Drummoyne Public School

Presentation Day assemblies

What amazing and dedicated staff we have here at Drummoyne. 

Student Reports

Our Semester 2 student reports will go home next week. The reports will be emailed to you electronically as a PDF attachment, hopefully on Monday. There will not be a paper copy provided. Please let us know today if there has been a recent change to your email address.

A reminder about the assessment of achievement used by schools in NSW for grades 1-6;

Outstanding: The student has an extensive knowledge and understanding of the content and can readily apply this knowledge. In addition, the student has achieved a very high level of competence in the processes and skills and can apply these skills to new situations. 

High: The student has a thorough knowledge and understanding of the content and a high level of competence in the processes and skills. In addition, the student is able to apply this knowledge and these skills to most situations. 

Sound: The student has a sound knowledge and understanding of the main areas of content and has achieved an adequate level of competence in the processes and skills. 

Basic: The student has a basic knowledge and understanding of the content and has achieved a limited level of competence in the processes and skills. 

Limited: The student has an elementary knowledge and understanding in few areas of the content and has achieved very limited competence in some of the processes and skills.

Students in Kindergarten are assessed on a three level system;

Working Beyond: The student's skills, knowledge and understanding of their class work is more extensive than the level expected at this stage of Kindergarten. In addition the student applies these independently, with effective results. 

Achieving: The student's skills, knowledge and understanding of their class work are at the level expected at this stage of Kindergarten. The student attempts to apply these in the classroom, with some independent success. 

Working Towards: The student's skills, knowledge and understanding of their class work, is below the level expected at this stage of Kindergarten. Progress is causing some concern and additional support is being given.It is important to understand these levels and what that means for your child's progress in the curriculum. If you have any questions about these levels please reach out to your stage Assistant Principal's. 

Week 10 Activities

Please look out in the calendar for details on all the amazing events we have in our final week of school this year. We hope to see our parents and carers during this last week as we say goodbye to 2023, including our farewell to Year 6 on Friday 15 December.

Best Start 2024

Online booking information for parents was sent out via email this week with the dates and times for the Best Start assessments next year. Please make a time for your child’s interview. We look forward to welcoming your child to Drummoyne Public School.

Early next week three classes will relocate to new classrooms to enable the movement of student furniture in preparation for 2024 classes. Students will remain in these classrooms for the last few days of term. This may mean that your child will be dismissed from another classroom next week.

There are many hats, jumpers and jackets in lost property so if your child has lost anything this term, please check the lost property baskets next week.

All items left at the end of Friday 15 December will be washed then added to the second hand uniform pool. All non school uniform items and lunch boxes etc will be donated to charity.

Dianne Colb

Deputy Principal

This year's Environmental Leaders have already taken the 2024 Environmental Leaders under their wings and are showing them the ropes. They started this induction three weeks ago when the Year 5 group was invited to our weekly Environmental Meetings. Then last week and the week before, they all took on the huge task of dismantling expired Covid Tests so that as much as possible could be diverted from landfill. As a group they decided on which components of each pack could be recycled, reused or repurposed. They decided that outer boxes and the instructions could be recycled, the cotton buds can be reused for science experiments and art activities, while the small clip lock bags will be used for small maths components such as counters.  They are hoping to repurpose the actual covid tests but need to investigate how this might work. They have two more large boxes to complete the task and hope to do this next Monday in the lead up to the holiday break. Wish them encouragement and support as they raise our awareness about this very important environmental initiative to recycle, reuse or repurpose as much as possible in our day to day lives. 

Michelle O'Dowd

Year 6 Environmental Coordinator and Assistant Principal

Our Greek enrichment students have enjoyed yet another Christmas Breakfast to farewell a successful year of Language enrichment classes.

This year marked the end of an era for most of our Greek enrichment students as they now head off to high school next year. Having participated in enrichment for the past 3 years, it was a bittersweet celebration to be sure.

Students indulged in spanakopites (spinach pies), tiropites (cheese pies) and vasilopita (St Basil pie/bread).

Vasilopita is the traditional bread that has a coin hidden inside and is cut at midnight on New Years Eve. It represents the day that St Basil visits all the children in Greece. It is on this day all the children get their presents. It is tradition for each family to have their own vasilopita and a piece is cut for each family member. If the coin is in your piece, you are granted good luck for the rest of the year.

Mrs Nouris and Mrs Skontos wish everyone and a very merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!

Καλά Χριστούγεννα και Ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος

Ashley Nouris

Greek Language Teacher

Year 6 have had a a successful fundraising campaign this year, totaling some $6000 from their Market Day last week and the cake stall in Term 2. This effort means the entire cost of their graduation Dinner Dance is covered as well as a fantastic surprise for their end of year gift to the school, which will be revealed to students on Tuesday. Stay tuned for next week’s newsletter to see what it is….

Stage 3 are grateful for the generous support of local businesses who contributed to their fundraising campaign, including:

Student report

I was selected to compete at the Surf Life Saving Interbranch Carnival for Sydney Branch over the weekend. The carnival was held at Fingal Beach, over three and a half hours north of Sydney. There were 11 branches that competed over both days. 

On Saturday I competed in the Individual Sprint, Mixed Beach Relay and the All Age Beach Relay. In the sprint I came second to the Illawarra Branch and in both relays we came first. On Sunday I competed in a Cameron Relay, involving a swimmer, board paddler and a runner, which was me. We came first in the Cameron Relay and the Sydney Northern Beaches branch came second.

Overall, Sydney Branch (my branch) won the entire competition by exactly 100 points. Our branch celebrated on the bus ride back with the huge trophy kept by the captains. It was such a great experience to be involved in.

Amber Worden 5/6O

Stocktake was completed this week in the library. We are still looking for a few missing items. If you haven’t returned your library books yet, please get them back to the library as soon as possible.

Joseph Neufeld

Teacher Librarian

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

It's Raffle Time!

Tickets for the wonderful P&C Christmas raffle are available on School24 in the EVENTS section. The cost is $3 each or 2 for $5. 

Ticket sales close this Sunday 10 December.

Prize winners will be drawn at the end of year final assembly on Tuesday 12 December at 10.45am.

• Family Gift Pack
• Pottery Course Voucher
• Lego Pack
• Family Beauty Hamper
• Waterproof Bluetooth speaker
• Cheese Board and Wine Packs
• Hotwheels Giant Crackers
• Family Photo Sessions

Many Thanks to our wonderful local businesses and families who have donated prizes:

Seed and Spark

Officeworks Five Dock

Destros Chemist

Portrait Hub

Glaze Galleria

Elysium skin & body

We appreciate your continued support of the school in raising funds for additional STEAM resources. 

Drummoyne Public School P&C have undergone an extensive review of software providers over the last several months as an alternative to School24. From this review the P&C have chosen 'Flexischools' which allows parents and students a more convenient way to order and pay for canteen, uniform and events online.

This change will be effective Term 1, 2024. DPS will continue to use School24 for the remainder of this term. From Term 1, 2024 you will no longer be able to order via School24. If you currently hold an account balance, please start running this down over the next few weeks. If you still have a balance left after the end of term, instructions for balance transfers to Flexischools will be provided in Term 1, 2024.  

Why are we changing to Flexischools?

• Cost effective - Less fees to parents and the P&C! You can avoid all card fees by topping up from your bank account, and you can use your balance for uniform purchases and events. Service fees with Flexischools are $0.22 cents per child per meal break.
• Better app - A user friendly, straightforward, and reliable app, which is used by approximately 1,600 schools across Australia. The “Favourites” feature remembers your child’s regular order and is a quick way to place your canteen orders.  
• Less back-end issues and better service - Our trial and admin users have already seen a fantastic improvement behind the scenes, and with service levels from Flexischools.

Please order school uniforms online. The P&C will process orders and the school office staff will distribute them to students in class to bring home with them.

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

The uniform shop is open for face to face sales on Wednesday afternoons from 3.00pm - 3.30pm.

If you need to contact the uniform shop volunteers please email:

Dear Parents/Carers,

As we try to run down our stock in the canteen to the end of the year, some items may not be available next week, like sushi. Please refer to the menu.The canteen will be closed for orders next Thursday (14th Dec) as all students will be away on excursions.

Order your End of term sausage sizzle now! Orders will close at 3pm on Tuesday 12th December.

Kind regards,

The Canteen Committee

And the 2023 P&C Canteen Super Star Volunteer is...  David Lyons

David truly is a super star, he has volunteered his time nearly every Monday in the canteen. From sticking labels on lunch bags to making nearly a weeks worth of one of our most popular menu items - Milo cups each week, he is always willing to help.

As a token of appreciation, the canteen has a plaque with his name engraved as the 2023 Canteen Super Star Volunteer. Thank you David!

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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