Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Festival of Instrumental Music – From DPS to the Opera House! 

On Tuesday night, I had the absolute pleasure of seeing our Recorder and String Ensembles perform at the Opera House as part of the Festival of Instrumental Music – an unforgettable experience for everyone involved! A big thank you to Ms Suzy Sole for building these groups from the ground up this year and giving our students this fantastic new opportunity to shine.

The highlight of the evening was the spectacular finale, where 500 recorders and hundreds of violinists came together to fill the Concert Hall with music. It was spine-tingling to hear and such a joy to see our students as part of something so powerful. 

I’d also like to thank one of our mums, Sarah Lindquist, for coming along during the day to help supervise the string group at their rehearsal – your support was a huge help in making sure everything ran smoothly.

We are so proud of our students who represented Drummoyne Public School in the Iron Cove Network Public Speaking Final earlier this week: Axel (Kindy), Aaron (Stage 1), Imogen (Stage 2), and Delilah (Stage 3). All four students competed with pride in a challenging competition that includes impromptu speeches, showcasing their confidence, creativity, and poise.Special congratulations to Axel, who placed second and received a Highly Commended award, and to Aaron, who won the Stage 1 competition! Aaron will now progress to the Grand Final at George River College in Oatley in November – an incredible achievement!

‘The Monties’ Take Over DPS! 

What a week it’s been! Costumes are arriving, impromptu dance rehearsals are erupting all over the playground and you have all started snapping up tickets for ‘The Monties’ performances in the last week of term. The excitement is contagious!

I can’t wait to welcome you all back to the school to see our students in action and celebrate their incredible hard work. It’s shaping up to be a spectacular way to finish the term – full of fun, talent and plenty of energy. Don’t miss it!

Regards,

John Nguyen​

Principal 

E: john.nguyen34@det.n​sw.edu.au

Congratulations to Axel E (Early Stage 1), Aaron N (Stage 1), Imogen T (Stage 2) and Delilah F (Stage 3) who represented our school at the Metropolitan South and West Speaking competition this week. Axel received a highly commended award and Aaron came first. Well done team DPS.

On Tuesday morning, I went to Annandale Public School to represent Drummoyne Public School in the Metropolitan South and West Public Speaking Competition. First, I went there and saw Axel in KB win a medal for being highly commended. Then there was time to walk around and explore the huge school.

After that, we went into the hall and they told us the rules of the competition. I was the first speaker and I was nervous. When they announced my name, everybody clapped as I walked onto the stage, which made me even more nervous.

I began my speech with everybody watching. I used hand gestures and tried my best to speak loudly, not too slow and not too quick. Then I listened to the other people speak and they were really good. They also used hand gestures and spoke very confidently.

Then it was time for the impromptu speeches. We only had five minutes to write our ideas and the topic was “Holidays.” I had an advantage because I had just visited Turkey in July, so it was easy for me to talk about my family and my culture. I tried to persuade the audience to go to Turkey because it’s one of the best countries in the world.

At the end, they announced the winners. The second place winner talked about bees and how they pollinate flowers to make fruits like watermelon. At that time, I didn’t think I was going to win, but then they announced the winner, and it was me!! I felt really proud, excited and happy. I won a trophy, a certificate, and now I get to represent Drummoyne in another competition.

I spoke about dreams coming true and to always dream big, because if you don’t dream big, you won’t become what you want to be. Now I’m a competition speaking winner and one of my dreams has come true because I gave it a go and did my best.

By Aaron N - K/1W

On Tuesday, the 9th of September a group of 27 students went to perform at the Sydney Opera House.  This group consisted of three string players and twenty-four recorder players. We were lucky to be a part of the 1000 kids and guest performers.

Everyone who was performing in the recorder and the string ensemble had a black t-shirt with three blue feathers on it. This was the symbol for the festival of instrumental music ( Mimosa concert ). 

Thank you Ms Sole for teaching us all year round. 

Ayden A and Ludo D

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:

• Anabel O - 1/2A
• Isla L - 1/2P
• Matilda R - 1/2P
• Kayla C - 5/6C
• Jonathan P - 5/6C
• Anastasia D - 5/6H
• Maeve O'B - 5/6O
• David H - 5/6P

• Evie B - KP
• Nathaniel D - KP
• Samantha Y - 1/2J
• Maddie B - 1/2M
• Jasmine D - 1/2M
• Maya S - 1/2M
• Oliver A - 1/2W
• Harry D - 1/2W
• Henry N - 3/4D
• Kira C - 3/4X
• Rian L - 3/4X
• Vivienne D - 5/6O

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Clara E - KP
• Riley F - KP
• Henry S - KP
• Stefania C - 1/2P
• Mirana R - 3/4C
• Charlotte S - 5/6P

Mr Nguyen says congratulations to:

• Anabel O - 1/2A - Respect
• Kayla C - 5/6C - Respect
• Harry D - 1/2W - Resilience

Last Friday, on the 5th of September, I went to Sydney Secondary College to play my violin with some other primary school students from different schools. We rehearsed our piece we were going to play at the IMP Showcase with SSC high schoolers from different campuses.

The next day, I went to the Conservatory of Music with lots of other students. In the first act, we listened to pieces of music by different SSC music groups. At the interval, we started to get ready to go on and play our piece but first we listened to the bands who were made up of primary school students from different schools and SSC high school students.

Then, it was our turn to perform under the bright lights! I had a really fun time playing and thought our piece sounded awesome.

By Claire L

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 September P&C meeting will be held next Tuesday, 16 September at 7:30pm in the school library.

If you can't join us in person you can join us virtually on teams. Please find the Teams meeting link below.

September 2025 P&C Meeting

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, 

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.

Monies owing for emergency lunches

Please check your inbox and spam 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.

SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 15th….10:30am-11:30am…..1

WEDNESDAY 17th…..10:30am-11:30am…..1

THURSDAY 18th…….10:30am-11:30am…….1

FRIDAY 19th…….9:30am-10:30am…..2.          10:30am-11:30am…..2

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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