Dundurrabin Public School Newsletter Term 4, Week 10 2024

Principal's Message

Welcome to the final week of school for 2024. 

We held our end of year awards celebration last Friday, 13 December where we welcomed our families, friends and the following special guests-

• Barry Hicks- Blicks Community Inc.
• Tammy Cameron- Principal Dorrigo High School
• Peg Parbery- Dorrigo Country Women's Association
• Digger Bill Baggett- Dorrigo RSL Sub-branch and Dorrigo Rotary Club

We would like to acknowledge and thank the following community organisations for their award donations:

• Dundurrabin Public School P&C Association
• Blicks Community Inc. 
• Dorrigo Rotary Club
• Dorrigo RSL Sub Branch
• Dorrigo Country Women’s Association
• Clarence Valley Council

A list of award recipients is included further in the newsletter. Congratulations to all students on another wonderful year of personal growth and success. 

Wishing all families a safe and relaxing Christmas break. We look forward to another wonderful year together in 2025.

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.

What's on for Term 4

• Tuesday 17 December - Clean Up and Water Fun Day & Special BBQ Lunch Order
• Wednesday 18 December - End of Year Excursion "Big Day Out" & last day of Term 4 
  

What's on for Term 1 - 2025

• Friday 31 January to Wednesday 5 February - School Development Days
• Thursday 6 February - Students Return to School for 2025
• Tuesday 11 February - Small School Swimming Carnival - Bellingen Pool
• Monday 17 February - AGM & PC Meeting - 4.00pm

Consent Notes to be Returned

• Big Day Out Excursion Money Due - $15.00 per student

2024 Presentation Assembly

Thank you for joining us for our Presentation Assembly last week. It was an excellent opportunity for us to come together to finish off our 2024 school year and to celebrate the achievements of our students and school.

Congratulations to all students on their achievement of personal learning goals and a wonderful year of learning together.

Recipients of sponsored awards:

Blicks Community Inc. Chess Champion - Henry Tyler
Dorrigo RSL Sub-branch Application and Effort: Nikita Cheers
Dorrigo Rotary Achievement: Flo Budd
Premier's Sporting Challenge Medal: Nikita Cheers
Ian Braid Memorial Award: Jack Duckett
Dorrigo CWA Kitchen Garden Award: Hunter McGuire                                                                                                          Clarence Valley Council Award for Improvement in Literacy - Jaxon Bennett                                                                  Attendance certificates- Tom Duckett, Amber Baff and Tyson Talbot.

We welcomed our 2025 School Captains- Jaxon Bennett, Bailey Freeman, Hunter McGuire and Henry Tyler into their leadership roles.

Prize Winners - Bailey and Carter - Big Banana Waterpark family pass and Beth - Koala Zoo Pass at Port Macquarie.

Year K - 2 "Little Red Riding Hood" 

Year 3-6 "Flattica" 

Student growth and achievement

Every year it is so fulfilling to look back at student samples from the beginning of the year compared to the work we are completing now and marvel over how much our students have grown!

One example of this comes from our students' writing books, where we can see immense growth and achievement in the use of vocabulary, sentence structure, and grammar conventions. 

Below we have included some photos of students' writing from the beginning of the year compared to the end. 

Please be mindful this comes from their draft writing books and is unpublished work.

Let's celebrate the growth!

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Farewell Year 6

This week we say goodbye to Nikita our Year 6 student.

It has been a pleasure to watch you grow from a tiny Kindergarten student to a bubbly Year 6 student. We will miss you and wish you all the best as you venture onto high school next year.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden News

Week 8

It was a very warm Friday in week 8, so we ran two different gardening activities. One was inside working on our fruit and vegetable themed painted vase. The other was creating a no dig potato patch. The children who braved the heat were exceedingly hard working, barrowing compost, shovelling, watering and planting. We can't wait to see how they grow.

We harvested eggs, strawberries, garlic chives, parsley, chives, thyme, basil, shallots and lettuce.

In the kitchen, for our very last cooking lesson for the year, we made hand rolled and cut fettucine, a caramelised onion and tomato sauce with fresh herbs and cheese on top, buttery herb and garlic knots, a fresh lettuce salad topped with our Dorrigo Show First prize winning mayonnaise, and creamy vanilla rice pudding, topped with mango, pineapple and strawberries. It was a delicious lunch, and all students should be proud of their accomplishments in the kitchen this year. Have a safe and happy holiday!

This week the cooking award goes to Henry Tyler, for being a star student in all aspects of cooking. Congratulations!

Tennis

Last week for our final sport session we welcomed Ken form the Rally as One Tennis initiative to our school for a tennis lesson.

Tennis NSW, in partnership with the Australian Tennis Foundation has designed the Rally as One initiative, to support communities devastated by natural disasters with free school visits, funding for ongoing schools’ tennis programs and local community tennis events.

We are thankful for this special opportunity and were pleased to show Ken our tennis skills. 

Special Lunch Thank you

A big thank you to everyone who gave up their time to come into school to prepare and cook to provided the students and staff with yummy lunch orders throughout the year.  You are truly appreciated.  Thank you!

Last Day of Term

Wednesday 18 December is the last day of school for 2024 for students.

This will be our Big Day Out Excursion to Nambucca Heads.

See below for the more details. 

Big Day Out Excursion

Our Big Day Out excursion is happening this Wednesday 18 December to Nambucca Heads. We will visit Nambucca Cinema to watch the PG rated movie "Moana 2", followed by a hot chips lunch and play time at Bellwood Park.

There will be a reduced cost for this excursion, only $15.00 per student, thanks to the P&C and the School. 

We will travel there and back on Wykes bus. We will need to leave from the Tyringham Store at 8.00am sharp and will return to the Store by 3.45pm.

Thank you to everyone for returning their consents promptly. If you have not yet paid for this excursion, please do so now.

Small Schools Swimming Carnival – Tuesday 11 February, 2025.

The Small Schools Swimming Carnival will be held on Tuesday 11 February, 2025, at Bellingen Pool commencing at 9.15am and finishing approximately 2pm.

Only students from 8 years of age and above and are capable of swimming 25 metres are eligible to compete.
School will run as normal for students not attending.

Your support will be necessary for the Swimming Carnival by providing parental transport. Mrs Keough will be attending the carnival with participating students. Students and spectators must pay the $3.50 entry fee to the pool on the day.

If you are unable to transport your child/ren to the carnival, please organise someone else and please notify the
school of your decision on the permission note.

Please see Mrs Keough for a permission note if your child is going to attend.

Thank you - Dorrigo Plateau News

Thank you to Dorrigo Plateau News for publishing news items from our school on the online website throughout the year. They do this at no cost to the school and it is wonderful to read and see photographs all about our school and student achievements each fortnight.

End of Year Reminders

Year 6 Library Books to be Returned
Year 6 students are reminded to return any library books and bags they may have at home.

Holiday Readers
If families wish to organise home readers for the school holidays, please contact your child’s teacher.

2024 Learning Contributions

Outstanding Amounts for Students

Invoices are being sent home again today. If you have an invoice with an outstanding amount owing for your child/ren, please pay it promptly by the end of this week. So that all finances for 2024 can be finalised.

If you have P&C lunch order money owing still, please also pay it this week.

• 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. (SAKG Fees are not voluntary)
• Voluntary School Contribution - $30.00 for the costs of student items provided by our school

Thank you to those families who have already paid.

P&C News and Community News

AGM & P&C Meeting

Notice of AGM Meeting for Dundurrabin Public School P&C – Monday 17 February - 4pm
Our P&C AGM will be held next year on Monday 17 February at 4pm. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. All positions Vacant. Membership costs $2 and will need to be paid before the AGM to allow you to vote.

This will be followed by our first P&C Meeting for 2025. We would like 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 friendly gathering.

Dundurrabin P&C Christmas Raffle

Congratulations to our raffle winners -:

Sally Farrugia who won the homemade Christmas pudding by Di Freeman

Darren Wykes who won the Christmas cake donated by the Keough family

Isabella Jones who won the Christmas bundle donated by Cassie Sharman - CM Country Outfitters

Jamie Rowerth who won the bottle of Christmas cheer donated by Alice McLennan - Tyringham Store

P&C Meat Raffles at Ebor Hotel

Below is the remaining 2024 date that our P&C are holding our Meat Raffles at Ebor Hotel on Thursday evenings 

• 19 December

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