Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Reflections on Education Week

I want to extend my thanks to all of you for your incredible support during Education Week. This week has been a true celebration of public education and our school community. It was wonderful to see so many of you at our special assembly on Monday morning, enjoying the students' performances, visiting our open classrooms, indulging in the cake stall, exploring the beautiful art trail on Thursday and also celebrating the unveiling of our two new Indigenous Murals.

The theme of this year's Education Week, ‘Proud to Belong’, resonates deeply with me as a school leader. It is a reminder of the strength and unity we build when everyone in our school community comes together in support of our common cause - providing the very best for our children. The sense of belonging that we foster here at Drummoyne Public School is what makes our school a place where every child feels valued, supported and proud to be themselves. Thank you once again for your ongoing support and for helping to make our school a place where everyone truly belongs.

Fete Preparations and Fundraising

Thank you also to the members of the Fete Committee and parent volunteers for the tireless work being done to prepare for our upcoming Fete. Your efforts and enthusiasm are what make this event such a special part of our school year.

As we continue preparation, I’d like to remind everyone that donations for the Fete are entirely optional. The primary purpose of the Fete is to bring our community together. Whether you choose to contribute by donating, volunteering, or simply joining us on the day to enjoy the festivities, your involvement is what truly matters. I look forward to celebrating with you all on the day.

Semester 1 Reports and Parent-Teacher Interview Survey

A reminder to complete our parent survey on the school’s Semester 1 reports and P-T Interviews. We made a number of changes to  our Semester 1 reports and introduced the post-report parent-teacher interviews this year. Your feedback will help us gauge the effectiveness of these changes and enhance our practices to better support your child/ren’s learning moving forward.

Please click on one of the following links to access the survey,

Kindergarten Parent Survey

Year 1-6 Parent Survey

Regards,

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au 

On Sunday 25 August we are going to need everyone to pitch in to make our fete the fun community event we want it to be and hopefully raise some money for the school as well.

Please sign up to help on a stall or to set up or clean up. We still need some volunteers for short and fun shifts on a variety of stalls. Please bring your friends and do it together!

Sign up using this link: https://signup.zone/dps-fete

P&C Fete committee

This week Drummoyne debated against Rozelle Public School in our fourth round. The topic was ‘That self-serve at supermarkets is a good idea’.

The affirmative team, the Hawkes were the away team, with Shireen as 1st speaker, Aria as 2nd speaker, Aydin as 3rd speaker and David as team advisor. They presented some great points and had clearly done some extensive research, driving their case home with a compelling team line, ‘Scan, bag, and go: it's the future, don't you know!’ Congratulations to all four students for putting up a good fight against Rozelle.

The Lyons were the home team. As the negative, they argued that there are many drawbacks associated with self-serve checkouts in supermarkets, presenting compelling evidence to back up their arguments.The Lyons’ team line was ‘Self-serve lanes drive us all insane!’ Congratulations to 1st speaker Ava, 2nd speaker Phoebe, 3rd speaker Isaac and team advisor Sophia on winning their debate.

Many thanks to Shireen's dad, Pankja, for providing transport. Also, thank you to our chairperson Sophie, timekeepers Oliver and Eme, and meeter and greeter, Oliver.

Jacqui Hill

Thank you to our wonderful senior students, parents and carers for your strong support towards this year's Year 6 cake stall. Your generous donations were enjoyed by the entire school community.

Students organising and manning the stall were amazing, demonstrating initiative and responsibility.Your support resulted in more than $1800 being raised for the Year 6 graduation.Thank you everyone.

Leigh Russ

Assistant Principal

Times: Stage 3 - 9.30am-11am and Stage 2 - 12.20pm-1.50pm.

Solar Buddy is an impact organisation uniting a global community to literally illuminate the futures of children who don't have access to electricity. Extreme energy poverty is one of the biggest obstacles some communities face; one of the worst forms of poverty that hardly anyone knows about. It is a complex challenge, impacting the health and wellbeing, educational outcomes and economic stability of these communities.

The teachers, students and volunteer parents at Drummoyne Public School look forward to working with Origin Energy to provide a Solar Buddy to primary school students in Papua New Guinea who reside along the Kokoda Track. We aim to make 100 solar torches which will be tagged and tested before being sent abroad.  By building these solar lights we aim to raise our community's awareness about energy poverty and how more fortunate communities like our own can provide opportunities where our children can be involved in creating a world where no-one is left behind.

Should you require more information about this program then please don't hesitate to contact me at michelle.odowd@det.nsw.edu.au or go to the website .

Assistant Principal and Environmental Coordinator

You are also invited to have some fun by joining us for the Parent Seminar on Tuesday, 17 September at 5.45pm in the School Library. The seminar is designed to make your job easier by helping to simplify feeding your family. Permission slips are coming home next week.

Michelle O'Dowd

Assistant Principal and Environment Coordinator

Magic is in the air!

Book Week is nearly here! Drummoyne Public School will be celebrating children’s literature and we would love our families and friends to join in!

The big day of celebrations will take place in week 5, on Monday 19th August.

We will have award winning children’s author Susanne Gervay visiting us, a magical Book Week Parade and lots of reading!

Parade!

I hope you’re having fun creating your Book Week costumes!

Students are invited to come dressed as a favourite book character or in the Reading is Magic theme for the parade. Family and carers are invited to come and watch the parade. The parade will take place Monday 19th August at 2:30 p.m.

Author visit!

Also on the Monday, students from Kindergarten to year 6 will listen to a presentation from award winning author Susanne Gervay.

Thanks to those students who ordered a book for Susanne to sign. Any orders placed after the 5th August will arrive too late to be signed.

Will you rise to meet the challenge?  

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.

Happy reading!

A HUGE thankyou to everyone who bought a book from the book fair last Monday and an even HUGER thankyou to those generous families who donated a book to our library! Every book that was bought helped to raise money for new resources for the library!

Here’s a picture of the donated books!

Many thanks,

Mr Neufeld

Congratulations and good luck to Theo Kav who has been selected in the IWPSSA Cricket team to play in the Regional trials on Wednesday 21st August.

Also, good luck to our DPS Athletics Team who are off to compete at the Zone carnival next Thursday.

Leah Pegler

Sports Coordinator

From Tuesday to Thursday this week I went to Wollongong to represent Sydney East at the NSW PSSA Touch Tournament.  

We played 12 round games, we lost 1 and won 11. We made the semi-finals, which my team won. Soon we had the grand final, I was very nervous. I started on as a winger. My team scored the first try and at half time the score was 2-2. We played for another 12 minutes, and the final score was 3-4. It was a very close game and Sydney East had won a silver medal.

Overall, we played an amazing tournament, and I made lots of new friends. 

Ella C 5/6O

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.

Early bird ride passes are still on sale for $45. Pre-purchase online and save before next Friday: drummoynepublicschool.com.au/pc The wristbands include one pony ride and as many other rides as you like. You can also buy a wristband on fete day for $60.

The Drummoyne Spring Fete is our biggest fundraiser. We thank you for your donations, support, and volunteer work.

Walid El-Khoury & Rob Tolliday

Fete Coordinators

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:

I hope all the parents , grandparents and friends enjoyed the Art afternoon. I thought the student works were so creative, colourful and beautiful!! It certainly brightens up the school corridors and adds a lot of interest walking around the building. Congratulations to all students contributing such wonderful works and to the teachers for guiding them.

Brownie Bites were made in the canteen this week: 2 for $0.50 (light olive oil, eggs, vanilla essence, flour, cocoa powder and reduced sugar).

Sushi. To avoid wastage and to ensure every one receives exactly what they want, sushi will now be available fortnightly. First order will be Tuesday 20th August. The cut off for ordering will be Monday 19th August  9:30am.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: AUGUST

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.

MON.12th.   10:30 am - 11:30 am…….1 (Chicken Nuggets and wedges) 

THURS.15th 9:30am - 10:30 am…..1.        10:30 am - 11:30 am…….1 (Pasta)

FRI. 16th  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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