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Dear Parents and Caregivers
At the end of this week we are halfway through Term 2. Teachers are now finalising assessments and commencing the process of writing report cards for Semester 1. Once again report cards will only be issued by email with the address recorded at the school. Reports will be issued on Wednesday 26 June.
Once again, the NAPLAN testing process was carried out efficiently. A big thank you is extended to our school staff, parents and students for ensuring that all were well prepared and organised.
The chocolate collection for Dayboro Day has been finalised and the winner of the pizza party decided. A big thankyou to our school community for amassing an amazing 215kg of chocolate to use as prizes for our Dayboro Day Chocolate Wheel. The winning class will be announced on assembly next Monday.
(Picture: President of the Dayboro State School P&C with a portion of the chocolate collected)
School Photos- Catch Up Date
We have been advised that MSP Photography will be present at school again on Monday 28 October to take photos of any students who were absent from school or are new enrolments to the school. Please note only individual photos will be taken – no group photos are available.
Free Dress Day – Friday 31 May
The Student Council will be holding a Free Dress Day with the theme “Crazy” on Friday 31 May. Students are able to come to school with crazy clothes or crazy hair for the cost of a gold coin donation. On this occasion, our Student Council would like to donate the funds received to the RSPCA.
Winter Disco – Date and Theme Claimer
Our School Disco will be held on Friday 21 June (Years P-2: 5.30pm-6.30pm and Years 3-6 : 7.00pm-8.30pm). Our Student Council has decided upon the theme of “The Wild West” for this year’s event. More details will be provided closer to the date.
Winter and Flu Season
Winter is almost upon us, bringing cold and influenza season with it. Some of our students (and staff) have already felt the effects of the flu season. Queensland Health’s influenza page , www.qld.gov.au/flu covers the symptoms, how to protect yourself and others from getting sick and discusses appropriate treatments.
Our school will help to prevent the flu from spreading by :
- Encouraging children, staff and visitors to cover their mouths and noses when they sneeze or cough
- Making tissues readily available and ensuring used tissues are disposed of immediately
- Ensuring children and staff wash their hands regularly
- Cleaning our facilities and resources regularly
- Encouraging staff and children with flu-like symptoms to stay at home
If your child catches the flu, please seek medical advice and keep them home until they are feeling well again. Any assistance that can be provided by parents in supporting our school in keeping the flu at bay as much as possible would be most appreciated.
Under 8’s Day
Dayboro State School is pleased to participate in Under 8’s Day this Friday 24 May from 9.00am-10.30am.
This year, Under Eights Week across Queensland is focussing upon the theme of ‘Celebrating the diversity of languages within the home, culture and community’.
We also look forward to welcoming our local kindergarten children as well as representatives from Bray Park SHS and the emergency services.
Prep Enrolments -2020
We are already receiving enquiries about our Prep program for 2020. We are pleased to provide information and enrolment information anytime at our school office.
However, I am able to advise that our Prep Information and Enrolment Morning will be held on Wednesday 28 August at 9.30am in our School Hall. This will be followed up with Prep interviews for all newly enrolled students from 14-18 October and a Prep Orientation Day on Tuesday 12 November.
If you have a child born between 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015, he/she is eligible for Prep enrolment at Dayboro State School in 2019. Please note that Dayboro State School has an Enrolment Management Plan in place – please check at http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/catchment/ for further information.
We have had several enquiries regarding enrolling at Dayboro Prep from outside the catchment area. Families who view Dayboro as their school of choice are very welcome to submit an enrolment application, however the outcome of the application will not be advised until late October when available places are allocated in the order of receipt.
I would be pleased if this information could be circulated to people who are known to you and are wishing to enrol in our Prep program in 2020.
Garry Drummond
Principal
Dear Families and Friends
This week we celebrate and recognise what it means to be Under 8!
At Dayboro we highly value and support our early childhood team in nurturing and unlocking the vast potential our Prep- Year 2 children all possess. Our younger age cohorts bring such a wonderful sense of curiosity, wonder and playfulness to our school environment and it is these qualities we treasure and encourage in all our students.
Like our young children, we should never forget what it means to ask questions, enquire thoughtfully, ponder purposefully and generally have a sense of curiosity about the world around us. Every great discovery, advancement in medical science, or progress towards a new invention started with the question WHY?
Under 8’s Day this week will be celebrated at Dayboro State School on Friday 24thMay. See details below. Parents and friends of our younger children in P-2 are invited to come along and celebrate with us! Many thanks to our hardworking P-2 team who have organised this event!
EXCITING NEWS! OUR CLASS CHOCOLATE COMPETITION WEIGH IN WAS HELD!
Every year the P and C ask for donations of chocolates for the Chocolate Drop stall they run on Dayboro Day. All funds raised go towards our school. A phenomenal amount of chocolate was received and the winners of the BIG Chocolate weigh IN will be announced on parade next Monday! The winning class will receive a Pizza Party at the end of the term. Congratulations and thank you everyone for supporting this fundraiser.
Thank you to all the students and staff involved in NAPLAN testing last week. You all worked very hard and should be congratulated on your efforts.
WINTER IS ON IT’S WAY!
PLEASE SEE BELOW A REMINDER OF UNIFORM EXPECTATIONS AND OPTIONS FOR WINTER.
DATE CLAIMERS TERM 2
Monday 20th May- 2MO North Pine Dam Excursion (postponed due to weather – will be rescheduled)
Wednesday 22nd May- 2P and 2A North Pine Dam Excursion
Thursday 23rd May- 2MO to North PIne Dam Excursion
Friday 24th May- UNDER 8’s DAY- P-2 classes.
Sunday 26th May- Dayboro Day
Wednesday 29th May- Pine Rivers High School STEM visit.
Friday 31st May- Free Dress Day- “CRAZY” Dress Up Day. Gold Coin donations go to RSPCA
Thought for the week!
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Year 5 Camp Invoices
Camp permission notes have gone home to families, and invoices have now been generated. The total cost for camp is $195 per student. Payments must be finalised by Friday 26th July.
If there are any parents/families that are struggling with payments, please contact the office to arrange a Payment Plan. Payment plans are designed to give parents the opportunity to pay-off invoices. Dayboro SS does not wish for any student to miss out on any opportunity due to financial concerns.
Payment is acceptable in the following forms:
- Paying in person
- EFTPOS can be used in the school office, between the hours of 8am and 3:30pm.
- Online payments via BPOINT.
- BPOINT can be accessed via the web by clicking the link on the bottom of the tax invoice
- You will need to use your student’s Customer Reference Number CRN (11 digits) which can be found on the bottom left hand side of your tax invoice
- To ensure that you payment is correctly allocated enter the Invoice Number that you are paying from the tax invoice. This can be found on the upper right hand side of your tax invoice.
- Paying by Phone – BPOINT IVR (Interactive Voice Response) – payment by credit/debit card
- Telephone 1300 631 073 (24 hour service)
- Enter your Customer Reference Number, Invoice Number, Amount and Card Details
Please note, the school cannot accept over the phone payments any longer. To pay over the phone, parents must contact the above number.
- Payment by Internet Banking – Direct payment via internet banking
- BSB number: 064-164
- Account Number: 10126617
- Bank Account Name: Dayboro State School
- Important information – please record Invoice Number and Student’s Name in the reference section when processing payment through internet banking.
Cash is still accepted in the office, however the above payment methods are encouraged over the use of cash. If paying in cash, please provide the correct amount as we are do not have change.
Voluntary Contributions
By contributing to the Voluntary Financial Contributions Scheme, you are allowing our students to receive classroom resources, home readers and other consumables to enhance their learning activities in Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Art and Technology.
If you haven’t yet donated to the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme, you can still do so. The below details outline the cost involved, as well as a link to pay online. Payments can be made directly to the school also via Cash or EFTPOS.
The costs involved in the Voluntary Financial Contributions are:
- $50 per student; or
- $100 per family of two or more enrolled students.
The Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme is approved by the P&C each year, and is aligned to the Department of Education policy requirements.
To pay the Voluntary Contributions online, click here for a direct link to BPOINT.
Kind regards,
Clare Ingham
Business Manager
Numeracy at Dayboro State School
Since 2017 Dayboro State School has implemented fundamental changes to the way we teach Numeracy.
Numeracy is the application of mathematical knowledge and understanding in problem-solving situations. Mathematics education in the 21st century goes beyond routine (mastery & automaticity) and includes innovative problems that are complex, unfamiliar and non-routine. Mathematics lessons at Dayboro all feature the following key elements, to ensure consistency of teaching practice from Prep to Year 6:
- Consolidation of existing and developing concepts;
- Explicit learning of new concepts;
- Investigation of mathematical questions and patterns (Thinking and Reasoning);
- Communication with others using the language of Mathematics; and
- Reflection on their own learning and thinking.
Ask your child about using the ‘Fishbowl’ strategy to explore and respond to other students’ ideas or to explain the ‘I think….because…..’ approach to reasoning and problem solving. For more information about how you can assist with the development of your child’s numeracy skills, please check out the following links:
https://www.qld.gov.au/education/schools/student/pages/literacy
http://education.qld.gov.au/literacyandnumeracy/pdf/factsheet-l-n.pdf
Regards, Linda Smith
HOC
P&C Election Day “Democracy Sausage” BBQ (Saturday 18 May)
Thanks so much for the hearty support we received from P&C members and other family volunteers who were on hand to help throughout the day of this event. We would especially like to thank Kylie Juleff (and the girls) for all the preparation and ordering work, along with the big effort throughout the day, as well as Phill Herricane who manned the event all day from set up, cooking on the BBQ, through to pack up. Thank you all.
This was a successful fundraising BBQ event, including the first sales of tickets for our major raffle (many more to be sold at Dayboro Day), and although we don’t have all expense invoices in, we believe we’ve raised somewhere upwards of $1400.00 for our school!
Dayboro Day (26 May)
Dayboro Day is just about upon us. We of course need volunteers to assist throughout the day, so please consider helping your P&C and watch out for posts and the volunteer list on the P&C Facebook page. Craig Doyle Real Estate is again putting on its very popular Kidszone and Parent Chill Out zone in the car park at their office (9am – 3pm) during Dayboro Day. It will be a gold coin donation at each activity, with the bucking bull ride $5.00, and all proceeds raised from this is being kindly donated to our School.
Please also buy a ticket or two (they are only $2.00 each) in our P&C’s major raffle where the winner receives 4 nights at the Sea World Resort & Water Park for 2 Adults and 2 children, which also includes entry to Sea World, Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet’n’Wild Gold Coast, and Paradise Country over the same 4-day period, plus a Caltex Fuel Card valued at $200, along with food and beverage credit for Sea World Resort & Water Park valued at $100. See you all around on Dayboro Day!
Class Chocolate Collection Weigh-in Competition
Well the last donations for this inter-class competition needed to be in by Monday morning (20 May). The weigh-ins have now taken place, so prepare yourselves for the announcement of this year’s class winner for the Pizza Party!
Upcoming events to keep an eye out for include the Book Fair at the Library which will be held over 7-12 June (8.15am to 4.30pm), and of course the Disco on 21 June. Please watch out for posts on our P&C Facebook page for more details about these events.
Our next P&C meeting is scheduled for Monday 10 June.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise (P&C President)
Homework Help is available!
Mrs Smith (Head of Curriculum) will be available in Term 2 to assist with any homework questions or support students in completing homework on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:15 am in the LEAP room (B block).
This is available for any students needing assistance or for parents with questions about helping their child with homework.
Linda Smith
(HOC)
Upcoming performances
Dayboro Day!
When - Sunday 26th May
Where - Meet at Rodney Cruice Park stage, behind the swimming pool
Time - 8:40AM for 9AM performance
What to wear – Little Dayboro Voices – Formal uniform
Dayboro Voices – Choir shirt
Remember Remember!
If you do not attend rehearsals, you may not be able to attend performances.
♫ Dayboro Voices - (Years 4 to 6)
♫ Little Dayboro Voices – (Years 1 to 3)
Thank you for your ongoing support of Dayboro’s Arts program
Janet Almond Classroom Music teacher and Choir Conductor
National Simultaneous Storytime
All students are invited to join us for National Simultaneous Storytime in the school hall on Wednesday at first break. Bring your lunch and listen to the story “Alpacas with Maracas” and then stay and join in with some of the activities we have planned! We hope to see you there!
Book Fair is on the way!
Our school Book Fair will be open in the school Library from June 7th to June 12th. To celebrate our Book Fair students have been busy in maker space creating beach themed decorations to display in the Library.
We are also running a colouring-in competition! Entry forms were given out to students on Monday. All competition entries need to be submitted to the Library by the 7th of June. One winning entry will be selected from each year level to win a prize which will be selected from the Book Fair. Winners will be announced during assembly on June 10th and prizes will be presented by our very special guest - Geronimo Stilton!
Premier’s Reading Challenge
A reminder that the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2019 has started. Students are encouraged to record their reading each week, if the minimum reading requirements are met before the 23rd of August students will be presented with a special certificate at the end of the challenge. All books read will also contribute to our Premiers Reading Challenge Cup competition. Will your house read the most books this year???
Dog Man Writing Competition
Remember that all entries for this competition are due by the 31st of May.
Thank you,
Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.
