Our annual House Athletics day was held at Landy Field in spectacularly unseasonal sunshine and still conditions. Over 350 students participated in the day that was made up of seven events.
Grade 5
Our first House Basketball competition culminated in our finals that were held at lunchtime today. The highly fancied and previously undefeated McLeod took on Dan Dan Nook in the Grand Final in beautiful sunshine in front of a large crowd.
House Basketball
Our annual Lightning Premiership was held last Thursday with all Year 5/6 students participating in five different sports in three different locations. Our students represented the school with distinction and all reports indicated they played their games with the correct balance of competitiveness, enjoyment and sportsmanship.
Winter Sport Lightning Premiership
The Year 5/6 Winter Sport program will be celebrated this Thursday with our annual Lightning Premiership Day. We are in urgent need of some parent helpers to assist on the day.
Lightning Premiership
Congratulations to the 45 Drysdale PS runners who competed in the Connewarre District Cross Country at Eastern Gardens.
District Cross Country
View all the results and photos from the House Cross Country, including the students who have qualified for the Drysdale P.S. Cross Country team competing at the Bellarine Region event on Thursday 27th April at Eastern Gardens in Geelong.
House Cross Country
Our team of 20 swimmers headed to Kardinia Pool to compete in the combined Bellarine and North Geelong Primary School Swimming Championships. Overall, we had a fantastic day in rather hot conditions and we achieved some wonderful results. Please read more for full details of results.
Bellarine Region Swimming
Yesterday’s assembly saw many of our Year 5 students weaving, stomping and shuffling around the hall performing the Chinese Dragon Dance as part of our ‘World Dance’ unit. It was wonderful to see these students sharing their learning in such a fun and interactive way!
Performing Arts Pow-wow
We were very fortunate to have coaches from Bellarine Storm Hockey Club and Hockey Victoria come to Drysdale Primary School to offer Hockey Clinics for Years 3-6. They are having a “Come and Try Session” for their Hook into Hockey program at St Ignatius College on this Saturday from 9:00am […]
Bellarine Hockey Clinics
The Year 5’s have been reviewing the text types they have worked on throughout the year. Luke from 5H wrote an interesting persuasive on sugar. Click here to read sugar-can-change-your-life-by-luke
Year 5 Writing
We would like to acknowledge some of our DPS Students!
Some of our Fabulous Students
It was super exciting and there were some challenging opponents which made it a great event!
Hot Shots Divisional Tennis Tournament
This term, the Year 5s have been learning all about poetry. Last week we listened to a poem titled ‘Hailstones and Halibut Bones’ by Mary O’Neill. The students used this text as a stimulus for their own writing. Lizzy produced a lovely text titled, ‘What is White?’. We thought the […]
Year 5 Poetry
View photos from some of the Year 5 Dress Rehearsal on Wednesday.
Year 5 Concert
Congratulations to this week’s recipients of a Principal’s Award;
Principal Awards
Unfortunately Senior Constable Robert Noggler has had to cancel the Cybersafety session scheduled for this Wednesday. Sorry for any inconvenience. We will advise parents as soon as we have a new date organised. As an alternative, there is a session being run by the Barwon Adolescent Taskforce (Batforce) for parents […]
Cybersafety sessions November 2016 – CANCELLED
Congratulations to this week’s recipients of a Principal’s Award;
Principal Awards
With this digital copy of The Link there are links to summaries of the teachers’ plans for this term’s teaching in English, Maths and inquiry subjects e.g. Science. A number of parents have expressed an interest in knowing what their children are likely to be learning so that they can […]
Curriculum Planning
The following students were presented with Principal’s Awards from the School Captains at Assembly this morning.
Principal’s Awards T1W8
A number of our children, with the permission and encouragement of their parents, are supporting the World’s Greatest Shave 2016. They are raising money for leukaemia research. Liam (6P) has shaved his head while Sean (6P) and Guy (6P) have dyed their hair. Lizzy (5H) is also supporting the World’s […]