Principal's News
Cross School Moderation Success
In the last week of term 1, our school hosted 81 teachers from across 3 schools – Mt Samson SS, Petrie SS and Dayboro SS for our Cross School Moderation. This was a fabulous way to continue nurturing our partnerships within our cluster.
A whole school approach to moderation processes underpins systematic curriculum delivery and supports teachers to align curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting; and ensures consistency of teacher judgments and accuracy of reporting against the Australian Curriculum achievement standards. At this professional learning afternoon, our classroom teachers moderated a Maths task from term 1 and our specialist teachers moderated a sample from their learning area. This cross moderation allows the teachers to professionally discuss the Australian Curriculum achievement standards and reinforces a consistency of teacher judgement.
Our cluster teachers were also able to collaboratively look at the new Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum and identify the changes to the Maths curriculum delivery. We will be implementing the English and Maths Version 9 in 2024.
ANZAC Day commemoration Service and March
Next week, we will commemorate ANZAC Day at Dayboro State School with a formal service on Wednesday 24 April at 9:30am. We will welcome special guests Richard Hawkins, Kenneth Brown and Simon McKechnie from the Dayboro War Memorial Society. All parents and carers are of course welcome to attend. The students will present a class wreath during the ceremony. If you would like to lay a wreath, you will be able to join in this part of the ceremony.
On ANZAC Day, Monday 25 April, we will of course also participate in the community march and service. Please consider supporting our march. All students are welcome and should meet myself, Mrs Ryan and other staff members, in full school formal uniform, at the Dayboro Pub at 9:15am for a 9:30am start. Please ensure that your child has a hat for the march. Parents and friends are welcome to march with us on the day. We encourage the adults to walk at the back of our section. Once we reach the school, we will keep the children in our bus zone until you collect them.
The community ceremony commences at 10am. Our School Captains, our Choir and our Band will be a part of this ceremony. We would love to see lots of our DSS students supporting this service. A reminder also that the community does have a dawn service as an alternative to the 10am service.
This week, from Thursday, our student councillors will be selling ANZAC Day poppies in the CSA each morning. Poppies will be $2.00.
Senior Cross Country
It was wonderful to see our Year 3-6 students participate and enjoy the Cross Country Carnival on Tuesday. We loved having the community come along to cheer our little athletes on!! While place getters were awarded with some ribbons, we admired and cheered on all students who have had a go at this event. Of course, this event could not happen without the careful planning and preparation from Mrs Marks, George’s help preparing the track and the cross-country training legends Mrs Blair, Mrs Marks and Mr Baade!
Thank you also to our hard-working P&C for supplying the well-received fruit ice blocks as a congratulations to our students. They enjoyed these at second break.
We look forward to our Prep-Year 2 students participating in the Junior Cross Country Carnival later this term.
Light it up Blue for Autism
We continue to use our Student Council to listen to our student voice. Last term, our students opted to promote Light it up Blue for Autism on Friday 19 April, to continue awareness of thinking differently and an awareness of Autism with our students. Our Culture and Inclusion working party have provided resources for class teachers to use to help our students to celebrate and discuss neurodiversity. It is a great opportunity to raise awareness and understanding and thereby promoting INCLUSION.
Students are not asked to dress in blue for this event.
School Calendar
We aim to keep you fully informed of our events, excursions and school processes. Please find attached our Term 2 Parent Calendar. We can’t wait to see you involved with these events this term.
Checking in on our Student Wellbeing
We are committed to assisting our students to be engaged and looking after their wellbeing. Last year, we used the Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing Survey to understand from our Year 4-6 cohorts what might be their strengths in this area and also the components of wellbeing that we could focus on at our school.
Once again, we have the opportunity to participate in the survey. I attach the Information for Parents and Carers to consider. We will complete the surveys over the next couple of weeks. Please have a read and if you have any questions, please contract your child’s class teacher. Similarly, if you would like your child to opt out, please contact their class teacher by Friday.
Student and Staff Success!
Late last term, we were excited to hear that Year 3 student Henry had competed at the State Championships for Little Athletics where he won 7th place in the 800m race. Great job Henry!
It was also wonderful to hear about one of our Teachers, Leanne Anderson and one of our students Matilda’s success over the holidays!
Leanne won the Derby champion at Dayboro Working Horse Competition and Matilda won the junior Dayboro Working Horse Stockland challenge. We are super proud of our amazing horse women!
Have a great week!
Gabrielle