Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Deputy Principal Staffing Change for 2025

It is with mixed emotions that I announce the transfer of our Deputy Principal, Ms Dianne Colb, to Guildford Public School beginning next year. This change comes as a result of the planned decrease in student numbers at Drummoyne Public School due to boundary adjustments following Russell Lea Public School’s transition to a K-6 school. 

While we understand the necessity of this change, we are deeply saddened to be losing Ms Colb, who has become an integral part of our school community over the last 8 years. Her dedication, leadership and passion for education have touched the lives of many students, staff and families.

To celebrate Ms Colb’s contributions to Drummoyne PS, we will be holding a special farewell event towards the end of the year. We hope you will join us in celebrating her time with us and wishing her all the best in her new role at Guildford PS.

Welcome to our new Italian Teacher, Lisa Cameron

I am pleased to welcome  Ms Lisa Cameron to our staff as the new Italian teacher on Wednesdays through Fridays. Ms Jess LoSurdo will be teaching Italian on Mondays.

While we are still in the process of finding a full-time Italian teacher, we are excited to have Ms Cameron with us for the remainder of this term, with the possibility of her staying on until the end of the year. Ms Cameron brings a wealth of experience to the role, having taught French at Kambala for the past four years, French at PLC prior to that, and Italian at Leichhardt Public School from 2008 to 2016. I know you will join me in welcoming Ms Cameron to our school community.

I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Ms Carolyn Allport for stepping in and teaching Italian over the past seven weeks.

Thank you, Claudie

Remaining in a thankful mindset, I would like to take a moment to recognise and thank Claudie, our wonderful crossing guard, who celebrated 10 years in the role on Thursday. Claudie’s dedication and commitment to ensuring the safety of our students and families over the past decade has been truly remarkable and we are incredibly grateful for her continued service. Congratulations, Claudie, on this amazing milestone and thank you for your work to keep our school community safe.

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au 

Having a food allergy can impact on a child’s participation in school and other activities. With support, understanding, and education of children, parents/carers, and the wider school community, everyone can include children with food allergy and help to keep them safe.

Always take food allergies seriously

It may be hard to believe food that most of us eat and enjoy every day can be harmful to others, but people who have food allergy can have serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis), which can be life threatening.

Don’t share food with mates who have food allergy

Everyone loves to share or swap food with each other. But for those with food allergies this can be very dangerous. Never share your food with mates with food allergies. Even if you think the food is safe, it’s still not worth taking the risk.

Always wash hands after eating

Always wash your hands after eating something another student is allergic to. This will help keep them safe.  

Know what your mates are allergic to

Ask your mates what food they are allergic to. Consider your mates with food allergy when eating your food and try not to be messy. For school birthday parties and celebrations consider non-food treats and activities like stamps and stickers.

Get help straight away if a mate gets sick (even if they don’t want you to)

If a mate who has food or insect allergies is showing these signs tell them to stay where they are and get a teacher or person in charge straight away:

• Finding it hard to breathe
• Skin that is bumpy, red, and itchy
• Swelling of the face, lips, and eyes
• Vomiting
• Looking pale and feeling dizzy

Dianne Colb

• Eva A - 3/4A
• Chloe D S - 3/4A
• James D - 5/6O

• Zachary T - 5/6H

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Max K - 3/4A
• Oscar M - 3/4A
• Harper K - 5/6C

• Ruby Q - 3/4S - Respect

On the 5th September the Stage 2 Choir went to rehearse 11 songs for a performance we will do on the 26th September. The performance brings together around 480 students singing at the Sydney Town Hall.

We had fun singing with other schools and learning different techniques. Our choir perfected our voices well… almost perfected them for our awesome concert coming up.

We arrived at Drummoyne Public school at 8:15am, marked the roll and jumped onto the really fancy bus. The choirs started singing and sounded beautiful. We had a really quick morning tea break and finished our repertoire at 1pm. We had a great day of singing and are looking forward to the concert in 3 weeks.

By Zoe F and Ivy N

On Monday, 2nd September, Year 4 departed for their first school camp at Stanwell Tops. Our first day was incredibly windy, which meant that some of our activities needed to be changed. We played lots of fun games, like 9 square and our new favourite - gaga ball! We also played fantastic indoor games: kings, queens and knights, one where we needed to toss our shoes to hit a bottle, and one where we had to knock cafeteria trays out of our opponents’ hands! Our first day ended with an exciting silent disco, where we could select one of three stations, listen to and sing along to our favourite songs. It was an enjoyable, entertaining and exhausting day!

The next day, we had much better weather, so this meant we could complete our exciting outdoor activities! Groups did the giant swing (which was so much fun), survivor and archery. Everyone had a great time doing these challenging but memorable activities.

Some other camp highlights were the hamburgers, pasta, and spending lots of time with our friends. We would like to thank the amazing staff at Stanwell Tops who were so accommodating and gave us a great experience despite the weather, our dedicated teachers, and our parents and carers for supporting us and preparing us for this wonderful camp. 

We can’t wait for our next camp!

Year 4

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.

Theo K recently attended the Sydney East regional cricket trials.  We were so happy to hear that he was successful in being selected to represent Sydney East at the NSW PSSA State Championships in Armidale in October.

Congratulations Theo!   

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.

Dear Parents & Carers,

Eight volunteers are needed for the P&C Council Election BBQ on Saturday 14 September at the school.

Please click on the link below to volunteer and add your name to one of the shifts to either serve, prepare the hotdogs or cook. The BBQ will be open between 10am-2pm. Volunteer shifts are for 2 hours, but any time you can offer to help would be gratefully accepted.

Your help to assist the P&C to continue its fundraising efforts this year for our school is so very much appreciated. Contact the event lead, Tim Counter on 0404 017 678 if any questions. 

https://signup.zone/2aN4JmNAGh8qkM6z6

Many thanks,

P&C Committee

Stock up on summer uniforms at the P&C second hand uniform sale this Friday, 27th September!

The sale is open from 8.15am - 9.15am under the COLA (outside the hall) and we are accepting cash and card. 

If you have any good quality, clean items you would like to donate to the sale, please drop them to the school office.

P&C Committee

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 also to student helpers Lola, Caitlyn and Korney.

Caminitis who have been supplying the canteen with sausages and mince has changed management. They are now called Classic Butchery. If you mention you are a Drummoyne Public School parent, you will receive a discount. The beef sausages are 100% beef, no preservatives, no fillers, gluten free and have a natural casing.

Reminder:  Sushi orders in by Monday 16th September 9:30am.

New menu item - Meat Lovers Pizza

Ham, sliced sausage, homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella, light sprinkle of parmesan $3.00.

Volunteers needed: SEPTEMBER

If you are able to come in and help.....we will be so grateful! Pop in and spend 30 mins and do just one task!! The more the merrier! We are flexible, we love a laugh, we don't bite , order your child's lunch while there and receive the main item on the house!

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) .

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

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

FRI. 11th 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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