Drummoyne Public School

Welcome to Term 4

A warm welcome to Term 4 for all families, particularly those new to the Drummoyne PS community.

I would like to thank all the staff, students and families who have made me feel welcome as Acting Principal of Drummoyne PS. This is a lovely community and I have enjoyed catching up with many students to hear what they love about this school. My thanks to Mr Dill and Mrs Colb for an extensive handover. I look forward to working closely with staff as we get ready for another fantastic term and ensure we finish 2023 in a positive way. We have many great initiatives and events planned over the coming weeks, please keep an eye on our Audiri Skoolbag app or School Bytes emails for all the important details. 

Our significant work this term includes a focus on leadership with our Year 5 cohort as they get ready for Year 6, thanks to Ms Page for all her work in this area. Our staff are also focusing on end of year student reports and the upcoming presentation days, such a busy time in schools. Our planning for 2024 continues as well, with Ms Walsh leading our Kindergarten orientation and transition programs. I hope to catch up with our new students and families over the coming weeks ahead.

With our October P&C meeting next Tuesday, Kindergarten Orientation night on Thursday and the P&C Disco on Friday, I hope to catch up with many families and community members. Please come up and say hello. 

P&C Support

The referendum is on this Saturday and voting will be open in our school hall. I encourage you all to support our P&C as they host a sausage sizzle in the COLA. Thanks to our hard-working P&C for organising this fundraiser.

2024 Enrolment

Will your child be enrolled here in 2024? If you have a preschooler that is not yet enrolled please contact the school office or see our school website for enrolment information: https://drummoyne-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html. If your family circumstances have changed and you are not continuing at Drummoyne in 2024, please ensure you have contacted the office so we can accurately track our student numbers. This applies to all students in K-5. Thank you to all those families who have already reached out to us. With accurate student numbers we can confidently plan our classes and teachers for next year.

Each year we seek your feedback on how we can improve our school. This helps our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on your child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.

Our Drummoyne Public School Parent Survey (utilising the Tell Them From Me “Partners in Learning” survey) will be asking parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, ipads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 20 minutes to complete and is completely confidential. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

Information for Parents and Carers: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/images/TTFM_Parent_Survey_FAQs_Parent_and_Carers_T32017.pdf

To access the survey please go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/2hfc6

In PDHPE lessons class 5/6O students researched what sugar is, where it comes from and the effects sugar has on our bodies.

We also explored the marketing of high-sugar products.

Finally we designed new canteen menus that have 25% or under of occasional foods and 75% of healthy food choices.

Liam P & Jack

School travel Opal cards can be used for free travel to and from school. Depending on where you live and where you are travelling to, you may be eligible to receive a free school Opal card. Applications for next year open at the start of Term 4 this year.

You can apply for free school travel for different modes of transport including train, bus, ferry and light rail using the online form.

You only need to apply:

• if applying for a school travel pass for the first time.
• if requesting an extra pass due to parents living separately.

The student must:

• be a resident of NSW, or an overseas student eligible for free government education.
• be aged 4 years 6 months or older. Pre-school children are not eligible.
• live a minimum distance from your school. The minimum distance varies according to the year or grade the student is enrolled in that calendar year.

Please click on the link for more details:

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

DPS offers Scholastic Book Club for you to purchase books for your children whilst also supporting the library. Some 20% of your order goes back to the school library in Scholastic rewards, which is spent on new library books and classroom resources.

There are 8 issues a year (two per term). Your child will bring home the catalogues each term. Parents can order and pay online for their child’s Book Club purchase via LOOP (Linked Online Ordering Payment).

Please click on the link below for detailed instructions.

The closing date for issue #7 is Thursday 26 October.

Orientation for kindergarten 2024 students commences on Thursday 19th October. 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 :  

Come and have fun at the school disco! Put on your party clothes, bring your friends and your best moves! It is time to rock on!  Tickets are $5 and include a drink, snack and a glow stick!

K-2 Disco is from 5pm - 6.30pm.

Year 3-6 Disco is from 7pm - 8.30pm

Please pre-purchase on School24 in the Events tab.

If you can help out, even for a short shift, please sign up at: 

https://signup.zone/dpsbbq-2023

The LED Flashlight Rechargeable Strobe Torch with strap (Product) purchased for the recent Father’s Day stall is defective in that it is unable to handle charging currents higher than 1A.  

This means that if the USB cable is used in common third-party fast chargers, or high power chargers, there is a risk that the USB cable could overheat and catch fire.

If your child purchased an LED Flashlight Rechargeable Strobe Torch, please return the charging cable to the office in a sealed envelope marked with your child's name on it.

To replace the returned product, Moon & Back will provide suitable replacement USB cables to our school in the next 21 days and we will send home the new replacements for customers who return the defective USB cables. 

The uniform shop is open 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.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you to wonderful parent volunteers and student helpers this week.

We hope everyone had a nice break and we are looking forward to a great term 4.

Volunteers are needed next week

Please look ahead and book in to the roster. Our main days which require 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! 

To volunteer:

• Login to your school24 account
• Click onto VOLUNTEER
• 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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