Deputy Principal's News
Dear Families and Friends
High Five Strategies
Every year Dayboro State School students learn about our High Five Strategies. These strategies are tools students can use in the playground and school environment to help deal with conflict or a problem situation with other students.
We encourage our students to start at number one when dealing with a problem with their peers and work through the steps until the problem is resolved or needs further assistance.
When a student feels they are in a situation of conflict or disagreement they can do the High Five:
- Talk Friendly – use respectful words to tell the person about the problem in a calm way and suggest ways to solve the problem.
- Talk Firmly – Use a serious voice without yelling to get the message across. Don’t smile or wave arms about. Be assertive but don’t give put downs.
- Ignore – Look away. Don’t smile. Distract yourself by thinking of something else. Do not speak any further with the person.
- Walk Away – Move away from the student involved in the problem. Find a friend or go to the playground or library.
- Report – Ask a teacher for help. In the playground look for the teacher on duty with a high five poster on the back of their folder. Explain the problem to them in an honest way. Tell the teacher the strategies you have used already.
PLAYGROUP
We would like to see if any parents in our Dayboro school community or outside our school, would be interested in coming along to a playgroup that would be run by and held at Dayboro school. We would like to provide an opportunity for parents of younger children, in our community to meet and have their children engage in high quality play-based learning and socialisation activities provided by a trained facilitator, usually a member of our school staff.
If this is something you would be interested in attending with your younger child, please let us know so we can start to see if we would have enough interest so we can start looking at providing this wonderful opportunity for our Dayboro families.
Call our office 34256111 and please leave your name and phone number so we can start to get an idea of numbers interested. We will then ring you and let you know if we will push ahead and give you more details.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC NEWS
Instrumental Lessons and Band have started!! Band practice is every Wednesday morning at 7:45am in the hall. Lessons with Mr Yates will be every Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure you bring your instruments , music books and remember to practice, practice, practice!! The timetable for lessons is below.
Instrumental Music Term 1 2023
Now that the days are starting to get warmer please remember that it is an expectation that all children wear hats during play times and PE lessons. The rule is “No Hat, no Play!”
Children that do not wear hats are expected to be in the CSA areas during break times.
A reminder that we are holding our first meeting to plan for our 150year celebrations in 2024!! The meeting will be held this Thursday at 3:30pm in our school staffroom.
We would love any history buffs, past students or anyone interested in the life of our school here in Dayboro to come along and share their ideas and thoughts on how we can celebrate such an important milestone for our school.
Attention all parents that volunteer in classrooms.
Thank you for expressing an interest to help out in your child's classroom. Every year we hold a parent/ volunteer induction session to fill you in on the latest information around helping out at school. We encourage all parents who volunteer anywhere in lour school setting- tuckshop, sports, classrooms to attend.
If you are not a parent and wish to volunteer to help, a reminder that you require a Blue Card to be a helper in schools now and that these can take a long time to apply for. You cannot help at a school unless your Blue Card has been approved and you have received it.
Parent Volunteer Induction morning
Friday 24th February 9am in the hall.
Looking forward to seeing all our wonderful helpers there.
SWIMMING – Years 2 and 4.
Swimming starts this term for Yr. 2 and 4 students at the Dayboro pool. Classes 2B, 2C, 4A and 4B will be swimming from Week 4 until Week 8. They will swim every Thursday and Friday for a 1/2hr lesson for 5 weeks. Notes and invoices were sent home this week. These lessons are an important part of our curriculum and all students are expected to attend. 1/2A will swim together in Term 4. The swimming timetable is below. Please make sure you return your permission forms by the 13th February and make payments as invoiced.
PREP VISION SCREENING IMPORTANT FOR PREPS
Every year we are fortunate to be able to provide free Vision screening for our Prep students. Please read the information below and follow the link to sign up for this free service. The testing is conducted by the School Health Nurse. It takes place at school on a school day.
The Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program will be screening at your child’s school commencing on Thursday 23rd March 2023. We are a Queensland Government service that offers Free Vision Screening to all children enrolled in Prep. If your child is in Prep and you would like their vision screened, you will need to complete a consent form.
The following video explains the benefits of having your Prep child’s vision screened
Please click on the following link to access the Online Consent Form and Parent Information Letter:
Alternatively, you can scan the QR code below:
Thank you Mrs Ryan!
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”