Upward) relay teams that have made it to the Regional carnival. Photo Day is fast approaching on Wednesday 6th March. Photo envelopes have been sent home. Please return your envelopes to the office or to MSP on photo day. Photo’s can be paid online (information provided on the photo envelope) and sibling photo envelopes are available at the office. Please note - the office does not keep change at school so please ensure you have the correct money for photo’s. Stage 2 will have their photo’s first up in the morning then head off on their excursion. Our year is very busy as usual and many dates have already been pencilled into the calendar. Please find attached to the newsletter our yearly calendar that will be continually updated. At the end of 2018, the NSW Government announced the review into the non-educational use of mobile digital devices in NSW schools had been completed and that it would be accepting and implementing one of the key recommendations made in the report, namely restricting the use of mobile digital devices in NSW public primary schools. Mobile phones are not allowed at school with DPS students. If students need to bring a mobile phone to school, it is expected that the phone will be signed into the office for the day and then collected at the end of the day. Dungog Public School will no longer be using the Skoolbag App. The link with the app will be disconnected in the next couple of weeks. Don’t’ Forget to get your dancing shoes ready for the P&C disco on Friday night! Kylie Pennell

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Stage One- 1V Week 5 already! Where is that time flying? 1V have been so busy working hard in their English and Maths groups. We have also been busy being artists and creating fish artwork with primary colours using crayons and water colours. They look amazing! Have a great week.

Messages The P&C Uniform Shop will be

open Thursday’s on even weeks from 2.30pm to 3pm. Orders can be left at the office.

Our Whole School Assembly is held fortnightly on a Thursday at 2.10pm. Parents/carers and community members are welcome to attend. Our first whole school assembly will be Thursday 7th March (week 6).

Facebook - Dungog Public School has a very active facebook page. Like our page so you can follow all the exciting things that are happening at our school.

Premiers Reading Challenge –

Monday 4th March to Friday 30th

August.

Any Parents/Carers or community members wanting the DPS newsletter emailed to them weekly please contact the school.

Attendance Text Messaging system – we are continuing to implement our new text messaging system. Text Messages will be sent out daily from approximately 10am. It is a simple procedure to allow parents/carers to simply text back a reason why their child is away from school. The return text message only needs to provide a brief reason as to why the child was away on that day. E.g – Doctor’s appointment, sick, holiday, funeral, etc

Kindergarten- KO KO have been learning so many sounds and sight words. We are learning to make our fingers jump along a sentence when we read aloud. In Maths we have been learning about adding and subtracting and are trying to say the next number quickly, eg 5..7.. In Geography, we have been looking at Google Earth and looking at Dungog and its shops.

Stage One- 1M Wow, it’s week 5 already and another fun week of learning is upon us! This week 1M English class are focusing on ‘e’ and ‘ea’ during spelling. We will also be learning all about Proper Nouns and how to use them in our writing. 1M Maths class are working on number patterns this week. We have some wonderful artists in 1M and this week we are learning all about problem solving and imagination in art through creating digital artworks. Have a super week!

Kindergarten- KM Do you know who sank the boat? KM have been reading and creating artworks on this wonderful story last week. We have learnt the sounds h,r,m,d and lots of new tricky words. We are working in Maths to count and add numbers under 10, together. Please remember to label all your child’s belongings, including hats!

Stage One- 1G Welcome to week 5! The term is flying. 1G

have been discovering and investigating

living and non living things with Mrs Norris

and Miss Gear and finding out interesting

information about mini-beasts within our

school. 1G English class have been reading

‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ By Oliver Jeffers,

and in Maths we have been doing some fun

hands-on activities based around

multiplication ‘making groups of’. Have a

fantastic week.

Early Stage One News

Stage One News

RFF with Mr Kemp 2K English has been working hard on their sentences, making sure we are using capital letters, full stops and descriptive words. Reading is also a huge focus with groups now up and running. In PD/H/PE all classes have shown fantastic effort and behaviour. Developing positive relationships and looking after ourselves (both physically and mentally) has been a big focus. Don't forget to start training for the Cross Country!

Around the School

Stage Two- 2G 2G are finally getting stuck into our

routines and pushing through lots

of work. In English we are learning

about tightening tension and

visualisations – we are lucky these

concepts go hand in hand! Maths

has been all about place value to

understand how numbers work

before Year 4 gets into the tricky

stuff. The countdown to our

excursion continues… 9 sleeps!!!

Support Classes News

Support Classes News

Support Classes News

Stage Two News

Positive Behaviour for Learning Pink behaviour slip

Stage Two- 2J This week in 2J English, we have been working really hard on our Sizzling Starts! In Science we have started learning all about ‘Changes of state’ and learning all about how and why things change when different temperatures are applied. Keep up the great effort 2J classes!!

Stage Two- 2M A big thank you to all of the parents who attended our ‘Stage 2 Meet & Greet’ afternoon last Tuesday. It was lovely to meet and have an informal chat with many parents and showcase our classrooms. If you missed this afternoon, I am happy to make an alternate time to ‘Meet & Greet’.

Stage Three- 3G 3G English have been working on captivating the reader with some fantastic sizzling starts this week! In Maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction and have been engaged in our new maths rotations and can't wait to get back into it! We have been doing some fantastic discussion with our new PDHPE unit and have been talking about what makes a caring and respectful relationship. Well done to our swimmers who went to Zone on Tuesday and congratulations to those who made it to Regional Swimming!!

Stage Three- 3L It was great to see so many students

remembering their swimmers for sport on

Friday! Let’s make it 100% this week.

3L English have been busy using a ‘hook’

to get the audience interested in our

Imaginative writing and we’ve been

learning about clauses.

3L Maths have been busy completing

addition and subtraction problems. This is

proving tricky as we’re getting into the big

numbers! Have a wonderful week!

Stage Three- 3S SPLAASHH! Everything suddenly became silent and the boat began to rock. This is just a snippet of the sizzling starts 3S have been creating in writing last week. 3S English also blew Miss Snowdon out of the water with our Proper Noun work. We have also been having deep discussions about human rights and going into depth about ‘The Stolen Generation’. This will help us with our understanding of the Mini project that went home last week.

K-6S K-6S are fabulous chefs! For cooking last

week we made delicious Banana

Breakfast Muffins. Below is the recipe if

you want to try them for yourself.

4 ripe bananas

1 cup of sugar

1 egg beaten

2 cups of self-raising flour

2 tbs of milk

Mix all the ingredients together and bake in a muffin tray (180 degrees)

for 20 minutes.

3-6B 3-6B have been focusing on making their writing ‘exciting’. We got the chance to see, taste and smell fairy floss this week to help us brainstorm describing words for our fairy floss writing task.

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PBL Awards

KO – Noah Howlett KM – Dekota Rumble-Lemmon 1M – Stella Wakeman 1V –Kayden Hobbs 1G – Ollie Berry 3-6B – Peter Rumbel 2G – Mason Daniel 2J – Louki Wertich 2M – Lara Kemp 3G – Oscar Mathews 3L – Maya Inwood 3S – Charlee Morgan RFF – Jake Nevins Library – Ethan Spedding

Zone Swimming

Stage Three News

Weekly Caught Being

Good Awards Kalin Muddle

& Dannii Cassar

P&C News

P&C President – Mel Walton

Our first P&C Meeting for 2019 will be held on Monday 25th February at 6pm in the school Library. New members are always welcome. Please note this date has been changed. The P&C are holding a Welcome back Disco on Friday 1st March. The disco starts at 5.30pm and concludes at 7.30pm. A canteen and BBQ will be available on the night. Children must be supervised by an adult. Please speak to Laureen Shelton if you can assist in any way. Canteen volunteers: Monday 25th Feb Trudi Russell and Cheryl Berry Wednesday 27th Feb Ann Trappel & Helen Friday 1st March Beryl Carberry, Libby Rumbel & Amy Lynch

Schools Clean Up Australia Day We will be taking part in Clean Up School’s Day again this year on Friday 1st March. Please remember to send gloves and a bag to collect rubbish in with your child on this day.

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