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From Sharon’s desk

AVID Workshops occurred for staff last week. The workshops allow teachers to further expand their delivery on Inquiry Based Learning through a range of engaging strategies and activities. Staff were taken through activities around WICOR—Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation and Reading. All Stage 3 students are now arranging their learning using these strategies. To further enable creative ways of working in the classroom new furniture has been purchased for Mrs Lunn and Ms Constable in Stage 3 and Mrs De Lyall and Mrs Hosking in Stage 2. It is great to see the engagement of learning in this new environment. Thank you to Nathan Riley who has been working with Dubbo South over the last couple of years under the ICAN banner. This program enabled Nathan to work with students developing them through mentoring and goal setting with an emphasis on culture. We wish Nathan all the best for his new career move in Sydney. We welcome to our school Tye Gordon who will be sharing his Aboriginal cultural knowledge across our school. Programs of dance, art, mentoring and working with our staff will be implemented shortly. School Reports are being completed at the moment by staff with assessments being finalised for comments. All reports will be sent home on 3rd July. Staff spend a lot of time writing professional documents for your knowledge about your child’s progress in their learning. Attendance rates are also included allowing you to see how many days your child has had of quality learning. Many days absent can make huge difference to their learning and subsequent outcomes. If you have any concerns after reading your child's report please contact your child's teacher. Kindergarten enrolments will be taken from now on for 2019. The new year will come around very quickly. If you know anyone with children who are turning 5 up until 31st July 2019 please ask them to collect an enrolment pack from our school office. A reminder that proof of address, immunisation details and proof of birth are required at enrolment. If you require information regarding the zoning regulations for Public Schools in Dubbo please call in or telephone for a chat. Our transition program will run again during Term 4. Please go to our schools website or Facebook page for up to date information.

P&C Meeting will be held this Wednesday evening from 6.30pm in The Shed. I believe it is a soup night - so bring along a cup for a tasty treat! The school release team of Mrs McKenzie—Environment and Culture; Mrs Prince—Music and Mrs Buttrey—Library will be presenting. Come along and have some input into what happens in our school. Good luck to our District Cross Country team who head off to Geurie tomorrow for the District Trials. Our team of 40 students will be supervised by Mr Long and Miss Pengilly. All successful students will then compete in the Western Area Cross County Trials to be held on Wednesday, 13th June. I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and travel safely if you are going away. I will see everyone return to school Tuesday 12th June. Go the Blues. Have a great week, Sharon Murray

Dubbo and District Cross Country Congratulations and good luck to following students who will be representing Dubbo South Public School in tomorrows Dubbo and District Cross Country Trials in Geurie. Yara Petrova, Zara Wallbridge, Bella Auld, Molly Brown, Maddison Maher, Phebie Ryan, Indianna Hardisty, Sahara Lemon, Ella Bowen, Peppa Wiseman, Millie Sutcliffe, Likeah Nolan, Angelina Alexander, Amy Quilty, Ruby Edwards, Matilda Medlin, Emily Petrova, Natalie Petrova, Armani Hardisty, Matilda Prince, Jack Szymkow, Bailey Auld, Tristan Waters, Caleb McGrath, Zac Miller, Kyan Green, Denim Auld, Tyler Beazley, Azi Olsen, Brodie Easy, Logan Johnson, Cooper Giddings, Zakory Seymour, Naite Ross, Blake Payne, Finn Auld, Kobi Auld, Logan Auld, Cameron Healy, Emmerson Harper.

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

Term 2 Week 6 — 5th June 2018 Important Dates Wednesday 6th June

Dubbo & District Cross Country—Geurie June Winter Warmer P&C Meeting, 6.30pm Shed

Thursday 7th June Rugby Gala Day—Orange

Netball Gala Day Friday 8th June

Whole School Assembly Items by 5/6K & 5/6P

Monday 11th June Queens Birthday long weekend

Wednesday 13th June ICAS Spelling

Western Area Cross Country Geurie Thursday 14th June

ICAS Writing

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Issue 4 Book Club pamphlets have arrived. They will be sent to classes later this week. Orders will be due back at school by Friday 22nd June 2018. Online LOOP orders will close on the same day. Orders can be sent into the library. Please remember to have correct money and order form all in an envelope. Thank you.

Students who have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge since our last newsletter are: Navreet Kaur and Lucy Turner. Well done girls. Reading log sheets are available from the library. Kindergarten, Year One and Two will bring them home this week with books we have shared in library visits added.

Reading to your children PETAA and Kay Lowe have been synonymous with reading and learning for many years. This article covers learning to read and how parents and carers can help. “It is the joy and love of sharing a good book on a nightly basis that sets the foundation for their reading success, and ensures that reading is given the priority it deserves. Reading regularly with someone who cares is the inspiration that all readers deserve.” http://www.petaa.edu.au/imis_prod/w/Teaching_Resources/Parents_guide.aspx/ We have a great collection of books in the library for children to borrow. Please remember to send library bags with students. 1/2T go to Library on Tuesdays. K/1C and all Kindergarten classes go to Library on Wednesday. Year 1 (1P, 1M & 1F) and Year 2 (2W, 2G & 2C) classes visit the library on Thursdays. Perfect weather for spending time with a book or two. Enjoy your week. Sue Buttrey Teacher Librarian

Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students on their achievements:

Merit: Sienna McConnell, Ilyanah, Wallis, Eliza Price Credit: Zonash Asif Banner: Anikah Williams-Harris, Isabel Smith, Harry Hawkins, Eliza Price

Girls Hockey Winners are grinners!!! Last week our girls hockey team played against Dubbo North Public School and came away with a 4-1 win. A huge effort from all the girls lead by Molly Brown, scoring 3 of the goals and supported by sister Chloe scoring 1. Well done girls!!

Soccer Yesterday our girls soccer team played well against Dubbo West Public School. The girls showed excellent sportsmanship and skills. We came away with a huge 15-0 win! Congratulations girls! we are proud of you! Congratulations also to the boys soccer team winning 5-0 over Dubbo West Public School yesterday and a big thanks to Sonya Smith for helping coach the side on the day.

Dubbo South Public School will be conducting Athletics Trials for long

jump, shot put and discus this Friday.

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Meet the Teachers Kimberly Hosking Job Title: Stage 2 Classroom Teacher

Favourite Part of Your Job: Working with students on projects and seeing how creative they can be

Extra Interests: Ultimate Frisbee, Netball, Reading

Code Week In week 4 Dubbo South celebrated ‘CODE WEEK’ with the introduction of levelled ‘Scratch’ coding cards and computer labs opening at lunch times. Over 220 students visited the computer labs to try out the new cards and 5/6G were the lucky winners of the code lesson with Mrs McLeod. Orange code week tokens were distributed to students that correctly answered daily code questions and winners were drawn out at assembly – congratulations to Hamish Waghorn, Darius Ferres.

All Stage 2 and 3 classes will participate in coding lessons within their class computer time over the year.

Students can access ‘Scratch’ at any time: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Avid News The AVID group from 5/6L and 5/6C visited South Campus on Thursday to join the year 7 AVID class. First period was English. We did philosophical chairs, which is a game where you debate a topic. The topic for the game was “Packed lunches from home are better than canteen food”. In second period we did Science. At the beginning of the lesson the class was sat down in a lab to be given our topic which was density. Together in groups, we had to figure out how you can make water dense with only food colouring and salt. It was a fun, and interesting morning. By Olivia Khatri and Ava Hosking.

P&C News You are invited to our

June Winter Warmer P&C Meeting 6.30pm in The Shed

Wed 6th June Soup and rolls will be provided.

Like to know more about your student’s release subjects of Music and Science? Guest presenters at the meeting

will be RFF teachers Mrs Prince, Mrs Buttrey and Mrs McKenzie. Everyone is welcome!

Canteen News Term 2 Daily $5 Deals

Monday: Meatball and cheese sub. Tuesday: Ham and cheese toasted sandwich Wednesday: Pizzas—Cheese, ham & cheese or ham and pineapple Thursday: Beef nachos Friday: Butter chicken & rice Each meal comes with a FREE apple or orange popper and a FREE packet of popcorn.

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Wednesday 6th June Julie Bennett

Thursday 7th June Sarah Knight

Friday 8th June Kayleen Ashee

Monday 11th June Public Holiday

Tuesday 12th June Megan Peachey

PBL

This week during bounce back

students will be developing skills

for resilience.

K-2: Dealing with loss

Years 3-6: Helpful thinking vs unhelpful

thinking.

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