Welcome to our 2024 Student Leaders!

This week, we congratulated and awarded badges to our School Captains, House Captains and Vice Captains, Band and Choir Captains, Indigenous Ambassadors and Environmental Ambassador 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.

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 and our Indigenous and Environmental Ambassadors, 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 2024

Our wonderful staff, participating in professional learning on the student free days, collaborated to review our 2023 DSS performance data celebrating our successes and plan towards what is possible for 2024.  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 2024 which we believe supports all of our students to be engaged and successful:  

A whole school and community approach; striving for excellence and equity in curriculum and engagement ensuring high expectations for all. 

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.  

Connecting to our community!

On Sunday, we had a fabulous Family Fun Day down at the Dayboro Pool! A huge thank you to our community for supporting this event. Our P&C worked tirelessly and we were also supported by the Dayboro Pool, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Dayboro Village Meats and Dayboro Cold Rooms. Thank you, P&C, for your organisation!

We will hold our Class Information Sessions for parents this Thursday to assist you in understanding the organisation of your child/ren’s classroom. If you do need to bring your children with you, you can drop them up to our school library while you attend the class session/s. Please note the following arrangement for the afternoon:

- Parents must drop off and collect from the library (Prep students will be walked down from the library by a staff member to the Prep area at 5:05pm)

- No students should be playing in the playgrounds during the sessions

- We do not have food or drink available …children will need to bring a water bottle with them

- Year 5 and 6 students are able to attend the session with their parents.

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

School Calendar

Please find attached our latest version (V3) of our Parent Calendar to support you to stay informed about all of our school events. 

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

A reminder that the annual NAPLAN testing for Year 3 and 5 students occurs in term 1, with our testing window scheduled from 13 March through to 25 March. These assessments 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.

Our Fabulous P&C

A huge shout out to our P&C team. What a great start to the year with community events and a Prep BBQ planned to welcome our families. Our P&C regularly bring to our meetings ideas and questions about the school organisation and learning structure to help our staff understand the community needs and wants. When we are making decisions about our school, we consult our P&C as representatives of our parents.

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 6:30pm, 12 February. All welcome! Please like the DSS P&C Facebook page for more details.

Away for the day

From the beginning of Term 1 2024, all Queensland state school students must keep their mobile phones switched off and ‘away for the day’ during school hours. As soon as students arrive at school, all students with a mobile phone are required to turn their phone off and hand it in to their teacher or lower school students to the office. Students then collect their phones at 3:00pm.

Smart watches and other devices may be worn, but notifications, must be switched off so that phone calls, messages and other notifications cannot be sent or received during school hours. It is important that students who do wear a wearable device know how to turn those notifications off. This includes during lesson times and break times, as well as other school activities including excursions, camps, sporting events, etc.

As usual, if parents need to communicate with their children during the school day, this will be facilitated through the school office. 

Have a great week!
Gabrielle