Junior Athletics Carnival – what a blast!

It was wonderful to see the participation and enthusiasm of our early year’s students at our Junior Athletics Carnival on Friday. They ran, they jumped, they threw, they worked as a team in ball games and cheered each other on as they participated! In the junior years, we feel it is important to encourage our students to just have a go without the pressure of competition so thank you to our amazing community for turning out to cheer these little ones on!

We were also excited to have a visit from Barefoot Kindy and Dayboro Community Kindy, helping our younger learners see what we do here at DSS, encouraging participation. It was fun to see our Dayboro Little Learners playgroup also participate.

Of course, these events would not be possible without a huge amount of organisation and setting up. A huge thanks to Mr D for his expert organisation and to George for set up and maintenance of this, our outdoor learning space. Thanks to all of our staff who go above and beyond to prepare and support our students to be their best.

Dayboro Digital Learners for the Future!

Over the past 12 months, our Dayboro Digital Learning Team, have been working on a proposal to introduce a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program for our students. After consulting with experts in the field, several other schools with established digital learning programs, and our P&C, we have decided to commence a roll out in Year 4 in 2024, allowing students to bring their own iPad to school to use as a tool for learning. Later this term, our current Year 3 parents will be invited to an information session outlining the optional Dayboro Digital Learners for the Future program. After this initial information session, we will host a series of drop in and chat afternoons for parents to engage with our staff, asking questions, and learning more about the program. We look forward to support our students in this engaging opportunity to enrich their learning.

A reminder that next week we have our Show Holiday on the Monday 14 August and are here at school on Wednesday 16 August. Our next P&C meeting is

*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.

and Friday 18 August Dress in Orange to support...

A Dayboro Learner

Our Dayboro students are really embracing our qualities of A Dayboro Learner and have recently been practising being Curious and Creative learners like Kev the Kookaburra. Look at how our students have been demonstrating curious and creative learning here in the past two weeks….

We will continue to prioritise the teaching of these qualities and so introduced Karly the Kangaroo who is a Collaborator. We will be teaching students these qualities as they engage in their learning this fortnight and can’t wait to celebrate at parade next Monday!

Why don’t you ask your learner about how they are engaging in these different qualities in their learning?

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.

Student Success!

We love to celebrate our students’ success here at Dayboro. We have recently had two teams of students go off to represent our school at regional opportunities!

Our Dayboro Districts Team represented our school with pride at the recent district carnival. All of the students were outstanding in their commitment and modelled excellent sportsmanship behaviours!! The following students have been selected into the Pine Rivers team in the following events:

• Karsyn: 1500m
• Audrey: Shot put
• Gemma: Discus
• Heidi: High Jump, Long jump, 100m, Tetrathlon
• Emily: Discus, 200m, Shotput, long jump, 800m, Tetrathlon
• Makynli: 800m, Tetrathlon
• Lachlan: 1500m

A huge congratulations to Emily Donaldson who was awarded the 11year old age champion of this District carnival.

We also had 3 students selected to attend the Intermediate Primary Instrumental Music Workshop with all of the school in our region. William, Charles and Jasper had a wonderful time being instructed by our regional Instrumental Music teachers and performed beautifully as a part of the regional Big Band on Tuesday afternoon. Great job boys!!

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 – HIGH SCHOOL 

Last newsletter we talked about Prep transitions. This newsletter is flagging another important area for transitions – moving to high school. Do you have a student currently in Yr. 6? Have you enrolled your student in high school for 2024?

You may not be aware but In Term 4, we start collaborating with the teachers from our local high schools. We meet up and discuss students’ needs for high school and update them with students’ progress and general trends in learning areas of strengths and need we are seeing in our students. Last year we met with all our local high school  and primary schools representatives and we discussed important issues around ensuring successful transitions for our Yr. 6 students. We discussed the importance of regular attendance and the links to engaged, successful learners. Students who attend regularly in primary school tend to have more successful starts in high school. As we say in primary school “Every day counts!!” and this is certainly true for high school as well.  At this meeting, we also recognised how important it is to tailor support and interventions for families who may have significant barriers to access high schools such as distance and financial difficulties.

Students who are first in their family to attend high school may also need a more considered transition as this will be the whole family’s first experience of high school. If you or your Yr 6 student would like more information about high school and next steps, please reach out to our Yr 6 Transition Team consisting of the Yr. 6 teachers, our HOC and myself and we would be happy to support you in any way we can.

YEAR 1

The focus for Yr. 1 in English this term has been retelling a cultural story. Why? Because retelling stories from our past how to keep cultures, memories and important events alive. The Yr. 1’s have been learning how to write interesting retells about a variety of cultural stories such as How the Birds Got their colours (Dreaming story), The Two Bullies (A legend from Japan) and Handa's Surprise (Africa).

Right now, they are learning to retell a story in a logical sequence with main ideas and characters to add interest. They have also created a Cultural Word Wall to reflect and help describe the setting of each story. Ask your Yr. 1 student what their writing goal is.

YEAR 2

Year 2 are learning how to create and present entertaining multimodal procedures. Over the last 2 weeks, they have been creating procedures for a specific purpose, to make delicious or disgusting food. They have chosen specific describing words and adverbs to help add interest and to fit the purpose.

SCIENCE NEWS

Year 2 are learning about living things and what they need to survive. They have been hatching silk worms and growing bean seeds. They will be setting up favourable and non-favourable conditions for their plants to grow in our new garden beds. Learning through experimentation and inquiry enhances our students’ understanding of the natural world and allows them to ask the question - WHY?  One of the most powerful words to promote learning and understanding.

IMPORTANT PBL NEWS!       

Our Awards are: Be Kind, Be positive, Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Proud and Be Tolerant. The Principal’s Award is also given out each week.

Every week we also have 4 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. They then go into the draw box where very week 4 students names are pulled out of the box. The winners receive a prize from the Prize Box and an ice block voucher.

Year 5 & 6 Interschool Sport (Gala Day)

URGENT.....Payments are required as soon as possible.  Interschool Sport starts on on Friday 11th of August.  Payments of $18 can be made by Bpoint, QKR, or at the office.  Payments were due by 9/8/23.  Please check with the office if you are not sure if you have paid.

Other Payments in process

Meerkat performance payments are due on 23/8/23 $8.95

Year 5 Camp and Year 6 Camp are also coming up.  

Please check in with the office if you have any queries regarding payments or to set up a payment plan.

Hi everyone,

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to all of the new families that have joined Dayboro State School in the recent weeks.  We hope you are settling in to your new school community and getting the opportunity to meet some new friends.  I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce your P&C committee members (photos coming shortly, eeek).

President – Rhiannon Fealy

Vice President – Emily Brown

Treasurer – Katherine Fenwick

Secretary – Johanna Sheehan

Grants – Elise Strange

Social Media – Nathalie Cotte

Technology Support – Nathan Oldfield

Fundraising – Laura Jagersma, Lucinda Harris, Andrew Purcell

Our committee have been very busy this term.  Katherine has been working tirelessly getting School24 up and running, Johanna has coordinated and run her wonderful coffee cart at Sports Day and Chappy Pancake Day, Emily is working on making our Operational Plan more user friendly, Elise is gathering information and applying for grants and Nathan has been providing great feedback on our new platforms and processes.  Our fundraising team are getting ready for Father’s Day, Colour Run and Family Dance Night.  Nathalie, Johanna and Katherine have all been working on increasing our social media presence and sharing information across the school community.

This team have already achieved so much this year and having fun along the way.  Thank you to each of you for everything you are doing for our school.

If you would like to be involved with our committee please get in touch, we’d love to have more parents and community members on board.

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

It’s time to register for School24, with only 1 week to go we encourage everyone to  familiarize themselves with the new platform. 

Would you like a hand getting set up?  Please reach out to the office and leave your details and someone from the P&C will be in touch.  We’ve got this!

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.  Feedback from families that have already placed orders through the uniform shop have been overwhelmingly positive.

Keep an eye out for some yummy additions to the menu, Bolognese Pasta and Butter Chicken, filling and warming for our little learners tummies.

Tuckshop Volunteers desperately needed

Our tuckshop is currently open on Wednesdays and Fridays, as well as special events like sports days and dance nights.

We have a wonderful small group of regular volunteers who help out when they can, but in order for us to continue to offer this service we will need to increase our number of helpers.

Volunteering will be made even easier through School24, all you have to do is click on ‘VOLUNTEER ROSTER’ and sign up to whichever day you can help. No experience is necessary! Family members, grandparents and community members are most welcome and we will happily guide them through the Blue Card application process.

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

Next P&C Meeting – Tuesday 15^th August – 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 is only two weeks away.  We would like to thank all of the students who have come along to make Book Week themed decorations as we prepare for our annual celebration.   More Book Week activities, crafts and challenges will be available in the Library in the lead up to Book Week as well as during Book Week itself.

Book Week

Our annual 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.

Please remember that costumes do not need to be complicated or elaborate to be meaningful.  The table below includes some simple costume ideas based on books that have been nominated for prizes during Book Week this year:

A number of authors also have printable materials for costumes on their webpages, including Aaron Blabey (The Bad Guys), Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Matt Cosgrove (Macca the Alpaca), etc.

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. 

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 ”.  Students attending this session are welcome to bring along a hat or beanie to join in with audience participation activities.

Student in Year 4 – Year 6 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.                                                 Payment 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.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

There’s just 3 weeks left to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2023.  Please return completed reading record sheets (with signed consent) to class teachers.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson

Hi everyone,

As always I hope you are going amazing. I know that life can be full on and everyone is faced with tough things at one point or another, so I hope that if that is you, that you make sure you look after yourself. Here’s what’s happening this fortnight in Chappy world:

Rock and Water Program

The past 2 weeks our Year 3 groups have been learning how to stand strong using grounding, centring, focusing and taking a low breath. These are the self-regulation tools that are at the heart of our Rock and Water unit. We learn these through games – for example, the ‘Monkey Grip’ game, where we hold a partner by the arm, lean back and let go on the count of 3. If our body is calm and we are standing strong, we won’t stumble backwards. The same can be said for the choices we make. If we have taken the time to help our body (and our nervous system) be calm, we will make wiser choices about our actions.

From there, we have discussed what it means to be a strong person, both physically and internally. Can I be a good rock? i.e Can I say no to peer pressure? Can I stand up for myself? We have also discussed how it is good to be like water in relationships – to offer friendship, communication, solidarity and peace.  Students have also started setting their Rock and Water goals for this term. This might look like: “I want to remember to take a breath when I am angry”.  We have really enjoyed using the new outdoor classroom to do this!

9 square-in-the-air

The chaplaincy committee was able to purchase the game “9 Square” for our school. We have been able to use this at lunch clubs, SUPA club and will use it in the future for special events like school camp. Thanks so much to the donors who contributed towards this:

Dayboro Sheriff’s Fund

KnOT Occupational Therapy

Beth Nowlan

Dayboro Sherriff’s Fund Trivia Night 2023

This year the chaplaincy committee is working alongside the DSF to put on the annual trivia night in Dayboro. They have very graciously offered for proceeds to go to supporting chaplaincy at DSS, as well as to the Endeavour Foundation. Tables are on sale NOW – get in quick! (at the time of writing this, there are 7 already gone). See flyer below.

Local Chaplaincy Committee

We are currently seeking a new treasurer for the Dayboro SS chaplaincy committee. We would love this person to be a parent or family member connected to school. If you would like to help support in this way or simply want to know more, please contact me via the e-mail below.

A treasurer is required to:

• Prepare and present a financial overview at termly committee meetings
• Ensure all fundraising activities and events comply with GST requirements and that an event application has been completed for insurance purposes
• Liaise with SU Australia regarding financial matters
• Approve transactions and reimbursements

Our next LCC meeting is on 17 August at 3:30pm, all are welcome to attend.

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

rachael.woodrow@suchaplaincy.org.au