The Teaching of Reading

This year, with the implementation of version 9 of the Australian Curriculum, at Dayboro State School we have been implementing some new procedures in our teaching of reading. As a staff, we engaged in much professional learning in 2024 to prepare for this implementation.

Our Prep-3 classes now participate in whole class word reading explicit instructional routines 4-5 times per week. These instructional routines include explicit teaching of the sound, opportunities to segment words containing that sound and multiple opportunities for the students to interact with the teacher by spelling words and reading words. These explicit routines are then followed by some purposeful reading activities based around the focus sounds. The students use decodable readers to develop their word reading skills and to develop fluency. It is wonderful to see the students gaining so much confidence in their reading.

Our upper school classes are heavily focusing on teaching comprehension through their English units using the aligned texts. The students have been learning explicitly about the vocab in the texts they are reading with teachers using shared and dialogic reading routines to analyse this vocab. Many students have been engaging in rich discussions about inferencing from the texts.

Dee Mathiesen, our Head of Curriculum is regularly posting information about the new reading processes in her ‘Curriculum’ section of the newsletter. She has shared plenty of links for parents to use to support your child in their reading journey!

Renovations at Helping Hands House

We have recently been seeking quotes for repainting the interior of our old house, our Helping Hands (outside school hours care) home base. We are working with QBuild to commence this project as soon as possible. We look forward to a great result, creating a wonderful space for our students before and after school.

In the meantime, Declan and his wonderful Helping Hands crew are working out of the school hall. The students are having a great time in the afternoons using the covered sports area and the playgrounds. Thanks to all our HH parents for your understanding.

Student Success

We love to celebrate our students’ successes outside of school as we know how much hard work and persistence is involved in their extracurricular events. On Monday, we celebrated Henry’s achievements at his recent Ninja obstacle course competitions. Most recently, Henry competed in the FINA international qualifier and placed 1st in both Speed & Endurance courses. Henry has been working towards qualifications for the World Obstacle Expo in Dallas, Texas in July where he will compete in 5 events over 3 days. We are super proud of his achievements so far, and excited to see how he goes at World Championships!

We have also had our Lego Robotics Team attend an immersion day with two other schools. This team practise at lunchtimes in a Robotics Club with Mrs Wilkinson, our Technology Specialist. We know these students will learn amazing new techniques today at their immersion day.  

Term 2 Parent Calendar Update

Please find attached our latest version (V6) of our Parent Calendar to support you to stay informed about all of our school events.  There have been some recent changes…..please find attached this version  7  of our Term 2 Calendar.

Please note there are some changes in this calendar version:

• Chappy Pancake Day is now on Tuesday 27 May – gold coin donation please
• Senior Athletics Carnival – now Friday 20 June

Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

Every week we have a focus on a value or important life skill that as a whole school we explicitly teach and reinforce with our students. At the start of this term, we learnt about how important it is to be Respectful to all staff and other students. We practiced what that looked like, sounded like and acknowledged our students who have been making a real effort to have respectful interactions with others.  We then focused on Following Instructions and how important it is for safety especially, that students know how to follow all staff instructions. 

At Assembly on Monday, we introduced that our new focus will be Honesty for the next few weeks and teachers then will follow up with explicitly teaching why this is so important and what it looks like in different settings. All staff will then reward and acknowledge students practicing being honest and truthful in classrooms and playgrounds and a range of different situations. More importantly our students will learn a range of strategies to help themselves with being truthful and hopefully feel proud of themselves for making the right choices.

This is just a snapshot of some ways we discuss being honest with our learners and how it makes them feel when they tell the truth about situations.

Once you are honest……

• If you have done the wrong thing and been honest and tried to fix it – Go you
• If you have been part of a problem or seen a problem and been honest – Go you again
• If something has happened to you and you have been honest about the situation – Go you a third time

Remember we can fix any problem if we are honest with ourselves and others!!

CYBER SAFETY TIPS FOR AT HOME

If you are looking for some ways of talking to your children at home about cyber safety and being safe online, especially in chat/messaging groups, the below website is an excellent resource for Parents.

If you would like to learn more about how you can help your children to be E-Safe at home this website is an excellent resource to start with.

 The E-SAFETY KIDS Website- Be an E-Safe Kid- How to Be Kind online

The site has lots of strategies and what to do if:

*someone is being mean to your child online

*your child mentions that friends are being mean to others online

*How do I know if I’m being mean to others online.

Here’s a snapshot below:

Cyberbullying is using technology to bully or hurt someone else.

Lets talk about learning

A reminder to ask your children these 5 questions about their learning

• What are you learning?
• How are you going?
• How do you know?
• How can you improve?
• Where do you go for help?

These are also great questions to help prompt conversations about learning at school!

Thank you to our Life Ed. Educator Brigitte, who did an amazing job teaching our learners about making friends, feelings, respecting and connecting and how to be Cyberwise.

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.”

Upcoming Excursions and Incursions

The following excursions/incursions have now been invoiced to those who have provided consent:

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 our Business Managers. 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:

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,

Clare Gault and Cindy Stenson
Business Managers

Developing oral language and reading with your children

To support the reading messages that I have written about in our newsletters this year, are links to two short videos.

One video discusses the importance of oral language development in young children and how we can support and enhance this.

The other video is some practical ways you can share reading with your child.

Please take the time to view these, particularly if you are a parent of a child year 2 and under.

Oral Language Development – Literacy Hub

Developing Oral Language https://www.literacyhub.edu.au/search/oral-language-development-video/

Shared reading with your child https://www.literacyhub.edu.au/search/shared-reading-video/

ICAS Information

HOC_2025_ICAS_Parent_Information_Letter_and_permission_form.pdf

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What a busy month May has been!

From sizzling snags to rodeo and little hands shopping for mum — the Dayboro State School P&C has had a busy month of fundraising, and we couldn’t have done it without you.

Whether you flipped a sausage, sold a raffle ticket, donated goodies, or helped a little shopper choose the perfect Mother’s Day gift — you’ve made a real impact on our school and students.

Massive thanks to our Rodeo Raffle prize sponsors:

Dayboro Village Meats

Your Place Mortgage Brokers- Elise Thomson

F O R M Fitness Club

PEK Electrical and Data Services Pty Ltd

The Dayboro Drop

And thank you to Silverwood Café & Jimmy Pickles Cafe for being our raffle  ticket legends!

Our chocolate throw game was a hit — thanks to sweet donations from Woolworths Petrie & Strathpine.

Thank you also to; Dayboro & District Soccer Club, The Dingoes for welcoming us to the fields.

And cheers to Dayboro Rodeo for letting us be part of such a great community day!

Silverwood Cafe thank you for your lovely coffee vouchers for our Mother's Day "Coffee Packs" — so appreciated!

Finally, to every volunteer, sponsor, supporter, and smiling face — THANK YOU. You’ve helped us raise funds for air-con in the hall and our new playground dreams.

Next Special Tuckshop: Nacho Day - Monday 2^nd June 2025

New P&C Facebook Page

We regularly post updates about the uniform shop, tuckshop and upcoming events on our Facebook Page.  Jump on over to Dayboro State School P&C Assoc. and give us a like and a follow so you don’t miss any updates throughout the year.

Uniform Shop (Open Tuesdays 8.30am-9.00am)

The weather is finally starting to cool.  We have plenty of fleece jumpers and jackets ready for the cooler months.

Uniforms can either be ordered online through School24, or purchased in person on a Tuesday morning.

Any online orders that have been placed during the week will be packed every Tuesday morning and taken to the School office.  You will receive an email when your order has been packed and ready to be collected.

Next Meeting:  Monday, 9^th June 2025 at 6.30pm

Our P&C meet on the second Monday of every month, both in person and online.  It is a great opportunity to get to know Mrs Douglas and Mrs Ryan, along with other parents and community members who are all committed to the continued improvement of our school.

If you would like to come along, please contact Steph at  secretary@dayboropandc.org.au.  We would love to see you there.

District Cross Country

Congratulations to all the students who competed in the District Cross Country recently. Everyone ran extremely well but the following students deserve particular mention, being selected for the district team or reserve; Henry S 1st, Blue T 3rd, Karsyn J 4th and Rylan N 10th .  In addition the following students achieved a position in the top 20 out of approximately 60 in each race: Leo L, Malakai L, Olive C and Charlie W. Well done everyone and good luck at regionals.

P-2 Cross Country

The junior school cross country carnival is racing up on Monday 2nd June. All Year P-2 students will be running laps of a 500m course. Kindy students will join us for their own race. Family members and friends are welcome to come and join the cheer squad.

10:00:   Yr P-2 arrive on oval.    

Yr 1 girls 500m

Yr 1 boys 500m

Prep girls 500m

Prep boys 500m

Yr 2 girls 1km

Yr 2 boys 1km

Kindy 500m                                  

All runners will be given a ribbon for participating.

Students need to come to school with:

• House shirt
• Appropriate footwear
• Sunscreen
• School sun safe hat (students do not have to run in their hats but they must wear them when not racing)
• Plenty of water

Yr 3-6 Athletics Carnival

There has been a change of date for the senior athletics carnival which will now be held on Friday 20th June with 800m in the afternoon of 16th June and an optional 1500m at first break on 23rd June. Attached is the carnival program. Parents are welcome to come along to cheer on their children.

Students need to come to school with:

• House shirt
• Appropriate footwear
• Sunscreen
• School sun safe hat (students do not have to compete in their hats but they must wear them while waiting)
• Water bottles and lunch. Tuckshop will run as normal.  

Clare Marks

cxmar5@eq.edu.au

HPE specialist

Dayboro State School (Mon-Tues)

Readers Cup

Since the last week of term one, ten students from across Year 5 and Year 6 have been preparing for the upcoming Readers Cup competition.  This competition requires students to read five novels (generally more than once) so that they know as much about the books as possible.  On the day of the competition the teams participate in five rounds of questioning where they answer collaboratively to earn points.  There are still a few weeks of reading ahead before the day of the competition.  We would like to wish these students the best as they continue to prepare for their competition on the 17^th of June.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The 2025 Premiers Reading Challenge reading period began on the 6^th 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). 

This year we are running an inter-house reading competition.  Each book read will contribute to the total number of books read for each sporting house.  Each week the sports captains will visit classrooms to count the books read and will announce the weekly totals at assembly each week.  The winning house will be presented with a trophy at assembly the week after book week in August.

National Simultaneous Storytime

Students joined us on Wednesday at midday to be a part of the 25^th  annual National Simultaneous Storytime event.  Students were welcomed when visiting the display at the Library during first break throughout his week as part of our celebration activities.

May is National Family Reading Month

This year is the 29^th 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

Book Club News

Book Club for Term 2 is now open.  Brochures for this issue of Book Club will be distributed to students as soon as they arrive and the catalogue can also be viewed online.  In this issue you'll find award-winning books and bestsellers, as well as old and new favourites.  The books included in this issue span a wide range of children’s reading levels and interests with prices starting at just $3.  

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 by using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.  Alternatively, 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. Following are links for browsing the cataloge and for Loop payments.

Orders are due Monday the 9th of June.

Would you like to earn money AND help your local school??

Transport and Main Roads is looking for school crossing supervisors in your area to help get our kids safely to and from school!

✅ Generous casual pay-rate starting at $37.10 per hour

✅ Morning and afternoon shifts

✅ Long-service leave entitlements

✅ The Queensland Government superannuation scheme.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, call 3863 9871 to speak with your local Road Safety Officer.

Comment: To be deemed suitable for the role, some criteria apply, which include requirements to:

• pass a health assessment, organised by TMR
• hold a current blue card, cost covered by TMR
• disclose any serious disciplinary action taken against you in public sector employment.

For more information or to apply, contact the school administration office or email CSB.SEQN.RoadSafetyCarseldine@tmr.qld.gov.au