Term 3 - Week 3, 2022
- Principal's Message
- Sports Colour Mufti Day
- Weekly Awards
- 2022 Book Week & Book Fair events
- How to Cancel a Canteen Order
- 2022 Premier's Reading Challenge
- Congratulations Clay!
- 2022 Dorrigo Show Schedule Cover Competition
- School Facebook Page
- Library Day - Wednesday
- School Bus Travel
- School Drive Subsidy
- GLUE
- Instrumental Music With Hazel
- Dorrigo Rangers Rugby Union
- Bellingen/Dorrigo Junior Rugby League
- Soccer Training - Wednesdays
- Healthy Lunchbox Website
Principal's Message
Dear Parents,
This week I had the opportunity to teach K - 2 while some of our teachers were being trained in Initial Lit. This approach to teaching English supports the new K-2 NSW English curriculum which is due to be implemented in 2023. We will be well placed to implement this curriculum next year.
In K-2 we were learning about emotions. See if you can guess emotions from the pictures below. We were learning about: happy, sad, bored, tired, anxious, angry, confused, annoyed etc. It was great to connect with the K - 2 students; they have a thirst for learning and natural curiosity and it was fun to engage with them.
K-2 Emotions gallery
Earlier this week I sent a link to parents to complete a ‘Tell them from me survey’. The link is below again. This survey provides the school with ideas to help us improve. I encourage each family to complete this survey to help us on our school improvement journey.
Please save the following dates as we are organising some events for parents to visit and be part of our community.
Tuesday 13th September - Trivia Night 5 - 7pm
Tuesday 20th September - Creative Arts Showcase Assembly 2pm
We hope you can make these events; more information will come about both events closer to the date.
Regards,
Nathan Trezise,
Principal
We are honoured to be on the ancestral lands of the Gumbaynggirr people. We acknowledge the First Australians as the traditional custodians of the continent, whose cultures are among the oldest living cultures in human history. We pay respect to the Elders of the community and extend our recognition to their descendants who are present.
Sports Colour Mufti Day
What a sea of colour we were greeted with today when we arrived at school. It was great to see all the students in their favourite sport team colours, even if some had the QLD maroon on!! The students were keen to show who they barrack and play for as they shared their Milo, toast and fruit. We made $50 from our gold coin donations, which will go towards the purchase of material to make blankets to be donated to those in need of some warmth.
Thank you for your support!
Louise Sprowles
Leader of Catechesis Evangelisation and Spirituality (LOSEAC)
Weekly Awards
Congratulations to the following students, who received class awards this week:
Rokko B - for wonderful effort in class when learning about our sounds. Keep it up!
Evie J - for being a wonderful and caring classmate.
Hunter G - for your great contributions to a class poster on the water cycle.
Lakota M-T - for being so welcoming to visitors to our classroom. Thank you for being so welcoming.
Eden G - for making a great effort with Stage 2 dance and trying her best to learn the Heel-Toe Polka.
Chloe T - for a great effort in Mathematics when designing boxes.
Jordan D - for creating a detailed writing plan to assist in creating your persuasive opinion on country life vs city life.
2022 Book Week & Book Fair events
2022 Book Week & Book Fair is coming up in Week 6, from 22-26 August. Thank you to Ashlee Turner, who has volunteered to be our Book Fair coordinator again this year. This year's theme is "Paws for Books". There will be a display of books available for purchase set up in the library during this week. Each Book Fair is designed to give kids access to more books they want to read, from relevant new-releases to classic award-winners. Every purchase made will benefit our school, as we receive a percentage of all sales made as free books for our library.
The students will be visiting Dorrigo Library on Wednesday 24th August to participate in some sessions with the library staff.
On Thursday 25th August, we will be holding our Book Character Dress-up Parade at 11:30am - this is great fun, with all students and staff dressing up for the day as their favourite character from a book. Time to start thinking about your costumes!
How to Cancel a Canteen Order
If you need to, you can cancel canteen orders before 8:30am on Friday mornings. If you know your child is going to be away you can go into Compass Canteen and select "cancel order". The money goes back into your Compass "wallet" so you can use it next time you order.
2022 Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier's Reading Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is open to all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9, in government, independent, Catholic and home schools. You must read a certain number of books to complete the Challenge. The Challenge closes for students on Friday August 19, 2022.
Congratulations to the following students, who have completed this year's Premier's Reading Challenge: Mia G, Harry C, Willa M, Freya W, Reid G, Harry W
Congratulations Clay!
Congratulations to Clay B, who has recently been selected for the Coffs Crusaders Under 11s Rep Rugby team. A great effort!
2022 Dorrigo Show Schedule Cover Competition
This year the Show Society is confident that the Dorrigo Show will be happening on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2022. Therefore, we ask as many students as possible to design and submit a Cover for our Schedule Cover competition.
The theme is Women in Agriculture, and there are gift vouchers and Showbags to be won. Not to mention the prestige of having your artwork on over 1000 Covers!
The competition closes soon. Please create your artwork on A4 Portrait paper, and contact Sally Duckett at dorrigoshowpresident@gmail.com or phone 02 6657 5241 when your artwork is ready for collection.
School Facebook Page
Check out our school Facebook page! It is wonderful to be able to share the good news of our school with our families and community.
Library Day - Wednesday
Library day for all students is Wednesday - please make sure your child brings in his or her cloth library bag on this day. Each student may borrow four books per week.
School Bus Travel
Applications for student travel can be made online. Apply here
School Drive Subsidy
The School Drive Subsidy is available for eligible school students where there is no public transport available for all or part of the journey. If you have to drive your child more than 1.6km to a school bus stop, you may be eligible for this subsidy – go to the link below to apply.
GLUE
GLUE "God Loves Us Eternally" (formerly GFS) is held each Wednesday during school terms from 3-5pm at the Anglican Hall. Afternoon tea, games, fun worship and craft. All primary kids welcome, as are newcomers. For more info, ring Gwenneth on 6657 2135. COVID-safe practices will apply.
Instrumental Music With Hazel
Hazel Buchanan is offering individual music lessons on Friday afternoons at school again this year, and currently has a couple of spaces. Hazel teaches woodwind, brass and piano. For more details, please call Hazel on 0458 572525.
Dorrigo Rangers Rugby Union
Bellingen/Dorrigo Junior Rugby League
Soccer Training - Wednesdays
- Quolls (Under 12s) - 5:15pm
- Wallabies (Under 10s) - 4:00pm
- Sugargliders (Under 8s) - 4:00pm
- Miniroos - 3:30pm (from 30th March)
Healthy Lunchbox Website
Cancer Council’s Healthy Lunch Box website is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about packing a healthy lunch box. For recipes, information and health tips please visit the website below.
