Newsletter

James St Dunoon 2480

T 0266895208

E dunoon-p .school @det.nsw.edu.au

W www.dunoon-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Friendship & Learning Tuesday 29 October 2019 Term 4 - Week 3

Every student is known, valued and cared for in our school

TERM 4

Kinder 2020 Orientation Days 9.00-11.30am

Thursdays Week 1, 3, 4 and 5

Wed 20-Sun 24 Nov Schools Spectacular (selected students)

Tues 26 Nov Yr 6 Transition Day @‘The Rivers’

Thurs 28-29 Nov Year 5/6 Camp

Tues 3 Dec Yr 6 Transition Day @‘The Rivers’

Wed 4 Dec Year 6 Farewell

Thurs 12 Dec Concert

Wed 18 Dec Last day of term

Before School Care We are seeking expressions of interest from families who may be keen to have a Before School Care Service program at our school. As you know, we currently have After School Care which many children enjoy. Possible hours of operation could be 7.15am – 8.45am. The session fee cost for a permanent booking would be $17 (before the Child Care Subsidy). The session fee cost for a casual booking would be $19 (before Child Care Subsidy). We would need 8-10 students to make this viable. If this may be of interest to your family, please contact Genevieve or the school: ph: 66895208 Email: genevieve.slocombe@det.nsw.edu.au

Enrolments 2020 Our anticipated enrolment figure for next

year is 83. We need 78 students to maintain

our four permanent classroom teachers so

this enrolment figure is very positive! I will

provide advice about our classroom teachers

and structures later in the year. Thank you

Sensational Sandpit

Our children are loving our brand new

sandpit covers and sand!

1/2 News

The 1/2 class has had an enriching start to the term:

We learnt about places around Australia like Hobart,

Uluru, Kakadu and the Daintree rainforest. We are

making postcards to send to a school in Hobart.

(Lotte)

We went into the

trees and got 2 sticks.

The next day we hot

glued them together.

We chose our wool

colours and then

wove around the

sticks and keep going

until your wool is out.

Then you get another

bit of wool and keep

going. It was fun and

I like my weaving.

(Cooper)

After swimming we

were making things

for challenges like

bugs, bridges, floating

raft and a house that

wouldn’t blow down.

It was fun to have a

challenge and I liked

working in our group.

(Sonny)

Happy Birthday

Aaishween, Cooper & Bodhi,

for last week and to

Jemma, Tess & Oriel for this week.

Best wishes from all your

friends at school!

Donations Wanted!

If anyone has any fabric we could use as headbands and costumes for an African Performing

Arts item, it would be very appreciated! Anything in reds, browns, yellows or anything you

think reminds you of Africa would be very gratefully accepted! Also, if anyone has any

Madonna microphones we could borrow, or a cat ‘onesie’, that would be wonderful.

Many thanks, Kim

Friendship and Learning We strive to continually promote principles of inclusion,

acceptance and celebrations of uniqueness, respect for

cultures that may be different to our own, and making sure

that we don’t unintentionally exclude others. We have

been discussing ways that we can support each other in

developing and maintaining positive relationships.

There are many activities and scenarios which can be

used to highlight these messages. Concert preparations,

marimba performances, playground games, orientation

days all provide opportunities for discussions and practical

advice about awareness of how others may be feeling and

making sure that we are ‘includers.’

We’ve always taken great pride in the way students at the

school look out for each other and the way that they are

encouraged to celebrate the achievements or successes

of classmates. Term 4 always provides us with many op-

portunities to further promote these messages and we ask

families to help by discussing this with your child and rein-

forcing these messages at home.

Things to think about…

Looking out for someone who may be feeling left out at

playtime; making sure that we pass the ball around during

soccer games or handball; making others feel welcome

during marimba tutoring times; keeping a close eye out for

our great new Kinders on their Orientation mornings; sup-

porting each other as we prepare for our concert; being

someone who stands up for others; and remembering our

‘Stop, Walk, Talk’ strategy.

Intensive Swimming Program

SUSHI TUESDAY IS BACK!

$3.50 ea

Have your Sushi orders in

at the office by 3PM

Monday afternoon for a

delicious sushi roll lunch

on Tuesday.

Mini Soy/Ginger-10

cents

Mayonnaise- 25 cents

Dunoon Public School will have a stall at the Modanville Public School Communi-

ty Garage Sale, selling the books that were left over from the Dunoon Spring

Fair.

If you can help at the stall for some of the day, please contact Melissa on

0415383755

or melissa_kervella@hotmail.com

Thank you

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