Spotlight on Students 

1/2 G

1/2 Gawura are hard workers during English. Each morning, we start the day with an explicit phonics lesson where we use our whiteboards to revise different phoneme-grapheme combinations and learn new tricky graphemes. This week, both Year One and Year Two have been focussing on the phoneme /or/. 

Next, we find our fluency partner and read with our partner for 8 minutes every day. We practise reading with expression and accuracy. 

This week we have read the book ‘Three’ by Stephen Michael King. We looked closely at the main characters Three and Fern and discussed their character traits. During writing, we have been developing our own characters and describing their internal and external traits. Year Two published their characters using the Book Creator App and Year One illustrated their characters and tried using their best handwriting to publish. Head over to the DPS Facebook page to see Year Two’s Book. 

Kindergarten 2024

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https://dundas-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html

School Bytes Parent Portal

We have noticed that quite a number of parents/carers have not signed up to our new School Bytes Parent Portal. It is important that you create a parent account. Payment and permission for school excursions are via the portal, along with all other school related fees.

You can easily :

 • make school payments online (including paying for multiple siblings at once) 

• use a family credit (fees in advance) to pay for an activity or school contributions

 • download a receipt for payments made 

• view all historical payments in one place

 • complete and submit digital permission notes 

• view the status of all permission notes 

• request a refund if required 

This can be done where you want at any time: day or night.

Through the portal, you will easily be able to download a receipt once a payment has been made and have access to view all historical payments when needed.

Online payments are processed in real-time and can be viewed by school staff immediately.

You can register for the parent portal NOW by visiting https://portal.schoolbytes.education

Remember to ‘Create a new account’.