Principal Toby Morgan

Executive

Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Karina Woods (Rel)

Stage 2 Allie Harcourt (Rel)

Stage 3

Jemma Wallace & Shari Jackson (Rel)

Special Education Debbie Williams

Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah

Dates for your Diary

December 2019

18th Last day of Term

January 2020

29th First day of term

Message from the Principal

End of the School Year This year has been a very busy and productive year at Dubbo North Public School. The last week has seen us celebrate student successes at our presentation Assembly, formally farewell Year 6 at the Year 6 Farewell, Enjoy class parties and PBL whole school rewards and then the Principal’s Pool Party yesterday. It has been a terrific end to the year and tomorrow, Wednesday 18th December, is the last day for students with teachers finishing up on Thursday 19th December. Maria’s Shave for Cancer Last Friday Marlia Appleby shaved her hair off to raise funds for the search for a cure for cancer. Marlia raised over $1500 and the school was able to raise close to $500 which will all go towards the cancer council. A very worthy cause for Marlia to raise funds for and an incredibly noble act. Departing Staff At the end of this year we have 2 members of staff who will be leaving Dubbo North Public School to pursue other endeavours. I’d like to thank Miss Skye Moore and Miss Krystle Haines for their contributions whilst employed at DNPS and wish them all the best for their future careers. Movement at School Next year will see a lot of movement around the school, with quite a few

Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being Responsible, Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”

Weekly Newsletter

Week 10 Term 4 2019

dubbonorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Tel: 6882 4689 Fax: 6884 3442

Week 10 Term 4

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teachers moving onto different stages and Stage 1 and 2 switching rooms. This means that

Stage 2 will now be in B Block closer to Stage 3 and Stage 1 will be in the demountable and 2 rooms in the North eastern corner of the school. This all allows for a promising start to the year and students will find out which teacher they have and where their room is located on the first day back next year, Wednesday 29/01/2020. Christmas Wishes I’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank everyone for their contributions throughout the year in making 2019 memorable. Please take time to relax and enjoy the break, spend time with family, stay safe and recharge the batteries for another action packed year at Dubbo North PS. Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year to all. Toby Morgan Principal

All the staff of Dubbo North Public School would like to thank you all for a great year and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the Holidays!

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Students of the Week

Term 4 Week 9

KC Calvin McGovern & Jasreet Kaur KW Djibril Costa 1/2J Chasse Moore 1/2S Shyla McNaughton 1/2T Maycee Cafe 3/4B Mitchell Coady 3/4C Ruby McLachlan 3/4H Tanarli Prasad 5/6A Jakson Brown 5/6J Kieran McFarlane-Dowsett 5/6W Tully Pickering Blue Cooper Westcott Red Daniel Newman Yellow Zakry Stanley

Uniform Award - T4 Wk 10 -

Congratulations

NO CANTEEN MEAL DEAL THIS WEEK The Canteen Ladies would like to wish everyone a

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

News from the Library… Calling all books! The will be no more borrowing from the library in 2019.

Please return them to the library this week.

Don't forget to join the Summer Reading Club Challenge, children and young

people aged 0 to 18 are invited to: Visit the library to receive their free Summer Reading

Club Challenge Kit Collect free bonuses from the library when they reach

reading milestones, including a book prize Enter the draw to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Join in the fun activities held at the library throughout the summer holidays.

The Summer Reading Club Challenge will run from 1 December 2019 to 31 January 2020 at

Don't forget the local Theatre ...KAPUT ...Thursday 19 December, 6 pm.

Good old-fashioned, side-splitting fun for the whole family.

May I wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful summer break.

THANK YOU to every family who has supported the library this year by ensuring

library books make it into bags and books are read, coming to Book Week or purchasing from Bookclub.

Don’t forget to read, read, read.

Until next week, Mrs Jane Clark

Get to know your Class Captains

Name: Elsie Berryman Class: Blue

Q1. You Accidentally ate some radioactive pizza. The good news is it tasted great! The even better news is that it’s given you one superpower of your choice. What do you choose? I would choose to be able to turn invisible so I could scare people and play tricks on them Q2. Your teacher is actually a witch! One day, she gets tired of you not paying attention and zaps you into a novel. Which novel would you hope she zapped you into and why? Where’s Wally, so people have to find me. Q3. If you could time travel, would you go to the past or the future? The future. Q4. You can trade places with someone for one day. Who would it be and why? Jayden, because he has orange hair and I would like to have orange hair.

PBL Focus - Week 10 Responsible, Safe & Respectful

Safe, Responsible and Respectful in the office.

Booster: Respectful: We speak politely and use our

manners

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The Department’s Revised Enrolment Policy

What has changed? – part 3: selection criteria for non-local enrolment

Sibling enrolments are now clearly prioritised (where possible) and selection criteria for non-local enrolment will not include student ability, performance or achievement. If you have challenging circumstances and live outside the school’s intake area, you should arrange to meet with the Principal of your local school to discuss. We understand that not everyone’s circumstances are the same, and that there are instances where exceptional and compelling circumstances will need to be considered. To find the contact details for a particular school, please visit https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/finding-a-public-school

Last Tuesday, 12th December 2019, we held our Presentation Assembly to celebrate all the amazing achievements that we had during the year. There were lots of awards handed out including awards for sports, encouragement awards, participation awards, P&C awards and many more. Along with these awards we also got introduced to our new junior and senior SRC for next year. Our new Junior SRC members Maleigha Jeffries, Hayden Mutton, Lucy Hocking and Marley Reakes. And our Vice Captains are Attlas Bender and Olivia Elton and our Captains for 2020 will be Shanay McGrath-Nolan and Colby Ross. Congratulation to all who received awards.

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Dubbo North Public School P&C AGM Meeting

The next Dubbo North Public School P&C AGM Meeting will be held 12th February at 6pm at the

South Dubbo Tavern.

Dubbo Tenpin Bowl are once again handing out Summer Holiday Booklets to all students and staff. These booklets will not only save your families lots of dollars from now until the end of January 2020.They will also earn our School Valuable Rebate Dollars. So please support this successful rebate program which has been running since 2011.

The P&C Uniform Shop will be open over the school holidays on the following dates below.

The uniform shop will be located in the Aboriginal Community Room. Please remember there are new prices and the updated order forms are still available from the front office until the end of the term.

The uniform shop will be open from 9am to 12pm on the following days:

Saturday 18th January and Sunday 19th January 2020 Saturday the 25th January 2020 And Tuesday the 28th January 2020

On Friday 13th December, 2019, one of our Year 5 students Marlia Appleby participated in the World’s Greatest Shave by shaving her hair. All money that was raised last week and

this week will be going towards the Leukaemia Foundation to help in the research towards blood cancer.

On Wednesday 11th December, 6 lucky students got to go to Hogs Breath Café for lunch with Mrs Robertson, Mrs Williams and Mr Morgan. They all had a great time and enjoyed their meals and their massive ice creams.