One of the major planning tasks our school undertakes in term 4 is to develop a provisional class organisation for the following year. Establishing a class structure to commence the 2010 year is posing more challenges than normal due to an expected large increase in enrolments.

At the moment Dunsborough Primary has 499 students enrolled, however based on the information already received the school is expecting to start 2010 with approx 560 students.

Work has already commenced to locate a purpose built Early Childhood transportable next to the existing Kindergarten buildings which will become a 3rd Kindy Unit in 2010.

It is hoped we will be able to display provisional class lists for 2010 during the last week of this term.

Garry Jones

Principal

We hope everyone has SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER marked in their diary and on their calendar – this is the date for our School Fete.  The theme for this years fete is ‘Dunsborough’s Got Talent’ and we hope to entice performers to show off their talents on centre stage – so if you sing in the shower or can dance the fandango start thinking about dazzling us with your talents – places are limited and we will be taking nominations closer to the date!!   Most classes have nominated the stall they wish to run on the day and planning is underway. Special thanks to the class coordinators who have volunteered to take on this role.  Please contact me at any time with queries regarding the Fete.  Our next Fete meeting will be on Monday 25th May at 1.30pm in the staffroom.

WHAT IS TOLERANCE?
To be tolerant is to accept differences.  You don’t expect others to think, look, speak or act just like you.  Tolerance is being free of prejudice, knowing that all people have feelings, needs, hopes and dreams.  To be tolerant also means to accept things you wish were different with flexibility and patience.

WHAT IS PERSEVERANCE?
Perseverance is being purposeful and steadfast.  It is sticking to something, staying committed, no matter how long it takes or what obstacles appear to stop you.  A good example is the story of the tortoise and the hare.  Even though the tortoise was slower than the hare, he won the race because he persevered – he didn’t let anything stop him or distract him.  He kept on going.

What a fantastic day it was last Sunday! Congratulations to everyone on making this year’s Fete such an outstanding success.

A Fete is a huge undertaking for a school community to take on. It requires an enormous amount of commitment, creativity, time, patience, organisation and a lot of hard work from many, many people to bring it together as well as our school did last Sunday. (A list of Fete thank you’s is included elsewhere in the newsletter)

Everyone who is connected with Dunsborough Primary in any way should feel very proud of what was achieved. And I’m not necessarily talking about how much money was raised (although that was a fitting result for all the effort that was put in) but rather it was the opportunity for our whole school community to come together, have a great day with

their children and publicly demonstrate an outstanding level of positive school/community spirit.

Although it was a huge effort by a large number of people I would like to especially acknowledge the efforts of Yvonne Winchcombe and Helena Nicholson, and publicly thank and congratulate them on the unbelievably good job they did organising and coordinating this event.

A special thank you also needs to go to the staff of Dunsborough Primary, who once again showed their dedication and commitment to this school and the children they teach by supporting the organisation for their class’s stall and in some cases devoting the whole day on Sunday setting up, working on and even packing up their stall.

And lastly thank you to all the children, parents and others who spent their money at our Fete. As a result of your great support the P&C have raised in excess of $25000 for our school!!

I am very excited to have been appointed to the position of Chaplain to such a lovely school.  The staff and students have been very welcoming and I look forward to meeting the wider community. The fete was a great example of the generous spirit here.

My first term here will be largely building relationships but I will also encourage the programs in place:  Peer Mediation and The Values project (this term encouraging Tolerance and Perseverance).

Please feel free to contact me anytime for any suggestions, feedback or for a listening ear.

Peace and Joy, Rae

Walk to School Day : Thankyou Mrs Nicholson for coordinating this Term’s Walk to School day and also to the Year 1 students who made the ‘Bus Stop’ signs which were placed along each route. Help is needed to share the role of leading the ‘walking busses’ next year – we plan to hold one ‘Walk to School’ day each term.  If you can help please contact Helena Nicholson on 0429 429 921.

Payment options will be exactly the same as previous years with the P&C distributing stationary packages from the school office in the week before school commences.

I would like to thank the Year 6 & 7 children for putting so much thought and effort into their Peace posters. The theme this year was “Peace Begins with Me”.

At Friday’s assembly Kaye McCormack, President of Dunsborough Lions Club, presented Hayley Winchcombe, our winning entrant, with $100. It’s great to have the support of the Dunsborough Lions Club for this annual event.

Isabelle Roocke, Janina Gelbke and Maddie Reid received runner-up Art packs. Isaac Foster, Caitlyn Purdy, Tobias Fisher, Natasha Silver, Oliver Dear and Jasmin Minty had their fantastic efforts acknowledged with Encouragement Awards. Some of the children’s work will be displayed at the Centre Point Shopping Centre next week.