Dudley Public School Newsletter

Term 3 Week 5 2022

Principal’s Message

School Pride

At last week’s assembly I talked about school pride and how the many opportunities provided by our amazing staff for our students contribute to a shared pride in our school and student success. Our students are lucky to be presented with opportunities to participate and represent the school in so many extra-curricular areas including team sports, debating, sport carnivals and gala days, public speaking, game changers and general class excursions and camps.

I am very proud of the behaviour and conduct of our students on their representation of Dudley PS at these events and their efforts to maintain the high standards and expectations that Dudley Public School’s reputation holds within the community.

A fine effort from our students and a big thanks to the staff and parents/carers who assist to make these opportunities possible for our students.

Road Works Update

The road works on Ocean St have seen a great improvement to ensuring the safety of our students and the community when crossing such a busy road. Just a reminder for parents to please use the crossing and not take the shortcut to the corner, as we need to be good role models for our students. Our crossing supervisors do such a wonderful job for the safety of our students, so please remind your child to wait at the side of the road for their signal to cross safely once the traffic has been stopped.

Have a wonderful week,

Chad Tsakissiris

Principal

Other News

Awards

Congratulations to all those students who received 'learning disposition' awards at the assembly on Friday.

A special congratulations to Spencer Sillar and William Rembish for their Principal Awards, recognising their outstanding effort and many achievements.

Congratulations also to our Semester 2 SRC representatives.

Award Recipients for Weeks 3 and 4

Learning Disposition Awards
Principal Awards
SRC Representatives

Zone Public Speaking

Congratulations to all the DPS students who represented our school at Zone Public Speaking. We are so proud of you and hear that you all did an amazing job. What a fantastic experience for you all!

Early Stage 1 Representatives: Otis Adams and Elizabeth Keene

Stage 1 Representatives: Bill Chisek and Lilika Penny

Stage 2 Representatives: Charlie Tennant and Isabella Carlier

Stage 3 Representatives: Bernie Forsyth and Sam Nugus

Ethics: Dudley Public School

Ethics continues to be offered in term 3. The program is available to the students in Year 6. We have one volunteering teacher facilitating the program this term – Jonathan Mantel.

So far this year, we have not been able to offer the program to all the students in years K-5 who opted in to participate. Unfortunately, there are not enough teachers to form the requisite number of classes. To comfortably accommodate everyone, we are looking for four additional volunteering teachers.

Earlier this year, Jonathan’s class discussed fairness, equality of opportunity, human and animal rights, differences between beliefs and opinions and types of arguments.

Coming up later this term is the discussion about performance enhancement in sports. The topic is a perennial favourite for the students and teachers alike; you might hear Year 6 students continuing to puzzle over it after class. Students will discuss the concept of unfair advantage and whether the taking of performance-enhancing drugs is morally wrong.

Can you help facilitate ethics classes at your school?

We are looking for volunteers. We would love to be able to offer classes to all students enrolled in ethics and keep the classes comfortably small to allow everyone to participate.

Ethics classes run for 30 minutes on Tuesday afternoons. Please consider whether you are available to help. Grandparents and the wider community are welcome to apply.

Detailed lesson plans are provided by Primary Ethics and have been approved by the Department of Education. Primary Ethics provides teacher training. The training consists of online self-study modules and a comprehensive 2-day workshop (in-person or via Zoom).

For more information about the program and to apply, please visit https://primaryethics.com.au/volunteer/ethics-teacher/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Julia on 0402 414 041 or Julia.kosheleva@primaryethics.com.au or use the contacts provided on the website.

School Fish Tank Update

We are so happy to announce that the school fish tank was kindly donated to the Marine Biology department at Kotara High School.

The students at Kotara will use it to support their studies and are extremely grateful to receive such a worthwhile donation.

A big thank you must go to MR DAVID COOPER for looking after our fish while they were in our school office. They were very happy fish!

Quiet Play - Resources Required!

Are you having a cleanout?

Quiet play group needs some fresh resources!

Stickers, ribbons, beads, threads, feathers, scraps of material, buttons, small cardboard boxes!!!, cardboard tubes (toilet roll tubes, paper towel tubes), stamps, pads/stamps, elastic, sticky tape, blu tac, stick on gems, textas, glitter glue, old greeting cards, string, glue, old CD's, egg cartons, patty cake liners…

 Anything you think would be useful for craft for little people!

 

Creative Arts Day

Parents Needed for Creative Arts Day 19 October.

Come and be a part of a very special creative arts day taking place next term.

Parents and grandparents are needed to devise and run art activities in each class on Wednesday, 19 October.

If you can help, please complete the pink note (sent out last week) or contact the school.

Library

Book Club

I am waiting for issue 5 Book Club orders which should arrive very soon.

Thank you to all the families who ordered from this issue, every order earns cash rewards for our school library. 

Premier's Reading Challange

The PRC is almost over!

The challenge closes on Friday August 19th, this week!

Students in years 3-6 must complete their online reading log by midnight on the 19th.

I am happy to help anyone who needs support to get this in on time! Come and see me in the library.

I will complete the reading log for students in years K-2. Well done to those students who have already finished. 

Book Week

We are eagerly counting down the weeks until our Book Week celebrations - Wednesday Week 9, here at Dudley! Students are planning wonderful costumes for the parade, there will be a book fair in the library and lots of fun activities at school to celebrate this exciting week. We look forward to welcoming the community to celebrate with us. 

Sport Desk

Zone Athletics

Our amazing Dudley Athletics Team represented the school with enthusiasm and determination on Wednesday 10 August. Throughout the day, at Glendale Athletics Centre, our talented athletes competed against 22 other schools in our zone. Once again Dudley achieved incredible results!

Nine students made the 100m finals: Xavi Bennett, Oliver Blanton, Barnaby Hackney, Samuel Nugus, Isla Willis, Sahara Arthur, Kalani Britt, Lexi Mantle and Merryn Champion.

Dudley 4 x 100m Relays Ribbons

1st Junior Girls (Aluka Yodana, Isla Willis, Kalani Britt & Sahara Arthur)

4th Junior Boys (Ashton Penny, Oliver Blanton, Beau Parsons & Xavi Bennett)

3rd Senior Girls (Lexi Mantle, Mollie Walter, Merryn Champion & Annabelle Schipper)

Confirmation of students to represent East Lakes Zone at Regional Athletics will be sent to the school within the next week.

A big thank-you to Neil Keene who happily snapped the Dudley Athletes in their finest moments. This link will take you to these photos https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJeMzpM87oeQO3dxMpzvALna97xqIGJb?usp=sharing

Thanks also to our interns for assisting at the finish line and to Mrs Sullivan for running the Boys Shot Putt in a very efficient manner!

Mrs Winter

Name

Age

Event

Place

Mollie Walter

11 year girls

1500m

2nd

 

 

800m

1st

Barnaby Hackney

Senior boys

1500m

1st

 

 

Long Jump

1st

 

 

800m

3rd

Oliver Blanton

Junior Boys

Discus

1st

 

 

200m

3rd

Kalani Britt

Junior Girls

Discus

2nd

Samuel Nugus

Senior Boys

Discus

1st

Sahara Arthur

Junior Girls

Long Jump

1st

James Keene

11 year boys

High Jump

1st

Aluka Yodana

Junior Girls

High Jump

3rd

Xavi Bennett

8 Year Boys

100m

1st

Isla Willis

9 year Girls

100m

3rd

Lexi Mantle

11 Year Girls

100m

3rd

National Rugby League

Dudley PS has their very own Australian champion! Sam Nugus represented NSW  in the Under 12s National Rugby League Championships. Sam began his journey way back in Term 1 trying out for the Eastlakes Zone squad. From there he trialled and made the Hunter Opens team that eventually went on to win the State Championships against 12 other regions. If this wasnt enough, he was then selected with 33 other players to attend a training camp at the Academy of Sport in Narrabeen to make the NSW team. Sam was selected in this team to compete at the Australian Championships in Wollongong.  After being beaten by QLD in the preliminary rounds, his team gained revenge in the final, beating QLD 10-6. Congratulations Sam! You have made your school and club so proud! If you would like to see a replay of the match follow the link and fast forward to 1 hour and 10 minutes. https://youtu.be/rflJBuhZuw8

P&C News

Fundraising Newsletter

130TH ANNIVERSARY TEA TOWELS RAISED $1,600

We hope you’re enjoying your tea towels and are delighting in all the gorgeous self-portraits drawn by the students and staff.

If you missed out, there’s still a chance to order additional tea towels!

Tea towels will cost $18.50 each if we can order a minimum quantity of 30. Please email Jess (dudley.fundraising@gmail.com) to advise how many you would like to order.

FATHER’S DAY STALL COMING IN WEEK 7

We are fortunate again to have the lovely Amy Croal putting on a Father’s Day stall this year in week seven. There will be an array of gifts for students to buy for the special men in their lives.

REBEL COMMUNITY GIVEBACKS – IMPORTANT UPDATE!

The Rebel Community Givebacks program will be suspended from 31 October 2022 until early 2023 to undergo a program review. During this time, we will not accrue the usual 5% from your purchases.

So, please consider shopping before 31 October and have your Rebel Active Membership account linked to our school to help us raise 5% from sales.

Jess and Ruth

Fundraising Coordinators

Dudley.fundraising@gmail.com

Sustainability

Waste Education

We continue to focus on each of our five coloured bins to educate our school community about what can and cannot be recycled. This fortnight, we are shining a light on our final bin – the red bin. This is also known as our landfill, general waste or real rubbish bin. This includes things such as dirty plastics, dirty paper, dirty cardboard, cling wrap, Zooper Doopers and single use coffee cups.

Lala the Landfill Koala says:

If in doubt, chuck it out! Put it in the red bin and don’t contaminate our school recycling bins!

Garbage Guardians

Our Garbage Guardians are always on the lookout for students doing the right thing. Last week, our Garbage Guardians awarded another prize winner. Congratulations to William in 3/4W, who won a reusable food thermos for picking up rubbish, sorting it into the correct bins and keeping our playground beautiful. Thank you, William!

Garden Club

A huge thank you to all our wonderful families who volunteered their time at our recent school working bee. As a result of your fabulous efforts, our school grounds are looking beautiful – gardens have been mulched, our wicking garden bed has been added and some of our existing beds have been moved. Our new garden shed (kindly donated by Bunnings Bennetts Green) has been put together and is now ready for use. Our school looks and feels so welcoming!

The Garden Club cannot wait to begin planting our sensory beds. Keep an eye out for our three beds: one focused on taste with a variety of edible plants; one filled with spikey and soft textures for touch and the last filled with wonderful aromatic herbs and plants to explore our sense of smell.

Enjoy the sunshine and have a wonderful week!

Mrs Adams & Mrs Mullins

Working Bee Photos

Canteen Corner

Canteen Special Wednesday 24 August Only!

Community Notice Board

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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.