Junior Sports Carnival Success

Wow! What an amazing Junior Sports Day for our Prep-Year 2 students on Friday. Our juniors ran, jumped, threw and cheered their way through the day. What a wonderful way to become familiar with our athletics categories and also to learn to work as a team in ball games and relay events.

Thank you to all of our parents and community who came to cheer our little ones on. I know that you will agree that Mr D and George did an amazing job at organising the events and set up. Thank you to all of our junior staff for their enthusiasm. Super effort also from our Tucker Box workers delivering all of the delights up to our school oval. Can’t wait to do it all again next year!

District Sports for our Senior Students

Today our talented Athletics Team competed at the District Sports event. The events continue over two days, we wish these students all the best GO DAYBORO!

150 Years celebration coming up!

It’s THIS WEEK! This Friday, our current DSS students will be celebrating our 150 years of schooling by participating in some fabulous events. We will commence the day in classrooms where we will sing our school song together and outline the activities for the day.  Thank you to Mrs Cook, Ms Cook and Mrs Wilkinson for all of their organisation around the activities on the day. Senior students will participate in the rotational activities from 9:30-11am and the Prep-Year 2 students from 11:50-1:20pm. Each year level is also scheduled in for a session with Kylie Harries our 150 years Mural artist. In this session, our students will contribute their ideas about Dayboro State School and our sports houses.   Thanks to our P&C, the children and staff will be awarded with a commemorative badge to mark the occasion next week.

Students are welcome to dress up in historical clothing if they wish or wear a current or historical uniform, however, this IS NOT A FREE DRESS DAY. We anticipate that most students will be wearing their school uniform. Please let your child’s class teacher know if you would like to help out on the day.

Our community celebration is on Saturday afternoon and we would love to see you here. Our School Captains and Indigenous Ambassadors will facilitate our Opening Ceremony. The afternoon will include roll calls, History Display, Devonshire Teas and Choir/Band performance. Of course, in the evening, we will have our Bush Dance with Food Trucks and Bar in the CSA. What a celebration?!

Thank you to our hardworking committee which is made up of community reps, staff reps and P&C reps, for all of their careful preparation of our historical displays, our student celebration activities and of course our community day and the Bush Dance!

We are looking forward to a fun couple of days!!!

Sharing practice with other schools – BPSHS Visit!

This week we hosted some of the educators from Bray Park State High School to share our practise around using student feedback through Learning Walks and Talks, together with student learning, to plan for learning and developing our engaging teaching strategies. Such a proud moment for our staff to listen to how blown away the BPSHS staff were when listening to our students identify what they are learning, how they are going and their next steps for learning. Our teachers have promoted this student voice in the classrooms. The in-depth curriculum teacher conversations while discussing the student learning, helped our high school colleagues to see how impactful this gathering of learning information informs our teaching. Great job DSS staff!

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 is outlined in the attached Parent Fact Sheet.

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

Student Success beyond the gates

Congratulations Heidi from 6F for her selection into the Met North girls’ rugby league team!! Heidi was selected through the District tryouts and will play for our region in September at the State Championships. Go Heidi!

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Have a great week!
Gabrielle