Week 8 Term 2, 2017

DANCE PERFORMANCE This morning Mrs Whiteman and the girl’s dance group visited Denman Multi Purpose Service for a performance for the residents and their families. The group of 28 students from Years 3-6 were warmly welcomed by the wonderful staff at DMPS. Congratulations to the students on a wonderful display. It was lovely to see everyone engaging in the performance and clapping along to the music. Thank you to the amazing staff who kindly provided a delicious morning tea to enjoy with the residents at the conclusion of the dance.

KIDS CORNER Payton – Year 2

Amazing artistic effort!

WONDERFUL WORKERS

K – Declan, Jaylene, Callum 1 – Jemma, Bella, Noah 2 – Keira, Georga, Payton 3 – Abby, Sophie, Lucy 4 – Joshua, Brodie, Daniel 5 – Lizzie, Blade, Ashton 6 – Issac, Monique, Lachlan

FRIENDLY KIDS

ARCHIE, Year 1

For being a great help to younger students during sport

NADIA, Year 6

For being a kind and courteous DPS student

MERIT AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who will receive merit awards this week.

K – Hunter, Harmony, Isla 1 – Ashleigh, Archie, Braydan 2 – Dawson, Max, Bede 3 – Lachlan, Blaney, Abby 4 – Lauren, Lucas, Jarryd 5 – Reegan, Rhyme, Harry 6 – Nadia, Tully, Phoebe

CLASS NEWS – YEAR 4

Year 4 continue to work well in all areas. Our weekly spelling results continue to get better and better and many students

are making a concerted effort to learn the multiplication tables. This week as part of our Science unit we did some stress tests on various materials to see how much weight they could hold before breaking. We were flabbergasted to learn that a piece of A4 paper could withstand weights totalling 13kg! Toilet paper didn’t fare anywhere near as well. Art is another pleasing area with many students now starting to review their own work. Keep up the good work Year 4.

MUSWELLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTATION The Muswellbrook High School Performing Arts Group will be visiting Denman Public School on Thursday June 29th. Performances

will be from 1.00pm till 2.30pm. We welcome all families and community members to join us for this fantastic opportunity showcasing this amazing talent. The P&C will be holding a BBQ before the performance from 12.00pm. Sausage sandwiches and drinks will be available to purchase. This is a great opportunity to enjoy a delicious lunch with your children before the show.

CHESS TOURNAMENT

Chess has been offered to students at DPS for many years as an extracurricular activity and all students in Years 3 - 6 are invited to participate. The Denman Public School Chess team participated in an Interschool Chess Challenge this week. Students travelled to East Gosford on Tuesday 6th June. The students implemented great strategies during the tournament and were awarded 3rd place overall. Students will be competing in another competition next week at Tamworth. Congratulations to the team on a wonderful achievement. Students will now advance to the quarter finals in Term 3. Thank you to Mr Alan Sommerville who travelled to the tournament with the team. Mr Sommerville volunteers his time to coach students each week and his support and knowledge is greatly appreciated.

SPORTS REPORT Touch Football Next Monday 19th June, our boys and girls

Touch Football Teams will participate in Round 2 of the PSSA Knockout competition. Both teams will play against Muswellbrook South Public School in Muswellbrook with the boys playing at 12.20pm and the Girls at 1.10pm. Please ensure all permission notes are returned by Thursday with the $2 PSSA nomination fee. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH TEAMS!

HUNTER DANCE FESTIVAL The Hunter Dance festival will be held on Tuesday July 25th at

Wests City (formerly Newcastle Panthers). Tickets are $18.00

each and may be purchased directly from Wests City. For further details phone: 4926 6200

P&C NEWS

Please remember to mention our school if you open a new account at the

Denman Branch of the Regional Australia Bank. When any new account is opened, the customer is able to elect a community organisation to support, and the organisation then receives a lump sum, which equates to 1% of the average balance of all accounts combined. Customers with existing accounts are able to change their account type to be part of this incentive as well. With just a little comment to the friendly ladies at the bank, the school could benefit financially. Thank you to the Regional Australia Bank for offering this incentive to help out community organisations. Just a reminder that we sell reusable lunch bags. These are great to keep lunches cool or warm, and also cut down on the rubbish at school. They are available for purchase from the uniform shop and the office for $10. As previously mentioned we are holding a BBQ before the MHS Performing Arts Group performance on Thursday June 29th. Any help

to cook the BBQ and assist on the day would be greatly appreciated.

CHANGE OF DATE DPS advises that the School Council meeting scheduled for Monday 19th June has been postponed. We will advise of the new date ASAP. The P & C meeting will now be held on this day at 5.30pm in the school staff room.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Week 8 Wednesday June 14

Yvonne Nicol & Jacqui McGrath Friday June 16

Milisa Borg & Renee Wallace Week 9

Monday June 19 Renee Wear and Leonie McKeon

Wednesday June 21 Yvonne Nicol & Susie Turner

Friday June 23 Milisa Borg& Renee Wallace

Thanks to our volunteers!

DATES FOR YOUR

DIARY - 2017

Wednesday

14/6 ICAS Spelling test

Thursday

15/6

Year 1 Assembly (Yr 2 item)

Science Discovery Day

Friday

16/6 Athletics with Dennis Pitt

Monday

19/6 PSSA Touch Football MSPS

Thursday

22/6 Kinder assembly

Thursday

29/6

MHS Performing Arts Group

visit

Friday

30/6

Red Nose Day-Out of Uniform

Last day of Term

Muswellbrook Rugby Union Club Juniors 2018

The Muswellbrook Rugby Union Club is aiming to re-establish our junior club in 2018. The club would like to hear from interested players and parents to help us get

our juniors back on the field in 2018. The club would like to enter teams in the Hunter Junior Rugby Competition which

caters for age groups from U7’s to U17’s.

The Hunter Junior Rugby Competition plays games on Saturdays and consists of teams from Singleton, Pokolbin,

Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Medowie & Nelson Bay.

We are looking for coaches, managers, players & committee members to re-establish the Junior Club.

If you or your child is interested in playing/coaching Junior Rugby Union in 2018 or you need more information,

please contact us.

muswellbrookrugbyunion@gmail.com or Greg Buckley – President 0427 878910