Dudley Public School Newsletter

Welcome back to Term 4!

Yesterday I met with all the Principals from the Glenrock Network and our Director Educational Leadership, Steve Harris. We focused on the outstanding work schools are doing in promoting student attendance, well being and the impact it is having on the academic success of all students. 

As a school we believe that all students can show progress with resilience and persistence being part of the keys to success. Persistent students don't give up easily. They are able to analyse a problem and develop a system, structure or strategy to attack the problem. They also recognise when the approach they are taking is not working and look for another strategy. We sometimes see students who give up easily when they don't solve a problem straight away, saying things like "I can't do it!", "It's too hard." or they put down any answer in an effort to move on. 

Everyone has things that are easy and things that are hard. Practising the basics or foundations never stops for any of us. Sport is one of the areas in life where no matter how elite the player, drills are always included that refine basic skills which are the building blocks to the highly technical skills elite players use. 

I have been lucky enough to watch Olympic divers and their coaches train. They are happy enough to spend a 2 hour session practising basic dives that focus on the entry into the water. Imagine if we all applied this level of attention to everything we do. That would be persistence!

What do you do when your child says its too hard? How do you help them build persistence to stick at something that's hard? Do you value persistence?

Progress is all about personal best. Understanding where each student is and what they need to do to improve. Parents and carers are important partners in making this happen for all our students.

Thank you for all that you do in ensuring your children are at school every day ready to learn! 

Unfortunately Mr Costolo has sustained a rib injury on the weekend and Miss Reed currently has a shoulder injury.

This Friday there will be no bike riding.

Those students will join the Beach Sports group with Mr Costolo and Mr Horadam.(could be a win/win with hot weather predicted).

We will need parent helpers for transport. Could you please advise the office if you are able to help transport.

Next Friday 1st November the year 4 students will be at the Sydney Excursion so there will be no bike riding.

Week 4 Friday 8th  November will be bike riding as normal and we plan to leave at 1:20pm on that day.

Thank you

John Costolo​

TRIVIA NIGHT THIS SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 6.30PM - Hosted by MC Danny Nugus, our trivia night will be a fun night of testing the grey matter, Gartelmann Wine tastings, fantastic prizes, Mike Hackney’s music game, a silent auction, and live auction of 11 stunning class art works with auctioneer extraordinaire Mr Ian Sargent … as well as rocking entertainment from our staff band JJ and the Tomcats.  And  don’t forget to bring your gold coins!

It’s set to be a sell-out so if you would like come along, please contact the P&C ASAP and we’ll see if we can fit you on a table.

We will be drawing our raffle on the night so make sure you return to the office any tickets sold & unsold by this Friday 25 October to be in the running for some great prizes.  Tickets will also be on sale on the night.

ONLINE AUCTION OPEN NOW – BID FOR STUDENT ART WORK

To enable everyone to have the chance to bid for the stunning student art works created on Creative Arts Day this year, there is an online auction via the DPS app in the lead up to the trivia night. Online bidding is open now until Saturday 26 October at 3pm. The online bids will carry over to the live auction on Saturday night.

Wine Collection - Collect your Gartelmann Wines order from Fairleigh Hall this Friday 25 between 4-6pm or on arrival at the Trivia Night. A reminder you can also BYO drinks/esky & nibbles on the night.  There will be some sweet treats and tea & coffee available for a gold coin donation

Also due in this Friday 25 October are:

• Crazy camel orders
• Mango orders.

Direct Debit payment is preferred please if possible, rather than cash payments to office. 

Welcoming Kinder 2020 - We had a fun catch up and meet & greet for Kinder 2020 families at the end of last term with 25 families attending. Excitement is mounting with the arrival of Buddy letters,  new uniforms being ordered and orientation coming up in November.

 Dates for the Diary

School & Community 2040 Movie Night, Friday 15 November at 6.30pm in Fairleigh Hall

The P&C in conjunction with Dudley Sustainable  Neighbourhood Group is proud to present the award-winning must-watch Damon Gameau documentary 2040 that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW. The film takes us on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. A low-waste community event with gold entry by gold coin donation.   More info to come soon.

Carols Night @ DPS Tuesday 10 December. More info to come soon. 

We would like to say a huge thank you to Gartelmann Wines and all our Trivia Night supporters and hope you will support them.

DUDLEY P&C THANKS OUR GENEROUS TRIVIA NIGHT 2019 SUPPORTERS

Please support the people who support our school.

Chair Bags

For those Kindy parents that pre-ordered their chair bags for next year - they have arrived! Simply call into the office to pick them up.For those who'd still like to purchase, please deposit $12 into the account as shown below with your colour preference. Please note that colour choice is now limited to what is left in stock (for example, we have three hot pink left, 5 blue etc).Limited colours still in stock are: Hot Pink, Royal Blue, Purple, Red and Bottle Green)

Our bank details are:

Dudley Public School P&C Uniform Shop

BSB 032513

Account: 338441

Reference: Child's name & class