Dear Families and Friends 

Parent Teacher Conferences

It has been wonderful to see several parents already up at the school to have a conference with their child/ren’s teacher/s. Term 3 is a great time to check in on your learner’s progress and their goals for the semester. If you haven’t already booked in, please consider doing so via the following link: 

A reminder that all conferences will be held in your child’s classroom (you will need to keep all of your children with you) unless you have booked next Tuesday 16 September or Wednesday 17 September. These two evenings will be hosted in the school hall, with child minding available.  5M bookings opened earlier for conference bookings and have been held last week and continue this week.

Spring has sprung!

Our gardening club have been hard at work as Spring begins, to replant and tidy up our Veggie garden. Many thanks to Ms Anderson and Mrs Bishell, as well as the students of 1A and 4L, who have contributed to making our gardens a special place of growth, nurturing and wellbeing in our school. We look forward to the fruits of their labours as strawberries, herbs and pumpkins continue to flourish.

We also have our much-loved Curlew pair back nesting in our school grounds. This time they have laid 2 speckled eggs right underneath our Library bridge. Our students have been watching them and have been very careful to respect their space and the eggs.  Here are some photos of our well camouflaged Curlew and their eggs... and a couple of easier to see photos!

Parent Calendars

Here is our last two weeks of our Term 3 Parent Calendar. It is sure to be a busy week and a half!!! Thanks for your engagement in our activities this term.

Term 4 commences on Tuesday 7^th October. Please find attached the Term 4 Parent Calendar V2 to help keep you informed.

Assembly Awards

Congratualtions to all our Assembly Award Winners this week.

Farewells

At Assembly on Monday, we farewelled Mrs Alison Hibberd. She has retired as our Tuckshop Convenor, and we thank her for her service and warm and welcoming presence in our Tucker Box and Uniform shop. We will miss you Mrs Hibberd but wish you all the best for your retirement. Congratulations to Nikita Pearson who is our new Tucker Box and Uniform Shop Convenor.

This term we are also saying farewell to Mrs Tavelardis who has been successful in securing a HOSES position at Ferny Hills State School. We have been so fortunate to have Mrs T as our Inclusive Learning teacher, and she has had such a positive impact on so many of our students lives with her caring, kind and nurturing approach to student learning and wellbeing. We are going to miss her, but we wish her all the best at her new school in this much deserved promotion. 

Staffing News from Gabrielle - all the way from Portugal! 

I also would like to share another change for term 4. I have been offered an opportunity to temporarily act as Principal at Albany Creek SS from weeks 2-10 next term. I have decided to accept this learning challenge to grow as a leader and also to learn from another experience to help our school. Our school supervisor is currently sourcing a replacement of our Principal role. I will let you, the community, know when a candidate is confirmed. Of course our staff team remain focused on our 2025 key priorities and are committed to maintaining our quality learning environment for the remainder of 2025. 

I will see you back at Dayboro at the end of week 1, when I return to Australia (I am currently enjoying Portugal with my family). 

Events 

Fathers Day Stall.  Thank you to our local kindy's for supporting our Father's Day stall again this year.  Thank you to our AMAZING P&C fundraising group who do such a wonderful job every year.

A reminder that this Friday is French Day. We would like to encourage our students to come dressed in a French theme. There is also a special Tucker Box Menu that was advertised for this day. Thank you to our Tucker Box team for organising this.

A reminder to our Yr 5 and 6 students that our Interschool Sports day is on the last Friday of this term. Friday 19 September. This is to make up for one of the postponed days due to rain. There is also another day planned for next term and we will let you know the date once it is confirmed.

Booklists for 2026 are being finalised. These will be sent out at the start of next term.

Prep 2026 Interviews are being held on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October. If you are enrolling your child for Prep 2026 please ensure you have an interview booked.

Swimming starts for Prep, year 1 and Year 3 students in Week 4 term 4. Thursday 30 October is the first swimming day. Consents and Invoices will be sent out at the end of this term.

Thank you to all our parents for your support and involvement in your child’s learning this term.

We look forward to the start of Term 4 commencing on Tuesday 7^th October.

Have a safe and happy holiday.

Karen Ryan

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