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Welcome to our 2024 Student Leaders!
This week, we congratulated and awarded badges to our School Captains, House Captains and Vice Captains, Band and Choir Captains, Indigenous Ambassadors and Environmental Ambassador at our School Leader Investiture. We are excited to work with our student leadership team as they represent our students and super importantly support our students to participate and enjoy school life. I encouraged all students to say hello to our leaders when they see them around the school and have a chat with them about any problems they are having or any ideas for our wonderful school. We know that these students are excellent listeners, and also want the very best for our community.
Our Student Council representatives, elected by their own class mates, were also inducted. Our Student Council, made up of the class representatives including our school captains and our Indigenous and Environmental Ambassadors, collect ideas and listen to the student voice from their elected classes to bring ideas and feedback to the Student Council. This group then makes decisions about how to help our students, our school and our community.
We look forward to a productive and harmonious year as these students guide our student body demonstrating their responsibility and kindness!
Dayboro State school Explicit Improvement Agenda for 2024
Our wonderful staff, participating in professional learning on the student free days, collaborated to review our 2023 DSS performance data celebrating our successes and plan towards what is possible for 2024. We also spent some time at the end of last year looking at our community response, both parents and students in our School Opinion Survey, to analyse what the community identify as our strengths here at Dayboro SS and what areas we could strengthen.
From this professional collaboration and data analysis, we have drafted our Explicit Improvement Agenda for 2024 which we believe supports all of our students to be engaged and successful:
A whole school and community approach; striving for excellence and equity in curriculum and engagement ensuring high expectations for all.
We have also drafted our Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) to outline our goals as identified through key focus areas in our school’s strategic plan, and also plan for the resources we will need to achieve these goals. At our first P&C meeting, I will discuss this AIP to provide clarity and ask for feedback. If you have registered for the meeting, you should receive a copy of the draft document prior to the meeting to have a read.
Connecting to our community!
On Sunday, we had a fabulous Family Fun Day down at the Dayboro Pool! A huge thank you to our community for supporting this event. Our P&C worked tirelessly and we were also supported by the Dayboro Pool, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Dayboro Village Meats and Dayboro Cold Rooms. Thank you, P&C, for your organisation!
We will hold our Class Information Sessions for parents this Thursday to assist you in understanding the organisation of your child/ren’s classroom. If you do need to bring your children with you, you can drop them up to our school library while you attend the class session/s. Please note the following arrangement for the afternoon:
- Parents must drop off and collect from the library (Prep students will be walked down from the library by a staff member to the Prep area at 5:05pm)
- No students should be playing in the playgrounds during the sessions
- We do not have food or drink available …children will need to bring a water bottle with them
- Year 5 and 6 students are able to attend the session with their parents.
Thanks for continuing to foster this partnership with your child’s teacher in your child/ren’s education!
School Calendar
Please find attached our latest version (V3) of our Parent Calendar to support you to stay informed about all of our school events.
National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy NAPLAN Year 3 and 5 students this term
A reminder that the annual NAPLAN testing for Year 3 and 5 students occurs in term 1, with our testing window scheduled from 13 March through to 25 March. These assessments are delivered online with the exception of Year 3 Writing. The students are assessed in the following areas:
- Writing
- Reading
- Conventions of Language
- Numeracy
Please see below the information brochure for parents and carers. You can also access the NAPLAN website www.nap.edu.au/naplan. If you have any questions or concerns about these assessments, please contact your child’s class teacher, Karen Ryan and myself so that we can discuss or clarify details.
Our Fabulous P&C
A huge shout out to our P&C team. What a great start to the year with community events and a Prep BBQ planned to welcome our families. Our P&C regularly bring to our meetings ideas and questions about the school organisation and learning structure to help our staff understand the community needs and wants. When we are making decisions about our school, we consult our P&C as representatives of our parents.
Would you like to help our school to partner with parents and respond to the community’s needs? Why don’t you join us for our first Teams P&C meeting this term at 6:30pm, 12 February. All welcome! Please like the DSS P&C Facebook page for more details.
Away for the day
From the beginning of Term 1 2024, all Queensland state school students must keep their mobile phones switched off and ‘away for the day’ during school hours. As soon as students arrive at school, all students with a mobile phone are required to turn their phone off and hand it in to their teacher or lower school students to the office. Students then collect their phones at 3:00pm.
Smart watches and other devices may be worn, but notifications, must be switched off so that phone calls, messages and other notifications cannot be sent or received during school hours. It is important that students who do wear a wearable device know how to turn those notifications off. This includes during lesson times and break times, as well as other school activities including excursions, camps, sporting events, etc.
As usual, if parents need to communicate with their children during the school day, this will be facilitated through the school office.
Have a great week!
Gabrielle
Dear Families and Friends
High Five Strategies
Every year Dayboro State School students learn about our High Five Strategies. These strategies are tools students can use in the playground and school environment to help deal with conflict or a problem situation with other students.
We encourage our students to start at number one when dealing with a problem with their peers and work through the steps until the problem is resolved or needs further assistance.
When a student feels they are in a situation of conflict or disagreement they can do the High Five:
- Talk Friendly – use respectful words to tell the person about the problem in a calm way and suggest ways to solve the problem.
- Talk Firmly – Use a serious voice without yelling to get the message across. Don’t smile or wave arms about. Be assertive but don’t give put downs.
- Ignore – Look away. Don’t smile. Distract yourself by thinking of something else. Do not speak any further with the person.
- Walk Away – Move away from the student involved in the problem. Find a friend or go to the playground or library.
- Report – Ask a teacher for help. In the playground look for the teacher on duty with a high five poster on the back of their folder. Explain the problem to them in an honest way. Tell the teacher the strategies you have used already.
What a success our Playgroup was in 2023!!! So yes…. Playgroup will be back. Thank you to everyone who has rung asking when it returns. So….. if this is something you would be interested in attending with your younger child, please let us know by ringing the office and leaving your details, email and preferred days. Last year we ran it Friday mornings 9-10 starting at the Helping Hands House.
Based on your responses, we will pick a morning that suits most and go from there.
Call our office 34256111 and please leave your name and phone number so we can start to get an idea of numbers and says that suit.
LEARNING AT DAYBORO
How exciting it is, as an educational leader to be able to visit classrooms and hear about all the students’ learning. When we talk to children, we like to frame their thinking by asking them 5 key questions about their learning.
- What are you learning?
- How are you going?
- How do you know how you are going?
- How can you improve?
- Where do you go for help?
It is so affirming for us as educators to know that even in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 our students can think deeply and reflect on their learning and more importantly have individual goals they can work towards.
Below are some students I have had great pleasure working with last week and who are so excited and eager to learn and to show off their amazing work so far. A big thank you to their amazing teachers who help them achieve their goals.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC NEWS
Instrumental Lessons and Band have started!! Band practice is every Tuesday morning at 7:50am in the hall. Lessons with Mr Yates will be every Tuesday. We alos welcome a new Instrumental teacher Ms Munns who will be here every Thursday 12-3pm. She will mainly be teaching the Beginners. Please make sure you bring your instruments , music books and remember to practice, practice, practice!!
SWIMMING – Years 2 and 4.
Swimming starts this term for Yr. 2 and 4 students at the Dayboro pool. Classes 2B, 2D, 4A and 4B will be swimming from Week 4 until Week 8. They will swim every Thursday and Friday for a 1/2hr lesson for 5 weeks. Notes and invoices were sent home last week. These lessons are an important part of our curriculum and all students are expected to attend.
2/3 C will swim together in Term 4. The swimming timetable is below. Class teachers will be emailing you with further details shortly.
Thank you Mrs Ryan!
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Support for Learning
I mentioned last newsletter that teachers spend some time in the first two weeks getting students to complete diagnostic tests to help inform them of the English and Maths support their students will be needing. This support ranges from small adjustments made all throughout the day for all students, which we call differentiation, to heavily modifying the work and the support to do this work for individual students.
To break it down, we have the following supports:
Tier 1 support – every day differentiation for all students.
Tier 2 support – more targeted instruction given in groups focussing on regular class work (Maths / English) that is broken down into more hands on, specific tasks.
Tier 3 support - more intensive instruction in very small or individual groups focussing on more heavily modified learning and basic concepts of maths and English.
Your teachers are in the process of setting these supports up for their students and will communicate the supports your child will be receiving at the relevant time.
Any questions, please feel free to e-mail me: dmath9@eq.edu.au
Reading
A question I have been asked a lot over the years from parents is ‘How can I help my child at home with their school work’. My first response has always been ‘Read TO them’ or ‘Read WITH them’.
For younger students, take every opportunity to read simple things in their environment that have a low reading load e.g. road signs, food labels, board games. Discuss with your child the beginning sounds of these words you see, state other words that have the same beginning sounds, state other words that rhyme, make fun little games that have your child searching for other words that rhyme or have the same sound etc. And read picture books, websites and magazines to your child as much as you can. Asking questions about characters or content or the feelings that were evoked from texts helps your child to connect deeply with the text and understand it further.
As our children get older, we tend to stop reading to them which makes sense as they become more fluent and capable readers who don’t need your help to access texts. However, creating regular opportunities to read for pleasure with your child has so many benefits. Firstly, it creates a special time between you both with no ‘learning pressures’ other than to enjoy the text together. Secondly, it shows your child you value reading. Thirdly, if your child is hearing you read at all when reading together, they are learning from your intonation, how you read the punctuation, how you read large or tricky words and this all helps in the improvement of their own reading. And fourthly, it opens up the opportunity to have meaningful discussions about what was read whether it be about the feelings that were evoked, or making connections with something that happened in the text to their own lives or simply why they enjoyed reading that text.
Dee Mathiesen
Head of Curriculum
QParents
GET REGISTERED for Qparents. You will be able to enter absences, update records, recieve report cards AND... fill in Consent/Permission forms for excursions etc... no more losing the permission between home and school, or classroom and office, no more more leaking water bottle or mashed bannana ruining the Permission form! Lets see how close we can get to 100% uptake this term!
Lost Property and Personal Belongings
I have two lunch boxes and a drink bottle (left from last year) as yet unclaimed. Please NAME EVERYTHING. We do our best to return anything that is found, but that is very difficult if there is no name on items. Jill's general advice (for what it's worth) if it can come off their body... label it as permanently as possible.
If you have a favourite toy or new exciting thing, please don't bring it to school. It is very sad when our favourite ball, truck, car etc get lost.
New Books
We have a selection of new books available for students to borrow. Many of these books have been requested by students who are keen to read the newest title in a book series they have been enjoying. These books were all purchased using rewards earned from Scholastic book club at the end of 2023. Every purchase from book club and book fair earns Scholastic rewards which are allocated to the school library to purchase new reading books for our students.
A reminder that students will need a library bag to borrow books from the library. Using library bags protects books when transporting them to and from school and helps to extend the life of the book. Students who are in need of a Library bag can come to the Library to can make their own bag during lunch break in the maker space.
Books can be exchanged at first break and second break each day; students do not have to wait until their class borrowing day to exchange books.
World Read Aloud Day
A big thank you to the students who brought along photos of themselves reading aloud to a friend or family member. We have loved sharing your contributions in our display. We hope everyone makes some time to read aloud to someone special this week.
Maker Space
The students have been very busy in the maker space this year. We have seen many amazing inventions created as well as fabulous art works which students have taken home to share with their families.
We would like to ask for some household recyclables to be donated for students to use in the maker space, in particular we are asking for cardboard boxes (e.g. cereal boxes, muesli bar boxes etc). Please do not send egg cartons along, we have a large supply at school already as we must use new cartons due to possible contamination risks for students with an egg allergy.
Thank you.
Mrs Wilkinson
Book Club
Brochures for Term 1 Book Club have been distributed to students and can also be viewed online. In this issue you'll find award-winning books and bestsellers, as well as old and new favourites. The books included in this issue span a wide range of children’s reading levels and interests with prices starting at just $3.
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.
Orders are due this Friday the 9th of February.
District Swimming
Good luck to our students who are competing in the Pine Rivers District Swimming Carnival next Wednesday. We hope you have fun and achieve a Personal Best.
AFL
AFL Auskick will be running on Thursdays after school from 22nd February through to 28th March. It is open to all students from P-2. Next week I am expecting the sign on information to be available from the office.
Gymnastics
Amain Gym will be running gymnastics sessions for yr 1-3 students on Wednesdays before school from 28th February through to 20th March. The sessions are free but limited to 30 students on a first in, best dressed basis and it always books out. Permission forms are attached and extra copies are available from the office.
Cross country training and carnival
The year 3-6 cross country carnival will be held Tuesday 26th March. Students turning 10-12 this year have the opportunity to train for the cross country during the three weeks prior. Training will be available Tuesdays 3.15-3.45, Wednesdays 8.00-8.30 and Fridays 3.15-3.45 between 5th March and 22nd March. Permission forms are attached and extra copies are available from the office.
District Sports Trials:
The Pine Rivers District run trials through year as a development pathway for 10-12year old students. At the trials, students will compete against other students from the district for a place in the Pine Rivers District Team. If selected for this team they will then be expected to attend district training and then compete against other districts. Some children may then be selected for the Regional team and so on. These trials are not a ‘give it a go’ session but rather a pathway to state and international level. For your child to be considered to trial, they need to be playing that sport in a club at the highest level available. Some less common sports do not hold district trials. Instead, selected students trial out for the regional team directly.
This year I have placed Expression of Interest forms for ALL SPORTS on the sports noticeboard. Students who have the skills to qualify for a district team need to write their name on the form so that I know who to talk to when the trials approach. Alternatively, parents can email me on cxmar5@eq.edu.au. If students or parents do not inform me of their interest and skill level I will not be able to pass on the required information.
The Pine Rivers District have introduced a new QR code system for all sports trials. The QR codes will be sent by myself to those students who are selected to attend the trial. Families will register through the code and the trial package, which is now paperless, will be sent directly to students / families.
Attached is a list of all the District Sports dates and QR scan code closing dates. However, these dates are subject to frequent changes so please keep an eye on the newsletter and encourage your children to listen in parade for updated information. Again, if your child has their name on the Expression of Interest form, I will be able to make sure that the relevant information gets to the correct people.
Clare Marks
HPE specialist, Dayboro State School (Mon-Tues)
It was wonderful to see so many of our Dayboro State School families at our Family Fun Day on Sunday. We hope that you all enjoyed cooling off at the Dayboro Pool with us.
A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors for making our Family Fun Day extra special!
Special appreciation to Cr Darren Grimwade and The City of Moreton Bay for their fantastic support. Huge thanks to Dayboro Pool & Gym for hosting and for the wonderful Learn to Swim program our students participate in every year.
Gratitude to Dayboro Village Meats, Treasure Tribe, The Dayboro Bakery, and Dayboro Cold Room Hire & Sales for being a part of our fantastic day. Your support is truly appreciated and we could not have done it without you.
Prep Welcome BBQ – Class Information Sessions
The P&C will be hosting a Sausage Sizzle to welcome our Prep cohort in the prep area, after the Class Information Session on Thursday. There will be a few members of the P&C there, available to help you with any questions you may have. We look forward to meeting you all.
The Dayboro Tuckerbox (Open Wednesdays and Fridays)
Our Tuckshop operates on a Wednesday and Friday for both 1st and 2nd break and is run by our Tuckshop Covenor, Alison Hibberd. We greatly rely on our parent and community volunteers to work alongside Alison in the tuckshop. Don’t worry, you don’t need any prior experience, we will teach you everything you need to know. If you are not a parent of the school, all you need is a Blue Card, but we can help you with that.
Jump on to the School24 volunteer roster and see if there are any dates that you may be able to assist. Even one shift per term would be amazing!
Just a reminder to double check your orders for 1st break and 2nd break. Last week there were a few students who had only a drink ordered for 1st break whilst their food was ordered for 2nd break. Don’t worry, our amazing team were quick to prepare some food for the students so no one went hungry. 1st break is the longer of the two breaks, so we recommend ordering the larger meal to arrive at this time. That way everyone gets ample opportunity to eat and play.
Our new oven is up and running, isn’t she a beauty! Thank you to Community Bank of Samford for the grant to enable the purchase of this much needed oven.
Uniform Shop (Open Thursdays 8.30am-9.00am)
Just a reminder that uniforms can either be ordered online through School24, or purchased in person on a Thursday morning. Any online orders that have been placed during the week will be packed every Thursday morning and taken to the School office. You will receive an email when your order has been packed and ready to be collected.
We have plenty of hats and formal uniforms in stock, so jump online if you’re still needing to purchase a formal uniform for Grade 1 – Grade 6 students (Monday is formal uniform day), we can help you out.
Next Meeting: Monday, 12th February 2024
AGM: Monday, 11th March 2024
Our P&C meet on the second Monday of every month, both in person and online.
As we gear up for another exciting year at Dayboro State School, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of our school by attending the P&C meetings and upcoming AGM.
