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Welcome Back to Term 3!
Our students and staff are excited to be back to learning this week! It was wonderful to see the students reconnect with their friends and get stuck into learning. Our staff collaborated at the end of term 2 to plan for engaging and challenging learning experiences for the next unit of work and continue to meet fortnightly to check in on and discuss student learning.
Look at how our students have already engaged in their learning:
Teachers have prepared Curriculum Overviews for each year level, which you should have received via email earlier this week. Please note that these Overviews are also available on our school, website.
This term we will have a busy term full of learning and extension activities like Dance Fever, which culminates in our Family Dance Night, Book Week activities and character dress ups and several excursions, incursions and even Year 5 camp!
Please continue to keep an eye out for our Parent Calendar each Newsletter, to ensure that you stay informed, as we update our events on our Term 3 Parent Calendar.
A Dayboro Learner
As a staff, we have been working on the qualities of A Dayboro Learner, and this semester, we are going to start to discuss this with our students. Each fortnight on Assembly, we will discuss a new quality and practise using the characteristics as learners.
At Assembly on Monday, we discussed being a Communicator in our learning, using Coco the Cockatoo as our communication character. For the next fortnight, our staff will teach these characteristics to assist students to develop these skills.
We would love you to also discuss these with your little learners, so we will keep you informed via the newsletter each fortnight.
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 following link.
Further information about the NCCD can be found on;
If you have any questions about the NCCD, please feel free to contact Gabrielle Douglas - Principal, or Alicia Tavelardis- Inclusion Teacher.
Student Success
On the holidays Lily, one of our Equestrian Team members road at the Interschools State Championships. We were excited for her to represent Dayboro State School. Lily placed 17th in the state for primary school preliminary class Dressage and made the final top 10 for Primary School Combined Training. We are very proud of her efforts.
QParents – Please sign up for consents!
Thanks to our parents who have already signed up to QParents and are receiving our digital excursion and incursion consent forms. Please note that we will NO LONGER SEND HOME HARD COPIES of permission letters. If you are not on QParents, you will need to access the consent from the teacher email or in person at the office window.
Last term, our report cards were distributed via QParents initially. They will continue to be available for you to access via this platform. Report Cards were also emailed on Friday the last day of term.
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!
Have a great week! Gabrielle
Dear Families and Friends
Welcome back everyone to Term 3!
This term we are very fortunate to welcome 13 new students to our school. Starting at a new school can be a very overwhelming experience for children but we know that our kind and caring school community here at Dayboro will be very supportive and welcoming to them all.
Big events this term include Dance Fever lessons. These lessons are part of our school curriculum and will be happening every Thursday for every class, every week. Our first lessons start this Thursday, so payments need to be finalised before then. Please make this a priority this week.
Year 5 Camp is also happening in the last week of the term. This camp is such an important time for our Yr 5 students to bond together as a team as they head into their leadership year- Year 6!
Year 5’s from last year’s camp.
Also start getting organised for our Book Week Dress up day on Wednesday 23rd August. The theme this year is “Read, grow, inspire!”
Last year’s winners 2022
The Yr 5 and 6 students will participate in 3 Interschool Sports days this term on the 11th August, 25th August and 8th September- all Fridays this term. Notes will go home about these soon.
Our Junior Athletics Carnival will be held on Friday 4th August this term.
We have 2 important dates to take note of this term: Monday 14th August will be our Show Holiday and Friday 1st September is our gazetted Student Free day.
Parents will also have the opportunity this term to discuss their child’s learning progress in parent teacher interviews that are scheduled for Weeks 8, 9 and 10 this term. There will be more detailed information provided later in the term.
Also remember to please name personal belongings like jumpers, hats and drink bottles. We have moved any Lost Property items to the office now. All named belongings will be kept at the office for safe return. Eventually unnamed items are disposed of thoughtfully. Unfortunately, the Lost Property box was overflowing with lunchboxes, jumpers and food scraps and rodents and possums were making it their home.
Kind regards
Karen Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Uniform Shop – now live on School 24
At the end of last term our Uniform Shop went live on School 24. This will enable parents to place uniform orders at any time online, see current stock levels, and collect orders from the office at their convenience. We will continue to open the Uniform Shop every Thursday 8.30am – 9.30am to enable students to try on uniforms and orders placed in person if that is your preference. This time will also be used to pack any orders placed and delivered to the office ready for collection.
Have you created your account yet?
Setting up an account is quick and easy. Please find attached guides which have been created to assist parents with the following:
- Parent/ Student Registration Guide
- Uniform Ordering Guide
If you have any questions or require assistance, please do not hesitate to get in touch with one of our P&C Committee members or you can also contact School24 directly.
Tuckshop GO LIVE is on Monday 14th August 2023
For those that have already created their School 24 accounts you may have noticed the Canteen, Volunteer Roster and Events tabs that are currently inactive. Yes, you probably have already guessed, but we will be moving our tuckshop ordering over to School 24 and will no longer be using Flexischools after Monday 14th August.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of time left before the changover and we are here to help. At this stage, there are 2 steps that you need to do:
- Start to use up your current account balance in Flexischools (we will be sending out more information shortly about closing accounts and remaining balances)
- Set up your School 24 account
We understand that this is a big change. Here are some of the major benefits of moving to School 24 to look forward to:
- Streamlined ordering with parents able to order for multiple children over multiple breaks, in a single checkout
- Reduced transaction fees at 22c per student per day, rather than 29c per student per break
- No sales fees for the P&C, currently 2.2% with our current platform
- Single platform with one logon for all P&C ordering (Tuckshop, Uniforms, Events)
We will be sending out more information in the coming weeks about the transition. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
Next P&C Meeting – Monday 19th July – 6.30pm @ Dayboro State School admin building and online
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
Welcome Back
Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had an opportunity to squeeze in some reading during their break.
The Library is a busy time during Term 3 as we get ready to celebrate Australian children’s literature during Book Week which is held in the last week of August. Students from across the school will have the opportunity to create items to decorate the Library as part of our “Read, Grow, Inspire” displays in the lead up to Book Week.
Book Week
Our annual Book Week celebrations are scheduled for 19th - 25th of August.
We have planned some exciting activities to help us celebrate Book Week. Our Character Costume Parade will be held on Wednesday the 23rd of August from 9.00 a.m. on the oval. We cannot wait to see all of the awesome costumes! Students are welcome to come and work in the maker space on Fridays at first break to create costume elements in preparation for the costume parade in August.
We also have Meerkat Productions returning to perform a live-action retelling of two of the books that have been nominated to win prizes during Book Week. This year’s books are “Frank’s Red Hat” for lower school students and “The Way of Dog” for upper school students. We hope everyone is able to join us for these events
During Book Week each year the Children’s Book Council of Australia award prizes to Australian authors in 6 different categories. This year’s shortlisted books for the Early Childhood Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year categories are shown below.
Our pick from the Early Childhood category is “Lionel and Me” a heart-warming story about inclusion and friendship. The story is told from the point of view an older family dog, Maverick, and how his life changes when the family bring home a new puppy named Lionel.
From the Picture Book category we enjoyed “Franks Red Hat” which is an irreverent story about following your passion and finding your place in the world. We are really looking forward to seeing how this story is dramatized when the Meerkat Productions team visits during book week.
The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2023 is still running. To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books. Reading record sheets are available from class teachers and from the Library.
Have a great week!
Mrs Wilkinson
