DALWALLINU DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL 9797Johnston JohnstonStreet, Street, The purpose of Dalwallinu District High School is to develop academic excellence, physical and emotional wellbeing, positive and responsible attitudes and decision-making skills for the continued growth of all. DALWALLINU DALWALLINUWA WA6609 6609 Phone: Phone:(08) (08)9661 96611204 1204 Fax: Fax:(08) (08)9661 96611344 1344 V O L U ME SMS: SMS:0437 0437153 153176 176 @education.wa.edu.au @education.wa.edu.au oror IMPORTANT Tarren.Southcott Tarren.Southcott DATES @@education.wa.edu.au education.wa.edu.au 1 23 T 0T H HS E O PCTTEOMBBEERR 2 20 01 14 3 From KateRoutledge Wilson From the the Principal, Principal, Miss Mr Steve Dear Parents and Members of the School Community, Email: Email: principal.dalwallinu.dhs Nick.Stretch 1 8 5 Dear Parents and Members of the School Community, FROM THE PRINCIPAL (Cont’d) STRATEGIC PLANNING Following on from our work on the principles that underpin our school as a learning community, the Executive Teaching and Learning Team (ETALT) has commenced the process of constructing our Strategic Plan. This plan will set the school’s direction and articulate the strategic focus for the next Fri 30th Aug ‘Fathers 3 years. While the document is still in draft form and the plan will need to IMPORTANT Day’ Activity day be endorsed by our staff and school council, I am excited to share the 5 DATES 8.45am key strategic initiatives identified by the team, my intention is to give our Fri Friday October 30th31st Aug ‘Fathers community a sense of what we are working towards: Fri 30th Aug 1500m Summer Carnival Day’ Activity day running event @ town 1. Effective Teaching and Learning. 8.45am @ Dalwallinu Oval oval 1.30pm 2. Strong, Sustainable Partnerships. Fri 30th Aug 1500m 3. Engaging Learning Environment. Thurs 6th Nov Frid 6th Sept Faction 4. Enhancing Students’ Emotional Intelligence. running event @ town School Council Sports Carnival @ 5. Staff Commitment and Accountability. oval 1.30pm Meeting town oval in School Library Frid 6th Sept Faction The leadership and planning teams will have the responsibility of construct Wed 11th Sept ing the operational plans that will deliver the “How?” aspect of our planSports Carnival @ P &Fri November C 7th Meeting follow- ning and are represented in the diagram below: town oval Cricket ing 20/20 assembly Wed 11th Sept P Competition Tues17th Sept School & C Meeting following Meeting 5pm Council Monday 17th Nov assembly Friday 28th Nov Fri 20th Sept Tues17th Sept School Interm Swimming NEDSSA Interschool Council Meeting 5pm Lessons Sports Carnival @ Kalannie Fri 20th Sept Wed 17th DecNEDSSA Interschool Sports PRESENTATION Carnival @ Kalannie NIGHT REGIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS VISIT Our Regional Executive Director, Mr Kim Guelfi, will be vising our school on Monday the 3 rd of November. Mr Guelfi will be discussing our school’s strategic direction and the importance of this aligning with the Department of Education’s key initiatives. Mr Guelfi has also made himself available to meet with our school council and will be doing so at 11.30am. We welcome Mr Guelfi to our school and look forward to his visit. I am confident he will be able to provide us with valuable feedback that will support our school as it relentlessly seeks to improve. DALWALLINU D.H.S. P & C Association First prize $5,000 cash RAFFLE (drawn at our presentation night, week before Christmas). $50 a ticket. Which can be paid electronically BSB: 306/008 Acc 4160715, then email Name, contact number and postal address to: [email protected] for tickets to be posted to you. Limited tickets. Good luck! All profits made will be spent on our school. From the Deputy Principal, Mr Nick Stretch SCIENCE MINING CHALLENGE 25 Students from years 6-10 are participating in another Island Lighthouse Network Science Activity today. The day is being run by the Curtin University with the express purpose of highlighting career opportunities in Science. With many fun activities we look forward to sharing more information and photos in the next newsletter. SWIMMING LESSONS Swimming lesson forms and monies need to returned to school by 7 th November (next Friday) to allow classes to be formed. If you are unsure of the stage your child is in please indicate so on the form. UNIFORM ORDERS A reminder that next year our school will be completely dressed in the new school uniform which consists of bottle green pants/shorts or skirts and the new school polo shirt. Most students are already wearing the new uniform on a daily basis but not everyone. Please ensure that you have a Uniform order into Mrs Brown at the canteen by Friday 14 th November 2014. SUMMER CARNIVAL This Friday students in Years 4-7 will be competing in Cricket and Basketball. Dalwallinu has 4 Basketball teams and 1 Kanga Cricket team. If you are able to provide any assistance with scoring or umpiring please contact Sean Gilbert. Please come down and support the teams if you are able. LITERACY TIP Some rhyme activities you may enjoy with your child are the following: When sharing a book, you can point out the rhyming words as you read them, or pause at the end of a sentence and get your child to complete the sentence with the rhyming word. You can ask your child to think of another word which rhymes with the one you have said. To work on a little auditory memory as well as rhyme, give your child three or four words, some which rhyme and one which doesn’t. Ask them to say the word which doesn’t rhyme. The ability to be able to hear a rhyming pattern and to generate a rhyming word is a crucial early literacy skill. Don’t forget to work on rhyme as well as sounds when your child starts to read. For more information go to www.talktoliteracy.com.au and click on blog. WE STILL HAVE MANY FACTION T-SHIRTS OUTSTANDING, PLEASE RETURN THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Thank you. 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SAT SUN 13 OCT 14 15 16 17 18 19 Term 4 Commences for Staff Students NEWSLETTER Commence Kindy Readiness 20 21 24 25 26 1 NOV 2 8 9 22 P & C Meeting 2 Principals Network Meeting 7pm in Library 27 28 3 3 4 29 30 31 Assembly NEWSLETTER SUMMER Year 8 Kindy Readiness CARNIVAL 5 6 7 School Council Meeting 7pm in School Library 20/20 Cricket Competition 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 Incursion Kindy— Year 7 “It’s a Mad World” BOOK FAIR 26 27 28 29 30 Assembly NEWSLETTER 5 7 Advanced Standing Camp 6 Year 10 Grad 10 12 Dinner 13 14 19 20 21 27 28 4 10 NEWSLETTER Kindy Readiness REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE 17 18 19 Swimming Lessons 24 7 12 Year 3 Excursion to Kings Park 5 6 11 23 25 Swimming Lessons 1 DEC Year 9/10 2 8 8 9 3 4 11 NEWSLETTER Aquatic Super Series 9 15 16 10 22 23 17 Presentation Night 18 24 25 26 Christmas Day Boxing Day Final Day for Students On Friday the 31st of October students from Dalwallinu DHS will be participating in the NEDSSA 2014 Summer Carnival at the Dalwallinu Town Oval. 4 Mixed Basketball teams, and a mixed cricket team from years 4/5 and 6/7 will be competing. Students will be walking from school grounds at 9:20am for a 9:50am start and will return after the conclusion of the carnival at 2:30pm. Mr Gilbert, Miss Perrett and Mr McNeill will be in attendance. It is compulsory that all students wear their school uniform. Students will be required to wear a hat, sunscreen and protective clothing. It is also highly recommended that all participants bring their own water bottle and lunch to keep them going throughout the day. If any parents are available to lend a hand on the day please inform Mr Gilbert as umpires and scorers are required. Best of luck to the 5 Dalwallinu teams representing the school! Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Hamish Dickins Jordan Davis Justin Marrone Harrison McIlroy Blake Lehmann John Matias Camille Tesico Brielle Counsel Hannah Manuel Graham Sant Alan Stirling Ethan Gallagher Janae Lawton Phoebe Harris Aaliyah Grantham Marcus Donnes Lily-May Wilson Jake Wilcox Zedric Delvo Brendan Hughes Rhianna Thomas Nick Boys Callum Northover Ben Sutherland Gemma Crnobjrna Trinity Bryant Jack Marrone Jazmin Timmins Brett Anderson Team 1 Eric White Owen Oudman Jacques Jasmin Madayag Brek Johnson Yvan Beato Sophie Fry Jayde Northover Jack Sutherland Lucy-Ann Wilson Basketball Cricket Round 1 (10:00 – 10:25) Round 1 (10:00 – 10:45) Court 1: Dalwallinu 2 v Dalwallinu 3 Court 2: Dalwallinu 4 v Kalannie 2 Court 3: Kalannie 1 v Dalwallinu 1 Bye: Ballidu 1 Round 2 (10:30 – 10:55) Court 1: Ballidu 1 v Dalwallinu 4 Court 2: Dalwallinu 1 v Dalwallinu 2 Court 3: Kalannie 2 v Kalannie 1 Bye: Dalwallinu 3 Round 3 (11:00 – 11:25) Court 1: Dalwallinu 3 v Dalwallinu 1 Court 2: Kalannie 1 v Ballidu 1 Court 3: Dalwallinu 2 v Kalannie 2 Bye: Dalwallinu 4 Round 4 (11:30 – 11.55) Court 1: Kalannie 1 v Dalwallinu 4 Court 2: Dalwallinu 3 v Kalannie 2 Court 3: Dalwallinu 2 v Ballidu 1 Bye: Dalwallinu 1 Lunch (11:55 – 12:25) Round 5 (12:30 – 12:55) Court 1: Kalannie 2 v Dalwallinu 1 Court 2: Dalwallinu 4 v Dalwallinu 2 Court 3: Ballidu 1 v Dalwallinu 3 Bye: Kalannie 1 Round 6 (1:00 – 1:25) Court 1: Dalwallinu 2 v Kalannie 1 Court 2: Dalwallinu 1 v Ballidu 1 Court 3: Dalwallinu 3 v Dalwallinu 4 Bye: Kalannie 2 Round 7 (1:30 – 1:55) Court 1: Ballidu 1 v Kalannie 2 Court 2: Kalannie 1 v Dalwallinu 3 Court 3: Dalwallinu 4 v Dalwallinu 1 Bye: Dalwallinu 2 Presentations 2:00 – 2:10 Dalwallinu v Buntine Bye: Kalannie Round 2 (10:50 – 11:35) Buntine v Kalannie Bye: Dalwallinu Lunch (11:40 – 12:10) Round 3 (12:15 –1:00) Kalannie v Dalwallinu Bye: Buntine Final (1:05 – 1:50) Presentations 2:00 – 2:10 On Friday the 7th of November selected students from Dalwallinu DHS will be participating in an Interschool T20 Cricket Competition at Dalwallinu Town Oval. Mixed teams of 8 from years 3, 4/5 and 6/7 will be competing. Students will be walking from school grounds at 9:20am for a 9:50am start and will return after the conclusion of the carnival at 2:30pm. Mr Gilbert, Miss Perrett and Mr McNeill will be in attendance. It is strongly recommended that all students wear hats, sunscreen, sun glasses and protective clothing. It is also highly recommended that all participants bring their own water bottle and lunch to keep them going throughout the day. Best of luck to the 5 Dalwallinu teams representing the school! Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Hamish DickIns Trinity Bryant Nick Boys Bella Bryant Jack Marrone Paige Counsel Tom Fry Jack Sutherland Brielle Counsel Yvan Beato Aaliyah Grantham Jacques Roux Paige Lobwein Ethan Bunggo Harrison McIlroy Janae Lawton Brek Johnson Hannah Manuel Callum Northover Alita White Tom Davis Jack Stewart Justin Marrone Lucy-Ann Wilson Black Lehmann Lily-May Wilson Owen Oudman Ella Gallagher Dustin Filgate Sebastian Rausch Alan Stirling Sophie Fry Ben Sutherland Jasmine Madayag Graham Sant Eloise Delvo Eric White Charlie Mills Enrolments are now open. Swimming pools and beaches are part of our Western Australian lifestyle. It is important for every child to learn to swim and develop essential water safety skills. VacSwim’s December/January school holiday swimming programs are conducted by qualified instructors who teach children the skills to be confident swimmers and safe in the water. For information and to enrol, visit det.wa.edu.au/swimming. For further information, telephone VacSwim on 9345 4007 or email [email protected]. Last week, the Year Threes learnt about how a trumpet works. It is from the brass family and has three valves, or keys. You can make lots of different notes by changing the shape of your lips on the mouthpiece. Every student was able to make a noise when they had a turn to blow it! Mrs Fry. Writing in the Year 3 Classroom During Term 3 our Year 3 class embarked upon a narrative writing project and produced many wonderful stories that were presented at the Dally Show. I was so proud of their efforts that I submitted their stories to the Write4Fun competition. The standard of work throughout the class was fantastic, but ultimately five students were selected as finalists and will now have their stories published in an anthology collection called 'The Text Generation'. To have five published authors emerge from a single school in one year is a great win for Dalwallinu District High School and a testament to the effort and creativity of our students. Congratulations to: Sebastian Rausch, Bella Bryant, Charlie Mills, Ethan Bunggo & Paige Counsel. Matthew Langfield, Year 3 Teacher By Paige Counsel It was cold and snowy. A girl called She-Wolf was hunting through the snow for her father because he had cursed her. For as long as she could remember, if She-Wolf took off her cloak, she would turn into a wolf. Her father had wanted a baby boy and when She-Wolf was born he had cursed her to live as a wolf forever and threw her out of the house. He could do this because he was a god and his mother had been too afraid to stop him. Her grandmother, who was a clever witch, heard her howling and took her home. She fed her and made her a powerful magic cloak. Her grandmother raised her and taught her how to break the curse. The only way was to kill her father. The moon came out from behind the mountains. She-Wolf saw a cave. Inside, she saw red eyes and pointy horns. A voice said "I am here." She-Wolf replied "I hope you are here to break this curse." "No," he said. "You have grown strong. You can join me, or I can kill you and your master." "Fine," She-Wolf replied and drew her sword. It broke with a flash and when She-Wolf could see again, her father had disappeared. She-Wolf was scared, she was terrified that he would kill her grandmother. She took off her cloak and the change started. Her ears grew big, her eyes turned yellow and her skin grew fur. She-Wolf ran and ran to catch up to him. She crashed into him, but he tossed her away like she was nothing. He turned and ripped down his skin! Underneath he was a minotaur! She-Wolf put her cloak back on and turned into a person. She drew her other sword, but her father kicked her in the face and she was smashed to the floor! Her father stood over her, ready to kill, but she looked up and howled. Suddenly there was a pack of wolves rushing from the forest and they jumped all over him, biting and snarling. She-Wolf got to her feet and found her sword. Her father screamed and threw the wolves off him. He charged at She-Wolf with his sword. Just as she was about to get hit she caught it on her weapon and then stabbed him through the head! It was finally over. She-Wolf was sad, but her mum was free. Her mum was at her grandmother’s house and when she got there she hugged her tight. “I’ve waited so long to meet you!” she said. By Ethan Bunggo One of the greatest ninjas had survived the war. His name was Iron Eyes, he was fast, agile, sneaky, clever, skilful and quiet. His enemy had become powerful, so he had to capture their king and many would die. He was climbing up a mountain when he saw enemy scouts with a cart, so he moved to investigate. He threw his ninja stars and took out the wheels one by one. The scouts scattered away and hid. When he reached it, the cart was empty. It was a trap! Someone jumped at his head, Iron Eyes stabbed at him blindly and missed. The whole scout troop came out and surrounded him. Iron Eyes drew his sword and ran into the enemy. Before they could attack him, he did a front flip and stabbed two of them from behind! More and more enemies arrived, too many for Iron Eyes to fight, maybe even half of their entire army! Iron Eyes threw all of his razor sharp ninja stars at them, taking out five troops, but he realised that the rest of them were backing away. Leslum, Iron Eyes' mortal enemy walked through their ranks towards him with an evil smile on his face. "You cannot defeat us, our army is too well trained," said Leslum. There was nothing that Iron Eyes could do. "What about a duel?" suggested Iron Eyes. "Mwahahahahaah! Do you really believe you can defeat me?" laughed Leslum. "I will stake my life on it," Iron Eyes replied. Iron Eyes readied his sword. Leslum drew his out. Suddenly Iron Eyes leapt over him, but Leslum blasted him with a fireball. Iron Eyes used his sword to shield himself the fire as he landed. Leslum poured a wave of flame at the ninja, but he would not give up! He pushed forwards, getting closer and closer. The whole army watched in amazement as he stabbed Leslum through the chest! When Iron Eyes turned to face them, he found that all of his enemies were now bowing down to him as their new leader! "We have work to do!" Iron Eyes said. He led them to the castle to try and capture the King. To be continued... This year’s NAIDOC theme honours all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have fought in defence of country. From our warriors in the Frontier Wars to our warriors who have served with honour and pride in Australia’s military conflicts and engagements across the globe. The design for the colouring competition was inspired by this year’s NAIDOC with our warriors of the future in mind. Mr Langfield, Thomas Davis & Aiden Brockman worked together to design the characters, the male in the design represents the Aboriginal people and the female represents the Torres Strait Islander people. The Rainbow snake is also represented as it is well known across Australian by all Aboriginal people and has a different name amongst the many different language groups. I would like to thank Mr Langfeild, Thomas & Aiden for their time and effort they have put into bringing their ideas together to design such a moorditj picture. The design is so popular that our many of our special guest’s on NAIDOC Day have asked for a copy. Sally Galbraith, AIEO BOOK FAIR! BOOK FAIR! BOOK FAIR! Yes, it’s that time of year again! Our annual Book Fair will be held in the Library at Dalwallinu DHS on Friday 21st November 2014. As usual, there will be lots of wonderful books for you to look at and buy. We will also have posters for sale and the ever popular Variety Box full of novelty erasers, pens and pencils. All items sold earn the school a commission which is used to purchase books for the library. There will also be a ‘Design a Poster’ competition held two weeks before the Book Fair, with a $15 voucher given to the best in each of the following categories: 5 – 7 years of age 8 – 10 years of age 11 – 13 years of age 14 – 16 years of age I hope to see everyone there!
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