Principal’s Report ~ Milly Stone

I hope everyone had a relaxing Easter break. It was great to have a long weekend after such a hectic week. Night of the Notables Congratulations to 5B on a great evening in the library last night. Your presentations on famous Australians were outstanding. It was wonderful to see so many families attend. Thank you Mrs Barhon for all your hard work. Senior Band Performance Congratulations to all the members of the senior concert band who performed at the school assembly yesterday. You sounded amazing. Thank you to Mrs Spall for all your great work as our conductor for the senior and beginner bands. Band Camp The band camp is on next week from Monday to Wednesday. The teachers attending throughout the camp will be Mrs Philippou, Mrs Barhon and Ms Stone. We look forward to an amazing 3 days of music and singing. Have a great musical camp! Columba won the cross-country carnival! Congratulations to all the children on receiving their medals and trophies at the school assembly yesterday. Congratulations to Columba on winning the cross-country carnival. Great running Dural! Student Representative Council Congratulations to all the children on receiving their badges yesterday. Your peers voted you to be their representative at all the SRC meeting with Miss Dryer. I look forward to all your ideas throughout the year. See p. 2. ANZAC Day Service This will be held on Friday 13 April at Dural Public School commencing at 10.00am. Parents are very welcome. Last Day of Term 1 Friday April 13 is the last day of Term 1. Term 2 Dates Children return to school on Tuesday May 1. Children are to return to school wearing their full winter uniform. The uniform shop has all the winter stock, so if you need to purchase any items, please order through Flexi-school. The uniform shop is open every Tuesday afternoon between 2.30pm and 3.30pm.

DATES

TO

REMEMBER

THIS WEEK

AT DURAL

FRI 6 APR Stage 2 Riverside

MON 9 APR Band Camp

TUE 10 APR Band Camp

Buddies Incursion K-6

WED 11 APR Band Camp

THU 12 APR

Disco

FRI 13 APR ANZAC

Ceremony Last Day of

Term

MON 30 APR Staff

Development Day

TUE 1 MAY Students Return

PBEL FOCUS FOR THE MONTH

Assembly

Dural Public School

Newsletter

5th April 2018 ~ TERM 1, WEEK 10 622 Old Northern Rd, DURAL NSW 2158 Email: dural-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: 9651 1164 Fax: 9651 4172 Webpage: http://www.duralpublicschool.com.au

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The Dural Diamonds Respect Responsibility Success

Congratulations

to our Diamond Pin Students BLUE RED GREEN

Brosnan L 4F

Francesco G 4F

Jordan S 3M

PINK ORANGE YELLOW

Mercene K 4F

Evie O-M 3M

Brandyn B 6D

Zachary C 4F

WHITE DOUBLE BLUE DOUBLE RED

Amara M 5D

DOUBLE

GREEN

DOUBLE

ORANGE

DOUBLE

YELLOW

Kalan L 6D

Class Diamond Book Student Week 10

KO Cooper G Charles M

KP Liam M Jack W

K/1S Benjamin L Ciara L

1L Jasmine Y Fleur K

1N Lucinda T Lewis H

2C Andrew O Matilda M

2M Max Z Cian C

3M Sienna S Simone R

3/4R Joshua M Caleb K

4B Joshua B Daniel P

4F Luke N Spencer C

5B Dana W Gavin H

5D Hayley M Rohan U

5L Ryan Z Denny S

6B Helena L Georgina R

6D Biagio L Monique DR

6H Jonathan S Joelle T

Library Rachel C 6H Claire S KO

V. Arts Jaziah M-W Georgie R 4F

ANZAC Service – Friday 13 April We will be holding our ANZAC

Commemorative service on Friday at 10am

in the hall. We welcome all family and

friends to attend.

SRC REPRESENTATIVES 2018 Congratulations to our Student Representatives

for 2018.

KO William Sworden, Brianna Vincenti

KP Brendan Hokin, Hazel Care-Wickham

K/1S Elka Jones, Isabella Martin

1L Samuel Ware, Rachael Halbert

1N Ricardo Giuffre. Lucinda Torrens

2C Evie Fouthrop-Tarrant, Andrew O’Brien

2M Gabrielle Sills, Okitha Kumburegedara

3M James Rennie, Evie Owen-Mergl

3/4R Lachlan Zillman, Leilani Bloch

4B Anastasia Dearden, Talia McDonald

4F Megan Turnbull, Eric Zhu

5B Sarah Gong, Leo Ouyang

5D Jessica Turnbull, Cyrus Lotfizadeh

5L Bronte Macphee, Aaran Yogananthan

6B Oliver Azizi, Amy Cubis

6D Brandyn Burns, Jazmin Callaghan

6H Alice Tan, Jonathan Salim

Dear Parents/Guardians,

If there are any parents/grandparents who can help

us sew/embellish some of our costumes for our

Wakakirri story dance, we would love your help.

Please see Miss Shen or send a note with your

child to Miss Shen with your details if you can

assist with costumes. We appreciate any help.

Thank you.

Wakakirri Teachers

Beecroft Zone Netball Trial Nominations

The convenor is seeking nominations from

girls in year 5 and 6 who play:

-Representative netball

-Division 1 netball

If your child meets the above criteria,

please send them to Mr Field ASAP as the

trial is on Wednesday next week.

Term 1 Disco 2018

Thursday 12 April 2018

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our term 1 Disco will be held on Thursday 12 April in the school hall.

The disco will be organised by “Footsteps”.

The sessions will be:

K-2 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm

and

3-6 from 5:45pm -7:15pm

The entry cost will be $8- payable at the door on the night. This will cover

entry to the disco and several glow shapes.

The P&C will be holding a free sausage sizzle on the night.

Thank you

Teachers at Dural Public School

From the pen of the President

We had another great P&C meeting in March and we are looking forward to an exciting 2018. Our school is currently completing an audit of the tablets and computers available for our children to use in the classrooms. With the introduction of On-line testing such as NAPLAN we need to ensure we have enough resources for our children to use. Stay tuned for the “Cookies for Computers” fundraiser next term to help raise funds to increase our technology resources. Next Thursday 12th April is the first school disco for 2018. The P&C will be hosting a FREE BBQ for all DPS children who attend on the night so don’t forget to grab a sausage sandwich at the end of the Disco for your child. Thank you to Rod who will coordinate this event. If you would like to help cook the BBQ please email duralpspandc@gmail.com. Our traditional Mother’s Day stall will be held on Thursday 3rd May (as we have school photos the following week). There will be a selection of traditional Mother’s Day gifts as well as the introduction of the Mother’s Day gift bag (prices are $10 and $20), and each bag will contain a range of gifts for our special mums. Don’t forget we will have a stock a Nanna and Grandma presents too so please remember to send money with your child. If you are available to help on the Mother’s Day stall please email duralpspandc@gmail.com. Thank you to Vicki who has co-ordinated this event. Together we can all continue to make Dural Public School the amazing school that it is for our children. Kind Regards Cara Miceli

PRIMARY SCHOOLS CHESS COMPETITION

We are looking forward to another exciting and challenging series of games in Term 2, and

welcome all capable Chess players to the teams.

The competition involves play after school on Friday afternoons, the number of weeks each

year varying, depending on the number of schools playing in each division.

Play is “at home” [here at Dural Public School], or at one of the other schools involved,

usually on alternate weeks. Selection of the teams is determineded by the experience of the

players and the availability of parents to take the teams to the “away” venues.

Interested students can collect a note from Mrs B. Moore.

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CANTEEN All Year 3 and 4 students who are attending

the Riverside Theatre excursion this Friday

will not be able to place a Lunch Order, as

they are leaving the school at 11;30am.

Please ensure that any standing Flexischools

orders are cancelled for this day.

Rostered this week are:

FRIDAY 6TH APRIL (SHELLEY)

1) NARELLE DEARDEN

2) GAYE SMALLWOOD

MONDAY 9TH APRIL (SHELLEY)

1) SALLY GEEVE

2) BRONWYN GEEVE

WEDNESDAY 11TH APRIL (ERICA)

1) NAOMI SLACK

2) SELINA MATE

FRIDAY 13TH APRIL (ERICA)

1) NEED VOLUNTEER

2) NEED VOLUNTEER

3) NEED VOLUNTEER

We still need helpers for next Friday 13th

April. If we have no volunteers, we will be

unable to operate the canteen on this day.

If you are able to assist, please contact duralcanteennews@gmail.com or the school

office.

As always, thank you to our wonderful team

of volunteers who give up their time to

assist.

Trudi & Shelley

Get ready for the holidays!

If you need vacation care during the upcoming

school holidays or your children need something

awesome to do, then come along to OOSH for a fun

filled time with friends and with lots of interesting

activities and fun days out.

It’s easy to attend, simply enrol your child – pick the

days that you require and then either ring or email

the centre and we will do the rest. Our contact

details are 9653 9331 or dural@jigsawoosh.com.au

Enrolment forms will be emailed to you or printed

here at the OOSH building for your convenience.

Some days are filling fast so make sure you let us

know as soon as possible.

Please note, that breakfast – morning tea – lunch

and afternoon tea is fully catered for by our

catering company ‘Tuckshop” and ALL dietary

needs are catered for.

Take a look at the full programme and booking

information included with this newsletter.

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