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From Sharon’s Desk The Outdoor Learning Environment has seen more improvements this week with the upgraded snake “Monty” being unveiled off Dalton Street. Students will love the new addition to the vibrant area where they can sit, learn and play. Other areas of woodchip tree guards have been replaced with a material that is much more environmentally friendly and more permanent. Kindergarten Transition 2020 program is underway and into its 3rd week. This week there is a parent expo each afternoon, Tuesday through to Thursday from 2.30pm. There is lots of information available from the P&C, Dubbo Buslines, Afterschool Care, Department of Health and other external organisations. Come along and find out information ready for next year. I look forward to meeting you there each day. The coffee van will be available. Attendance has been slipping for some students at South. It is parent’s responsibility to organise and ensure children are here every day unless they are sick or there are extenuating circumstances, which MUST BE EXPLAINED. Sending your children to school is not a choice if you wish them to achieve outcomes. They must attend school every day they are able to. Please work with us and if your children cannot attend school, please contact us by school app, phone, letter or email to explain the absence. Any issues please ring the school. Teachers will continue to contact home and chase these explanations. We need to all work together on ensuring your children, our students excel and do the best they can when they are at school every day!

Travelling to school each day safely is very important for all of our students, your children, making it safely to and from school. We are situated on busy roads and Fitzroy Street in particular is very heavy with traffic. It is important and central to being a parent, as a good role model for your children, that you encourage them to use the crossing at both Dalton Street and Fitzroy Street. They are manned for a reason. Please don’t call your children across the road or walk in between cars and buses. There have been a couple of near misses lately with community people ringing in to report our students are being unsafe. Our school has education programs on road safety and we do follow through with them, however, we need your support and you to practise the safe rules. Early drop off before 8.15 is not available at school. I have noticed children are coming earlier with daylight saving in particular. Please know I understand parents work and begin early shifts, however we are not a day care centre. There are NO staff on supervision before 8.30am. Please don’t drop off or allow your children to walk to school before this time thinking that because they are on school premises, someone is supervising them. Gates will not open until 8.15 of a morning. Have a good week. Sharon Murray, Principal

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

Term 4 Week 6 19th November 2019

Important Dates Wednesday 20th November

Kinder 2020 Parent Expo Thursday 21st November

Kinder Parent Expo continues SRC nominations due

Friday 22nd November K—6 Assembly Item by 3D, 3K &3T

1.35 in the Hall Monday 25th November

SRC Speeches Tuesday 26th November

Kinder Transition Continues

Kinder Transition is now in it’s 3rd week. Please see the office if you have a child ready to start

Kindergarten next year for an enrolment pack. All students will need a Birth Certificate, proof of address and Immun-

isation Certificate. Please tell anyone you may know living in our area and have school age children for 2020.

Get the Free School App for the

newsletter, messages and

absences.

A reminder that

payments can be made on line

through the schools website.

PRC 2019 We will advise everyone when certificates are being handed out. Students who have completed their 4th or 7th year of PRC will receive a gold or platinum certificate. These have not yet been sent to the school.

Book Club Flyers will go out to classes this week. Orders are due back at school or online (Loop), by Thursday 28th November. If you have some surprises in your order, please mark as gift, and let us know. We can contact you to come and collect your order.

E-books and audio books Students can log onto their student portal and log into our Oliver library system. Once in Oliver they can search for books by genre, author, title or word. Students may borrow e-books through Oliver. Borrowing (or downloading) requires internet access, but they are able to be read from a device after downloading. An app is also available – students use their school username and password to access the app. Please contact the library if you have any questions. Enjoy your week. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

Congratulations to the following students on their achievements: Merit: Eliza Pankhurst, Ava Lawson, Emily Hughes, Aseri Gusuivala, Max Lewinski, Taj Kennedy, Alex Price, Lilie Foley, Katie Andrews, Lila-Maree Sutton, Lachlan O’Leary, Georgia Devenish, Liam Ireland, Cain Kennedy, Sophia Weyer, Malia Pring, Lilly Karakasch Credit: Taj Kennedy, Matilda Prince, Lila-Maree Sutton, Ava Pychtin, Jax Sowden, Locklan Gillespie, Navreet Kaur, Taylah Nelson, Nicholas Couley Distinction: Taj Kennedy, Lila-Maree Sutton, Michaela Ross, Hailey Spencer, Jorden West, Isobel Donald, Piper Hocking Honour: Taj Kennedy, Devin Weir, Maddison Leary, Theo Weekes Banner: Taj Kennedy, Alex Price, Hayden Sutton, Devin Weir, Charlie Beggs, Hunter Payne

Canteen Roster When ordering lunch, please make sure food and drink orders are written on separate bags for your child. Volunteers are urgently required, please see Jody if you can help out.

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A reminder that all money owing for Year 2 swimming needs to be finalised

before the program commences on Monday 2nd December.

3D, 3K & 3T Assembly This week these three classes will be presenting their item at this Friday’s whole school assembly. Parents and

caregivers are invited to attend. Students do not require any costumes.

They will be wearing their school uniform. Please support them to

practise their item lyrics at home with you, ensuring they use their

punctuation and pronounce words clearly. We look forward to seeing you

on Friday.

Wednesday 20th November Jackie Gravitis

Thursday 21st November Cathy Thompson

Friday 22nd November Sangeeta Choudhury

Monday 25th November Lorraine Kerr

Tuesday 26th November Volunteer Required

The Department’s Revised Enrolment Policy—What has Changed? The enrolment cap is the number of students that can be enrolled at a school based on the school’s permanent accommodation. The enrolment cap tells us whether the school may or may not have the capacity to accept non-local enrolments. It is not a target or limit on the number of local enrolments a school can take. Each school with a local intake area will have a cap set by the department from Term 4 2019. This applies to all the schools in Dubbo. To discuss this further, please feel free to make an appointment to meet with our Principal.

Touch Football Gala Day Last Tuesday 12th November our boys and girls touch teams travelled to Orange for a Gala Day. The boys made it all the way to the quarter final and won 8-1 against Orange Public School with Alex Matthews, Angus Etcell, Kobi Auld, Logan Johnson, Blake Payne and Andrew Powyer all adding to the score board. They then went on to play a strong Catherine McAuley side in which the boys went down 6-3. Our girls team narrowly missed out on a place in the finals after they played against Orange Public School. Both teams played with fantastic sportsmanship and should be extremely proud of their efforts on the day.

Kinder Opal Visit Another small group of Kindergarten students went to visit the Opal Nursing Home yesterday. Students sang nursery rhymes and fun songs as the residents joined in with bells and tambourines. Once again, students had the chance to chat with the residents. We met up with ‘Peter’ again and he told us that he used to be a shearer and ‘Mike’ who loved joining in with our singing. The residents were excited to see the children for a second visit and look forward to us coming back closer to Christmas time.

Move to Learn Maths All Kindergarten students have been going out each Wednesday for a session of Maths in the playground. Students rotate around various activities that combine mathematical thinking with moving. Some of the activities that students have so far participated in include jumping hurdles while counting by tens, reading o’clock times and playing ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf’ and rolling dice to quickly read the dot patterns before star jumping the corresponding number of dots.

Kinder Transition Program The Kinder 2020 transition program is into its 3rd week. Over this time we have read lots of books and sung songs, completed craft activities and explored the school. This week, every afternoon at 2.30pm we have parent information sessions running from the OLGA where parents are invited to come along and learn more about services that are provided to help with the transition process. The coffee van will be available at these sessions along with information including school uniform requirements, forms of communication at DSPS, tips on encouraging reading in children and ideas around quality texts, before and after school care services and the important role of the P&C.

Growth Mindset Our Growth Mindset word of the fortnight is 'Challenge'. Are there things that you find challenging at school? What actions can we take if we find something challenging? How does it feel to work hard and overcome challenges?

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Congratulations to Madeleine Moses! After her contributions to our school fete, Madeleine’s name was drawn out of all of

the entries and she has won herself an IPAD!