Welcome to Term 3!

It was lovely to see our students return for term 3 and share their holiday adventures with their friends and the staff.

We have certainly hit the ground running by diving into our Term 3 units of work. Staff work super hard to make the learning engaging and challenging. Our teachers have sent out your child’s Curriculum Overview for Term 3….this can be a great conversation starter when speaking to your child about learning. On the Semester one report cards, the teachers outlined some next steps for English and Maths. Students will be setting goals to match these next steps for learning. Please contact your child’s teacher’s if you would like to discuss their progress further. Formal Parent Teacher Conferences will take place at the end of this term.

Please find attached our Term 3 Parent Calendar V3 to keep you informed of our term 3 events.

School Review  

As a part of our recent feedback gathering, we continued to ask our students for their views. They responded:

Popular responses about learning:

• Growing things in Science 
• English 
• Research on iPads 
• Spelling 
• Art creating 
• PE being outside 
• Maths problems 
• Maths Games 
• iPad work 
• Science experiments 
• Reading groups
• Excursions
• Group work 
• Partner work 
• Learning about animals
• Reading books 
• Information reports 
• Number learning and strategies 

Popular responses about feeling belonging:

• Friends 
• Included in games/teams
• Sporting events/Carnivals  
• All teachers 
• Receiving an award 
• Robotics  
• Arts Immersion 
• District trials 
• Basketball 
• Sports activities at breaks
• Invited to join a group when new
• When you have a say 
• When friend ask for feedback on work 
• When games are fair 
• Encouraged to do best 
• Learning 
• When people ask, “Are you ok?”

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 amell22@eq.edu.au.

Extra support for Dayboro SS – Department of Education Occupational Therapist & Physiotherapist

This term our Department of Education Occupational Therapist, Gail Pfeffer, and Physiotherapist, Melissa Elliot, will continue to support Dayboro State School. They support referred students through our student support referral process (parents provide written consent, but will also be available this semester during their days at DSS to observe and provide feedback for teachers and specialist staff when visiting our classrooms and the Hive. Sometimes this advice is around the learning environment and sometimes specific strategies or adjustments for students. This is an opt out service. If you do not want your child’s teacher to receive strategies for support specifically for your child if required, please let Alicia Tavelardis, our Inclusion specialist know via email amell22@eq.edu.au.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle