Drummoyne Public School

On Wednesday morning we hosted a visit by Stephanie Di Pasqua MP,  newly elected State Member for Drummoyne.  Stephanie asked to visit the school to listen to matters of interest to our school community and is photographed here with Sonia, one of our school prefects.

Happy Friday!

Thank you to everyone across the school community for playing a part in big and smaller ways to bring together the upcoming 2023 Spring Fete.  Related to this, the response to the Friday mufti days in recent weeks to promote the fete has been wonderful with parents, grandparents and friends generously supporting the school, and students loving the opportunity to enjoy wearing casual dress. 

In assemblies, I speak of the 3 reasons why children come to school i.e., to learn, to make friends and to have fun! The Spring Fete is a special opportunity in the school calendar to have fun especially as a family and I encourage you to support the fete in any way you can. 

It was wonderful to see the Stage 3 Choir perform at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday night as part of the Festival of Choral Music – Australis concert. It was a 'sold out' performance with some 30 schools across the state represented. We were thoroughly entertained with a variety of choral items, orchestral pieces and live bands.  Thank you teachers for your commitment to showcase the choir namely: Kathy Xenos, Beck Cantlay and Leigh Russ and to our parents for your faithful support of the choir and attendance at the concert. Please see the photographs in the  Announcements section.

Anita Chin Maths Workshop

Ticket Release

Tickets for the performing arts productions this term will go on sale on Monday at 10.00am (see Announcements).  All students will participate in the show for their stage including K-2 'Night at the Movies',  Years 3 & 4 'Emotional Kaleidoscope', and Years 5 & 6 'Australiana Landscapes'.  To enable every family to view their child's performance, tickets are limited to 2 tickets per student.  Further tickets will be made available if any are unsold.  For students in K-2, please consider attending the Matinee performance.

Good luck to our Tournament of the Minds team who will present at the Sydney North Regional Finals on Sunday 27th August.

On Sunday 27 August we are going to need everyone to pitch in to make our fete the fun community event we want it to be and hopefully raise some money for the school as well.

Please sign up to help on a stall or to set up or clean up. We still need some volunteers for short and fun shifts on a variety of stalls. Please bring your friends and do it together!

Sign up using this link: https://signup.zone/dps-carnival

P&C Fete committee

Students in years 3/4 have been learning about early explorers and the early years of European settlement in Australia from both a British and Eora perspective. 

After researching an explorer of their choice, they enjoyed sketching and painting tall ships using watercolours, as we discussed what life must have been like for the travellers of this time.

Dear Parents and caregivers,

Today you will receive an online survey via Schoolbytes to ask for feedback on our school reporting processes. We ask that you complete it by Friday 1st September. It should take no more than 10 minutes. 

Thank you

Dianne Colb

Deputy Principal

RAT kits are available from the school office for all families.

For continued testing, please call or visit the office to arrange collection.

Our layered COVID-smart measures – staying home if unwell, hygiene and cleaning practices, testing for COVID-19, masks strongly encouraged and ventilation – will continue this term. More details on our Advice for families page.

NSW Health advise that during the winter months, COVID will continue to present a health risk to the community. Accordingly, schools will implement baseline COVID-smart measures to help reduce the risk of transmission for students and staff members. These key COVID-smart measures include:

• staying home and getting tested if unwell, and only attending school when symptom free.

• rapid antigen testing for symptomatic students and staff. Please contact us for test kits.

With flu cases on the rise, we would like to remind families that simple hygiene such as regularly washing hands will help stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus.

Students are asked to stay home when sick. They should only attend school when they are symptom free. 

Parents and carers who have children with persistent or ongoing symptoms of flu or COVID 19 are encouraged to have these assessed by their local health care professional. These symptoms may be related to other illnesses (e.g. allergies or hay fever) that require treatment and management by a doctor. 

As you know, Anita Chin came to Drummoyne Public School for a parent workshop for mathematics on Wednesday. 

Following this, she led a professional development workshop for DPS staff on place value and how to best use some of the concrete materials on the trolleys every class teacher has in their classroom for this area of mathematics. We focused on the use of dominoes and ten frames. Below you can see an example of what this trolley looks like, with slight differences between K-2 and 3-6.

One of the key ideas teachers took away was linked to our learning on delivering number talks, which was posing to children ‘prove it 3 ways’. This helps with student communication as they justify, explain and reason how a problem can be solved 3 different ways. Below is the example we worked through as a staff and you’ll notice we took it to proving it 4 ways!

Beck Cantlay

Respect Awards - Rawson says congratulations to:

• Jude Counter - 1P
• Aleyna Yavuz - 1P
• Ellie Thai - 2D

Responsibility Awards - Monty says congratulations to:

• Angus Trahair - KW
• Torsten Ulrich - 1P
• Jordan Kelso - 2M

Resilience Awards - Brett says congratulations to:

• Alice Tolliday - 2M

Mr Dill says congratulations to:

• Ellie Thai - 2D - Respect
• Alice Tolliday - 2M - Respect

On Tuesday, 15th August 2022, the Stage 3 choir attended the Festival of Choral Music Australis Concert. They had been preparing all year for the event, rehearsing a 10-song repertoire each week, practising harmonies, timing and singing together as a group. Students arrived at the Sydney Opera House in the morning for one final rehearsal and prepared for the concert during the day, singing with prestigious bands and orchestras, and ensuring that they sounded their best by watching their conductor, Rachel Kelly. Many students enjoyed a lovely dinner in the city before returning for the concert at night. 

The concert went splendidly; the singing of the combined students from almost 30 schools sounded absolutely magical as everyone sang perfectly in time with all the nuances they had been practising. It was fantastic to have such a huge audience in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall to appreciate all the hard work that had been put in to prepare for the concert. Students were lucky enough to also watch a number of bands, orchestras, and choirs perform some beautiful music, as well as singing their own songs. The choir particularly loved singing their favourite song, The Captain's Tale, and the showstopping final number, Naughty. 

It was a spectacular evening the students will not soon forget. With any luck, the Stage 3 Choir will be invited to perform again next year. 

Kathy Xenos

Choir Co-ordinator

Michelle McCauley

Assistant Principal

Tickets for all performances will go on sale this Monday 21 August 2023 at 10am and close on Monday 4 September at 3pm.

Kindy, Year 1 and Year 2 Performance

Thursday 21st September 2023 "Night At The Movies"

Matinee : 2-3pm

Evening : 5-6pm

Tickets will be on sale through the Trybooking system, please log on to Ticket logon

Years 3 and 4 Performance

Wednesday 20th September 2023 "Emotional Kaleidoscope"

5-6pm

Tickets will go on sale through the Trybooking system, please log on to Ticket purchase

Years 5 and 6 Performance

Wednesday 20th September 2023 "Australiana Landscapes"

6:30-7:30pm

Tickets will go on sale through the Trybooking  please log on to Ticket Purchase

More information  was sent out earlier today via Skoolbytes. Please check your email.

Friday of week 4 saw Triet Nguyen and Isabelle Mills represent Drummoyne Public School in their respective stage group of the NSW Premier's Spelling Bee Regional Finals.

Some 26 schools were represented in each of the finals, with only the first placed student moving on to the Grand Final of the NSW Premier's Spelling Bee, to be held at the ABC studios.

With their friends in the STEAM Room watching on, the spelling bees were successfully run via Zoom. Under immense pressure, both students were awesome. Isabelle placed 6th in the Stage 2 competition, while Triet placed second for the second year running.

Congratulations to both spellers. Best wishes to Triet at Trinity, and I'm confident we'll be seeing more of Isabelle in future NSW Premier's Spelling Bee Finals.

Ewan Sutton

School NSW Premier's Spelling Bee Co-ordinator

Aaaanndddd we’re done!!!

Well, you’ve got until the end of Friday 18th August to log any last books for the Premier's Reading Challenge.

Congratulations to everyone who completed in this year’s challenge! Certificates usually come out towards the end of next term.

Our school is partnering with the local school bus operator, Busways, to support a new Tap On and Tap Off education campaign encouraging students who travel by bus to correctly use their school Opal cards. Busways is implementing this campaign throughout Term 3, 2023. This campaign will focus on a simple message – tap on and tap off every time you travel by bus.

Why is tapping on and off on the bus important?

The use of Opal cards is the primary way bus operators and Transport for NSW analyse demand for bus services. When students don’t use their Opal cards, their trip is not recorded. Therefore, buses may appear underutilised. Tapping on and off provides better data to plan better bus services. How can you help? If your child travels to school by bus, please ensure your child has a valid Opal card (either a School or Child/Youth Opal card).

Visit Transport for NSW website to apply for a school Opal card. Students may see onboard bus posters and Busways Community Relation Officers at afternoon loadings. Together let’s get students into good habits of tapping on and tapping off with their Opal card.

Thank you for your support with this campaign.

transportnsw.info/tickets-opal/ticket-eligibility-concessions/school-student-travel

Orientation for kindergarten 2024 students commences at the start of term 4. If your child turns 5 before 31 July 2024 they are eligible to start Kindergarten next year. Please complete your child's application as soon as possible, attaching a copy of their passport or birth certificate, proof of your home address (ie latest electricity bill, rates notice or lease etc) and their immunisation statement from Medicare. Any additional OT or speech therapy reports, additional needs and the like should also be included.

Please submit your enrolments online at :  

The permission notes listed below were sent home recently and should be completed and signed by parents as soon as possible.

• Zing Activ Term 3 Performance program for all students - child 1 $45, child 2 $30 
• 2023 Primary Proms Rehearsal & Coorong Concert - for selected Stage 2 Choir students - $65 
• Year 4 Stanwell Tops overnight excursion - $100 deposit due Wednesday 9 August and balance ($90) due 23 August.
• Author visit Kindy to Year 4 - $4
• Author visit Year 5-6 - $4
• School Reporting Parent Survey

A dunk tank will be operating at the Spring Fete.  Please join in the fun by volunteering to be dunked.

Year 5 and 6 students who are confident swimmers are welcome to be dunked. Even so, a permission form will need to be completed and signed by the child's parents prior to the activity. Swimmers and a towel will be required. 

Permission forms will be available from the office next week.

Silent auction

If you or your workplace/business would like to donate an item or voucher of any kind for the silent auction, please email Christina Parass with an image and prize description. Cparass0@gmail.com

On Friday 25 August - please collect and decorate your used jars in preparation for the fete. We are also looking for donations of bags of jellybeans on this day.

Spring Fete Sponsors

Until 25th August save 10% if you show this post at the Party People in Drummoyne. *Childrens book week costume and accessories only.

https://www.thepartypeople.com.au/party-supplies/shop-by-event/calendar-events/book-week

Unlimited all day ride passes are available to purchase for $40 until 11.50pm tonight, Friday 18th August.

After this time, the ride passes will go up to $55. You can also purchase 3 ride tickets for $25 on the day. This year's rides will be:

• Disco Show Ride (NEW!)
• Dodgem Cars
• Giant Slide
• Carousel
• Mini Ferris Wheel
• Mixed Toy Ride
• Swinging Chairs
• Ninja Course
• Hi Striker (NEW!)

Link to purchase ride tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drummoyne-public-school-spring-fete-2023-tickets-686385586767

The uniform shop will be open during term 3 for face to face sales on Wednesday afternoons from 3.00pm - 3.30pm.

Please order school uniforms online. The P&C will process orders and the school office staff will distribute them.

 Please use our school Registration ID: 2572963 to create an account if you don’t already have one for canteen orders.

Thank you to our parent volunteers this week, namely: Evonne, Alistair, Megan and Nurila. Thank you also to our student volunteers Deniz, Shireen, Asher, Issie and Kornei.

Please look ahead and book into the roster. Our main days for help are Monday, Thursday and Friday. Each of these days are especially busy from 9:30am - 10:30am and 10:30am - 12 midday. Friday being our super busy day.

August Volunteers needed:

MON. 21st.... 9:30am - 10:30 am.......1.    10:30 am -11:30 am........1   

THUR  24th...9:30am - 10:30 am.......1.    10:30 am -11:30 am.........1

FRI 25th.........9:30am - 10:30 am.......1.    10:30 am -11:30 am........2 ( please we need volunteers )

When volunteering on these days, your child will receive a free main lunch. This does not include extras eg. drink, quelch stick etc

To volunteer, please log in to your school24 account.

Click onto 'Volunteer' and follow the prompts.

Your help is most appreciated!

Kind regards,

Canteen and P&C Committee

New WhatApp group

To book Gowrie NSW - enrolment forms can be found on the Gowrie website:

https://www.gowriensw.com.au/out-of-hours-care/drummoyne-and-stmarks

Contact Rekkha for more information on 0436 616 744.

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