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Dear Parents and Caregivers
During the school holidays our P&C achieved a major goal with the installation of air conditioning in the School Library. This has been a major fundraising project for our P&C over the past couple of years and it is wonderful that this project has now come to fruition and will provide a comfortable workspace for both students and staff. New projects and opportunities for grants are being identified and will include the installation of a new senior playground in the future. Thank you to everyone for your continued support of P&C activities and the continued improvement of our school facilities.
School Opinion Survey- Important Envelope coming home next Monday
The eldest in the family will be bringing home an envelope next Monday containing details about the 2019 School Opinion Survey. This is an important survey for our school, and I would like to encourage as much participation as possible.
Each year, our Department of Education undertakes a survey of parents/caregivers to gauge their satisfaction with important aspects of schooling. All families are invited to participate in the survey using the personalised username and password contained in your envelope.
I hope that everyone will consider completing the survey before the closing date of FRIDAY 23 AUGUST. Please do not hesitate to contact the school administration if any further information is required.
Walkathon – Friday 2 August
The P&C Walkathon will be held on Friday 2 August from 9.00am on our school oval. The theme for this year is “ What will I be when I grow up”. Students have been issued with their sponsorship forms and we are grateful for any support which can be given to our P&C with this annual fundraiser.
Show Holiday
I wish to advise that Dayboro State School will be closed on Monday 12 August for the Brisbane Show holiday.
P&C Meeting
The next meeting of the P&C will be held Next Monday 29 July at 6.30pm in the School Staffroom. All are welcome to attend.
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 are acknowledging National Tree Day for Schools on Friday 26th July. Our Environmental team have worked very hard to plan this special day. We were very fortunate to receive a donation of over $500 worth of trees from Cr. Grimwade. A hard-working group of volunteers and George have been digging holes in preparation for this big event. Classes will be planting the trees this Friday. Many thanks to Cr. Grimwade for his generous contributions to this worthwhile cause and to the many helpers who made it happen.
Dance Fever started last Thursday and will continue every Thursday for the next 10 weeks. Thank you to everyone who has finalised payments. Over 355 children in the school enjoyed their first lesson and we look forward to seeing them show us their Dance Moves at the Family Dance Night in September.
IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT KEEPING KIDS HEALTHY AT SCHOOL.
This week we have been notified of some diagnosed cases of Whooping Cough (Pertussis) in our school. We sent letters home on Friday. I have included the information about Exclusion periods for this serious illness below.
QUEENSLAND HEALTH INFORMATION
Whooping cough (or pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough can affect people of any age. For adolescents and adults, the infection may only cause a persistent cough. However, for babies and young children, whooping cough can be life threatening. Complications of whooping cough in babies include pneumonia, fits and brain damage from prolonged lack of oxygen. Most hospitalisations and deaths occur in babies less than six months of age.
In Australia, epidemics occur every 3 to 4 years. In 2011, 38 732 cases were reported nationally. The highest rates of disease were in infants <6 months of age and children 5 – 9 years.
Signs and Symptoms:
Whooping cough often starts like a cold with a runny nose, sneezing and tiredness over several days, and then the characteristic coughing bouts develop. These bouts can be very severe and frightening, and may end with a crowing noise (the ‘whoop’) as air is drawn back into the chest. Coughing episodes are frequently followed by gagging or vomiting. During coughing attacks, a child's breathing can be obstructed and they may become blue or stop breathing. The bouts of coughing may continue for many weeks even after appropriate treatment. Babies under six months of age, vaccinated children, adolescents and adults may not display the typical whoop. Even in adults, pertussis can cause significant problems with the cough persisting for up to 3 months, and other symptoms, such as sleep disturbance or, rarely, rib fracture.
Treatment:
Treatment is a course of antibiotics which reduces the time a person is infectious to others and may reduce symptoms if given early in the disease. To be effective, antibiotics need to be given within 21 days of the start of general symptoms or within 14 days of the start of the bouts of coughing.
Some people who have had close contact with an infected person may need to take antibiotics to prevent infection. This includes people at high risk of serious complications (i.e. children aged less than six months); and others who might spread it to these children, such as women near the end of their pregnancy, or people who live or work with infants under the age of 6 months. Seek the advice of your doctor about the need for antibiotics to reduce the risk of infection in yourself or in infants at risk of serious complications.
Transmission:
Whooping cough bacteria are highly infectious and are spread to other people by an infected person coughing and sneezing. The infection can also be passed on through direct contact with infected secretions from the mouth or nose. The time between exposure to the bacteria and getting sick is usually seven to ten days, but can be up to three weeks. A person is most infectious in the early stages of their illness. Unless treated with appropriate antibiotics for at least five days, a person is regarded as infectious for three weeks after the first sign of any cough; or 14 days after the start of the bouts of coughing.
Prevention:
To avoid passing the disease on to others, a person with whooping cough should stay away from work, school, pre-school or child care until they have had at least 5 days of their course of antibiotics, or until 21 days after the first sign of any coughing, or until 14 days after the severe bouts of coughing began.
If people who have had close contact with an infectious person are not fully vaccinated, they may need to stay away from places where there are young children or pregnant women. Your doctor can provide advice on this.
Anyone who has been in close contact with an infectious person should keep a close eye on their own health. If they develop signs of early whooping cough in the three weeks following the exposure, they should immediately remove themselves from close contact with others until they have seen a doctor, mentioning to the doctor about the contact with whooping cough. The person should not return to work until they are no longer infectious; or another cause has been confirmed for their illness.
People who are visiting a doctor in relation to whooping cough should advise the staff either prior to the visit or immediately on arrival so appropriate infection control measures can be taken.
Vaccination:
Vaccination is the most effective way to control whooping cough. In Australia the pertussis vaccine is only available in combination with diphtheria and tetanus. Additionally, the pertussis/tetanus/diphtheria vaccine for children is given as one injection combined with other childhood vaccines such as polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b.
To ensure full protection at the right time, it is important that all the doses of the vaccine are given at the recommended times. Catch up vaccinations can and should be given if vaccines are delayed for some reason.
Thank you to our students for your positive attitudes and growth mindsets in the first week back of school!
Thought for the day!
Thank you from Mrs Ryan.
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Over the next few weeks, Dayboro school staff will be undertaking The NCCD on School Students with Disability. The NCCD takes place every year, in all Australian schools and collects data on:
- the number of students in the school receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability
- the level of support the students are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students
Please see the attached fact sheet for details about the NCCD. If you have any additional questions, please contact Tracey Hammond at Dayboro State School. 34256111.
Processing Payments at Dayboro State School
There are several ways to pay for excursions and school activities at Dayboro State School:
- 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.
For the safety of our students and staff, we are progressing towards becoming a cashless school. We no longer hold cash on the premises, and as such are only able to accept the correct cash as we do not have any change available.
We also wish to advise that we are progressing away from using BPay. Whilst still an online payment, BPay does not have the same benefits to families and the school that BPOINT does. BPay does not automatically process invoices off student accounts, and if there is no name attached to the payment it can sit in the school bank account for a period of time whilst the Commonwealth Bank chases the payment origin. If you are using BPay or have the school bank account details saved in your banking history, we respectfully request you delete these details. BPay is no longer recommended by the Department of Education to use for these reasons, and as such we need to comply with policy. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Year 5 Camp Payments
A reminder to parents that the payments for the Year 5 Camp are due this Friday, 26th July.
Please note, unfortunately the note sent home for students regarding camp was incorrect. The cost of camp is $195, not $193 as originally stated. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes to families.
If you 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.
Dance Fever
Thank you to all of our families for their prompt payments with Dance Fever. The first lesson last Thursday was fantastic, and all of our students seemed to enjoy themselves.
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.
Kind regards,
Clare Ingham
Business Manager
Parent Workshop – Right Brain Decoding, Phonics and Spelling Program
All parents and caregivers are invited to a workshop on MONDAY, 29 JULY, 2019 on how we teach Decoding, Phonics and Spelling in Prep to Year 3 at Dayboro State School. It will be held in the LEAP Room in B Block at 9:30 am (after Parade) and will run for approximately 40 minutes. Handouts will be available. Please phone Kay or Jill in the office if you would like to attend.
Regards, Linda Smith
(Head of Curriculum)
New Books – Continued
The new books which were on display last week sparked a great deal of interest in our students – these books are now available for borrowing.
We have more new books on display this week that were purchased with proceeds from the Book Fair. These books will be available to students next week.
Book Week
Each year, the Children’s Book Council of Australia nominates books written by Australian authors for awards in six different categories, five of these categories are suited for children in primary schools.
This year the following books have been shortlisted to win Book of the Year in the Early Childhood category. Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for children who are at pre-reading or early stages of reading. Ages 0-6 years.
The stories from this group that have been most popular with our students are:
- “Rainbow Bear” which tells the story of a father polar bear who tries to solve the mystery of why he wakes each morning with colourful designs on his fur, and
- “Here Comes Stinkbug!” which is the story of a stinkbug who is sometimes a bit too stinky, but he works with his friends to find a charming solution to his problem.
Upcoming Book Week events:
- August 21st – Book Week Character Costume Parade
- August 22nd – Meerkats Book Week performances for P-2 and 3-6
Premier’s Reading Challenge
A reminder that the 2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge is still running – keep on reading!
Thank you,
Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.
Hello Parents and Caregivers,
Notes went home yesterday with the Concert Band Members regarding the Pine Rivers Show and emails were also sent. Please review these and send back the relevant forms.
Also, below is a description of the uniform for the concert band.
Have a great week
Elisha Edwards
What’s happening at Helping Hands?
What a great first week back we have had! A big welcome back to all our children – we have loved hearing what everyone got up to over the school holidays. This week we have done some dot painting, role playing with the dolls, exploring our recently new games such as suspend, Scotland yard and frog hoppers. Outside the house, soccer and handball have been the biggest hits this week, and children have also tested practiced their footy and basketball skills. Stand up sit down and capture the flag have also been popular with our morning children to beat the chilly mornings. Please ensure your children are coming with jumpers, hats and drink bottles to enjoy outdoor play before and after school during this cold weather.
The children have also been exploring our revamped reading corner and have been exploring their favourite life quotes to display in this area. This has encouraged children to share positive comments among each other, creating a welcoming and happy environment to spend their mornings and afternoons in.
This week we have announced new children for our junior, senior and sports co-ordinator roles. Grace. G will be our new senior co-ordinator, Imogen. T will be our new junior co-ordinator, and Jack will team up with Terri-Anne to be our new sports co-ordinators. These roles encourage children to develop their leadership skills and help guide younger and new children through the service routines and expectations. A big congratulations to these children.
Interested in before and after school care? We currently have vacancies available for mornings and afternoons on selected days. To enrol your child, please visit www.helpinghandsnetwork.com.au, selecting Dayboro as your service and following the prompts to access the iParent Portal. If you have any issues, please contact Jenny at the service on 0459 991 697 or our customer accounts on 1300 612 462.
Moreton Bay Regional Council
Swooping birds
Some native birds, including magpies, plovers, butcherbirds and crows, swoop as a defensive behaviour to protect their young. Swooping is most common during the spring breeding season, but if weather conditions are favourable some species may start breeding from late winter and continue into summer.
Students may encounter swooping birds on their way to and from school, or while inside school grounds. While being swooped can be unpleasant, there are simple steps that can be taken to reduce safety risks to individuals and the community. Below is a fact sheet for your information.