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Dear Parents and Caregivers
Last Friday our Prep- 2 students gathered for their annual sports day. Commencing with the sprints, the day progressed with the students participating in a range of activities from long jump to javelin to high jump and games. Although the wind did try to interrupt some of the proceedings, a fun day was had by all. Thank you to the large contingent of parents and community members who came along to support the day and to our school staff for once again organising a wonderful day of activities.
Our Year 5 students are attending their school camp this week at Currimundi. They will depart today and will return on Friday. Our school camps offer a wide variety of learning experiences, from the athletic to the academic and are an opportunity to learn new skills. A big thank you is extended to our teachers who are attending the camp and making this experience available to our students.
School Opinion Survey
Thank you to everyone who has taken the opportunity to provide feedback for our school by completing the School Opinion Survey. There is still time to complete this important survey- it closes on Friday August 23. At the time of writing 51 responses have been recorded out of the 250 surveys distributed.
This confidential survey gives our school important feedback about all aspects of our operations, assisting us to celebrate the great things we are doing and to make changes where they are necessary. Your assistance and support is much appreciated.
Book Week – Dress Up Parade – Next Wednesday 21 August
To celebrate Book Week, our students are invited to dress as part of the theme “Reading is my Secret Power” or to dress as their favourite book character. The parade will be held on our school oval at 9.00am – there are book prizes for a first, second and third best costume in each of P-2 and 3-6. A big thank you is extended to our OHSC provider, Helping Hands, for sponsoring this year’s event.
Book Week is always a highlight on the calendar and as a school we are looking forward to celebrating a love of reading with our students. Judges for this year’s event are Sergeant Ken and Helen Rhue.
Prep Enrolments -2020
P&C Meeting
The next meeting of the P&C will be held on Monday 19 August at 6.30pm in the school staffroom. All are welcome to attend.
School Attendance
Thank you to our school community for the excellent school attendance to date 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 90.9% to date for Term 3. 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 form 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.
Garry Drummond
Principal
Dear Families and Friends
Last Friday we held our Junior Athletics Carnival for Preps to Year 2 students. The children spent the morning joining in with a variety of fun filled sports activities like rocket throwing, hurdles, tunnel ball and of course running races. Thank you Mr D for organising this annual event and thank you to the teachers, parents and students for your participation, enthusiasm and energy!
Below are the places for each of the sprint finals for the day.
It is National Science Week this week and the theme is “Destination Moon.”
To acknowledge Science Week we have organised two very special visits. On Wednesday, Pine Rivers High will be visiting and holding a Science Immersion day for our whole school and on Friday the Year 4’s will be visiting Bray Park High School to take part in a range of stimulating Science tasks for STEAM day.
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.
If you are interested in training to be a Reading Volunteer there are 3 training sessions coming up at the following locations and dates. We could certainly use more volunteers her at our school so if you are interested please contact Karen Ryan or Linda Smith through the School Office 34256111 and we can give you further information and details.
- Burpengary Meadows SS, Wednesday 14 August
- Hercules Road SS, Monday 26 August
- Strathpine West SS, Monday 16 September
Thank you to Mr D and all of the Prep-Yr 2 teachers for a successful and fun Junior Athletics Carnival last Friday.
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Current Invoices
Students have been invoiced for the following activities:
- Book Week Performances: $10.00, Due 21st August 2019
- Year 5/6 Gala Day: $6.00, Due 12th September 2019
- Year 6 Camp: $380.00, Due 8th November 2019
If you require a payment plan for any of the above, please don’t hesitate to contact the school.
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 November 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, 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.
Kind regards,
Clare Ingham
Business Manager
Late Edition to the newsletter
You will have noticed Main Roads have commenced roadworks on McKenzie Street. Please be advised that for at least this week and perhaps longer, the angled parking spaces infront of the school will be unavailable.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Walkathon
The two Class prizes for best dressed and the class which raises the most money, the student incentive prizes, and the drawer for the new bike courtesy of our local Federal MP for Dickson Peter Dutton, will be announced and drawn at Assembly on Monday 19th August.
P&C would also like to again extend a sincere thanks to our local Dayboro Valley IGA Store who were our major sponsors for the Walkathon this year, for not only providing ice blocks for all our students on the day, but also for the $500.00 donation. Thank you so much Dayboro IGA! Our Dayboro IGA have also decided on the winner for this year’s Best Dressed Class at Walkathon, who will be announced next week.
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)
Book Week
Well, it is nearly that special time of year for the Library. Next week is Book Week! There will be plenty of opportunities for students to join in with this celebration of Australian children’s literature.
There will be a variety of activities highlighting stories that have been nominated for prizes by the Children’s Book Council of Australia for children to participate in at the Library with their classes and during breaks.
The Book Week Character Costume Parade will be held on Wednesday the 21st of August on the school oval from 9.00 a.m. Helping Hands, our outside school hours care provider, has very generously donated the prizes that will be presented during the costume parade. Thank you so much!
Meerkat Productions will be visiting the school on Thursday August 22nd to present a live performance of two of the books that were included in the CBCA Notables list for this year. All payments to attend this performance are due on the 21st of August.
During Book Week, the CBCA present an Award for New Illustrator. This Award aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. This year’s nominees are shown below:
From this category of nominees we thoroughly enjoyed the illustrator’s work in bringing the charming story of “The Singing Seal” to life, as well as the amazing attention to detail shown in the watercolour images depicted in “Australian Birds”.
Book Donations
We would like to say a very big “Thank you” for the donation of a selection of amazing books that were generously given to the school last week by two of our former students and their family. We are sure that these books will prove to be popular choices with our students.
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?
What an exciting week we have had at Helping Hands. Creative skills were on show in beading, partner portraits, rainbow water colour painting and a bubble writing competition. Teamwork skills were on show with oz tag, touch football and netball. Our enthusiasm for outdoor play was filled with incorporating AFL passes into a game of silent ball and testing our reflex skills in a new game with Miss Katie. Capture the flag with Miss Mele and board games continue to be popular with our children.
This week we will have sand art, string painting, cricket and many other exciting activities. Make sure you secure your spot to join in the fun!
Homework club happens Monday to Thursday afternoons from 4:30-5:00pm. It’s great to see children getting into the routine of completing this daily with minimal prompting from educators. If you would like your child/ren to be a part of this, please see one of our friendly team.
September vacation care bookings are now open online. Children need to be enrolled into the service prior to bookings. Please see below for how to do this online.
Vacancies are available for both morning and afternoon sessions on selected days, and we welcome all children and families to the service. 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.
Have a great week and we are excited to hear how our grade 5’s enjoy their camp
