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School Review – Have your say to help our school understand their next steps!
This term we will commence our four yearly School Review process. As explained in previous newsletters and emails, we will be working across term 2 to gather feedback from all of our clientele including students, parents, staff and community. Our school team and some of our colleagues from neighbouring schools will be out and about in our community to gather your insights. Please consider sharing these to help our school grow and consider our next steps to improve.
What do we do well? It has been wonderful to see some of our community’s responses to what they think our school does well on our initial simple survey….here are some highlights:
- Encouraging kind and respectful behaviour among students.
- Wearing of correct school uniform.
- Having a dedicated P and C putting in a wonderful effort to support the school.
- Welcoming the preppies and integrating them across subjects within the school, outside the Prep rooms. Also having seniors come down and show leadership and mentor in of our young minds.
- Acknowledging students and their achievements.
- Teacher feedback to parents via email and teacher engagement with parents face to face.
- Making new families feel welcome and a great culture.
- For being such an inclusive, kind and caring community.
- Teacher/student relationships and communication with parents.
- Was a big term! Cross country in the rain, tuckshop upgrade, the feat that is swimming, NAPLAN, cyclone interruptions, incursions. There was lots for everyone to do across all grades.
We also asked for feedback about what parents would like us to consider moving forward and have really appreciated hearing your views.
Please consider joining any forums or formal discussions this term. Thanks again for being partners. We look forward to working with you!
Parent Partnerships!
It was wonderful to see how many parents we had engaging in Parent Teacher conferences last term! We acknowledge that you know your children the best and so these meetings really also help our teachers to learn more about our students. The teachers carefully plan to discuss how your child is progressing academically and also socially and emotionally at school. Please consider making contact with your child’s teacher if you haven’t yet had a chance to engage in a conference.
This week, teachers are sharing the Curriculum Overviews for the Term 2 learning. This is a great way to engage with your child about their learning but using the information on the overview to talk about their daily learning or by enhancing their learning with other at home discussions. This can help your child to also get excited about their schoolwork.
Thanks for being great partners!!!
Interschool Moderation – continuing to enhance our support for students
We are committed to building an expert teaching staff at Dayboro State School and one of the ways we ensure that our staff have a deep knowledge of the Australian Curriculum, so that they can ensure our students have access to and are extended in their learning is by using the moderation process to check in on the standards. At the end of term 1, our school hosted over 80 teachers from across 3 schools – Mt Samson SS, Petrie SS and Dayboro SS for our Cross School Moderation. This was a fabulous way to continue nurturing our partnerships within our cluster.
A whole school approach to moderation processes underpins systematic curriculum delivery and supports teachers to align curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting; and ensures consistency of teacher judgments and accuracy of reporting against the Australian Curriculum achievement standards. At this professional learning afternoon, our classroom teachers moderated the first term’s speaking and listening English task. Our specialist teachers moderated a sample from their learning area. This cross moderation allows the teachers to professionally discuss the new version 9.0 Australian Curriculum achievement standards and reinforces a consistency of teacher judgement.
Our Dayboro State school teachers were super impressive with their knowledge and usage of these new curriculum units and clearly had ensured that they worked hard to provide the opportunity for every student in their class to have access to the learning and the assessment. Well done DSS teachers, you should be so proud.
ANZAC Day commemoration Service and March
Today we commemorated ANZAC Day with our students. We were so fortunate to have special guests from our community, Mr Richard Hawkins, from the Dayboro War Memorial Society and Mr Glen Friedrich from our Dayboro RSL subbranch. The students really enjoyed listening to the firsthand experience that Mr Glenn Wright and Mr Christian Macdougall shared from their former defence force experience in the Australian Army Corps. As our school captains communicated today - “It is our responsibility to carry on the ANZAC traditions.”
On ANZAC Day, Friday 25 April, we will of course also participate in the community march and service. Please consider supporting our march, it is a great way for our students to continue to understand why and how we commemorate this occasion. All students can meet myself, Mrs Ryan and other staff members, in full school uniform (formal for our Year 1-6), at the Dayboro Pub at 9:15am for a 9:30am start. Please ensure that your child has a hat for the march. Parents and friends are welcome to march with us on the day. We encourage the adults to walk at the back of our section. Once we reach the school, we will keep the children in our bus zone until you collect them.
The community ceremony commences at 10am. Our School Captains will be a part of this ceremony. We would love to see lots of our DSS students supporting this service. A reminder also that the community does have a dawn service as an alternative to the 10am service.
Student Success!
Last term we sent two teams to the Bray Park State High School STEM challenge. We are super excited to announce that our Year 6 team won the challenge for the day!!!! Congratulations to both teams for your teamwork and persistence!
School Calendar
We aim to keep you fully informed of our events, excursions and school processes. Please find attached our Term 2 Parent Calendar. We can’t wait to see you involved with these events this term.
Checking in on our Student Wellbeing
We are committed to assisting our students to be engaged and looking after their wellbeing. For the last two years, we have used the Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing Survey to understand from our Year 4-6 cohorts what might be their strengths in this area and also the components of wellbeing that we could focus on at our school.
Once again, we have the opportunity to participate in the survey. I attach the Information for Parents and Carers to consider. We will complete the surveys over the next couple of weeks. Please have a read and if you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher. Similarly, if you would like your child to opt out, please contact their class teacher by the end of the week.
Have a great week!
Gabrielle
Dear Families and Friends
Welcome back to Term 2. We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break. The children all seemed very excited to be back and had lots of great stories to tell about their holidays and Easter adventures.
Our teachers have been working hard to prepare rich and engaging learning environments for their students. This has set the scene for a great Term 2. Term 2 is always such a rewarding term as the students are settled into their classrooms, routines are well established, and students and staff are clear about our curriculum and pedagogical choices matched to the learning needs of our students.
A reminder that the teachers will be emailing you all with a Welcome Back email and attached will be the Term 2 Curriculum Overview. This overview will summarise the learning that will be taking place in each curriculum area for the term.
BELOW ARE SOME PHOTOS OF Year 1 students extending their thinking and problem solving all the different combinations that could add up to 15. They love sharing their learning with others and couldn’t wait to show me how many different combinations they could come up with. SO engaging and so clever. Well Done Year 1.
Some important reminders about ANZAC Day events.
Reminder
- Friday 25th April- Anzac Day. We will be walking as a school to the Community service.
- We would invite all students to march with our school.
- We are meeting at 9:15am at the Dayboro Pub and will walk to the showgrounds together.
- The Community service starts at 10am.
- Our School Leaders are all participating in the service.
We look forward to seeing as many of our students as possible walking with us and attending the service. Formal uniform and school hats will need to be worn please.
PBL UPDATE! Awards at Dayboro.
A reminder that each week we give a Principal’s Award to a student who displays consistent and reliable efforts in living our school values of being Safe, Responsible and a Learner every day and in every way! The children who receive this award each week are invited at the end of each term to a Principal’s Morning Tea held in Week 10 of each term.
Principal’s Morning Tea Term 1.
Also, those students who receive our special Golden Gotchas get a special certificate and go into the draw to receive the Sheriff’s Award also given out at the end of each term. This is a prize voucher and certificate presented by Sgt Ken on Assembly, also in Week 10, of each term and recognises those students who go above and beyond, to demonstrate excellent citizenship at our school.
Date claimer: SCHOOL PHOTOS- Wednesday 28th MAY
Children are to wear their Formal School Uniform. Preps wear their normal Polo Shirts as they are Preps and do not have formal uniforms yet.
Envelopes will be sent home soon.
Dayboro’s Little Learners are back this term. We will start again on Friday 2nd May. Week 2 of the term. 9am in the Helping Hands House. See everyone there!!!
Date Claimer: Our Under 8’s morning will be held on Friday 16th May 9-11am.
All Under 8’s in our community are welcome to attend as well with their parents or kindies. Come along for a fun morning with lots of activties planned.
If any interested community groups would like to be involved and run an activity on this morning please contact the school to see how you could be involved.
Every 2nd year we have the Life Education team visit our school and conduct lessons for our students to support their health and well-being.
Please see the topics that will be covered below.
Prep – Harold’s Friendships
Yr 1 – Growing Good Friends
Yr 2 – Growing Good Friends
Yr 3 – Friends and Feelings
Yr 4 – bCyberwise
Yr 5 – Relate, Respect, Connect
Yr 6 – Relate, Respect, Connect
Life Education lessons will start in Week 4. Each class will be visited by the educator throughout the week. A reminder that Life Education permissions are now due and invoices will be sent out. Remember that we don’t invoice now until after permissions are received.
Thank you to the P&C for their highly successful organisation of the Easter Raffle this year.
A reminder that the Mother’s Day stall is being held on Friday 9th May.
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Business Manager Updates
Tuesday 22nd April saw the last day at Dayboro State School for Angie Conoplia, who has been successful in her position as Business Manager at Beachmere State School. We wish her all the very best for her new role and thank her for everything she has done to assist us in Term 1 this year.
We now welcome Mrs Cindy Stenson as the Business Manager on Monday’s and Tuesday’s. Cindy comes to us from Albany Creek State High School and is aspiring to the Business Manager role. Cindy can be contacted on 07 3425 6111 or bsm@dayboross.eq.edu.au. We are excited to work with her and welcome her to our School and community.
Upcoming Excursions and Incursions
Life Education, for all year levels, will be held at Dayboro SS on 12th May 2025 (Week 4). Invoices will be sent out next week to all students who have provided consent. Cost is $14.00 per student.
As we now must gain consent prior to invoicing students, only students who have provided consent will have received an invoice. If you are yet to receive an invoice, please contact Clare Gault or Cindy Stenson. All consents/permissions must be provided via Qparents. If you are not yet signed up to Qparents, we strongly encourage you to do so. If you are having any difficulties with Qparents, please contact Jill in the office for assistance.
If you have a credit on your child’s account (including siblings), you can use the credit for the above excursion. To check the credit amount, please contact the school prior to making payment.
Payment plans are always available for parents and caregivers. To arrange a payment plan, please contact the school and request to speak to one of the Business Managers. We are always willing to assist families to ensure every student has access to every opportunity.
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:
- Clicking on the link on the invoice, which will take you directly to the BPOINT page.
- 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,
Clare Gault and Cindy Stenson
Business Managers
Library
Welcome back for Term 2! Term 2 is always a very busy time for the Library with many activities and initiatives that encourage students to participate in regular reading. We look forward to as many students as possible participating in these reading activities.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
The 2025 Premiers Reading Challenge reading period begins on the 6th of May. To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 2 need to read or experience 20 books, students in Year 3 and Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books (this number of books acknowledges that older students are more likely to select longer and more complex books).
Students will be given more information about participation in the Premier’s Reading Challenge during their Library time.
National Simultaneous Storytime
Students in all year levels are welcome to join in with the 25th annual National Simultaneous Storytime event on the 21st of May during first break at the Library. Students are welcome to visit the display at the Library during first break throughout this celebration week in May and are invited to join in with our celebration activities.
May is National Family Reading Month
This year is the 29th year of National Family Reading Month which celebrates and encourages families reading together. Why not take the 31 Day Family Reading Challenge? To participate in the 31 Day Family Reading Challenge simply read for a minimum of 10 minutes each day and mark the day’s reading on the record chart. The reading record chart is available from the Library and is also included below. Students who return their completed reading chart will receive a certificate of participation and will go into the draw to win one of 10 prizes.
Have a great week!
Mrs Wilkinson
Instrumental Music lessons will be starting again on Wednesday April 30th for Years 5 and 6 students. A timetable will be sent out accordingly and more information for Year 4 families coming soon. Please email Mrs. Brooke Reed if you have any queries or concerns: bhher0@eq.edu.au.
I look forward to meeting you all!
Mrs. Brooke Reed
Multi-Instrumental Music Teacher
This year we have some people in our school community running Bridge to Brisbane later in the year on September 14th. I will be running and raising funds for our schools chaplaincy service “Dayboro State School Scripture Union Chaplaincy“ with a dress up or accessorize as we exercise fun in the 5km run! Whether you’d like to join the team, challenge yourself in the 10km or run as a family it is a great event in the Brisbane fundraising calendar. If your child would like to run in the 5km fun run, they will need to be with their own parent/carer. For every child (under 15yrs old) registered $5 is donated to your nominated school. Rego’s open this Sunday with a 20% off sale!
https://bridgetobrisbane.com.au/b2b-5km/
