Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Thank You, Eugenie

Next Friday we say farewell to Eugenie, who has been a wonderful part of the Drummoyne PS community for almost two decades. During this time, her three sons – Joel, Samuel and Tobias – all attended our school, and Eugenie has generously shared her time, energy and care to support students, staff and families through the canteen and beyond. While she will be missed, Eugenie is looking forward to new adventures and has promised to return as a volunteer from time to time. We thank her warmly for her dedication to our school and wish her all the best in this exciting next chapter.

Congratulations to all our athletes (Ella C, Daniel C, Olivia D, Ashton H, Charles H, Thomas H, Grace K, Jordan K, Daniel K, Jake L, Maeve O, Luis O, Patrick R, Ari S & Max W) who represented Drummoyne PS and the Inner West PSSA at the Regional Athletics Carnival. We are very proud of the way our students competed with determination and spirit. I was particularly pleased to hear reports of our senior boys relay team – Jake, Ashton, Charles and Max – who showed the true community spirit of Drummoyne by running a coaching session for the junior relay team (Patrick, Tom, Daniel and Louis) in the week leading up to the carnival.A special congratulations goes to the following students who placed in the following events and qualified for the NSW State Athletics Carnival:

• Olivia – 3rd Jnr 200m MC, 2nd Jnr 800m MC, 3rd Jnr Shot Put MC
• Maeve – 3rd 11 Years 1500m Girls
• Jake – 2nd Snr Shot Put Boys

‘The Monties’ Take Over DPS! 

It’s almost showtime! Next week our students will take to the stage for The Monties, and the excitement across the school is building. From rehearsals in the playground to props appearing everywhere you look, it has been wonderful to see the whole school community pulling together to support the performances.

We can’t wait to welcome families into the audience and celebrate our students’ hard work and talent on stage!

Regards,

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au

This week DPS debated against Five Dock Public School in our final round. The topic was ‘International travel does more harm than good.’

The affirmative team, the Frasers were the away team, with Charlotte as 1st speaker, Ashton was 2nd speaker, Isaac was 3rd speaker and Elizabeth was the team advisor. They argued that international travel has a negative impact on the environment, can cause cultural harm, exploits wild animals and puts the health and safety of travelers at risk.

The Abbots were the home team. Grace was 1st speaker, Hamilton was 2nd speaker, 3rd speaker was David and the team advisor was Aliya. As the negative, they argued that international travel brings personal growth, education and cultural understanding, as well as economic benefits and stress reduction.

Well done to both teams on their convincing wins.

A big thank you to Elizabeth’s dad, Nicholas for providing transport for the away team. Also, thanks to chairperson Maeve and timekeepers Ella and Delilah.

We encourage students to wear sun-safe hats that protect the face, neck and ears when outside for play, sport and teaching. Being sun-smart is important!

School staff encourage students to play in covered areas around the school whenever possible. Please ensure your child/ren have a labelled hat each day.

Respect awards - Rawson says congratulations to:

• Lyla D-S - 1/2J
• Alfa A - 1/2P
• Cody K - 1/2W

• Otis G - KP
• Celia P - 1/2A
• Finn G - 1/2W
• Alexander B - 3/4R
• Auley W - 5/6C
• Caitlyn A - 5/6H
• Delilah F - 5/6O

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Neo S - KK
• Yiqian J - 1/2J
• Ethan G - 1/2M
• Henry S - 1/2M
• Angus T - 1/2M
• Max K - 3/4A
• Amelia D - 3/4R
• Russell B - 3/4X
• Chloe D-S - 3/4X
• Ava M-C - 5/6H

Mr Nguyen says congratulations to:

• Lyla D-S - 1/2J - Respect
• Ethan G - 1/2M - Respect
• Celia P - 1/2A - Responsibility
• Chloe D-S - 3/4X - Responsibility

Parents took the junior boys (Patrick, Tom, Daniel and Louis) and senior boys relay team (Jake, Ashton, Charles and Max) down to King George's oval prior to Regionals this week.

The Senior boys were fabulous mentors for our Junior team!

This week, I have been in Wyong representing Sydney East in the first ever rugby league PSSA for girls. 

We played 5 games and won three of those games. It was a great experience and I enjoyed playing with my team.

Ella C - 5/6O

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

To help protect the health of students and staff, we remind you to please keep children at home if they are showing cold or flu-like symptoms.

We understand that some children may have symptoms that are not contagious - in these cases, we may request a medical certificate confirming that your child is fit to return to school.

Sports and special group photos can be viewed and ordered online at www.theschoolphotographer.com.au using the ordering code : 25S2042EL54D.

Photo prices are $20 each, 2 for $36, 3 for $48, 4 for $60 or 5 for $72.

Groups include: Debating, Environmental leaders, Flag leaders, Game Changers, Touch football, soccer, basketball, netball, softball, AFL cup & cricket teams, House captains, Junior & Senior bands, Librarians, Public speaking finalists, Recorder & String Ensembles, Choirs, Student government, Technology leaders, Ukulele club, Zone swimming & Zone cross country teams and Year 6 group.

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. 

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

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, 

New Canteen Staff

We have a new canteen lady, Sivine, who will be working with Anna after Eugenie finishes next Friday. I'm so excited for the canteen as these two ladies are amazing and are awesome cooks. They are both so friendly and kind. The students and volunteers will be so well looked after. 

End of Term Sausage Sizzle and Drink : Sausages supplied by Classic Butchery Five Dock and bread rolls supplied by Rise Bakery Birkenhead.

Sausage Sizzle  $7.00 Includes sausage on fresh bread roll with choice of tomato or bbq sauce and a drink. Chill J Drink extra $0.50 (included flavour subject to availability). 

• OPTION: tomato and bbq  $0.30 
• OPTION: mustard. $0.30
• OPTION: Quelch stick $0.80

ORDERS CLOSE : WEDNESDAY 24th September , 4pm.

Overdue Payments for Emergency Lunches

Please check your spam and inbox for reminder emails for monies owing for emergency lunches. There are still a number of monies owing. I have spent time sending emails and follow up emails with no response. Your help with this would be much appreciated. The canteen is P&C run and is a fantastic service for the school community. Any profit goes back into the school to support student programs, upgrade of the playground and its maintenance and IT. 

Volunteers Needed
Monday, 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: SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 22nd….10:30am-11:30am…..1

WEDNESDAY 24th…..10:30am-11:30am…..1

THURSDAY  25th…….10:30am-11:30am…….1

FRIDAY 26th…….9:30am-10:30am…..1.          10:30am-11:30am…..2 ( End of Term Sausage Sizzle )

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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