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Dunedoo Central School P.O. Box 45, Digilah Street
DUNEDOO NSW 2844
T: 02 6375 1489
F: 02 6375 1152
24th August 2020 WEEK 6 E: dunedoo-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au
W: dunedoo-c.schools@nsw.edu.au
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
REGARDING COVID-19 TESTING
WEEK 6: FOR STUDENTS
Monday 24th August
Merit Assembly
ICAS Digital Technologies
PLEASE NOTIFY THE SCHOOL IF YOU RE-
Thursday 27th August
Year 12 IT Major Work Due CEIVE A POSITIVE RESULT for COVID-19.
ICAS English
WEEK 7: Students are still required to isolate at home until
Monday 31st August a NEGATIVE result is received and their symp-
Year 12 Textiles and Design Major Work Due toms have eased.
Thursday 3rd September
Life Education Van K - 6
Subject Selection Meeting Year 8 into Year 9, 5.30pm
This is a Dept. of Education requirement
Friday 4th September and we appreciate your understanding
Life Education Van K - 6 with this matter.
Jersey Day (No donation required)
WEEK 9:
Thursday 17th September Don’t forget!! We have a
Year 10 Mock Interviews with Skillset, 10am Dunedoo Central School
P & C Meeting 7pm, ALL WELCOME Careers Website
Click on the link
WEEK 10: https://dunedoocentralcareers.com/
Friday 25th September
Yr 10, 11 &12 students and parents,
Year 12 Muck Up Day
Last Day of Term 3— Woohoo—! Have you joined our Facebook Page???
Dunedoo Central School Careers
Attitude Conduct Excellence
Congratulations to the following Infants & Primary student/s for reaching:
LEVEL 3:
Kindergarten: Seanna Brown, Jed Gallagher
Year 5 & 6: Hugh Hogden, Oliver Rookyard
DCS is introducing our school app called Skool Loop.
This new app will enable us to communicate important dates
and reminders with our school community, as well as record
absentees easily.
You will be automatically subscribed to the General group
but you may customise your settings to either ‘Infants/
Primary” or “Secondary” groups to only receive the respective
notifications.
The app will have our newsletters, notices, important dates
and teacher contact information.
Setting Up Skool Loop—Step by step guide
1. Find “Skool Loop” in your app store and download.
2. Press “Select your schools”.
3. Select “Australia”.
4. Select “New South Wales”.
5. Select “Dunedoo Central School”.
6. A tick will appear, press “Select”
7. You will be returned to the start up page, press the orange “choose” button.
8. Press “Settings” on the DCS home screen.
9. Select “subscribe to groups”, select “infants/primary” and/or “secondary” to ensure you re-
ceive relevant notices.
10. Ensure “General” remains ticked along with your selection and press “Done”.
11. Arrow back to the home screen and your setup is complete!
… has been
Please contact the Front Office to advise postponed until
bank account details for full refund.
further notice.
FOOD TECHNOLOGY
FEES
Wonderful Manners Please pay any outstanding fees as
Voucher Winner soon as possible.
Shayla Sawyers Payments can be made online on
our website:
Well Done! Click on the link -
Make a Payment
Hello and welcome to Week 6,
No specials this week, just the normal At the top of the page and follow
canteen menu. Have a nice week. the prompts
Sherri
Our Lego Masters in action
last week
Congratulations to Lochlan Gale, Hamish Stanford, Balin Davis
and Max Currie. They will enjoy some hot chips on Thursday at
lunch as a LEGO Masters team.
Welcome to Week 6 Term 3,
National Science Week - Congratulations to Mrs Georgia Shephard and the Primary Staff on a
fantastic Science Week celebration last week. The K—6 students all engaged in fun activities
based around scientific themes.
Skool Loop App - Have you downloaded the free Skool Loop App yet? This is anoth-
er great way for parents to stay informed about school dates and
events; read our school Newsletter, as well as a convenient way
to notify school about student absences. Instructions on how to
download this App are in this newsletter.
Check-in Assessment - This week students from Years 5 and 9 will complete an
online reading and numeracy assessment. This will provide the school with valuable
information, particularly this year when students have not completed NAPLAN. The
Check-in assessment can supplement existing school practices to identify how stu-
dents are performing in literacy and numeracy and to help teachers tailor their
teaching more specifically to student needs. Year 3 students will complete their as-
sessment in Week 2 next term.
Merit Awards - Congratulations to all students who received Mid-Term Merit
Awards this week at the Primary and Secondary Assemblies.
Attendance - Today the Home School Liaison Officer visited to check on student
attendance. All students who fall below 85% attendance are closely monitored. A
number of students have already had letters sent home in regard to their attend-
ance. Further communication will follow for students with attendance concerns. Par-
ents are reminded that students are required to attend school every day unless they
are unwell.
Mobile Phone Use - Due to repeated inappropriate use of Mobile Phones at school
by secondary students, phones are no longer able to be used at school, unless under the direct instruction of a
teacher. (Students in Years 11 and 12 will still be able to ‘appropriately’ use their phones during recess and lunch
time). This ‘ban’ will remain in place for the remainder of this term. If students are seen with their phones out they
will be asked to turn them off and place them in their bag. Failure to do so will require the student to take their
phone to the front office for the remainder of the day. Parents will be contacted if students do not comply with this
rule. Primary school students are not allowed phones at school as per Department of Education guidelines.
Shout out to our SASS Staff - As part of SASS recognition week we would like to thank our school and administra-
tive staff who provide comprehensive support in our school. This year they have had to be increasingly flexible to
adapt to changing scenarios and pandemic restrictions, highlighting the vital role they play in keeping our school
running efficiently everyday. Thank you to all of our wonderful SASS staff.
COVID-19 - Parents and carers are reminded NOT to send children to school if they are unwell, even if they have
the mildest flu-like symptoms. Students who come to school with flu like symptoms will be sent home. Students and
staff with flu-like symptoms will need to provide a copy of a negative COVID-19 test before being permitted to
return to school.
Have a great week
Donna Lane
DCS Student Representative Council encourage all
students and staff to support this day!
Friday, 4th September, 2020
Wear your favourite Jersey!
Jersey Day has been inspired by the story of 13 year old Nathan Gremmo, who was tragically
lost in an accident in 2015. Nathan's family chose to give the gift of life to others to honour the
legacy of Nathan's generous personality.
Jersey Day is not about raising funds - it is all about raising awareness for The Organ & Tissue
Authority and the DonateLife Network. The intention is to begin the discussion about Organ &
Tissue Donation, fill social media with Jersey Day images and to encourage people to visit the
donatelife.gov.au website to register their Organ & Tissue Donation intentions.
Last Thursday K-6 students celebrated Science Week in style. Students were put in teams and faced many scien-
tific challenges. The engineering feat of building a 1/2 metre high bridge that suspends an egg made out of noth-
ing but newspaper and masking tape was certainly a highlight. A big thank you to Mrs Shephard and Mrs Gal-
lagher for organising the day.
K/1 were very sad to lose Mrs Stadler last week as she finished her 4 week prac and headed home to Murwil-
lumbah. Mrs S will be sorely missed and we wish her all the best for her teaching career.
Please don’t forget to return the Life Education notes this week if you haven’t already. The Life Education Van
(featuring Healthy Harold) will be coming to DCS next week on Thursday and Friday. Each class will visit the van
for a lesson linked to its PDH curriculum. Don’t forget the visit only costs $5 due to being heavily subsidised by a
large donation by the late Arthur Upston, for which we continue to be so grateful for.
The DCS Public Speaking Competition commences next week (Week 7). We will be discussing the competition in
class this week and all students will write their speeches as part of next week’s homework. Speeches will be given
in class in Week 8.
Congratulations to Sophie Kline for winning last week’s Fish award. The theme was ‘Caring for property’, which
Sophie demonstrated with her continual effort looking after the sports shed at recess and lunch. This week’s fo-
cus is ‘Wearing our school uniform with pride’.
Next Friday (4th September) Dunedoo Central will be
participating in Jersey Day to show our support for the
DonateLife Network. This SRC initiative asks students
and staff to wear their favourite jersey to school. There on your Positive Behaviour
is no cost for this as we are simply raising awareness Last week’s winner was
about organ donation.
Sophie Kline
Have a great week. For
Mr Ben Kline Caring For Property
This week in Mathematics we are starting a new topic ‘Chance’. We will be looking at the language
of probability and using relative frequencies to predict probabilities.
Weekly homework is due Thursday and I hope multiplication tables are still being practiced at
home regularly.
Mrs Cathy Gallagher
Handwriting
The students have been working really hard in Handwriting.
Chloe said this was one of her best and I would have to agree!
Science
In science we have been looking at
electricity and we had to make a
complete circuit so the light bulb
would light up.
Mathematics
Last week in Maths Yr 5 were looking at
position. Dan had to place the runners in
position for their race. Eg 1st—10th
Digital Technologies
PDHPE In Digital Technology
In PDHPE we have been working on managing the students have been
relationships. We used the 6 hats technique to set a task to create a new
break down different feelings and strategies to habitat for their Ladybeetle
manage the relationships we have with others. (Ozobot) they have to pro-
gram their habitat to include
water, food, shelter and
predators.
Student of the Week Merit Award
Kindergarten / Year 1 - Mr Kline
K Elias Melville For always being curious and K Ruby Milsom The most incredibly neat and artistic
for finding the Fun in everyday bookwork and for always rising to a chal-
lenge
K Indigo Batty Quietly achieving great things, she is al-
ways doing her very best
Year 1-2 Ms Gavin
1 Angus Roberts Being a responsible respectful 1 Lachlan Brydon Choosing a learning attitude in morning
classmate activities
2 Beau Hall Settling into new routines quickly and
calmly
2 Benji Chapman Working hard to complete set tasks
2 Lucas Tisdell Choosing a learning attitude in writing
activities
Year 3-4 Mr Honeysett
4 Alex Roach Improved approach to his 3 Timothy Consistent effort and application
learning and making positive Sweeney throughout morning Literacy sessions
contributions to class discus-
sions
4 Nadine Andersen Enthusiastic approach to sewing and vol-
unteering to assist others
Year 5/6S Mrs Shephard
6 Simone Roach Excellent leadership and team- 6 Caylum Williams Always keeping his books and equipment
work during Science Day tidy, and caring for property
5 Brayden Stanford Showing care and respect to self and oth-
ers
Year 5/6G Mrs Gallagher
6 Chloe Brougham Being a responsible, respectful 6 Tjai Little Working well in literacy and handwriting
and courteous part of the class activities
6 Asha Russell Working independently in spelling and
grammar activities
Captain’s Awards
5 Sophie Kline Always being ready in assembly Mrs Shephard Doing an amazing job at running the Na-
tional Science Week activities
2020 ICAS COMPETITIONS
Science Mon 17th Aug—Fri 21st Aug
(Week 5 Term 3)
Tayla O’Malley 24th August Year 11
Writing No longer available in 2020
Caleb Parker 27th August Year 9
Elizabeth Yeo 27th August Digital Technolo- Mon 24th Aug—Fri 28th Aug
gies
Michelle Gavin 28th August (Week 6 Term 3)
Adele Stoddart 28th August
English Mon 24th Aug—Fri 28th Aug
Meg Tyler 29th August
(Week 6 Term 3)
Wishing you all a great day!
Mathematics Mon 31st Aug—Fri 4th Sept
(Week 7 Term 3)
Spelling Bee Mon 31st Aug—Fri 4th Sept
(Week 7 Term 3)
Please phone the office to organise a phone
interview with your child’s teacher.
Don’t forget to hand in your Semester Report
Survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Expression of Interest
Dunedoo Central School
Kindergarten 2021
Child’s Name: Date of Birth:
Parent’s Name: Phone Number:
Parent Address:
Parent Email:Afternoon study for secondary students will be on Wednesday and Thursday this week,
with Mrs Sullivan supervising on Wednesday and Ms Tyler on Thursday.
Afternoon study is in Room 10 and runs from approximately 3:15 - 4:30pm.
Mrs Hogden’s Mathematics...
7 Mathematics
TEXTILES
Year 7 are continuing to work well. They have completed an introduction to Algebra and have just begun
‘Operations with Decimals’ Students are receiving regular homework that is designed to reinforce con-
cepts being covered in class and revise earlier topics
8 Mathematics
Displaying and analysing data has been the focus of Year 8 Mathematics.
We have incorporated various statistics related to the Coronavirus and
studied the trends occurring and have tried to make predictions regard-
ing what we think may occur as the year progresses. Sectors graphs
were constructed to display the breakdown of cases throughout Austral-
ia this year.
5.3 Mathematics
5.3 Mathematics has furthered their
competencies of analysing Statistical
Measures, including looking at Standard
Deviation and constructing lines of best
fit from Scatterplots. This has lead nicely
into our topic on Linear Equations where
we are finding various ways to graph straight lines and
finding the equations to represent these relationships.
12 Standard Mathematics
With the trials completed, there is only one assessment item left this term. Students have an assignment
to work through in preparation for their Week 9 in class test on ‘Critical Path Analysis’ Students should
be aiming at completing a minimum of one past paper, out of class each week as a way of revising all
concepts in preparation for their upcoming HSC examination.
Mrs HogdenDunedoo Amateur Swimming Club
AGM
Monday 21st September
6.30pm
Dunedoo Sports Club
All Welcome
Please come along to
support your swimming club
Categories
1. Warrumbungle Nightscape Widefield—
Any nightscape taken within the Warrum-
bungle Shire
2. Night Sky Widefield—Open to all loca-
tions in the world using any photographic
equipment to capture the night sky
3. Open Deep Space—Deep space objects
captured through a telescope by the pho-
tographer
4. Smartphone Astrophotography—
Widefield, Solar System or deep space
taken with a smartphone
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