Duri Public School

Halogen Leadership Conference

As a part of the Winanga-Li Alliance our Stage 3

students have been invited to attend this leader-

ship conference in Sydney. This conference is ex-

tremely motivating and is most beneficial to stu-

dents who are interested in developing their leader-

ship potential.

Our year 5 and 6 students, together with year 5/6

from our alliance schools, would travel to Sydney by

bus on Sunday 10th March, attend the conference

on Monday and return on Monday night.

The cost is yet to be determined but would include

transport, I night’s accommodation , food and con-

ference.

Please complete the expression of interest and re-

turn ASAP so that organization can be finalized and

final costing available.

Touch Football

If your child is interested in playing Touch Football

on Monday afternoons, please let the school know

and return your note.

Science Unit - Living things This term, both classes will be studying Living Things in Science. The students were introduced to the new school pets this week - 5 Spiny Leaf In-sects. Some students were happier than others to meet them! The unit will focus on investigating different types of insects and their benefits to the environment. We are excited to learn more about our new pets!

Mrs Lee and Ms Bayley.

Hayley and Saxten

Hughes—TODAY!

Cooking with Mrs Chiswell

DURI PUBLIC SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER 11th February, Week 3, Term 1, 2019

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

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sa Sun

11 Opportunity

Hub—painting

12 13 P&C meet-

ing

14 15 Swimming 16 17

18 19 Ten-Pin Bowling 20 Farrer

Open Day

21 22 Swimming

Zone Swimming Carnival

23 24

25 Opportunity

Hub—painting

26 27 28 March 1 Swimming

February

Duri Public School SRC Induction Congratulations to our 2019 Student representative Council who

were awarded their badges at Friday’s assembly.

School Captains: Ben Crittle and Hayley Pope (absent), Sports Captains: Amylia McCluand and Alaanah Jerrett

SRC: Ollie Steele, Zara Kesby, Lexi McCarthy and Henry Steele

From the Principal

Dear Parents,

Everyone has settled into the school year. Miss

Bayley and Mrs Crittle have worked hard to en-

sure our new Kindy students are happily learn-

ing all of our routines and enjoying the begin-

ning of their school journey. Our Year 1-6

students are also busy setting up routines and

embarking on new units of work.

Thank you to those parents who attended our

information evening. Our staff are all very

excited about a great year of learning with your

children.

Catherine Anderson

SCHOOL NEWS

P&C Meeting– We will still be having a P&C meeting this Wednesday, Feb 13th at 7pm. Everyone wel-come.

Our P&C AGM will be now be held Wednesday

13th March, 7pm. We hope to see lots of old

and new members.

AGENDA AGM

1. Minutes of previous AGM

2. 2.Presidents Report

3. 3.Treasurers Report

4. Auditors Report

5. Membership fees

6. Election of new committee

7. Review the by laws and policies of the

association

Voluntary School Contribution

The Voluntary School Contribution for 2019 aims

to enhance your child’s educational and sporting

programs. The cost is $50 per child. This

payment will contribute towards classroom

resources, work books and other initiatives that

support your child’s education and success at

school. Excursions will be a separate expense.

Excursion Fund

This year, due to new financial system, we are

able to offer 3 options when paying for excur-

sions and incidentals throughout the year.

1. Send in cash with your permission note

before due date of excursion

2. POP (Parent Online Payment) payment

before due date of excursion via ‘Payment’

Tab on School Website

3. Pay a nominated sum into your child’s

“Fees in Advance” & amounts will be

deducted from this lump sum.

Please see Mrs Steele if you wish to take up

option 3.

Swimming

The Bective Carnival was a great success and we

thank Attunga PS for their organisation.

The Zone swimming carnival will take place in

Tamworth on Friday 22nd Feb. You can go to the

Tamworth Zone PSSA website to find infor-

mation on sports and calendars. We have just

received our student times from Attunga and

will send a note to students going on to Zone

soon.

If you have yet to pay for Friday swimming

lessons please do so as soon as possible.

Duri Public School Duri Public School

Student Representative Council

and Sports Captains

Our SRC and sports captains have been announced.

Congratulations to:

SRC 2019 Senior Class: Ollie Steele and Zara Kesby.

SRC 2019 Junior Class: Henry Steele & Lexi

McCarthy

Sport: Amylia McCluand, Alaanah Jerrett

Ten Pin Bowling

We have been invited to take part in a Ten Pin

Bowling Session at the reopened Tamworth Ten Pin

in Centrepoint Shopping Centre. Our session Is

Tuesday 19th Feb 1-2.30. Please return the permis-

sion slip together with $5 for the bus. There will be

a snack bar available.

Library

Please note, there are still several students with

overdue books outstanding from last year. Please

send overdue books in as soon as possible so your

child may begin to borrow new loans. I look forward

to another exciting year in the library! Thank you

kindly, Mrs Lee.

Bective Carnivals– Swimming &

Athletics

As part of the Winanga-Li Small Schools Alliance

(Attunga, Duri, Curra, Somerton & Woolomin) we

are refining our practises to collaborate and build

strong relationships between our schools. As we are

all small schools we have decided that the Bective

Carnivals, both swimming and athletics, will be our

school carnivals. The competition is amongst all of

the small schools in the alliance and places will be

awarded accordingly. This will alleviate the need for

a second prize giving ceremony at our schools.

This will not affect Zone qualifications as these are

based times and distances.

If you would like to discuss this further please see

the Principal.

School Facebook Page

Our school Facebook page is Duri PS. We will be

putting up information from time to time that

might assist you and also posting photos of our stu-

dents activities at school.

Music

Our music teacher from The Con, Manduway, has been selected to be part of a nationwide tour with a prestigious Dance Troup. Consequently, he will not be available to teach his Conservatorium students in weeks 4, 5 and 6. Samara Redman will be replacing him during his absence.

General Assistant

This week we farewell Brett as our GA. He has done

a great job for many years ensuring the Duri school

grounds are always looking their best. We wish

Brett all the best for the future.

We welcome Wayne who will be taking over to en-

sure our grounds continue to look beautiful.

School Banking

Just a reminder that school banking day is Tuesday.

If your child would like to begin banking through the

school please visit your local Commonwealth

Branch to set up an account.

Senior Excursion

We are currently working on costing for the Term 2

Senior Excursion to the Gold Coast/Brisbane. Dates:

Mon 3rd June—Friday 7th June. It will be discussed

at the P&C meeting this week and a note will be

out shortly.