Drummoyne Public School

Parents & Friends Thank You Morning Tea

It was wonderful today to say thank you to all our parents and volunteers who have helped out in so many ways across the school this year. We are so very lucky to have the support of the community through the P&C and through the many diverse roles undertaken by volunteers. Thank you for your dedicated service and faithful commitment to the school throughout the year.

Colour Fun Run

I would like to sincerely thank our P&C and all of our volunteers particularly Ashley Ibarburu, Angela Farrel and Duncan Watson for organising the Colour Fun Run last Friday. Under sunny skies, it was wonderful to see the school community coming together in this way with the students having a great time completing the circuit and being coloured along the way!  Please see the photographs in this week's newsletter.

Presentation Day Assemblies

Our Stage 2 and Stage 3 Presentation Day assemblies will take place next week in the school hall and every parent is very welcome to join us.  Even so, in keeping with current COVID restrictions for schools, our preference is that only two adults from each family attend. Parents of children who are receiving an award have been invited to attend in person.

Presentation Day awards

To ensure that students value Presentation Day awards each year, there is just one award for each group of 5 students in a class ie a ratio of 1 award to 5 students.

Principal Award Winners

On Friday evening next week, we will celebrate the graduation of our Year 6 students with a dinner dance at Canada Bay Club. This is a special occasion for the students and a significant milestone for families as we thank our senior students for their leadership and service of the school and wish them every success in high school.

Parent Volunteer Medallions

We would like to thank the many parents who have supported the school and their children by volunteering over their years at DPS.

If you have volunteered over the years and are leaving the school this year, please let us know.

We experience some of the highest UV levels in the world, so if we want our children to have a healthy future, we need to equip them with good sun protection habits now. School hours are at the time of day when UV levels are at their highest. It’s vital that we educate our children and ourselves about good sun protection behaviours.

You can protect your child from the damaging effects of UV radiation by applying sunscreen each morning before they leave for school and ensuring they are wearing a sun-safe hat. This is one of the easiest and most effective forms of sun protection. If students forget their hat, they are asked to play in the shade.

Labelling hats is also an excellent way to ensure if your child's hat is lost or misplaced, it can be returned.

Dianne Colb

Deputy Principal

This year students in Stage 3 have participated in the APSMO  Maths Games and Olympiad competitions. As part of an enrichment group with Mrs Russ, Stage 2 students participated in the Maths Explorer competition.  These competitions are held Australia wide. The aim of all the programs is to:

• Introduce students to important mathematical concepts
• Teach major strategies and develop flexibility for problem solving
• Foster creativity and ingenuity and strengthen intuition
• Stimulate enthusiasm and enjoyment for mathematics

In the Maths Olympiad competition, Triet Ngyen and Luca Auzins scored in the top 10%. The following students scored in the top 25%: Mathew Summerfield, Leo Balmond, William Kelly,Avery Sun, Hayden Ng, James La and Lincoln Silver.

In the Maths Games competition, the top performing student for each of our teams were: Lara Sangster, Zoe Auzins, Aidan Fahey, Danielle Kwan and Micah Navendra.

Congratulations to all our mathematicians!

Weeks of hard work and preparation came to fruition on Wednesday when year 6 hosted a fabulous Market Day event for the school. Students from K-6 enjoyed food stalls such as a sausage sizzle and brownies, snow cones and fairy floss. Entertainment was provided for those who wanted to dance, shoot hoops and spin a chocolate wheel.

We are very proud of the efforts of our year 6 students who raised over $6000 on the day. Stay tuned for details about the gift year 6 plan to leave the school for their legacy. You’ll be excited when you find out what it is!

Michelle McCauley

Assistant Principal

The Year 6 Market Day 2022 was a massive success! Year 6 raised over $6000. My advice to year 5 and upcoming years is to organise something original like a BBQ or a soccer shootout as we found most people wanted to have food then do an activity. Make sure to buy more than you need so you don't run out of products and have a solid business plan so nothing unexpected happens. Mostly, remember to enjoy yourself! Market Day was a huge success and it was a bang, everyone had a good time. Leo and Tom, 6M 

Setting up for Market Day was so exciting! The first customers rushed onto the playground lining up for sausages. Happy children running around, with cookies selling out fast! Next brownies and then cupcakes! Our stall raised $422 and the grade raised over $6000! Eva, 6M

The year 6 Market Day was a huge success and we raised more than $6000. It was a bit hard because there were so many kids coming one by one and all of us had to work fast. Some stores sold all of their stuff quickly. A few stores made over $800! Some sold food and most had lollies for prizes. We thank everyone that came to the day and spent some money. Kodi, 6M

Although it was a tiring day, Market Day was a complete success for year 6. Stalls were selling out by the end of the event. The sausage sizzle stall was popular because we wanted students eating proper food before buying sugar! Everyone found the Market Day very fun and exciting. The students were pleased with everything that was on during the event.  Deanna, 6M

Respect awards - Rawson says congratulations to:

• Leo Messervy-Frankland - 3A
• Lance Brooks - 3R
• Sebastian Olufon - 3R
• Cameron Barry - 4A
• Eimear Gould - 4A
• Juno Taggart - 4K
• Dom Chen - 4M
• Aydin Dizdar - 4M
• Harlen Hunter - 4M
• Lola Mave - 4M
• Aleks Nuka - 4M
• Shireen Raina - 4M
• Aria Shipp - 4M
• Grace Sullivan - 4M
• Rachel White - 4M
• Amelia Baggett-Grenfell - 5H
• Daisy Henwood - 5H
• Henry Baker - 5N
• Mila Milovanovic - 5N
• Izzy Ziino - 5N
• Leo Giannichronis - 6M

Responsibility awards - Monty says congratulations to:

• Max Quach - 3B
• Lance Brooks - 3R
• Olive Bockos - 4A
• Natalia Giannichronis - 4A
• Sophie Hill - 4A
• Sophia El-Khoury - 4K
• Abby Kerr - 4K
• Joanna Phan - 4K
• Blake Silver - 4K
• Riviera Harris - 4M
• Emma Whitton - 4M
• Isla Young - 4M
• Havana Hunter - 5H
• Henry Baker - 5N
• Danielle Kwan - 6M

Resilience awards - Bretty says congratulations to:

• Henry Speakman - 3B
• Max Weirick - 3B
• Auley Witney - 3B
• Lily Eastwood - 4K
• Gianluca Furnari - 4K
• Liam Gibbs - 4K
• Blake Silver - 4K
• Eve Suebwongpat - 4K
• Riviera Harris - 4M
• Xavi Modena - 4M
• James Hadfield - 5C
• Isabella Edye - 5H
• Sienna Zheng - 5H
• Henry Baker - 5N
• Evan Kollias - 6M
• Danielle Kwan - 6M
• Edoardo Orobello - 6P

Mr Dill says congratulations to:

• Aria Shipp - 4M - Respect Badge
• Rachel White - 4M - Respect Badge
• Henry Baker - 5N - Respect Badge
• Ivan Gizycki - 6M -  Respect Badge
• Juno Taggart - 4K - Responsibility Badge
• Aydin Dizdar - 4M - Responsibility Badge
• Daisy Henwood - 5H - Responsibility Badge
• Danielle Kwan - 6M - Responsibility Badge
• Lily Eastwood - 4K - Resilience Badge
• Gianluca Furnari - 4K - Resilience Badge
• Liam Gibbs - 4K - Resilience Badge
• Blake Silver - 4K - Resilience Badge
• Riviera Harris - 4M - Resilience Badge
• Isla Young - 4M - Resilience Badge
• Stathi Diles - 4M - Resilience Badge

Please help your son or daughter to locate and return all their books by Friday 2 December.

Many thanks,

Mr Neufeld

It’s been another fun year of Code Club. The last Code Club for the year will be Thursday 8 December, week 9. 

Thank you to all the students who have regularly attended Code Club through the year!

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

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.

A sincere thank you to every family that has supported the school financially this year. This has enabled us to provide quality programs and learning resources for the children. As we approach the end of the year we now need to balance the books!

To this end, families with payments owing will be sent an invoice outlining any overdue amounts. Your support in finalising school accounts before the end of November would be greatly appreciated.

Our kindergarten teachers have visited preschools for observations and to speak to preschool staff to enable 2023 classes to be formed.

The Online Enrolment System is designed to provide flexibility for parents to submit an enrolment application online and at the time that best suits you.

The application can be accessed on all browsers and mobile devices including iOS and Android. The online application process is currently restricted to:

• Enrolments into local schools
• Children who are Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or permanent residents
• Children who live in NSW.

A big thank you to the following volunteers who committed their time to help make the colour run event happen, namely: Ashley Ibarburu, Hannah Heath, Angela Farrell, Jamie Vartuli, Duncan & Rowena Watson, Emma Auzins, Sarah G, Natalie Thornhill, Josh Munday, Rika, Sue Len Hew, Belinda Hubball, Amanda Zagerella, Shannon Lippert, Julie Huynh, Megan De Sousa, Heidi Leigh, Meredith Taylor, Rebecca Silveira & Tamara B. Also a huge thank you to all of the wonderful parents who offered a helping hand on the day. The event was a success because of all of you! Thank you! 

And we raised over $40,000 in this fundraiser for our schools technology updates. A huge congratulations to all students and their families especially the top 3 on the leaderboard:

1. William Harys KW
2. Evie Thornhill 1A
3. David Gryllis 3B

P&C Fundraising Committee

As the holiday season approaches, let's help Aussie families to have food on their tables. 

Thank you to everyone who has already donated items to the food drive. We have already filled 6 large boxes!!

This year, more than 1 in 5 Australians (21%) experienced food insecurity.  With so many Australians in need, we would like everyone to help! Between November 28 and December 15, DPS are running a food drive. One item per child. All food collected will be provided to families and children who need it the most through FOODBANK. 

The items we are collecting include:

Year 1 (1A, 1C, 1J) - Baby food and formula

Year 2 (2T, 2D, 2M, 2L) - Deodorant, soap and body wash

Year 3 (3A, 3B, 3R) - Shampoo, condition and sanitary items

Year 4 (4A, 4K, 4M) - Noodles, pasta and rice

Year 5 (5C. 5H. 5N. 5/6O) - Good quality tinned food and meals (with ring pulls)

Year 6 (6M, 6P) - Bottled water, long life milk

Please bring them to school and drop them in the boxes in the classrooms from Monday 28 November. 

Thanks in advance for your contribution!

Please order 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.

The P&C has a pool of second hand uniforms for families in need. Please donate any good quality, unstained uniforms that your child has out grown.

Second hand uniform sales are no longer online through school24 as we cannot be assured we have stock in all sizes. Please send an email request for items you require and we will check if they are available.

Accounts with outstanding monies

There are over 30 accounts with money owing . Please log in to your account. Look above Welcome Jonny and you will see your account balance. If you are owing money you can either top up the account or send your child with cash to pay the canteen directly. Please place money in envelope with student full name. I will then update your account.

Reminder -  Sausage Sizzle Event is on Friday 16th December!

• Log in to account.
• Click on EVENT to the right of the screen.
• Start your order.

Sausage sizzle deal 1: $6.80

• Contains - chill j drink  or  Oak flavoured milk (flavours subject to availability), tom/bbq sauce included.
• optional: mustard $0.20 and/or quelch stick $0.70 

Sausage Sizzle deal 2: $5.80

• Contains juice  or water (flavours subject to availability), tom/bbq sauce included.
• Optional: mustard $0.20 and/or quelch stick $0.70.

Orders are now open and will close at 11pm Tuesday 13th December.

Canteen and P&C Committee

All new students attending OOSHC in 2023 need to complete their Gowrie NSW application forms and return them ASAP to guarantee placement for your child next year.

Contact Rekkha for more information on 0436 616 744.

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

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