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Dunedoo Central School
NEWSLETTER
P.O. Box 45, Digilah Street
DUNEDOO NSW 2844
T: 02 6375 1489
F: 02 6375 1152
17th February 2020
DCS won most successful school exhibit at this year’s show. Students entered numerous
categories within the Bowman Pavilion including cooking, garden produce, story and col-
ouring competitions. DCS was also awarded a second place with one of the school’s silver
laced Wyandotte hens in the Poultry Shed. A huge thank you to Mathew Williams for
transporting the chooks to the showground for us and checking on them throughout the
day.
Ella Hickson also represented the school in the led cattle section, assisting local studs in
the wing. Ella was awarded a second in the Parading category and participated in Junior
Judging.
Agricultural Students in years 9—12 had the fantastic opportunity to visit Langdene Merino Stud las Fri-
day to see first hand their Embryo Transfer
program. Students got to see the flushing of
embryos by Genstock Reproductive Technol-
ogy, which involved a surgical procedure un-
der anaesthetic. We would like to thank Gar-
ry and Kelly Cox for such as amazing educa-
tional and eye opening experience.
Welcome to Week 4!
Well done to all of our students and
staff who assisted or participated in
our local show on the weekend. It
was, as usual, a great community
event. Thank you to our Show Com-
mittee for the great Dunedoo Central School display and all
of the students who contributed to it. Well done to all of our
students who competed in the many different events
throughout the show, with many wonderful entries in the Bowman Pavilion. Congratulations to Timothy
Sweeney, Sally Brougham, Sophie Kline, Chloe Brougham, Mya Clisby and Asha Russell who all won a
prize in the Writing Competition.
Lions Youth of the Year—Congratulations to Harry Hogden and Georgia Lane for com-
peting in the Lions Youth of the Year competition last Thursday evening. Both students
spoke very well and will go on to compete at the Regional Final to be held in Muswell-
brook on the 15th March. Congratulations to Georgia for winning the Public Speaking
Competition.
Staffing: Welcome to Ms Meg Tyler, joining our staff tomorrow in the Secondary De-
partment. Meg will be teaching Yr 7 LOTE and Music, Yr 8 Radio, Yr 9 & 10 Geogra-
phy and 7-10 English. Meg has taught most recently at Ivanhoe CS.
Late to School: I continue to be concerned by the number of secondary students arriving late to school. It
is mandatory that students arrive to school on time. Students are required to be at school from 8:50am
until 3:10pm each day. If students are late for a legitimate reason such as a Doctor’s appointment, please
contact the front office on 63751489. Students who are late will complete a detention after school on
Tuesdays and/or Thursdays to make up for the time that they are late. I appreciate your support in this
matter.
School Events: Next week we have two exciting events occurring. Dunedoo Sports Club are hosting a a
Pro-Am event next Tuesday 25th February in conjunction with the Women’s NSW Golf Open. Students
from Yrs 3—6 will participate in a range of Golf activities at the Sports Club on Tuesday morning, hosted
by Sharon Nott and assisted by some of the Professional Golfers. The secondary students will have a
presentation at 9:30am with a Professional Golfer. Some of our students will have assist with catering at
the sports club or have the opportunity to be a caddie for the golfers. We are hoping that our Radio show
may broadcast from the Sports Club as well as some of our classes may go to view some of the event.
This is a very rare opportunity for our community and one which we would like our students to be a part
of in some way.
Next Thursday, the Minister for Education,
the Honourable Sarah Mitchell will be vis-
iting our school to announce the com-
mencement of the Aurora Opportunity
class. Currently we have two students en-
rolled in the Aurora Pilot Program, Fletch-
er Hogden and Will Kline. We anticipate
that there will be Media present for this
event.
P & C: Don’t forget our first P&C Meeting
will be held this Thursday 20th February
@ 7pm. I hope to see many new faces
there! Have a great week! Donna Lane
I hope all the mums enjoyed their Valentine
poster that was made by the students last
week and that a great weekend was
had...especially those who made it to the
Dunedoo Show.
Thank you to the parents who attended our
Parent Information Meeting last Wednesday.
Both Infants classes are now working with the
Seesaw App so I encourage you to create your
account following the instructions that were
sent home with your child last week. We look
forward to uploading samples of your child’s
work and posting photos of what we have
been up to in class.
I would like to remind parents about our daily
‘Crunch ’n’ Sip’. Students need to have pieces
of raw fruit or vegetables that they can eat
quickly. Suggestions could include carrot
sticks, a banana, or a quartered apple. We on-
ly break for 5-10 minutes and children are
struggling to eat everything sent from home in
that time. Please also remember to cut up
your child’s fruit if he/she doesn’t like eating it
whole.
The Infants students will be heading to Kahka-
ma House this Wednesday afternoon to read
their readers with the residents. It should be a
lovely experience for both the children and
elders. Mr Ben Kline - Infants
We are entering Week 4 and I can’t believe how
quickly the time is going! Our swimming champions
have been given their notes for Dubbo District
Swimming next week—please let us know if you
need assistance with travel etc. Thank you to those
parents who attended our information session on
Wednesday afternoon last week. We discussed a
number of things, and it was good to have some
parent feedback also. All classes have now joined
Seesaw, which is an online forum for students to
post photos, work samples and make comments on
other’s posts. Parents are invited to join this forum
also, and notes will go home containing further in-
formation and instructions on how to join.
Congratulations to all students who had entries in
this year’s Dunedoo show. Special congratulations
to those who were awarded a certificate or ribbon
for their entry. Our fish display was created from
the contributions of all students K-12, and looked
great in the Bowman Pavilion.
Our SRC captains and vice captains will attend their
first Young Leaders Day at Red Hill on Tuesday. I’m
sure they will enjoy their time and engage in some
valuable learning opportunities. Sport for years 3-5
continues to be swimming, and ALL STUDENTS will
attend the pool, whether swimming or not.
I have a large number of nameless jumpers and
hats outside my classroom. Please remember to
label children’s clothing, and come in and check our
lost property if your child has misplaced their jump-
er or hat.
Enjoy your week.
Mrs. Georgia Shephard Assistant Principal - Primary
Year 3-4:
Mrs Michelle Gavin - Classroom Teacher
KINDER: I have been very impressed with how well students are progressing with their home readers. They are
clearly being practiced at home and I encourage this to continue. There will certainly be students moving
up to higher levels this week! Please remember to send them in your child’s bag each day so they can be
exchanged.
Every morning in our literacy sessions students participate in L3 activities. L3 stands for Literacy, Learning,
Language. Working in small groups, children rotate around a number of set activities with a focus on
reading or writing with me at the ‘jelly bean’ table. It always takes a little while for the class to settle into
these routines but at this early stage they are doing very well.
This term in Science, students are completing a unit on the weather, looking closely at the different types
of weather and how these affect our daily activities. Kinder are also studying a History unit this term with
Mrs Armstrong called ‘Families and Cultures’.
Have a great week. Mr. Ben Kline - Classroom Teacher
Welcome everybody to Week 4 of Term 1. Congratulations to the following students who received Merit
Certificates last week: Shayla Sawyers (Student of the Week), Deegan Little and Callum Smith. This is
recognition of your effort towards learning so far this term. In Maths this week, the Year 3-4 students will
be consolidating strategies involving Addition and Subtraction and starting concepts involving Multiplica-
tion and Division. P.S – Can I please ask all parents to return any outstanding Permission Notes to the
Front Office as soon as possible (eg -, pink and green notes). P.P.S – A reminder also that we will be swim-
ming for Sport until the end of term, so students are asked to pack their swimmers and $3.50 entry fee
unless they have a season ticket. Have a great week everyone. Mr. Adam Honeysett - Classroom Teacher
Year 1-2:
YEAR 5/6 G:
Year 5 Maths have been working on the addition and
subtraction strategies—jump, split and Compensation.
They had fun working in pairs doing these activities.
Yr 5/6 CAPA—We got down on the floor with some re-
laxing music and did swirl art.
YEAR 5/6 S:
Georgia Shephard—Stage 3 Teacher
Year 6 Maths: This week we begin a unit on Adding and Subtraction where we will look at different strategies used to
add and subtract whole numbers and problem solving strategies. Congratulations to those who handed
in their weekly homework sheet last week - ’our raffle board’ is quickly filling up. Everyone is encouraged
to keep practicing their multiplication tables at home.
Mrs Cathy Gallagher
Year 6 explore what they can do on ‘Seesaw’ before
parents get their login details this week.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK WEEKLY MERITS
KINDERGARTEN - MR KLINE K Summer
Carpenter A fantastic start to ‘Big School’
K
K
Max Currie
Seanna Brown
Being a great friend to his classmates
Fantastic counting in Maths
YEAR 1 / 2 - MS GAVIN 2 Emily
Sawyers For always being coop-erative and consider-ate
1
1
Brentley Wil-liams
Indi Myott
Always doing the right thing and working hard
Being a kind friend and who always helps others
YEAR 3 / 4 MR HONEYSETT 4 Shayla
Sawyers For having an enthusi-astic approach to all set tasks
3
4
Deegan Little
Callum Smith
Settling in well to his new school and making new friends
Working well in Maths groups to start the year off
YEAR 5 / 6 S - MRS SHEPHARD 6 Chloe
Brown Choolsing a positive learning attitude at all times
5
5
Lakkita Moffat
Robert Watton
Settling in well at DCS
Working hard to complete writing tasks
YEAR 5 / 6 G - MRS GALLAGHER 6 Shelley
Cox Having a positive atti-tude to her learning
6
5
Tiarnie Batty
Dan Walker
Being an enthusiastic, happy and helpful part of our class
A fantastic start to the new school year
PRIMARY CAPTAIN’S AWARDS 3 Deegan
Little Amazing effort at the swimming carnival
5 Layla Jenkins Settling into big school well
Year 9/10 Mathematics (5.2): We are currently completing a topic on Measurement. Students have re-
vised calculating perimeters and areas of plane and compound shapes and this week will be calculating surface
areas and volumes of prisms and cylinders. We have started nightly homework, which consists of approximately
10 short questions and should take 5-10 minutes to complete. I encourage all students to complete this nightly
homework to review and consolidate the learning taking place in class.
Year 11 Mathematics Standard: Algebra and Formulas is our first topic for this year which students
have almost completed. We have looked at simplifying expressions, using formula to evaluate, rearranging the
subject of a formula and problem solving. Homework is usually given each night with several questions from the
current exercise in the text to complete. I encourage all students to complete this homework as regular revision
and practice is very important in mathematics.
Year 12 Mathematics: We have completed our first topic for the year, Further Trigonometric Equations’
and this week will commence ‘Further Differentiation’ building on skills we learnt last year.
The first assessment task for Year 12 will be held on Friday, 28th February, and students
have been given a bank of questions to complete in preparation for this task.
Year 12 Mathematics Extension 1: Today we start a new topic ‘Proof by Mathe-
matical Induction’ after completing the last topic ‘Trigonometric Functions’. The first as-
sessment task is due later this term. Mrs Gallagher
Afternoon study will be held this week with Mrs Gallagher supervising on
Wednesday and Mrs Stoddart on Thursday. We are looking forward to seeing
students there!
Checkout DCS Facebook page for 2 of the tunes being performed!
Gold Digger-The Girlz
Marrying my dream man, millions in the bank
Can’t slow me down, I’m at the top of the rank
Spendin’ all his money, And I find it kinda funny
I don’t need any piggy bank!
I’m a gold digger, digger, digger,
I’m a gold digger, digger, digger,
I’m gonna pull that trigger trigger, trigger,
Cause I don’t need no Mr, Mr, Mr
Stop cheating on me with my half sister, sister, sister,
I’m a gold diggerrrrr
“BAM”
Little Town-The Bois
4 bois in a little town, actin’ like we all have big gold crowns
Breakin’ every single rule, ‘cause we are cool
We eat lots of food and that’s no shame to our family feud
We have lotsa money, and a big gold dunny
Us bois have a big house, with a furry little mouse
We have a big pools, ‘Cause we are not fools
The bois with 4 spas have a lot of fancy cars
Cruisin’ down the street in our Lamborghini,
Eatin’ the best Chicken Fettucine
This is the end, ‘cause we took the wrong bend
Hope you liked it, ‘çause we won’t be doin’ it again!
An Australian State of Mind-lil Chelay
(verse extract)
I’m rappin’ to the poster,
And I’m gonna move your roller coast-
er.
Yellow, pastel pink, rose gold, like a
colour
Boy, I tell you, I thought you were a tutor.
Yea, ya, in an Australian State of Mind
Song title- Rap-sody
Georgia, Abby, Ashton
I tried to get the kids to text me their
lyrics but it didn’t come through-are
you able to just get a verse from either
of the girls??
Last week, in one period, Year 7 were challenged to create a rap style song and present it to the world!
After much brainstorming and wondering what to write about, 2 groups chose to use a lyric creator
while 2 groups put their brains to the test!
This Thursday from 8.30am. DCS LIBRARY 2nd March—16th March
This year Dunedoo Central School was excellently represented in the LIONS Youth of the Year Quest by both Georgia
Lane and Harrison Hogden. These students were not only outstanding ambassadors for their school, but also for their
local community and family.
Both students underwent a fairly rigorous interview process on Wednesday 12th February where they were required
to speak about various current affairs issues, their leadership qualities and credentials, current patterns of academic
study, sports and hobbies as well as general knowledge. The interview panel of judges consisted of Rob Ingram, Win-
some Rowbotham and Sue Stoddart.
On the evening of Thursday 13th February both students took part in the Public Speaking component of LIONS Youth
of the Year at Dunedoo Sports Club. They were required to produce and deliver a five minute prepared speech as
well as deliver two impromptu speech topics. Georgia’s prepared speech topic was on the changing nature of love
over time while Harrison presented a speech concerned with the ways in which technology has enriched our lives.
The impromptu topics were:
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning to drive in Dunedoo?
• How can this generation fix the environmental mistakes of previous genera-
tions?
Both students spoke incredibly well on the night and engaged well with the audience.
Georgia was deemed the Public Speaking Winner on the night by the judging panel
(Rob, Winsome & Sue) in a narrow contest. Both contestants will now
compete at the Regional Level at Muswellbrook on Sunday 15th March.
Shane Hall
Once again, Year 8 were outstanding at Radio. We have created a schedule of presenters where 2 stu-
dents host the whole program with either Ken or Barbara present to assist. This roster will be published
next week so you can listen to your star presenter on 96.1! Then the other students rotate through pre-
senting reports from the previous week’s newsletter.
Each student contributes $1 and Nick and Ailsa are responsible for purchasing mega chips which are
eaten back at school.
Radio membership is $5, and all students are expected to be members. Membership forms will be sent
home with students tomorrow. Mrs Fergusson
Lions Youth of the Year 2020—Club Level
Week 4 Week 5 TUES - Young Leaders Day—Red Hill THURS - P & C Meeting, 7pm, Library Annexe - All Welcome!
TUES - Binnaway Junior Judging - Dunedoo Junior Pro Am Clinic WED - Dubbo District Tennis Trials THURS - Dragons Visit 10.10am - Dubbo District Twilight Swimming Carnival FRI - Scripture begins K-6 - Clean Up Australia Day
Wishing you a wonderful day
Fletcher Hogden Year 5 20th Feb Callum Smith Year 4 20th Feb
Hello and Welcome to Week 4.
A huge thank you to Ella, Annette & Roger for your help last week!
Slush Puppies, unfortunately, are not available at the moment, due to
the floor not being completed.
Monday 2nd March & Tuesday 3rd March, the canteen WILL BE CLOSED
for the completion of the renovations. Sorry for any inconvenience this
may cause.
Tuesday Special (18.02.20):
Hamburger $5.00 Sherri
Dunedoo Junior League & Netball
Expression of interest for coaches for the 2020 season.
Football Teams Netball Teams
6’s, 8’s, 10’s, 12’s, 14’s 6’s, 8’s, 10’s, 12’s
Please contact Mick Inder 0427751 146 [email protected]
Kinder to Yr. 6 $35.00
Year’s 7 to 10 $65.00
Year’s 11 & 12 $85.00
Year 7/8 TAS (Timber & Ag) $30.00
Year 9/10 Industrial Tech. $50.00
Year 11/12 Industrial Tech. $50.00
Year 11/12 VET (Metals) $80.00
Year 7 & Year 10
Notes have been sent
home. Please sign and
send back into DCS
School Office.
DCS & St Michael primary students will be doing a compli-
mentary MYGolf session at Dunedoo Golf Club during the
Pro Am on 25th Feb (50 International and Australian Women
Golf Professionals will be in attendance). If parents/
guardians/grandparents would like to come down and watch
their child match it with the top golfing players of the
world!!....the MyGolf session will run from 9.30-11am and
will be coordinated by Sharon Nott. Breakfast, Morning Tea
and lunch will be available at the Sports Club+ entertain-
ment. A one off opportunity not to be missed.
Junior Active Leader Landcare
(8-13yrs) program will start on 3rd
March. Bringing physical activity and
nature discovery together the 8 week
program combines Bushwalking, Ori-
enteering (Dunedoo Woodlands),
Camping/Hiking (Warrumbungles) and
Golf.
Registration forms can be obtained
from DCS front office. Active Kids
Vouchers accepted.
For further information please contact
Sharon Nott
Ph: 0428-859 509. Places are limited so
book early to avoid disappointment.
St Michaels’ Hall
Starting Tuesday 18th February
5pm (No morning class)
All levels welcome.
Cost— $12,
Hope to see you there!
