Parent Partnerships

This term we will once again offer Parent Teacher Conferences to discuss the students’ progress this year. Interviews are offered across the last two weeks of the term, depending on the individual teacher circumstances. Two later evenings are planned for Monday 9 September and Tuesday 10 September. These evenings will be hosted in the school hall, with child minding available. Please remember that if you meet with your child/ren’s teacher on other mornings or afternoons, you will need to visit the classroom and keep all of your children with you.

Please book now via our booking website: https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php?schoolid=70654. Booking will close each Sunday evening (for the week) so that Teachers are aware of the interviews that they have scheduled. Please BOOK IN now?

Digital Learning

We have been working on our Digital Strategy here at Dayboro State School, including our Digital Learners for the Future Program is a part of this strategy. We are mindful that Digital innovation in teaching and learning features prominently in our Department of Education’s Excellence and Equity Strategy: realising the potential of every student.

This is an excerpt of our Equity and Excellence Key messages and resource guide:

Digital innovation in teaching and learning

• To prepare every child and student for a digitally-enabled future, we must ensure they have access to the technology that will enhance their learning.
• We will enhance teachers’ capability and confidence in digital teaching and learning.
• Investment in digital devices will provide students with greater access to technology and reduce barriers to learning.
• Digital learning connects students to more diverse curriculum and supports teachers to access specialist expertise.

This year, our Year 4 students have had the option of bringing an iPad to school to help them develop these digital skills and learn new ways to represent their learning. As discussed at the P&C meeting, recently we have heard some feedback through our parent survey from these parents. We are looking at our processes to refine them making it easier for families, but we heard clearly that the majority of parents are finding the program successful for their learners. In the term 4 parent calendar, we have scheduled some meetings to discuss this option with our year 3 parents for 2025.

Our Year 2 parents were also recently surveyed to ascertain support for an option to bring a device in Year 3 for 2025. There were several questions raised in this survey that we would love to answer for our current year 2 families. Therefore, we will hold a parent afternoon in week 9 inviting Year 2 parents to discuss these questions and provide more information about this option. Once we have done this, we will again ask whether parents would like to opt in for this program in 2025.

A trial change in our second break routines

We are currently trialling a change to our second break playtime/eating routines. Our teaching staff were reflecting on the students need for movement after the middle session and wanted to trial a play first, eat second model. This allows the children to calm after second break play and eat their snack. So, for the rest of term 3, our second break routine is as follows:

1:20       Bell for play

1:35       First bell signalling to go to the toilet, get a drink and head to eating area

1:40       Eating in covered areas

1:50       Bell to signal back to class.

Our Tucker Box second break lunches will be available for collection from 1:35pm. Ice Blocks and drinks will only be sold over the counter at First Break. Second Break treats will need to be pre-ordered through Schools24.

We will let you know how the trial progresses.

Family Arts Night – Thursday 5 September

Come along to our Family Arts Soiree where you will be wowed by your children’s dancing skills, they have learned this term at Dance Fever. Mrs Hinch has been working with each class on their Visual Arts unit and we will share their art pieces in an art display in the CSA. We are excited that our band students will perform along with our Choir. Our Musical cast will even give a sneak peek of a musical number.

P&C have organised a sushi dinner for families to pre-purchase, with cold drinks and wine and cheese (for the adults_ available on the evening.

We are super excited to share our cultural talents with our community!

With only just over 3 weeks to go of Term 3, please ensure that you are checking our latest Parent Calendar.

Book Week – Fabulous Parade!

We LOVE reading at Dayboro State School so what better way to celebrate books than Book Week! Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Barratt have done an amazing job talking to our students about Book Week and encouraging them to explore new texts in our school library. You should take a visit to our library to see the amazing engagement. The students have participated in voting for their Book from the Book Week awards and also many students participated in the colouring competition. The parade yesterday was fabulous and we loved the engagement from our parent community, Sargent Ken and Sargent Paul and Lorraine from Helping Hands. Huge thanks to Helping Hands for donating the book prizes.

The Meerkats performance was enjoyed by all of our students. It is such a good way to bring books to life!

Today at the parade, we marvelled at the fantastic costumes and most importantly talked to each other about which character we were from which book. What a buzz about reading!!! Thank you to all of our amazing parents and carers for your efforts in helping, reminding and making props and costumes!

In order to prepare for term 4 (and it’s going to be a long one!), We have prepared our first draft of the calendar. Please find attached below all of our dates so far….

We wish our two Optiminds Teams luck for Sunday at their event! These students have been preparing for months for these problem-solving challenges. It was such a pleasure to see them practice their prepared challenge this week. The Opti-MINDS Challenge is an opportunity for all those with a passion for learning & problem solving to showcase their skills & talents in an exciting, vibrant and public way.

Thank you to Mrs Macintosh for preparing our teams and providing endless time and support while they prepare for their challenges. Thanks also to Mrs Ryan who will be a judge on the day.

Go Dayboro!!!

Have a great week!
Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

Well, it’s getting closer to the end of term and the last few weeks are looking busier than ever. Parent Conferences will be held in Week 8,9 and 10 this term. Please take advantage of this valuable opportunity and organise a time to speak with your child’s class teacher. You can make a time through the SOBS booking online system and the link has been sent via your class email as well as an email sent to all parents from Mrs Douglas. This term we have offered two late evening sessions on Monday 9^th and Tuesday 10^th September to accommodate working parents. These sessions will be held in the hall and will be the main sessions when interviews will be held. Teachers have already sent links where you can book and they have also made some other times during the week when they will be available.

Just a reminder also that over the last two weeks of this term,  teachers will again be involved in curriculum planning in their Professional Learning Year Level Teams. Please be aware that there may be different teachers on your child’s classes in Weeks 9 and 10 while teachers are released off class to collaboratively plan and moderate with their Year Level teams.

As we head closer to the holidays, it is important to remember to remind children to keep focused on their work at school and at home.

Reading and revising work learnt in class, is an important part of being prepared for learning and revising concepts taught in class, at home, helps children at school.  I would encourage all children to be reading or read to every night! 

FAMILY DANCE NIGHT- DATE CLAIMER

WRITING AT DAYBORO.

At Dayboro we value creative, authentic and engaging writing for a purpose. Our goal for 2024 has been to lift the engagement of our students in writing in all its forms and to celebrate successes in writing. Our teachers work hard to embed the teaching of high-quality writing practices in their classrooms. Teachers meet regularly to discuss and share writing samples of students and it is pleasing to see our students working so diligently on their writing goals and becoming better writers! 

Yr 2 are creating Multi-Modal procedures purposefully written to be delicious or disgusting depending on their audience. So much fun and such clever use of adjectives and adverbs to enhance their writing.

You can also help your child to write at home by trying a few of the suggestions below:

 Best ways to support writing at home

1. Provide a place for your child to write. ...
2. Read, read, read! ...
3. Encourage your child to keep a reflective journal. ...
4. Provide authentic writing opportunities for your child. ...
5. Be a writing role model. ...
6. Start a vocabulary notebook. ...
7. Ask questions. ...
8. Help your child publish their writing.

FATHER’S DAY STALL- DATE CLAIMER

Wednesday 28^th August - Our P&C and their band of helpers have been working tirelessly to prepare for our annual Father’s Day stall. Once again, the children will be very excitedly choosing and purchasing their gifts for their Dads. There are special Dad packs available.

We hope all our fathers, grandfathers and special others have a fabulous day.

Optiminds

This Sunday we have two teams competing in the Optiminds competition for the North Region. They have prepared a response to a challenge and have to present to the judges. They also have to complete a Spontaneous challenge where they will need to come up with creative problem solving on the spot and work as a team. Mrs Mac has been working closely with our teams and we thank her and wish them all the best for Sunday.

Our Behaviour Focus for Week 7- Tuckshop

Have a great week!

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

Invoices Due:

Students have been invoiced for the following activities:

Payment plans are always available for parents and caregivers, for all excursions and activities. Our goal is to always help students to attend all activities, so payment plans can be put in place to assist families with this. We also have options for those who are struggling with Financial Hardship, so if you need to discuss any payment options please don’t hesitate in speaking to one of the Business Managers at the School.

Statements

Statements will be sent home on Thursday 29^th August. These are to show what invoices remain owing on student accounts. Only students who have an outstanding invoice or credit will have received the statement. It is important to understand that this is not another invoice being issued to families. If you are in credit (i.e. a negative amount), this can be used against any current or future invoices you may receive, including school camps.

Please check through your statements thoroughly and advise the School if there are any discrepancies. Please email all discrepancies through to bsm@dayboross.eq.edu.au.

If you have a credit on your account as well as an active invoice, please contact the School to advise us if you wish to use the credit against the invoice. We cannot apply credits automatically, so please let us know and we can do this for you. This also goes for sibling accounts, as we can apply the credits from one sibling to another siblings active invoice.

If parents/caregivers have questions or concerns regarding statements, please don’t hesitate to contact one of the Business Managers – we are always more than happy to help.

Payment Methods & How to Pay

Dayboro State School accepts and encourages the below payment methods:

• Qkr! by Masterpass.

Download the QKR! App and register.

• Qparents

Payment can be made directly on Qparents. If you are not yet signed up, we encourage you to sign up today.

• BPOINT

You can use BPOINT in two different ways:

1. Clicking on the link on the invoice, which will take you directly to the BPOINT page.
2. Payment by phone using credit/debit card via BPOINT: 1300 631 073

• In Person

You can still opt to pay in person. Please note, we encourage using EFTPOS over the use of Cash, particularly in this current climate. If you are choosing to use cash, please ensure it is the correct amount as our office does not hold cash on site for change. 

If students are paying by cash, please ensure they bring it directly to the office and wait for a receipt. At no time should a student give any money to classroom teachers for excursions, teachers will redirect them to the office to pay.

Kind regards,

Dee Camm and Clare Gault
Business Managers

Father’s Day Stall

 It’s that wonderful time of year again where our students get to choose from a range of gifts to celebrate Father’s Day with their loved ones.

Date:                         Wednesday, 28^th August 2024

Time:                        Classes will take turns to visit the stall throughout the day

Price:                        Items ranging from $1 - $20

What to bring:          A bag to safely store your bought treasures, cash in an envelope or sealable bag

Volunteers: We would love some volunteers to help our students select their gifts on the day. 

If you can spare an hour or two, please sign up on the School24 Volunteer Roster

Family Arts Night

The P&C will be offering a dinner and bar service this year for the Family Arts Night.  Jump on to School 24 – Events page to place your orders.

This will be a pre-order event only, so don’t forget to place your orders by Monday 2 September.  Orders will close on Monday night.

We will also be offering a CASH bar service on the night, so come and join us for some beverages and family fun.

When not dancing, Parents and students are welcome to view the art display in the CSA.

150 year merchandise

To keep the celebrations going, the 150 year memorabilia merchandise is now online.  Jump on and check it out, you can now order online for pickup at school, or it can be posted if you have family elsewhere that may be interested.

150 year Pavers – ORDERS CLOSING SOON!

Missed out the first time?  Good news –a second round of orders is open, but time is running out!  Open to past students, families, community members, and businesses.

Secure your spot in our school’s history today!

The Tuckerbox

A Change is Coming - No cash sales in 2^nd break, only pre-ordered food to be served

As you are aware, the school is trialling some new timings for the 2^nd break play and eating times.  

We have made the necessary tweaks to our prep times to ensure the students’ food is hot and fresh, however this does mean that we will not be able to accept cash orders for iceblocks in 2^nd break. 

We want to support the school in ensuring that students get the best opportunity to sit down and eat their lunch and will therefore need to prioritise ONLY PRE-ORDERED food (any menu item, including iceblocks) in 2^nd break.

1^st break will be able to run as normal and cash sales for iceblocks are welcomed.  We enjoy our chats with the students and helping them with their choices and counting money, and 1^st break allows plenty of time for this to happen.

Rhiannon Fealy

P&C President

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Reading is Magic

It’s Book Week!  A very big thank you to all of the students (and their families) who made the effort to dress in book related costumes and then participate in our character costume parade today.  Everyone looked wonderful!  I am always amazed at the creativity of our school community.

Colouring Competition Winners

Thank you to all of the students who entered our Book Week Colouring Competition.  The winners of the competition were announced at our Book Week Parade and each received a certificate and book club vouchers to purchase books from book club. 

Meerkat Productions

Congratulations to the following authors and illustrators who have won “Book of the Year” in each of their nominated categories:

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2024 finishes on Friday.  Students need to return their completed reading record sheets to their class teachers.   Remember that we will also be looking for the student in each class who has read the greatest number of books during the challenge.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson

Book Club

Book Club for term 3 is currently open for ordering.  Brochures have been sent home with students  (spare book club brochures are available at the library), alternatively families are welcome to view the latest issue of Book Club on line.  Orders for this issue of Book Club will close on Thursday the 29^th of August.

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 using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.  Alternatively, named 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.

Prep J are proud of their Rhyming Stories

SUPER Work Prep J.  We are proud of you too.