Drummoyne Public School

Sincere Thanks

I would like to thank every member of our parent community for your faithful support of the school throughout the term. On your behalf, I would like to sincerely thank our staff for their wholehearted efforts to bring through learning and support for every student in our care and to wish you and all staff a well-deserved break if work commitments allow. 

Semester 1 Reports

Parents and carers should have received Semester 1 reports on Wednesday this week. If you did not receive your child's report please email the school.

SRC Mufti Day

Thank you to everyone who turned up on Wednesday in their colourful PJ's and lounge wear. The SRC raised $650 in total which will be donated to Stewart House to help fund the great work done for children in need.

Our open day will be held on Tuesday 1 August. An overview of the day follows:

• 9.45am Parent Assembly with items by many K-6 students eg stage 1 choir, public speaking, poetry recital, DIM senior band, performing arts items etc
• 10.30am Open Classrooms
• 10.30am Book Fair
• 11.30pm Teddy Bears Picnic for Kindergarten & lunch with parents and grand friends
• 12.15pm Normal lessons resume

An overview of all our Education Week activities will be provided next term.

From time to time, requests are made to class teachers to provide classwork for students when the students are taking an extended holiday during term.  While teachers are wanting to support students to continue their learning when away from school, providing worksheets and the like for children to complete has limited value for learning and generally will not be provided.  Completion of worksheets is helpful for students when it is based on the teaching and learning in class including the questions, interactions and feedback between the teacher and the students.Our best suggestion for children who are going on extended leave is to keep a diary, written or drawn, and then share this with their class when they return to school.

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. The theme for this year's NAIDOC Week is 'For our Elders'. 

Please support and get to know your local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities through activities and events held across the country next week. 

Dianne Colb

Deputy Principal

Over the last five weeks, students in Stage 3 have been working on their thinking keys projects, researching topics that interested them based around the themes of Government, democracy and human rights. This week they showcased their thinking keys projects to their fellow students and shared their knowledge. 

In recent weeks there have been a few cases of head lice throughout the school. We ask that all parents/caregivers check their child’s hair and treat during the school holidays. 

Below is a summary of helpful useful information:

• Check your child’s head for lice behind the ears and forehead once a week in cooler weather.
• Check particularly carefully in the week before school starts each term.
• If you do find lice, ask the chemist for the correct shampoo to use. Please treat any other children in the family as well, just as a precaution. Bed linen, pillows, hairbrushes, cushions etc., will also need to be washed thoroughly and aired in the sun. Do not forget to also treat school hats!
• Once your child’s hair has been treated correctly, the lice will be dead and the lice and eggs can be removed with a fine-toothed comb available from the chemist.
• After initial treatment of hair is completed, it needs to be redone 10 days later.
• Please ensure that girls with hair past their shoulders keep it tied back at all times.

If everyone can please check their child’s hair, we can help eradicate this very annoying problem from our school. 

RAT kits are available from the school office for all families.

For continued testing, please call or visit the office to arrange collection.

Our layered COVID-smart measures – staying home if unwell, hygiene and cleaning practices, testing for COVID-19, masks strongly encouraged and ventilation – will continue this term. More details on our Advice for families page.

NSW Health advise that during the winter months, COVID will continue to present a health risk to the community. Accordingly, schools will implement baseline COVID-smart measures to help reduce the risk of transmission for students and staff members. These key COVID-smart measures include:

• staying home and getting tested if unwell, and only attending school when symptom free.

• rapid antigen testing for symptomatic students and staff. Please contact us for test kits.

With flu cases on the rise, we would like to remind you that simple hygiene such as regularly washing hands will help stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus.

Students are asked to stay home when sick. They should only attend school when they are symptom free. 

Parents and carers who have children with persistent or ongoing symptoms of flu or COVID 19 are encouraged to have these assessed by their local health care professional. These symptoms may be related to other illnesses (e.g. allergies or hay fever) that require treatment and management by a doctor. 

Respect awards - Rawson says congratulations to: 

• Marcello Di Giovanni - 5/6C
• Vivienne Duquemin - 3/4S

Responsibility awards - Monty says congratulations to:

• Ayden Katieh - 3/4A
• Sebastien Lee - 3/4W
• Henry Windmiller - 5/6H
• Jack Brierty - 5/6O

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Jayda Katieh - 5/6M
• Liam Kalotheos - 3/4S
• Max Dezius - 5/6M
• Daniel Counsell - 3/4W

Mr Dill says congratulations to:

• Aria Anastasiou - 3/4A - Respect badge
• Jayda Katieh - 5/6M - Respect badge
• Sebastien Lee - 3/4W - Responsibility badge
• Matthew Summerfield - 5/6O - Responsibility badge
• Ayden Katieh - 3/4A - Resilience badge
• Marcello Di Giovanni - 5/6O - Resilience badge

The DPS spelling bee finals were held on Monday this week. Congratulations to the winning students: 

Stage 2: 

• 1st: Isabelle M - 4/5K
• 2nd: Zachary - 3/4W
• 3rd: Jasmine S - 4/5K & Ava MC - 4/5K

Stage 3:

• 1st: Triet - 5/6O
• 2nd: Sebastian - 4/5K
• 3rd: Marie - 5/6P

Isabelle & Triet now move on to represent DPS at the regional spelling bee in Term 3. We wish them both good luck.

Ewan Sutton

STEAM Teacher

Our school is partnering with the local school bus operator, Busways, to support a new Tap On and Tap Off education campaign encouraging students who travel by bus to correctly use their school Opal cards. Busways is implementing this campaign throughout Term 3, 2023. This campaign will focus on a simple message – tap on and tap off every time you travel by bus.

Why is tapping on and off on the bus important?

The use of Opal cards is the primary way bus operators and Transport for NSW analyse demand for bus services. When students don’t use their Opal cards, their trip is not recorded. Therefore, buses may appear underutilised. Tapping on and off provides better data to plan better bus services. How can you help? If your child travels to school by bus, please ensure your child has a valid Opal card (either a School or Child/Youth Opal card).

Visit Transport for NSW website to apply for a school Opal card. 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.

Thank you for your support with this campaign.

transportnsw.info/tickets-opal/ticket-eligibility-concessions/school-student-travel

Please apply online at:  https://drummoyne-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html

The Online Enrolment System is designed to provide flexibility for parents to submit an enrolment application online and at the time that best suits you.

The application can be accessed on all browsers and mobile devices including iOS and Android. The online application process is currently restricted to:

• Enrolments into local schools
• Children who are Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or permanent residents
• Children who live in NSW.

We offer our support and encourage you to complete your application to enrol online. If, however, you do not feel comfortable completing an application online, a paper copy will be available for collection from the front office or can be downloaded from the Department’s going to a public school site.

The permission notes listed below were sent home recently and should be completed and signed by parents as soon as possible.

• School Contributions  for all students - $120  - overdue
• Zing Activ Term 3 Performance program for all students - child 1 $45, child 2 $30 
• Backflips against bullying incursion - $6 all students

Last Friday night the P&C hosted a fantastic trivia night for some 120 parents. Besides having lots of laughs and enjoying great food and drinks, we raised over $3500 for the P&C fund!

These generous sponsors donated amazing prizes and drinks:

• Warwick Williams Real Estate
• Portrait Hub Studio
• Seed & Spark
• Natalie Thornhill (Australian Vintage Wine)
• Grant Melville (EVT)
• The Movement Core
• Sydney Spine and Pelvis Clinic
• Five Dock Officeworks
• Quizzic Alley
• Our Dental Care
• Coles Birkenhead

And we couldn't have done it without our dedicated volunteers, including Belle, Tania, Emilie, Angela, Bec, Wade, Adam, Pinky, Grant, Joanna, Michelle, Ali, Tish, Corinne, Rob, Nick, Anthony, Param, Phil, and the DPS office team. It was great to see so many parents coming together and having fun. We hope to make this an annual event on the DPS social calendar!

Angela Farrell

P&C President

The date for our 2023 Spring Fete has been confirmed. Please add Sunday 27 August to your calendars.

Spring Fete Sponsors

Please save the date for our Term 3 second hand uniform sale:

• Friday 28th July
• under the COLA
• 8.15am - 9:15am

Do you have some good clean donations your kids have grown out of?

Please drop them to the office soon, so we can sell them at the second hand stall.

The uniform shop will be open during term 3 for face to face sales on Wednesday afternoons from 3.00pm - 3.30pm.

Please order school uniforms online. The P&C will process orders and the school office staff will distribute them.

 Please use our school Registration ID: 2572963 to create an account if you don’t already have one for canteen orders.

Thank you also to our student volunteers Asher, Zara, Juliette, Olive, Deniz, Kornei, Cyra, Shireen and Issie. We thank all our volunteers who have helped over this term!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday.

Kind regards,

Canteen and P&C Committee

New WhatApp group

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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