Drummoyne Public School

I would like to sincerely thank every parent who joined us this week for our parent teacher interviews.  It was special to have you join us giving up your time to hear from your child's class teacher about the progress that your child is making.  This is such a pivotal message that you have sent to your child on how important school is. Thank you!

Best Wishes

As the term comes to a close, I would like to acknowledge the dedication and hard work of our staff who have committed themselves to the school throughout the term to set us up for a wonderful year of learning and wish them a well deserved break. 

Retaining Wall - the South Street gate will be closed next term

For the afternoon pick-up, kindergarten parents are asked to come into the school grounds and wait under the kindergarten COLA near the coloured kindy lunch tables.

Winter School Uniform

Students are asked to wear winter uniform from the first day of next term.

Extended Break

I will be taking leave for the first two weeks of next term and Dianne Colb will be relieving Principal during this time. 

I would like to wish you all a lovely Easter break and look forward to seeing you next term.

Respect awards - Rawson says congratulations to: 

• Hugo Cox - 1J

Responsibility awards - Monty says congratulations to:

• Joseph Zagarella - 2D
• Archer Speakman - 2M
• Pia Passarelli - 2O

• Elliot Morris - 1A
• Ryan Elalingam - 2O

Mr Dill says congratulations to:

• Archer Speakman 2M - Responsibility badge

Stage 3 Choir will be recommencing from Wednesday 26th April, the first day of Term 2.

This week Micah Navendra and Jack Cameron represented the IWPSSA zone for basketball . They won three of their four games and finished 5th. They both had a great day!

Amanda Champion

Sport Co-ordinator

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.

The permission notes listed below have been sent home recently and should be completed and signed by parents as soon as possible.

• School Contributions  for all students - $120 due date 31 March 
• Interrelate Course for Year 6 students  - $40 due date 3 April
• Moving into the Teens Course for Year 5 students -  $40 due date 3 April
• Kaleidoscope Science incursion for Kindergarten students - $10 due date 3 April

While it adds to the sense of community when our pets are brought to school at pick-up times, under the Companion Animals Act 1998 (NSW), Section 14 and in the interests of safety and hygiene, dogs are not allowed on school grounds. 

Thank you for your understanding.

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.

The P&C will be holding a second hand uniform sale on:

Friday 28th April from 8.15am - 9.15am under the COLA

Good quality, clean donations are welcome on the morning.

If you would like to help at the sale please contact your class parent. 

The uniform shop will be open during term 2 for face to face sales on Monday afternoons from 3pm - 3.30pm.

For week 1 of term 2 the uniform shop will be open on Wednesday 26 April for the sale of winter uniforms.

Please remind students to be responsible for their belongings and return their hats, lunchboxes and jumpers to their bags after the lunch and recess breaks.

Our new hybrid unisex school hats are back in stock!

We are phasing out both the old style round girls hat as well as the Legionnaire hat and once stock has been exhausted only the Hybrid Unisex hat will be available.

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.

Eugenie, Catherine and the Canteen Committee wish everyone a lovely Easter break.

We would like to thank our parent volunteers who have helped throughout the term. Thank you Peter, Sophie and Megan for helping with the last day of term sausage sizzle. Thank you also to Susan for picking up the bread on Wednesdays. This has been a great help!

Finally thank you Zara ,Issie and all our student helpers.

The canteen has prepared 3903 lunch and recess orders this term! This does not include orders over the phone and other lunches due to forgotten lunches etc.

Kind regards, Canteen and P&C Committee

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.

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