Deputy's News
Dear Families and Friends
Welcome back to Term 2. We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break. The children all seemed very excited last week to be back and had lots of great stories to tell about their holidays and Easter adventures. We welcomed three new students to our school last Tuesday, into Years 4 and 2, and we hope they enjoy being part of our Dayboro School community.
EXCITING NEWS! 5B’s Awards Competition
The competition to redesign the 5B Awards closed last Tuesday.
After receiving over 150 entries, our Positive School Wide Behaviour Committee, managed to choose one winner from each year level. These winners were announced at Assembly on Monday.
The winning designers were:
Prep- Kindness Olivia Prep J
Year 1- Be Proud Finn 1D
Year 2- Be Positive Leigh 2MO
Year 3 - Be Respectful Matilda 3OH
Year 4- Be Responsible Sophie 4B
Year 5- Be Tolerant Rose 5/6F
Year 6- Principal's Award Amy 5/6F
Congratulations to all our students who participated in the competition. The entries were outstanding and a pleasure to see and read! We are currently working on transferring the winning artworks to the Assembly awards and posters.
IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT MEDICATIONS AT SCHOOL
Education Queensland has issued advice to schools regarding the administration of medications to students.
All medication, including over‐the‐counter medications, e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen or alternative medications, are identified as drugs or poisons that may cause side effects. As such, the school requires medical authorisation from a prescribing health practitioner, e.g. doctor, dentist, optometrist, but not a pharmacist, to administer any medication to students, including those bought over‐the‐counter.
Unlike parents/guardians, school employees are unaware of a student’s complete medical history, and are unable to provide ongoing, direct supervision of the student for the course of their illness. They are therefore unlikely to recognise if a student is having adverse effects to any medications administered. Health practitioners also have knowledge of medical history in order to determine which over‐the‐counter medications are appropriate, dosage amounts and potential side effects or interactions with other medications.
What you need to know:
- The school can no longer administer any medication, including over‐the‐counter medications, e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen or alternative medications identified as drugs or poisons that may cause side effects, to students without medical authorisation from a prescribing health practitioner e.g. doctor, dentist, optometrist.
- Medical authorisation from a pharmacist cannot be accepted.
- Over‐the‐counter medications currently stored at the School will no longer be administered to students without medical authorisation.
- Listed emergency contacts for the student are able to personally attend the school and administer over‐the‐counter medications to their child if they do not wish to obtain medical authorisation.
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REMINDER: SCHOOL PHOTOS- Friday 3rd May.
Children are to wear their Formal School Uniform. Preps wear their normal Polo Shirts as they are Preps and do not have formal uniforms yet.
Envelopes are to be brought on this day, 3rd May only.
Envelopes were sent home last Friday.
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Thank you to everyone involved in the Easter Hat Parade on the last day of last term. What a wonderful Dayboro School event and it was great to see so many parents and community members turn out for the day.
Thank you to Mr Smallcombe and Mrs Almond for their excellent preparation of our Choir and Band students for both ANZAC Parades.
Thank you Choir and Band students and all the other students who attended the Community ANZAC Day service and marched along with our school. You represented our school well and showed great pride and respect.
DATE CLAIMERS TERM 2
Thursday 2nd May - CLASS CHOC COMPETITION. Bring chocolates to your class teacher for our Dayboro Day Chocolate Drop stall. Choc Class Weigh In is on the 20th of May.
Friday 3rd May - SCHOOL PHOTOS
Friday 10th May - MOTHER’S DAY STALL. Bring money along to buy something special for Mum.
Tuesday 14th May. Thursday 16th May - NAPLAN – Yrs 3 and 5 students.
Friday 17th - NAPLAN Catch up Day
Friday 24th May - UNDER 8’s DAY- P-2 classes.
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”