Dunedoo Central School

NEWSLETTER

P.O. Box 45, Digilah Street

DUNEDOO NSW 2844

T: 02 6375 1489

F: 02 6375 1152

E: dunedoo-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

W: dunedoo-c.schools@nsw.edu.au

1st June 2020

Year 5 students created foot art designs to

show that we can ‘walk the walk’ together.

Year 1—2 learnt about

reconciliation and created

a timeline in the play-

ground to represent

40,000+ years of Aborig-

nals living and thriving on

country. We also marked

the 1998 Paul Keating

apology for the stolen generation and children

who were taken from their families. As well as

the 2008 Kevin Rudd apology which led to our

annual Sorry Day. Our hands represent re-

spect for Aboriginal culture and we placed

them in our yarning circle.

Year 1 –2 have been learning about our Living World

in Science. On Monday we were Palaeontologists and

searched for dinosaurs in our sand pit. We are

classifying our discoveries into living and non liv-

ing and prehistoric and modern. If you find any-

thing in the sandpit please pass it on a Year 1 or 2

student.

Smoking is

Not Permitted

on school grounds.

This includes carparks,

ovals and entrances/

gateways.

This week’s winner is

Harley Carpenter

for

showing a learning attitude

on your Positive Behaviour

Welcome to Week 6 Term 2, last week all students settled back into school routines.

It was wonderful to see students returning to school enthusiastic to resume their normal

class routines. We have also gladly welcomed a significant number of new students to our

school this term. As such, it has required us to reorganise the K—2 classes. Parents of stu-

dents who have been effected by this change have been notified. At all times we endeavour

to provide the optimum learning opportunities for all students.

HSC Students—last week the Deputy Secretary for Education, Murat Dizdar announced that all HSC students will attend

school for an extra week in Term 4 prior to the commencement of the HSC exams. The additional week will be used by

schools to provide additional support to students in preparation for the HSC. As such, the Yr 12 Graduation Assembly and

Farewell Dinner will take place after all of our students have completed their HSC Exams. We will notify parents of these

dates as soon as we have confirmed them with caterers.

HSC Seminars—over the next four weeks HSC students are encouraged to take advantage of a number of online semi-

nars. Students have been emailed the registration for each of these. During the first week of the school holidays we will

also be screening HSC seminars from the University NSW for year 12 students. I have attached the timetable of sessions

coming up over the next two weeks. I encourage students to watch these as they provide revision as well as useful hints

and tips for students sitting their HSC exams in individual subjects.

Visitors to the school—Please remember that if you wish to see your child during the day for any reason you should do so

by coming to the front office. I encourage all students to utilise our school canteen for lunches rather than having lunch

delivered to the school. Under the current Covid-19 restrictions, only ‘essential’ visitors are allowed in our school and this

must be via the front office. Thank you for your cooperation with these matters.

Reporting and assessment - A reminder that Half Yearly assessments will take place in Week 9 this Term, allowing more

time for students to demonstrate achievement of curriculum outcomes. Semester 1 Reports will be issued for Year 11 in

Week 10 of this term and K—10 Semester 1 Reports will be issued in Week 2 of next Term.

Cross Country - We have set a tentative date for the school Cross Country carnival on Friday 26th June. The Athletics Carni-

val has been tentatively booked in for Wednesday 29th July.

Please refer to our school Facebook page for regular updates and information. Have a great week.

Donna Lane

Monday 1 June 7:30pm Tuesday 2 June 7:30pm Wednesday 3 June 7:30pm Thursday 4 June 7:30pm

University Of Newcastle

Webinar

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Webinar

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Business Studies

Finance

Human Resources

Business Studies

Operations

Marketing

Maths Advanced

Functions

Trigonometric Functions

Maths Advanced

Financial maths

Calculus

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English Standard

Module: Texts and Human

Experiences

English Standard

Module A: Language,

Identity and Culture

English Standard

Module B: Close Study of

Literature

English Standard

Module C: The Craft of Writing

Tuesday 9 June 7:30pm Wednesday 10 June 7:30pm Thursday 11 June 7:30pm

University of Wollongong University of Wollongong University of Wollongong

Mathematics Standard 2:

Algebra & Measurement

Mathematics Standard 2:

Financial mathematics

Statistics

Mathematics Advanced & Exten-

sion 1

Functions

Trigonometry

Chelsea Green 2nd June Year 7

Angus Roberts 3rd June Year 1

Hamish Stanford 3rd June Year 6

Elias Melville 4th June Kindergarten

Phoebe Kline 6th June Kindergarten

Have a fabulous day!

The Ag Plot currently has Silver Laced Wyan-

dotte young cockerels for sale. They are

about 9 months old and are a pullet breed-

er. If you are interested in purchasing any or

have any questions, please give Mrs Piper a

call at school 6375 1489.

$39 each

OR

$70 pair

Speech Programs

@ DCS

This term we are working on our

old sounds from Term 1 and ex-

ploring how our sounds can be

used in words and phrases.

Indigo has been working

very hard on her speech

sounds in sentences. Seanna has been exploring the

world of playdough. It is a lot of fun

making sounds using playdough.

This week in Mathematics we are looking at Australian time zones and timelines. We will be creat-

ing various timelines including a whole class one outlining the history of clocks. The first weekly

homework sheet for this term was handed out yesterday and is to be returned by Thursday. We

will continue with the class raffle for homework completed and handed in on time. I hope every-

one is practising their multiplication tables at home.

Mrs Cathy Gallagher

Welcome to Week 6! We are now officially half way through the term. With all the uncertainty involving

COVID-19, it is feels strange to think we have made it to this point already.

It has been wonderful to see all students back to full-time learning in the classroom. It has certainly lifted

everyone’s spirits. Of course we are still adhering to Departmental guidelines and best practices including

extra cleaning of high frequency areas. Also just a reminder that if your child is unwell or showing any flu

like symptoms, please keep them at home.

Since the start of this year there have been many new enrolments at DCS. Since home learning practices

began, there have been seven new enrolments in Year 1 and Year 2 alone. This has led to a restructure of

our Infants classes to cater for the larger numbers and to create a harmonious teaching and learning envi-

ronment for everyone. Mr Kline now has five Year 1 students in his K-1 class of seventeen whilst Ms Gavin

has a Year 1-2 class of twenty one students.

Last week, all students participated in National Simultaneous Story-time with a reading of Lucinda

Gifford’s book ‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’, read by Emma the yellow Wiggle. We are now waiting

to hear if we contributed to breaking the record of one million kids reading at the same time!

Have a great week everyone.

Mr Ben Kline

HOME READERS

Kindergarten students have been

working hard on their readers even

throughout the home learning

period.

They love showing

their skills in the

classroom!

“Where Am I?”

This term we have been

learning about the world,

Australia’s states

and territories and

their capital cities,

and famous Aus-

tralian landmarks.

“Staying Alive”

This term we have been learning about

living things; what their needs are and how we care for

them. Students have even been bringing in their pets

for News and we’ve had a lot of fun in the community

garden!

NEW STUDENT

Over the break we welcomed a new

student into Kindergarten. Savanna

Stanford and her brother Hamish

(Yr 6) have settled in well and al-

ready feel a part of our DCS family.

SIGHT

WORDS

& ROCKET

WORDS

Students are progressing well

with their sight words and

spelling words.

RECONCILIATION WEEK

As part of Reconciliation Week Infants stu-

dents created hand sculptures which were

placed in the Yarning Circle. These creations

symbolise respect for a future of friendship

and learning together.

Student of the Week Merit Award

Kindergarten - Mr Kline

Balin Davis Being a great friend and

helper in the classroom

Seanna Brown An improved effort sound-

ing out her words.

Ruby Milsom A fantastic effort with her

sight words and ‘rocket’

words

Year 1-2 Ms Gavin

2 Kobey Britton Displaying all aspects of our

FISH philosophy in his list

words

1 Sally Brougham Excellent listening skills in

Maths which enable her to

complete all tasks

2 Lachlan Batty Displaying great problem

solving strategies in Maths

Year 3-4 Mr Honeysett

4 Annalise Stan-

ford

Displaying consistent work

habits in all KLA’s and giving

her best effort

3 Maddison Bull Having a great attitude to-

wards her learning in Maths

3 Timothy

Sweeney

Excellent application in

Maths this week

Year 5/6S Mrs Shephard

5 Brayden Stan-

ford

Demonstrating a learning

attitude with excellent self-

direction

5 Robert Watton Excellent learning attitude in

Maths

5 Lakkita Moffat Excellent learning attitude in

Maths

Year 5/6G Mrs Gallagher

6 Chloe Brough-

am

Having a positive approach

to learning

5 Sophie Kline Excellent approach to learn-

ing in Maths

6 Mya Clisby Excellent approach to learn-

ing in Maths

Expression of Interest

Dunedoo Central School

Kindergarten 2021

Child’s Name: Date of Birth:

Parent’s Name: Phone Number:

Parent Address:

Parent Email:

Pumpkin Soup $3.00

Chicken Curry with pasta $4.00

Sweet Potato, Leek & Spinach

Quiche

$4.00

Hamburger $5.00

Chicken, Cheese & Caramelised

Onion Toasted Wrap

$5.00

Hello & welcome to Week 6.

Our wonderful manners winner for this

week is Indi Myott. Well done to all the stu-

dents that have been outstanding with us-

ing their manners.

Welcome to all our new students. We hope

you are all settling in well at Dunedoo

Central School.

Sherri

Attention: Year 4 Parents, Year 5 Opportunity Class in 2021 Applications are available for academically gifted and talented students to apply for the Opportunity Class in

2021. All students seeking year 5 opportunity class placement in 2021 will be required to take the Opportunity

Class Placement Test on Wednesday 16th September 2021. Applications close on the 26th June 2020. Please

contact Mrs Shephard if you require any further information. See factsheets at the end of this newsletter.

Afternoon study for secondary students will be supervised by Mrs Lane this

Wednesday afternoon and Mrs Hogden on Thursday afternoon. It is in Room 10

from approximately 3:15 - 4:40pm. We hope to see lots of students!

Hi, it is great to be back and great to see everyone back.

Year 7 History

We are studying Imperial China and looking at the early dynasties and the terracotta warriors.

Year 8 History

Year 8 have commenced a unit on Feudal Japan concentrating on Emperors and Shoguns and

the development of feudalism in Japan.

Year 9 History

We have commenced the ‘Making a Nation’ unit which involves examining the European

settlement of Australia, the early efforts to map the continent.

Year 11 Geography

Year 11 have commenced investigating Population Geography which involves examining

World Population, its changing nature, rate and distribution.

Year 12 Geography

This term we have been examining the challenges of Megacities within the developing world -

employment, housing, infrastructure and health and wellbeing.

Just a reminder to all students that if you miss any work it is your responsibility to catch up.

DCS SCHOOL WINTER JACKETS

Kinder to Year 12

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR A 2ND ORDER

ORDERS CLOSE FRIDAY 12TH JUNE, 2020 (WK 7)

NAVY/RED TRIM - SHOWERPROOF / FLEECY LINED, UNISEX:

CHILDREN’S SIZES: 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14

ADULT MEN’S SIZES: XS, S, M, L, XL & XXL Please return Order Form and money to the DCS Front Office before 12/6/2020

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Order Form: DCS Student - Winter Jacket/s

Please return to the DCS Front Office

Student Name/s: ___________________________________________________________________

Size/s: _____________________________ Total No. of Jackets: ______________________

Money enclosed: $__________________ Contact Phone No. ____________________________

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