21st August 2018

DANDENONG NORTH

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Calendar of Events

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

Pyjama Day—22.08.2018

Prep Teddy Bear Hospital—22.08.2018

Gala Day 3 –24.08.2018 Cancelled—Now Friday 12.10.2018,

Book parade—4.09.2018

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

Mr Malone’s School Sports Award During a recent assembly, Mr Malone was presented with a School Sports Award, recognising his 20 years of service at a Dis-trict level. This award was given to him by School Sports Victoria and celebrates what we already know - that Mr Malone is a fabu-lous Physical Educator.

Mr Malone has been a part of the District Sports Committee for many years and is well respected for his ability to develop sports talent in our students. He has been a fabulous mentor to sports staff from other primary schools - im-parting his knowledge and sup-porting them through their profes-sional journey.

Our students know how hard Mr Malone is to impress - and they

Newsletter Online Last week a note went home to all DNPS families regarding the move from a fortnightly paper newsletter, to an electronic version starting in Term Four.

We have had a fantastic response from the community, with over 190 families downloading the app and registering online.

The App is a great way to keep up to date with any reminders or alerts that the school might have in place - ensuring that you don’t miss out on any relevant news from the school.

If you haven't already done so, please visit the App store for iphones or Google Play for An-

droids and search for Up-date-ed. From the menu select our school and we will receive your registra-tion request.

Once we have approved your re-quest - the app will be up and running.

If you have any questions regard-ing this app - please come to the office and speak with one of our friendly office staff who will en-deavor to assist you.

put in a lot of effort to develop their physi-cal educa-tion skills.

Our success at Cross Country events over the past 15 years, highlight Mr Malone’s skill. As well, over the past 12 years our athletics results have taken our students to Regional finals.

We congratulate Mr Malone on his well-deserved award.

Page 2 News From the North

2019 Prep Enrolments

Book Week Parade - Tuesday 4th September

With a continued pattern of increasing student enrol-ments, we are keen to ensure that all our current fami-lies have students enrolled for 2019 in order to assist with planning and to keep all class sizes as small as possible.

We are aiming to keep our Prep classes to below twenty, in order to give children the best possible start to their education. Therefore it is highly important for us to have an idea as to how many students may be enrolling at our school for next year.

If you know of a neighbour or a relative who has a child that turns five before the 30th April 2019, please ask them to come to the office for an enrolment form.

Parents are asked to bring a Birth certificate or Visa into the school for proof of age, along with an Im-munisation History Statement from Medicare in or-der to enrol their child at our school.

Early enrolment also ensures children are included in our Prep Transition Program which begins in Term Four.

The dates for this program have now been released and we ask that you mark these dates on your calen-

dar. It is important that our 2019 Prep students attend as it sets the tone for a more comfortable start in 2019. Stu-dents will become aware of the Prep rooms and will have met the Prep teachers - easing some first day anx-ieties.

For all Preps enrolled for 2019 the Prep pro-gram the dates are:

Wednesday 17th October 9:30 - 10:45

Wednesday 24th October 9:30 - 10:45

Wednesday 31st October 9:30 - 10:45

We look forward to meeting new DNPS families and in particular, seeing the next generation of learners to our school.

Dandenong North will be celebrating BOOK WEEK with a Book Parade to be held on Tuesday 4TH SEP-TEMBER from 9.30am – 11am.

This is a wonderful time of the year to celebrate and to encourage children to sit down and enjoy reading a book just for pleasure.

Imagination drives creativity and innovation. It al-lows us to envision and escape to worlds beyond our own, to times other than the here and now. Imagination is behind every fairy tale and picture book we cherish from our childhood. So come dressed as your favourite book character or non-fiction character to this fun and crea-tive event.

The best dressed book characters from each class will win a free book.

We look forward to seeing our parents in attend-

ance as well.

Ms. Varas

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Lyndale Secondary Students Reading Program

Special Awards - 13th & 20th August

Prep H - Ziyad Prep M - Atena 2C - Yalda 4K - Ruhama 5L - Isaah

Prep A - Satya 1F - Shafa 2G - Aliya 4L - Thevan 6D - Layla

Prep K - Raun 1O - Deetya 2S - Ardita 4FM - Mysha 6H - Abrar

Prep JM - Zain 1S - Dawoud 2H - Alina 4H - Zainab 6L - Ivana

Prep N - Narges 1W - Noah 3H - Bhavesh 4N - Sajeda 6V - Fatima

Prep O - Naved 1M - Jaswin 3F - Chris 5F - Habiba ICT - Anjoa (1F)

Prep M - Qasim 1L - All of 1L 3B - Brinthan 5D - Reza ICT - Tenzin (3H)

Prep M - Arundeep 1NW - Hamid 3W - Zahra 5H - Mehdi Ms Blachford - All of 4L

Our Year 4 students have been lucky to be involved in

a new reading program working alongside some Lyndale Secondary College

students.

The students have been split into groups and allocated a novel. Each week they are

given a section of the book that must be read up to and these chapters will be the

basis for the group discussions. The aim of the pro-gram is to deepen our students love of good litera-ture.

Some of the books being

studied are Char-lotte’s Web, Holes and Fuzzy

Mud. We hope the discussions

with their Year 9 mentors will ele-vate our stu-

dent’s comprehension and questioning skills.

We look forward to following the progress of this new and exciting program over the next few weeks.

Mrs. Maskell

University of NSW Mathematics Testing

Last week the students who had selected to sit the University of New South Wales Mathemat-ics Test, did so.

We have had some parents requesting the test booklet be returned to their children in order for them to review the questions.

The tests will be returned to the children once the results have been sent to the school - which

happens later in the year.

This will then allow parents to see the questions that children answered both correctly and incor-rectly, so that further consultation over skills and knowledge, can be had.

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Year 4 Dandenong Council Chambers Visit

The 10 day Intensive Swimming Program will be held in Term Four during late November and early December.

Lessons this year will again be taught at Just Swim-ming, Scott Street Dandenong.

Students will travel to and from the pool by bus every day for two weeks. The cost of this program is $50.00, which equates to $5 per lesson.

There have been notes sent home to all students last week and you can collect another note if required, from the office.

As Dandenong North Primary has continued to grow, positions are limited so it is very important that the school receives confirmation of your inten-tion to have your student participate in the program

2018 Swimming Program

as soon as possible. As part of this confirmation a $20 deposit or full payment is required.

If you wish for your child to participate in the swimming program your payment must be fi-nalized by Friday 2nd November 2018.

Last Friday the Year 4 students attended an Excur-sion to the Dandenong City Council and Library as

part of their theme ‘Democracy Rules’. The stu-dents loved participating in the Library tour, learn-ing about all the interesting programs and services

they offer. Students also got to experience what the Dandenong Council does, listening to a talk about the different levels of government and the

role in which the local government plays in our community. Students enjoyed the excursion and asked a variety of interesting questions about the

different services they offer.

Mrs. Ferguson