Drummoyne Public School

Programs for individual students, class, stage and school programs are now in place this year to ensure quality teaching and learning for all students but also programs that support our students to become fine human beings.  This citizen building can be seen in programs like this week's Year 6 leadership program Anspire, through the class buddies program, school assemblies, Building Resilience in Children (BRIC) program, Bounce Back program, Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) and our school values focussing on respect, responsibility and resilience.While teaching and learning is our core business, each year we also strive to develop the 'whole child' through a strong, positive school culture.

Morning drop offs

Each morning, parents are asked to please develop children's independence by saying goodbye at the school gates and asking children to walk to the playground by themselves.  Even in wet weather, please encourage children to make their own way into the school building to their classrooms.  Before the school bell in the mornings is the busiest time of the day for teachers and parents are asked to make another time to catch-up.

Infants / Primary Assemblies

Our assemblies are in full swing with infant's class assemblies being held in the 'odd' school weeks and primary class assemblies in the 'even' weeks (see school calendar). Parents are invited to attend the school assemblies, in particular the assembly their child's class is hosting.

Bhang Chan, lead singer of internationally renown band Stray Kids, gave a huge shout out to Drummoyne PS on Wednesday night at Qudos bank Arena. Chris Bhang, a past student of DPS in the early 2000's told staff at the time that one day he was going to be a pop star! Amazing how childhood dreams can come true!

Class 1J has been hard at work planning for their writing. This week they have drawn the events of having a small accident using a story map which is an important part of the writing process.

Arriving at school and class on time:

• Ensures that students do not miss out on important learning activities scheduled early in the day
• Helps students learn the importance of punctuality and routine
• Gives students time to greet their friends before class
• Reduces classroom disruption

Lateness is recorded as a partial absence and must be explained by parents. Please support your child to arrive at school on time, ready to learn each day. This will help set them up for success later in life.

The new Curriculum sets the learning requirements for each stage of primary school. The 4 stages are: 

●       EARLY STAGE 1 – Kindergarten 

●       STAGE 1 – Years 1 and 2 

●       STAGE 2 – Years 3 and 4 

●       STAGE 3 – Years 5 and 6.

The NSW school curriculum has undergone the first comprehensive reform in 30 years after an extensive curriculum review and consultation. 

The curriculum review has been informed by consultation with teachers and education experts from around the State, as well as a detailed examination of quality international education systems. In 2018 and 2019, parents and carers took part in the review through consultation. 

Reform recommendations include the priority of building strong foundations for future learning with new English and Mathematics syllabuses for Kindergarten to Year 2. The new English and Mathematics K–2 syllabuses highlight foundational literacy and numeracy skills to develop competence in:

●       oral language

●       reading 

●       writing  

●       mathematics. 

Beck Cantlay

Assistant Principal Curriculum & Instruction

Here are the introductory videos for the K-2 new Curriculum:

In preparation for 2024 and the new 3-6 Curriculum, here are the introductory videos for the new 3-6 Curriculum:

Outside everyone is different

Inside we're just the same.

Everyone has feelings.

How many can you name?

The way that you treat others

Is the way that they'll treat you.

So respect each other's differences

And they'll respect yours too.

BH

Last weekend five DPS students competed in the Junior State Touch football Cup in Wagga Wagga namely: Ella Cleave, Maeve O'Brien & Juliette Buckman  (Under 10 Girls) Gabrielle Buckman (Under 12 Girls) and Isaac O'Brien (Under 12 Boys).

The under 10 Girls were undefeated in their 7 pool games and they won the quarter final against Wagga Wagga but lost to the Sharks in the Semi-final.

The under 12 Girls were undefeated in their 7 pool games.  They won their round of 16 match against Yass Bulls but lost in the Quarter finals to the Hills.

The under 12 boys only lost one of their 7 pool matches.  They won their Quarter final eventually losing to the Sharks in the Semi-final.

Gabrielle and Juliette were also selected in the Inner West PSSA touch football team to represent the zone at the SE Regional touch football event in early March. Congratulations everyone!

 Can you believe 'Clean Up Australia Day' is happening next month? We're determined to make 2023 our biggest and best Clean Up Australia Day ever, so we're asking all students for their help on Friday 3 March. On this day we will be cleaning up our immediate environment - our lovely Drummoyne Public School. 

Can you imagine the impact we could have, if all of us came together and took practical action to improve the environment? What a difference we could make to not just our school environment but to all of Australia's flora and fauna. 

Michelle O'Dowd

Assistant Principal

Stage 3 Choir 

Year 5 and 6 students are invited to come to the library for Stage 3 choir on Wednesday mornings at 8:30am. Please come along if you are interested, even if you have not sung much before. 

Hope you see you there!

Kathy Xenos

Stage 2 Choir

It was great to see so many faces at the first choir meeting. If you missed it, don't worry!

Come and join us at 8.30am on Wednesday morning. I will meet you at the front gate. 

Amanda Champion

Students in Year 1 and 2 are welcome to join the Stage 1 Choir, every Thursday from 8:50am.

Please come to the KB classroom for songs and fun times with Mrs Buchanan and Mrs O'Reilly-Gomes!

See you there.

Jessica Buchanan

Enrichment applications for SSC Balmain Campus Year 7 2024 close on 31 March 2023.

All the information about the application process is on their website at :https://balmain-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/enrol_with_us/enrichment-enrolment.html

Students who need a School Opal card or travel pass for 2023, can now apply.

A new application will need to be submitted if they are applying for the first time, or if they are requesting an additional travel entitlement as a result of a new shared parental responsibility situation (e.g. joint custody). Students who change address, school, campus location, have repeated a year or received an expiry notification from Transport for NSW for their school travel entitlement should renew or update their details before the end of term 4. This will ensure that schools can endorse applications, and entitlements remain valid for the start of the 2023 school year.

Students in the Opal network applying for an Opal card for the first time will receive their Student Opal card at their nominated postal address. Cards will be mailed out from January 2023.

For further details please see the attachment below.

There was a large number of lost property items including hats, drink bottles, towels, goggles etc that were left by students at the swimming carnival last week

Please collect from outside the school office.

Please ensure your child’s name is permanently and clearly labelled on belongings such as school hats, jackets, lunch boxes, drink bottles and school bags.

Please use a permanent laundry marker to label clothes, hats and shoes, or sew or iron on personalised labels, go through your child’s bag with them regularly and check that labels haven’t faded with washing.

For new students who require medication to be administered at school, all instructions and medications need to be handed in to the office.

To support this process and ensure the dosage is correct and medicine is stored securely, please complete the “Request for administration of prescribed medication to a student” form and hand in at the office with the medicine.  The form is available from the school office and can also be found on our school website.

No student should keep medication in their bags. Thank you for supporting the health and safety of all students.

For returning students, any changes to medication should also be directed to the office.

The March P&C Meeting and AGM will be held on Tuesday 21 March from 7.30pm in the library. Everyone is invited to attend.

We hope you can join us!

Please order school uniforms online. The P&C will process orders and the school office staff will distribute them.

 Please use our school Registration ID: 2572963 to create an account if you don’t already have one for canteen orders.

Welcome to 2023

We hope everyone had a wonderful break and are well rested, ready to jump into the new school year!

New class names have been updated on school24. Please log on to school24 ASAP and update your children's classes for the 2023 year. Student lunch orders will go into the wrong lunch tubs if not updated.

In order for the canteen to be able to offer a sausage sizzle on Fridays and pasta during the week, we desperately need volunteers. If you have half an hour or more to spare we would love to have your help.

To volunteer, please log in to your school24 account.

• Click on Volunteers Roster in purple.
• Choose month-click view roster.
• Choose day and time. It’s so easy!

We are looking forward to having your company and help plus your children will be so excited to see you too!

Canteen, P&C Committee

canteen@drummoynepublicschool.com.au

To book Gowrie NSW - enrolment forms can be found on the Gowrie website:

https://www.gowriensw.com.au/out-of-hours-care/drummoyne-and-stmarks

Contact Rekkha for more information on 0436 616 744.

With Google Translation integration, you can access our newsletter in ANY language. Simply scroll to the bottom of the newsletter preview to give it a try.