Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Book Week Parade

This week, we celebrated Book Week at Drummoyne. Cultivating a love of reading in our students is so important and can be quite difficult, especially in today’s age of screens and streams. With this in mind, it was fantastic to see our school community come together at Monday afternoon’s Book Week Parade to celebrate books and reading. The effort that so many of you put into creating your child/ren’s costume/s was amazing to see and to have so many of you come to the parade really made the celebration special. A special shout out to our brilliant teachers who, as always, went to the depths of Mordor in their efforts to join our students in the fun and celebrations. If you weren’t able to make it on Monday, please enjoy looking through some of the photos included in this week’s newsletter. A special thanks to our teacher librarian, Mr Neufeld, for his fantastic organisation and MCing skills as well as our resident photographer, Nina.

‘Mad Food’ Incursion

Our students participated in The Mad Food Science Incursion this week. This healthy eating program was run by Certified Instructor, Suzanne Burke, who helped our students to  learn about food, how it can make them feel many different ways and how what we eat can impact the planet.

We have organised for Suzanne to return to our school in September to lead a parent seminar prior to the September P&C meeting on Tuesday 17/09 at 6:15pm. Further information in regards to this seminar will be communicated in the coming weeks.

Fete

As I have watched the tombola jars pile up in my office over the last few weeks,  it would be remiss of me not to say how humbling it is to see the time and energy that the parent community has put into preparations for our fete on Sunday. A special thank you goes to the Fete Committee, whose tireless efforts, creativity and meticulous planning have been remarkable. I am excited to see the joy and excitement this day will bring and I look forward to celebrating with you all.

Regards,

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au 

eSafety has a dedicated Parents section with resources and advice to help parents and carers with online safety issues and strategies to support their child. Some resources include:

• Cyberbullying guide: This page helps parents and carers understand how they can help their child if they are being bullied. You can also download and print our cyberbullying quick guide, which has key information and advice, as well as help in Easy Read formats for people with low literacy, or with intellectual or cognitive disability.
• Online Safety for Every Family: These resources include short videos and easy-to-read advice sheets to encourage parents and carers to start and continue conversations with their children about online safety. There are tips about how to stay safe online, and important information about what to do if something bad happens online. The resources are available in more than 10 languages.
• Webinars: These live webinars give parents and carers the knowledge, skills, and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.

Dianne Colb

Deputy Principal

Respect awards - Rawson says congratulations to:

• Katy E - 3/4A
• Marco T - 3/4R
• Eric G - 3/4W
• Aydin D - 5/6O
• Delilah F - 5/6O

Responsibility awards - Monty says congratulations to:

• Marco T - 3/4R
• Harper K - 5/6C
• Louise M - 5/6H
• Sebastian T - 5/6H

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Piper M - 3/4K
• Riley F - 3/4S
• Ethan H-S - 5/6H
• Oliver B - 5/6P

• Frenchie T - 3/4K- Respect
• Eric G - 3/4W - Respect

This week our students participated in The Mad Food Science Incursion with Certified Instructor, Suzanne Burke from the Root Cause. Like true scientists, the students were given the opportunity to make predictions, participate in experiments and evaluate their findings.

One of the agreed highlights was how good the banana, strawberry and spinach smoothie tasted even though it was green. The students also learnt about food packaging and how to read labels. She addressed the importance of a balanced diet and how food impacts the way we feel.

To wrap up the session, Suzanne showed images of food packages littering our environment and the students problem solved how this may be impacting our planet. 

A free parent seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, 17 September at 6.15 - 7.15pm in the school library. To find out more go to https://vimeo.com/677949133/7106ec9d16

Michelle O'Dowd

Assistant Principal and Environmental Coordinator

Today Angela Farrell came and talked to us about her life in the Olympics.

Number 1, she talked about sailing that she was in front looking for if there was any wind.

Number 2, she only did one year at the Olympics.

Number 3, she talked a little bit about running as well. Then, guess what? She came 5th!

By Christina T 1/2M

Today, Angela came to my classroom. She was in the Olympics.

My favourite thing that she said was about the boat ride. She only had a break one day a week. She also has the same name as my neighbour. She did running and sailing.

By Antonia C 1/2M

By Hal W 1/2M

• Musical theatre : Highly commended 
• Amplified Vocal : Third place
• Performance : First place

Well done Kayla!

385 students have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge! An amazing effort, but can we reach 400?

Students in years 3 to 6 must have their reading logged on the PRC website by Friday 23rd August to get their certificate!

The easiest way for students to log their reading is by going to their student portal and clicking on the Premier’s Reading Challenge icon.

Kindy to year 2 students will have their reading logs updated by Mr Neufeld.

Book Club brochures have arrived! Look out for your copy of Book Club coming home in your child's schoolbag! It's packed with hundreds of books from just $3 to help you on your child's reading journey, and every issue 6 order gets a $5 Promo Code to spend on issue 7!

It is easy to order. The Book Club LOOP platform for parents allows you to pay by credit card. Your child’s order is delivered directly to school safe and sound and the books will be given to students in class. You can place your child’s order at scholastic.com.au/LOOP or using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

For more information please see The Scholastic Parent's guide to Book Club

Book Club issue #6 closes on Friday 13th September.

This year, our school will be beginning to streamline some of our communication practices in an effort to keep our school community engaged and informed. As part of this process, we ask that you please join your child/ren's CLASS GROUP as well as their YEAR GROUP (rolled over from last year) in the Audiri app. This will help us to ensure that you receive information relevant to you and your child/ren. Detailed instructions are included below.

How users can subscribe to open groups in the Audiri app: New users joining your school can subscribe to Open Groups by following these steps in the Audiri app:

Thank you for your support.

Father’s Day is fast approaching and we have opened sales for you to be able to purchase your gift token/s for the fabulous father figures in your life.

The Father’s Day stall will be held on Friday 30th August. Classes will visit the stall throughout the morning and students will be able to chose a gift/gifts by spending their pre-purchased tokens.

Gift tokens are $7.00 each and are available through Flexischools.  

https://user.flexischools.com.au/login?

Due to popular feed back we have also added a pay it forward option!

Avoid the queues on fete day by pre-purchasing your Unlimited Ride Pass at https://drummoynepublicschool.com.au/pc/ Passes are $60. These can also be purchased on the day along with 3 x ride tickets for $25.

Fancy a coaching session and lunch with a Swift player? How about a resin workshop with Seed and Spark? Or perhaps get yourself moving with some pilates classes? All these great prizes and more are up for grabs in our DPS Fete Silent Auction.

Visit https://www.32auctions.com/DPSfete2024 to place your bid!

Apart from your energetic selves and some keen mates, we recommend you also bring the following:

Your support is instrumental in making this event possible. Thank you once again to ALL our sponsors, and a special shout out to our major sponsors:

Principal Sponsor: Warwick Williams Real Estate and

Platinum Sponsors: City of Canada Bay Council and Drummoyne Sailing Club.

 Gold Sponsors: Canada Bay Club, KADMUS, Club Five Dock RSL, Julie Peadon Art, Alliance Jiu Jitsu – Drummoyne, dB Print Management and Stanmore Mazda.

Silver Sponsors: Real Property Buyers, Univero Engineering and Drummoyne Medical Centre (DMC).

Bronze Sponsors: Mariam’s Henna and Facepainting, Lipgloss Queen Kids Parties, Vision PT Drummoyne,  Robertson’s Remedial and Painting, Kredi Home Loans, Oroginale Fine Jewellery and Eva Mercedes Cosmetic Studio.

Thanks to our reporters Tyler, Isaac and Amelie for participating in our latest video.

Still have questions?

You will find all this information and more in the ‘Everything you need to know’ Fete booklet that went home in school bags last week.

All uniform shop orders are now to be placed on Flexischools.

The uniform shop is open for face to face sales on Friday mornings from 9am - 10am

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

Thank you to Esme, Sarah and Ramona for helping this morning. Thank you also to student helper Korney.

The next Sushi day 

Tuesday 3rd September. Order cut off is Monday 2nd September 9:30am.

Butter Chicken

Made in the canteen kitchen today by a Nana that is on holiday from overseas. (Ingredients: chicken, onion, garlic, ginger, bay leaves, cardamon, cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, tomato, cream, salt, lemon and a pinch of sugar.) Served with rice. I had a taste test and truly is delicious!!!

We are asking for the bare minimum with regards to help in the canteen. We would so appreciate volunteers signing up as this helps to keep prices at a minimum and ensures lunches are prepared in time (esp. Thursday and Friday) . Your children also love seeing you in the canteen helping out. Your child will receive a lunch ( main meal) for free. 

MON. 26th.   10:30 am - 11:30 am…….1 (Chicken Nuggets and wedges) THURS.29th.  9:30am - 10:30 am…..1.        10:30 am - 11:30 am…….1 (Pasta)

FRI. 30th  9:30am - 10:30 am….1.        10:30 am - 11:30 am……2 ( Sausage Sizzle )

To Volunteer

• Log in to Flexischools account.
• Click on NEWSFEED
• Click on VOLUNTEER IN CANTEEN and click on the word here.

If you need to pay for an emergency lunch:

• Log in to Flexischools.
• Select the next available date to pay.
• Select the IOU option.
• Select money denominations equal to money owing.
• Add to basket.
• Pay - so easy!!

Kind regards,

Canteen and P&C Committee

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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