Dear Families and Friends

Report Cards

Our Semester 2 reports were issued on Monday via QParents and today via email. Congratulations to our students on their learning! Our teachers have carefully moderated results to ensure consistency across the year level and beyond our school. A reminder that a ‘Working With’ in Prep, ‘Sound’ in Year 1-2 and C in Year 3-6 are all good results and mean that your child is meeting the achievement standard. If you have any questions about your child’s report results, please make a time to speak with the class teacher.

Year 6 Graduation

It was wonderful to celebrate with our Year 6 students and their families today at the Graduation. We marvelled at how much these students have achieved and grown since enrolling at Dayboro State School. We are super proud of what fine young people they have become.

We provided our graduates with some mementoes to remember their time here at Dayboro State School. Thank you to the Lions Club for donating towards our Year 6 yearbook and Mrs Cassell for putting this together!

Thanks to Oscar’s Mum and Dad, Erin and Andrew, from NOM Handcrafted, for donating the beautiful wooden carved birds for each student to remember their sporting house. Our P&C also donated the funds to pay for the cake and decorations. Closeburn Nursery generously loaned us the beautiful plants to decorate our school Hall.

2025 Dayboro State School Classes

In 2025 we are currently modelling on 14 classes. Of course, this model may change if enrolment numbers fluctuate, so we will inform parents of classes by Wednesday 23 January. Please ensure that your emails are correct so that you can receive your child’s class placement.

14 classes	Class 1	Class 2
Prep	Hayley Capell	Vicki Johns
Year 1	Russell Dunning	Leanne Anderson
Year 2	Melanie Delisser	Annette Cook
Year 3	Angela Pretorius	Victoria Cook
Year 4	Benjamin Baade	Louise Bishell
Year 5	Katrina Mills	Thomas Makepeace
Year 6	Melinda Foord	Kerry Cassell
Specialist Teachers Technology/Library The Arts /Technology PE French/HASS	Katrina Wilkinson Tania Hinch Clare Marks Donalda Shaw
Inclusive Learning Teacher	Alicia Tavelardis

We will once again offer the classroom ‘Meet and Greet’ on Thursday 23 January from 8:00-9:00am, an opportunity for you and your child to meet the classroom teacher and drop off their book packs to their 2025 classroom.

A reminder that our first school day for 2025 is Tuesday 28 January.

2025 Staffing changes

We are excited that most of our staff remain very stable for 2025. We have some slight staffing changes:

This year we will say goodbye and good luck to Mrs Jodie Blair. Jodie has been with us at Dayboro SS for 6 years teaching year 4, being a valued and skilled staff member. She has won a position at Samford State School. Good luck Jodie!
We also thank Mrs Lauren Appleby for her work this term in inclusion support. Together with Youth Work Kristy Jeffries, Lauren has done a great job of support our students and staff!
Next year we will welcome new teacher Mrs Louise Bishell. Louise, an experienced teacher, will be coming to us from Eaton’s Hill State School.

Senior Swimming Results

Our Senior Swimming Carnival Last week was a success! Armstrong House Captains and Vice Captains proudly accepted the Shield as the winning house with 594 points on the day. Rush 508 points and Terrors received 381 points.

We also celebrated our encouragement awards for our 8year-olds and swimming age champions for 9-12year-olds. Congratulations to:

9year old girl: Blue T

9year old boy: Henry S

10year old girl: Ivy S

10year old boy: Lewis R

11year old girl: Imogen B

11year old boy: William S

12year old girl: Heidi W

12year old boy: Jake H

Encouragement 8year-olds: Olivia F, Aster S, Billy L

Congratulations to all our students who swam and participated on the day!

Important dates for 2025 start!

Monday 20 January	Administration will return to the office
Thursday 23 January - 8:00-10:00am Tuesday 28 January – 8:00 – 9:00am	Uniform Shop opening hours
Thursday 23 January - 8:00-9:00am	Meet and Greet Classroom teachers and book pack drop off
Monday 27 January	Australia Day Holiday
Tuesday 28 January	School commences
Tuesday 28 January – 9:00am	Tea and tissues in the CSA (Prep parents come and meet some school parents)

Planning for 2025

If your child is leaving Dayboro State school in 2025, could you please let our admin officers know asap, admin@dayboross.eq.edu.au? Thank you.

It is not too late to enrol in Prep. Please contact our administration if you have a prep child to start in 2025.

Medication NEEDS collection (Important)

Can parents please collect any student medication that may be at the school office? We will ask all families to refill in the updated medical forms at the beginning of the 2025 year. Thank you for being diligent with this.

Happy Holidays!!!

Thank you to our amazing community for a wonderful year! What a pleasure it is to be here at Dayboro with a broad community to support us. A very special thank you to our vibrant and hardworking P&C, who have selflessly given of their time to support our students and families with special events and of course school resources.

It certainly takes a village and I would like to extend my appreciation to each one of our villagers. I see you looking out for each other’s children. I see you being so understanding when maybe a student is having some challenges, I see you cheerleading for ALL of our students when they do well, not just your own children.

I’m so proud of our students this semester. Good luck to all the students, and their families, who are leaving us….we hope that you take a little bit of Dayboro State School with you.