Dundurrabin Public School Newsletter Term 2, Week 10 2024

Principal's Message

Welcome to week 10- our final week for term 2.

Last week we farewelled Robyn Coombes, our long-term School Learning Support Officer. During this time of sadness, we send our sincere condolences to Robyn's family and our community. She was certainly valued for her contributions to our school and the wider community. Robyn's care for our students and support of our staff was second to none. It was our pleasure to spend Saturday afternoon with Robyn's family and friends to celebrate her life and to share fond memories together.

K-2 Change of Routine

Mrs Sangster will commence an early holiday this week, returning in week 2 of next term.  Our K-2 class will have Mr Williamson and Miss Jones as their teachers during this time. Enjoy your holiday Mrs Sangster!

End of term celebrations

We certainly have a busy week planned to finish the term. Please join us on Tuesday afternoon from 2pm for our end of term assembly and sports match between parents and students. On Wednesday we are heading to Dorrigo High School for our annual NAIDOC on the Plateau event. We will enjoy a day of cultural activities including- sand art, dance, music, damper cooking, language lessons, traditional games and bush tucker. To finish the week, we'll be preparing a NAIDOC themed lunch at school on Friday. Katherine has prepared a tantalising menu for us to share. 

Best wishes for an enjoyable holiday break. 

Leah Keough

Every Day Matters

Attendance Matters

Please remember to explain all days away from school. This can be done in person, by phoning the school or sending a text to the school mobile: 0411 939 188.

Attendance Reminder-Late Arrivals & Early Departures

If your child/ren arrive late to school in the morning, please remember to sign them in the register book in the office. Alternatively, you can let a staff member know the reason to why they are late, and we will update the roll. This also applies for early departures from school in the afternoon. All partial absences must be explained- the same as for a whole day absence. Thank you.

Holiday Break

This Friday 5 July is the last day of term 2. Staff will return om Monday 22 July for a School Development Day. Students will return on Tuesday 23 July 2024.

We hope all families have a relaxed and safe holiday break. Stay well and healthy and we will see you all back at school in term 3.

What's on for Term 2 & Term 3

• Tuesday 2 July - Term 2 Assembly & Adults V Students Sport Game - 2pm  
• Wednesday 3 July - NAIDOC on the Plateau - Dorrigo High School

Term 3

• Monday 22 July - Staff Development Day
• Tuesday 23 July - Students Return for Term 3
• Wednesday 24 July - Gubi Gabun Playgroup - 10am to 12noon -Dundurrabin PS
• Friday 26 July - District Athletic Carnival - Urunga
• Friday 26 July - Schools Tree Day
• Wednesday 31 July - Kindergarten Transition - 9am to 12noon
• Tuesday 6 August - Combined Small Schools Science Day - Dundurrabin PS
• Thursday 8 August - Crazy Hair Day Fundraiser
• Wednesday 7 August - Gubi Gabun Playgroup - 10am to 12noon -Dundurrabin PS
• Wednesday 14 August - Kindergarten Transition - 9am to 12noon
• Tuesday 20 August - Book Week Parade -"Reading is Magic" - 9.15am
• Wednesday 21 August - Gubi Gabun Playgroup - 10am to 12noon -Dundurrabin PS
• Thursday 22 August - League Tag Gala Day - Urunga 
• Wednesday 28 August - Kindergarten Transition - 9am to 12noon
• Wednesday 4 September - Gubi Gabun Playgroup - 10am to 12noon -Dundurrabin PS
• Wednesday 11 September - Kindergarten Transition - 9am to 12noon
• Monday 16 September to Friday 20 September - Yr 5 & 6 Lake Ainsworth Excursion
• Wednesday 25 September - Kindergarten Transition - 9am to 12noon
  

Consent Notes to be Returned

• Change of Contacts and Details Forms - Please return tomorrow
• District Athletic carnival Consent Note - Being sent home shortly
• Part or Full Payments for Lake Ainsworth Excursion - Year 5 & 6 Students only

Fortnightly Awards

Term 2 - Week 10

K - 2 Class

Amber Baff for her contributions during music lessons.

 3-6 Class

Hunter McGuire for keeping great rhythm on the marimba.

Term 2 Assembly & Adults V Students Sport Today

Please join us for our Term 2 Assembly today, Tuesday 2 July at 2pm. Parents and friends are invited to stay on after the assembly for a student V parent sports game of Beat the Base- weather permitting.

NAIDOC Day on the Plateau - Wednesday Tomorrow

All school students on the Plateau will be participating in NAIDOC celebrations at Dorrigo High School tomorrow, Wednesday 3 July.

The NAIDOC 2024 theme is "Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud". This year's theme celebrates the unyielding spirit of our communities and invites all to stand in solidarity.

We will catch the town bus to Dorrigo High School and home from Dorrigo High School in the afternoon. The cost of the bus will be $1.00 per student. There will be no cost for the activities on the day.

Students who normally catch Wykes bus will need to catch the High School bus run and return home on the High School bus run. All others students will need to be at Tyringham Store at 7.45am ready to board the town bus and be collected at the Tyringham Store at 3.50pm.

Students will need to wear full school uniform (sport shirt), appropriate footwear, hat and bring water bottles, packed recess and lunch. There will be no food available on the day.

District Athletics Carnival

On Thursday 28 June, eight Dundurrabin students attended the Bellinger Valley Small Schools Athletics Carnival at Bellingen High School. All students competed in track and field events with a great attitude, exhibiting outstanding sportsmanship. The following students placed in their events:

Dundurrabin PP6 Relay Team (Jaxon Bennett, Bailey Freeman, Jack Duckett and Odessa Budd)- 1st place.

Nikita Cheers-
1st 11 Years Girls 200m
1st  11 Years Girls Long Jump
1st  11 Years Girls Shot Put
1st  11 Years Girls Discus

Jaxon Bennett-
1st  11 Years Boys Long Jump
3rd  11 Years Boys 200m
3rd  11 Years Boys 100m

Bailey Freeman-
2nd  11 Years Boys 800m

Odessa Budd-
1st 8 Years Girls 100m

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden News

Week 8

In the garden, we only had a short session but managed to water, harvest produce and do an amazing job cleaning up the garden shed. We have some very tidy and organised children.

We harvested shallots, snow peas, silverbeet of varying colours, garlic chives, celery sticks and carrots.

In the kitchen we cooked vegetable sushi, rice paper rolls, choko fritters (thanks Laz), ricotta and feta mini scrolls and soft and fluffy pumpkin pie cookies, which smelled and tasted like fresh cinnamon donuts.

We have attached the recipe because they were so good! We cooked and mashed our own pumpkin from the garden .

Cooking Award was very hard to choose again this week, but Congratulations to Tom Duckett in all aspects of the kitchen garden program. You are a star!

Week 9

In cooking we celebrated the life Robyn Coombes, and all of her contributions to our school community. She always loved helping with our Kitchen Garden Program, and was never seen without a big cup of tea and a snack. So today, we cooked a high tea in her honour. We made a variety of little sandwiches with fillings such as cucumber, egg and lettuce, and cheese and tomato, a sour cream dip with veggies to dip, and we finished up with an array of sweets, brownies, scones with jam and cream, raspberry and lemon muffins, and a lemon and rhubarb (pink!) cordial. Robyn, you will be greatly missed by everyone.

We harvested lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, rhubarb, eggs, lemons, parsley, chives, garlic chives and used some home grown raspberries from the freezer. 

In the garden we checked the rain gauge, fed the chooks, started trimming the hydrangeas, harvested lemons and picked the rest of the oranges before the possum consumed the lot!

Cooking Award: This week, our two cooking awards (which were extremely difficult to pick!) go to Henry and Charlie. Henry Tyler for his persistence and team contributions, and Charlie for his incredible sandwich making and eating skills.

Preschool Afternoon

What a turn out we had. It was great to see so many happy faces! We welcomed Angus, Chase, Lucy, Natasha, Tahn and Tyler to our last preschool afternoon of the term. We had a magical afternoon listening to 'The Magic Hat', predicting what will happen next, then getting the wiggles out with Danny Go before heading to the COLA for some more magical fun. Everyone enjoyed doing some magical drawing with bleach and tissue paper, creating colourful weavings and free drawing. Once we finished the art activities, we made some amazing towers, train tracks and Duplo creations.

This was our last school run Preschoolers afternoon. Next term we welcome Gubi Gabun who will be here at school to run playgroup every second Wednesday throughout Term 3 and Term 4. Please see the brochure further down the newsletter for these dates.

Students Writing & Artwork

While you are here for Assembly today, please drop into the office foyer and check out the writing and artworks on display. They look fantastic! 

Gumbaynggirr Language Learning

In Lesley's language lessons we are learning about places and country names and what the colours of the Aboriginal flag represent.

P&C Special Lunch Day - Thank you

A big thank you to Luk, Liying and Cassie for cooking us another wonderful special lunch day last week. It was very yummy and enjoyed by all. 

2025 Kindergarten Transition Program

We will be starting our kindergarten transition program next term to welcome our 2025 Kindergarten students to our wonderful school. 

Gubi Gabun Playgroup at Dundurrabin PS

Welcome Gubi Gabun-Early Childhood Playgroup

Term 3 will see fortnightly Gubi Gabun play sessions held right here at Dundurrabin Public School. How exciting! Gubi Gabun is a mobile service providing quality early childhood educational play sessions for children and their families. All preschool children are welcome to attend. Please see the flyer below for play dates. 

Combined Schools Science Day

Dundurrabin PS will be hosting a combined schools Science Day here on Tuesday 6 August (Week 3) next term. 

A lunch order form is being sent home with your students today and will need to be returned back to school by Monday 29 July.

More information next newsletter.

Years 5 & 6 - Lake Ainsworth Excursion

Some of our Year 5 & 6 students will be joining with Dorrigo Public School for an excursion to Lake Ainsworth from September 16 to September 20, 2024 (Week 9 - Term 3).

The total cost of the excursion is $646.00 per student. The school will contribute $100 towards the cost per student, reducing the remaining cost to $546.00 per student.

Raffle tickets will be sent home this week with children attending the excursion. Tickets can be sold to help raise money to fund the excursion. Please do not lose these as they will need to be returned to school sold or unsold. The money your child raises will be deducted from their cost of the excursion. This is a great opportunity to help fund the excursion as well as the chance to win some fantastic prizes.

Families may wish to make weekly payment contributions towards the excursion as suits. Please remember the full cost of the excursion must be paid by Monday 9 September.  More information and notes next term.

Book Week Parade - Term 3

We will be holding our Book Week Parade on Tuesday 20 August- week 5 next term.  This year's Book week theme is "Reading is Magic". Book parade - 9:15am. Parents and friends are invited to attend.

Our school theme this year is 'Harry Potter'. The school will be known as Hogwarts for the day, and we invite students to dress as a Harry Potter character. Dumbledore looks forward to welcoming you all!

School Reminders

Updated Details Form

An updated details form was sent home previously. It is important to have accurate contact details in case of accidents, evacuations and possible temporary school closures. To ensure our contact details for each family are correct, we are requesting each family provide up to date contact details. If your phone number and email have changed, please indicate that on the form. We would also like to know if any of your child/rens medical details / health conditions have changed as well as dietary requirements or preferences for our SAKG cooking. If you have no detail changes, please still return the form with your child/rens name written on it and stating “No Changes”. Please return them this week. A big thank you to our families that returned them by the due date, it is appreciated and makes our job easier. 

2024 Learning Contributions

Learning Contributions for 2024 remain the same

• Voluntary School Contribution - $30.00 for the costs of student items provided by our school
• SAKG Program Fees - $40.00. This goes towards our SAKG program which has ongoing costs each week, such as cooking ingredients for our weekly lunch meal, seeds and seedlings.

A statement of account is being sent home today with your child/ren. Thank you to those families who have already paid.

Share Our Space

Our school is participating in Share Our Space over the coming school holidays. Through the program, we are opening up our playground and oval for the whole community to enjoy. During the school holidays, the gates will be opened from Saturday 6 July to Sunday 21 July 2024 from 8am to 5pm. Children will need to be under adult supervision and responsibility. 

P&C News and Community News

P&C Meeting - Monday 5 August

Our next P&C meeting will be Monday 5 August at 4pm. It would be nice to have as many people as possible attend. This is a wonderful opportunity to find out about and get involved with what is happening within the school. Please come along, share a cuppa and enjoy a relaxed and friendly gathering. We’d love to see more faces for new ideas and support. 

P&C Firewood Raffle

The P&C are having a firewood raffle this term. Tickets have been sent home already. Tickets are $1.00 each. All tickets and money will need to be back at school by Monday 1 July. The raffle will be drawn on Thursday 4 July at school.

P&C Meat Raffles at Ebor Hotel

Below are dates that our P&C are holding our Meat Raffles at Ebor Hotel on Thursday evenings -

• 4 July
• 1 August
• 26 September
• 24 October
• 21 November
• 19 December

Tickets available at Tyringham shop or phone Leonie Pankhurst on 0413 158 466

Yoga & Relaxation Classes with Shakti

Tuesdays - 4.00pm to 5.15pm at Dundurrabin Public School

Thursdays - 10am to 11.15am at Dorrigo Uniting Church Hall Myrtle St

Please Book:  0448 879 642 or E:  shakti.mudra@gmail.com