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From Sharon’s Desk Congratulations to Charlotte Newby for her wonderful nomination and efforts in receiving the Fred Hollows Humanity Award in Sydney. Charlotte was nominated for her compassion, integrity and kindness. What a wonderful achievement. We are all so proud of you Charlotte. Photo credit Daily Liberal Dubbo. Our School Fete is around the corner. Great activities are organised for the day with the P&C team, staff and students busy getting stalls together. This is a major fundraiser for our school and a day full off fun. Please lock in 31st October in your diaries. Celebrate our Halloween theme! The stalls will cover food, games, activities, cake stalls and art displays. There are quite a few outside businesses who will be there on the day—Dippin’ dots, coffee van and Jumping Castle, popcorn and fairy floss. The fete will run from 11am-2pm. Come along and enjoy the school event. Lantern Festival is happening again this weekend. Our students will be involved in making lanterns for the evening tomorrow. We have 30 students who will develop and make their own lanterns for the fun evening. The Festival featuring the lanterns will be held on Saturday night down Talbragar St and onto Victoria Park for the food and music. World Teachers Day will be acknowledged this Friday. Show your support and appreciation to your child’s teacher, acknowledge their input and love of their teaching role. Our quality teachers make the difference! Tell Them From Me Survey will close this Friday. If you have not had the opportunity to get on and make a contribution to the direction of the school please use the link

http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/dsps2019 Thank you to over 110 parents who have responded. A wonderful effort. Formulating directions for our school and working on programs to introduce will have more impact with your responses. All information is confidential and once logged returns to the school as data only. There is total anonymity.

Well done and congratulations to the fabulous students who competed and came 1st and 2nd in the Bowls Competition. Close games where South had to play St Pius and Dubbo West before winning and playing off for 1st and 2nd positions. The students James Turner, Sam Turner, Sienna Weldon, Hannah Segelov, Danielle Guest and Zonash Asif were focused and having fun. Well done to all. Sharon Murray, Principal

Email: dubbosouth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.dubbosouth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 4 Week 2 22nd October 2019

Important Dates

Wednesday 23rd October Year 6 mini lessons Lantern Workshop

Thursday 24th October Yr 2 to Opal Aged Care

Peter Aird Shield Friday 25th October World Teachers Day

Class Captain Induction 1.35pm in the Hall Monday 28th October

Kinder to Opal Aged Care

We are taking Kinder enrolments 2020. Our Transition program starts Tuesday 5th

November to support our new Kindergarten

students. Please drop into our school office to get

an enrolment pack. All students will need a Birth

Certificate, proof of address and Immunisation

Certificate. Please tell anyone you may know

living in our area and have school age children for

2020.

Book Club Pamphlets have gone out to classes. Book Club will be due this Friday 25th October 2019. Please drop orders to the library by Friday morning, Place orders in a bag or envelope with correct money, name and class. If you wish to order online this is the link: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au Loop orders will close on Friday about 1.00pm.

Library System Students are able to access our library system through their student portal. (school username and password) Once in Oliver they can search for books and check which books they have borrowed. There is also a range of e-books that can be accessed and borrowed through our library system.

Library At Lunch The library is a popular spot at lunch break. Some of this week’s favourite activities were: dress ups, drawing, computers and the ever popular lego table. Students are able to borrow at lunch and before school. Sue Buttrey, Teacher Librarian

Congratulations to the following students on their achievements: Merit: Nayte Ramien, Charlie Lawson, Emily Matthews, Darcy Hocking, Lucy Turner, Jayden Hocking, Selena Ah-See, James Riley, Harlow Briggs, Daniel Foster, Milana Boh, Locklan Gillespie, Frankie Richards, Alice Devenish, Ashton Jones, Sharlina Maharjin, Jacob Lynch, Noah Herd. Credit: Charlie Lawson, Jayden Hocking, Emily Lousick, Larissa West, Rashmitha Wijesinghe, Alex Matthews, Emily Matthews, Nayte Ramien. Distinction: Charlie Lawson, Alex Matthews, Dominick Butcher, Nayte Ramien, Emily Matthews. Honour: Charlie Lawson, Lucy Turner, Alex Matthews, Lucy Stewart, Saxon Scott, Nayte Ramien, Emily Matthews. Banner: Charlie Lawson, Byron Wheatley, Lucy Turner, Alex Matthews, Nayte Ramien, Emily Matthews.

New Enrolment Policies While changes to the Department’s Enrolment Policy came into effect at the start of Term 3 2019, existing enrolments are not affected. The revised policy is designed to support schools to manage all enrolment applications, encourage greater consistency in decision-making and make sure the enrolment choices are clear for parents. During Term 4, we will be highlighting information to help our parents, carers and school community understand some of the key changes. In the meantime please feel free to access some general enrolment information from the Department’s website: https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/enrolment

Stage 2 Fete Preparations Stage 2 are busy planning their stalls for the fete. The classes would greatly appreciate donations to support preparations and prizes for the stalls. Below are the types of items each class is in search of. Make sure you visit the stalls! 3T Mixed lollie bags and small packets of chips 3D Mixed lollies and small bags of Lego or used Lego if in good condition 3K Wrapped lollies 3/4R Wrapped lollies 3/4C Hair spray & stick on tattoos 4L Wrapped lollies ie. lollipops, redskins, milkos 4H Assorted nail polish

Year 2 Swimming As part of the PDHPE program, all students in Year 2 will be participating in the Intensive Swimming Program run by the Department of Education. The program is conducted by trained Austswim instructors and the children will be assessed and grouped according to their current skills. It is expected that all Year 2 chil-dren will participate. Cost of the program is $64.90, notes need to be returned to class teachers.

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The Support Unit are seeking donations of bags of lolly snakes for

their fete stall. Any donations of snakes, please deliver to the Unit. We thank you for your support!

Kinder News School Fete Donations Thank you to all of the wonderful families that have sent in donations for our upcoming school fete on the 31st October! Kinder Red, Kinder Purple and Kinder Green are asking for donations of wrapped lollies. Kinder Yellow are asking for donations of cooking chocolate (both white and milk), Chang’s Original Fried Noodles, jelly crystals, pretzels and plastic cups and spoons. Please keep sending in donations so that we can make sure that our fete this year is the best one yet! Any donations can be sent to school and given to classroom teachers.

Topsy Turvy Tales As part of our learning in Term 4, Kindergarten students will be focusing on how they can use their imagination to explore traditional fairy tales. Kinder Red have been talking about what it means to be ‘creative’ and had the opportunity to use a variety of craft materials to design and make their own creations. It was wonderful to see students thinking differently and taking risks on making their own creative designs come to life!

Opal Nursing Home Visits Over the term, we have the opportunity to take small groups of students to visit the Opal Nursing Home. Students will be singing, and reading for the residents of the nursing home during these visits. For those students who received a note for our first visit on Monday the 28th of October, please remember to return your notes to Mrs Gay by Wednesday the 23rd. This is a fabulous opportunity to work with members of our community to help make others smile!

5/6L Trip To Opal Aged Care On Wednesday 16th of October Mrs Lunn took 15 students to Opal Nursing Home, where the students heard interesting stories on the life and backgrounds of elderly men and women. Students asked questions to get to know more about them and their experiences. It was amazing to hear about the men and women’s lives. The students were kind and assisted the elderly and shared a special connection with the people they interviewed. They loved visiting and can’t wait to do it again. Students will now write a biography showing what they have learnt about the lives of the elderly and can’t wait to interview another member of the Opal Aged Care community. Please have a look at the photos over the page of our day. Thanks Mrs Lunn and Opal Aged Care for this opportunity.

Reminder

Christmas Boxes - Due in 2 weeks It has been very exciting to see the Christmas Boxes that have been put together during the holidays coming in. We have about 2 weeks until they are due to be handed over ready for transportation overseas. This is an extremely worthwhile activity to do with your children to show them the values of generosity, kindness and gratitude. More boxes are available from the front office or Mrs Prince. Thanks you once again for your support and demonstrating to our children that kindness matters! Mrs Prince

Soccer/Footy Boots for Uganda Congratulations to the families at Dubbo South for contributing over 50 pairs of soccer/footy boots to the children at Joy Blessed School. The Carter family (the founders of Life Charity Focus Uganda) who run the school are collecting the boots ready to be delivered in November. It is wonderful to see our school community contribute to another school community. We sponsor Zahara (one of our sponsor children) through Life Charity Focus Uganda. I am sure there are going to be many happy children running around their Ugandan playground with huge smiles on their faces! Mrs Prince

Year 6 Farewell The Year 6 farewell will be held this term. All Year 5 are asked to bring in $10 entry. This covers the cost of entry, food and a cake. Please give this to your class teacher. On Thursday 24th October we are asking Year 5 to donate cupcakes to sell to raise money for the decorations for our “Neon Party” theme this year.

Canteen Roster

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Wednesday 23rd October Jared Dashwood

Thursday 24th October Emma Marchant

Friday 25th October Sangeeta Choudhury

Monday 28th October Volunteer Required

Tuesday 29th October Volunteer Required