Dudley Public School Newsletter

Here we are at the end of another amazing, busy term full of learning for both students and staff. Lifelong learning is so important for everyone. 

One of the key values we want to instil in students is respect. Respect for themselves as learners and active citizens in our community, respect for others and respect for our environment. This term we have introduced some of the principles of nature play to our playground. Students have the freedom to explore our environment, develop their creativity and work together with others to problem solve. As part of this change in our playground we have simplified our rules to 3 things to help students reflect on the problems they encounter.

We ask students 3 simple questions:

• Could it hurt or harm me?
• Could it hurt or harm someone else?
• Could it hurt the environment?

These form the basis of our conversations about behaviour and are an effective way to guide students to reflect on the impact they have on others. Students develop compassion for others, respecting diversity and others points of views. It is wonderful to see these conversations developing with our students. 

We hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday and look forward to seeing smiling faces on Monday 14 October for the start of Term 4.

Thank you for all the support you give the staff and students - it doesn't go unnoticed.

We are in desperate need of parents / carers to volunteer to transport to the various sport choices next term. At this stage we are unable to go ahead with sport choices as we cannot possibly get all children there with the amount of parents who have offered to transport. I understand that many people work and that’s ok, I am asking if there is someone else in your family who might be able to offer a day to enable our sports choices to go ahead.

Thank you to all the wonderful parents who are already able to transport children and have successfully completed your appendix 5 form.

There are many parents who have offered to transport, but unfortunately the car registration and or drivers licence details we have requires to be updated for the appendix 5 to still be valid. This also means we are unable to add you to the transport list until this has been rectified. Please contact the office to find out if you are unsure.

If you have not yet filled out this form, please consider doing so as we need your support.

I appreciate your time in this matter and hope that our sport choices can go ahead as it a wonderful opportunity for our students to get out and about for sport in term 4.

Kind regards

Kate Sullivan

Transportation of Students in Private Vehicles

For you to be able to help with the transportation of students, we are required by the Department of Education and Communities to obtain the following;

 1.      Appendix 5 Form –  please note: 100 points of ID is required for this form

2.      Supply your current Drivers Licence. (40 points)

3.      Supply your current Car Registration papers. (25 points) Alternatively if you can’t locate your rego papers, your registration number can be given to office, however this will not count towards 100 points of ID.

Other forms of ID include:

Passport or Birth Certificate (70 points)

Medicare Card (25 points)

Council Rates notice (25 points)

Utilities Bills (25 points)

Working with Children Check (40 points)

This information needs to be provided to the school office. The Appendix 5 will cover you for the remainder of your time at Dudley P.S. 

Please Note:

New licence and registration papers will need to be shown once expired. 

Please note: If you have already completed an Appendix 5 form to the school previously, you will not need to complete this again.          

This October, Sam’s Legacy is taking part in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids' Cancer!

Because right now, cancer is the largest single killer of children from disease in Australia – over 600 children are diagnosed with cancer every year and sadly, 3 die every week. 

Kids should be living life, not fighting for it.

And so we are riding and raising funds to support the Children's Medical Research Institute to continue their work into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and finding a cure for childhood cancer. 

Please support our challenge by making a donation through our fundraising page to give these kids the brighter futures they deserve. 

Together, we can save little lives.

https://greatcyclechallenge.com.au/Teams/SamsLegacy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=gcc_profile_share_team_post

FIVE WEEKS UNTIL OUR TRIVIA NIGHT SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 6.30PM

FANTASTIC PRIZES & FUN NIGHT OUT RAISING FUNDS FOR OUR SCHOOL

Don’t miss out - visit the P&C Facebook site and click on the Trivia event page. Organise your own table of up to 10 people or use the event page to organise to join up with others. You can also buy tickets at the office - $20 per person.  Get your babysitter sorted now!

Our raffle tickets are now on sale and we are providing families with 10 tickets each to sell to family/friends for $2 Each.  More tickets are available from the office and will be sold at the Trivia Night which is when the raffle will be drawn. 

 Can you help by donating a prize? Does your business have a service that we could offer up as a prize? It’s a great way to promote your business to our school community.  No item is too small … or too big!  We are finalising all prizes now so please do get in touch if you can help out. 

Other Updates from the P&C Fundraising Committee

You will receive quite a few notes this week regarding fundraising - Crazy Camel Order Form, A Mango Box Order form, A bundle of 10 raffle tickets for the Trivia Night Raffle, a wine order form and an overview letter which explains the events coming up and important dates for returning order forms and raffle tickets.

We wanted to get this information to you before the holidays, as many orders are due back early  in Term 4. Please try to have these in as soon as you can and not later than the cut-off date so they can be collated and orders filled in time for Christmas.  

Reminders for Term 4  

Monday 21 Oct   Gartelmann Wine Order forms due to office

Friday 25 Oct   Raffle ticket booklets & money returned (sold or unsold) to office.

Crazy Camel order forms due back to office.

Mango orders Due back to office.

Collect your wine order @ Fairleigh Hall strictly between 4-6pm.

Saturday 26 Oct Trivia Night 6.30pm. Gartelmann Wine orders can be collected on the Night

Friday 15 Nov  2040 Family Film Night at DPS. More info early in Term 4.

Tuesday 10 Dec Christmas Carols at DPS

Recycle @ Tomra

Don’t forget you can continue to donate your 10c cans and bottles to the Tomra facility at Bennetts Green until November. 

Athletes Foot & Rebel Sport If shopping at Athletes Foot or Rebel Sport please ask to have your account linked to DPS so that points earned can be filtered back to Dudley. These points help the P&C pay for Rebel vouchers for Presentation Day and for purchasing sporting equipment.

 Earn & Learn Woolworths Earn and Learn Program was run last term and our school community raised 28 486 points which has allowed the school to purchase art and sporting equipment. Thanks to everyone for bringing in their stickers to achieve this great result.

 Welcoming Kinder 2020 Do you have a child starting at DPS next year?  Join the Kinder 2020 Facebook page to keep in touch with other families.  We have a catch up this Saturday 28 September at 3pm at DPS and hope to see you there.

 Our final P&C meetings for the year in Term 4 are at 7pm on Wednesday 6 November and Wednesday 4 December when we shall also enjoy some festive fun.

ALL WELCOME HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US

Thank you from The Fundraising Committee & Dudley P&C

dudleyschoolpandc@gmail.com

Canteen Corner

Thanks to all my wonderful volunteers in Term 3!

Please see the official new roster for Term 4.

Enjoy your holidays!

Thanks Nicole

Chair bags for 2020 Year 1 students have been ordered and will take a couple of months to arrive.

We are currently out of stock for the following uniform items:

Small Hats &;Size 6 School polos.

Stock has been ordered and should arrive in the first week of next term.

The shop is quite busy on Friday mornings at the moment as next year's Kindy parents come to size their children. If possible, it's probably best to email and pre-pay any orders you may wish to place.

We hope you have a great break........the uniform shop