Dubbo South Public School Respect, Care, Cooperation & Responsibility

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From Sharon’s desk

Education Week—’Todays Schools—Creating Tomorrows World’. Our school has been driving Inquiry Based Learning classes across Stage 2 and 3. Students are being prepared for tomorrows world—learning skills of collaboration, thinking, questioning, resilience, creativeness and group work through student centred projects where they create businesses and incorporate all of the team skills needed in the outcome. Students have been involved in Gorilla project by collecting old phones and learning about their treatment. Have a look on our school website or facebook page for details of these projects. Celebrating Education Week every day across our classes. NAIDOC celebrations, held last week was a great success. A full 2 weeks of embedding learning about Aboriginal culture through the theme of “Because of Her we Can”. Our staff attended a Staff Development Day the first Monday at Beni to learn the art of narrative with a cultural perspective and dance. Our school Aboriginal Educational team have worked extremely hard to organise all the events and activities over the last two weeks. Thanks to our team led by Nicole Drew, Sally Gesler, Kylie Crawford and Tyrone Hall. A presentation was made to Mrs Brenda Lake acknowledging her as an Aboriginal role model, who has made a huge contribution to our students at South. Mrs Yvonne Hill made a very emotional speech on powerful female role models in Aboriginal culture and history—women who have helped make a difference. Recently there has been quite a few students away due to sickness from stomach bugs and flu etc. It is important that if your child is sick then please keep them at home to minimise the spread of germs. Of course we encourage students to wash their hands after being to the toilet - the soap is refilled weekly and hand wash is available in each classroom. Sadly it has been reported that soap is being wasted from students pouring it out onto the floor or down the sink. We are promoting good health habits at school and would appreciate it if you could reinforce this matter with your children at home. Conferences for student/teacher and parents will be held next week over 4 days. Teachers have sent requests home for you to nominate a time that will suit you to discuss your child’s goals, report and focus areas for the remainder for the year. Please feel free to ask any questions regarding your child’s learning. All conferences are held in classrooms so you can see your child’s work. A reminder that times are allocated on a first in first served basis and some times book very quickly. Please return your booking preferences quickly. Have a great week, Sharon Murray, Principal.

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

Term 3 Week 3 — 7th August 2018 Important Dates

Friday 10th August Class Captain Induction 1.50 in the Hall

Monday 13th August 3 Way Conferences begin

Tuesday 14th August ICAS Maths

Thursday 16th August SOAR Stage 3

Friday 17th August Dubbo and District Athletics Carnival

K—6 Assembly Items by KB & KG

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2019 Please provide proof of address, proof of

birth and immunisation details at the time of enrolment. A transition program will be held at the commencement of Term 4. To ensure that your child is able to participate in this

invaluable program please submit your enrolment form by the end of this term.

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Congratulations As of Friday 3rd August, 34 students have completed their Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2018. Since last newsletter these students have completed their challenge: Byron and Jacob Lynch, Sam Turner, Rosie and Kate Pankhurst, Eliza Quinn, Matilda Medlin, Eliza Quinn, Zonash Asif, Matilda and Joseph Prince, Sisini Wickramasingha and Giang Hoang. Keep reading – only 4 weeks to go.

Book Club Orders for issue 5 are due by this Friday 10th August, both online and orders to the library. LOOP or online orders will be closed after lunch on Friday 10th. Please do your orders early. Books should be back at school by Friday 17th August.

Book Week 2018 The book of the year awards are announced on Friday 25th August 2018. The books are divided into categories. We will be looking at some of these books during library visits over the next few weeks. These books will not be available for borrowing until after Book Week. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

Stage 3 to Canberra Stage 3 students were issued with a gear list, itinerary and updated invoice regarding payment. A friendly reminder that all payments need to be finalised by Friday 24th August 2018.

Stage 3 drought project. Todays schools - ‘Creating Tomorrows World’. What an exciting theme for Education Week 2018. To help highlight the amazing work our students are capable of in regard to creating tomorrows world, all of stage 3 will be working towards becoming mini entrepreneurs and raising funds for a worthy cause - our farmers. All of Stage 3 will be working on an Inquiry Based Learning project about drought and its impact both locally and nation wide. Students will take their learning further by creating projects to not only raise awareness but also funds for our locals farmers. Through our literacy and geography sessions students will not only learn but also problem solve. During Term 4 it is hoped that in collaboration with other schools and local businesses we can gather funds, raise awareness and show support for the backbone of our country. If you or your business are interested in helping please let a Stage 3 teacher know. Stay tuned for exciting upcoming events. Lets create a better, more sustainable tomorrow’s world together. Happy education week!

P&C News Here are the highlights from last week’s P&C meeting: Nicole Drew and Sally Gesler talked about the fantastic work being done with targeted indigenous students in 3-6 in literacy and numeracy. Renae Giddings also explained about a number of the programs the school has to support learning for a large number of students in need of various kinds of aid. After discussion, the P&C were pleased to allocate a donation of $18,000 to the school for Bee-bots coding resource for K-2, Maths resources for classrooms, a new Smartboard for the library similar to those in the kindergarten rooms and music resources for percussion and singing.

Uniform Shop Could you spare one hour a week to help in our uniform shop? We are looking for someone to come regularly on a Thursday morning 8.30-9.30. Come and join our friendly team. See Jodie in the canteen or drop in to the uniform shop on Thursday morning to register your interest.

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MC News On the 31st of July the OMG calendar on Mr Tarry’s desk said that “Bacteria can grow and divide every twenty minutes. Turning one bacterial cell into 16 million in just eight hours.” Mr Tarry asked us to check and see if the maths was right. With the help of Mrs McGrath we worked out that the best way to do the maths was to figure out how many lots of 20 minutes were in eight hours. This turned out to be 24. So we doubled our number twenty four times and that gave us the answer 16,777,216. That is a lot of bacteria. Emma Woodbury and Cooper Fabar K/6D have been learning the art of mosaic with Mrs Thompson & Megan. We had a great time making our frames and they turned out fantastic. Chloe Stone, Chloe Stone & Wyatt Smith, Harrison Harthog, Hamish Ryan & Phoenix Olencewicz

Change of Dates— Concerts Swapped Kinder Concert will now be held on Thursday 27th September, Week 10 Stage One concert will now be held Wednesday 19th September, Week 9

Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students on their achievements:

Merit: Mia Villacorta, Harlem Hudson, Alexis Frew, Kristin Hughes, Sophie Dashwood, Rory Osborne, Shaun Ferguson Credit: Nate Knight, Eliza Quinn, Shaun Ferguson, Mia Villacorta Distinction: Cohan Bennett, Jacob Lynch, Aiden Schrouder, Juliet Quinn, Rosie Pankhurst Honour: Addison Skinner, Kiah Duce Banner: Lillian Leary, Tayla Mongan, Darcy Ferguson

NAPLAN

NAPLAN online will be carried out between 20th Au-gust and 24th August. The readiness test is a ‘practice run’ for schools to participate in a trial NAPLAN online. Education Ministers have agreed that NAPLAN will move online in 2019. This readiness test is not an assessment of student ability—students in Years 3 and 5 have already completed their NAPLAN tests for 2018. This experience will offer students the opportunity to experience the online testing environment. Year 3 and 5 students will sit a literacy/numeracy online assess-ment. Not all students will sit the test simultaneously. Remember this is a readiness test only! For further in-formation please go to http://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/naplan-online

Make your next call to the wild! We are still collecting electronic devices!! Last term, our students in Stage 2 researched Colton Mining and the detrimental impact it has had on gorillas. Students found out about these endangered animals and decided that they must do something to help. They worked extremely hard to develop a persuasive video to encourage all of our school community and residents of Dubbo to donate their old and unwanted electronic devices. You can check this video out on our school’s Facebook page. The video script was constructed by using the students writing and clever ideas. PLEASE DROP OFF YOUR UNWANTED ELECTRONIC DE-VICES TO DUBBO SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL. MAKE A DIFFERENCE!! Mrs Drew

PBL In Week three every class will start our Term 3 Bounce Back unit about

Courage. This week we will be looking at what courage is!