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Dear Parents and Caregivers
Parent Teacher Interviews
Our school offers face-to-face parent/teacher interviews at the end of Term 1 and Term 3. We are nearing the time of the year to commence our planning and preparations for our parent/teacher interview process. Typically, the interviews are held in Weeks 9 and 10 (from 9- 20 September). If they haven’t done so already, teachers will be communicating information about their availability for interviews in the near future. I would encourage each parent to take the time to talk about their child’s progress and development with the class teacher.
Prep Information Session – TOMORROW-WEDNESDAY
Our annual Prep Information Session will be held TOMORROW- Wednesday 28 August at 9.30am in our school hall. 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 2020. Dayboro State School operates within an Enrolment Management Plan and has a defined catchment area. Full details of this policy are located at http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/catchment/plan-d/dayboro-ss.html Details of actions required for both in-catchment and out of catchment enrolments are available at this site.
Ice-Cream Day – Next Tuesday
Our next Ice-Cream Day will be held on Tuesday 3 September at 11.00am. Proceeds from the gold coin collection will go towards Student Council’s fundraising efforts. Once again , thankyou to the Dayboro Sheriff’s Fund and the local community services for volunteering their time and always ensuring a successful fundraising event for our community.
Congratulations Maali
Garry Drummond
Principal
Dear Families and Friends
SUPPORT STAFF WEEK
Last week we acknowledged all the wonderful work all our Support Staff do for our school. This week we continue to celebrate and recognise the important work of our support staff and in particular we acknowledge our hard working and dedicated teacher aides in our school. So we say a BIG thank you to our teacher aides who go above and beyond to support the staff and students at Dayboro.
WRITING AT DAYBORO.
At Dayboro we value creative, authentic and engaging writing for a purpose. Our goal for 2019 has been to lift the engagement of our students in writing in all its’ forms and to celebrate successes in writing. Our teachers work hard to embed the teaching of high quality writing practices in their classrooms. Teachers meet regularly to discuss and share writing samples of students and it is pleasing to see our students working so diligently on their writing goals and becoming better writers! You can also help at home by trying a few of the suggestions below:
Best ways to support writing at home
- Provide a place for your child to write. ...
- Read, read, read! ...
- Encourage your child to keep a reflective journal. ...
- Provide authentic writing opportunities for your child. ...
- Be a writing role model. ...
- Start a vocabulary notebook. ...
- Ask questions. ...
- Help your child publish his/ her writing.
Parent Teacher interviews notes will be going home this week. Please look out for them. They will begin next week and continue until the end of this term. Please make a time to visit with your child’s class teacher as it is an excellent opportunity to check in on your child’s progress in all areas.
SPRING SOIREE- DATE CLAIMER
9th September- 3:30-5pm.
All Choir and Instrumental Band Students will be performing. All parents welcome to attend.
Have a great week!
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
What can parents do at home to help your children develop a Growth Mindset?
At Dayboro State School every classroom focusses on developing a growth mindset in all learners. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. Research shows that teachers (and parents) can have a powerful impact on their children’s mindsets. The language you use and the actions you take show your children what you expect. Giving process praise, talking about the brain, accepting mistakes as learning opportunities, and understanding the role of emotions in learning are all practices you can begin today.
Do you hear your child saying ‘I don’t know how to do that yet, but I’m going to keep trying’? This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.
More information on how you can assist your child to develop a growth mindset can be found below.
Regards, Linda Smith
(Head of Curriculum)
Opti-MINDS Challenge Congratulations!
Last Sunday 19 excited students from Years 3-6 participated in the Brisbane North Regional Opti-MINDS challenge. They all did Dayboro State School proud. Not only was their behaviour exemplary, but they presented their solution challenge with pride, confidence and a great deal of enjoyment. To our great delight, the Language and Literature Team received an Honours Award at the Presentation Ceremony.
All three teams had to complete a Spontaneous Challenge, in which they had 10 minutes to prepare a solution to a problem as a team, and a Long Term Challenge, for which they had been preparing for the last 6 weeks. Team 1, the Engines, completed a Science and Engineering Challenge; Team 2, the Wise Wizards, completed a Language and Literature challenge and Team 3, The Socialites, completed a Social Sciences Challenge. Thanks to all the parents who gave up their Sunday to support their children and to Mrs Ryan for coming along to support our teams.
It was a fabulous day and it was great to watch two of Mt Samson SS teams do their presentations as well. Students are to be congratulated on their enthusiasm, dedication, resilience and creativity as they worked together as a team, meeting three times every week a week all term, without any input from adults. It was great fun!
Many thanks,
Linda Smith and Millicent Mackintosh (Team Facilitators)
Fathers Day Stall
This Friday we are holding our Fathers Day Stall in the Hall. Classes have been timetabled throughout the day to go shopping for Dad. There are a range of items available to suit various budgets from $2 - $6 so bring along some money and have fun shopping for Dad.
If you are able to volunteer as shopkeeper for the morning we would love to have you on board. Helpers would be welcome for any time you can afford. Please show up at the Hall from about 8.30 onwards. The shop closes at 1pm.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise
P&C President
AMPed - Advanced Music Workshops
Last week, Zaisha Davey, Kaila Sinclair, Cassie Collins and Zeke Zuvela participated in AMPed 2019. The Advanced Music Workshops were held from Tuesday 20th-Thursday 22nd August at Watson Park Convention Centre Dakabin.
Our students combined with students from 33 other primary schools in the South Coast Region to participate in the 3 day band workshop. Students had the opportunity to work with Nationally and Internationally acclaimed conductor Dr Ralph Hultgren to prepare pieces that were played at a concert Thursday evening held at Pine Rivers SHS.
Our students played in the concert band, an 80 student ensemble and were even able to combine with the string orchestra to conclude the concert by playing in a mass orchestra.
There was much laughter, some tricky notes and a lot of fun had by all. Well done to Zaisha, Kaila, Cassie and Zeke for your efforts and fantastic playing throughout!
Kind Regards,
Elisha
Elisha Edwards
Multi-Instrumental Music Teacher
Book Week Thanks
We would like to thank everyone for coming together and celebrating Book Week in such an awesome way! The variety of costumes at the parade was amazing – we loved the variety and level of attention to detail!
The students all participated enthusistically in the activities that we had available in the Library. We particularly loved hearing the variety of original musical compositions performed by students for “The Singing Seal”. We would also like to congratulate the effort put in by older students to assist younger students with some of the activities, we really appreciated your help with this.
Book Club
Book Club brochures were sent home with students a little over a week ago. To ensure books are delivered to students before the holidays all orders need to be sent to school or made on-line through LOOP by this Friday the 30th of August.
In this issue there are plenty of new release titles that will no doubt prove popular with students including a new “Macca the Alpaca”, “Dog Man” and “117-Story Treehouse”. With books starting at just $3, there really is something for everyone.
Thanks again to Cara, our wonderful Book Club coordinator, for making Book Club possible.
Premier’s Reading Challenge House Cup
Our school Sports House captain and vice captains have been very busy over the last few months collecting the reading tally for the number of books read across the school as part of our Premier’s Reading Challenge House Cup competition. Now that the reading period for the Premier’s Reading Challenge has finished, we are very happy to announce that the house with the most books read this year was ARMSTRONG!
Armstrong house has lead the reading challenge for most of the competition and completed the challenge with a total of 3663 books read. The final number of books read across the school for this year is 9681. What an amazing effort everyone!
Remember to hand your reading tally sheets to your teacher before Friday so that they can ensure your reading total is updated on the Premier’s Reading Challenge website. All eligible students will receive a certificate of participation later in the year.
Thank you,
Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.
CHAPPY CHATZ – DAD DATES
Dad Dates are an oldie, but a goodie. Even with teenagers, one-on-one time is still our most tried, tested and recommended tip - and it's never too late to start.
Dad Dates:
- are best practised with one child at a time, meaning one-on-one time with no-one else and no interruptions.
- are an opportunity for connection, and help your child to feel like they are valued, loved and worth your time.
- don't have to be elaborate; a simple coffee, lunch or just going for a walk are easy ways to create one-on-one time.
- can sometimes be special - try taking your child somewhere they've been wanting to try, this will help them notice you are listening.
- give you a change to listen - try to be interested and avoid judgment or criticism.
- take time, and effort - make a point of scheduling this in your diary, just like a business meeting.
- may be difficult at the start, but persevere - perhaps learn something new together or give yourselves something to focus on until the conversation begins to run more smoothly.
Have a great week
See you around the school J
Chappy Cam
What’s happening at Helping Hands?
We have had an exciting week building bird houses with sticks, engaging in various role play scenarios, and participating in a selection of board games and group games such as soccer and basketball. Our year five group came back from camp with some great stories and memories. Some of them pretended to be camping and built a pretend fire using sticks and rocks. It’s been awesome to watch children using natural materials to create things.
Our lost property pile is starting to pile up with jumpers, hats, socks, drink bottles and hair bows. Some of these items have been sitting here for a while and quite a few items are not labelled. Please ensure hats and jumpers have names on them so we can return them to the right child/ren if they get left behind.
Children require a hat for outdoor play each session they attend and with spring around the corner, children are being encouraged to make sure they have a drink bottle. We are happy to re-fill bottles if they come to after school care with no water :)
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. We have exciting excursions to Underwater World and the cinemas, as well as learning to make our own movie and a dance incursion at the service.
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.
