Drummoyne Public School

2022 Student Leaders Induction Assembly

Congratulations to all of our Year 5 students who will be our leaders in 2022. On Thursday we held a special induction assembly to congratulate students who were successful in becoming a 2022 prefect, house captain, technology leader or student librarian.

In preparation for these roles, all year 6 students will participate in a leadership program in Term 1 next year. Congratulations and best wishes to our incoming student leaders.

Confirming Enrolments  

To assist the school with planning our classes and teachers for 2022, we would like every family with students in classes K-5 to please let us know ASAP if your plans have changed and your child will no longer attend Drummoyne Public School next year.

Appointments Please

Parents are asked to please contact the school and make an appointment if wanting to meet with executive or staff in the coming weeks.  If it is an urgent matter, please phone ahead to let us know and we will do our best to see you. 

SRC Mufti Day

Thank you to every family who supported the SRC mufti day last week. Students donated a total of $690 which will be used to purchase new sports equipment for the playground.

Presentation Day Assemblies

Our Kindergarten and Year 1 & 2 Presentation Day assemblies will take place next week. As parents are not allowed to attend the assemblies, the assemblies will be recorded and the link sent home to families.

Best Start

Online booking information for 2022 Kindergarten parents was sent out via skoolbag last week with the dates and times for the Best Start assessments (1st, 2nd & 3rd February). Please make a time for your child’s interview. We look forward to welcoming your child to Drummoyne Public School.

We would like to acknowledge students who are celebrating their birthdays this week and wish them a special day.

Congratulations to: Alice KM, William KM, Owen 2D, Tom 1/2T, Caelan 3W, Harlen 3S, Gianluca 3W, Mila 4C, Sophia 4C & James 4C.

Class 4C have been learning about honey bees. They did a directed art lesson, producing very colourful and detailed art works exploring perspective. These were accompanied with information reports about the bees. The students have included some very interesting facts and are proud to share their work with you.

With the increase in the number of cases in students aged 5-11, please keep your child at home if they have any cold or flu symptoms and get them tested. Please also remind children to sanitise or wash their hands regularly. Masks are strongly encouraged for primary aged students

Despite the highly contagious Delta variant, most children diagnosed with COVID-19 during the current outbreak have had mild or no symptoms. 

Next Friday, 3 December,  all students are invited to wear mufti clothes and come with a crazy hairstyle. On this day, students across the school will be asked to bring money to support the Year 6 students' farewell. As this is the main fundraiser for the year, we are asking students to donate generously. Thank you for supporting our Year 6 students.

Leigh Russ

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

• Georgie McLeod - KH
• Chloe De Sousa - KM
• Luis Orgad - KM
• Hayley Hong - 1A
• Alexander Oparcik - 2K
• Kingston Brown - 6N
• Tomas Gabilo - 3S
• Sofia Gooderick - 4D
• Aoife Gould - 5C
• Eimear Gould - 3A
• Agniia Grimstad - 6P
• Cyra Loney - 3A
• Joseph McCloud - 3S
• Kristen Savvidis - 6P
• Sienna Shipp - 5C

• Alexander Booth - KL
• Freya Keane - KM
• Evelyn Johnston - 1A
• Charlotte Scanlan - 1C
• Aodhan Perkins - 1G
• Morgan Evans - 1M
• Kaitlin Barry - 6M
• Maisie Collard - 6N
• Harry Coutts - 4A
• Aidan Fahy - 5C
• Liam Gibbs - 3A
• Yasmine Kanagaratnam - 6M
• Kristen Savvidis - 6P
• Natalia Villamil - 5C
• Victor Washington - 3A

• Eva Anastasiadis - KH
• Miron Bennett - KH
• Vivienne Duquemin - 1/2T
• Olive Haoui - 1/2T
• Henry Speakman - 1/2T
• Cameron Barry - 3S
• Anja Chan - 5C
• Gisele Furnari - 6M
• William Goldsworthy - 6N
• Sophie Mitchell-Cook - 6M
• Triet Nguyen - 4D
• Liam Pavendranathan - 4O
• Kristen Savvidis - 6P

• Victor Washington - 3A - Responsibility
• Sofia Gooderick - 4A - Respect
• Michael Gryllis - 5P - Respect

The end of term is fast approaching and it is time once again to return all of our library books!

Next week, students with overdue books will receive a list of all their outstanding books. The aim is for all books to be returned by week 10. This is especially important for our year 6 students who won’t be returning next year and any other families who are relocating.

Thank you all for your help with this!

Joseph Neufeld

Teacher Librarian

Primary Ethics is proud to offer an alternative while ethics classes cannot be run in schools. For Term 4, we have prepared a brand-new series of Bites! 

Bites! are our specially designed bite-sized lessons for students to chew over at home and practise their skills in close listening and ethical reasoning, based on material from our Department-approved curriculum.

Each week we will post a new ethical dilemma to our Bites! web page. Here is the link: http://primaryethics.com.au/education

Bites for the K-2 age group are designed for students to tackle individually, assisted by an adult. Bites for Years 3-6 are designed for students to work on individually or with a family group. An adult learning supervisor may like to take part by helping to read the stories and questions and guiding students to think for themselves about the dilemma we pose. (Each Bite will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.)

The Primary Ethics team

Please come and teach ethics at Drummoyne Public School.

We are building an ethics program at the School with lessons delivered by Primary Ethics volunteers. Ethics lessons are now offered to students in years 1-6. In ethics, students explore everyday issues suitable for their age. They learn to listen closely to each other, to disagree without putdowns and to think carefully as they form their opinions. We always need more volunteer ethics teachers so that all parents have the option of choosing ethics classes for their child.

You can teach ethics if:

• You’re interested in what children think and you have an interest in learning
• You’re willing to learn how to use our lesson scripts to ask children ethical questions
• You can remain neutral and give the children space to think
• Starting next year, you’re available each school week on Fridays from 9.15am to11am – you’ll need about an hour each week to prepare and give the scripted lesson
• You complete our free training and pass background checks.

It is a great community of Primary Ethics volunteers at DPS and across NSW. You’ll have the rewarding opportunity of listening to the fantastic students at our school and helping them grow. You’ll develop new skills yourself – facilitation skills, plus skills in communication and active listening. Primary Ethics provides free, comprehensive training with online self-paced learning plus trainer-led workshops (by Zoom or face-to-face).

Curious? Please visit www.primaryethics.com.au Or contact coordinator Helen Kerr-Roubicek on 0423 806 896

Going forward, we are really looking forward to new eligible year 2 and 3 students joining us next year and making the Band a huge success in 2022. Please see enrolment details on the flyer below.

Kevin Christmas - Program Manager

Our online chess classes are being held before and after school Monday – Friday from 8:00am–9:00am, 3:15pm–4:15pm, 4:30pm–5:30pm and 5:00pm–6:00pm. Your child can attend as many of these online classes as he/she wishes until we return to face to face lessons.

See the link on this page for more details: https://sydneyacademyofchess.com.au/online-classes-2021

To register your child in the class, go to https://sydneyacademyofchess.com.au/payment and enter the following code:

• Intermediate: EVBO8QXACF
• Beginner/Rookie: N5MXNH25AY

Sydney Academy of Chess

info@sydneyacademyofchess.com.au 

From 9 January 2022, all bus services to schools in our area will be operated by Busways, an Australian-owned company with 79 years' track record in safely delivering students to and from schools in NSW.

Busways are bus specialists focused on providing excellent customer experience with safe, welcoming and comfortable journeys for all passengers.

• bus services will continue seamlessly from 9 January 2022, so the only change students who travel by bus may notice is a new Busways uniform worn by their driver. 
• The same process also remains in place for students and their families to apply for free or subsidised school travel under Transport for NSW’s School Student Travel Scheme 
• Timetables and trip planning tools for services in your area will remain available at transportnsw.info. 
• Anyone needing help with bus services for the 2022 school year can contact their service team on 1300 69 29 29 or infoline@busways.com.au 

Students who need a School Opal card or travel pass for 2022 can apply now. A new application will need to be submitted if they are applying for a school travel pass for the first time, or if they are requesting an additional travel entitlement as a result of a new shared parental responsibility situation (e.g. joint custody).

Students who change address, school, campus location, or who have repeated a year or received an expiry notification from Transport for NSW for their school travel entitlement should renew or update their details before the end of term 4. This will ensure that schools can endorse applications and current entitlements are updated and remain valid. School Opal card holders will have the changes applied to their existing card.

Applications for the School Student Transport Scheme (SSTS) open at the start of Term 4 2021 for travel in 2022, so parents/students can apply or update details early and be ready for the start of the new school year. Most students using the Opal network will not need a new Opal card and can continue travelling on their existing card each year.

See further information attached below or go to: https://transportnsw.info/school-travel-apply

Local area enrolments

Applications are now being finalised for Kindergarten 2022. If your child turns 5 before 31 July 2022, they are eligible to start school next year.  Please enrol now as draft classes are being formed and preschools are being contacted this term to support transition.

During the current Covid restrictions, the P&C will process orders for uniforms and the school office staff will distribute them.

 Use our school Registration ID: 2572963 to create an account if you don’t already have one for canteen orders.

Just a couple of reminders when ordering:

1. Ordering cut off time is 9:05am. After this time you will need to ring the canteen on 9819 7665 to place an order.
2. When ordering Sushi or Pizza wraps, please ensure it is for the right meal break. Sometimes parents have accidentally ordered these items for recess instead of lunch.

In order for the canteen to be able to offer a sausage sizzle on Fridays and pasta etc during the week we desperately need volunteers. If you have half an hour or more to spare we would love to have your help.

Volunteers need to be double vaccinated and wear a mask. When arriving at the school please show your certificate at the office and check in with the school QR code outside the office. To volunteer, please log in to your school24 account.

• Click on Volunteers Roster in purple.
• Choose month-click view roster.
• Choose day and time. It’s so easy!

We are so looking forward to having your company and help plus your children will be so excited to see you too!

Canteen, P&C Committee

Enrolments for 2022

We’re really looking forward to welcoming some new faces in the new year when 2022 kicks off. We are now accepting enrolments for the new school year via the Gowrie Drummoyne website.

This year we have designed an orientation booklet with information on our OSHC program to help new families receive relevant information about our service prior to enrolment. Our Orientation Booklet is also available from the school offices of both Drummoyne and St Mark’s, or from us upon request!

Upcoming Summer Vacation Care 2022-23

This term is a short one, so before we know it the summer holidays will be upon us! We’ve already started planning for the period and have several great experiences booked that and some cool ideas for what to do throughout but would love some feedback from you to help shape it! Was there anything your child/children loved about the spring holidays, or anything they’d really love to do in the future? Please let us know!

For the January school holidays we accept bookings of children starting Kindergarten that year. I highly recommend that new kindy children attend the January holiday program as It is a great way for them to transition into school. It helps them to familiarize themselves with the surroundings and make friends in this free setting, thus feeling less anxious when BIG school begins.

Contact Rekkha for more information on 0436 616 744.

To book Gowrie NSW enrolment forms can be found on the Gowrie website:

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