Dudley Public School Newsletter

Welcome back to school for Term 3. It was wonderful to greet the students on their first day back dressed in full school uniform ready for the cooler wet weather. Please ensure your child’s clothing is clearly labelled with their name to make returning lost items much easier and efficient.

Thanks to all parents and carers for ensuring our students were ready on time for our new 9:00am start yesterday. The extra 10 minutes each day will see an increase in learning time for every class which means increased teaching and increased opportunity for improved learning outcomes for our children. The new times can be found below.

Road Works Update

The road works on the corner of Boundary and Ocean Streets continues to impact access to our school. Please be mindful that the conditions and markers in this area change regularly due to the work going on and therefore we need to continue to be flexible in the way we use the crossing on Ocean St. Please talk to your child about road safety and following the directions of the council workers and school staff to ensure their safety at all times.

 Staff Development Day

On Monday, our staff participated in professional learning throughout the day focusing on areas aligned to our Strategic Improvement Plan. Teachers engaged in collaborative activities to define what is a positive school culture together with identifying the values that underpin the school culture here at Dudley PS. We then worked on how to effectively use data to inform the learning opportunities for our students and how to make our teaching more explicit and targeted to the needs of the students. This was followed by a sharing session on understanding how teachers develop their class programs and ways in which we can streamline programming across the school from Kindergarten to Year 6.

 Learning Support Interventions

Our Learning Support Team staff will be continuing to offer excellent service in the way of intervention groups for students who have been identified for targeted support with their academic progress. Remember that this support can be for catch-up style group work all the way through to extending students who are identified as high potential students for growth and achievement. If your child is selected to participate in these intervention groups then you will receive a letter to inform you of their involvement. Please don’t hesitate to contact the school to discuss this further if required.

 Child Protection Lessons

It is mandatory to teach child protection education in every stage of learning from Kindergarten to Year 10 as part of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) K-10 Syllabus. We will be delivering these units of work during Term 3 to all students K-6. The units are centred around the key themes of recognising abuse, power in relationships and protective strategies to provide the opportunity for students to revisit, consolidate and reinforce their learning and skills as they progress through stages. We recognise that the content in these lessons can be sensitive and/or confronting, so we welcome any parents and carers to please discuss any issues with your child’s teacher that you may foresee to the delivery of these lessons. An overview of the content covered in these lessons can be found below.

 Have a wonderful week,

Kind Regards

Chad Tsakissiris

Principal

TRIVIA NIGHT RECAP

What a great night our 130th Anniversary Trivia night was! It was wonderful to see so many together smiling, laughing, and having fun.

The support from our community was overwhelming and resulted in $16,150 being raised for the P&C! Thanks again to everyone who attended and contributed.

Congratulations & thank you to all the winners who shared in over $10k worth of prizes on the night in the raffle, 100s board, lucky door, true or false game, coin toss, best dressed and trivia!

Chris Johnson and family won the raffle top prize of an incredible escape package from Hawkesbury River Marina, Jetski Safari NSW & Richie’s Convenience & Bottle Shop.

OOSH staff were victorious in the trivia for the second time running, with DPS teachers coming in second place!

The class-artworks raised $5,258 at auction! Well-done staff and students (& parent helpers) for creating such masterpieces.

You can see photos from the night here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1_rl1yAkdj87ei-jVU-TO4rLw-Mn71wlx

REBEL COMMUNITY GIVEBACKS

Thanks to our partnership with Rebel, 5% of what you spend at Rebel comes back to DPS for us to spend on sports equipment and teamwear.  Before you make your next purchase, just ask to link your Rebel Active Membership account to our school and help support our school. At the end of last year, we were able get a fantastic $2,000 worth of sports equipment including balls for netball, rugby league, AFL and tennis as well as wet play games, drink bottles, caps and more.  Every purchase you make counts if your account is linked to our school.

Jess and Ruth

Fundraising Coordinators

Dudley.fundraising@gmail.com

Waste Education – Over the next few weeks, we will be focussing on each of our five coloured bins to educate our school community about what can and cannot be recycled. This fortnight, we are shining a light on our yellow bin. This is our comingled recycling. This includes things such as clean 2 litre milk bottles, cardboard and hard plastic packaging.

Riley the Recycling Roo says:

·        No food

·        No contaminated cardboard, plastic or paper

·        No coffee cups

Just remember… yellow bins - we have these at home. Anything that can be recycled can go in here. Paper, scrunched up foil, plastic that can't go in the white bin… just throw it in the yellow bin!

Garbage Guardians – Our Garbage Guardians are always on the lookout for students doing the right thing. During our Week 10 Friday assembly, our Garbage Guardians awarded another prize winner. Congratulations to Isabella in 4/5M, who won an Earth Bottles reusable drink bottle for picking up rubbish in the playground.

We have lots of exciting activities planned for this term! Stay tuned for further information.

 Mrs Adams & Mrs Mullins

The canteen will reopen this Friday 22 July. 

Please note: From next week the canteen will be operating on a Tuesday and Friday Only. (No longer on Wednesdays)