Welcome Back to Term 3!

Our students and staff are excited to be back to learning this week! It was wonderful to see the students reconnect with their friends and get stuck into learning. Our staff collaborated at the end of term 2 to plan for engaging and challenging learning experiences for the next unit of work and continue to meet fortnightly to check in on and discuss student learning.

Look at how our students have already engaged in their learning:

Teachers have prepared Curriculum Overviews for each year level, which you should have received via email earlier this week. Please note that these Overviews are also available on our school, website.

This term we will have a busy term full of learning and extension activities like Dance Fever, which culminates in our Family Dance Night, Book Week activities and character dress ups and several excursions, incursions and even Year 5 camp!

Please continue to keep an eye out for our Parent Calendar each Newsletter, to ensure that you stay informed, as we update our events on our Term 3 Parent Calendar.

A Dayboro Learner

As a staff, we have been working on the qualities of A Dayboro Learner, and this semester, we are going to start to discuss this with our students. Each fortnight on Assembly, we will discuss a new quality and practise using the characteristics as learners.

At Assembly on Monday, we discussed being a Communicator in our learning, using Coco the Cockatoo as our communication character. For the next fortnight, our staff will teach these characteristics to assist students to develop these skills.

We would love you to also discuss these with your little learners, so we will keep you informed via the newsletter each fortnight.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines.

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

• year of schooling
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the following link.

Further information about the NCCD can be found on;

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please feel free to contact Gabrielle Douglas - Principal, or Alicia Tavelardis- Inclusion Teacher.

Student Success

On the holidays Lily, one of our Equestrian Team members road at the Interschools State Championships. We were excited for her to represent Dayboro State School. Lily placed 17th in the state for primary school preliminary class Dressage and made the final top 10 for Primary School Combined Training. We are very proud of her efforts.

QParents – Please sign up for consents!

Thanks to our parents who have already signed up to QParents and are receiving our digital excursion and incursion consent forms. Please note that we will NO LONGER SEND HOME HARD COPIES of permission letters. If you are not on QParents, you will need to access the consent from the teacher email or in person at the office window.

Last term, our report cards were distributed via QParents initially. They will continue to be available for you to access via this platform. Report Cards were also emailed on Friday the last day of term.

QParent invitations have been sent to each family, but if you need assistance, please see Jill in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and odd Wednesdays. SIGN UP TODAY!

Have a great week! Gabrielle