Principal’s Report ~ Milly Stone

This has been another amazing week at Dural PS for our children. Please enjoy reading about the opportunities that your children are able to experience each and every day. Mathematics Throughout Term 3, Arcadia, Glenorie and Dural Public Schools spent their professional learning afternoons working with an amazing mathematician, Anita Chin. Throughout this time, staff were able to look at the Whole School Approach of teaching Mathematics, differentiating instruction, number and algebra. Please have a look at the article from Miss Parker and some of the work her children have attained. The staff are now beginning to implement new ideas and strategies within their teaching programs. This has been a great learning journey. Jacaranda Concert On Tuesday the string group, 6H and Mrs Heinrichson spent the day in Sydney in preparation for their concert on Tuesday night. What a wonderful opportunity for our children to perform at the Opera House. The concert was awe-inspiring. Congratulations! Bring In Day Thank you for your support of the P&C Country Fair by the wonderful response to our bring-in days. The children look great in their onesies or black and white. We collected over 500 bottles of water, 50 packets of seeds and $324 in gold coin donations. This is wonderful community spirit. Our country fair is not very far away. Please remember to put the 29 October in your diary! BBQ Elections this Saturday The P&C are still requiring volunteers to help with the BBQ at Dural Public School this Saturday. This is a wonderful opportunity to raise funds for our school as we are expecting 2000 people to vote. If you can help please email duralpspandc@gmail.com. Art Show Our 3rd Annual art show will be held on Friday 15 September from 6.00pm to 8.00pm and Saturday 16 September 10.00am to 2.00pm. What a great opportunity to view the amazing work that your children are creating with their art program that Miss C has written. I have seen some of the work already and it is stunning. Look forward to seeing you at the art show. Public Speaking Our Stage 2 and 3 Public Speaking finalists have done a fantastic job of preparing and presenting their speeches. Our winners were Angus K 3O, Dana W 3/4R, Cooper A 5R, Emma F 6L. These children will now go on to the Hills Network Public Speaking Competition on the 12th September at John Purchase Public School. We wish them all the best.

DATES

TO

REMEMBER

THIS WEEK

AT DURAL

FRI 8 SEP K-2 Sport

Stage 3 Sport PSSA

MON 11 SEP

TUE 12 SEP Hills Public

Speaking Competition

Dr Shoe Outside Uniform Shop

2:45-3:45

WED 13 SEP Sport K and 2-6

Surf Ed Yr 5

THU 14 SEP 9:30 K-2 Public

Speaking Presentation

District Invention

Convention

FRI 15 SEP K-2 Sport

Stage 3 Sport PSSA

DPS Art Show 6-8pm

SAT 16 SEP

DPS Art Show 10am-2pm

Dural Public School

Newsletter

7th September 2017 ~ TERM 3, WEEK 8 622 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

- Strive for Success -

The Dural Diamonds Respect Responsibility Success

Congratulations

to our Diamond Pin Students BLUE RED GREEN

Jade M KL

Ardelle M KL

Caitlyn C KJ

Olivia M 2C

Ayva K KJ

Olivia K KJ

Grace P KJ

Georgia P KJ

Mark R 1P

PINK ORANGE YELLOW

William L 2C

WHITE DOUBLE BLUE DOUBLE

GREEN

Arezo A 3/4R

Rohan U 3/4R

DOUBLE

ORANGE

Bronte M 3/4R

Class Diamond Book Student Week 8

KJ Kate O

KL James D

KS Eveline M

1B Daniella C

1P Kieren S

2C Lewis W

2D Charlotte B

3O Rubi S

3W Brosnan L

3/4R Roberto R

4M Hayley M

5B Zachary T

5M Blair M

5R Owen C

6F Kristian Z

6H Joanne Y

6L Sienna S

Library Angus K 3O

V. Arts Lourdes K 2C

Hills Public Speaking

Good luck to Emma, Cooper, Dana and Angus who

are representing Dural in the Hills Public Speaking

next Tuesday at John Purchase PS.

New Inventors District Competition Good luck to Sophie and Emily who will be

competing in this competition at Ironbark Ridge

next Thursday!

Sabina Heinrichson

Assistant Principal

Kindergarten 2018 Is your child beginning school in 2018? We are taking enrolments for Kindergarten children for 2018. If your child will be beginning school next year, please come into the office and collect an enrolment form. We will be hosting a parent information evening on Wednesday 1st November where we will outline Kindergarten transition to school programs and beginning school information. Our Kindergarten transition program will be held over 3 days.

Monday 20th November Tuesday 28th November

Wednesday 6th December We look forward to meeting you at our Kindergarten 2018 Information Evening. Jodie Norrish Assistant Principal

Maths Cup Good luck to Laura, Joanne and Davina from 6H

who are participating in the Maths Cup at Amity

College today!

Sabina Heinrichson

Assistant Principal

MATHEMATICS FUN!!

During term three teachers at Dural Public School have undertaken training conducted by a leading expert in Australian primary mathematics education, Anita Chin. She has delivered a deep, whole- school understanding of the mathematics curriculum, along with innovative teaching techniques that have inspired and delighted the teachers at DPS. Below are some photographs that Miss Parker has shared. In her Anita Chin inspired lesson she selects an image, generally related to mathematics and asks the children to write anything that comes to mind when they observe the image.

“It is amazing what my students created, a whole mind map of ideas demonstrating what they saw.” “An adult should never underestimate the ability of a child!” Miss Parker explained. Miss Parker gets her students to write straight onto their tables when completing certain activities. “It is also fascinating to see how much more my students came up with when I asked them to write their answers straight onto their tables.” “This in itself was so much fun!”

- Strive for Success -

Dear Parents and Carers, Another great week at OOSH and the children are getting involved in choosing new games and outdoor equipment that they would like to have at the centre. We will be purchasing new hula-hoops and soccer nets so they can enjoy fun outdoor activities in this wonderful spring weather. We are always open to new ideas so if there are any outdoor games that your children love at home, then let us know so we can purchase them here. We are having fun adding to our vacation care programme and with ‘Spring’ the theme, we will be celebrating the ‘flower children of the 70’s’ with fluoro colours. Here is just a sample of some activities. We will have fun with tie-dye – creating colourful shirts and bags along with creating some colourful sand jars. If you have any unusually shaped empty jars, we would love them. Please contact the centre if you would like to send your children to vacation care.

UNIFORM SHOP Dr Shoe will be outside the uniform shop

from 2.45-3.45pm on Tuesday 12th

September.

CANTEEN Our yummy hot meals (supplied by Georgie

Baker) are proving very popular with increased

sales in recent weeks. Must be the cold, windy

weather!

We are currently preparing our volunteer roster

for next term, so if you have been thinking about

joining our regular team of helpers - please let

us know! We are losing a couple of our regulars

to full time work :(

Please email duralcanteennews@gmail.com or pop

into the canteen to see Shelley or myself.

Rostered this week are:

FRIDAY 8TH SEPT (SHELLEY)

1) NARELLE DEARDEN

2) ROSA VOTANO

3) NEED 1 MORE!

MONDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER (TRUDI)

1) DANIELLE VASSALLO

2) LOLITA SUYKO

WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER (TRUDI)

1) LILLY SWIFT

2) VICKI KORB

FRIDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER (SHELLEY)

1) FIONA ZI

2) ESTHER LOH

3) JACKIE TAN (9-10:30AM)

4) DIEM MOUSSA (11-1:30PM)

We are still looking for helpers every day in the

last week of term. Please let us know if you can

help out.

Regards

Trudi :)

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- Strive for Success -

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Dural RFS Brigade would like to offer residents who live in the following areas of Dural the opportunity to receive a visit from some of our most experienced firefighters for a personalised property assessment:

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Vineys Road and adjoining streets

Carters Rd and adjoining streets

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