Look at our Learning

We have been working super hard to commence our Term 3 learning and wow our teachers and students are off and running with amazing support in their learning environments to engage and reflect on their learning.

At the beginning of our units, we have been using collaborative approaches to support our students to communicate their learning and experience challenging learning often before we commence the instruction. This allows teachers and our students to understand what our students already know allowing us to then target our teaching. As teachers collaboratively look at student learning, we are able to design the very next steps for students.

*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.

We love our Chappy support!

Chaplaincy services support the general wellbeing of students, parents and staff, provide an additional adult role model in the school and enhances our engagement with the broader community.

Local community support is required for chaplains to operate in a school. At Dayboro, we are so lucky to have a hard-working Local Chaplaincy Committee to support our Chappy and also raise funds to extend her services. Student involvement in any activities offered by the chaplain is voluntary.

Chaplains are inclusive of, and show respect for, all religious and non-religious beliefs and worldviews represented in the school community. All activities and events provided are non-discriminatory and equally available to all students. Chaplains are not permitted to engage in evangelising or proselytising, nor attempt to undermine a student's beliefs.

At Dayboro, our school staff and students feel so fortunate to have an amazing Chappy to support our school wellbeing program. Did you know that these are the types of supports that Chappy Rach provides at our school?:

• Class Visits – spending time in classes in order to build relationships with all students and their teachers. Attends wellbeing class lessons ie Circle times
• Facilitates our Rock and Water program with Inclusion staff twice a week supporting students to build resilience
• Designs and engages students in lunch time clubs
• Supports students at school gate, at start of school day or during the day if they require a listening ear
• Individual or small group check ins as required (often these students are programmed weekly and have specific goals)
• Attends our school camps and some excursions to help students
• Support students by attending school sporting events including interschool sport and district events
• Supports our school special events by planning, assisting and attending to engage with community
• Educates our community about Chaplaincy
• Sources and provides Food Hampers and Meal Deliveries to families when required
• Is a Moreton Bay Sports Camp –Camp Director – offering holiday camps to our DSS students
• Support or promote fundraising events to support wellbeing at the school and also chaplaincy resources

As an extra, on Friday afternoons after school, Chappy Rach does offer a voluntary SUPA (Scripture Union Primary Age Clubs) designed for children who are interested in looking at spirituality, religion and everyday life from a Christian perspective. This is on a voluntary basis only and parents are fully informed about this purpose. The activities are fun, interactive and age appropriate, providing children with a place to build supportive friendships and learn important skills to assist them in their social development. It is important to note that this voluntary, after school activity is the only time in which Chappy Rach uses these activities or reference to religious beliefs.

We LOVE having the support from Chappy Rach. Stay tuned for a video explaining more about how she supports our community throughout the week.

A Dayboro Learner

We continue to prioritise the teaching of our qualities of A Dayboro Learner. We celebrated at assembly last week all the ways our students are being great Communicators like Coco the communicator:

This Monday, we introduced our next quality of a Dayboro Learner – a Curious and Creative Learner (Kev the Kookaburra). Staff are continuing to show and engage students I these qualities over the next two weeks. We are excited to encourage our students to be Curious and Creative!

Thank you for following up with your learners as we all work together to understand and practise these learning qualities.

School Opinion Survey

Our department’s annual School Opinion Survey has now opened. Parents will receive an email with their log on details. I would encourage you to fill this survey in about our wonderful school.

Who is surveyed? Respondents include:

• Parents/Caregivers—every family in the school with a child enrolled in Kindy to Year 12.
• Students—all students from Years 5, 6, 8 and 11 will be invited to participate in survey. However, in some smaller schools, students in Years 4, 7, 9 or 10 may also be invited to participate.
• Staff—all principals, teaching and non-teaching school staff employed during the survey period. This survey includes permanent, temporary, casual, part-time and full-time staff and excludes staff on leave during the survey period.

We really appreciate your feedback to assist in planning improvement strategies.

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 

Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please feel free to contact Gabrielle Douglas - Principal, or Alicia Tavelardis- Inclusion Teacher.

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

TRANSITIONS 

At this time of year, we start to look forward to a very important part of our role here at Dayboro and that is educating our students for all settings and preparing them for change. Not only do we start to think about welcoming and providing information to our future Prep students and families for 2024 but we also begin to prepare our Yr. 6 students for the next phase of their education journey- the transition into high school.

Our Partnerships with both early educators and high schools are very important to us and we encourage their involvement and participation in our school as much as we can.

PREP 2024

To help with the transition from Kindy to Prep we are planning to hold a PREP INFORMATION session on Wednesday 16^th August at 4:30pm where all parents enrolling their children in Prep for 2024 are welcome to attend and learn more about our school and our Prep rooms and teachers.  Children are welcome to attend and we will have a play area set up at the back of the hall. We follow this information session up with a series of visits to Prep for these students in Term 4.  

IMPORTANT PBL NEWS!       

Our Values Awards are: Be Kind, Be Positive, Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Proud and Be Tolerant.

Our Behaviour Expectations Rewards: Every week we also have students who receive GOTCHA awards. These students are spotted by other teachers in the playgrounds and classrooms and rewarded for doing the right thing with a GOTCHA award. These  then go into the draw box where every week, 4 students names are pulled out of the box. The winners receive a prize from the Prize Box and an ice block voucher.

NAME OUR TUCKSHOP COMPETITION

Exciting news! Our tuckshop menu and ordering online system is getting a revamp and make over. So, we thought what a great time to also find a new name for the tuckshop. So we put it out to our students to come up with ideas and suggestions for what they would like their favourite eating place to be called. We have had so many entries already. The P&C are going to be selecting the winning entry… stay tuned. Entries close next Friday.

Thank you to all our community volunteers who help with the Chappy Pancake breakfast Tuesday morning. The children said the pancakes were “yummy”

Thanks to our wonderful Outside School Hours Care Educators Helping Hands.  We thank you for yor support and all the wonderful ways you partner with our school and look after our learners before and after school.

Coming Soon  

Watch out for information coming home for Sushi Day being run by our Student Council.  Flyers will be coming home soon.

DAYBORO’S LITTLEST LEARNERS  

Every Friday morning. 9-10am. Starts in the Helping Hands House. We then head over to the Prep playground for a play and morning tea. Come and join us for a fun morning of conversation and learning. 

18 days to go!!!!!  Tuckshop GO LIVE on SCHOOL 24 is Monday 14^th August 2023

It’s time to register for School24, with only 18 days to go we encourage everyone to  familiarize themselves with the new platform.  Accessible through the web or the app on your device, it’s convenient and user-friendly, and designed to enhance your experience with our school.

Dayboro District Progress Association need our help – Meeting on Thursday, 17 August @ 6.30pm, The Dayboro Showgrounds

Our friends over at the Dayboro District Progress Association are doing a call to arms for our community to get involved in a meeting to discuss future Dayboro Days.  Not only would this be a great opportunity to meet other locals but also a way to get involved and ensure the future of wonderful events like Dayboro Day.

Tuckshop Volunteers needed for Junior Sports Day – Friday 4^th August 

Calling all parents of Senior students, our Junior Sports Day is next Friday and we would love some support in the tuckshop, particularly for first break in the morning.

If you have a couple of hours spare we would greatly appreciate your support.  Our parent volunteers of Junior students would love to enjoy watching their little athletes on the oval.

Please call Alison at the tuckshop on 3425 6111 or email her at tuckshop@dayboropandc.org.au

Next P&C Meeting – Tuesday 15^th 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

president@dayboropandc.org.au

Book Week

Our annual Book Week celebrations are scheduled for 19^th - 25^th of August. 

We have planned some exciting activities to help us celebrate Book Week.  Our Character Costume Parade will be held on Wednesday the 23^rd 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.

To celebrate Book Week 2023 we have arranged a special visit from a theatrical group, Meerkat Productions, to perform dramatic adaptations of two books that have been shortlisted for awards during Children’s Book Week 2023.  Meerkat Productions specialize in adapting children’s literature for the stage; creating fresh and vibrant productions which prompt discussion and debate with students.  They are an Australian owned, Melbourne based, nationally touring theatre company, owned and operated by qualified teachers.

There will be two separate age appropriate performances on the day.  Students in Prep – Year 3 will enjoy a theatrical performance based on the story “Frank’s Red Hat ”, while Year 4 – Year 6 students will enjoy a dramatization of the story “The way of Dog”.  More information about the books can be found below:

Activity details:

 

Place:                          Dayboro State School Hall

Date:                           Wednesday 23^rd August, 2023

Performance Times:   12.15 pm (upper school) and 1:50 pm (lower school) approximately

Cost:                            $8.95 per student. Invoices will be emailed home. Due by Monday 21st August. Payment for this event can be made via our preferred method of QKR, BPOINT or QParents.

As this performance is based at school no consent form will be required to be completed. If you have any questions or concerns, please email admin@dayboross.eq.edu.au.

 

 

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 Younger Readers Book of the Year and the New Illustrator categories are shown below. 

 

Our pick from the Younger Readers category is “The Way of Dog”.     This book tells the story of Scruffity, an orphaned dog born in a cage in a barn.  He is set free by a young boy and together they start to make a life of their own, until tragedy strikes.  Scruffity’s journey to find a home and love is a tale of strength, bravery, and resilience. This book has been selected by Meerkat Productions to be performed for students in Year 4 – Year 6 during Book Week.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

 

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.

 

Robotics Club

Robotics Club has started this term for selected students in Year 5 and Year 6.  The  participating students have made an enthusiastic start and no doubt will make excellent progress with building and coding challenges throughout the semester.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson