Principal's News
Dear Parents and Caregivers
As we enter the third week of learning, it has been a pleasure to visit classrooms and witness how engaged our students are and their demonstrated eagerness for learning. By all accounts, it has been a wonderful start to the school year and is worthy of a big thank you to our families for preparing your children so well and to our school staff for the professionalism and diligence in ensuring that students are organised and ready to engage.
Last year was another milestone for our school in terms of the high level of student achievement and the wonderful opinion shared by our local community about the school. I am hoping that the great results achieved in 2019 will be replicated in 2020- we have certainly commenced in a most positive way!
Our Explicit Improvement Agenda in 2020
Our Explicit Improvement Agenda for 2020 will focus on Writing practices and processes, Reading strategies and Numeracy, in particular number facts fluency. Over the past number of years our NAPLAN data has shown significant improvements in student performance and we are aiming at making further improvements in 2020. We are also continuing to work hard on improving our A-E data on the school report cards, in particular moving students who are achieving D and E ratings in Mathematics and English to a C rating or higher. This agenda provides a clear focus for our professional development activities for the year, and importantly how we work together to improve learning outcomes for all our students. Our school budget will also place emphasis on these improvement areas and will utilise funds from the ‘Investing for Success’ program to provide human and physical resources to support our improvement endeavours.
When finalised, all our school planning documents will be published on the school website.
School Website
Our school website has been redesigned and the new site will go live in late February. In the meantime, during the transition period, we are unable to upload any new information or edit our current site.
The new site will feature the same information as the current site , but will have easier navigation and a bold new homepage . We look forward to sharing this with our community very soon.
Bus Transport Info
Brisbane Bus Lines run a School Bus Service (no# P1866) which covers the Kobble Creek Area including (but not exclusive to) Pringles Rd, Farrows Rd, Mt Samson Rd, Aitcheson Rd, Dales Rd. This bus route has very low numbers currently and the Department are hopeful that we may have new families in the area that would like to use this service which in most cases is free of charge.
If you are thinking about using the school bus service, please call Andy Russell at Brisbane Bus Lines on 3354 3633.
Parent Information Sessions
This week teachers will be holding their Parent Information Sessions. These meetings are a wonderful opportunity to engage with your children’s teachers about their plans for the year as well as re-establish the relationship between home, school and the student. Times and dates for the sessions are published in this newsletter. I strongly encourage all parents to attend these important meetings.
P&C Meeting AGM
Our first P&C Meeting for the year was held last night. It was wonderful to see new families coming along and being part of the decision making process for our school and students. The next meeting is the Annual General Meeting on Monday 9 March at 6.30pm. All welcome to attend.
Dayboro State School is 100 Years on its current site in 2020
A very significant milestone for our school will occur on Thursday 25 June. The attached picture and story provides the details of how the school came to be located on Heathwood Hill in 1920. (Courtesy of the Dayboro Facebook site)
To commemorate this important occasion for our school, the 100 Year Commemorative Committee has been formed and will be meeting for the first time this week to develop a program of events to commemorate the special occasion.
If anyone has any memorabilia or any ideas which could be used or brought to the attention of the committee, please forward these to admin@dayboross.eq.edu.au
I am sure the Committee will be communicating planned activities and events in the near future.
School Leaders Induction Ceremony
The 2020 school leaders will be inducted at a special assembly on Monday 17 February at 9.00am. Our special guest will be the Cr Darren Grimwade from Moreton Bay Regional Council who will present our new leaders with their badges of office. All welcome to attend.
School Attendance
I am pleased to advise that Dayboro State School achieved a rate of school attendance in 2019 with a result of 93.5% across the school for the year. Thankyou to our school community for ensuring that “Everyday Counts at Dayboro, Every Day”. In 2020, a target of 96% has been set.
In terms of absences from school, it is by law that the school must know where every student is and the reason why they are not in attendance at school on any particular day. The procedure for an absence is to call the school on 3425 6160 (available 24/7) stating the child’s name and reason for absence. This can also be done through the QParents App on a smartphone. (if no reason is given, an SMS will still be forwarded requesting this information)
I would be pleased, that as a school community, we work in partnership to ensure that our important child protection processes are enacted.
Student Council 2020
Congratulations to the following students who have selected by their class peers as class Student Council Representatives for 2020. Our four school captains are automatically members and leaders of the Council.
I look forward to working with our representatives at our meetings. The Student Council representatives will be presented with their badges at the Student Leaders Induction on Monday 17 February.
Student Leadership Team – 2020
Congratulations to the students who have been selected as leaders for the 2020 school year. The attached list provides details of their positions. As mentioned , they will receive their badges of office at a special ceremony on Monday 17 February.
Proactive Schools Patrol Message from Moreton Bay Regional Council
Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) Local Laws Unit undertakes a Proactive School Patrol Program where officers complete scheduled school patrols, both in the morning and afternoon, to ensure that vehicles are parked in a safe and lawful manner. The primary aim of the program is to partner with schools across the region to ensure that students and family members/caregivers are able to safely move around the school area as part of dropping off or picking up students from the school.
The Moreton Bay Regional Council Local Law No.5 (Parking) 2011 and Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1999 control parking or stopping of vehicles on footpaths, bicycle paths, shared paths, dividing strips or nature strips. Council is legally required to enforce these controls and the Proactive School Patrol Program forms part of this process. Drivers are reminded that footpaths and nature strips are in place to promote pedestrian movement in a safe manner along roadsides and that drivers and residents must not stop on a bicycle path, shared path, dividing strip or nature strip. Please note that vehicles that are parked with two wheels up and two wheels down is not considered as a lawful parking practice.
Local Laws officers have fact sheets and other relevant information that is provided to drivers to assist with education surrounding safe parking in school zones. Enforcement through the issuance of Penalty Infringement Notices is carefully considered as part of each Proactive School Patrol.
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for further guidance on parking restrictions.
For any further information, members of the School community are welcome to contact Mr Bradley Foley, Local Laws Coordinator on 3205 0555.
Message from Department of Education Director General – Mr Tony Cook regarding Novel Coronavirus
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Dear Parents & Caregivers I am writing to update you on the Novel Coronavirus. As you would be aware, the Australian Government has announced new measures that specifically address travel restrictions from mainland China. While there remains a very low risk of transmission in Australia, these preventative measures are being instigated in the interest of public health. I do not expect that these travel restrictions will have any major impact on our school operations and I want to assure you that we will continue to work to ensure any disruption is minimised. Our school will be open this week as usual as we progress through Semester 1 2020. As always, the health and wellbeing of our students remains our number one priority and I would ask that you remain alert to your child’s/children’s wellbeing during this time. Children can have a range of reactions during an event like this and, as always, teacher and guidance support is available. If you have any concerns, please discuss them with your child’s teacher. We continue to take advice from Queensland Health and the Department of Education in relation to this matter and the latest information is available at Novel Coronavirus on the Queensland Health website. Queensland had already announced and enacted restrictions last week for travellers who had visited China (including Hong Kong), and I reiterate this earlier advice from our health agencies, which remains current:
On a personal level, can I ask that as a school community we all look out for and support each other during this time. Again, thank you for your understanding and attention to this important matter. |
Garry Drummond
Principal