Engaging our students and giving them the tools to success!

We have been working hard to engage our students in learning this year discussing deliberate strategies to engage and ensure that our students are involved and representing their learning. Teaches provide lots of different and engaging ways for students to represent their ideas and learning.

We are continuing to ensure that our learning is visible in our classrooms to ensure that our students have access to previous learning and prompts. The children enjoy accessing the learning walls as they progress through the units. Student samples on the walls help them to see how they are tracking with their learning as teachers are sure to highlight the success criteria that the students have demonstrated. These scaffolds allow the students to discuss what learning they have already consolidated and what learning goal they may be working towards.

Why not ask your child about their learning and how they best like to represent their ideas?

ANZAC Day

Our school ceremony on 24 April was an opportunity for our whole school community to reflect and remember our ANZACs for all of their past service and continuing services. We were very fortunate to have the continuing support from our Dayboro War Memorial Society and the Dayboro RSL. Mr Simon McKechnie, one of our DSS parents is now the President of the Dayboro War Memorial Society and as such was able to participate in the ceremony.

We were also lucky enough to have Commander Kenneth Brown, a former Dayboro boy attending Dayboro State School until Year 7, come up from the ACT to speak with our students. Having Ken speak to our students about the service of ANZACs past and present was inspiring.

It was also wonderful to see how many students turned out for the Community March and Ceremony. How proud the students were to march/ride under the Dayboro State School name or other community groups. Our Year 4-6 students worked hard on creating Thank You Postcards to give to service men and women, that were supplied by the Dayboro RSL. Several community members contacted the school to personally say thank you to our students.

Some classes also had parents who have been in the armed forces volunteer to speak with the class about their time in the army and their service dog. Thank you to Mr Macdougall and Mr Knight for sharing your experiences to help our students understand.

 A Dayboro Learner – Quinn the Quokka is a Critical Thinker

This week on assembly we introduced another Dayboro Learner quality - Quinn the Quokka who is a Critical Thinker. We discussed that critical thinkers like to solve problems, ask why and reflect on their learning.

Our students have been collecting the Dayboro Learner tokens as they are able to demonstrate the qualities we are teaching. We are looking forward to presenting our first certificates to students able to model all six qualities of a Dayboro Learner.  

Student Success!

Henry participated in the 7 &Under Ultimate Ninja Athlete Association local qualifier on the weekend and won a gold medal, qualifying for the state championships. We are so proud of Henry and his efforts with training.

Term 2 Parent Calendar Update

Please find attached our latest version (V6) of our Parent Calendar to support you to stay informed about all of our school events.  We have had to change the date of our Student Council CRAZY CLOTHES event. Our previous date coincided with a Year 3 and 5 incursion which would be difficult for those classes to participate fully.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle