Dudley Public School Newsletter

It's that exciting time again to enrol your child at Dudley PS for Kindergarten 2023. If you intend on coming to Dudley PS next year, please contact the office to place your child on our list.

You can now enrol your child via our online enrolment system. To access this, go to the Dudley PS website https://dudley-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html and Apply Online. You will need to provide the school with 100 points of residential ID, birth certificate and immunisation history.

Kindergarten interviews will be held in Term 3, we will be in contact with you regarding a suitable time.

If you are aware of another family in the community who intends on coming to Dudley PS in 2023, please pass on the above information and let them know we are open for enrolments.

Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who have already signed up for Creative Arts Day on Wednesday 19 October. Many classes still need helpers to devise and run art activities, particularly in Kindergarten and Stage 3. If you can help to make this special day possible, please contact the Office this week.

The K-2 Reptile Park excursion is fast approaching! If you have not sent in your permission note or payment, please can you do this ASAP. If you are lucky enough to be one of our parent helpers, please make sure you have filled out a Declaration Form from the office prior to the day. The countdown is on!!! 

Please remember to send fruit or vegetables in each day for fruit break. This is an important time of the morning to refuel and increase concentration.

On Monday 10th of August, Stage 3 went to the Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney. We had to be at school at 6:00 in the morning! It was a 2 and a half hour bus ride. As soon as we arrived, we were all so interested to see what is held inside the Museum. 

After that, we got to check out plankton species through expensive and fragile microscopes. We also learned about how important plankton is to our ecosystem. This was most of our favourite activity.

Finally, our last activity was the Sea Monsters exhibit. We saw skeletons of Mosasaurs, a Plesiosaurs and a 20 metre long head of an Icthyosaurs. There were so many cool facts about these exquisite animals. At the end of the day, we were so sad to go back but we knew that this was the best excursion that we have ever had this year. Thank you Mrs Sullivan and Mr H!

Written by Mia Van Der Westhuizen

On Monday, all of Stage 3 went to the Maritime Museum in Sydney. We had to come to school at six in the morning to get onto the bus. It was a long trip down and when we arrived we were all so excited.

We entered the museum and walked to a room where we were told what we were doing that day. We were shown a slideshow about prehistoric sea monsters. Then we walked outside to a place with tons of interesting facts about sea animals.

When we came back to the building we looked at some Aboriginal paintings and sculptures. We had recess and went to a building about sea monsters. There was a massive skeleton ichthyosaurus.

After learning all about sea monsters, we went to another building where we looked at plankton under a microscope. That was most Stage 3's favourite. None of us knew that plankton had such an important role in the ecosystem.

Once we had finished, we walked up to a room where we were told to draw a creature that might feature in the ABC show, 'The Deep'. That was our last activity and it was a great way to conclude an amazing day.

Written by Bernard Forsyth

It has certainly been a busy fortnight for our Year 5 & 6 debating teams. In Week 5, the Dudley Devils (Year 6) and the Dudley Dynamites (Year 5) participated in zoom debates against Valentine Public School. Both teams came up with many brilliant arguments and won their debates. The debating teams finished off the week with a Dudley vs Dudley debate. With both teams performing well, it was a tough call for the adjudicator, however the Dudley Devils came away with the win! Maggy Wardle and Elliot Munroe also attended the Hunter Central Coast debating trials at Merewether Public School earlier this week. A big congratulations to both debating teams and we wish the Dudley Dynamites (Year 5) the best of luck in the knockout finals. Well done to all debaters for representing Dudley Public School with pride!

Starting next Monday 5 September, Dudley PS will be participating in a fundraiser organised by the S.R.C. It will run for two weeks. 

Class SRC reps will collect and weigh coins that have been brought to school each day. The class with the heaviest amount for that day will win a prize. 

At the end of the two weeks each classes coin collection will be counted. The winning class will get a pizza party in week 10. 

The SRC would like to purchase equipment for our playground, like cubby houses and sand equipment made by the Men’s Shed in Redhead. 

 Start hunting your house for those piles of silver coins that are worth nothing on their own but if we all join our collections together, we could buy some cool play equipment for our school. 

PS - we will accept gold! 

Dudley PS SRC 

Are you a student who would like to play with other musicians in a primary Woodwind Ensemble? A new combined schools Primary Woodwind Ensemble is forming, and you are invited to join!

The ensemble will target talent development for students from Years 4 to 6 that have a minimum of 12 months of lessons and are familiar with the workings of their instruments. It will also include selected gifted musicians, from Year 6 to act as leaders and mentors for each section of the ensemble.  

The students will meet twice a term to rehearse as an ensemble at the Newcastle Conservatorium. The first rehearsal is Friday 9 September and then continue twice a term from Term 4 with a performance for parents. This would then continue in 2023 with a performance planned at the end of each semester. There will be a small cost of $15 for each rehearsal / $30 per term. 

 If you are interested, please apply to join the Primary Woodwind Ensemble via the 2022 online application and consent forms. Further information is also on the Primary Woodwind Ensemble Arts Unit webpage. 

Dudley Public School respectfully acknowledges the Awabakal as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, play and live. We also pay respect to Elders both past and present and emerging.

Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.