Dear Families and Friends

Learning at Dayboro

Every week Mrs Douglas and I are very fortunate to be able to visit classrooms and see our learners engage and thrive with their teacher’s guidance and support. This term in English we are focussed on seeing the learning in Reading across our school. Sometimes our visits are intentional and the purpose this term is to check in with students about their reading comprehension and how they interpret and understand stories, through the use of high quality well written and engaging texts. The focus for comprehension in all the lower grades this term is on understanding characters and how characters play an important role in helping to tell the story.

We ask a learner from each class 5 important questions :

What are you learning about and why?

How are you going?

How do you know?

How can you improve?

Where do you go for help?

Below is an example of a Year 1 student understanding the depiction of a character in a story.

Year 1 learner:  What are you learning about? I’m learning all about Rainbow Fish and he is the character in the story. Why? You can’t have a story without a character.

How are you going? I know what the character does. He doesn’t share his scales with the other fish. (And what does that tell you about the character? T. prompt)

It tells me he is mean and selfish at the start.

What’s’ next? How can you improve? How can you understand the character better?

I need to think about he feels and think more about what he does in the story to show this.

It is so important that even in the early years students can learn to think about their learning and reflect on their understanding. Our Dayboro learners certainly know how to do that.

Playgroup welcomed Leesa and Humphrey last week to visit playgroup. Humphrey listened to a story with the children, helped them with their colouring in activity and watched them playing on the Prep playground. We loved having our special guests come along and can’t wait to see Humphrey and Leesa again.

Playgroup will not be on this Friday as Mrs Ryan will be conducting the Parent Volunteer session in the hall.

A huge thank you to Ben and the Men’s Shed for making our 4 new possum boxes. Also thank you to Ms Anderson for getting these organised and to Sam W for installing them.  A big effort from all involved and greatly appreciated.

SWIMMING – Years 2 and 4.

Swimming has started this term for Yr. 2 and 4 students at the Dayboro pool. Classes 2D, 2C, 4Land 4B will be swimming from Week 4 until Week 8. They will swim every Thursday and Friday for a 1/2hr lesson for 5 weeks. The swimming timetable is below.

A big shout out to our Yr 2 classes who were praised for their outstanding behaviour and manners at swimming lessons last week. Thank you Year 2’s for showing our community the Dayboro way.

PARENT VOLUNTEER INDUCTION

Do you help out in classrooms with reading or Maths? Do you help out in the tuckshop? Do you volunteer your time in other ways in the school? If so we would like to invite you to our Parent/ Community Volunteer Induction in the Hall this Friday 28^th February 9am. This session will run through how you can volunteer in the school and some policies and procedures you need to be aware of before helping out. This is an important information session for any volunteers who wish to help out in the school. We will be running through the Mandatory Training requirements for 2025. The presentation only goes for 15 mins.

Please ring the office on 34256111 if attending.

Thank you Mrs Ryan!

Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”