Look at our Learning

We have been working super hard to commence our Term 3 learning and wow our teachers and students are off and running with amazing support in their learning environments to engage and reflect on their learning.

At the beginning of our units, we have been using collaborative approaches to support our students to communicate their learning and experience challenging learning often before we commence the instruction. This allows teachers and our students to understand what our students already know allowing us to then target our teaching. As teachers collaboratively look at student learning, we are able to design the very next steps for students.

*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.

We love our Chappy support!

Chaplaincy services support the general wellbeing of students, parents and staff, provide an additional adult role model in the school and enhances our engagement with the broader community.

Local community support is required for chaplains to operate in a school. At Dayboro, we are so lucky to have a hard-working Local Chaplaincy Committee to support our Chappy and also raise funds to extend her services. Student involvement in any activities offered by the chaplain is voluntary.

Chaplains are inclusive of, and show respect for, all religious and non-religious beliefs and worldviews represented in the school community. All activities and events provided are non-discriminatory and equally available to all students. Chaplains are not permitted to engage in evangelising or proselytising, nor attempt to undermine a student's beliefs.

At Dayboro, our school staff and students feel so fortunate to have an amazing Chappy to support our school wellbeing program. Did you know that these are the types of supports that Chappy Rach provides at our school?:

• Class Visits – spending time in classes in order to build relationships with all students and their teachers. Attends wellbeing class lessons ie Circle times
• Facilitates our Rock and Water program with Inclusion staff twice a week supporting students to build resilience
• Designs and engages students in lunch time clubs
• Supports students at school gate, at start of school day or during the day if they require a listening ear
• Individual or small group check ins as required (often these students are programmed weekly and have specific goals)
• Attends our school camps and some excursions to help students
• Support students by attending school sporting events including interschool sport and district events
• Supports our school special events by planning, assisting and attending to engage with community
• Educates our community about Chaplaincy
• Sources and provides Food Hampers and Meal Deliveries to families when required
• Is a Moreton Bay Sports Camp –Camp Director – offering holiday camps to our DSS students
• Support or promote fundraising events to support wellbeing at the school and also chaplaincy resources

As an extra, on Friday afternoons after school, Chappy Rach does offer a voluntary SUPA (Scripture Union Primary Age Clubs) designed for children who are interested in looking at spirituality, religion and everyday life from a Christian perspective. This is on a voluntary basis only and parents are fully informed about this purpose. The activities are fun, interactive and age appropriate, providing children with a place to build supportive friendships and learn important skills to assist them in their social development. It is important to note that this voluntary, after school activity is the only time in which Chappy Rach uses these activities or reference to religious beliefs.

We LOVE having the support from Chappy Rach. Stay tuned for a video explaining more about how she supports our community throughout the week.

A Dayboro Learner

We continue to prioritise the teaching of our qualities of A Dayboro Learner. We celebrated at assembly last week all the ways our students are being great Communicators like Coco the communicator:

This Monday, we introduced our next quality of a Dayboro Learner – a Curious and Creative Learner (Kev the Kookaburra). Staff are continuing to show and engage students I these qualities over the next two weeks. We are excited to encourage our students to be Curious and Creative!

Thank you for following up with your learners as we all work together to understand and practise these learning qualities.

School Opinion Survey

Our department’s annual School Opinion Survey has now opened. Parents will receive an email with their log on details. I would encourage you to fill this survey in about our wonderful school.

Who is surveyed? Respondents include:

• Parents/Caregivers—every family in the school with a child enrolled in Kindy to Year 12.
• Students—all students from Years 5, 6, 8 and 11 will be invited to participate in survey. However, in some smaller schools, students in Years 4, 7, 9 or 10 may also be invited to participate.
• Staff—all principals, teaching and non-teaching school staff employed during the survey period. This survey includes permanent, temporary, casual, part-time and full-time staff and excludes staff on leave during the survey period.

We really appreciate your feedback to assist in planning improvement strategies.

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 

Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

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

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