What a great two weeks of learning we have had! We have seen students identifying their learning goals and detailing what steps they can take to achieve these goals. We have seen students reflective of the feedback they have received from teachers and peers and apply this feedback to further learning situations.

Positive Behaviour for Learning - PBL

This week, our explicit teaching of positive behaviour is in ‘Play Times’. This is where we will explicitly teach in class how to Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be a Learner in all the play areas of our school environment. Please remind your children that one important way we would like them to be safe in play times, is by not hanging by their legs only on the lower playground monkey bars. These bars are very high, so swinging using arms and hands only please.

Dayboro Learner

Our Dayboro Learner Focus is ‘Quokka Quinn the Critical Thinker’ for this week and next week. There are many ways we can become critical thinkers and we will be looking for these qualities of our Dayboro Learners in class over the next two weeks:

 

RRE – Respectful Relationships Education

Respectful Relationships Education is a new part of the Australian Curriculum, delivered in schools through various areas including the subject Health, school based behaviour programs such as our PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning program) and the Education Department’s RESPECT program.

In August 2015 the Queensland Government responded to the final report from the Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland — Not Now Not Ever: Putting an end to domestic and family violence in Queensland. The report contains 140 recommendations, all of which have been adopted by the government.

The Respect program stems from recommendation 24, which supports the introduction of programs in state schools to embed through the school life of all secondary and primary state schools a culture that emphasises:

• developing and maintaining respectful relationships
• respecting self
• gender equality.

The Queensland Department of Education has developed the Respect program, designed for students from Prep to Year 12. It is a primary prevention program based on evidence-based research and best-practice educational approaches.

Prep to Year 2

Students develop the capacity to understand and self-regulate their emotions in ways that account for their feelings and the feelings of others. They also develop skills to initiate social interactions.

The program content explores the people who are important to these young students and develops their capacity to initiate and maintain respectful relationships in different contexts, including at school, at home and in the classroom. Students explore their own sense of self and the factors that contribute to and influence their identities. They learn about emotions and how to enhance their interactions with others as they grow older.

Years 3 to 6

The program's focus broadens to include the knowledge, understanding and skills required to support students' wellbeing and that of their family and friends. Personal and social skills take on an increasing importance as they look to family, peers and the community for role models. They develop communication skills, social skills and behaviours required for respectful relationships. They also begin to explore personal and social factors that support and contribute to their identities and emotional responses in varying situations. Students explore knowledge, understanding and skills that help them build and maintain respectful relationships. They also develop skills to manage their emotions and examine how the nature of their relationships may change over time.

The Dayboro Playgroup joined us for our junior sports carnival last Friday. There were many smiling faces as our littlest community members participated in the fun events of the day. Thank you for joining us. Before you know it you will be here in prep enjoying these events as students of D.S.S.

 

Dayboro State School Lunchtime Clubs

We are VERY LUCKY at DSS to have teachers who run exciting and engaging lunchtime clubs each term. We have ANOTHER brand-new club that started up this week – our ‘wellness Space Club’.

ICAS

Parent registration and payments have now closed for ICAS testing. For those families who have registered and paid, the following testing dates are on offer. If you haven’t yet, please let me know which testing dates your child will be attending - dmath9@eq.edu.au. Students are to meet at the school library at 7:50am for an 8:00am start. Students will go from their test straight to class for the day.

Have a great week

Dee Mathiesen

Acting Deputy Principal &Head of Curriculum