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Dubbo Public School Newsletter Dubbo Public School Newsletter At Dubbo Public School we believe in being safe, respectful learners Ph. 6882 2399 Email [email protected] web: www.dubbo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 2 Week 10 154 Years of Quality Education Thursday, 28 June 2012 Term Two Stage Three Bushranger Day This term has been a busy one with a variety of happenings The school was overrun with some very shady looking and experiences including excursions, disco, student reports, characters last Monday. Ben Hall and Ned Kelly seemed to Eisteddfod, Three Way Conferences and assemblies. I would pop up around every corner. Stage 3 students displayed their like to thank the staff for their hard work and professionalism expert knowledge and understanding of a bushranger they throughout the term and I would especially thank all the have been researching this term at an Expo for Stage 2 (more staff members for their assistance and support over the past on page 2). three weeks while I have been relieving principal. Thank you also to all the parents and members of the school community Bunnings Barbecue who supported us in so many ways throughout the term. We had another successful BBQ at Bunnings on Sunday to Children realise the importance of learning when it is valued raise funds for the recorder group’s trip to Sydney to perform at home and school. at the Festival of Instrumental Music. Thank you to the helpers on the day: Logan, Bella and John Monaghan, Oliver, Kindergarten Farm Excursion Lily, Raelene and Andrew Burn, Matt, Brendan and Amanda Kindergarten travelled to TAFE Rural Studies Centre last Coffee, Eliza Bryan, Rod Dunn, Dulcie Cusack, Courtney, Lucy, Tuesday as part of their studies on farm animals. They had a Maggie and Dave Power. wonderful time and returned to school with stories of sheep, shearing, whip cracking and working dogs. Thank you to Western NSW Region iVisualise Art Exhibition Felicity Willis, Deb Duffy, Bianca Smith and Monique Graham The iVisualise Art Exhibition will be on display in the for taking the students and to the parent and grandparent Western Plains Cultural Centre from 30 June to 12 August. helpers who accompanied the children. Mrs Willis, excursion Perhaps you might like to visit this weekend or during the organiser and Ms Graham, Miss Smith and Mrs Duffy would school holidays. like to extend a very special thank you to Frank Roberts of TAFE for his outstanding organisation and the time and Parental Tip: Persistence trouble he took to ensure that all the children had a Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of wonderful day of learning and entertainment. your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting. When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you’ll feel motivated; sometimes you won’t. But it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results. Steve Pavlina Dates for Your Diary Kinder students at the TAFE Rural Studies Centre July Monday 16 Staff return, Pupil Free Day Public Speaking Tuesday 17 Students return Last Tuesday Emma Duffy, Myah Wallace, RubyWednesday Hammond 18 Wednesday 18 iVisualise opening, WPCC , 11.00 am and Toby Munge competed in the second round of the Thursday 19 Class Captains’ induction, school, 11.45 am Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking competition at Friday 20 Athletics Field Events trials Mudgee Public School. They all enjoyed the opportunity24 to Tuesday 24 K6B Wambangalang excursion starts speak in front of an audience and learned someWe useful skills Wednesday 25 K6B excursion ends from the experience. Thank you to Kyle Read for organising Wednesday 25 Church service and preparing the students and to Amanda Hammond for Friday 27 Leisure sport starts transporting and supporting them on the day. I would like to wish everyone a safe and restful holiday. We Bugg and John Gilbert. On Monday, 25 June we had to give look forward to Mr Shortis returning next term. an information report on our bushranger and dress up as Please remember that Monday, 16 July 2012 is a pupil free them. We all enjoyed dressing up as the bushranger, had day. fun and learned a lot about them. Annette Kelly Principal (Relieving) School News Recorder Group Bunnings BBQ The next BBQ will be on 21 July 2012. Helpers would be most welcome. iVisualise Art Exhibition Official Opening The Official opening of the iVisualise Exhibition will be held on Wednesday, 18 July at 11.00 am. Wellington Eisteddfod Dance groups (all stages) will compete at the Wellington Multicultural Public Speaking Competition Report Eisteddfod on Friday, 3 August 2012. Band and Stage 2 On Tuesday Emma Duffy, Myah Wallace, Ruby Hammond recorder groups will compete on the following Friday, 10 and I went to Mudgee for the Multicultural Public Speaking August 2012. Competition. It was a long trip but it was worth it. We gave our prepared speeches and then it was time for the Western Debating Team Results impromptu speeches. The topic was ‘chat time’ and we The Western Debating Team of Lachlan Steele, Gemma were given 5 minutes to write a two minute speech. At first Harley, Rohan Keen and Alyssa-Jane Galway competed I didn’t understand what the topic meant but then I realised against Gilgandra Public School today, debating the topic what it was. The adjudicator told us all that we were all ‘Zoos Should be Abolished’. Both sides are to be good before she told us who won. She was meant to only congratulated on their well-prepared, thoughtful arguments give two ‘Highly Commended’ awards but she gave four. I and manner of presentation. I was very impressed by the won a ‘Highly Commended’. I would love to give a HUGE improvement shown by the Dubbo Public School team and thank you to Mrs Hammond for taking us all to Mudgee and we are all very excited to celebrate a WIN!!! Congratulations, looking after us on the day. team. Thank you to Mrs Thompson for giving up her time to Toby Munge (S3R) adjudicate. Kyle Read Kinder Farm Excursion The Kinder students, teachers and helpers all had a great time last Tuesday at the TAFE Rural Skills Centre. Some of the highlights were: Watching ‘Minty’ the sheepdog doing backflips (Jack Wake KB) Seeing a sheep being shorn (Maddy Eather KB) Western Debating Team. Lachlan Steele, Rohan Keen, Gemma Watching a sheepdog round up the sheep (Georgia Harley and Alyssa-Jane Galway Yeo KB) Debating Team Co-ordinator The wonderful whip cracking (Aden Ryan KB) Kinder Red thought that seeing the sheep being shorn, Bushranger Expo touching and sorting the wool, drafting sheep and watching During Term 2, students in Stage 3 have been doing a people doing farm work on motorbikes was very good. They homework project on a bushranger from the gold rush era as all agreed that the whip cracking was loud but fabulous and part of Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) study unit being presented with a TAFE lollipop was pretty good, too! on gold. They gave a dynamic presentation, using MS Powerpoint, print media and period costumes, of the results Canteen Chatter of their research at a ‘Bushranger Expo’ for Stage 2 students Congratulations to our donation draw major prize winners last Monday. Thanks to Mitchell Rosenbaum and Owen Mackenzie Schulz, Thomas Dickens, Tyler Melville and Jonty Campion (S3B) for the following report. Schulz. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers – we Over the term, Stage 3 students had to do an assignment on couldn’t do it without you! bushrangers. They had 10 weeks to do their assignment Leonie Lesslie and Jodie Love completely. Most of the students researched Ned or Dan Canteen Co-ordinators Kelly, Ben Hall, John Dunn, Captain Thunderbolt, Mary-Anne .
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