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Term 4 Dates

*Wed 11th Nov– School Fair

*Mon 23rd November– Captains’ Speeches

*Wed 18th & 25th Nov– Xmas Craft Groups

*Wed 2nd Dec – Presentation

*Wed 9th Dec– Year 6 Farewell (Movie: Dragon

Rider)

*Mon 14th Dec– Cinema Fun Day (Unfortunately

no Nursing Home visit this year due to COVID

restrictions) Movie: The Croods 2

Tues 15th Dec– Duri’s Got Talent & Party Day

Wed 16th Dec– Clean Up and Movie Day. Last day.

Senior HOME art project

We have finally finished out canvases for the

HOME art project. Art will be on display at Ray

Walsh House– Art Space as part of NAIDOC Week

from 9th November– for a month. Please call in

and check out the amazing collages our senior

students have produced.

More Melbourne Cup pics

DURI PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 9 November, Week 5 Term 4, 2020

Duri Public School, Dungowan Road, DURI, NSW, 2344

Phone: (02) 6768 0214 Email: duri-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Fax: (02) 6768 0209 Web Address: www.duri-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to our Fashions of the Field winners: Savannah G & Cassidy, Rylee & Xavier

Our snail race winner was ‘Harry’.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

9 10 Peel HS

Transition 11 School Fair 12 Kinder

Transition

Oxley Yr 6 Taster

13 Peel Transition

Farrer Transition

14 15

16 17 18 19 20 Cricket Gala Day

Farrer Transition

21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

NOVEMBER 2020

Melbourne Cup

From the Principal

Dear Parents,

Students have been given notes recently for our

Fair and soccer day at Currabubula PS. Please

ensure they are returned swiftly as arrange-

ments need to be made and food ordered/

prepared.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Catherine Anderson

SCHOOL NEWS

P & C News

P&C meetings are now able to be held on site,

after hours and complying with COVID safe

regulations. Our next meeting will be held

Wednesday 25 November 6pm in school hall.

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Merit Awards

Term 4 Week 2

Hayleigh—making positive comments to

others

Saxten—improved ball skills

Henry C – always completes set tasks

Ashton - outstanding work in all areas

Zara - always contributing to classroom discussions

Kailah– improvement in spelling

Mason– persisting with learning tasks

Phoebe– an interesting, well punctuated narrative

Value of the Week

Our Value of the week is:

Be positive to others– say

something nice, give a com-

pliment

We are looking to catch students demonstrating this

and they will be rewarded with a Supakid award .

Infants Maths

Infants practicing their addition skills. We rolled two dice and added the numbers together, we then matched it to the numbers on our board and covered it with a coloured bear. Whoever got four bears in a row first was the winner.

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2021 Captains Speeches

Speeches will be made on Monday 23rd November.

Welcome Mrs Canham

Welcome back to Mrs Canham who will be replacing Mrs Steele until Term 4 2021. I am sure everyone will make her most welcome.

School Fair

Please collect and send in boxes for their forts

that will be built and used during capture the

flag.

Please ensure students bring their money in a

purse or wallet to keep it safe. If you could send

some small denomination coins, ie 10c, 20c, 50c,

that will save us from having change issues.

There will be lots to buy and games to play for a

minimal amount. Slices of pizza, sausage sizzle

and poppers will also

be available for $2

each.

Students may wear

casual clothes with

covered in footwear.

Farrer

Transition

Ollie enjoyed his first

day attending Farrer

transition last Friday.

School Organisation 2021

K/1/2– Still finalising teacher

3/4– Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday-Mrs McRae

5/6– Ms Anderson

3/4/5/6– together Thursday and Friday—Ms

Anderson

RFF– still finalising teacher

Peel High School Transition

Year 6 students going to Peel High

School in Year 7 2021

-Year 6 Small School Transition-Tuesday 10th No-

vember

-Year 6 Orientation Day Tuesday 1 December 10-

11am. Details to come.

Year 5 students going to Peel HS in 2022

Selective school website closes 16 Nov 2020

– you must apply before this date.

Oxley High School Transition

The next transition is scheduled for 29 Nov 12,

1-3pm.

Farrer Transition

Next Transition days, Fridays 13 and 20 November.

Orientation afternoon and evening, Wednesday 9

November.

Presentation—Restrictions have been

relaxed to allow us to hold our Presentation on

Wednesday 2nd Dec as originally planned. We

are required to comply with a COVID –19

Safety Plan and will therefore have limitations

on how many visitors can attend the presenta-

tion. This is not ideal, and we are still working

on the best way forward given the restrictions.

We will also live Zoom and record. More infor-

mation will follow in coming weeks.