Welcome Back to Term 4

It was wonderful to see the students return yesterday, excited to see their friends and the staff and also excited about learning! Our teachers met to plan at the end of last term, carefully designing the learning, for their Term 4 units of work. They now know their students so well; the teachers are able to design their very next steps for learning.It was great to see so many parents at the recent parent teacher conferences, taking up the opportunity to catch up with your child’s learning journey and collaborate with our teachers as to what you can also do to assist your child to be ready for learning and meeting their goals. I encourage you to maintain that communication this term so that we can work together to ensure our students are successful.
This term is extremely full of learning experiences. Your child’s class teacher would have sent out the Year Level Curriculum Overview for the term so that you can discuss the learning with our child. We look forward to a busy term with plenty of educational experiences.

In order to start planning for 2024, we are needing to secure our student numbers. Please contact the office ASAP if your family is moving from the school. We appreciate your assistance.
It has been wonderful to meet our 2024 Preppies and their families. Of course, the excitement is high as these little ones anticipate their start to school. We really look forward to welcoming our prospective preppies over the next few weeks as we offer transition sessions. If you know of a child in our community who is due for Prep next year, please encourage them to contact our school office as we are enrolling NOW!

Parent Calendar
Term 4 is sure to be a super busy term. To keep on top of the events and excursions, please find attached our Term 4 Parent Calendar Version 2.

Over the first week of the school holidays, Kalani competed at the Indoor Netball State Titles and was chosen by the Queensland Selectors for the U10 Rising Stars Team. Such an awesome achievement! We wish her all the best at the upcoming competitions.

Hattie and Flo rode at the QLD Pony Club State Championships with hundreds of children from all over QLD.
Flo impressively won overall State Champion for her age group in the formal event, selected for the QLD State Team and the Zone 26 (Moreton area) Team. In the sporting event she placed 4th overall.

Hattie also went amazingly well, winning the Reserve QLD Champion in the formal event and was also selected for the Zone team. He backed this up with a win in the sporting event, making the Zone team again, and being awarded the Reserve QLD Champion!

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Consents and urgent news re excursions/incursions
A reminder that we are asking parents to keep an eye on their child’s consents and payments for excursions and incursions. Each event has a cut-off date on the permission note, well before the event, to assist us with our housekeeping. This is the due date for permissions and payment. We are happy to set up payment plans and if parents have these, we will be happy to let students attend. This term we will be unable to chase up permissions and payments, so if these are not completed by the day, unfortunately the child will not be included.

Of course, the easiest way is to sign up for QParents to keep a track of permission forms and invoices.

QParent invitations were sent to each family, please contact the school office if you need assistance or for your invitation code to be resent. 

Have a great week! Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

Welcome back everyone to Term 4. I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing break and enjoyed the extra day-Monday off. We also welcome some new families to our school this term. I’m sure everyone will make them feel welcome.

2024 planning is underway. Booklists are ready to go and information on how to order is below:
ORDERS FROM BEDROCK BOOKS ARE DUE TO BE PLACED BY: Wednesday, 22nd November 2023.
Orders may still be placed after this date but will be subject to a $6.50 per child packing fee.
Please place your order as early as possible to ensure it arrives before school starts.
For guaranteed delivery before School, please place your order by 5pm on 3/1/24. Orders placed after this date may not arrive before school starts.
HOW TO ORDER YOUR BOOKLIST through Bedrock Books
ONLINE: Order your booklist online at www.bedrockbooks.com.au
Your school code is: DAYBORO2024
CALL THEM: You can call the friendly team on 07 3881 1122 to place your order over the phone.

A reminder that swimming for Prep, Year 1, 1/2A and Yr 3 starts in Week 3 on Thursday 19th October. Children will swim twice a week on Thursdays and Fridays for 5 weeks in total. Please make sure payments are made before next week so that teachers can finalise timetabling arrangements. A note will go home from teachers soon about what to bring and times for swimming.
In Week 2 of this term, Years 5 and 6 will be participating in our annual “Talk About It” unit. This program is part of the Life Education group of programs and covers important aspects of children’s social, emotional and physical health needs. Notes and invoices for this program have been sent home last term.
Also in Week 2 , Yr 1 and 2 will be heading out on an excursion to the Pine Rivers Heritage museum. Yr 4 will be going to the Science centre and Museum also. Again permissions and payments are due.

COLOUR RUN
This Friday 1.30-3pm up on our oval. Please check our FB and the P&C FB for details. Don’t forget to register your interest.

All students are reminded to wait in the CSA before school between 8:15 am and 8:40 am. Children are not to wait outside classrooms or other areas around the school. When the bell goes at 8:40am students walk up to their classrooms. This is an important safety aspect and it is very important children are reminded of this expectation. Thank you parents for helping us keep your children safe!

Thank you to Mr Horne, Ms Lemmo, Mrs Cassell, Chappy Rachael and Mr Enchelmeier for attending the Yr 5 camp. From all accounts it was a hugely fun and successful camp with lots of team building and personal growth challenges had.

DATE CLAIMERS TERM 4
Tuesday 3rd October- First Day back
Friday 6th October- Colour Run 1:30-3pm on the oval
Monday 9th October- P&C Meeting 6:30pm
Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October- Talk About It Yr5 and 6
Thursday 12th October- Yr 1 Pine Rivers Heritage Museum
Friday 13th October- Yr 2 Pine Rivers Heritage Museum, Yr4 Science Centre Visit
Thursday and Friday 19th & 20th October- Swimming starts Prep, Yr 1 and Yr 3

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

Our Vision:

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

Register now for the Colour Run !!!

Library News

Welcome back for Term 4.  I hope everyone had a chance to do some reading over the break – I can’t wait to hear about any new and amazing books that students have read during the holidays.  Remember we are always happy for students to make suggestions or requests for book titles to be added to our Library collection.  Students in Year 4, 5, and 6 also have access to the Education Queensland digital library (using Sora on the iPads) which can be used during breaks to read additional books, graphic novels, and audio books.

Just a reminder to all students to ensure that books are carried to and from school in library bags.   We have had a significant number of books returned that have been damaged, mostly due to water or other liquids.  Unfortunately, due the number of books that have been damaged, as well as the number of books that have been reported as lost, families will now need to arrange for a replacement copy of the damaged or lost book (or make a payment to pay for the replacement cost of the book).  Any books that have been out on loan for more than twelve weeks will be considered a lost book and will need to be replaced if not returned.

Robotics

Since the beginning of term three approximately 20 Year 5 and Year 6 students have participated in our Lego Robotics Club during lunch breaks and for one session during learning time each week.  The students have been making amazing progress with their robot construction techniques and their coding abilities. 

We have now selected students to participate in our regional First Lego League competition on October 28^th at Rothwell.  These students will need to work together to design and build robots, plan coded solutions to earn points in a table game (each round is just two and half minutes long), and also plan an innovation project which uses technologies and creative industries to encourage others to participate in a hobby or interest that is meaningful to their team.  There is a lot of preparation which needs to be completed by these students in the next four weeks, but they are more than ready for the challenge.

Students in the robotics club who have not been selected for the official First Lego League competition are competing in a school based competition against our other school based teams to design robots and complete coded solutions to challenges using the First Lego League competition mats and materials from last year.  These teams have the luxury of additional time to work on robots and coding as they will not need to prepare an innovation project.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson.

Walk for Daniel

Friday, 27^th October

Meet at Roderick A. Cruice Park (opposite the bakery) at 7:50am for an 8:00am walk.

WEAR RED!

EVERYONE invited. Walk with your neighbours, friends, family, staff etc.

Help us remember Daniel Morcombe and raise awareness about child safety in Dayboro.