DID YOU KNOW?? - Dookie Primary School

DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Baldock Street, Dookie VIC 3646
Ph 5828 6585
Bus 0407 054 389 (Kate)
dookieps@edumail.vic.gov.au
www.dookieps.vic.edu.au
DID YOU KNOW??
Did you know that today,
5th December 2013 is
INTERNATIONAL
VOLUNTEER DAY ?
Over 1/3 of adult Australians
volunteer in some capacity and that
contribution is valued at more than
$40billion annually !!!!!
05/12/2013
Issue 37
Tuesday 3rd December 2013
We hosted our annual Volunteers Thank you
lunch. This is a chance for our students to
show their appreciation to all the people who
volunteer their time in our Stephanie
Alexander Kitchen Garden program and
other areas at school. We hope to see you
all back again in 2014!!
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DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
DECEMBER 2013
Mon
2
Tue
3 Kitchen Lessons
Volunteers Thank you
lunch
AASC
9
10 Kitchen Lessons
Wed
4 MARC Library Van
Thu
5
6 Friday Lunches
Garden Lessons
6.15pm School Council
Meeting
AASC - Tennis final
11
12
13 Friday Lunches
Garden Lessons
Whole Day 2014
Foundation Students
Transition
16
17 No Kitchen Lessons
Christmas Concert &
Picnic
18
Whole School End of
Year excursion
23
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
24
CHRISTMAS EVE
30
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
31
NEW YEARS EVE
Fri
25
CHRISTMAS DAY
19
Christmas Craft Day
20 No Garden Lessons
Final day of school for
2013.
1.30pm early dismissal
26
BOXING DAY
27
JANUARY 2014
Mon
27
AUSTRALIA DAY
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Tue
28
STAFF RETURN TO
SCHOOL
Staff Professional
Development Day
NO SCHOOL FOR
STUDENTS
Wed
29
Staff Preparation Day
NO SCHOOL FOR
STUDENTS
Thu
30
Fri
31
ALL STUDENTS
START SCHOOL
TODAY
BOOK COVERING
We have quite a number of new take home readers
and teacher resource books that will require covering.
If you are able to spend a few hours to help cover these books, you
can even do it at home if you wish, we would greatly appreciate some help.
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05/12/2013
DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
STUDENT AWARDS
P/1 Group - Mrs Comer
2/3 Group - Mr Ramsey
Tayler Moncrieff
4/5 Group - Mr Minogue
Zac Tobias
Jordan Sutherland
for working hard in class.
for being a great
‘all-rounder.’
for pointing to the words
when reading & for writing
a sentence by herself.
SCHOOL LEADER AWARDS
Lachy Ludeman
Raff Sutherland
Shanae Guy
for showing the value
CARING FOR
OURSELVES
for showing the value of
CARING FOR
THEIR SCHOOL
for showing the value
CARING FOR
EACH OTHER
TEA TOWEL & APRON ROSTER
TERM 4, 2013
Tuesday 12th November
Tuesday 19th November
Tuesday 26th November
Tuesday 3rd December
Tuesday 10th December
- Bryant Family
- Carey Family
- Ezzey Family
- Fleming Family
- Freeman Family
Tea towels & aprons are to be collected after school Tuesday, or they can be sent home
with your child. They need to be returned to school by Friday of the same week.
Thank for your help with our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
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- From our Principal We hosted a very successful lunch
Tuesday for a number parents and
community members who have
volunteered for the Stephanie
Alexander Kitchen Garden program
this year. Thanks to all those who attended, I am
sure you all enjoyed the lovely food on the menu
that Janie had developed and which was cooked
and prepared by our enthusiastic senior class. The
volunteers are vital to our kitchen garden program
and we really enjoyed showing our appreciation for
their hard work and support for the program this
year. Thank you and we hope to see you back in the
kitchen or garden (or both!) volunteering next year.
DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Active After School Care ended this week and I
would like to say thank you to all the families who
have supported this program throughout the year. It
has been a great success and with the addition of
the Currawa PS students to our program we have
had up to 30 children participate some afternoons.
Thank you to our local coaches and supervisors as
well Suzie Hall, Amanda Sutherland and Julie Ladgrove for their efforts in running the program. Well
done ! AASC will continue next year and permission
forms and details will be handed out early in the
Term 1.
Friday lunches also end this Friday and again
thanks to all the families who have supported this
program throughout the year. This program has
raised an amazing amount of money, nearly $3000
which is a testament to the great community we
have here at Dookie—or the support the parents
have shown the program but also the hard work of
Amanda Sutherland and Kara Pleming who week in
and out are here at school on Friday to prepare,
cook and package the lunches for the children.
Thank you for your fantastic efforts and well done. A
few other parents have also chipped in and helped
with the program a number of times, thank you as
well. Friday lunches will continue again in 2014.
On Tuesday we also had a visit from some students
(including ex-Dookie PS Michael Virgei) and their
band from Wanganui Park Secondary College. The
band played a number of songs in front of the children who danced (very enthusiastically by some
Prep and Year 1 students) and sang along with the
band. We were all very impressed by the band’s
skills, both with their instrument playing and singing.
Donny, Ruby, Shanae and Lachy also had a chance
to play some instruments and were able to play ”We
will Rock You” very quickly, well done!
I would like to acknowledge and thank Jacqui Guy
for her help in Friday library lessons with
On Friday Mrs Hazell our music teacher will be
Mrs Lowden. Jacqui has been quietly assisting
returning to school to start preparing the students
for the end of year concert to be held NEXT Friday Mrs Lowden for most of the year helping the
the 13th December at the Dookie Community Cen- students borrow and return books as well as
cataloguing and keeping the books in the library tidy
tre. There is a flyer in the newsletter this week that
has all the details of this event. Mrs Hazell will return and organised.
for a couple of days next week as well as to continue the preparation. Please return the form handed
out about the end of year concert to the office
ASAP.
A final reminder about BOOKLISTS as well. Please
return these to school by this Friday 6th December. It
is very important that students have the items on the
booklist for 2014. These items are ones that the
teachers have chosen and it is very important that
the students have these for their learning in class
during 2014.
Thanks to Kara Pleming who has removed the
rebound wall from the playground the other
weekend. There is some wood left over from this
sitting in the playground. If anyone would like this
and is happy to take it away please let me know.
The normal school program will continue for next
week but in the last week (16th-20th December) we
will have a few different activities planned including
a Christmas Craft Day and whole school excursion
to the cinema in Wangaratta. Notes for the
excursion will be going home shortly. Term 4 and
th
Last Friday we had a successful end to our skipping the school year will end at 1:30pm on Friday 20
program with our “Jump Off” activities at the end of December.
the day where all the children participated in some
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
skipping activities. Thanks to all those students who
supported the event and Heart Foundation by bring7th - Ruby Moncrieff
ing in a gold coin donation.
11th - Finnegan Spencely
24th - Cormac Hall
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DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Junior Class with Mrs Comer
Skipping: On Friday we had the ‘jump off’ for Jump Rope for Heart. It was very pleasing to
see how much the students have improved with their skipping over the term.
Rose (Spiny Leaf Insect): Our Spiny Leaf Insect, Rose, has GROWN. On Wednesday she
must have shed her exoskeleton and she has nearly doubled in size.
Literacy: This week in literacy the Prep’s have focused on rhyming words. The Grade Ones have continued to work on the –ing suffix. They have focused on the rule of when there is a short vowel and one consonant, they need to double the last consonant and then add -ing.
Writing: This week in writing we have focused on invitations. We have read Cinderella and written invitations to the ball. We have also had the opportunity to write invitations for the Kitchen-Garden Volunteers
lunch.
Maths: The focus for this week has been money. We have talked about the appearance of the coins. We
have discussed their size, shape and value. The Preps have been working at sequencing coins from least
value to most value. The Grade Ones have been learning about different ways they can make one dollar.
Investigations: This week we read Jack and the Beanstalk and rewrote the story in our own words.
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DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Senior Class with Mr Mingoue
Literacy: This week in literacy we have been looking at the nativity story. The students
have ordered the story in six squares to understand the structure of a story. The other
literacy focus group have concentrated on past, present and future tense and learning
how changing two words in a sentence can change the tense.
Maths: This week in maths we have focused on measurement and revisiting some of the
skills we have learnt in the past such as figuring out area and perimeter.
Knitting: We are now asking that all students please bring back their raffle tickets and money for the quilt
raffle. Please ensure that any money and tickets that come back are clearly labelled QUILT
RAFFLE to avoid confusion with school raffle.
Well done to the senior class, Janie and Mr Ramsey for the beautiful lunch they cooked for the Helpers
lunch.
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DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
DOOKIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
2014 CHRISTMAS PICNIC &
CONCERT
WHEN:
Friday 13th December 2014 at 6pm
WHERE: Dookie Community Centre
WHAT:
BYO Picnic Tea, Student Concert items,
Student Presentations & other acknowledgements.
We are also expecting a visit from a VIP ?!?!?
WHO:
Students, Families, Grandparents,
Friends - everybody is welcome!!
BRING: Picnic Tea, chairs, picnic rugs etc.
Please come along to help our school celebrate the end
of another successful year and acknowledge the
wonderful work of our students, parents & staff.