Duranbah Public School

A quality education in a caring environment

Telephone 02 6677 7221 Fax 02 6677 7547

105 Duranbah Road, DURANBAH 2487 Email: duranbah-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.duranbah-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 3 Week 1 - Edition 7 Friday 24 July 2020

Principal’s Report

Welcome back to all of our families for term 3. After the

roller coaster of last term, we are hoping that this term

provides more stability and opportunities to continue with

the exciting business of teaching and learning. It has been

lovely catching back up with all of our students and hearing

how they and their families spent their break relaxing and

enjoying fun times.

Covid-19 School Guidelines

As I said in the message sent out via Flexischools and

Facebook earlier in the week, we are operating very

similarly to the end of last term. The full explanation for all

of the guidelines for families can be found at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

Basically ‘non-essential’ parent presence at school is still

not allowed, except for:

* Parents cooking for Wednesday lunches.

* Formalised Parent/teacher meetings (usually for

welfare reasons).

Whenever a parent or visitor attends school they need to

complete the appropriate form in the office.

At school we are all still adhering to handwashing and

sanitising protocols, as well as the need for students to

bring water bottles as opposed to drinking from the

bubbler.

Student drop offs in the mornings are still ‘kiss-and-drop,

and pick-ups in the afternoon will remain staggered

(K/1M@2:30pm, 2/3K@2:45pm and 4/5/6@3pm).

Importantly, if parents are going to be 15 minutes beyond

these pick-up times, we ask that they contact us to inform

us so that students are not sitting for extended periods in

the COLA after a tiring day of learning.

P&C AGM

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the P&C

AGM at the end of last term. A new Executive was elected

and congratulations must go to Brooke Udale - President,

Jo Anderson and Stacey Hilder - Vice Presidents, Karen

Nixon - Treasurer and Kate Field - Secretary.

A huge thank you must go to the outgoing executive who

put a lot of work and effort into our school and our

students. Our school is grateful for the work that Kathy,

Tania and Claire did.

Mark Your Calendar

This Calendar could change at any time, please keep checking Flexischools App and P&C Facebook Page for

Updates

• 31 August Life Education (Healthy Harold)

Student Reports

By now, all of our families will have read and digested

their child’s Semester 1 report. We intend to facilitate

Parent/Teacher interviews as soon as we are able to,

to discuss these and plan for the continuation of each

student’s learning progress.

Music Program

Our excellent music program continues in term 3.

There are a few spaces for students to take up these

opportunities to learn keyboard, guitar or drums and

we are excited to be able to offer an opportunity for

students to learn vocals each Tuesday afternoon with

Miss Mayra.

Each of our music programs costs $70 per term per

instrument. Students new to the program can have a

free ‘taster’ lesson to see if they wish to take up the

opportunity. Information forms are available from the

office.

School Lunches

Notes went home this week asking for parents to

volunteer to cook each Wednesday. Please return

these to the office so that we can get organised for

this. A $40 subsidy for parents is available to off-set

the costs of ingredients each week.

Passion Projects

Mrs Field is busily preparing and organising our

‘Passion Projects; program for this term. We intend

(given current protocols) to begin this program for

weeks 3, 4 and 5 and then again in weeks 7, 8 and 9.

If you think you’d like to share some time with a small

group of our students for an hour on these Fridays

please contact Mrs Field to volunteer.

School Sport

Our school sport program continues each Friday with

Tennis games and activities being facilitated here at

school. We are very fortunate to have two local

coaches, Shannyn Ricketts and Amber Molloy, return

to our school for this terrific program.

mailto:duranbah-p.school@det.nsw.edu.auhttps://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

Term 2 Week 10

Award Winners

Liam, Riley, Zoe, Leilani, Zander, Jimi & Mieki

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Principals Report

continued…

AUSLAN Lessons

We are very pleased to

welcome Mrs Kathy

Wildermuth to our school each

Friday to teach ‘AUSLAN’ to

our students. Mrs Wildermuth

is an expert in this area, and

we are very fortunate to have

her experience at our school.

Regards

Mr Jason Ellem

Principal

P & C Fundraiser at Red Earth

Brewery in Term 2

Wednesday Canteen Lunch

We are once again asking for your participation in the Parents and Citi-

zens’ Association Fundraiser, the Wednesday Canteen Program for

Term 3. Home cooked meals by a parent or carer volunteer make a

wonderful change to the standard packed lunches.

The Program will run for 8 weeks in Term 3, beginning next week 29

July (Week 2) and the final week will be 16 September (Week 9). The

cost is $4.00 per week or you can pay for the whole term. Week’s 1

and 10 will be a Sausage Sizzle, which is free of charge for all students.

We still require Volunteers to cook and/or serve for 12, 19 and 26 Au-

gust and 9 September.

P & C News

Music Program

A Music Program Expression of Interest form is attached

to this newsletter, please complete if you would like your

child to begin or continue in the Music Program for Term

3, 2020.

Please note Vocals has been added as an instrument.

Statements of Account will be sent home next week.

Notification for Parents and Carers

Please find attached the Nationally Consistent Collec-

tion of Data on School Students with

Disability information sheet.

Book Club

All Book Club orders must be in to the office by Friday 7

August. Orders may also be placed online.

Flexischools

Please ensure you have uploaded the Flexischool App

onto your phone. This will enable you to receive all the

notices, newsletters, alerts and you can use this App to

advise us of student absences and return permission

notes. Below are instructions on how to download and

register the app.

WE NOW HAVE THE EFTPOS FACILITY IN

THE OFFICE!

This facility can be used instead of cash for all

school expenses, except Sushi, Canteen and

P&C related activities.

Office News

Receive all your school notifications with Flexischools App

Our school has a great online notification system for

Newsletters, Notes & Events called Flexischools.

Flexischools allows you to see all your school activities

online in a matter of seconds, at any time of the day.

Duranbah Public School does not use Flexischools for

online ordering. For all online ordering, please see the

school website for Parenting Online Payments (POP).

1. Download the Flexischools App

Note: for iPhone and iPad please select ‘Allow’ notifica-

tions

2. Add your School and Group

Click on the search icon, enter your school name, select

your school and year group, or groups relevant to you.

3. Login/Register

Click the ‘Order now’ button located in the bottom right-

hand corner of the app, this will open a login screen.

• Already a Flexischools user - Enter your details and

login. To save your login details select ‘remember

me’.

• New Flexischools user - Click ‘Register’, enter your

email address and follow the instructions in the email

to set up your account. Once your account is set up,

add new student; search for our school, enter student

details and select their class.

Once registered, you can start receiving notifications im-

mediately. If you have any questions, please contact the

Flexischools Customer Service Team on 1300 361 769, or

you can contact them via their website.

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Passion Projects

Can you volunteer one hour of your time on a Friday for 3 weeks? We are looking for

family and community members to share their personal interests and to work actively with our students to further develop their skills and interests. Round 1 of our Passion Projects will run Weeks 3, 4 & 5 and Round 2 being Weeks 7, 8 & 9 of this term.

Our students have indicated that they would like to further develop their knowledge and skills in the following areas:

If you have a personal interest that isn’t listed that you would like to share with our

students please let us know.

Also if you would like to come along and help please let us know.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

First session starts Friday 7th August at 1:45-2:45pm.

Email: kate.ash3@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: 02 6677 7221

Mrs Kate Field

• clay/ceramics

• gymnastics/acrobatics

• sewing/knitting

• yoga

• construction/building/ lego

• cooking

• orientation/mapping

• animal care

• robotics/IT programming

• photography

• martial arts

• singing/dancing

• ball skills/football/soccer

• art skills/craft

mailto:kate.ash3@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 1 - Edition 7 Friday 24 July 2020

Term 3 Week 1 - Edition 7 Friday 24 July 2020