Duranbah Public School

A quality education in a caring environment Telephone 02 6677 7221 Fax 02 66777547

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

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

Term 3 Week 1 - Edition 11 Friday 26 July 2019

Principal’s Report

Welcome back to term 3, hopefully everyone had a chance over

the break to spend some quality time on themselves and their

families. This term promises to provide many new and exciting

experiences for our students, along with plenty of time to

continue the excellent teaching and learning that takes place

each and every day at our school.

Athletics Carnival

What a start to this term for all of our energetic and enthusiastic

kids! Wednesday saw our field competitors travel to Kingscliff to

compete in the Tweed Small School carnival. Thursday saw our

whole school return for the full day track and novelty events. It

was just so good to see how our kids threw themselves into the

events. They cheered each other, they supported all the

competitors, and they gave an excellent account of how

Duranbah students always do the very best they can. There

were plenty of ribbons on show at the end of the day, but the

most pleasing thing was the level of participation and the efforts

of all of our kids. A huge thanks to all of the parents and families

who were able to come along and join us for the day. We

definitely do not take your support for granted.

Green Room

Over the holidays our Green

Room got an overhaul. It’s

now…………green! Many thanks

to the generous time provided by

all who gave up their family time

for our school. Thanks to Kathy

Rockwell for coordinating the

activity along with Mrs Badger

and Ms Robyn Green.

Mark Your Calendar

28 July Pre-Spring Collective Market

29 July Fun With Maths

30 July Indigenous Games at KHS (Yrs 3 & 4)

1 August First Aid Program for Students

2 August Tennis

6 August Mr Gonski Murwillumbah Theatre

11 August Working Bee to build Chicken Coop

Fun with Maths

On Monday our students will combine with the students from Fingal Head PS for a hands-on Maths based activities

workshop called Fun with Maths. They will work together on problem solving tasks, challenges and designing tasks.

Thanks to our P&C for financially supporting this activity, making it cost free for our students. Indigenous Games

On Tuesday our years 3 and 4 students will travel to Kingscliff

HS to combine with other Coastal Learning Community

students in an Indigenous Games day. They will catch a bus

from school to the high school and will return to school in the

afternoon. They will have the opportunity to participate in a

variety of fun physical activities based upon known indigenous

activities.

First Aid in Schools

On Thursday our school will host the St Johns Ambulance

First Aid in Schools program. All students are fortunate

enough to have the opportunity to learn basic relevant

strategies from a Qualified Instructor in an engaging and

interesting format.

Staffing

We welcome a couple of new faces to our staff this term. Mr

Ash has taken up new opportunities elsewhere, and so we

welcome Mr Daniel Hawkins to our school in the role of guitar

and ukulele tutor. Mr Hawkins comes with a broad range of

skills and experience in this area and we look forward to his

contribution to our school. He began lessons this week and

will continue next Wednesday. We also welcome Ms Trish

Guthrie-Watt to Duranbah PS in the capacity of piano/

keyboard teacher and also vocal/ choir. She will begin lessons

in week 3.

Sport

Sport this term is tennis, with Shannyn and Amber from

Kingscliff tennis club. This will take place each Friday before

the second break.

Passion Projects

Mrs Field is busily putting together the next round of Passion

Projects and is in need of another couple of volunteers who

may be able to assist by taking a small group each Friday from

1:45-2:55. Please contact her with any ideas.

Jason Ellem

Principal

NORFOLK ISLAND CAMP UPDATE

Wow! The Fundraising Group have done an amazing job

raising sufficient funds to significantly reduce the costs for

their children to participate in the Camp. These amounts

have been deducted from Family Statements of Account

being sent home today.

Payment Reminder - Payment of $209.82 towards

the Norfolk Island Camp is due today Friday 26 July.

$200 will be due on 9 August and the final payment

of $191 will be due 6 September. Any funds raised

by the fundraising group will be credited to the

account before the instalments are due.

Local Love Entertainment Vouchers - Available

in the school office.

PRE-SPRING COLLECTIVE MARKET We are looking for donations for our Spring Market stall and there are still stalls available. Stalls will be Produce, Wooden Toys, Children’s Clothing, Men's and Women's clothing, Homewares. Any donations much appreciated. Contact Annie on 0415 896 949

School Representative Council (SRC) Initiatives

MILO MONDAY - Commencing Monday 29 July. Students

can purchase a cup of Milo and a biscuit in 1st break on Mon-

days. Cost will be $1 for Milo or $2 for Milo and a biscuit.

The funds raised will go towards our school’s Sustainability

Program.

Office News

FLEXISCHOOLS ACCESS

All School Notices, Newsletters, Alerts are now posted on

Flexischools. The Flexischools App has been upgraded

requiring users to register, so you will need to make sure you’ve

got the Flexischools App installed on your phone, if you already

have, stop it and restart the App. When it opens it asks you to

login. If you don’t yet have a login, click ‘register now’ and follow

the prompts. If you are still having any difficulties please either

phone Customer Service on 1300 361 769 or email

help@flexischools.com.au. Please do not use Flexibuzz.

STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT

Statements of Account are being sent home with this week’s

Newsletter. Please note the payments for Piano/Keyboard

Lessons, for 7 weeks in Term 2, have been credited to those

families who had paid and appear as an Unallocated Credit on

the bottom of statements. The Norfolk Island costs have also

been reduced by the amount raised by the Norfolk Island Camp

Fundraising Group. Payments may be made either by Cash or

by using the POP Online payment system.

EXCURSIONS AND INCURSIONS

INDIGENOUS GAMES—YEARS 3 & 4 ONLY

These games are being held at Kingscliff Public School on Tues-

day 30 July. Information Notes have been sent home today with

this Newsletter. Please return the permission slip by Monday 29

July.

MR GONSKI - KINDERGARTEN, YEARS 1, 2 AND 3 ONLY

Murwillumbah Theatre Group are performing Mr Gonski on

Tuesday 6 August from10.00 - 11.00 am at the Murwillumbah

Civic Centre. Information Notes are being sent home today with

this Newsletter. Please return the permission slip by Friday 2

August.

FIRST AID IN SCHOOLS

St John is coming to deliver our First Aid in Schools Program at

our school on Thursday 1 August. This is a free program St

John (NSW) is offering, to provide school aged children with first

aid skills they can use in the event of an emergency. Further

information is on the next page.

FUN WITH MATHS

This exciting activity will be held at our school on Monday 29

July and all students will be participating. Further information is

on the next page.

CHICKEN COOP

WORKING BEE

. Sunday 11 August 2019

. Volunteers are required to

assist with building the

Chicken Coop and erecting

the fencing.

. Donations of building

materials are still required

(eg new chicken wire, a gate,

stepping stones, a pond)

. Please contact Annie on

0415 896 949.

P & C News

All future P&C Meetings will be held on Tuesdays in Weeks 4 and 8 of each Term.

NEXT MEETING TUESDAY 13 AUGUST AT 1.45 PM IN THE NEWLY PAINTED GREEN ROOM (OLD LIBRARY)

SPORT SHIRTS - will be available early Term 3. The cost to parents is $18.50 each. The P & C are subsidising them for $10.00 each. Once your child has grown out of the shirt they can swap for a 2nd hand larger size for free. Students will be able to wear their Sports Shirts to the Athletics Days. BOOK SALE - SUNDAY 28 JULY 9.00 am - 2.00 pm - Casuarina Hockey Fields, Barclay Drive, Casuarina. Volunteers required to help at the stall. Money raised will go towards our library upgrade and new books.

REMINDER STUDENT BANKING is on Thursday mornings and please ensure your child drops their banking into the office before school.

BOARD SHORTS AND RASHIES are for sale in the office, for only $10. Fundraiser for P&C. WEDNESDAY SPECIAL LUNCHES We still require volunteers to cook and/or serve the Wednesday Lunches in Term 3. Please return the form at the beginning of Term 3, if you can assist. You may also use the form to pay for the full term.

Enrichment Maths Workshop

We have invited “Fun With Maths Pty Ltd” to present a

Maths Incursion at our school on Monday 29 July.

They offer a range of creative, problem solving activities

suitable for your child’s level of maths. All their ac-

tivities use “hands-on” materials to develop under-

standing and solve “real-life” problems. The chil-

dren work in pairs and can move around .

The activities use “Thinking Mathematical” strategies

from the new National Syllabus and previous NAPLAN

test questions.

“Using both sides of your brain,

you have twice as much fun”

http://www.funwithmaths.com.au