Dear Parents and Caregivers

For the second week of learning, it is a pleasure to visit classrooms and witness how engaged our students are and their demonstrated eagerness for learning. By all accounts, it has been a wonderful start to the school year and is worthy of a big thank you to our families for preparing your children so well  and to our school staff for the professionalism and diligence in ensuring that students are organised and ready to engage.

Last year was another milestone for our school in terms of the high level of student achievement and the wonderful opinion shared by our local community about the school.  I am hoping that the great results achieved in 2018 will be replicated in 2019- we have certainly commenced in a most positive way!

P&C Meeting

Our first P&C Meeting for the year will be held next Monday 11 February commencing at 6.30pm in the school staffroom. An invitation is extended to parents and community members to attend and be part of this important parent decision-making body in our school.

School Leaders Induction Ceremony

The 2018 school leaders will be inducted at a special assembly on Monday 18 February at 9.00am. Our special guest will be the Member for Pine Rivers, Ms Nikki Boyd MP who will present our new leaders with their badges of office. All welcome to attend.

Garry Drummond 
Principal

Thank you to everyone for a very calm, settled start to the year.

Thank you teachers , for all your hard work and preparation for such a smooth start to the year also. The classrooms and learning spaces looked very inviting and it was such a joy to walk into rooms and see children excited and engaging in quality learning from Day 1! Thank you, parents also for helping the transition from the holiday period to school easier for your children. It was great to see every child in a uniform, wearing a hat and arriving with named belongings to start the year off. If you are missing any items,  Kookaburra are still keeping our online ordering section on their website open through February for any purchases still needed.

• Whole school Assembly every Monday at 9am- All parents welcome.
• Our Special Leaders Induction Assembly will take place on Monday 18^th February at 9am
• Welcome back to our IM teacher Mr John Smallcombe.  Instrumental lessons will start Week 3 Monday 11^th February for existing students only.  Beginning instrumental students will receive notes and instruments next week ready to start lessons in week 4. 
• THERE IS NO BAND PRACTICE NEXT MONDAY
• Band practice will start in week 4 at 8am Monday 18 February.
• All students are reminded to wait in the CSA before school between 8:15 am and 8:40 am. Children are not to wait outside classrooms or other areas around the school. When the bell goes at 8:40am students walk up to their classrooms. This is an important safety aspect and it is very important children are reminded of this expectation. Thank you parents for helping us keep your children safe!
• DRINK BOTTLES: It is very important that children have access to drink bottles especially for PE lessons and in this very hot weather.  However, to ensure the safety of all students, could you please ensure that students DO NOT bring GLASS water bottles to schools.

Parent Information Sessions

The times for each class information session are included below.

DATE CLAIMER

Dear Parents

The teachers will be holding beginning of the year Parent Information sessions in Week 3- Week commencting Monday 11 February this term.  The dates and times for each class are as below. Teachers will be sending out class invitations next week with more details. We look forward to seeing you all at these information sessions as they will provide you with a wealth of information about your child’s year of learning ahead.

 Please see the class teacher if you have any problems with these times.

Parent Information Sessions Week 3.

 SWIMMING 

Notes went home last Friday to students in Year 3 and 4.  (3OH, 3M, 4B and 4S). Invoices were sent out yesterday, Monday. There has been a ‘glitch’ which has seen some student invoices sent multiple times.  We apologise for the inconvenience this caused.  Please be assured that there is only one invoice on the system for each child.  If you have any queries, please see the office.

Please return the permission notes with payments at your earliest convenience. Final dates for notes and payments are Monday 18^th February as Swimming starts on Thursday 21^st February. A timetable of when each class swims will be in next week’s newsletter. It is an expectation that all students will participate as swimming is part of the school curriculum.

 ABSENCES

Please ring the school and give a reason for absence if your child is going to be away. School starts at 8:50 am and if children arrive after this time they are to go to the office for a late slip. All children departing early from school need to be signed out at the office first. It is important, especially in the first few weeks, that students attend regularly and for the whole day. Teachers in the first few weeks are setting expectations, establishing rules and routines and testing students to help cater for students needs and if children are absent during this time they miss out on this important beginning of year establishment phase.

Our Behaviour Focus this week is Week 2 – All Settings

Thank you!

Mrs Ryan, Deputy Principal

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

This weeks Award winners.

NDIS Information and Access Sessions for parents/carers for February 2019:

Nundah Library – February 5 – 4:30pm-6:30pm

Chermside Library – February 13 – 1:30pm-3:30pm

Indooroopilly Library – February 19 – 11:00am-1:00pm

Mitchelton Library – February 25 – 10:30am-12:30pm

To register for a session or discuss the NDIS further, please contact Community Carers Queensland on (07) 3215 9600 or email brisbanenorthlac@carersqld.com.au.

Tracey Hammond and Carmel Bridger

What’s happening at before and after school care 

Ph 0459 991 697

On behalf of the team at Helping Hands Dayboro, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new families, current families, preppies and to our newest member of the team Mele. Some of our children enjoyed an exciting start to the year with vacation care taking us on adventures to the city, Aussie World and Flipout. Back at the service we explored various cultures, engaged in inflatable obstacle courses and even joined in a Zumba incursion. Next vacation care will be just as exciting, so keep an eye out for when bookings open to secure your spot!!

Our children have come back to school with a great level of enthusiasm, sharing holiday stories with educators and peers. Children have been engaged in outdoor games such as volleyball, netball, basketball, red rover, stand up sit down and ship shark shore. Children have also enjoyed role playing restaurants, cars, schools and mythical creatures.

A big thankyou to Grace G, Lachlan, Ryanne, Lily and Elsie for putting their hands up to help us welcome our prep children by being prep buddies. These five children have been helping our preps transition to OSHC, showing them where everything is, how everything works and just giving them a friend to have when they attend. We really appreciate this and applaud you for your leadership! A big congratulations to our co-ordinators for February and March – Samantha B & Mitchell M (Senior Co-ordinators), Caden B (Junior Co-ordinator) & Sophie R our sports co-ordinator.

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

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 accessed 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