Dear Parents and Caregivers

Winter is upon us, bringing cold and influenza season with it.  Some of our students (and staff) have already felt the effects of the flu season. Queensland Health’s influenza page, www.qld.gov.au/flu covers the symptoms, how to protect yourself and others from getting sick and discusses appropriate treatments.

Our school is helping to prevent the flu from spreading by :

• Encouraging children, staff and visitors to cover their mouths and noses when they sneeze or cough
• Making tissues readily available and ensuring used tissues are disposed of immediately
• Ensuring children and staff wash their hands regularly
• Cleaning our facilities and resources regularly
• Encouraging staff and children with flu-like symptoms to stay at home

If your child catches the flu, please seek medical advice and keep them home until they are feeling well again. Any assistance that can be provided by parents in supporting our school in keeping the flu at bay as much as possible would be most appreciated.

Lost Property

The winter season has just begun and already our lost property receptacle is looking quite full. The students have been reminded about the need to check the stockpile for lost clothing or lunch boxes. If any parents are aware that a child is missing some pieces of clothing, please check and see if it can be recovered from the lost property in the CSA. Are all pieces of clothing clearly marked with student’s names.

Woolworths Earn and Learn

Thankyou to everyone who has supported this promotion to date. As of Monday 3 June, we have collected 9800 stickers.  The promotion runs until Tuesday 25 June so there is still plenty of time to collect and return the stickers. Spare collections sheets are available at the school office.

In 2017, we were able to purchase about $3000 worth of classroom supplies for our students as a result of the Earn and Learn campaign.

P&C Meeting

The next P&C meeting will be held next Monday 10 June at 6.30pm in the school staffroom. All welcome to attend.   

School Attendance

Thankyou to our school community for the excellent school attendance during Term 2.  An attendance target of 95% has been set for schools in the North Coast Education Region. As a school we have achieved a rate of attendance of of  93.2 % to date for Term 2. There continues to be a substantial improvement in students arriving for school on time, which I am hopeful will continue.  Attendance rates for individual classes are listed below.  At Dayboro, ‘every day counts’ and regular, whole day, on time attendance is strongly encouraged.

To report an absence from school please call 3425 6160 and leave a detailed message, including the reason for the absence.  Absence notifications can also be forwarded to the school via QParents.

Winter Disco – Date and Theme Claimer

Our School Disco will be held on Friday 21 June  ( P-2: 5.30pm-6.30pm and Years 3-6 : 7.00pm-8.30pm). Our Student Council has decided upon the theme of “The Wild West” for this year’s event.  More details will be provided closer to the date. 

Prep Enrolments -2020 

We are already receiving enquiries about our Prep program for 2020. We are pleased to provide information and enrolment information anytime at our school office.  However, I am able to advise that our Prep Information and Enrolment Morning will be held on Wednesday 28 August at 9.30am in our School Hall.  This will be followed up with Prep interviews for all newly enrolled students from 14-18 October and a Prep Orientation Day on Tuesday 12 November.

If you have a child born between 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015, he/she is eligible for Prep enrolment at Dayboro State School in 2019. Please note that Dayboro State School has an Enrolment Management Plan in place – please check at http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/catchment/for further information.

We have had several enquiries regarding enrolling at Dayboro Prep from outside the catchment area. Families who view Dayboro as their school of choice are very welcome to submit an enrolment application, however the outcome of the application will not be advised until late October when available places are allocated in the order of receipt. 

I would be pleased if this information could be circulated to people who are known to you and are wishing to enrol in our Prep program in 2020.

Garry Drummond

Principal

Dear Families and Friends

This week we acknowledge and support World Environment Day. We are helping to acknowledge the importance of protecting our environment by inviting SEQ Water to come to our school and talk to our Prep, Yr. 1 and Yr. 3 students about our local waterways and the importance of conserving this precious resource. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week these classes will be part of SEQ Water’s highly engaging and informative presentations. These presentations are provided free of charge. See below for more information.

 Thank you to all the students and staff who supported our CRAZY Day.  All funds raised will go to support RSPCA.

WINTER IS HERE!

PLEASE SEE BELOW A REMINDER OF UNIFORM EXPECTATIONS AND OPTIONS FOR WINTER.

DATE CLAIMERS TERM 2 

Wednesday 5^thJune - World Environment Day

Thursday 6^th June - Queensland Day (160 years)

Friday 7^thJune - Choir to visit Conversation Club.

Tuesday 11^thJune - Ice Cream Day

Tuesday 11^thJune - Yr 6 Leaders to Parliament House

Thursday  13^thJune - Eight Yr 6 students off to Reader’s Cup challenge.

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.”

Excursion & Incursion Payments 

As the end of the term is fast approaching us, all invoices for school excursions this term have now been finalised, as well as the invoice for Dance Fever in term 2. Please see below the deadlines for payments:

• Kumbartcho (year 6 students, 25^thJune) – Payments due 14^thJune
• GOMA (year 4 students, 26^thJune) – Payments due 14^thJune
• Dance Fever (Term 2) – Payments due 28^thJune

Payments can be made from the following methods:

• Online payments - BPOINT

Click here for a direct link to BPOINT.

• Paying by phone.

If you do not wish to process payments online, you are able to pay by phone using a credit/debit card via BPOINT 1300 631 073.

Please quote the CRN and invoice number below.

• Paying in person.

You can pay in person at the Dayboro State School Administration using EFTPOS, Visa, MasterCard or cash*.

*Please note, to provide safety to our students and staff in carrying money through the school grounds and community, we are progressing towards becoming a cashless school. Payments made via BPOINT, phone or EFTPOS are encouraged over using cash.

Voluntary Contributions

If you haven’t yet donated to the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme, you can still do so. The below details outline the cost involved, as well as a link to pay online. Payments can be made directly to the school also via Cash or EFTPOS.

The costs involved in the Voluntary Financial Contributions are:

• $50 per student; or
• $100 per family of two or more enrolled students.

The Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme is approved by the P&C each year, and is aligned to the Department of Education policy requirements. By donating to the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme, Dayboro SS is able to provide classroom resources, home readers and other consumables to enhance learning activities for Literary, Numeracy, Science, Art and Technology.

To pay the Voluntary Contributions online, click here for a direct link to BPOINT.

Kind regards,

Clare Ingham
Business Manager

P&C’s Major Raffle 

Families this week will be receiving one book of tickets in the P&C’s major raffle. Please consider buying or selling these tickets for a chance to win a fabulous Gold Coast Family Holiday prize for two adults and two kids for a 4 nights’ stay at the Sea World Resort and Water Park in a Resort Double Room. The winner also receives entry to Sea World, Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet’n’Wild Gold Coast, and Paradise Country over the same 4-day period, plus a Caltex Fuel Card valued at $200, along with food and beverage credit for Sea World Resort & Water Park valued at $100. This major raffle will close on 19 June, with all tickets/monies to be returned to the Office on this date. This prize will then be drawn on 24 June. If you do not wish to sell your book of tickets, please promptly return to the Office so that they can be on hand for others who may require extra tickets. Good Luck! 

Upcoming events to keep an eye out for include the Book Fair at the Library which starts this week on Friday and continues through to Wednesday next week. This Book Fair is open 8.15am to 4.30pm over 7-12 June. 

The Disco is on 21 June. Please watch out for more news in coming school newsletters and on the P&C Facebook page about this event, including an array of great prizes that will be decided or drawn through the night.  

Our next P&C meeting is scheduled for Monday 10 June.  

Jeff Hopkins-Weise (P&C President) 

Year 5H Sumo Challenge

Students in Year 5H were very excited to reach the culmination of their Digital Technologies unit of work in recent weeks with a Robot Sumo challenge.  To be a successful participant in the Robot Sumo challenge, students were required to design, build and code a robot that could operate autonomously and use at least one input sensor to react to changes in its immediate area.

Students had the option of using iPads or Laptops to use a visual coding language to program their robots. We learned a great deal about the importance of iteration and branching to make our codes successful and efficient. Students had a few weeks of testing and trialling before the competition, with many students choosing to work in the library during their lunch breaks to design the best combination of robot construction and computer code.

What do you know about the Australian Curriculum?

The Australian Curriculum is designed to teach students what it takes to be confident and creative individuals and become active and informed citizens. It sets the goal for what all students should learn as they progress through their school life – wherever they live in Australia and whatever school they attend.

What are the learning areas of the Australian Curriculum?

From the first year of schooling to Year 10, students develop knowledge and skills in eight learning areas:

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Health and Physical Education (HPE)
• Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
• The Arts
• Technologies
• Languages

From Foundation to Year 10

In the early years, priority is given to literacy and numeracy development as the foundations for further learning. As students make their way through the primary years, they focus more on the knowledge, understanding and skills of all eight learning areas.

Find more information about the Australian Curriculum on the ‘Parents’ page of the Australian Curriculum website

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources-and-support/parent-information/introduction

Linda Smith

HOC

Homework Help is available!

Mrs Smith (Head of Curriculum) will be available in Term 2 to assist with any homework questions or support students in completing homework on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:15 am in the LEAP room (B block).

This is available for any students needing assistance or for parents with questions about helping their child with homework.

Linda Smith

(HOC)

STEAM day

26 excited Year 3 to 6 students attended the STEAM day at Pine Rivers SHS on Wednesday 29^thMay.  The students were nominated by their class teachers for this Science extension opportunity.

The students participated in field work and classroom theory lessons.  In their field work they completed environmental testing of water, soil and the environment (wind speed, barometric pressure and relative humidity).

In their classroom work they measured the PH and conductivity of water samples using test strips and probes.  They began to grow alfalfa in different liquids, with varying PH levels and brought the alfalfa back to school in petri dishes to observe.  They used microscopes to study their hair and skin and then micro-organisms in pond water.

All of the students showed exemplary manners, listening skills and co-operation, demonstrating the ‘Dayboro Way’.  The Science Teacher, Mrs A, specifically congratulated the students on their thinking skills and behaviour and welcomed them back anytime.   Great work kids! 

Tracey Hammond

District & Regional Trials

Please find below a (small) list of upcoming school sport events. More information about these trials can be found on the Pine Rivers District Sports website at http://www.pineriverssport.qld.edu.au/ or alternatively come see me on Monday or Tuesdays.

Term 2

Week 7

• Tuesday 4^th & Wednesday 5^th June 2019: 10-12 YRS Met North Regional Athletics Trials

Term 3

Week 2

• Wednesday 24^th July 2019: 10-12 YRS Pine Rivers District - Boys Cricket

School Cross Country Carnival

When: Tuesday 18^th June 2019 (in exactly TWO weeks) at 8:50am for a 9:00am start

Where: On the school oval

Who: Prep – Year 6

What to bring: Students must bring their school hat, water bottle, sunscreen, closed in running shoes and sports t-shirt (for house spirit)

Distances:            Prep & Year 1 – 500m

Year 2 & Year 3 (8 yrs & under) – 1km

9-10 year olds – 1.5km

11-12 year olds – 2km

Students (except for Prep – Year 2) will compete in the age they are turning or have already turned this year. For example, if a student was still yet to turn 10 years old on the 1^st July then they will compete in the 10 year old race, or if they have already turned 10 on the 1^st February then they will also run in the 10 year old age group.

The course will be clearly marked out on the day and students will also have the opportunity to walk their course during their PE lesson in the coming weeks. This year there will be only 2 courses marked out, a 500m and 1km course. For the age groups doing 1.5km this means that they will need to do 3 laps of the 500m course and those running 2km will do 2 laps of the 1km course. Both boys and girls for each age group will be out running their course together, however there will be a 1 minute gap between them starting (boys first, then girls). Our younger students in Prep and Year 1 will also have some senior students running along with them for encouragement and to ensure they run the correct way. As always there will be staff marshalling the course for supervision and additional cheering.

We look forward to seeing everyone up on our scenic oval. 

PE Class of the Week

Congratulations to 1L for being on time and organised in PE last week. It was lovely to start the lesson on time and complete all the activities. Keep up the great work and you may see the PE trophy again this term. Well done 1L!

Mrs Julie Braun
Physical Education Teacher (Monday & Tuesday)

Remember Remember!

If you do not attend rehearsals, you may not be able to attend performances.

♫Dayboro Voices - (Years 4 to 6)

♫Little Dayboro Voices – (Years 1 to 3)

♫Upcoming performances♫

Dayboro Conversations Club

Who: Little Dayboro Voices

When – Friday 7^thJune 2019

Where– St Francis Xavier Church, 135 McKenzie St Dayboro. 

Jack’s Place

Time– 10:30 – 11:45AM

What to wear– Little Dayboro Voices – Formal uniform, black shoes, hair neat and tidy – no bows!

A permission note is required to attend. Please see your child’s bag as it was handed out today. Ask at the office for spare forms.

Interested parent helpers, please contact Mrs Almond – jmalm0@eq.edu.au

Thank you for your ongoing support of Dayboro’s Arts program

Janet AlmondClassroom Music teacher and Choir Conductor

Dog Man Graphic Story Competition Winners.   

Congratulations to our Dog Man Competition winners Rupert, Finn, and Mya!  You each did a wonderful job with your Dog Man story and you obviously worked very hard to complete such amazing pictures to support your story.

At the end of last year we established a Graphic Novels section in the school library and we have been steadily increasing the number of titles available.   Graphic Novels offer an opportunity for students to use images to enhance their comprehension of stories as well as to continue to develop their vocabulary.  The Dog Man series has been very a popular addition to this section of the Library – we are already being asken when the new title in the series, “For Whom The Ball Rolls”, will be available.   We’ll be sure to add it to the Library collection when it is released in September.

Book Fair Starts Friday!

Book Fair will be open June 7^th, 10^th, 11^thand 12^thfrom 8.15am – 4.30pm. 

Brochures were distributed to all students yesterday showcasing just some of the titles that will be available at Book Fair this year.

Each class will be given an opportunity to preview the books available at Book Fair – we are sure that there will be something to appeal to everyone. 

Remember that all sales help to raise money for our school Library to give us the opportunity to purchase book titles requested by our students.  If you wish to purchase items from Book Fair, payment options include pre-payment on-line (please refer to Book Fair wish list for further information), cash and EFTPOS facilities.

The Book Fair colouring-in competition winners will be announced at assembly on Monday with prizes to be presented by Geronimo Stilton. 

Premier’s Reading Challenge 

Remember to keep on reading!  Weekly reading tally counts have started and Sports House totals will be announced each week during assembly. 

Chappy Chatz - TAMING TODDLERS: MELTDOWNS, TANTRUMS, SCREAMING & WHINING

This post was written by ParentTV Expert Maggie Dent.

Babies, toddlers and young children are learning how to do so many things in the early years – learning to walk, talk, toilet oneself as well as learning to manage emotions and feelings. They have an under developed brain in terms of vertical growth and tend to function mostly from the primitive brain – think crying, shouting, melt downs and tantrums. Essentially they struggle to make positive neurotransmitters or ‘feel good’ brain chemicals like serotonin (feeling calm) dopamine (feeling excited and engaged) and endorphins (feeling happy and joyful).

Cortisol is the stress hormone and it gets released with adrenaline. When our children are struggling with high levels of cortisol they don’t feel too good and it also lowers language functioning. We all will struggle with cortisol in different ways but temperament is a fair indicator of how we will manage heightened levels of cortisol. Some children will become upset really easily, possibly get worried and be clingy. Others may become defensive and over-reactive, which in turn creates more cortisol.

Adrenaline is at least partly responsible for the revved up, ‘red cordial high’ that we sometimes see in our children,” according to Andrew Fuller’s Tricky Kids (2007). Adrenaline is a really important brain chemical to have when you are about to be attacked by a grizzly because it activates the amygdala, which is the flight-or-fight area of the brain – and it provides enormous energy for the body to escape a life-threatening situation. Sometimes children can get an adrenaline rush. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do until you have lessened the amount of adrenaline, possibly by creating some serotonin, dopamine or even some endorphins. Fuller lists the following characteristics of children with high levels of adrenaline – I know some adults who have this too!

High levels of adrenaline

• exhibits silly, ‘hyper’ behaviour
• has difficulty getting to sleep
• has lots of energy
• runs off if upset
• has squabbles and little conflicts
• shows lots of busyness but not much gets done
• is reluctant to try new things.

– Andrew Fuller, Tricky Kids (2007).

So if we can now see some of our children’s meltdowns and disasters as merely a function of their brain maybe we can be a little bit kinder and more understanding.

WHAT CAN HELP WHEN OUR KIDS ARE IN THESE STATES OF AROUSAL?

Before we start exploring how we can help these difficult moments it helps if we can see our children as struggling rather than being bad or naughty. It is a small shift in perspective however it can help us look for the underlying causes rather than seeing the behaviour as an intentional, planned event. Then we can pretend we are a CSI detective and start searching for those triggers or causes.

1. FIRSTLY, CONSIDER, FROM THE CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE, IS THERE AN UNMET NEED?

     A child may be:

• wet
• tired
• thirsty
• hungry
• bored
• angry or frustrated
• feeling powerless or weak
• feeling unsafe or threatened
• feeling unloved, disconnected and invisible
• feeling that no one cares

We all function better when we experience harmony rather than states of chaos or rigidity, when our sense of being able to cope is threatened. The same goes for our children. When they experience too much chaos or when their world is full of rigidity and they are unable to get their needs met, this creates emotional distress that the body will respond to loudly and vigorously.

Remember that the rage, fear and separation distress system is set up at birth to support a baby’s survival, not to cause their mum and dad great distress. These systems were designed to ensure that infants were not eaten by predators or harmed by any other potential danger in their world. These days, the distress systems can be triggered when a door slams loudly, when they are unable to dress themselves, when you walk out of the room unexpectedly or when you cut their toast into four pieces instead of three!

When a child has a significant meltdown or is extremely upset there is little point in us trying to appeal to their left brain or their logical brain by being rational. For example, if you have a sobbing four-year-old who is sure there is a monster going to kill them in their bedroom at night, there would be no point rationalising that there is no such thing as monsters. Once the cortisol levels are too high – talking and explaining may make things worse.

2. TAKE A PARENTAL PAUSE – BREATHE AND BRING YOURSELF INTO YOUR HEART NOT YOUR HEAD.

This allows us to act rather than react to any hidden triggers we have from our own childhoods.

BEWARE! Emotional Triggers for grown-ups. Sometimes we adults will find certain things trigger us more than others depending on our own childhood experiences. For example, if whining triggers a strong emotional reaction, it is likely that you were shamed or scolded for whining when you were a child. “You never do as you are told!” can be another trigger when kids don’t do what you ask!  Usually, our triggers come with negative thought patterns. “My kid is such a cry baby! He cries over everything!” These negative thought patterns fuel frustration and build negative feelings. To disarm the trigger, get to know it. Understand it first, and then take the emotional charge out of it by reframing the thoughts that accompany the trigger. For example, instead of thinking “My kid is such a cry baby,” try “My kid is having a hard time and needs my help.” If you are consistent with this, then, over time, the trigger will become deactivated. If you have lots of triggers from your childhood, it can help to get some professional help to resolve them.

3. HELP THEM TO SOOTHE IS TO ACCEPT AND VALIDATE THEIR FEELINGS NO MATTER HOW IRRATIONAL THEY SEEM TO US.

Acknowledging irrational feelings and allowing our children to feel loved is incredibly important – denying or minimising big ugly feelings denies an opportunity to teach our children how to manage such feelings.

The tricky thing for parents is to remain calm when their children are distressed.

“Parents would never dream of leaving their baby in a room full of toxic fumes that could damage their child’s brain. Yet many parents leave their baby in a state of prolonged, uncomforted distress, not knowing that he is at risk from toxic levels of stress chemicals washing over his brain.”

– Margot Sunderland, The Science of Parenting (2007).

One you have met the need to accept and validate their unmet need – then it’s time to try and meet that unmet need.

4. ASK HOW CAN I HELP MEET THAT NEED?

You might say to your child:

• “Will a hug help?”
• “Here is a drink of water. Does that help?”
• “Do you feel sick? Let me feel your head?”
• “Let’s go outside for a while.”
• “Can I help you with something?”
• “Take three deep breaths and think about how you really feel.”
• “Tell me what you need right now.”
• Maybe offer a safe base – to enable a calming of their amygdala – allow some ‘calm down’ time …
• Kneel nearby and offer a calm, kind presence
• Go sit in a favourite spot – comfy chair of couch, and hug their favourite soft toy, i.e. mimic soothing
• Take three deep breaths or three big sighs
• Quietly start singing a favourite nursery rhyme or bedtime ritual
• Quietly lie down on the floor nearby and be still
• Spray some Bush Flower Essences Emergency Essence around the room
• Put some nature sounds/calming music on
• Send them rainbows of love

It can be helpful to keep in mind that the ‘upstairs brain’ is where the prefrontal cortex is shaped by the experiences we have within our human relationships and it takes much time and experience to develop. It is also deeply influenced by the loving guidance of parents or other significant carers, who have such an enormous influence on the mature person we become one day. We need to have appropriate expectations of a child whose prefrontal cortex is still developing, and we need to have understanding and compassion for when their behaviour is annoying, tiring and frustrating. Sometimes a child’s tantrum can come from the sheer frustration of not being unable to understand, manage or cope with whatever is happening at that point in time. This does not mean they are a bad child or even a naughty child; this is simply a child who is not coping well partly because of an underdeveloped upstairs brain.

5. FORGIVE YOURSELF

Finally, know that having moments of frustrating conflicts with your kids is a normal part of parenting. Sibling upsets, fights and disagreements happen in every home and so do moments of enormous fun and joy – it is all a part of the journey. Some days you will manage these moments better than others and if you lose the plot and shout and yell from your primitive brain – and later realise it was not your best choice – come back when you are calmer and apologise and explain that you too struggle with big ugly feelings at times! Modelling authentic human emotions – the good, the bad, the ugly and the absolute divine is all a normal part of living this life as a human! Tell the guilt monster to take a hike and embrace your journey as a parent. It helps to have good family and friends who allow you to share the tough moments and allow you to cry, laugh or both at the same time.

Gradually your little children get better at managing that down stairs brain and find the pathway to the upstairs brain.

Have a fantabulous week!  See you around the school

Chappy Cam

CHAPPY CHALLENGE. 

Chappy Cam would like to invite you to come & play against him in a game. He will be holding this challenge on TUESDAY 1st BREAK (11:00am) in the School Hall.

Are you up to the challenge? Do you think you have what it takes to beat Chappy Cam?

Chappy will set up 4 or 5 different activities for you to do – colouring-in, loom bands, spinning tops or marble games or board games or card games or something special.

Chappy Challenge 1st Breakon Tuesdays inSchool Hall. 

(pictures are only for display purposes).