7th August 2018

DANDENONG NORTH

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Calendar of Events

School Website: www.dandenongnorthps.vic.edu.au

AUGUST 2018

24th — Gala Day 3

29th— Grade 3 Students excursion to the National Gallery of Victoria

SEPTEMBER 2018

4th - Book Parade 9:30am –11am

5tth— District Athletics

11th—Pizza Lunch

20th— Division Athletics

21st— END OF TERM 3

I will do all that I can to make sure that Dandenong North Primary School remains a great school.

I will try my hardest to fol-low the 4Cs to keep our school a safe and happy place.

I promise to treat others as I would like to be treated.

News From the North

45 Years Service For Miss Thomas In this newsletter we are celebrat-ing a wonderful milestone that has been achieved by one of our long standing staff members. Miss Elizabeth Thomas has achieved 45 years of service to education in Victoria! What an achievement!!

Miss Thomas began her career in 1973 when she studied at Bur-wood Teachers College. She then moved onto further study at Monash University and then onto the State College of Victoria in Burwood.

Miss Thomas has impacted an enormous amount on children’s lives during this career spanning 45 years, which began with her first position at Essex Heights Pri-mary School - which she stayed at for nine years, before moving to Canterbury PS for one year. Her next position was at Dorset PS - where she stayed for 17 years be-fore moving to DNPS in 2002.

Over the course of her career, Miss Thomas has taught at every primary school year level and has

SRC News - Pyjama Day

The SRC are holding the annual Whole School Pyjama Day on Wednesday 22nd August!

This is an opportunity to come to school dressed in your pyjamas, wearing your slippers and carrying your favourite teddy.

Prizes will be awarded to students in each class for the best slippers and bedtime toy.

The SRC ask that you bring along a gold coin in order to participate in this event - which will go to charity.

So come dressed in your pyja-mas on the 22nd August.

been head of both Junior and Senior departments.

Miss Thomas has always had a passion for literacy and has found so much joy in her cur-rent position of developing and leading the Reading Interven-tion Program.

She still has a love of teaching and believes that she can make a significant difference to the lives of the students that enter the Reading Intervention Pro-gram.

Congratulations, Miss Thomas!

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Yesterday and again to-day, the Prep children have been visiting the Kew Traffic School as part of their theme “Our Com-munity”.

The Traffic School is a purpose built educational setting for students to visit and learn about safety.

This village is run by edu-cators that focus on stu-dent safety at home, on the street and in the communi-ty.

While at the Traffic School, children learn about how to safely cross the road using traffic lights and to use the chil-dren’s crossing that is manned by a crossing su-pervisor.

The prep children had the opportunity to ride around the village watching out for traffic sig-nals and pedestrians.

On Tuesday the 24th of July a huge milestone was reached by our Prep students as they celebrated their 100th day of school! On this special day, we had the chance to stop and look back at how far our students have come in their first 100 days of learning at school!

Miss Kilpady and Miss McLaughlin surprised us by dressing up as their 100 year old selves and were almost unrecognisable, definitely attracting some strange looks and providing a few good laughs!

The 100th day of school al-lowed the perfect opportunity to have fun with the number 100. Stu-dents were treat-ed to a variety of activities where they had to put

on their thinking caps and practise their mathematical skills!

To finish off a wonderful day all the preps celebrat-ed together by ro-tating through some exciting ac-tivities exploring the number 100 with their peers!

We are all so proud of what our students have achieved in the last 100 days and can't wait to see what's in store for the rest of the year!

100 Days of School For Our Prep Students

Preps Visit Traffic School

They were also taught about the importance of wearing seatbelts when in cars and buses.

The children had a wonderful time and it was a truly enjoyable experience for our children and one that will be remembered.

Thank you to Miss Howell for organising this wonderful excursion for all of our prep students.

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Years 1 Excursion to Healesville Sanctuary

Special Awards

Prep H - Rafay 4FM - Hoda 5D - Maysam 6H - Tina

Prep A - Iopu 4H - Neloofar 5F - Zara 6L - Puvi

Prep JM - Awa 4K - Shathusaa 5H - Prachi 6V - Elijah

Prep N - Rayyan 4L - Jackson 5L - Asra ICT - Freshta (6D)

Prep O - Donia 4N - Luka 5WD - Maryam ICT - Sana (5WD)

A Recount of the excursion from 1W (with help from Linda): On Tuesday 31st July, the bus took us to Healesville Sanctuary. We have been learning all about the different kinds of Australian ani-mals. When we arrived, we hopped off the bus and ate our delicious lunch. First, we played at the ani-mal hospital. We got to dress up as vets and use the stethoscope to check how the animals were feel-ing. Next, we watched the ‘Spirits of the Sky’ show, seeing all the birds of prey was amazing. Ma-gra, the wedged-tail eagle swooped over our heads and Mil-lie the Barking Owl was silent as she glided through the air. We even got to feed some colourful parakeets. The best part of our day was when we got to meet all the different Australian animals:

The noisy, white pelicans The fluffy, sleepy koalas The bouncy, brown kangaroos.

Finally, after an exciting day exploring Healesville Sanctuary, it was time to go home. We would like to say a big thank you to all the staff who came with us and helped us have such a great day out.

Australian Animal Poem – By 1O and 1S:

The Alligator The frightening alligator lives in the muddy river, waiting for its food. Its beady eyes are as shiny as a diamond. Its dangerous teeth are as sharp as a knife. Crawling on its stumpy legs, it slides into the wa-ter. Its spiky tail curves like a snake's body. The alligator waits for his friend to play.

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Youth Empowerment Conference

Sports News

On Wednesday 1st of August, the School Captains’ Leadership Team walked to the Drum Theatre in Dandenong to attend the 3rd Annual Youth Em-powerment Conference. Both Mr Mackay and Miss Sobia attended with the children. The conference was organised and run by students from Wooranna Park Primary School and was attended by 12 other Dandenong schools. The pur-pose of the con-ference was to inspire and moti-vate young lead-ers within the region, to think big. There were 10 incredible speakers who

shared their experiences, stories and advice on how they achieved their goals and became who they are today.

Students from DNPS also participated in the ex-clusive SpecSavers competition where they had to write a creative piece about “Which of the 5 sens-es is the most important and why?” and the win-ners were announced at the end of the Conference. Out of the 100 Entries, there were 10 student win-ners and this included 3 students from DNPS! Well done to the students who submitted an entry, and congratulations to the winning students, Nata-lin (6L) in the Top 3, Sara (6D) and Hanin (6D) in the Top 10 - their prize is the opportunity to take a tour around the Headquarters of Specsavers.

What an inspiring and empowering day for the School Captains’ Leadership Team!

Soccer On the 27th of the July the Boys Soccer team trav-elled to Greaves Reserve to play in the Division Soccer Finals. After our first place win at the District Champion-ship, our hopes were high. They stayed that way after the first game where we thrashed Lighthouse College 6-0! Next match we were up against Mount Athol who were a well-structured team - however we were too good for them, winning 3-1. Meaning that we progressed to the Regional Finals which were held last Monday. At these Regional Finals, we soon realised that it was a whole different story! The other players were taller, harder, faster and stronger! It gave us all a real understanding about the improvements we needed to make as a team but also as individual players. Our first game against Timbarra was tough! We were very unlucky with chances so the game ended in a draw 0-0. Our second game against Hampton PS was a loss. This team were the

eventual winners of the whole competition and they deserved it as their team was outstanding! A motivational speech from Mr Domogala saw us win our last game 3-0 against Woodleigh Junior. We placed 3rd out of 8 schools. We thank Mr Do-mogala for teaching us the skills for this competi-tion. By Rahul and Daniel – 6D

Netball

The Girls Netball team participated in the District Finals, competing against two other District win-ners. DNPS first played against the Springvale District winner and won 5 to10, then we played Noble Park District winning 4 to12. Winning both games made Dan-denong North the over-all winners! This Thursday the girls will be advancing to the Regional Finals which are being held in Pa-kenham. We congratulate the girls and wish them all the very best at this next level. Thanks to Miss Fisher for coaching and sup-porting the team.