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Dear Parents and Caregivers
It was a pleasure to host representatives from the Dayboro Men’s Shed and the Dayboro Progress Association at assembly yesterday.
The two associations have kindly loaned a handmade “Connect 4” game to our school on an ongoing basis for our students to use during break times. The game was presented to the school on assembly yesterday.
At Dayboro State School, we value the partnerships that we share with local organisations and the impact that our local community has upon our student learning. Thank you very much to both groups- the students will certainly enjoy the new addition.
School Opinion Survey- REMINDER
Envelopes containing details about the 2019 School Opinion Survey were sent home with the eldest in the family last week. 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
Show Holiday
I wish to advise that Dayboro State School will be closed next Monday 12 August for the Brisbane Show holiday.
Junior Sports Day
Our Junior Sports Day will be held this Friday from 9.00am on our school oval. This is a fun filled event and involves our students from Prep to Year 2. It is generally finished around the 12.30pm mark. Parents are very welcome to come along and join in the fun – please bring your toddlers because there is also an opportunity for a toddler’s race.
Please note that our tuckshop will be closed on this day and the P&C has made a decision to not provide any food stalls this year. Please make sure your child has a hat and plenty of food and water for the day.
Dayboro State School Alumni News
Dayboro State School is very used to producing sporting champions and on this occasion it is a pleasure to acknowledge three of our previous students who are
representing Australia in Touch Rugby. All three students, Chelsea Steffensen, Kristin Steffensen and Poppy Buckland recently represented Queensland at the State Touch Rugby Competition against New South Wales and then were subsequently chosen to play for Australia in the upcoming Trans-Tasman Championships in October. Kristin and Poppy were selected in the U16 mixed team and Chelsea was selected in the U18 mixed team.
It is a wonderful achievement to be selected for an Australian team in any sport and we wish the girls well for the competition in October.
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
On Friday Mrs Edwards and I attended the Pine Rivers Show Band Competition with our Dayboro Instrumental Band. Our students performed with confidence, precision and enthusiasm. Many thanks to Mrs Edwards for preparing our students so well and many thanks to the parents to for ensuring they were correctly dressed in our Band uniform. They looked sensational. I would also like to say a huge thank you to those parents that came along and also helped to transport students to and from the show. We were very fortunate to have some time after to walk around and look at the school work, cookery items and photography on display as well. Congratulations to Zeke Zuvela who won Junior Reserve Grand Champion in Photography for his excellent shot of a Sacred Kingfisher.
We found out Friday afternoon that our band came 2nd!!! An impressive achievement. Well Done!
The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)
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
A fact sheet with details about the NCCD. Was included in last week’s newsletter. If you have any additional questions, please contact Tracey Hammond at Dayboro State School. 342561
REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Did you know? Research shows that in Queensland, higher student attendance at school is associated, on average, with higher student achievement.
Why is regular attendance at school important?
Regular school attendance will mean that your child gets a better chance at life. Your child will achieve better when they go to school all day, every school day:
- they learn better
- they make friends
- they are happier
- they have a brighter future.
Why must I send my child to school?
Under Queensland law, you must make sure your child of school age is enrolled and attends school all day, every school day unless they have a reasonable excuse. Illness, doing work experience, competing in a school sporting event or going on a school excursion are reasonable excuses for being absent from school.
Principals decide if the excuse given for your child’s absence is reasonable.
Queensland Ready Reading
The Ready Reading program invites parents and community members to make a difference in their local community by volunteering in schools to support children’s reading.
Reading is a powerful tool to help children grow their vocabulary, language skills and imagination. It helps them to develop life-long skills that will support their future growth and learning.
The Department of Education’s Reading Centre and Volunteering Queensland are working together to help improve literacy for children in Queensland by training up to 3000 volunteers to share their knowledge and time to foster a love of reading.
Click below to register or find further information on becoming a Ready Reading volunteer.
Dance Fever continues every Thursday for the next 10 weeks. Thank you to everyone who has finalised payments. We are looking forward to seeing the students show us their Dance Moves at the Family Dance Night in September.
Thank you to Mrs Edwards and the parent helpers who drove and supervised our Band students at the Pine Rivers Show last Friday.
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Thank you to the Van Welzen family for their wonderul donation of books and a flute!
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Reminders for Payments now due.
Meerkat (Bookweek)
Gala Day
Year 5 Camp
A reminder to parents that the payments for the Year 5 Camp are now due. If you have not yet made payment, please ensure you contact the office as soon as possible to arrange this. The office will begin to send notifications home to parents this week, for those who have yet to pay.
Year 6 Camp
Mrs Cassell will be providing students with the letters and permission slips for Year 6 camp today. The camp is being held in November, and will cost $380 per student. Please see the letter for more detailed information. If you wish to begin a payment plan for this camp, please contact the office as soon as possible to arrange.
Payment: Plans & How to Pay
Payment plans are available for all families, whether you are experiencing financial difficulties or you would prefer to pay for excursions / camps in a lengthy timeframe. Payments must be made regularly, and must be completed by 29th October 2019. This is to ensure all of our excursions are reconciled and meet financial deadlines.
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. Unfortunately, we are no longer offering the option of BPay at Dayboro SS. 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.
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.
School Walkathon Excitement
It was a glorious warm Winter’s day up on the oval last Friday for the 2019 school Walkathon. Students (and some teachers) were dressed up in an amazing range of outfits showing us all the future doctors, dentists, cowboys, soccer players, artists, chefs, teachers, beekeepers, rock stars, footy stars, carpenters and other tradies, pilots, horse trainers and retired ‘grannies’, to name a few. With great enthusiasm, students ran, walked, sauntered or hobbled around (a few on crutches!) the oval for an hour, raising funds for our wonderful P & C, to support needed school resourcing. Congratulations to all who participated, and thank you to the wonderful parents and younger siblings who joined in this fun annual event. Students can now collect their sponsorship money and bring it into the school office.
Good Afternoon Everyone
Walkathon – This annual event took place at our School last week. Could all students/families please aim for all Walkathon forms to be returned with any monies raised to the School Office by this Friday 9 August.
If you are returning the Walkathon form without participating in this fundraising event, could you please clearly mark at the top of the form “No Sponsorship”.
Please remember that all monies raised through this major annual fundraising event goes towards funding resources for our School and its Students.
P&C would also like to extend a sincere thanks to our local IGA Store who were our major sponsors for the Walkathon event again this year, providing not only ice blocks for all our students on the day, but also donating a very generous $500.00 – thank you Dayboro IGA!!!
Our next P&C meeting is scheduled for Monday 19 August. Please consider coming along to help being a part of your School and P&C.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise (P&C President)
RoboCup
Congratulations to the 14 students who attended the RoboCup competition at Morayfield East State School last Thursday. The three teams worked together with amazing team spirit and supported each other through their challenges. The Dayboro Destroyers and the Dayboro Strikers both competed with fantastic consistency in the Cup Clearer competition. The Dayboro Dancers performed their human & robot dance routine beautifully and achieved third place in their competition! Fantastic effort, everyone!
New Books
The new titles on display in the Library this week belong to a category we are calling “Fan Favourites”. Each of these books are the most recent title release in a book series that is currently popular with our students.
“George and the Great Brain Swappery” is the second title in the Pepperton series written by comedian Cal Wilson – the first book in this series was very popular during Book Fair. The “Ninja Kid” and “Hot Dog” books written by Anh Do have been consistently popular choices with students in the middle school.
Book Week
Another category where authors and illustrators can be nominated to win awards during Book Week is “Picture Book of the Year”. Entries in this category should be outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity or, in wordless picture books, where the story, theme or concept is unified through illustrations. Ages 0-18 years (NB. Some of these books may be for mature readers).
Our choice to win in this category is “The All New Must Have Orange 430”. In this cheeky story Harvey, the main character, must decide what to do after falling victim to excellent advertising that has persuaded him to buy a thoroughly useless object.
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.
What’s happening at Helping Hands?
This week at Helping Hands we have created some Aboriginal marble painting displays, created a sandpit garden, developed our fine motor skills through free hand drawing sessions and continued to explore our favourite life quotes to start our days off positively.
Outside of the house, soccer and handball continue to be popular, and our prep children have sparked an interest in the toy cars again. This led to children teaching each other road safety by setting up cones for a road and using chalk to design a stop sign and a zebra crossing to ensure other children, educators and families are safe.
Our older girls this week have begun a new 5D creation and we are excited to see the result of this one. This encourages great concentration and co-ordination from the girls.
Our homework club is back up and running for the new term, and it has been great to see so many children spending time on their own homework and helping each other through their homework. This runs from 4:30-5pm Monday-Thursdays, please see one of our friendly educators if you would like your child to be included in this.
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.
