Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome back to Term 4. I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday and are now ready for another busy 10 week term.

Student Free Day

Our Student Free Day for this term will be held on Monday 21 October.  During the day our school staff will undertake various professional development activities. School resumes for students on Tuesday 22 October.

Prep Interviews

Interviews for incoming Prep students for 2020 will be held from Tuesday 22–Monday 28 October. Thank you to the many new families (and existing families) who have booked an interview. Please contact the school office as soon as possible if an interview time is still to be organised. The Prep interview will be conducted by our Prep Teachers in the Prep classrooms. Please bring your Prep student to the interview. Our office staff will be confirming appointments during the next week.  

P&C Meeting

The P&C Meeting for October will be held  on Monday 28 October at 6.30pm in the school staffroom. All welcome to attend.

Planning for 2020

Planning for staffing and classes occurs during Term 4. To assist with accuracy in planning, could I please ask at this stage:-

1. Prep Enrolments – Could these be finalised as soon as possible by delivering the enrolment forms and birth certificates to the school office. An enrolment for Prep cannot be confirmed until all the required documentation has been submitted.
2. Leaving Dayboro State School (excluding Year 6) – If any of our families are aware that they are moving from the area or the school, could this please be communicated to our school office as soon as possible.

This information assists us greatly with estimating teacher and class numbers for the new year and your assistance would be much appreciated.

Class Formations for 2020

In term 4 we commence planning for our 2020 class groupings. The starting point of this preparation is an invitation to parents to provide important student or educational information for consideration. Requests for individual teachers cannot be considered as staffing will not be finalised for some time and some teachers may be moving to different year levels. Please note that while the issues that impact on the educational needs of the student are a high consideration, our ability to fulfil requests may be limited by staffing allocation, class size numbers and the small number of year level cohorts.

Please email any considerations to principal@dayboross.eq.edu.au  by Friday 1 November.

Student Leaders for 2020

Our new school leaders will be selected in Term 4. The process will take place throughout the term and will culminate with the announcement of the new leaders at the final school assembly on Thursday 12 December. School Leaders for 2020 will be inducted at a special ceremony by the State Member for Pine Rivers in February 2020. Discussions with students regarding the roles and responsibilities of a School Leader will commence from Monday 28 October.

The key dates for the selection process are:-

Monday 4 November – Nominations due for all Leadership Positions

Thursday 21 November – School Captain speeches and ballot

Monday 25 November – Sports Captains ballot

Thursday 28 November – School Captain interview process

Detailed information and nomination forms will be provided to interested students on 28 October.

Day for Daniel

Dayboro State School will proudly support the “Walk for Daniel” on Friday 25 October. Students, parents and community members will be invited to wear Red and meet at Roderick Cruice Park for the walk to school. Day for Daniel highlights and promotes our community responsibility to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our youngest citizen. A gold coin donation on the day will be forwarded to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation to ensure that the great work in promoting child safety, including the Child Safety Curriculum, continues into the future. More details in future newsletters.

World Teachers Day

World Teachers’ Day will also be celebrated on Friday 25 October. This day is celebrated annually in all countries and recognises the work carried out every day by teachers. 

Garry Drummond

Principal

Dear Families and Friends

Welcome back everyone to Term 4. I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing break.

A reminder that swimming for Prep to Year 2 starts in Week 2. Please make sure payments are made before next week so that teachers can finalise timetabling arrangements. A note will go home from teachers this week about what to bring and times for swimming.

In Weeks 2 and 3 this term, Years 5 and 6 will be participating in our annual “Talk About It” unit. This program is part of the Life Education group of programs and covers important aspects of children’s social, emotional and physical health needs. A parent information session about this program for those interested parents has been scheduled for Thursday 10^th October at 3:15pm in the library.

IMPORTANT  REMINDERS ABOUT KEEPING KIDS SAFE AT SCHOOL.

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!

Thank you to Mrs Taylor and her band of helpers for helping us celebrate French Day by providing a delicious array of French foods on the last Friday of last term. Thank you to Madame Shaw for organising the event. Tres Bien!

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

The importance of Learning Goals

What are your child’s learning goals for Term 4?

Depending on the age of your child, they might include:

• to write a sentence using a full stop and capital letter at the beginning;
• to solve a two-step Maths problem;
• to work co-operatively with others; or
• to identify the language features of a poem.

Teachers and students in all classrooms at Dayboro SS will be working together this week to identify each student’s learning goals for Term 4 and the steps needed to achieve these goals.

The starting place for all effective instruction is designing and

communicating clear learning goals.

Marzano (2009)

Ask your child tonight what his or her learning goals are for this term and what he or she will need to do to achieve them. Your support will have a huge impact on their learning.

Regards, Linda Smith

(Head of Curriculum)

New Books

Welcome back for Term 4.  We trust everyone had an enjoyable break and even managed squeeze some reading in!

Before the holidays, we received a delivery of new Graphic Novels to add to our Library collection.  These books will be on display in the Library for this week before being available for loan next week.

Overdue Books  

All holiday loans and overdue books need to be returned to the Library this week.  Students who had overdue books on the last day of Term 3 will be issued with an overdue letter this week.

This term we will be trialling the use of automated emails to parents (generated by our Library circulation system) advising when their child/children have overdue loans.  We are hoping that this may provide an additional layer of reminders for child/children to return books before they become overdue.

Thank you,

Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.