ENewsletter

Principal’s Message

Parent Chats

Many thanks to the parents and carers who attended and actively took part in the Parent Chat sessions held recently. Your input and discussion was highly valued and I was able to gain some great insights into the parent perspective of Dudley PS and where to lead our wonderful school into the future. I appreciate the time that everyone dedicated to this process. There will be further sessions held throughout the beginning of next year to further explore opportunities to improve our students’ learning.

Christmas Carols

We will be hosting our Christmas Carols Community event on Thursday 1 December on the court area of our playground. The evening will commence at 5pm and run for approximately 2 hours. Families are welcome to bring a picnic rug and some food and enjoy the Christmas carols that each class has been rehearsing, in between class performances will be the opportunity for everyone to sing along to some Christmas classics. As this activity is a school coordinated family friendly event we remind everyone that there will be no alcohol or pets allowed.

School Playground Update

A community notification was released today regarding planned works for Phase 2 of the playground remediation works from the Department of Education. Work will commence on the sloped grass area to the western side of our playground. During these works the school site will be closed off to all community access. Apologies for the inconvenience that this creates for some families.

P&C 2022

We held our last P&C meeting for 2022 on Monday evening. Many thanks to the team of parents and carers who continue to give their time and efforts to running the P&C initiatives that assist to improve the learning environment and outcomes for our students. A special acknowledgement to three of our 2022 P&C members as they move beyond Dudley PS as their children leave Year 6 this year. Thank you Jonathan, Robyn and Kenna for your efforts and support throughout your time on the P&C, we appreciate your dedication to the P&C and the school.

We still have vacancies on the P&C executive team for 2023 for a President and Vice President. The executive team are keen to provide their unlimited support to the role and are seeking nominations from the school community for these positions. Please email the P&C directly dudleyschoolpandc@gmail.com to enquire or place a nomination. Our first P&C meeting for 2023 will be Monday 6 February 2023 at 7pm in the library.

2022 Key Dates for December

1 December – Christmas Carols (5pm-7pm)

2 December – Environmental Assembly (11:35am)

7 December – Last newsletter of 2022

8 December – Presentation Day (9:30am)

9 December – Kindergarten Graduation (9:30am)

15 December – Reports released to parents

15 December – Year 6 Farewell

16 December – End of Year Party Day/ Last day for students

Have a wonderful fortnight. 17 Days to go…..

Kind regards,

Chad Tsakissiris

Principal

Week 6 Award Recipients

Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 6 Assembly Award recipients. Class award winners were recognised for their achievements relating to our six learning dispositions of self-motivation, perseverance, creativity, curiosity, collaboration, and reflection. A special congratulations to our Principal’s Award winner, Evie from 2M.

From The Office

Upcoming Dates

Thursday 24 November	Orienteering Stage 2 and 3
Friday 25 November	Leadership Speeches
Thursday 1 December	Christmas Carols
Friday 2 December	Assembly - Mural
Tuesday 6 December	Scripture Assembly
Thursday 8 December	Presentation Day
Friday 9 December	Kindergarten Graduation

Classroom

ICAS Results

Congratulations to all students who have participated in the ICAS Assessments this year. It has been wonderful to see so many students achieving fantastic results. The following students have achieved awards for their achievement this year.

Mathematics

Merit	Credit	Distinction
Lincoln Cooper	Hannah Barker	Thomas Johnson
Bernard Forsyth	Mollie Walter	Keenan Willis
Lucas Hobbs	Barnaby Hackney
Alistair Sillar	Spencer Sillar
	Sofia Heigl

Writing

Credit

Hannah Barker

Madeleine Bath

Mia Van Der Westhuizen

Keenan Willis

Spelling Bee

Merit	Credit
Sofia Heigl	Hannah Barker
Barnaby Hackney	Lincoln Cooper
	Lucas Hobbs
	Mia Van Der Westhuizen

Science

Merit	Credit
Sophie Clee	Bernard Forsyth

English

Credit	Distinction
Spencer Sillar	Barnaby Hackney
Bernard Forsyth	Keenan Willis
Lucas Hobbs	Mia Van Der Westhuizen
Sophie Clee	Madeleine Bath
Hannah Barker

Digital Technologies

Credit

Hannah Barker

Mobile Muster Film Competition

Film Competition Winners

At the end of last term, 2M entered a film competition that focused on being sustainable by recycling old mobile phones.

We were named as finalists and in very exciting news, found out last week that we had won the Mobile Muster Film Competition for 2022!!!

This was a national competition and we have won $3000 to spend on technology for our school. To say we were excited would be a massive understatement!

You can view our winning video here: https://vimeo.com/764789584

Our Mobile Muster Film by 2M

We had been learning about changes we can make that help the environment.

We were also doing persuasive writing. This competition was a mix. The theme was The Science of Recycling.

We all tried to think of our ideas. We decided to focus on being an everyday hero and have the actors dress up as a superhero.

We split into teams. We had artists who drew pictures and took photos. The researchers found facts about recycling phones.

There was also a video editing team who were creating information parts and adding special effects.

The scriptwriters wrote scripts about how a recycling hero could step in. Everyone who wanted to be an actor could have a turn. Some people didn’t want to and some people were in more than one team.

We filmed on iPads and the video editors created slides of information. We really needed to collaborate to make sure that everyone worked together.

It was a bit disappointing that we could only include a few seconds of each script. The competition rules said we only had 60 seconds!

We edited special hero effects and made the music sound ominous.

We wanted people to know it was important.

We were so excited to be finalists.

We made Mrs Mullins check heaps of times every day to see when the winners were announced.

It was really amazing to win!

We are really proud of ourselves. This is a big deal! $3000 is a lot of money.

Mrs M let us have some time to look at the things we could buy.

We thought lap tops, smart scales, board games or VR goggles would all be really cool.

We’d like to get a drone so that next year we can make a better entry.

We hope you like our video.

By 2M

PACER Rebate

Year 6 students from our school recently went on an education tour of the national capital. Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government contributed funding of $30 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate was paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion and was factored in to the price to reduce the cost to families.

We hope that all students found this to be a most valuable experience.

Library

End of year library procedures.

This week, week 7 is the final week for borrowing.

All books must be returned by the end of week 8 so that I can complete stock take and prepare the collection for next year.

Overdue notices went home last week, thank you to the many students who returned their books.

There are still quite a few outstanding loans so it would be wonderful to see them returned by the end of next week.

If your child thinks they have returned a book they are welcome to pop into the library during lunchtime on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and I will help them to look for it.

Ms. Dunne.

Sport Desk

Sports Raffle

Winners are grinners! Congratulations to the 60 students who took home prizes from our sports raffle last Friday. The raffle raised $859 towards our Year 6 farewell celebrations. A special mention to Mrs Sullivan for organising the raffle, our amazing P&C for shopping for all the prizes, and thankyou to our parents/community for supporting event!

Students' Representative Council

Mini Carnival Success!

Last Friday our amazing SRC organised a mini carnival as a fundraiser for our 'end of year' class celebrations. The carnival was a huge success with stalls such as sock wrestling, zooper doopers, nail painting, lucky dip and the most popular by far.... SOAK THE TEACHERS!!! The students all had an absolute 'blast' (excuse the pun) and we raised a whopping $1,100!

Thank you to Mrs Winter and her team for all their hard work! SRC you are legends!!

P&C News

Christmas Market – THIS SATURDAY 26 November, 10am – 2pm

This Saturday = just FOUR weeks ‘til Christmas Eve! We can’t wait for you to see the wonderful line up at our Christmas market and it’s going to be a beautiful, sunny day to embrace the community spirit, shop locally and tick off that Christmas pressie list! There will be something for everyone with lots of locally made and designed gifts, pre-loved books and toys, and plenty of sweet and savoury treats.

You’ll also be able to buy your Christmas puddings from the Adamstown Pudding Kitchen who will be set up outside of the Hall. Keep an eye on the P&C Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/DudleyPandC and follow our Facebook Event page https://www.facebook.com/events/802663817508871 to keep up to date.

If you are available for any amount of time on the day to help, please get in touch with Jess ASAP via Dudley.fundraising@gmail.com or 0438 683 341

Christmas Raffle Tickets on sale now until Saturday 26th Nov, 2pm

There are heaps of great prizes to be won in our Christmas Raffle. Our top prizes include a Trek 24” mountain bike worth $549.99 (or a credit for the same value towards a more suitable bike) and beautiful basket hampers filled with products donated by our market stallholders – perfect Christmas gifts!

You can see all prizes and buy tickets online here: https://www.raffletix.com.au/dpschristmasraffle2022 Please get in touch ASAP if you need to make an alternative arrangement for buying tickets.

The raffle will be drawn at 2pm on Saturday 26th November, at our Christmas Market (you do not need to be present be a winner!).

We would like to thank the following businesses who have supported this raffle with donations: Trek bicycles Bennetts Green, BCF Bennetts Green, Sanbah Sufr Shop The Junction, Huski, St Nic’s Christmas Cave Charlestown Square, Prue Sailer Studio Port Stephens, and all our wonderful market stall holders!

Christmas Carols Night Picnic boxes – Order before Tuesday 29th, 12pm midday.

We’ve got you sorted for carols night with delicious picnic boxes from Mama-P in Charlestown. Mama-P will deliver the boxes to school for collection from 4.45pm. You can order online or by phone and Mama-P will donate 10% to us from all boxes sold. Orders will open on Thursday 24th November and close on Tuesday 29th at 12pm. More info with the menu and ordering details to be sent out via SkoolBag.

Thank You!

P&C Wine Fundraiser On Now

Order by Monday 5th December.

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Sustainability

Garbage Guardians

Even though it’s almost the end of the year, our Garbage Guardians are still on the lookout for students doing the right thing.

Congratulations to our most recent prize winner, Frankie S in 1M, for regularly ensuring that she empties the contents of her food packets into the green bin before placing her packaging in the soft plastics bin.

Well done, Frankie!

Garbage Guardians 2023 - This week, Mrs Adams and Mrs Mullins will be providing information about how Year 4 students can apply to become a Garbage Guardian in 2023.

Garbage Guardians do duties each week to monitor our bin system and have the chance to make announcements at fortnightly assemblies.

We are after students that are reliable, enthusiastic, show a passion for the environment and are wanting to make a real difference.

If current Year 4 students are after a leadership role next year, this is a wonderful opportunity.

Garden Club

We have been busy bees planting in the garden!

A big thank you to one of our fathers, Adam, who has donated a wide range of vegetable seedlings to fill out our remaining garden beds.

Our cucumbers and radishes are flourishing!

Final preparations are underway for our official garden opening, next Friday 2nd December at our school assembly at 11.35am.

We are excited to host special guests from Lake Macquarie City Council and Hunter Water who have provided funds to support this new green space.

Please come along and celebrate with us. All welcome!

Mrs Adams and Mrs Mullins

Community Notice Board

The Conservatorium is offering Community Music Scholarships in 2023

https://conservatoriumscholarships2023.eventbrite.com.au

Each year the Conservatorium of Music offers scholarships to current and future students under the age of 18 (or vocalists aged up to 25). Music scholarships include part or full payment towards the cost of single study lessons, with the additional benefit of public performance/recording opportunities.

2023 Conservatorium Scholarship offerings include four Full Scholarships and four Quarter Scholarships.

• Full Music Scholarships include weekly 30-minute single study lessons, plus the option to join a Conservatorium Ensemble, and participate in Music Craft lessons.

• Quarter Music Scholarships include a 25% reduction in single study lesson fees.

Audition Requirements:

• Applicants are required to film/record (simply using a device such as a phone) a piece of their choice (no longer than 5-minutes) and upload the performance to YouTube, or a shareable Google Drive/Dropbox folder.

• At the end of the audition performance clip applicants are encouraged (not compulsory) to say a few words around their musical interests and aspirations.

To apply please complete all required fields in the online form and most importantly, your link to your audition.

https://conservatoriumscholarships2023.eventbrite.com.au

Applications close 4:30pm, Friday 25th November 2022 and applicants will be notified of the outcome by COB, Friday 9th December 2022.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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.

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