Welcome to our 2023 Student Leaders!

This week, we congratulated and awarded badges to our School Captains, House Captains and Vice Captains, Band and Choir Captains, Indigenous Ambassador and Environmental Captain at our School Leader Investiture. We are excited to work with our student leadership team as they represent our students and super importantly support our students to participate and enjoy school life. I encouraged all students to say hello to our leaders when they see them around the school and have a chat with them about any problems they are having or any ideas for our wonderful school. We know that these students are excellent listeners, and also want the very best for our community. Thank you very much to our Special Guest Nikki Boyd for coming to our Assembly to present our School Leaders with their badges.

Our Student Council representatives, elected by their own class mates, were also inducted. Our Student Council, made up of the class representatives including our school captains, our Indigenous Ambassador and our Environment Captain collect ideas and listen to the student voice from their elected classes to bring ideas and feedback to the Student Council. This group then makes decisions about how to help our students, our school and our community.

We look forward to a productive and harmonious year as these students guide our student body demonstrating their responsibility and kindness!

Dayboro State school Explicit Improvement Agenda for 2023

Our wonderful staff, participating in professional learning on the student free days, collaborated to review our 2022 DSS performance data celebrating our successes and plan towards what is possible for 2023.  We also spent some time at the end of last year looking at our community response, both parents and students in our School Opinion Survey, to analyse what the community identify as our strengths here at Dayboro SS and what areas we could strengthen.

From this professional collaboration and data analysis, we have drafted our Explicit Improvement Agenda for 2023 which we believe supports all of our students to be engaged and successful:  

To develop, lead and monitor an explicit improvement agenda focused on:

• Excellence – in pedagogy - investing in staff to enact high impact pedagogies matched to students’ next steps extending our student learning
• Equity – through differentiation - build inclusive practices in our differentiated teaching and learning and targeted adjustments to ensure all students achieve

We have also drafted our Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) to outline our goals as identified through key focus areas in our school’s strategic plan, and also plan for the resources we will need to achieve these goals. At our first P&C meeting, I will discuss this AIP to provide clarity and ask for feedback. If you have registered for the meeting, you should receive a copy of the draft document prior to the meeting to have a read.  

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy NAPLAN Year 3 and 5 students this term

A reminder that the annual NAPLAN testing will now occur in term 1, with our testing window scheduled from 15 March through to 27 March. These assessments for all of our Year 3 and 5 students, are delivered online with the exception of Year 3 Writing. The students are assessed in the following areas:

• Writing
• Reading
• Conventions of Language
• Numeracy

Please see below the information brochure for parents and carers. You can also access the NAPLAN website www.nap.edu.au/naplan. If you have any questions or concerns about these assessments, please contact your child’s class teacher, Karen Ryan and myself so that we can discuss or clarify details.

NAPLAN Information for parents and carers brochure

Parent Information Sessions

Thank you to parents who were able to engage in the face-to-face or notes from the recent Class Information Sessions. You have acknowledged our amazing teachers for communicating the parent information to assist you in understanding the organisation of your child/ren’s classroom.

As we varied our organisation for the Information Sessions this year, I have asked for feedback from the community and our staff to reflect on processes that are the most suitable for our whole community.

 Thanks for continuing to foster this partnership with your child’s teacher in your child’s education!

P&C – urgently seeking membership

Would you like to help our school to partner with parents and respond to the community’s needs? Why don’t you join us for our first Teams P&C meeting this term at 7pm, 13 February. All welcome! Please like the DSS P&C Facebook page for more details.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle