Spotlight on Students
NSW State Swimming Championships
Congratulations to Aayden C and Joshua C who both swam at the NSW PSSA State Swimming Championships in freestyle. Aayden placed 26th in the 9 Years Boys and Joshua place 29th in the 11 Years boys. What a fantastic achievement boys!!!!!!! Well done!!!!!!
Zone Basketball and Football
Congratulations to Panav G and Casey F who were both selected in the Zone teams respectively for basketball and girl’s football. Recently, they played against other Zone teams in the Sydney West Regional Carnival. Well done upon being selected in the team and representing our school with distinction.
Cross Country Carnival
On Wednesday 10th May, students from years 2 – 6 participated in Dundas Public School’s annual Cross Country Carnival at school. The weather was perfect and after walking the course as a warm up, the 8, 9 and 10 year old students ran a 2km course and the 11 and 12 year old students completed a 3km course. Congratulations to all students and thank you to the teachers for your assistance.
Results:
8 & 9 Years Girls – 1st Casey F, 2nd Sofia Z, 3rd Jessica C
8 & 9 Years Boys – 1st Benji D, 2nd Callan B, 3rd Jeremiah S
10 Years Girls – 1st Jessy Y, 2nd Susanna Z, 3rd Sia N
10 Years Boys – 1st Ewan C, 2nd Jaehoon J, 3rd Manuel S
11 Years Girls – 1st Ahin C, 2nd Hazel H, 3rd Christina B
11 Years Boys – 1st Joshua C, 2nd Zak C, 3rd Archer M
12 Years Girls – 1st Susie J, 2nd Amy K, 3rd Ayesha R
12 Years Boys – 1st Zane E, 2nd Zak E, 3rd Harry L
PSSA Results Week 4
Leaguetag
Dundas vs Oatlands
Junior lost 0-4
Senior won 5-4
Netball
Juniors
Dundas 1 (7) vs Dundas 2 (1)
Seniors
Dundas 1 (3) vs Dundas 2 (1)
Football
Junior 3-2 loss
Senior 0-1 loss
CAPA
This term students have been working on their Visual Arts skills for CAPA with Mrs Govers.
Kindergarten have been making farm inspired artworks. Students painted their own unique cows and constructed and painted their own paper plate pigs.
Year 1 have been creating a variety of dinosaur artworks for their upcoming Dinosaur Museum.
Year 2 have been creating insect artworks for their Insect Gallery whilst exploring symmetry in art. We especially enjoyed creating a 3D butterfly garden using oil pastels and water colour paints.
Stage 2 have been learning about Indigenous Art and have been working on their own artworks inspired by Australian artist and author Bronwyn Bancroft.
Stage 3 have been learning about the Pop Art style, investigating the creations of artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Students are creating their own replication pop art inspired by Andy Warhol's famous Campbell's Soup artwork based on modern day mass consumerism and advertising.
