Successful Learners!

We are passionate at Dayboro State School to ensure that our students are successful learners! Our Explicit Improvement Agenda (EIA) specifically is focussed on Excellence in teaching and learning and Equity, ensuring all of our students have access to learning including support and extension opportunities:

When recently reviewing our key priorities in our Annual Improvement Plan which is written to achieve our EIA, to check we are on track, our staff have celebrated the following in regards to or student learning:

• Our Student Council are promoting student voice by gathering their peers ideas and discussing them as a team to help improve our school
• Our students are celebrating difference and tolerance, by talking about important events such as Go Blue for Autism, Sorry Day and reconciliation week.
• Our teachers are using student voice in their classrooms activities by promoting collaborative learning activities where students learn together
• Staff have extended their professional learning on the use of digital assistive technologies to support students and enhance intervention strategies for students who experience reading and spelling difficulties through SPELD
• We have been seeking opportunities to extend our students’ thinking by planning for inquiry learning in Science to challenge students to think about creative ways to show their learning. We’ve also offered extracurricular options such as optiminds and readers cup as ways for students to extend students’ critical thinking skills

We will continue to work hard to achieve Excellence and Equity at Dayboro. Have a look at some of the amazing learning our students and staff have done this semester:

A reminder that we are working on ensuring great attendance from our students to ensure thy have the best possible chance at success. Please see this infographic about the impact of absences or short days on learning:

Chappy Day Monday!

On Monday 22 May, we will celebrate Chappy Day! We appreciate our Chappy Rach and all that she brings to our community including her listening hear for our students and our staff, engaging clubs that excite our students, attending many excursions and incursions supporting students, helping out with learning in our classrooms, welcoming children at the gate each morning and ensuring that SUPA club is an amazing after school club.

To celebrate Chappy Day, Chappy has organised some

fun games, a handball comp and a Subway meal deal for our students and staff. All money raised will go towards our chaplaincy program which directly benefits our students!

Thank you to our P&C!!!

This Friday is P&C Day, a time to recognise our hardworking P&C Members. On Monday, at parade, our student leaders will formally thank our P&C members for all that they do for our school community.

If you see one of our P&C members on Friday, please ensure that you show your appreciation!

Road Safety Week!

A reminder that it is National Road Safety week this week. Our crossing supervisors are wearing the yellow ribbon to show their support and help educate our community.

Our teachers will discuss this important event with our students. Let’s keep our community safe by educating our children to obey the road rules and encouraging children to use our crossings when crossing the road.

QParents – consent management is up and running!

Our first excursion consents have been posted in QParents (the Year 3 Samford Museum Excursion)! This is a way to view, consent and send permissions electronically, as well as accessing invoices. This term, our report cards will be sent via QParents initially. A day later, we will push them out via email.

QParent invitations have been sent to each family, but if you need assistance, please see Jill in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and odd Wednesdays. SIGN UP TODAY!

Updated Parent Calendar for Term 2

More updates! Please note afternoon Athletics’ Trainings in week 7 and 8 for Yr 4-6 students. More information to come via email.

Have a great week! Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

This week we celebrate and recognise what it means to be Under 8!

The theme this year is “Play-You, Me and our Communities.

What a fabulous theme for this year’s event!! After the last few years communities have been hit hard but it is so rewarding to see Community events, in particular Dayboro events, bouncing back like Dayboro Day, Dayboro Rodeo, Dayboro show and of course our Under 8’s event.  We take great pride in our links with the community and we are so fortunate to have many facets of our community involved in our Under 8’s celebration- our local kindies, our police and emergency services, the Scouts,  ocal high schools and many more help out on the day.

It takes a village working together to create curious, civic-minded, caring, engaged and successful learners for life. How lucky are we in Dayboro to be able to work together and wrap our support as a community around our learners.

Under 8’s Day this week will be celebrated at Dayboro State School on Friday May 19th. See details below. Parents and friends of our younger children in P-2 are invited to come along and celebrate with us! Many thanks to our hardworking P-2 team who have organised this event!

Precision in Teaching and Learning, Deepening our Clarity

In my regular visits to classes this term, I have been delighted to talk with students who have been working so hard on their goals in  English for Term 2. They have all spoken so clearly to me about their next steps and goals in each of their writing tasks.  They can clearly articulate what they need to work on to improve their writing. This term, P-2 classes have been looking at Narratives and in particular exploring, what makes stories interesting- characters, events, settings, plot etc.

Some responses have been:

Prep: Retelling a favourite story

PJ Rose- We are learning how to retell a story. We are retelling Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. I know what happened and all the characters and parts of the story.

Year 1: Character Descriptions

1T Clare- We are learning how to describe the Bad Seed. It is the main character. I’m using adjectives to describe how the character is at the start.

1D Sienna-I’m learning how to use describing words to make the characters more funny. I need to think about how the character changes at the end of the story.

Year 2: Comparing the same characters in different versions of a story and expressing a preference.

Theodore 2B- I’m learning about how to compare 2 similar characters and state which one I like best. I’m comparing the original wolf from Little Red Riding Hood with a good wolf from another story. I know I’m going well because I can compare what they did in each story. Their actions tell me a lot.

Francesca 2C- I’m learning about comparing the wolf characters in Little Red Riding Hood and in Big Bad Wolf. I am going good because I can easily identify differences in their qualities for example- one is horrible, one is kind hearted. I can talk about their actions too. I need to be more careful about choosing the right describing words.

Cash 1/2A- I am learning how to add more details about characters when I am comparing qualities that are the same and different.  I chose the Healthy Goldilocks as my preferred character because she was a good character.

 I love to ask these 5 questions about their learning

*What are you learning?

*How are you going?

*How do you know?

*How can you improve?

*Where do you go for help?

These are also great questions for parents to ask their children about their learning and help prompt conversations about learning at school.

Thank you to all the hard-working volunteers who organised, supervised, categorised, labelled, designed and sold the Mother’s Day gifts at the Mother’s Day stall. What an amazing effort and so wonderful to see the excited looks on all the children’s faces as they attended.

Thought for the week!

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

We are now nearly half way through Term 2 and my goodness, hasn’t it been a busy one!

Our new P&C committee have been working very hard in the background and have well and truly hit the ground running.

Our fundraising team have done an outstanding job over the past few months.  The Easter Raffle, Mother’s Day Raffle and Stall were a huge success, with a fantastic array of prizes sought and generously donated by local businesses and community members.  The  team are now turning their attention to Dayboro Day as well as planning for future events next term.

The executive team have also been hard at work, reviewing a number of platforms and systems that will enable us to move our Uniform Shop online and streamline our processes.  Yes, that’s right folks, online ordering for uniforms!!!! Watch this space!

We are a new team and still finding our feet, so please don’t be shy if you have any feedback or suggestions, we would love to hear from you.

Mother’s Day Stall – Friday 12^th May

Wow, what a huge few events we have had with fundraising from our small, but mighty Dayboro School community. We are blown away. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported our Mother's Day raffle. Special thanks again to our wonderful local businesses who contributed to our wonderful raffle prizes. Their generosity and participation made it a huge success, and we are so grateful for your support. 

Thank you Woodside Ceramics, Balance Pilates Club, Lacey’s Creek Photography and IGA Dayboro, we’re sure that your generous gifts were gratefully received.

Thank you again to our committee members who put together a fabulous Mother’s Day stall and our beautiful parents who came and ran the stall so that every child got to shop for their loved ones. We were thrilled to see the smiles on the faces of the children as they picked out gifts at the stall. We hope that all the wonderful mothers and mother figures got to experience this joy as your gifts were presented over the weekend. 

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the wonderful individuals and families who have generously donated to our fabulous fundraising events thus far. Your support has been truly remarkable.

Dayboro Day Festival – Fundraising for the school’s ICT and STEM resources

The countdown is now on for the beloved Dayboro Day Festival, the first in 3 years! For those families new to the Dayboro community, Dayboro Day is a truly remarkable experience, a community celebration like no other. Held on Sunday 28th May this year, the Main Street and public spaces are transformed into bustling hubs of activity showcasing the local community, culture and its talents while providing fun for everyone. 

In true community celebration, the P&C could not miss the opportunity to be apart of the day and will be running a stall throughout the course of the day hosting a bake sale and the crowd favourite “chocolate throw” game. We understand that our school community has already given so much, so the P&C Committee has decided to cover the costs of the chocolates for this game. However, we would like to extend an invitation to all the keen bakers in our community to contribute their delicious baked goods to our stall. We welcome all types of treats, and your contributions will be greatly appreciated. Please note that this contribution is not compulsory but an opportunity for those who wish to share their baking talents. To simplify this as much as possible, we also have packaging and labels available for collection from the office Monday 22nd May for the ease of housing your beautiful goods. We would kindly ask that any donations include a full list of ingredients clearly labelled on each item and that items be dropped to the school office from 8am Friday 26th May. 

Additionally, we would be immensely grateful for the assistance of volunteers to help man the stall during the Dayboro Day Festival. If you have some time to spare and would like to lend a hand, we would be delighted to have you on board. Your presence will not only contribute to the success of our stall but also provide an opportunity to connect with fellow parents and members of our school community.

Once again, we extend our deepest appreciation to the entire school community for your unwavering support. We look forward to seeing you at the Dayboro Day Festival!

Volunteer opportunities for "Dayboro Day - Sunday 28th May 2023" are now open.

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet:

volunteersignup.org/CW3X7

To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Uniform Shop – Open every Thursday 8.30am – 9.30am

It’s officially jumper weather, well for us Queenslanders it is anyway.

Our uniform shop have navy fleece jackets and spray jackets ready to keep our students warm.  Come on down to the uniform shop to place your order, or alternatively you can 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.

Tuckshop – Wednesday’s and Friday’s

To help ensure that our Tuckshop always has enough volunteers we would like to put together a list of people who may not be able to commit to volunteering regularly, but would be happy to get a call last minute on the off chance they can help.  Perhaps a retired family member? Someone who works part time?  Please contact Alison at tuckshop@dayboropandc.org.au or call on 3425 6111 if you know someone who may be able to help.

Communication – how would you like to hear from us?

Each week, there are lots of exciting things we would like to share with you all.  We appreciate how busy everyone is, so we are endeavouring to streamline our communication so you can get the information you need, when you need it.

What would work for you?  Shall we continue with our Facebook updates?  Would you like us to start a DSS P&C facebook group that you can join?  Would you like to find more information on a website?

Please let us know, we’d love to hear from you so we can continue to improve our communication with the school community.

Next P&C Meeting – Monday 12^th June – 6.30pm @ Dayboro State School admin building

Thank you to everyone who attended the May meeting at the school and online.  It was wonderful to have so many parents around the table sharing ideas and collaborating on future initiatives.   There are exciting times ahead and we would love to have as many respresentatives from the school and community as possible, so please reach out to Johanna at secretary@dayboropandc.org.au if you would like to attend our next meeting.

Rhiannon Fealy

P&C President

Library

Remember that May is National Family Reading Month.   There are many opportunities for children and their families to get into reading throughout May, including the start of the Premier’s Reading Challenge, our school Book Fair and National Simultaneous Storytime.  It’s always amazing to see how enthusiastic our students are when reading new and interesting books.

Event Reminders:

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The 2023 Premiers Reading Challenge reading period began on the 8^th of May.  To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 2 need to read or experience 20 books, students in Year 3 and Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books (this number of books acknowledges that older students are more likely to select longer and more complex books). 

National Simultaneous Storytime

Students in all year levels are welcome to join in with the 23^rd annual National Simultaneous Storytime event on the 24^th of May during first break from 11.00 a.m.  After listening to this year’s book, “The Speedy Sloth”, students are welcome to stay for the remainder of first break and join in with our celebration activities.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson

Book Fair Thanks

 

 

We would like to thank all members of our school community who came along and supported our recent book fair.  A special thank you to the parent volunteers who came and assisted with Book Fair before school and after school, your time was greatly appreciated.  We raised $1700 in rewards to be used with Scholastic to purchase new reading books for the school Library.

 

Book Fair prize winners are listed below:

 

Lucky door prizes (one per year level):

Prep     Angus F 

Year 1   Darcy L

Year 2   Hattie S

Year 3   Luca H

Year 4   Abigail H

Year 5  Arcarius L

Year 6   Maci R

 

Guess the coins in the pirate’s treasure chest.  There were 120 coins in the pirate’s treasure chest.

First person with the correct guess:

 

Winner:  Henry C in Year 5M

 

There were 4 other students who guessed the correct number of coins.  They each received a runner-up prize.

 

Karsyn J in 4A

Chance H in 5M

Claire H in 6C

Evelyn in Prep D

 

 

Book Club

 

 

 

Book Club for Term 2 will be issued to students soon, alternatively families are welcome to view the latest issue of Book Club on line. Orders for this issue of Book Club will close on Friday the 9^th of June.

Book Club Catalogue Issue 4 https://www.scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/book-club/

It is easy to order. The Book Club LOOP platform for parents allows you to pay by credit card. Your child’s order is submitted directly to school and the books will be delivered to their class. You can place your child’s order at scholastic.com.au/loop or by using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.  Alternatively, order forms with payment can be handed in at the school office.  All orders placed through Book Club help to earn free reading books for the school library.

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying the rain (I’ve heard a few people say they’re keen for their dam to fill up a bit!). There’s lots of things to catch you up on this fortnight so let’s get to it:

Chappy Day -  22^nd May – Chappy Day is next Monday! As you hopefully know by now, your children can order subway for lunch to celebrate. The cut off to order is this Thursday morning at 9am. So make sure you order by Wednesday (today!) to avoid missing out. There will be a handball tournament at first break which children have signed up to compete in, with great prizes from Rebel sport for the first 3 places. At both first and second break, there will also be “9 square in the air” on the lower oval and “Gaga Ball” in the school hall to choose from.

Rock and Water – Kindness is cool! This week we are talking about kindness. We want the children to start to think about others and the effect their words and actions can have. We want the children to also think about the way they talk to themselves – their thought life. Are they kind to themselves? What is their inner voice like? The goal is for them to build on their ability to empathise with others. 

 Setting goals in Rock and Water

Dayboro Local Chaplaincy Committee – if you are interested in volunteering to help out with any chaplaincy events at school, please send me an e-mail. You may also be interested in attending committee meetings or even joining the team. We meet once a term to organise and plan what I will be focusing on each term. This is a great way for parents to have input into what they’d like to be contributed to the school through this program.

SUPA Club – We have our next SUPA club on Friday 26^th May. Please note that permission slips need to be returned before students attend. You can get one of these from the office or from myself. See the flyer below for further details on what we are learning.

Dayboro Day – this year the Dayboro chaplaincy committee is holding a raffle to be drawn towards the end of Dayboro Day. First prize is a brand new 20 inch Lightforce brand Light Bar. 2^nd and 3^rd prize are to be announced. These light bars are good quality, Australian made lights that make driving on dark country roads at night much safer! You can use the QR codes on the flyer below to purchase either 1 ticket for $1 or 10 tickets for $8. You’ve got to be in it to win it so make sure you get yours. Entries are open now!

My Chappy garden is looking healthy! Thanks to all of my helpers!

If you have any questions or need support in any way I have lots of practical resources available. Please feel free contact me at:

rachael.woodrow@suchaplaincy.org.au

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