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Welcome back!
Welcome back to all of our Dayboro State School community for 2023. It has been wonderful welcoming back the students this week and seeing them settle into their classrooms and explore their new play areas and activities. It is great to see so many smiling faces ready to learn! A very special welcome also to all of our 47 new preppies and their families, as well as to all of our other new students across the school.
Our Dayboro SS staff worked very hard last week to ensure that the learning environments were thoughtfully prepared. The teachers collaborated to plan the teaching and learning to meet the needs of each student, providing quality and engaging learning. Our first two days have been extremely smooth with our students being introduced to the learning routines and their new units of work. We look forward to great learning as the term progresses.
Transitioning to a new year level can be an exciting but sometimes daunting experience. As your child settles in, there may be some adjustments required. The teachers at Dayboro SS are working hard to ensure that you are fully informed about the organisational structures within their classrooms. They will have also shared with you information about the year level Curriculum Overview. Talking to your child about their learning and their new class will assist them to transition. Please do not hesitate to ask your child’s teacher if you are unsure of procedures, we are happy to help out.
Next Thursday afternoon, we will hold our Class Information Sessions for parents to share more about individual class structures and procedures. We wanted to share these sessions all on one evening this year to make it easier for parents and help our school community to meet each other. School staff will be in the hall to look after any school aged children while parents attend their session (year 5 and 6 students are welcome to attend their session with their parents). I have included the organisation around these sessions below. While we have tried very hard to separate year levels for families, I am aware that there are a couple of clashes. If a clash occurs, please consider sending a parent to each of the sessions. Teachers will provide follow up information for parents who are unable to attend.
The P&C will host a Community Sausage Sizzle from 5:15-6:15 for families as they finish up their session. Please consider joining us for a chat between these times.
Our Parent Calendar outlines our special events for Term 1. We look forward to a busy and productive term with a number of special events including:
- Cross Country
- Harmony Day 21 March
- Parent Teacher Conferences week 9
- Easter Hat Parade week 10
Of course, our vision here at Dayboro SS continues to be To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment. I look forward to being a partner with you in our child’s learning journey!
Parking and dropping off – let’s keep our children safe!
This week understandably, we have had increased traffic around our school, as our families drop off on the first week of school. As a community however, we need to be mindful of some safety procedures around our school pick up and drop off areas to ensure that we are keeping our children safe.
We love that many of our students arrive or leave on the school buses. Recently, the drivers of these much-needed buses, have reported a lot of cars and traffic in the bus bay area preventing their access for drop offs and departure. Parent, please be aware that the turn around bay and the bus bay in front of our prep area, need to stay clear during before school and afternoon pickups. This promotes safety for our students who catch the bus and ensures that we don’t have children crossing in this area.
Our crossing supervisors do an amazing job in helping our students and families get across McKenzie St. Please use the pedestrian crossing when walking your children. Below I have included the information recently sent to us by the Moreton Bay Regional Council regarding parking. I certainly would not want any of our families to be fined!
Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) Local Laws Unit
Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) Local Laws Unit undertakes a School Parking 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 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, marked yellow lines, shared paths, dividing strips and nature strips, along with vehicles parking across resident’s driveways and within ‘No Stopping’, ‘No Parking’, and ‘Bus Zones’ and Pick-up / Drop -off zones. Council is legally required to enforce these areas and the School Parking 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 also 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 conduct enforcement through the issuance of Penalty Infringement Notices as part of each School Parking Patrol. Please be aware that Council officers may take photographic evidence of vehicles stopping or parking illegally with Penalty Infringement Notices to be issued via mail at a later date to the offending vehicle’s owner.
Visit www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/parking for further guidance on parking restrictions.
Welcome to our new staff!
We welcomed our new teachers to Dayboro SS at the end of last year’s newsletter. We also have Guidance Officer, Kate Ogilvie re-joining our team. We welcome Kate back to our beautiful school.
Hello everyone! My name is Kate Ogilvie and I will be joining the Dayboro team this year as the Guidance Officer. I have a background in primary school teaching and have been a Guidance Officer for four years in a mixture of primary and high school settings.
I live with my partner and we have a beautiful fur baby, Molly.
My role as a Guidance Officer is to support all of our families at Dayboro in whatever capacity they need. I look after mental health, children in care and cognitive assessments. I will be at Dayboro on Thursdays. If you see me around, feel free to say hello! Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to have a chat.
Have a great week!
Gabrielle
Dear Families and Friends
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all our returning and new families to Dayboro school this year. 2023 is already off to an excellent start with our “Meet and Greet” session held last Friday. Parents had the opportunity to visit classrooms and students could meet their teachers before the first day. Thank you teachers for providing this opportunity in a week that is already very busy with staff meetings, professional learnings and preparing classrooms. We hope it helped to relieve some of that first day chaos for parents and students, especially when you have to drop more than one child! The first day of school also went very smoothly and the teachers reported that students were highly positive and eager to learn.
Welcome also to our new Student Leaders for 2023. We wish them all the best for the year ahead and their leadership journey.
Finally, a reminder that our School Vision is “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.” Our staff and students are committed to this vision and we are looking forward to a great year of learning and growth for all our students!
In 2023 we also continue to embrace our values of
“Be respectful, be responsible, be positive, be tolerant, be proud and be kind.”
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC NEWS
*Instrumental Music Lessons will now be on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Lessons will start in Week 2 and Band will commence in Week 3 Wednesday mornings 7:45am. Mr Yates will email parents with more detailed information directly.
Now that the days are starting to get warmer please remember that it is an expectation that all children wear hats during play times and PE lessons. The rule is “No Hat, no Play!”
Children that do not wear hats are expected to be in the CSA areas during break times.
SWIMMING – Years 2 and 4.
This year, Year 2 and 4, will be swimming in first term instead of Yr. 3.
Yr 3 will now swim at the end of the year. This decision was made because of the move of NAPLAN to Term 1 in the year now. This directly affects the Year 3’s and as there are 5 weeks of swimming lessons it was decided it would be best to move them to the end of the year so as not to interrupt their learning. Classes 2B, 2C, 4A, 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. Notes and invoices will be sent home this week. The cost will be approx.. $100. These lessons are an important part of our curriculum and all students are expected to attend. 1/2A will swim together in Term 4.
A big thank you to our hard working P&C for providing the funds to our school to purchase a complete set of footy jersey, shorts and socks so that our Sporting teams can be fully kitted out when they compete in Inter School Sporting competitions. Thank you also to our design team-(Kylie-our BM) who put together the design and ordered them.
Thank you Mrs Ryan!
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Welcome everyone to another exciting year at Dayboro State School.
It was lovely to meet some of you at the Tea & Tissues on Monday, I trust that your little ones all enjoyed their first day. It was lovely to hear all the happy voices ringing out across the school.
What is the P&C?
It is the Parents and Citizens Association.
Our vision is to enhance the school experience of every Dayboro State School student by working with the school community to provide the students with diverse opportunities, improved resources and facilities, rewarding experiences and an inclusive community. We do this by providing support to the school in many initiatives and activities and arranging and hosting social, learning and fundraising events throughout the year for students.
We meet the second Monday of the month at 7.00pm via Microsoft Teams. Meeting virtually has offered many interested parents the opportunity to attend even with their busy schedules. We don’t mind seeing or hearing your children in the background, it comes with the territory! We’ve had a number of requests to also have the option of face to face meetings this year, so watch this space.
The P&C also manages and operates two key services within the school – the Tuckshop and Uniform Shop.
Tuckshop
Our tuckshop is run by Alison Hibberd and currently opens for 1st and 2nd break, Wednesday and Friday.
We have a number of volunteer vacancies for this term, especially Fridays. Without some extra helpers we may not be able to open on some days.
Would you be able to help? Even if you can only volunteer for one day this term, all help is greatly appreciated.
Please contact Alison at tuckshop@dayboropandc.org.au if you would like to be involved.
Our tuckshop will be open from Week 2. Students can either drop off their order in a paper bag at the tuckshop (located in the CSA) in the morning, or alternatively you can order through FlexiSchools. This can be done either through their website or by downloading their app.
New Tuckshop Order form below.
Uniform Shop
I would like to firstly thank our amazing Karen Hockings for not only running our Uniform Shop for the last few years, but for also going above and beyond to ensure that parents could access uniforms prior to school starting back. Karen have very generously donated many, many, many hours of time to ensure that our uniform shop opens regularly, appropriately stocked, and we can’t thank her enough for her support and effort.
Karen is currently training Alison Hibberd in the Uniform Shop so please feel free to stop by and say hello.
The Uniform Shop will be open every Thursday morning 8.30am - 9.30am.
If you cannot make it during this time but need to order some uniforms, please fill out the attached order form and send it to uniformshop@dayboropandc.org.au. Your order will be packed and left at the school office for you to collect when convenient.
Volunteer Opportunity – Welcome BBQ - Thursday 2nd February
Can you assist us with the Welcome BBQ next Thursday?
We will be hosting a Sausage Sizzle from 5.15pm - 6.15pm in the hall and would love your help.
Can you stay a little longer after your information session, or come a little earlier to help out before your session begins?
Please keep an eye out for a link to volunteer, or alternatively please email me at president@dayboropandc.org.au or chat to the office.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Next Meeting – Monday 13th February 2023
To attend our next P&C Meeting, please contact secretary@dayboropandc.org.au for meeting details. We would love to see you there!
AGM – Monday 13th March 2023
Did you know that all positions become available at the AGM?
Our amazing Secretary and Treasurer, Mia and Jo, will both be stepping down this year after volunteering their time for a few years now.
If you are interested in joining the P&C this year, keep these roles in mind...
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Fundraising
Social Media
Grants
Please feel free to email me at president@dayboropandc.org.au or chat to the office if you would like to be involved.
I look forward to seeing you all around the school and I hope everyone is enjoying the first week back.
Rhiannon Fealy
P&C President
Library and Maker Space News
Welcome back!
Welcome back for the 2023 school year. I hope everyone had an enjoyable break and even managed to squeeze in some reading!
Students who completed the Summer Reading Club reading challenge are reminded to bring their challenge cards along to receive their prize.
World Read Aloud Day
Find a book and curl up with a friend, or a pet, and spend some time reading aloud on the 1st of February. You might even challenge yourself to read in the voice of a character – what would a pirate sound like if they read your book out loud?
Borrowing
Classes will begin visiting the Library to borrow books in the coming weeks. Students may borrow books during their class visiting time and during breaks. All loans are set for a period of 2 weeks; parents will receive an automatically generated email advising when student loans are overdue. All students are reminded that they must have a Library bag when borrowing books. Students who do not have a Library bag of their own may come along to the Maker Space and make one using the materials we have available.
Maker Space
Maker Space activities will be available for students once again this year. Students have the option of completing activities of their own choice, or they can work on set challenges and activities if they wish. It is always wonderful to see students helping one another with various activities in the Maker Space as they learn new skills and explore their interests.
We would like to ask for some household recyclables to be donated for students to use in the Maker Space, in particular we are asking for cardboard boxes (e.g. cereal boxes, muesli bar boxes etc). Please do not send egg cartons along, we have a large supply at school already as we must use new cartons due to possible contamination risks for students with an egg allergy.
Thank you,
Mrs Wilkinson.
Good afternoon Dayboro families.
My name is Clare Marks and I work on Mondays and Tuesdays teaching Health and Physical Education to all students. If you have any queries or need to pass on information please contact me on cxmar5@eq.edu.au.
District Trials
Below is a copy of a letter regarding district trials which was emailed out yesterday to all parents with children in years 4-6. If you have highly capable children in a certain sport please ensure you read this. Particularly in regard to cricket trials on Tuesday.
Injuries
Unfortunately injuries are a part of life. However, when children arrive in PE with bandages or casts on I need to know what, if any, physical activity they are allowed to participate in. Some parents and some Doctors have higher tolerances than others. Some students use a bandaid as a reason not to participate, other students will try to take a sling off and play anyway! If your child has an injury that affects their participation in PE please let me know. It makes my job much easier when I don’t have to guess.
Suitable clothing – Year P-2 have PE on Monday, yr 3-6 have it on Tuesday. Please ensure your child (particularly girls) are wearing clothing that they not only have freedom of movement in, but that they also feel socially comfortable in. Shorts and skorts are far better than dresses on PE days.
Clare Marks -HPE specialist
Dayboro State School (Mon-Tues)
Hi everyone,
It has been so lovely to see all of your faces this week as school starts again. I hope you had a wonderful summer holidays with your little people.
I really enjoyed having lots of time to spend with my family and friends. My husband Chris, my son Levi and I went to Cotton Tree for 2 weeks with a bunch of friends (bliss!). We went for some hikes, went to the movies, saw a live tennis match, played card games, had lots of play dates, read books and enjoyed having more time to cook new meals. I also like to watch the cricket, but the rest of my family isn’t very keen, haha!
As the routines start again and life gets busy, I hope you remember to take the time to do the things that bring you joy. I think this can be one of the most productive things we can do for our overall wellbeing (experts think so too!).
Keep an eye out for the following programs or events this term:
Rock and Water
Mrs Tavelardis and I will send home information to the children who will either continue in or start Rock and Water this term. We are looking to start up again in Week 3. If you are interested in your child participating, please contact me.
Pancake Day
Pancake day is on the 7th of February (Tuesday Week 3). Remember to bring your gold coins to get some yummy breakfast in the CSA before school.
SUPA Club
SUPA Club starts next Friday at 3pm in the school hall. We have afternoon tea, play games and learn new things. This Term we will be working through a book called “Indescribable” by Louie Giglio. We will also be having some special guests come in and talk to us about their life and faith journey. Please see the flyer attached for further information.
Breakfast Club
We are running our first ever Breakfast Club morning on the last day of term – 31st of March. This will take place before school in the CSA. More information to come.
Lunch Clubs
Keep an eye out for my whiteboard. Like last year, I will place it in the CSA with information about any lunch clubs running that day.
Finally, I am here to support students, staff and parents in the Dayboro State School community. If you have a need, are going through something difficult or simply need someone to talk to, my door is always open. I have lots of resources and support I can offer. If this would be beneficial for you or if you know of a family it could help, please send me an email. Have a great fortnight!
Chappy Rach
rachael.woodrow@suchaplaincy.org.au
