Science – Inquiry Learning

We are always seeking to improve our practice here at Dayboro State School. For the last 12 months or so, we have been learning about the inquiry approach to learning and implementing this in Science. We phrase our Science unit purpose as a Big Question for the class to solve and then develop a series of guiding questions to answer during the investigations. Year 1 are investigating sources of sound and light and so their guiding questions have been:

What makes light? What makes sound? They have been exploring possible sources in their classroom/school environment and using the iPads to record their findings.

In week 1, we moderated with teachers at Mt Samson SS and Petrie SS in the learning area of science. We collaborated about our inquiry approach teaching strategies to engage our students and shared practice around teaching to the A standard in science. We are excited to see how these collaborative opportunities allow us to ensure we are really clear about marking to the standards, and also sharing engaging and purposeful teaching strategies.

Digital Learning – Digital Learners for the Future Program – Year 3 and 4 2025

We met with our P&C on Monday evening and discussed the Digital Learners for the Future Program for both 2025 Year 3 and 4 students. Collaboratively we reviewed the recent Year 2 parent survey responses, and agreed that the majority of the parents who responded wanted to opt in for an optional Year 3 program next year. We agreed that towards the end of 2025, we would go back to community consultation and feedback on this Year 3 introduction and once again discuss with our P&C.

We are offering our final information session about this optional program for our 2025 Year 3 and 4 parents on Thursday 24 October at 3:10pm in the 3C classroom.

Further information about the Digital Learners for the Future Program and the setup/requirements etc, can be found on our school website:

https://dayboross.eq.edu.au/curriculum/bring-your-own-device

We look forward to working with you.

Planning for 2025 – Class Considerations

We are busy planning enrolments, facilities, resources and staffing for the 2025 school year. If you have a child due to start Prep in 2025 and have not yet enrolled, please contact our Administration Officer ASAP. It was lovely to meet many of our 2025 preppies and their families last week.

If you have any information that you would like us to consider for your child’s class placement in 2025, please email me on the principal email address, Principal@dayboross.eq.edu.au by Thursday 7 November. Please note:

• You may wish to include information about family circumstances that should be considered.
• You may like to describe the qualities in a teacher that suit your child.
• We do not accept requests for a specific teacher.

A reminder that we usually only have two classes in each year level, so we cannot always accommodate student grouping requests. Our staff work extremely hard to achieve the best outcomes across all class groups and we certainly consider parent information. This is a confidential request.

Please also notify, by email, if your child will not be returning to Dayboro SS in 2025, so that we can ensure our staffing and resources are as accurate as possible.

Thanks for your assistance.

Student Leadership Opportunities

We are about to commence discussing with our Year 5 students the leadership opportunities for 2025. We will also begin to include our Year 4 students in this process. This Friday, we will meet with our Year 5 students to discuss the application process for 2025 leadership positions and the timeline for the process. We will also discuss our Leadership Passport that can help guide our students when deciding on whether to nominate for positions.

Please see attached the leadership process and timeline for this term. We look forward to working with these cohorts of students to provide opportunities and also information for electing great school leaders.

Student Success!

One of our year 3 students, Nate, was recently selected to play for the Fiji Qld U10’s team. They have been training hard with students from all over South-East Queensland to play in the 2024 Gold Coast Rubgy League Multicultural Festival. Unfortunately, the festival had to be postponed but we look forward to hearing about Nate’s success when it is rescheduled.  

REBOOT – Emotional Regulation Program – Let’s skill our students!

Our students have been busy with their Reboot learning. Class teachers have been checking in with students daily to see how they are feeling and what tools they can use to feel ready to learn.

Young people may need help managing how they feel and react to stress. Self-regulation is a learnt skill and one that we can help our children practise. There are 3 steps in the self-regulation process, (it’s not as easy as it can sound):

• Identifying emotions and feelings
• Choosing a strategy that works for you
• Employing the strategy independently

It’s great practise for kids to start by naming their emotions and recognising how they feel in their bodies, so that they can then choose an appropriate strategy. Lots of the time, we just feel ‘off’ or ‘yucky’ and it takes time to learn where and how we feel emotions. Reboot training says that we have to ‘name it, to tame it’. Could you chat or draw pictures with your kids about where and how they feel emotions? You could use colours for each emotion or draw butterflies or lines to represent the feelings. 

We’ve been teaching our students that it is normal to feel all of the emotions, but that we need to pick the right tools to help ourselves. It would be wonderful to ask what helps your student feel better at home and what could help them feel better at school.

Having a bank of self-regulation strategies is a tool for life.

Stay tuned for some suggestions!

Parent Calendars

Please find attached the latest version of the Term 4 Parent calendar to assist you in planning forward for events.

A reminder that Friday 25 October is Day for Daniel. We would like the students to wear red to mark the significance of the day. Our Student Council with Mrs Mathiesen will lead a walk from the Roderick A Cruice Park at 8am to our school. Families are welcome to walk with our students and staff.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

World Teachers’ and all Staff Day 

On Friday 25^th October we recognise and celebrate the important work our teachers do here at Dayboro State School. We are very fortunate to

have a hard working, caring and supportive team of professionals who strive every day to provide a quality education for our students. This year (same as last year) we are celebrating ALL our support staff on the same day, as the work they do for us and our students is valued as equally.  

Every day our team at Dayboro are making a difference and we thank all our staff, for your dedication and the positive impact you deliver.

PREP 2025 INTERVIEWS

Thank you to all our current and future Prep families for attending their Prep interviews last week. It was wonderful to see so many confident and happy new faces. Many we already know because they have older siblings at the school and /or they have attended playgroup and Prep Readiness sessions. It has been very rewarding to work so closely with our amazing Early Educators in our community as we have built and strengthened our relationships over the years and we have seen the difference working together makes for our learners.

If you have not yet had an interview, please make contact with Jill in Administration to arrange a time to introduce your new Preppie.

Prep Flyer

Prep Flyer 628.96 KB

PREP 2025 INFORMATION SESSION

The information session for parents is on Thursday 7^th November 3:30-4:30 in the Prep rooms. This is an information session where parents will learn all about the organisation of Prep, what to bring, stationery requirements and uniforms as well. The P&C will have sampling sizes of uniforms and if parents like will be able to have a tour of our wonderful school at the end of the presentation.

PREP ORIENTATION MORNINGS

This term we are holding our Prep 2025 Orientation mornings on Monday 11/11 9-9:30 in Prep J’s room and Thursday 14/11 9-9:30 in Prep C’s room.  These sessions are just for the children to meet the current Prep teachers and become familiar with our prep rooms. Most children will visit with their kindy groups. They do not need to go to both. One session is fine.

PREP READINESS SESSIONS

Our next Prep Readiness Session is on Thurs 7^th November 9:15 am with Chappy Hannah. Our Prep Readiness sessions have been well attended and it has been great seeing our future Preps get to know other staff in our school. We have already had some visits from the local Kindy’s. It is such a joy to see next year’s Preps interacting and getting to know our staff, students and each other.

Now that the days are starting to get warmer please remember that it is an expectation that all children wear hats during play times and PE lessons.

The rule is “No Hat, no Play!”

Please remember to name your child’s hat as it makes it much easier to return lost hats to their owners.

Children that do not wear hats are expected to be in the CSA areas during break times.

Thank you to all our amazing staff at Dayboro state school. You all go above and beyond and your care and thoughtfulness for all our students is inspiring. We are all working together towards our common goal and hopes for our learners: Helping our learners to be the best learners and people they can be!

BOOKLISTS are ready.  

Bedrock Books are our preferred supplier for 2025.  The BOOK LISTS (even PREPS for 2025) are on our school website. Please make sure you order for the correct year level for your child/ren for 2025.  Please check previous newsletters if more details are required.

Swimming for Prep, Year 1, 2/3C and Year 3 starts next week! Thursday 24/11.

Children will be swimming every Thursday and Friday for 5 weeks- a total of 10 lessons. The last day of swimming will be Friday 22nd November. While there is not a Junior Swimming Carnival,  this last Friday is our Junior Swimming Showcase where parents are invited to come along on this last day especially and watch their students achievements in the pool. A reminder all students will need a bathing cap and a highly visible sun shirt is preferred  to swim.

Please make sure payment and permissions have been finalised.

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.

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

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting on Monday night.  There were lots of great discusions around the BYOD program, tuckshop suppliers, upcoming grant opportunities and end of year events.

Our next meeting on Monday 11^th November will be our last meeting for the year.  If you have been thinking about coming along to see what being a part of the P&C is all about, please join us.  Don’t worry, you wont be signed up to anything you don’t want to do, but we can guarantee some laughs.  Please reach out to Johanna at secretary@dayboropandc.org.au if you would like to come along.

Uniform Shop

Just a reminder to everyone that the Uniform Shop is now open every Tuesday 8.30am – 9.00am.

Online orders will be packed on Tuesday mornings ready for collection at the school office.

The Tuckerbox

Special Tuckshop – Monday 21^st October 2024 – orders close Friday midday

Next Monday we have another special Tuckerbox day with two delicious options, Honey Soy Chicken or Teriyaki Beef stir fry, served with rice. 

Place your orders in the School 24 events section by midday Friday.

Upcoming Events / Volunteer Opportunities

World Staff Day – Friday 25^th October – Baked goods donations

To show all of the Dayboro State School staff how much we appreciate them on World Staff Day, the P&C will be hosting a special morning tea in the staff room on Friday 25^th October.

We would like to invite any members of the community to provide a yummy plate of treats for our amazing team here at Dayboro.  Sweet or savory, any contributions would be greatfully received.

Any baked goods donations can be dropped off at the office on Friday morning.  Please remember to name your containers so we can ensure they go back to the right person.

Democracy Sausage – Saturday 26^th October - volunteer

We’re back with a time honoured tradition, the Democray Sausage.  The P&C will be at the school on voting day to provide you with a sausage sizzle, bacon and egg rolls, and the Choc Throw to help entertain the kids.

We’d love to see you there, and if you can help us with the BBQ or choc throw we would be forever grateful!

Date:                      Saturday 26^th October 2024

Time:                      8am – 1pm

Volunteer:                7.30am – 10.30am, 10.30am – 1.30pm.

Sign up for your preferred shift on the School 24 Volunteer Roster

Thank you!

We would like to extend a huge thank you to the Pine Rivers Community Finance Limited (PRCF) who operates the Community Bank Samford. 

Last term, in preparation for our 150 year celebrations, we were fortunate to obtain a grant of $10 000 to replace the stage skirts in the hall and to freshen up our Tuckerbox with a wonderful new mural. 

Thank you PCRF for your wonderful contribution to our school!  The mural and stage skirts look amazing!

150 year merchandise – The Perfect Christmas Present

With Christmas not that far away, how about considering some of our 150 year memorabilia merchandise for any past students or families?  The merchandise is available online and in the school office.  Jump online and check it out, you can now order online for pickup at school or we’d be happy to organise postage.

Rhiannon Fealy

P&C President

president@dayboropandc.org.au

Book Club

Book Club for Term 4 is currently open for ordering.  This will be the final opportunity to order from Book Club in 2024.  Brochures have now been distributed to students.  Families are welcome to view the latest issue of Book Club on line.  Orders close on Friday October 25^th.

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.

Dental Treatment

You can access Dental care for your child through the Metro North Health, School Dental Program

As part of the School Dental Program, our dental staff are available to treat students from Dayboro State School.   These appointments will be conducted in the dental van at Dakabin State School, 75 Sheaves Road, Kallangur.

Please find below a link to the "Offer of Dental Treatment Form".  You may see a date of completion Friday 11 October.  This has been extended.  Please contact their office ASAP to secure an appointment for your child.