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

W: dunedoo-c.schools@nsw.edu.au

15th June 2020 WEEK 8

Friday 26th June 2020

Week 9

More information contained

in this newsletter

WEEK 8- TERM 2:

Wednesday, 17th June

HSC Webinar

Secondary Afternoon Study, Mrs Gallagher, 3.15pm

Thursday, 18th June

HSC Webinar

Secondary Afternoon Study, Mrs Sullivan, 3.15pm

P & C Meeting, 7pm, Library, all welcome

WEEK 9:

YEAR 7 - 10 EXAMS ALL WEEK

Friday, 26th June

Cross Country Carnival, from 12pm

WEEK 10:

Tuesday 30th June

PJ Day - SRC Fundraiser, Gold Coin Donation

Friday, 3rd July

Last Day of Term—YAY!

WEEK 1 - TERM 3:

Tuesday 21st July

All students back to school

Lost Property

With the hot and cold weather at the moment, we are finding a large amount of lost property being left behind. Lots of jumpers are being handed in with no names on them.

Please label all uniform.

Labels do wear and wash off, so please relabel your items as often as required.

Thank you

Thursday

mornings

from 8:30am

Our Primary Captains chose our AMAZING clean-

ers for a merit award to acknowledge how they

go above and beyond to make our school clean.

WHEN: FRIDAY, 26TH JUNE 2020

WHERE: DUNEDOO GOLF CLUB

TIME: FROM 1PM (ORDER OF EVENTS BELOW)

BRING: DRINK BOTTLE, HAT & SUNSCREEN

WEAR: HOUSE COLOURS

WHO: KINDER TO YEAR 12

PRIMARY SECONDARY 9:00-10:40 Class Time 8:50-10:40 Periods 1 & 2 10:40-11:00 Recess 10:40-11:00 Recess 11:00-11:40 Class Time 11:00-11:40 Period 3 11:40-12:20 Class Time 11:40-12:20 Period 4 Note: Any infants

aged 8 years may

also run in the 2km

race with Junior

Primary. They will

be non competitive.

PLEASE NOTE NEW SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (TIMES) TIME EVENT / AGE GROUP DISTANCE

12:20 LUNCH

12:40 Assemble in Primary quad and walk to Golf Club

12:55 CHANTS

1.00 Senior Primary Boys 3 km

1:05 Senior Primary Girls 3 km

1:15 Girls 16, 17+ years 3 km

1:20 Boys 17+years 3 km

1:30 Infants Boys (Kinder - Year 2) 1km

1:35 Infants Girls (Kinder - Year 2) 1 km

1:40 Girls 15 years 3 km

1:45 Boys 15, 16 years 3 km

1:55 Secondary Boys 12, 13, 14 years 2 km

2:00 Secondary girls12, 13, 14 years 2 km

2:05 Junior Primary Boys 2 km

2:10 Junior Primary Girls 2 km

2:45 – 3:00 Walk back to school

ALL STUDENTS WILL WALK BACK TO DCS ON

COMPLETION OF EVENTS.

BUSES WILL COLLECT STUDENTS FROM SCHOOL,

AS NORMAL.

Due to Department of Education covid 19

restrictions Parents & spectators must re-

main in the designated areas at all times

and adhere to social distancing laws

Holidays are coming up

soon! Don’t forget to re-

turn your Library Books!

This week’s winner is

Timothy Sweeney

for

Right place, right time

on your Positive Behaviour

Bayley Platt 15th June Year 8

Ned Callow 15th June Year 5

Kylie Bennetts 15th June

Bronwenn Douglass 15th June

Charna Williams 16th June Year 10

Lochlan Gale 18th June Year 6

Ashton Murphy 20th June Year 7

Have a fabulous day!

Welcome to Week 8 Term 2,

COVID 19 - In line with health advice, schools are operating full time and many additional

activities are now able to commence. As from this week, community use activities used by

students, such as dance classes, are allowed with limited adult attendance. It is necessary

that students are dropped off and then collected by parents. Parents and other siblings/

community members are not to remain on school grounds during this time. As further re-

strictions in this area are lifted, we will inform parents.

From the beginning of Term 3 all school sport and activities including competitions aligned with current health advice will

begin. (Please note that the PSSA and CHSSA Athletics has been cancelled for 2020). Further consideration will be given

in Term 3 to the following events: school camps, parent attendance at assemblies and other school events, parent volun-

teers and school based activities that involve a large gathering of adults.

Cross Country - In line with the above restrictions in regard to parent attendance at school events , for our Cross Country

at the Dunedoo Sports Club next Friday, there will be a place allocated in the car park for parents to watch, however,

parents must maintain social distancing and not come into close proximity with staff or students.

Car Park - Last week I became aware of some issues in regard to car parking at school. There is no designated place that

staff must park at school. Parents are welcome to collect their child from any of the entrances to the school (except for

the bus entry at the side of the Library) . If parents park along Merrygoen street, they must come across the road to col-

lect their children as buses are arriving and leaving from this area. I ask that all people parking do so using the minimum

space required to allow for more cars to access the school. I also remind the school community that on any one day

there are up to 40 people who are working on site at our school and as such this requires significant numbers of car spac-

es. I ask that all people are cooperative and mindful of others when parking near the school.

Yr 6 Wednesday Lunch—starting this week, Year 6 students will come to the Secondary Quadrangle for the second half of

lunch and then join the secondary students for sport, as they have been doing this year. This is part of the transition pro-

gram for Year 6 into 7.

Year 7—10 Half Yearly Exams - will take place next week. The timetable is in this newsletter. Students are reminded that

Afternoon Study is available on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

Student Attendance—Letters have been sent home for students who have less than 85 % attendance. This is a mandatory

requirement of the Department of Education. I would appreciate your support in ensuring that your child is at school

everyday, unless unwell.

HSC Seminars—below is the timetable of HSC Seminars for the next two weeks.

P & C—our monthly P&C meeting will be held this Thursday at 7:00pm in the school Library. I hope to see you there.

Have a great week! Donna Lane

Wednesday 17 June 7:30pm Thursday 18th June

University Of Newcastle

Webinar

University Of Newcastle

Webinar

University Of Newcastle Webi-

nar

University Of Newcastle Webi-

nar

English Advanced -Responding

to unseen texts Approaching

the essay question

English Advanced: Understand-

ing the RubricWriting a high

range extended response

Monday 22 June Tuesday 23rd June 7:30pm Wednesday 24 June 7:30pm Thursday 25 June 7:30pm

University of Wollongong University of Wollongong University of Wollongong University of Wollongong

Mathematics Advaced &

Extension 1

Financial Mathematics

English Advanced

Module: Texts and Human

Experiences

Business Studies

Finance

Human Resources

Business Studies

Operations

Marketing

The year 5-6 students have been researching a country of South East Asia, and have put their research findings into

a presentation for their peers. Presentations have been in a variety of formats, including Powerpoints, posters and

essays. Chloe Brougham chose to create a booklet, and here are a couple of pages from that booklet. So far,

presentations have been very interesting and pleasing to witness. They will continue on Tuesday, with the final

presentations next Tuesday.

Congratulations to Timothy Sweeney for demonstrating ’Being in the Right Place at the Right Time’ and winning our

weekly Fish Award. This week’s focus continues to be ‘Right Place Right Time’, with a focus on lunchtime eating

routines.

Thank you to the P & C Association for the new lunch tables in the Primary and also to the Year 9/10 IT class, Mrs

Fergusson and Mr Stanford for putting them together. They look great and everyone is enjoying having a bit more

table space.

The Cross Country Carnival is on next Friday the 26th of June from 1pm. A timetable for the event is in this news-

letter including the protocol for visiting parents. K-6 students will be cross country training during Fitness time and

we will have a practice walk/run of the course during Sport this Friday. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, there will

be no next level of competition as the decision was made last week to cancel all NSW PSSA events for the remain-

der of the year. This includes athletics (although our school carnival will be held early next term) and all knockout

competitions.

Assessments across K-6 will be taking place over the next couple of weeks as teachers prepare for report writing.

Due to the extended home learning period, reports for this semester will be sent home at the end of Week 2 next

term. Parent teacher meetings will also occur at this time - more information will follow shortly.

Have a great week everyone.

Mr Ben Kline

This week in Mathematics we started a topic on Fractions. We are forming

equivalent fractions by multiplying and dividing. Knowing multiplication tables is

very important and makes simplifying fractions much quicker and simpler. Thank you to those who handed in their

weekly homework sheets last week, we are getting closer to drawing the raffle. Please keep practising multiplication

tables at home. Mrs Cathy Gallagher

Mr Honeysett’s Class - 3/4 During Creative Arts lessons on Thursdays, Year 3-4 have been honing their drawing skills with the help of tutorials from the ‘Art for Kids Hub’. The students have concentrated incredibly well during Art and I’m sure you would agree, that their Artwork really looks amazing!

Year 3-4 Maths this week with Mrs Milsom, will focus on the Topics of

“Multiplication and Division”. I hope everyone has been practising their times tables!

Year 3-4 have been learning about what makes a

good Informative Text. Students will be publishing

their own Informative Texts during writing sessions

this week.

Most Year 3-4 Students have created many fantastic posts in response to learning activities on SeeSaw throughout the Covid-19 Home Learning Period and now as we get back to our normal teaching and learning routines at school. These activities are really important as they engage students in meaningful online learning tasks that help to promote student creativity and improve individual students’ ICT and Digital Technology skills.

Thank you, Mr Honeysett, Year 3 -4 Teacher

Year 3-4 Students will be involved in Cross Country practice this Friday down at the Golf Course so they can familiarise themselves with the course again before the Cross Country is run in Week 9 of this term.

Student of the Week Merit Award

Kindergarten / Year 1 - Mr Kline

K Phoebe Kline Consistent application to

her learning

1 Aayeesha Martin Great results in weekly spelling

K Indigo Batty Working hard in morning Litera-

cy activities

Year 1-2 Ms Gavin

1 Angus Roberts Choosing a positive atti-

tude and caring for class-

mates

2 Beau Hall Choosing a learning attitude and

producing amazing work

1 Eloise Mc Laren Writing excellent letters to

friends and Mrs Lane

Year 3-4 Mr Honeysett

4 Shayla Sawyers Improved work habits in

English and Mathematics

recently

4 Nadine Andersen Working well with Mrs Bennetts

on her individual Literacy pro-

gram

3 Deegan Little Quickly settling back into his

learning routines at school

Year 5/6S Mrs Shephard

6 Caylum Williams Outstanding improve-

ment in application to

learning tasks

6 Tylor Murray A positive beginning at DCS—

Well Done!

6 Chloe Brown Demonstrating maturity and

problem solving skills to help

others

Year 5/6G Mrs Gallagher

5 Sophie Kline A positive attitude to

learning and a helpful,

happy person in the class

5 Ned Callow Application to learning in literacy

activities

6 Shyloh Watton-

Hogden

An improved application to liter-

acy activities

Captain’s Awards

K Savanna Stanford Playing very well in the

playground

DCS Cleaning

Staff

Going above and beyond in

keeping our school clean during

Hello & welcome to Week 8,

School jumpers are in stock, if you need any uni-

forms please come and see me. Ideal uniform times

are between 9am—10am or 1pm-2pm.

Thank you to Chelsea Gallagher for your help in the

canteen last week, you did an awesome job.

Have a great week,

Sherri

Attention: Year 4 Parents, Year 5 Opportunity Class in 2021 Applications are available for academically gifted and talented students to apply for the Opportunity Class in

2021. All students seeking year 5 opportunity class placement in 2021 will be required to take the Opportunity

Class Placement Test on Wednesday 16th September 2020. Applications close on the 26th June 2020. Please

contact Mrs Shephard if you require any further information. See factsheets at the end of this newsletter.

Wonderful Manners Voucher Winner

Beau Hall

Well Done!

Minestrone Soup $3.00

Curry Beef $4.00

Ham & Cheese Roll (warm) $4.00

Chicken Breast Burger with sour cream

and sweet chilli sauce

$6.00

Taco TUESDAY (ONLY)

Tacos (mince, lettuce, tomato, cheese)

$2.50

each

All ICAS competitions

have been

delayed until August.

P & C Meeting

Thursday 18th June, at

DCS Library, 7pm

ALL WELCOME

9/10 Mathematics (5.2)

We are currently working on ‘Algebraic Expressions’, however we will spend the remainder of this week revising for

the Half-Yearly Examination on Monday. Students have been given a sheet outlining the areas that may be exam-

ined and suggestions for questions to complete as revision. Ten percent of the examination marks will come from a

student created Learning Log so I strongly encourage all students to complete this and use it during the exam. We

have once again commenced weekly homework sheets, which are due each Thursday (except next week due to

exams).

11 Mathematics Standard

Students have just started a new unit on ‘Data Analysis’. They will be given their second assessment task next week

(due after the holidays) which is a Measurement and Statistics assignment to complete at home, however they will

be given some class time. Weekly homework sheets are due Fridays and students are reminded to use ‘Edrolo’ to

assist with learning.

12 Mathematics Advanced

Students are completing their final topic for the course on ‘Continuous Probability Distributions’, so there will be

plenty of time for revision next term. Students are regularly completing homework and using ‘Edrolo’ to assist with

learning.

12 Mathematics Extension 1

We are completing a topic on ‘Further Vectors’, with the text topic being ’Further Integration’. The next assessment

task, an assignment on Vectors, will be completed over the next few weeks.

Mrs Cathy Gallagher

Afternoon study for secondary students will be supervised by Mrs Gallagher this

Wednesday afternoon and Mrs Sullivan on Thursday afternoon. It is in Room 10

from approximately 3:15 - 4:40pm. With half-yearly exams for years 7-10 next week

we hope to see many students there.

@DCS

Year 12 students have just applied, through UAC, to University. This is a very exciting time,

thinking about life after school.

For students more interested in Apprenticeships and Traineeships, Year 10, 11 & 12 students

are regularly forwarded emails from Sarina Russo Apprenticeships | Australia, which lists op-

portunities in the Sydney, Illawarra, Mid North Coast, Murray Riverina, Southern NSW and ACT regions.

Jobjump newsletters-which are a wealth of information-are attached to our DCS newsletter and Facebook page.

Year 12 have had the opportunity to join several Zoom sessions hosted by various universities. The next sessions are

being run by UNSW-Gateway Winter program during the school holidays.

TAS news Year 12 IT

I have the class for all theory lessons, we are currently working our way through

Chapter questions to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding of

Design and Drawing concepts. Students are progressing well with Folios and practical work with the help of Teacher’s

Aide, Rob Whackett.

Year 11 IT

The class are working through theory work on tools & joints associated

with furniture making. They are in the process of completing a bedside ta-

ble, and accompanying folio.

Year 11 Metals

The boys have been “attending” zoom meetings with Distance Education

teacher Mr Drew Martin, and complete theory booklets which are paired

with practical work delivered by Mr Martin at DCS.

Year 10 Metals

Again, the class has been working patiently and diligently through booklets addressing topics including workshop

safety, drilling operations and metal working machinery. This is complimented by Mr Martin teaching the students

practical components on Fridays.

Have a great week. Mrs Fergusson

JobJump newsletters will be emailed to senior secondary students. The newsletters are also available on our

DCS Careers Facebook page. If you would like to know any more information please ask Mrs Fergusson.

Jobjump.com.au

YEAR 7

YEAR 8

YEAR 9

YEAR 10

Years 7 – 10

Half-Yearly Exams

Week 9

Monday

22/6/20

Tuesday

23/6/20

Wednesday

24/6/20

Thursday

25/6/20

Friday

26/6/20

1 English (13/14) HSIE (15) Catch up

2 Science (L)

3 Maths (9)

Cross

Country

4 Music (7)

5 Japanese (8)

6

Monday

22/6/20

Tuesday

23/6/20

Wednesday

24/6/20

Thursday

25/6/20

Friday

26/6/20

1 English (13/14) Maths (9) Catch up

2

3 HSIE (15) Science (L)

Cross

Country

4

5 Art (AR)

6

Monday

22/6/20

Tuesday

23/6/20

Wednesday

24/6/20

Thursday

25/6/20

Friday

26/6/20

1 Maths (9/8/L) Science (AG/L) Geography (15) Catch up

2 English (13/14)

3 History (15)

Cross

Country

4

5 AG (AG)

6

Monday

22/6/20

Tuesday

23/6/20

Wednesday

24/6/20

Thursday

25/6/20

Friday

26/6/20

1 Maths (9/8/L) Science (AG/L) Catch up

2 English (13/14)

3 History (AG) Geography (8)

Cross

Country

4

5 AG (AG)

6

Tuesday Week 10

SRC Fundraiser

PJ DAY

Come dressed in your pyjamas

and bring a

gold coin donation