Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility

From Sharon’s desk

What a great event last week where our SistaSpeak girls attended a workshop at Senior Campus for Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women's Voices) Gathering. This gathering was an opportunity for Aboriginal girls to put their points of view across and be recognised by the Australian Government. June Oscar, the ATSI Social Justice Commissioner ran the day. She is currently writing a report about young Aboriginal women. June and her team are traveling around Australia talking to girls from the age of 12- 17. They will be putting our ideas into a report to be handed to the Australian Government. The schools that attended were South Campus, Delroy Campus, Senior Campus and South Primary. When we got there we all introduced ourselves and met the leaders that were running the talk. We then divided ourselves into groups. In our groups we discussed issues like what we are worried about and how we can make our towns/ country better. We discussed issues like closing the gap, gender equality, racism and social media to name a few. After we wrote down our ideas, we went back into 1 big group and shared our thoughts. Overall this was a fantastic experience that we all thoroughly enjoyed. We look forward to seeing how our ideas will help change Australia’s future. Girls who attended: Dakota Moore, Sahara Lemon, Ava Hosking, Millie Sutcliffe, Mali Hopkins-Davies, Rori Lemon, Billie Schaefer, Taylor Morgan, Latiah McMillan, Lilly Schaefer, Chloe Astill and Torah Martin. Expos for Kinder parents were held over 3 days last week. A range of information was delivered from staff within the school as well as external agencies— Marathon Health, Representatives from the P&C and Neighbourhood Centre regarding before and after school care to name a few. It was wonderful to see so many parents involved and seek-ing information about areas for their children for 2019. Please if you know of any other children who are due for Kindergarten 2019, remind parents to drop into the school for an enrolment package and book them in. The transition period is important for both the children and parents.

Congratulations to our 2018 Wudhagaragarra Award winners who will be presented with awards this Thursday at the RSL Club Dubbo. Rori Lemon– Students leadership Primary Dayvee Shaw—Student Encouragement Award Latiah McMillan—Outstanding achievement in Performing/Creative/Visual Arts—Primary Sahara Lemon—Student Encouragement Award Also congratulations to Sally Gesler who was awarded Outstanding contribution to Educational achievement by a non-Aboriginal staff member. (Photos to come!) Students have been preparing for the SRC nominations and selection process. Students in Year 4 and 5 spoke to their peers on Monday addressing a range of areas on why they would be the best person to represent the students in SRC, what they will bring to the school and how they could work to improve all areas. I look forward to our new incoming talented group of students who will be elected from staff and student votes. A new group with new ideas and energy. Presentation Evening will be held next Monday commencing at 7.00pm in our school hall. I hope to see you all there supporting your children on this special occasion. This will be the last official event for our Year 6 students. All Year 6 and award recipients must be in attendance from 6.30pm to be seated and full school uniform is required for the evening. It would be appreciated if parents could stay for the duration of the evening as this is a very important event in our school calendar. Sharon Murray, Principal

Email: dubbosouth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.dubbosouth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 4 Week 7 27th November 2018

Important Dates

Thursday 29th November Year 6 Passport Program Monday 3rd December 2018 Presentation Night Tuesday 4th December

Kinder transition continues Year 6-7 Orientation Day Thursday 6th December Year 6 Passport Program

Friday 7th December Last day of PSSA

K-6 Assembly—Item by Kinder

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Changes in the Library Thank you to the P&C for our new “smartboard” that is being installed this week. The board will be placed in the centre of the back wall which will allow students to see the board more easily. This will involve some rearranging of furniture and signs, but that will be the easy part. Please support the P&C as they have been very supportive of our school and the library over the past two years.

Library Books Books are due back in the library by Friday 7th December. Borrowing will cease in Week 9 for all classes. Students can access e books via their student portal. E books and audio books are available through Oliver, our regular library system. Students access Oliver using their school username and password. Some students may have a number after their names. E books and audio books have a different symbol. By clicking on the title they will go to another screen which has a “borrow book” button. Books are borrowed for two weeks – the system will return them if they have not been returned by this time. An internet connection is required for download but after this they can be read from computers and other devic-es without an internet connection.

Book Club Pamphlets have gone home for issue 8. This is the last issue for this year. Orders are due online or at school by this Friday 30th November. If you want to order items as a gift, mark this on your online order or add a note to orders brought to the library. We will do our best and contact you to collect your items. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

Kinder Red Maths

Students in Kinder Red have been learning how to calculate the total of a large collection of counters quickly. The boys and girls organise their counters into arrays of ten and if there are any leftover counters, they are learning to arrange them into dice patterns. Once all the counters in their collection have been arranged, students can then skip count to see how many they have altogether.

3/4T News On Thursday afternoon the 15th of November 3/4T had Connie Ahsee, a special visitor, come in and teach us about bull roarers. After learning about how Aboriginal people used bull roarers and the sound they make, Connie completed an Art lesson where the students used their fingers to paint the their own bull roarer using white, yellow, green and brown paint. The students in 3/4T are currently using the bull roarers to make up a display to be hung in the library for other students to learn about bull roarers.

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PBL Congratulations to Kindergarten and Stage 1 for filling their Ollie boxes and putting another wing on our Ollie at last Friday’s whole school assembly! Keep up the great work to earn our whole school blue and yellow dress up day! This week classes will be continuing on with the Bounce Back program of looking on the bright side.

Kindergarten Christmas Item

Next Friday the 7th of December, all Kindergarten students will be performing

a Christmas item at the Whole School Assembly.

We ask that all students bring in a Christmas outfit that they could change

into and wear for the item. Can you please ensure that your child’s

clothes are in a plastic bag labelled with their name.

We look forward to seeing you at the assembly!

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Congratulations Zac! Congratulations to Zac Harding on his amazing achievements at athletics this year. Zac gained first place and was named Australian champion in the 100m Multiclass Under 10 boys at the National Track and Field Championships in Melbourne. Zac also finished 4th in the 200m and 5th in Long Jump. Well Done Zac! Dubbo South Public School is immensely proud of you.

Well Done Will! Congratulations to Will McKenzie who gained a High Distinction in the Kinder to Year 2, Scientific Investigation Category of the New South Wales Young Scientist Awards. This is the second year Will has entered this competition along with 830 other entries. It is also the second year he has received an award. A panel of judges assessed Will’s STEM based project and congratulated him on an amazing effort. Great work Will!

P&C News

Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be closed for stocktake in Week 9. The last opening time for this year is Thursday 6th December so please make any purchases and orders by then. We would love to have a new volunteer or two! Please consider if you can help as we want to be able to keep two opening times per week for next year.

Canteen Roster

Wednesday 28th November Jackie Gravitis

Thursday 29th November Volunteer Required

Friday 30th November Kayleen Ahsee

Monday 3rd December Volunteer Required

Tuesday 4th December Volunteer Required

P&C Christmas Party

Wednesday 5th December

6.30pm at The Monkey Bar

rsvp to Kathryn

secretary.dsps@gmail.com

Year 6 Farewell

The Year 6 Farewell will be held on Thursday, December 13th. It is asked that all of Year 5 please bring in $10 to go towards the costs of the Year 6 Farewell. Dinner, drinks, dessert and cake will be

supplied on the night. Any parents of Year 5 students that are willing to help with decorating

on the Thursday afternoon please let your classroom teacher know.