Dear Parents and Caregivers

Thank you to everyone who supported the School Disco last Friday night.  A big crowd of students were suitably attired in their Western outfits and our enthusiastic DJs from Dance Fever ensured the night was enjoyable and successful for all. Our wonderful P&C once again supported the event with the canteen and prizes for the evening. A special thank you to Craig Doyle Real Estate for sponsoring the major prizes on the evening.  Thank you everyone!

Sheriff’s Awards

Congratulations to Lachlan J and Olive C who are the recipients of this term’s Sheriff’s Awards.  The rewards, which include a certificate and a book voucher were presented on assembly yesterday.  In Term 3, nine students will be selected for the Principal’s Award with all recipients eligible for the Sheriffs Awards on the final week assembly on 16 September.  

School Watch – Look, Listen, Report 

Thank you to Sergeant Ken and his wonderful group of School Watch volunteers, who will be looking after our school and its grounds during the winter holiday. If anyone in our school community sees or hears anything suspicious please report this to School Watch on 13 17 88. Your continued support and assistance are greatly appreciated.

School Annual Report

The 2018 School Annual Report has been uploaded to the school website at www.dayboross.eq.edu.au . The link to this is located on the home page.

Dayboro Show

Each class has been working extremely hard to ensure their show boards are ready for the 64^th annual Dayboro Show being held on 6^th and 7^th July this year. We hope as many people as possible will be able to visit the school work section at this year’s show to see our student work being proudly displayed. Thank you to our students and staff for their hard work in showcasing this colourful and creative work.

Staff News

It is a pleasure to welcome back Mrs Jess Hitchens from Maternity Leave in Term 3.  Mrs Hitchens will share Year 3OH with Mrs Oberg  and will work the first three days of every week. 

Also returning from Long Service Leave at the beginning of Term 3 is Mrs Susan O’Dwyer who will return to Year 2MO on Thursdays and Fridays. 

Woolworths Earn and Learn

Thankyou to everyone who has supported this promotion to date. As of Monday 24 June, we have collected over 34 680 stickers. Today is the last day the stickers will be available in stores.

As we have to report the numbers of sheets we have collected during the school holidays, it would be appreciated if all sticker sheets could be returned to the school office by this Friday.  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.

Prep Enrolments -2020

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.

Holiday Break

The school winter vacation commences this Friday 28 June. Term 3 commences on Monday 15 July. Enjoy a happy and safe holiday.

Garry Drummond

Principal

Dear Families and Friends

BEHAVIOUR - OUR RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR PLAN

Our school has a comprehensive School Code of Behaviour with a published Responsible Behaviour Plan that outlines expectations and processes followed to encourage positive relationships and ensure students perform to their potential. This document is distributed to all school families on enrolment. Dayboro State School’s Responsible Behaviour Plan can be found on the school website or accessed from the Office.

To keep things simple our code focuses on five values that encompass the behaviours that we want to see in our children.

Simply called the 5 B’s they are:

Be RESPECTFUL Of yourself, others and property

Be RESPONSIBLE    Be safe and aware

Be POSITIVE     Be kind, helpful and cheerful

Be PROUD      Take pride in yourself, your work and your school

Be TOLERANT    Be understanding of others’ ideas beliefs and feelings 

We also have a Kindness Award and a weekly Principal’s Award.

Our three school rules are Safety, Respect and Learning 

Sheriff’s Award

On Assembly yesterday, we saw 2 children receive the Sheriff’s Award for the term. These children were drawn from the pool of Term 2 Principal Award recipients. The Principal’s Award is a new award started this term. One Principal’s Award is given every week to a student who exemplifies what a Dayboro student is: A Learner, Safe and Respectful at all times. Congratulations to all the students who have received a Principal’s Award so far this year and congratulations to the two students, Lachlan and Olive,  who were drawn out for the Sheriff’s award.  Thank you to Sgt Ken and his team for supporting this award and helping to promote our School values and celebrate our worthy students. See photo below.

NDIS INFORMATION

We have flyers about the NDIS in the office. Please feel free to come and take one if you require more information about this scheme.

TRIPLE P IN QUEENSLAND

The Queensland Government is taking the guesswork out of parenting by offering parents and carers the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program free of charge.

Triple P now offer free online courses. There are some great articles and advice on Parenting forums. The link for Triple P Parenting Online is below:

Thank you to all our P&C helpers and other volunteers who helped to make the Wild West Disco such a successful night last Friday. Thank you also to the staff that attended and helped to “round up” the students. A great night was had by all!

WINTER IS HERE!

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

DATE CLAIMERS TERM 2 

Tuesday 25 June - Yr 6 Kumbartcho Excursion

Wednesday 26 June - GOMA Yr 4.

Thursday 27^th June – 6C  Pizza Party

Friday 28^th June - NAIDOC Tuckshop Day 

Friday 28^th June - Last Day Term 2

 Thought for the week!

I hope you all get to enjoy the little things this holidays! Have a happy and safe holiday everyone.

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”

End of Semester 1

We made it! What a fantastic first semester we have had at Dayboro State School. There have been lots of exciting excursions and incursions in the school and many fantastic opportunities for our students. Thank you to all of the parents and families, your promptness with payments have ensured all excursions have gone ahead without any issues.

Upcoming excursions & incursions for Term 3

With Term 2 almost done and dusted, it is time to think about the upcoming payments for Term 3. Due dates for Term 3 excursions/incursions so far are as follows:

• Dance Fever (Term 3) – Payments due 28^th June (last day of Term 2)
• Year 5 Camp (Term 3) – Payments due 26^th July (end of Week 2, Term 3)

If there are any families of Year 5 students who require a payment plan for Camp, please contact me as soon as possible to arrange. We do not wish for any student to miss this fantastic opportunity.

Payments can be made from the following methods:

• Online payments - BPOINT

By clicking on the BPOINT link on your invoice, it will take you directly to the website to pay.

• 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 located at the bottom of the invoice. .

• 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

It’s not too late to donate to the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme! 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.

Facilities Update

As you are aware, we are very fortunate enough to have our wonderful P&C raise enough money to fund a major project in the school, our air-conditioning installation in the Library. We will have contractors on-site over the school holidays to install the air-conditioning in the Library and service all of our other existing air-conditioning units to ensure they are working effectively and efficiently. Once again, I would like to thank our fantastic P&C for supporting our students!

From all of us at Dayboro State School, I hope you all have a safe and happy break with family and friends. See you all next term!

Kind regards,

Clare Ingham
Business Manager

P&C’s Major Raffle 

The raffle was drawn at Assembly at School on Monday (24 June) and the major prize holiday package winner is an Albany Creek resident. The MP3 player book seller incentive prize was won by a Year 1 student, plus we had an additional photography voucher prize (valued at $375.00) which was kindly donated by Belinda Johnson which was won by a Year 5 student. Sincere thanks to all students and families who got behind this major fundraising effort by P&C, the proceeds of which will help support our School and students. 

The Wild West themed School Disco was held last Friday. We hope all who attended had a wonderful night of fun and dancing, and of course many prizes were handed out throughout the event. P&C would like to especially thank the hearty band of volunteers who manned the kitchen, sales and dealt with pre-ordered meals throughout the night. Also, many thanks to the various families who also provided some very yummy baked goods and other dessert sweets which did not last long as they proved very popular. Of course, a final big thanks goes to Craig Doyle Real Estate who provided two $30 giftcards for the two winners of the best dressed competition at each session, as well as donating $200.00 to P&C to assist with costs. 

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop's day of operation is being changed to Monday morning.  Karen will be opening the uniform shop on Mondays 8.30 - 9.00am from now on commencing on Monday 15 July (first day back at school for term 3).

School holidays 

The holidays are almost upon us, so on behalf of all at P&C, we hope you all have a fun and safe time over the semester break (29 June – 14 July). We look forward to seeing you all back for the start of Term 3 on Monday 15 July. 

P&C  Meetings

Our next two P&C meetings are scheduled for Mondays 22 July and 19 August. Please consider coming along to help being a part of your School and P&C. 

Regards

Jeff Hopkins-Weise

President

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)

Amy delivered this speach to Assembly on Monday morning.  Well done Amy

Good morning everyone,

Recently the school captains and I were given the privilege of visiting Parliament House on budget week which is one of busiest times of the year for Parliament.

Queensland Parliament House is located in Brisbane City and is a very grand building which was built in 1865.

We were welcomed by Nikki Boyd who gave us an introduction into what Parliament is about.  We then moved into the building where we were lead up the grand staircase.  Here we met with the first Torres Strait Islander Member of Parliament and had our photo taken with Nikki Boyd along with the leaders from other schools in our Region.

We viewed the Senate room although this is no longer in use.  We then headed up to the top of the building where we had lunch with a great view of the river and city and ate from plates rimmed with gold.

After lunch, we headed to the House of Representatives and witnessed the handing out of the Queensland State Budget.  The budget lays out the plan where Queensland government money will be spent for the 2020 financial year.

We also had the opportunity to look around the grand building before heading back to Dayboro.

It was a wonderful and unique experience which we all enjoyed.

Thank you

Amy King

(As representative for the Dayboro State School, School Captains) 

Library Book Returns

This week is the final week of Term 2 and we now require all books on loan to students from Prep to Year 3 to be returned to the Library.

Students in Years 4 – 6 may borrow books for the holiday period, but all overdue books need to be retuned as soon as possible.

Class teachers have been given lists of books that students need to return.  Requests for payments for lost or damaged books will be sent home with students after the holidays.

Book Week Preparations

Although Book Week isn’t until August, classes have started assisting us with creating colourful and imaginative items for Book Week Displays.

Each year, books written by Australian authors are nominated in different categories for prizes presented by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.  These shortlisted books are the inspiration for our displays.

It is always fantastic to see how enthusiastic the children are when using their artistic skills while at the Library.

The photos below are a sneak peek of some of the art pieces classes are currently working on that will form part of our displays for Book Week:

Premier’s Reading Challenge

A reminder to keep on reading – every book counts! 

Have a great holiday break!

Thank you,

Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.

District & Regional Trials

Please find below the only school sport event left for the year. This is for students aged 10-12 years old only. Further 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 a Monday or Tuesday.

Term 3

Week 2

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

Paperwork for the above cricket trials has still not become available, and may not be ready for me to pass onto interested students until next term. Thank you for your patience and I endeavour to give all the forms to students as soon as they’re available.

School Cross Country Carnival – Wrap Up

Well done and thank you to everyone involved with our School Cross Country Carnival last Tuesday. The weather couldn’t have been any better for a morning of running and all our students put in an incredible effort for themselves and their house. It was wonderful to see all of our students from Prep to Year 6 come together, to cheer on each other, and so many families join in on the action too. Congratulations to the winning house, Rush, who finished with a massive 256 points, followed very closely by Armstrong on 249 points and then third place was Terrors with 186 points. Congratulations to everyone that participated and had a go.

There are many people responsible for making the Cross Country Carnival a success every year, including Mr Briskey for having the grounds beautifully maintained and prepared; our recorders Mrs Cassell and Mrs Wilkinson for doing all the calculations of points; Mr Drummond as announcer and keeping our students organised; Mr Horne for starting each race on time; Mrs Summers for getting our students warmed up; our place judges Mrs Mathiesen and Mrs Blair for sorting place getters; Mrs Robinson for catching all the action on camera; all our course marshals for directing and encouraging students on course; and the teachers on crowd control, for keeping house spirit up and students so well behaved. A big thank you goes to our House Captains, especially Shelby H. and Ashley B. for arriving super early at school and helping Mr Briskey and myself with setting everything up for the carnival, managing the water station, running with the Prep and Year 1 students, and also staying behind once the carnival finished, to help pack up. It is wonderful to see our leaders volunteer their time to help others which sets a great example for others to follow. Thank you very much House Captains!

Each year I am always looking at ways to make our sport carnivals bigger and better, so if you have any constructive feedback for me, please let me know via email at jbrau28@eq.edu.au or through one of the ladies in admin. Hope to see you at our next sport carnival which will be the Junior Sports Day for Prep to Year 2 students, next term. More information about this will become available later next term.

PE Class of the Week

Congratulations to 1/2A for your preparation and practise with Cross Country in PE. This isn’t the first time the class has seen the trophy, so well done for working hard to get the trophy again. Keep up the great work!

Mrs Julie Braun
Physical Education Teacher (Monday & Tuesday)

Helping Hands Highlights.

Ph 0459 991 697

This week the sandpit has been popular with the children with many creating sandcastles and tunnels. Group games such as oz tag and basketball have also been a hit with many of our children. We have also been getting in touch with our natural resources, using sticks and leaves to create houses and restaurants. More new games have been explored such as disney family feud and the dragon game. These games have unleashed strategic thinking, quick thinking and problem-solving skills.

A reminder in the cooler weather to make sure your child/ren have a jumper in their bags as well as a hat and drink bottle.

Vacation care is fast approaching, and we have exciting excursions to the dairy farm in Maleny and ten pin bowling. We are preparing some great theme days at the service including footy fever, hawaiian day and beading day. Children must be enrolled at the service before bookings can be made, please see below for how to do this.

Homework club runs from 4:30-5:00pm Monday-Thursdays. Please let one of our friendly team know if you would like your child to be included in this.

If you are experiencing any difficulties around the iParent Portal, there is a kidsoft app that has been released for both apple and android phones. It is a free app that simplifies managing bookings. Please feel free to see one of our educators if you need assistance with this app and we will be happy to assist.

We welcome all new families to the service, Helping Hands Dayboro requires online enrolment forms to be completed before attending the service. Online bookings and enrolments can be made through the iParent Portal which can be access through the Helping Hands Network site by selecting Dayboro as your service and signing up following the prompts. If you have any issues, please contact Jenny at the service on 0459 991 697 or our customer accounts on 1300 612 462