Dunedoo Central School

P.O. Box 45 Digilah Street Dunedoo NSW 2844 T: 02 6375 1489 F: 02 6375 1152 E: dunedoo-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 3rd November 2014

High ropes, vertical challenges and kayaking began the adventures at Yarramundi Recreation camp, nestled in the beautiful Grose Valley at the foot of the Blue Mountains. This was the start of all of us daring to step out of our comfort zones. We attempted new challenges, forming even stronger bonds within the group as teamwork, trust and encouragement lay the foundations for three days of self discovery. ‘On Belay’ was the call as students put their trust in each other to climb the 15m horizontal poles and the deceptively challenging wire ladder in the vertical playpen. Thursday saw us abseiling, rock climbing and enjoying the adrenalin pumping giant swing. Whilst Friday saw groups of eight combine to work as a team to negotiate the rapids of the White Water Rafting course. The high temperatures were perfect conditions and made this an extremely popular activity amongst everyone. Once again our students impressive behaviour and positive attitudes were appreciated by teachers and acknowledged by the bus driver and staff at the outdoor recreation camp. Congratulations to all students for accepting challenges and overcoming personal fears to reach new levels.

SECONDARY EXCURSION 2014

Peter Campbell Principal

Week 4 Week 3

Tues 4.11 Wed 5.11 Thur 6.11

Central School Cricket @ Dubbo Metals Workshop@ Dubbo Year11 Year Exams Yrs 7-10 commence Ealybirds 9am—11:10am

Tues 11.11 Thurs 13.11 Fri 14.11

Remembrance Day ‘The Right Balance’ School Performance Earlybirds 1:30pm—3pm ESSA Tests Go-Go Golf

Hello everyone. Congratulations to all the students who received awards at today’s Merit Assembly and thank you to all the parents and grandparents who attended. It certainly makes a difference to the kids when they can see mum and dad out there in the audience. I have included my speech from today to reinforce the key issues. “I speak to you today about Education and its importance in the 21st Century. It is very important that Principals and teachers lead the Education debate in their local communities because Education is going to be very different to when we went to school, and there is no going back to the good old days, to a system and an ethos that was

originally developed for the 19th Century Industrial Revolution. We are in the process of developing our next three year plan. We began the process by evaluating our previous plan. The new plan is to be built around the Melbourne Declaration which focuses on 21st Century learning and teaching. The Melbourne Declaration was the result of a forum held in Melbourne which engaged all the current great minds in education including John Hattie, Michael Fullan and many others, as well as all the key State and Federal administrators and leaders of education. It was a blue-print for the 21st Century and closely emulated the focus of the Gonski report. The goals developed focus on promoting equity and excel-lence, and students becoming successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active informed citizens. It put the onus on educa-tors to lead the learning of essential skills and abilities of students to be able to do things such as: Make sense of their world, have a sense of self-worth, self-awareness and personal identity in order to manage their own wellbeing; Develop personal values such as honesty, resilience, empathy and respect for others allowing them to act with moral and ethical integrity; Understand and acknowledge the value of indigenous cultures contributing to reconciliation. Have the confidence and capability for learning and success beyond school to pursue post- secondary vocational qualifications leading to rewarding and productive employment. Commit to national values of democracy, equity and justice and communicate this across cultures; Work for the common good sustaining natural and social environments. Learn in an environment that fosters equity reducing the effect of disadvantage and remoteness, promoting social cohesiveness. Promote diverse personalised learning and hold high expectations for their educational outcomes ie motivated to reach their full potential. Develop essential skills in literacy and numeracy and are creative users of technology. Think deeply and logically by being creative, innovative and resourceful.

Solve problems using a range of learning disciplines. Have the ability to plan, collaborate, work in a team and communicate ideas. At DCS we have already placed great importance on many of these goals, as they are not all necessarily new, and they are closely aligned to our school vision. The Department of Education have broadened these goals into 13 reforms which were introduced to schools last year and are being supported through a range of documents. We are expected to include evidence of these in our new school plans. You would have heard of some of these reforms such as Local Schools Local Decisions which allows schools to have a greater say in the staff they employ, the programs they run and how they spend their finances. Great Teaching Inspired Learning looks at improving teaching standards from trainees to experts. Local Management and Business Reform will support schools to manage all their own finances, improve their or-ganisation and utilise their data. Every Student Every School ensures that every student is supported with appropriate programs and teach-ing to reach their potential. Great Teaching Inspired Learning is an exceptional document as it looks at not only addressing the standards expected of our new teachers but also our current teachers. We are very lucky at DCS that the majority of our teachers are open to the new reforms and have begun imple-menting many aspects of them into their programs and into the classroom. It is the job of our leadership team to ensure that all of our teach-ers are doing their best in this implementation, and I can assure you that we will do the best we can to ensure this happens over the next three years. “ Congratulations to all of our Secondary excursion participants on your excellent behaviour and attitude. I have heard only wonderful com-ments about your manners and participation. I believe the White water rafting experience was sensational. This week is Exam Week for Years 7-10. I hope all students are studiously preparing for them. Enjoy your week.

We had a lot of fun last Friday on our Halloween Day. Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun! It is great to hear people talking and thinking about our Intensive Swimming Program in weeks 9 and 10. More information to follow. Kindergarten Orientation and the Earlybirds program begin this Thursday for the Kinder 2015 children. Thursday of Week 6 (13th Nov), we have a visiting performance in the school. It is called “The Right Balance” and is for all students K-10. There is a family concession price. Please find the permission note in this newsletter and send it in ASAP. Remember: Crunch—veges, fruit—CUT UP Sip—water Hats Performance note Mrs. Maria Abbott

Kindergarten: Welcome to Week 5. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. This week in Jolly Phonics Kinder will

look at the letter g. When the letter g is followed by e, i or y it makes a ‘j’ sound as in giant and large. Our shared big book this week is Summer Night. In Maths our topics are Volume, Measuring Capacity, Investigating and Problem Solving. We are in full rehearsal mode for the school production—please remember all Kinder children need a pair of denim shorts for the night. Please send these in ASAP with their name on it in a named plastic bag. If you have any problems with this please let me know ASAP. Next week we have a third year prac student Luke Elsley starting on the class. The children are very much looking forward to his arrival. Please remember to read nightly and complete all homework. I was very im-pressed with the quality of the speeches the children delivered to the class last week. Thank you to all the parents for their help. Congratulations to Oliver Rookyard our student from last week and to Asha Russell and Tiarnie Batty who received merit certificates. Mrs. E. Yeo Year 1/2: Welcome to Week 5. Congratulations to the students who received awards at the Merit Assembly today.

Thank you to all parents and grandparents who attended the assembly. I was very proud of the class last week. Every child presented a speech to the class. What a great achievement. Thanks to parents/carers for helping the children with this task. This week in Spelling Year 1 will study the ‘ir’sound as in shirt and girl. Year 2 will study the ‘ture’ suffix as in nature, adventure. In Maths Year 1 will learn about Capacity using blocks, Estimating Capacity and Ordering Capacity. Year 2 will study Capacity Displacement and complete some revision. We nearly have all the costumes sorted for our performance. We are waiting on a few boys to bring their t-shirts in. All stu-dents will be wearing joggers on the night. Practices are going well and we should be stars on the night! Homework and read-ers will continue for the next few weeks so keep working hard on these. Have a great week. Mrs. M Abbott

Our No Hat—Play In The Shade policy is in force for Term 4. Children without a hat will play under the covered area during recess and lunch. Please make sure hats are labelled with your child’s name. Years 4-6 will complete the Tell Them From Me student survey this week. This survey gives us feedback on student life at our school, com-pared with other schools, and will be used in our planning of school targets for 2015 and beyond. Primary Swimming began last Friday for all children in Year 3-6, and will continue this week. Thankyou for returning permission notes prompt-ly. Children will need their swimmers, towel, hat and sunscreen. Children are not permitted to walk back to school with wet clothing, and must change back into school uniform before returning to school. Children may buy from the pool canteen after swimming but we ask for a $2 limit for each child. A final reminder that applications for Year 5 children for consideration for entry to a selective high school in 2016 are now open. These can be completed online and are required by mid-November. For more information please contact me at school, or visit www.schools.nsw.edu.au/shsplacement . As always, if you have anything to discuss, please contact me at school. Enjoy your week. Events to come:

Whole School Merit Assembly—Monday 3rd November

Kinder Orientation Morning—Thursday 6th November

School Production—27th November

Award Night—Tuesday 9th December

Mr. Joel Wilson—Assistant Principal Primary

Year 2/3: Hello everyone. Congratulations to all award winners at today’s Merit Assembly. It is wonderful to be able to celebrate the

achievements of our classmates and friends with the whole school. Also, well done to our Year 2 students for presenting their speeches last week. They did a fabulous job! Year 3 will be given their public speaking topics next week. In class this week, students will be revising earlier work on writing Procedures. In HSIE, we look at the local community and what services are on offer, and in Maths, Year 3 will continue their study of fractions and look at number patterns. This week’s news topic is ‘Local News’. Have a great week.

Mr. Ben Kline

Year 4/5: Hello and welcome everyone to Week 5! A huge congratulations to all the award winners at today’s Whole School Assembly!

It is a just reward for the effort you have put in so far this term. Last week we started our Primary Sport Swimming at the pool. Our first day was purely to get organised into swimming ability groups. However, it was disappointing to see some students who did not have swimmers or a permission note. The Local Council still requires students to pay a $3 entry fee regardless of whether your child swims or not. So make the most of the hot weather and encourage your child to jump in and swim! In the next two weeks we have important items to be completed. Firstly, Semester 2 diagnostic assessments for Spelling and Reading Comprehension. Secondly, the Year 4/5 Production Rehearsals are going to ramp up over the next few weeks. The students will be asking people at home for help to organise costumes (they do not need to be extravagant… please stick to the op shops such as Vinnies where you can always find a bargain!). And lastly, we have started our H.S.I.E projects on State and Federal Government in class. The students are encouraged to take their ‘grid’ home to work on it further. Have a great week everybody! Mr A.Honeysett

Year 5/6: Class assessments begin this week. They will be in spelling, grammar and writing. We are also continuing our work on the

school production throughout the week. Less than a month to go now! Year 5 maths are studying probability this week and we are revising our times tables daily with sing-a-longs!

Mr. Joel Wilson

Year 11 English (Advanced) Maths English (Standard) Ag

Friday Week 6—vis rep due, reading task 5 due Wednesday—Homework sheet due Monday—ORT Profiles Thursday 13th Nov Homework due

What’s Due?

Week 5

Yr Yr

K Oliver Rookyard Excellent Effort and progress in all

areas

K

K

Tiarnie Batty

Asha Russell

Working hard in all areas

Fantastic Spelling results

1/2 Riley Fagerstrom Excellent results in his Spelling test 1

2

William Bampton

Isabelle Stanford

Trying hard in his Spelling test

Excellent Spelling results

2/3 Harry Cluff Fantastic result in his Spelling as-

sessment

2

3

Meg Christensen

Alexander Patyuk

Being a wonderful leader in class

Continued enthusiasm in Maths

4/5 Lexi Gallagher Displaying leadership qualities this

week in class

4

5

Ella Hickson

Roy Watton

Excellent work in Maths groups

Working well with others in class

5/6 Gemma Stuart Continued patience and effort with

her “muppet”

5

6

Syd Kensit

Zac Green

Excellent attitude on the 3-6 excursion

Excellent attitude on the 3-6 excursion

K

2

Rylee Clifton

Alice Fergusson

Great effort and improvement

Great work in all areas

Birthday Wishes to 5th Nov Sam Bennetts Year 4

7th Nov Kaley Kerr Year 8

7th Nov Sean Kerr Year 8

7th Nov Paige Thomson Year 8

7th Nov Zachery Blatch Year 12

8th Nov Alexander Patyuk Year 2

9th Nov Chloe Woodward Year 1

9th Nov Tameka Martin Year 3

Wishing you a great day!

INFANTS/PRIMARY ACE Congratulations to the following

Infants/Primary students on reaching: LEVEL 1:

Kinder: Lochie Gale

Level 2:

Kinder: Hamish Stanford

Level 3:

Kinder: Rosie Quirk Year 4/5: Paul Sweeney

Level 4:

Kinder: Tiarnie Batty, Henry Farley, Fletcher Hogdon, Simone Roach, Charlie Stuart, Shyloh Watton Hogden Year 1/2: Riley Fagerstrom, Chelsea Green, Thomas

Martin, Jack Rawling Year 2/3: Tameka Martin

Year 4/5: Laura Moorhouse, Harry Hogden, Charna Williams, Millie Taylor

Coming to Dunedoo Central School

Kinder-Year 10

The Right Balance

Thursday 13th November 2014

1:30pm

Cost: $4 per person or

$10 per family

Young Driver Training Program

Friday 14th November and

Saturday 15th November 2014

9:00AM—4:00PM

MUDGEE AIRPORT

One Day

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“THE RIGHT BALANCE” - PERFORMANCE

(Juggling, Vaulting, Somersaulting, Tumbling, Gravity Defying

Acrobatic Feats & Hilarious Acrobatic Comedy)

FOR : KINDER TO YEAR 10

DATE: THURSDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER 2014 @ 1.30pm

WHERE: SCHOOL HALL

COST: $4.00 PER STUDENT OR $10.00 PER FAMILY (3 or more children)

I give permission for my child/ren _______________________________ to attend the “The

Right Balance” performance. Please return note and money by Monday, 10th November 2014.

I have enclosed the amount of $4.00 per student or $10.00 per family.

Signed: _________________________ Date: __________

Hello for Week 5. A big welcome to the Earlybirds and I look forward to meeting you on Thursday to talk uniforms. Don’t forget to come and collect any uniforms already ordered especially from last term. Thank you to Annette (twice), Kylie and Donna for your help last week. Jenny Farley

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Nola Annette Annette

Earlybirds

Our Earlybirds program is commencing Thursday 6th November, 2014 9:00am to 11.10am

And the following weeks: Thursday 13th November—1:30pm to 3:00pm Thursday 20th November—9:00am to 3:00pm Thursday 27th November—9:00am to 3:00pm

For further information, please contact the school

Monday 3 November

Wednesday 5 November

Food Technology

1.55pm - 5.00pm

Retail Services (VET)

9.25am - 11.30am

Information & Digital Technology (VET)

1.55pm - 4.00pm

Year Nine are Doing Fine Day! On Tuesday the 28th of October, the students from Year Nine, Mr Bush and Jess Ewin went to Dubbo to participate in the “Year Nine are Doing Fine Day” Aspire Program . DYLAN GREEN – I enjoyed the chemistry, performing arts and Indigenous study. TAYLOR HOLLAND- The things that I did on Tuesday were engineering, health services and Indigenous studies. The one that I liked the most was health services because I learnt what to do in the case of an accident. SARAH EKMAN-LARGE- I enjoyed the whole day, it was great to meet new friends. My favourite course was performing arts, it was a great day. ANTHONY ROACH- Things I did on Tuesday were business, heath service and indigenous studies. I liked health services the most because we practiced putting people’s arms in a plaster half-cast. MADDIE COX: I enjoyed the experience of the whole day, it was great. CONNOR FERGUSSON I enjoyed the day. HANNAH RHODES I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, I learnt new ideas in workshops and have learnt new things in areas where I never thought I would enjoy. It was an amazing day, thank you Mrs Fergus-son for organising it. We would like to thank Spuz for driving the bus to and from Dubbo. A huge thank you to Mr Bush and Jess Ewin for making the day so great. Thank you Mrs Fergusson for organising such a great day.

From: the Year 9 students.

The Abbott Family would like to thank Jade

Smith and the DCS Agriculture Show Team for

the impressive effort that was put into pre-

senting our cattle at the Upper Hunter Beef

Bonanza. Hours were spent during school, after

school and on weekends to ensure that the

cattle and Show Team were in top form. We

look forward to a continuing partnership with

the Agriculture department in years to come.

Rory Obst attended a deaf and

hearing impaired camp at the

Dubbo zoo. Students from across

Western NSW come together with

their teachers and parents/

carers to enjoy an action packed

ZooSnooz experience. This year

there were activities such as

giraffe feeding, a behind the

scenes tiger encounter and Aus-

tralian night walk for all camp-

ers. Picture below is Rory with

his Itinerant Hearing teacher

Gemma and Teena Besgrove.

BOOK FAIR

Thank you to everyone who attended our Book

Fair last week. We are happy to announce that

we received over $900 in sales and we now have

over $250 worth of new books in our library. We

thank you for your support.

Community Soap $4.00ea - proceeds going to DCS P&C Fundraising

(available from DCS front office, Dunedoo Rural Hardware, Milling Stuart & Co., Dunedoo

Newsagency, Swan Motel, Sullivan’s Delta Ag & Swan Surgery)

The Dunedoo Junior Rugby League and Netball wish to notify the public of its upcoming

AGM to be held on Monday 10th Nov 7pm at the Dunedoo Sports Club. All positions de-

clared vacant. Please come along

Dunedoo Sporting Awards

Don’t forget to put in your nomination for the 2014 Dunedoo Sporting Awards!!

Nominations close this Friday 7th November at 5pm. Forms and Information can be obtained by emailing

Kylie Rose via krose22@bigpond.com. Please add as much information as possible to your nomination to

ensure a fair judging process.

Round 4 5th November

6.00pm Barbarians v Can’t Touch This Ethan Adams Blake Taufa

Sammy’s Boys v In Touch Dale Hogden Chad Stanford

6.45pm Chad’s Bakery / DRH v Wasted Potential Mark Fitzgerald Brad Squire Beau Boyd

Sullivans v Dan’s Mowing Rach Hogden Codi Page Elle Lane

7:30pm Sammy’s Boys v Can’t Touch This Mitch Darlington Daniel Milsom Brett Sawyer

This week our season starts off with training to start on Monday with Jess Ewin from 3:30 to 4pm for the Infants, Primary 4 to 5 and Second-ary 5 to 6. Lucy Besgrove will be doing Wednesdays , the same times as above. If you are interested in doing Tuesday training please let one of the

committee members know. You must be registered to join Swimming Club. If you have any problems please contact Mel Bampton. You will also need to have a season ticket which can be purchased from the pool or the Westpac Bank, before you can do Swimming Club. Time trials will start this Thursday at 6pm. Remember to put your name down on the board which will be with Hazel at the canteen. Congratulations to Ailsa Brydon who won the family season ticket. UPCOMING CARNIVALS:: 15/11/14 Gulargambone. Entries to be in by 6th Nov. 16/11/14 Narromine. Entries to be in by 4th Nov. 23/11/14 Coonamble. Entries to be in by 13th Nov. 30/11/14 Mudgee Indoor. Entries to be in by 21st Nov. PLEASE CONTACT MEL BAMPTON REGARDING ENTRIES. Teena Besgrove

Expressions of Interest -

1st

Year Apprentice Chef Certificate III

A great opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and moti-

vated person to commence as an Apprentice Chef with a

local Restaurant. The successful candidate will have a

keen interest in pursuing a career in the Hospitality in-

dustry.

Essential Criteria

- Willingness and commitment to undertake and complete for-

mal training in this vocation

- Demonstrate enthusiasm and motivation with a genuine pas-

sion for the hospitality industry

- The ability to listen and follow instructions and ask for help

when necessary

- The desire to make a positive contribution to the workplace

- The ability to work as part of a team

- The ability to work under pressure

- Ability and commitment to work shifts as required by the ros-

ter

- Ability to meet the required grooming standards

If you have a passion for food, please contact us to apply.

For those interested in this position, please contact:

Rebecca Fernandez on 63531627

Or visit our website at www.skillset.com.au

Closing Date: Friday 28th November 2014

Horticulture Traineeship

Upper Blue Mountains

Certificate III

We have an exciting opportunity for a local person to un-

dertake a full-time 12 month traineeship with a landscap-

ing business. The successful candidate will be studying

Certificate III in Horticulture.

Essential Requirements

- Reliable

- Team Player

- Physically fit with motivation

- Good communication skills

- Strong desire to learn

- Driver’s license

- Year 10 school certificate minimum

For those interested in this position, please contact:

Rebecca Fernandez on 63531627

Or visit our website at www.skillset.com.au

Closing Date: Friday 14th November 2014

Tunes

On

The P

RESEN

TS

Saturday 8th November

2pm

BYO Chairs, Blanket & Nibblies

Free Entry

Strictly NO alcohol to be

Bring your family, grab your friends. Come and enjoy a

drink on the turf listening to great local talent!

Fortune 88 Chinese Restaurant

$10 Dinner Box Take-away Available from 5.30pm

Line-Up

2pm Dunedoo Central School Bands

2.45 pm Coolah Central School Bands

3.30 pm Lucy & Bez

4 pm Mel & Whack

5pm Rob Lennon, Kyle Wells & mates

5.30-7pm Mel & Whack

Wednesday 26th November

Matinee 1:00 p.m.

Thursday 27th November

Evening Performance 6:30 p.m.