Principal Toby Morgan

Executive

Early Stage 1 & Stage 1 Karina Woods

Stage 2 Shari Taylor

Stage 3

Jemma Wallace

Special Education Debbie Williams

Instructional Leader Rebecca Letfallah

Dates for your Diary

February

12th Whole School Assembly 2.40pm

P&C AGM - 6pm South Dubbo Tavern All welcome

19th Primary Assembly 5/6W Hosting 2.40pm

21st Swimming Carnival

26th Infants Assembly 1/2W Hosting

March

19th School Photos

Message from the Principal

Swimming Carnival This annual event is fast approaching and will be held on Friday 21st February at the Dubbo Aquatic and Leisure Centre. If you are able to assist on the day please let either Mrs Wallace or Mrs Morgan know. This carnival is open to all students in Years 3 – 6 and to those students in Year 2 who are turning 8 this year. However, only those students who can confidently swim a lap of the 50 metre pool will be able to attend; ideally only those students who attend swimming training. If they do attend and can’t swim a lap of the pool then they will be brought back to school to participate in other fun activities organised for Infants students.

Parent Feedback To assist with the formation of the Annual School Report it would be great to gain some parent feedback on the daily running of Dubbo North Public School. This could be based around sporting opportunities, PBL, academic initiatives or anything to do with our school. This feedback could be delivered either in person to myself or your child’s teacher, dropped in to the front office or emailed to the school’s email address.

Attendance It has been great to see the majority of our students attending school every day so far this year; students can only learn if they in attendance at school. I appreciate the fact that students will miss days due to illness, family emergencies and for other reasons but students should not

Dubbo North Public School “Skill with Honour by being Responsible, Safe & Respectful lifelong learners”

Weekly Newsletter

Week 3 Term 1 2020

dubbonorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Tel: 6882 4689 Fax: 6884 3442

Week 3 Term 1

“Skill with Honour”

miss school because they slept in or there’s no food at home – it’s better to be here for part of a day than not at all and Miss Ferguson is always here to arrange breakfast for the students in the mornings from 8:30am.

Cooler Classroom Initiative At the end of 2019 I met with some engineers from Sydney who have been employed by the department to design split system air conditioning units for all schools in NSW. This is a huge program put in place by the DoE so will obviously take time. The next step is the approval of the design then it will go out to local tender. After this comes the construction phase and finally the hand over which will be a huge plus for our school. Stay tuned for more news on this.

CPR Next Wednesday all our members of staff will be undertaking mandatory CPR training at school from 3:30 – 6:00pm. This session is in lieu of the Staff development Day on the 18th December, being the last day of the school year and already earmarked as a Staff development Day so there will be no change to routine or loss of student class time.

Visiting The School If you arrive late to school, are leaving early or are on school grounds for any other reason during the school day (except for attending assemblies) please ensure you call into the front to sign your child in or out of school.

Have a great week. Toby Morgan Principal

School Contribution

Student $40.00 Family $80.00 (2 or more students)

Easy to pay using POP (Parent on-line payment).

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Students of the Week

Term 1 Week 2

KC Rahani Prasad KJ Dominic Riley 1/2L Elsie Hocking 1/2M Inala Peckham 1/2W Xhaayn Philp 3/4C Kale Edwards 3/4M Maycee Cafe 3/4T Mollee Cafe 5/6A Marlia Appleby 5/6H Attlas Bender 5/6W Leigham Dougherty Blue Elsie Berryman Red Mathew Foggett Yellow Martel Bamblett

Uniform Award - T1 Wk 3 - 1/2W & 3/4T

Congratulations

CANTEEN MEAL DEAL Hot Dog + Ice Block

$5.50

School Photos Photos will be taken

Thursday 19th March

Orders will be sent home last week

of February

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Class Captains’ & Library Monitors’ Induction Assembly (Above Left) Term 1 Primary class captains. (Above Right) New Term 1 Library Monitors

(Below Left) Term 1 House Captains. (Below Right) Term 1 Infants Class Captains. They will all be terrific role models for their classmates.

What’s New around the School? Demi and Olivia are enjoying one of the 3 new refrigerated drinking fountains around the school.

Everyone has loved the cool water on the hot days. Many refilling their drink bottles. You might have seen the new Dubbo North School Bus driving around. It will be utilised to transport

smaller groups of students to sporting events and excursions around town.

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Breakfast Club: Tuesday mornings, in Blue class-

room, from 8.30am to 9am. Have breakfast & share some “good news” stories.

Download the Active School App!

It’s an easy way to send in late notes, request a meeting with a teacher, change your details

& see what’s available at the school canteen.

Get to know your ClassCaptains

Name: Hallie Holdsworth Class: 1/2W

Q1. What would you like to be when you grow up? A Nurse Q2. What is your favourite subject at school? Art Q3. Would you rather be able to shrink to the size of an ant or grow to the size of a 2 storey building, whenever you wanted? Shrink to an ant. Q4. What is your favourite food? Pizza

Parenting Online Payments (POP)

An easy, convenient, time saving way for Parents

Dubbo North Public School P&C AGM Meeting

The next Dubbo North Public School P&C AGM Meeting will be held 12th February at 6pm at the

South Dubbo Tavern.

Get to know your Class Captains

Name: Logan Riley Class: 5/6A

Q1. What would you like to be when you grow up? Police Officer Q2. Would you rather win $10,000 or let your best friend win $100,000. Let my best friend win $100,000. Q3. What’s one thing that makes you feel happy? Playing with friends. Q4. Who is someone that you consider a hero in your life? Why? Dad because he’s always nice & funny.