Drummoyne Public School

Dear Drummoyne PS Community,

Learning on Country with Uncle Jimmy

On Monday, our staff welcomed Aboriginal Elder Uncle Jimmy Smith, a respected cultural custodian and storyteller from the local community, for a special workshop on Aboriginal culture and heritage as part of our School Development Day. Uncle Jimmy took our staff on a meaningful Walk on Country around Callan Park, sharing stories, knowledge and insights about the land and its significance.

Uncle Jimmy has worked extensively with the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney, dedicating many years to preserving and teaching Aboriginal traditions. His deep connection to Country and rich experience provided a powerful perspective that enriched our staff's understanding and respect for Indigenous culture.

This experience was a valuable opportunity for upskilling our teachers so we can continue to share authentic cultural knowledge with our students. It’s important that, as role models for our students, we all keep learning and growing to help build a brighter, more inclusive future for everyone in Australia.

This year, we have once again organised a Drummoyne PS Team for the 2km Primary School Challenge as part of the BayRun on SUNDAY 3rd AUGUST 2025 from 8am.

The BayRun brings together families, school kids and elite runners for a run around the stunning Iron Cove Bay. There is something for everyone - students and their families can run or walk in the 2km primary school event, or parents and older siblings can take on the full 7km course.

If you are interested, please visit the BayRun website for further information and to register your family. You will be able to select our school when you sign up for the 2km Primary School Challenge. Additionally, we have been given a discount code that will provide 20% off in any race category for the first 100 uses. Enter BRF20 at checkout to receive your discount.

Last year, we had a great turnout, including a good number of students, teachers and the Nguyen clan – we’re hoping to have even more families will join us this year! We’ll also be bringing down our Drummoyne PS representative running singlets for the students to wear during the event. 

You can also visit the Fundraising Page to make a donation to the Drummoyne PS P&C.

We look forward to seeing our school community out in force again this year! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️💙

Genius Hour projects promote inquiry-based learning and also encourages creativity and personal expression. The variety of presentation formats allowed students to showcase their findings in a way that resonated with their interests and strengths. This may include multi-modal presentations, a book, a script, a movie, cooking, building models and a drama performance.

Through the process, students:

● Identified a topic or problem they were passionate about.

● Formed a deep, open-ended inquiry question to research, answer or solve.

● Used a systematic approach to the formulation of their inquiry question and research.

● Presented or created a final product that communicated their findings and/or solution.

● Reflected on their experience and formed new questions that could be answered in subsequent projects.

Some of the topics for Genius Hour Projects included:

● What are the elements in the periodic table and where do they affect the body?

● How will cryptocurrency affect our future?

● What is a dream?

● What is G-Force and how does it affect the human body?

● How does Kinetics work?

● What impact have teddy bears had on society?

● How did doctors treat pandemic and endemic diseases in the past?

● What are emotions and how do they work?

● What are the main reasons for the differences in opportunities for women in Australian Rules Football, and what can be done to make it fairer for them?

● How can architectural design make an impact on the strength of a bridge?

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

• year of schooling
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

Leigh Russ

Once again 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 18th August.

We will have two amazing authors, Serena Geddes and Belinda Murrell visiting us, an adventurous Book Week Parade and of course, lots of reading!

Parade!

Students are invited to come dressed as something book related! It could be a favourite book character, a favourite book cover, a definition from the dictionary, their favourite world record from Guinness or in the “Book an Adventure” theme. Family and carers are invited to come and watch the parade. The parade will take place Monday 18th August at 2:30 p.m.

Author visit!

Also on the Monday, students from Kindergarten to Stage 2 will listen to a presentation from amazing author and illustrator, Serena Geddes.

Stage 3 will be treated to an exciting writing workshop from acclaimed author Belinda Murrell!

Students can purchase a book by Serena Geddes or Belinda Murrell leading up to their visit which will be signed on the day. Orders must be placed by 4th August using the details below. Any orders after this time will be sent after the visit and will NOT be available to be signed.

Education Week Book Fair

As part of our Education Week open day, a book fair will be held in the library on Monday 4th August. Friends and families are invited to come to the library from 8:30 to 11:30 to have a browse and possibly make a purchase. Books can be purchased on the day using eftpos or cash.

In the coming week, students will bring home a “wish list” of books that have caught their interest from the fair.

Any books you may like to purchase for donation to the library would be greatly appreciated and a part of every book sale helps to raise funds for our school library!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Happy reading,

Mr Neufeld. 

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is currently on!

Students in years 3 to 6 must log their own reading on the PRC website.

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.

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.

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 5 closes on 11th August

Congratulations to Maeve from 5/6O. Maeve competed at the NSW PSSA Cross Country Championships this week despite being unwell over the weekend - finishing 28th in the state!! The Sydney East team also won a bronze medal for placing 3rd across all regions in the state.

Well done Maeve!

Amanda Champion & Leah Pegler

With the recent cold weather changes students are taking their jackets on and off throughout the day and many are ending up, unclaimed, in lost property!

Office staff have been endeavoring to return items to students where the owner's name is clearly marked but many items have no name or the name of a student who has left the school.

Please clearly mark your child's hats, jackets, lunchboxes etc and encourage them to be responsible for their belongings.

Thank you 

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. 

Can you help? We’d love more hands on deck to make this our best fete ever!

Join us on zoom for our next Fete meeting, this coming Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 8pm.

(Contact Rob on 0410 441 053 for the zoom link)

Are you a local business owner or DPS school family who would like to support the Fete?

We are continuing to seek prizes for our Fete Silent Auction, and would like to invite our local business owners in the school community to kindly donate. Nothing is too big or small!

Some of the generous prizes we’ve already received:

• Verve Photography Packages valued at $1,745
• Oroginale Fine Jewellery 18-Carat Diamond Ring valued at $2,800
• Vision PT Drummoyne Package valued at $1,500
• Top Serve Tennis Academy Lessons valued at $710
• Harris Farm, Art Classes, Staycation vouchers and more

If you’d like to donate, please contact the Sponsorship Team on sponsorship@drummoynepublicschool.com.au. Your support is greatly appreciated.

About the Fete

The fete is not only a fantastic day out for the whole family, but plays a crucial role in raising funds for our school. This year we have ambitions to raise even more than last year’s record of $43k — and we are well on track! All proceeds from the fete will go towards enhancing educational resources and facilities for our students.

Date: Sunday 31 August 2025

Time: 10am – 3pm

How can you help?

We are still seeking a co-ordinator for our Silent Auction. If you are interested, please contact Rob (0410 441 053) for more details.

Warm regards,

Rob Tolliday

Fete Coordinator

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:

We’re excited to let you know that our new school jumpers are now available for purchase through the uniform shop! These jumpers can be worn instead of the current bomber jackets, or underneath them on particularly cold days. They’re warm, comfortable and designed to match our existing uniform, helping students stay cosy, while maintaining a neat and consistent look.

Are you passionate about nutritious food and creating a welcoming atmosphere? The P&C are looking for someone enthusiastic, friendly and organized to work in our vibrant canteen! 

Our lovely Eugenie will be leaving in September, after an incredible 18 years being involved with the school! The role will start towards the end of Term 3, 2025 working in a job share with our current Canteen Assistant Tayla, 3 days a week (varied hours) during school term. 

The role will be well supported by our current canteen team - Tayla and the P&C Canteen Committee. Detailed job description is available on request.

Email your resume to president@drummoynepublicschool.com.au

Dear Parents & Carers, 

Thank you to parent volunteers Christine, Jess and Megan.

We will have some new items (eg. Healthy Snack Plates, new fillings for wraps on Wednesday, garden salad with options of protein to add), beginning next week. I am in the process of pricing. These will be available to order from Monday next week. Descriptions will accompany the new items with photos to follow.

Pizza is no longer available to order due to lack of demand. Cheesy breads are available to order online for recess  for $1.00. This is half a bread roll topped with a slice of tasty cheese and baked in the oven. Our smaller cheesy breads will still be available over the counter at recess for $0.50.

Volunteers needed:

The times listed below are our busy times. These are the slots that we would really appreciate a helping hand so lunches can be delivered on time. Any help is so greatly appreciated! Many hands make light work!

JULY

MONDAY 28th….10:30am-11:30am…..1

THURSDAY 31st…….10:30am-11:30am…….1

AUGUST:  
FRIDAY 1st……9:30am-10:30am…….1.        10:30am-11:30am….2

MONDAY 4th….10:30am-11:30am…..1

WEDNESDAY 5th…..10:30am-11:30am…..1

THURSDAY 6th…….10:30am-11:30am…….1

FRIDAY 7th……10:30am-11:30am…..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.

If you have ordered recess for your child, please remind them in the morning. Many times we have orders not collected.

We do ask Admin to call on the P.A system at recess. If recess still not collected, perishables will be binned. Non perishables will be refunded the next day.

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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