Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Welcome back to Term 4!

It’s always a busy and exciting time as we head towards the end of the school year. This term we’ll be welcoming our new 2026 Kindergarten students for their transition sessions, celebrating the end of year with special class and whole-school events, and recognising our Year 6 students as they prepare for high school with their farewell celebrations and Market Day. We also look forward to our Presentation Assemblies, where we’ll acknowledge student achievements across the year. It’s shaping up to be a wonderful and memorable term for our school community.

Senior Playground Equipment Project

We’re excited to share that our new senior playground equipment project has been approved! The play area will be developed on the site of the large demountable, currently occupied by Gowrie, which the DoE  has scheduled for removal. Once removed, the building will be refurbished and made ready to be redeployed to schools in need, particularly those affected by natural disasters such as bushfires or floods.

This exciting project has been made possible through the generous support and funding of our P&C, together with school funds and a NSW State Government grant. We can’t wait to see this area transformed into a vibrant and fun play space for our senior students. Planning for the new playground is well underway with staff and students completing a survey this week on the types of equipment they’d most like to see in the space. I’ll be sharing results from these surveys with the P&C for consultation at next Tuesday’s October meeting.

October P&C Meeting: 2025 NAPLAN Results Analysis

On that note, I encourage you to attend the October P&C meeting next Tuesday night at 7:30pm, where I will also be sharing an analysis of this year’s NAPLAN results and explaining how these insights will help inform our school improvement plans moving forward. Coming along to a P&C meeting and/or joining the P&C is a great opportunity to stay connected with the school, hear about exciting projects and contribute to discussions, and decisions, that benefit all our students.

Regards,

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au

Regular school attendance is important for your child’s learning and social development. If your child is absent from school, you must ensure that you provide the school with a written explanation.

You can submit your child’s absence through the School Bytes Parent App or by email. We are no longer using Audiri.

The School Bytes Parent Portal allows parents to view all their children in one portal and enables parents to provide details of a planned absence, if the absence details are known in advance - for example; to report an illness or a scheduled medical appointment.

Parents can also provide a response for any unexplained student absences that have been recorded by the school. 

Late arrival or early departure

Partial absences cannot be submitted on the School Bytes Parent App.  Parents must come to the office and sign their child/ren in or out of school.

Extended leave

Families are encouraged to travel during school holidays. If travel during school term is necessary, you can only submit up to 9 days leave on the School Bytes Parent App.

If travelling for 10 days or more, you will need to complete an Application to leave - travel You can now complete the form online through schoolbytes with your travel itinerary or flight details.

For more information, visit the School Bytes website and check out the "Parent Guides" for helpful FAQs and tutorials.

How to guides

Tapping on and off provides better data to plan better bus services.

How can you help? Please remind your child to tap on and off and ensure your child has a valid Opal card (either a School or Child/Youth Opal card) and remind them to tap on and tap off on every trip.

To apply for a school Opal card, visit https://transportnsw.info/school-travel-apply.  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. 

Please join us next Tuesday, 21st October, from 7.30pm in the Library for the October P&C Meeting.

One week to go until the P&C School Disco! 

Don’t forget to purchase tickets for an incredibly fun night of music and dancing for all DPS students. 

K-2 Disco 5:30pm - 6:45pm

3-6 Disco 7pm - 8:30pm

Tickets are $5 on Flexischools and available to purchase now, with online tickets sales closing at 7pm Thursday 23rd October. 

Tickets include chips, drink and a quelch stick! 

Dress: Casual/Favorite party clothes 

Call out for volunteers!

We need a few more volunteers for the 3-6 Disco and set up and pack up duty!  Volunteer sign up link:

https://signup.zone/signup/2444b148-d92c-44f0-bf68-13a675fcdfdc

The uniform shop will be open on Monday 13th October from 9am-10am for any face to face sales.

The uniform shop will be open for face to face sales on Monday mornings from 9am - 10am during term 4.

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

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

Dear Parents & Carers, 

Volunteers NeededMonday, Wednesday and Thursday calls for volunteers to help assemble, package lunch and put it into lunch tubs. As we have multiple options, a little help is most appreciated.Friday is our busiest day. Volunteer help is vital in order to have the sausage sizzles assembled and packaged in time.

VOLUNTEERS: OCTOBER

MONDAY 20th….10:30am-11:30am…..1

WEDNESDAY 22nd…..10:30am-11:30am…..1

THURSDAY  23rd…….10:30am-11:30am…….1

FRIDAY 24th…….9:30am-10:30am…..1.          10:30am-11:30am…..2

Please sign up using the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FA5AA2EA7FBC52-47648005-dpscanteen

We are always grateful and appreciative for any help. 

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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