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Dear Parents and Caregivers
It was a pleasure to host The Hon Peter Dutton last Friday at our school. Mr Dutton, who is our local Member for Dickson and the Minister for Home Affairs visited our school to present Lochie V (Year 3OH) with his certificate and prize for winning the Year 3 section of Mr Dutton’s annual ‘Design a Christmas Card’ competition. As part of the prize, Year 3OH will be treated to a Pizza Party next week.
Assemblies NEXT Week
There will be two assemblies next week. On Monday our normal regular assembly will take place at 9.00am. On Thursday 12 December, a special assembly will be held at 12noon when the announcement of the school leaders for 2020 will be made. It would be great to see as many parents as possible at the assembly as we bid our Year 6 students farewell.
The assembly will conclude at approximately 1.00pm and students will return to their teachers to the classroom. This is a normal school day and school concludes at 3.00pm. However, as a reminder to parents, if any students are to be picked up early, or at the end of the assembly, could this be done from your student’s classroom where the teachers will have sign out sheets and can organise early release.
If any student is to go home early with anyone apart from their own parent or guardian, arrangements are to be made through the school office to avoid any inconvenience. Thank you to everyone for your assistance and cooperation with our school’s strong commitment to student protection.
Class Break Up Day Parties and Uniforms- NEXT WEEK
Teachers have made individual arrangements for class parties, which will be held on Thursday 12 December. Please contact your child’s teacher if any further information is needed.
Students are invited to be in free dress for both Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December. Although Friday is a normal school day, part of the time will be allocated towards preparing classrooms for the following year and may include some cleaning activities.
Classes for 2020
Classes for next year are being developed and will be available on Thursday 23 January from 8.30am outside the School Administration. All classes are DRAFT until the Day 8 School Staffing Census and are subject to change.
On the same morning between 9:00-10:00am, teachers will be in their classrooms and the opportunity is available for parents and students to meet teachers and drop off book packs. This will be the only time available as teachers will be involved in a Student Free Day program at all other times.
Garry Drummond
Principal
Dear Families and Friends
Well, the term and year is almost over……
Swimming Carnivals- completed! Music Night – successful!
Ice Cream Day - delicious! Graduation Night- almost there!
As always at this time of year, I am again reminded of my favourite quote:
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” Helen Keller
Over the last year I have been constantly reminded of this message as I have watched the Dayboro School and Dayboro community pull together and work tirelessly for the children at our school. You all help to make a difference and contribute to the success of our students in so many areas. Many thanks!
Also, while Dayboro students continued to shine academically this year and excelled in a range of extra-curricular pursuits, what continues to define our students is their excellent commitment to the values and behaviour codes of our school. The support of parents is also highly important in ensuring our expectations around being safe, respectful and learners are constantly upheld. So...Thank you students and parents for making Dayboro a great school!
Finally …. I could not do an end of year Newsletter without personally thanking our Student Leaders and the other Yr 6 students who have been invaluable in the journey at Dayboro this year- thank you to Max, Oscar, Amy and Zaisha, as well as all the Yr 6 Sports and Music leaders and cohort. Thank you all for your helpfulness and responsible ways. All of you really do demonstrate and model for others Responsibility, Safety and Learning in so many ways but most of all you are wonderful humans and I wish you all the best for your future at High School. You will all shine!!!
EXCITING WRITING
At Dayboro one of our curriculum priorities has been to help all students improve in the area of writing. Teachers and students have been focussed on improving engagement and creativity in our students as writers. We have nurtured and celebrated every student as an author this year and all students have writing goals to work towards. In 2020 our main priority area will also be writing. We will be celebrating writing in all its’ different forms and aim to identify and extend talented authors that exist in every classroom.
To celebrate writing in all its’ forms, I would like to share with you a piece of Narrative writing, this time from a student in Yr.4.
It is titled “Up, Up and Away.”
A young owl opened its’ eyes, weeks after hatching. It was all alone in its’ tree hollow apart from two other eggs. Suddenly, it heard loud, hard flapping outside. Its’ instinct was to chirp and open its’ mouth. The larger owl landed outside of the hollow, onto a big branch. Liquid squirted into the little owls mouth and it swallowed the food greedily. The big owl flapped and flew away. “I wish I could fly,” thought the little bird.
Days passed and finally the big owl returned. “Today,” she said, her voice rather stern. “You will learn how to fly. In a few weeks you’ll be outside on your own.” “Oh, Please, tell me how to fly,” begged the little owl. “Alright,” the big owl answered. “First, you flap your wings- like this!” she said, flapping them. Little Owl flapped as hard as he could. “Now,” she said, lifting her wings up. “Jump!” Little Owl hovered a little, falling back down. “I did it! Did you see it?” Little Owl yelled excitedly.
“Yes, I saw. But you need to be better than that to survive out there. “So Little Owl tried again and again but still couldn’t get the hang of it. “I’ll never be able to fly!” he sobbed. “Don’t lose your courage, “Big Owl chimed in. “Otherwise you WON’T be able to fly.”
Days passed. Little Owl tried and tried again until he was confident he could leave the nest. Big Owl watched from above. Little Owl stood outside on the branch, lifting up his wings. Then he glided down, powering into the air. Big Owl watched on proudly. Soon Little Owl was a speck on the horizon. “I’ll miss you, “ both owls said at the same time.
By Una 4S
PREP
We have now finished our 2020 Prep Orientation visits and Prep Open mornings. We enjoyed meeting all our new Prep parents and children for 2020. Thank you for taking advantage of this valuable opportunity to visit our school and learn more about our Prep classrooms. We look forward to meeting our whole Prep cohort of more than 60 children at our Meet and Greet morning for the whole school on Thursday 23rd January at 9-10am. Please take this opportunity to come and meet your child’s teacher and show your child around their classroom.
Enrolments for 2020 are still being considered so please if you have an eligible Prep child for 2020 or know someone who does, come and enrol as soon as possible.
Yr 5 Parents Needed!
Date: Wednesday 11th December - 7-10pm. You would be required for a couple of hours on the night to serve food and drinks to the Yr.6 students and their parents. We also need a small group of Yr.5 parents to help prepare the food for the night. The food will be paid for by P and C but they would like volunteers to assist in organising. Please see Karen Ryan DP or Mia Gillies, Secretary of P and C, if interested. You can contact us via the office. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you to those parents that have already offered to help.
Booklists 2020
Kookaburra Educational Resources will be supplying our Student Packs for the 2020 School Year.
You will find that their prices are extremely competitive, with most stationery items being under the recommended retail price.
There are TWO convenient ways to complete your order:
- Online - Order Online and pay via secure credit card payment (Visa or MasterCard), Bpay or EFT Ordering and Delivery Dates: Home Delivery – Order by 5pm Monday 16th December 2019 to receive your delivery by Monday 20th January 2020.
Go to: www.kookaburra.com.au/login (Do not register) Username: DAYBO002 (the first five characters are alpha, the last three are numeric) Password: Student9 (lowercase)
- E-mail to Kookaburra Fill out this form complete with credit card details and send in at least three working days before the cut-off date of Monday 16th December 2019: - Email: support@kookaburra.com.au Delivery:
All Student Pack orders placed by the online order cut-off date of Monday 16th December 2019 are to be delivered to your nominated daytime delivery address (signature required) by Monday 20th January 2020.
Please ensure someone will be available to receive the goods at time of delivery unless you have provided an Authority to Leave (ATL).
Please note: Orders received after the nominated order cut-off date: • Will only be available for home delivery (associated charges and fees will apply). • May not be delivered prior to the start of Term 1 2020.
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Composite Classes
Composite classes have been a necessity at Dayboro State School for a long time. There is sometimes apprehension by parents about their child going into a composite class. We would like to reassure parents that although negative perceptions about composite classes exist, research shows students can thrive in multi-age classrooms.
What is a composite class you might ask? Composite classrooms, in which children from two or more year levels are combined within one class, have become common in many schools around the world. They define classes in which students of varying ages, abilities, or interests might be grouped together. Extensive research shows it makes no difference to performance whether students are in a straight or a multi-age class. Furthermore, it is the teacher and their relationship with the students that plays a key role and is significant in the development of students.
Despite favourable research regarding student cognitive and social growth in composite classrooms, negative perceptions persist, particularly among parents. Many fear their children will have fewer friendships; that younger children will be overlooked or that older children will not be sufficiently challenged; that children with learning difficulties will suffer more anxiety; or that the curriculum for each year level will be inadequately covered. According to experts, education is about more than academic achievement and age is not an accurate predictor of a child's development. Wide-ranging student abilities exist in children of the same age, and not just in composite classes. Multiple studies conclude it makes no difference to performance whether students are in a straight or a multi-age class. Experts agree the most important factor in determining how well a student does is the quality of the teacher.
Here are some key benefits of composite classes:
- Older students provide a model of appropriate behaviour for the younger students – this also means less behavioural problems in the classroom because younger students integrate quickly into established class routines as modelled by the older students.
- Younger students are able to seek help from a wider range of people rather than relying on the teacher to help them all the time.
- Changing the focus of learning from achieving a certain ‘grade’ to individual personal best alters the nature of the learning experience to lead children to value learning and the learning process.
- Links across curriculum areas by teachers ensure all students are engaging in the mandated curriculum for their year level
- Students develop a greater respect for individual differences across the board.
At Dayboro State School, combining students in this way is an appropriate solution that not only allows us to ensure more consistent class sizes, but also enables us to address gender balance issues within each class and maximise school and teacher funding and resources. All classes at Dayboro feature a ‘differentiated’ curriculum anyway: one that caters to all children as individuals, according to their needs. From Prep to Year 6 students are grouped within their classes, based on our extensive assessment schedule, in accordance to their needs. This is particularly evident in our Literacy and Numeracy blocks. All of our groupings are fluid allowing students to work in a group that best suits their learning needs. Teachers manage workloads for a range of ages and abilities in any given class, not just composite classes. There will always be a mix of ages and abilities whether it is a straight or composite class.
The nature of a teacher and their relationship with his or her students dictates the impact they will have on them. At Dayboro, we see this as our priority and from this our class structures are determined. We have extremely dedicated teachers who foster positive relationships with our students and we are confident this in turn will develop good learners. Developing positive relationships between a teacher and student is the fundamental aspect of quality teaching and student learning.
Linda Smith
Head of Curriculum
Volunteers Thank You Morning Tea was held on 29 November.
This event was a terrific turn out and was a small gesture to thank those many different people who assist the School and its Students, School Banking, and of course the P&C through the year. What was especially wonderful with this year’s event, was that Jessica Griffiths, along with Silverwood Café, catered a lovely array of wonderful food. This was a wonderful gesture on Jessica’s behalf, who provided all the catering free of charge. Thank you so much Jessica and Silverwood Café!!!
2020 School Leadership Selection Process:
It has been a pleasure this year to again be part of the selection panel which has helped determine our School’s leaders for next year. Apart from sitting in on the speeches by the 22 Students who put themselves forward as candidates (21 November), I then formed part of the panel which interviewed the nine short-listed Students (28 November), and all nine students should be congratulated for their wonderful performances in these interviews. Our School has so many fabulous and talented Students, and I look forward to hearing the announcement of the successful candidates for the 2020 School Captain positions which will be announced at the final Assembly on 12 December.
Early 2020 P&C Meetings and Events to Add to Calendars:
Uniform Shop
Our Uniform Shop Co-Ordinator, Karen-Kay Hocking, to assist with the demands of the new schooling year will be opening the Shop on Saturday 18 January and on the meet the teacher and school books drop off day on Thursday 23 January 2020. (Also note in 2020 that there will be new opening day/hours for the Uniform Shop which will open on Wednesdays from 2.45-3.15pm.)
Tissues & Tears’ Morning Tea
Morning tea for new Prep parents will be on 28 January 2020.
P&C’s first meeting in the New Year:
Monday 10 February 2020.
This meeting is very important to layout P&C’s path and events for the coming year, along with preparing for the AGM. Please consider joining our School’s P&C to become a real active part in our School and its Students in 2020.
Family Fun Day
Will be held on 23 February 2020 at the Dayboro Pool, courtesy of our local MBRC Councillor Darren Grimwade, with all proceeds to go towards our School’s swimming program.
P&C’s Annual General Meeting will be on Monday 9 March 2020.
The following outlines the structure and roles of our School’s P&C Association.
Please consider not only becoming a member of our P&C in 2020, but also to pursue active involvement by nominating for some of the positions and roles that will become available to fill at this AGM:
P&C EXECUTIVE:
President – chairs all meetings and co-ordinates the activities of the P&C in close collaboration with the senior Staff of the School and all P&C officer holders and other representatives; also involved in public engagement on behalf of P&C and the School, and represents P&C at functions, events and other duties where possible or on request of the School.
Vice President – to ensure the Vice President always plays an effective role on P&C, apart from being on hand to step up in the event of the President being absent, also co-ordinate Grants in conjunction with Projects & Activities Team – see below.
Secretary and Facebook – this role includes control and maintenance of P&C Facebook page as an integral part of this important executive secretarial and record keeping function.
Treasurer – maintains accounting system (i.e. Zero), with the aim to better centralise/control financial affairs, bills and payments, and generates financial reports for general meetings, and liaises with auditor to prepare report and financial statements required for annual AGM.
OTHER P&C ROLES:
Uniform Shop Co-ordinator – this role includes keeping a register of all supporting volunteers and their contact details, and to provide regular report updates, news and issues to Executive and/or to monthly P&C meetings.
Tuckshop Co-ordinator – this position is aimed to achieve greater co-ordination and the flow of information/decisions between the Tuckshop staff/volunteers and with P&C, to provide regular report updates, news and issues to Executive and/or to monthly P&C meetings, as well as working in positive ways to implement improvements, changes and other recommendations of the QAST report (from February 2019).
School Banking Co-ordinator – this role needs to regularly attend P&C meetings and report on progress of school banking, its volunteers and any issues to keep Executive informed, as well as to maintain a register of all school banking volunteers and their contact details.
Projects and Activities Team – the aim here is to try and get a group of at least 4x P&C members who are charged with co-ordinating/managing P&C supported events, fundraising activities, as well as managing call outs for volunteers to assist with all such activities, along with maintaining a register of volunteers and their contact details. The Projects and Activities Team also assists with Grants and Submissions in conjunction with the Vice President.
Technology/Systems – This role is responsible for the management of the physical and virtual technology assets and ongoing management of systems used by the P&C (i.e Office 365, Flexi schools, in conjunction with P&Cs business units–Tuckshop and Uniform Shop).
Jeff Hopkins-Weise (P&C President)
Maker Space
Last week in Maker Space we celebrated the stories of author Leigh Hobbs. “Old Tom” and “Mr Chicken” are popular stories, especially with our Prep students. During the week, students were able to make their own “Old Tom” toy using Smart Fabric and could then stage photographs showing “Old Tom” doing something nice. Coding activities retelling parts of “Old Tom” stories were also available.
The Lego city changes every day and is continuing to grow – we even have some future structual engineers who have devised a way to build down below the edge of the table! As always, students were able play board games and make use of the Maker Space iPads to complete projects of their own choosing, including making musical compositions using Garage Band.
Book Returns
A reminder that all Library book loans are now overdue. We would like to remind all students to return any books they still have on loan as soon as possible to allow us to organise materials in preparation for the 2020 school year.
Summer Reading Club
Each year over the Summer holidays the State Library of Queensland runs a Summer Reading Club for children across the state. This year’s theme is “A Roomful of Stories” and it aims to encourage children to continue reading over the Summer holidays through the 40 days in 40 ways Reading Challenge .
More information can be found at: http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/
Once again, Moreton Bay Regional Libraries will also offer children the opportunity to participate in the reading club through our local council run Libraries.
https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/libraries/Borrow-Discover/Early-Literacy/Summer-Reading-Club
We have 40 day challenge cards and bookmarks available in the Library for any student who wishes to participate. Students who complete the challenge and return their completed challenge card to the school Library after the school holidays will earn a prize.
Thank you,
Mrs Wilkinson and M
Do you have 2nd hand board games (like chess, trouble or bingo), 100-300 piece puzzles, transformers or Lego that you could donate to the SEP?
Our students would appreciate your donations to play with at lunchtime or when they are feeling overwhelmed. Please drop them into the SEP.
Dayboro SS supports students diagnosed with anaphylaxis or at risk of anaphylaxis and uses a range of strategies to reduce allergens in school.
We have one student in Year 4 with NUT allergy and ask parents not to send any nut containing products in lunchboxes. This is not a ban, but a strategy in place to reduce the chance of a student at risk of anaphylaxis coming into contact with their allergen.
Our strategies include: not sharing food, handwashing, reduction of foods and empty food containers in school activities and education for students and community members.
If you would like to know further information on Anaphylaxis Management: https://education.qld.gov.au/students/student-health-safety-wellbeing/student-health/health-support-needs
Thanks,
Tracey and Alicia
2020 Pine Rivers District Trials – Change of dates
Please find below a (updated) list of sports for students who will be aged 10-12 years old next year and would like to trial for the district team. If your child/children are interested in attending any of the below trials, they MUST know the rules and have exceptional experience in the sport, for instance, have played at club level or somewhere other than just at school. Exemplary behaviour at school is also a prerequisite. Most sports do limit the number of students that each school can send to each trials (normally only 4 students), so if there is a large number of students interested in a sport, such as Soccer, Netball and Rugby League, a lunch time trial will occur at school. Results from our big three school carnivals (Cross Country, Athletics & Swimming), will be used to determine who represents our school in these three sports. If you have any further questions about the selection process or below trials, please contact me via the school office.
Term 1
Week 2
- Wednesday 5th February: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Basketball Trials
Week 4
- Wednesday 19th February: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Swimming Trials
Week 5
- Wednesday 26th February: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls Regional Swimming Trials
Week 6
- Monday 2nd March: 10-12 YRS Girls District Netball Trials
- Monday 2nd March: 10-12 YRS Boys District AFL Trials
- Tuesday 3rd March: 10-12 YRS Boys District Rugby League Trials
- Thursday 5th March: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Hockey Trials
Week 7
- Thursday 12th March: 10-12 YRS Girls AFL Development Day
Week 8
- Wednesday 18th March: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Football (Soccer) Trials
Term 2
Week 2
- Friday 1st May: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Cross Country Trials
Week 3
- Tuesday 5th May: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Touch Football Trials
- Tuesday 5th May: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Tennis Trials
- Wednesday 6th May: 11-12 YRS Boys District Rugby Union Trials
Week 6
- Tuesday 26th May: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls Regional Cross Country Trials
Week 7
- Thursday 4th June: 11-12 YRS Girls Rugby League Development Day
Term 3
Week 1
- Wednesday 15th July: 10-12 YRS Boys District Cricket Trials
Week 3
- Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th & Friday 31st July: 10-12 YRS Boys & Girls District Athletics Trials
Week 7
- Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th & Friday 28th August: 10-19 YRS Boys & Girls Regional Athletics Trials
If your child competes in a sport, outside of school, that isn’t listed above please come and see me because there may be regional trials for the sport, but no district trials. The reason why a district trials is skipped is because there may not be enough students in the district for a trial, however, there could be enough within the region. Some sports that do this include Aquathlon, Golf, Squash, Softball and girls Cricket.
Mrs Julie Braun
Physical Education Teacher (Monday & Tuesday)
What’s happening at Helping Hands?
A reminder for all children to bring a hat and re-fillable drink bottle each session.
Vacation care is fast approaching. Please ensure your child is enrolled/booked in asap to avoid missing out. If your child is commencing prep in 2020, they can attend from January 2020; this will greatly assist prep children in settling into the service and becoming familiar with routines, educators and other children.
Please note: the service will be closed from 6pm 20th December 2019 and we will re-open on Monday 6th January 2020. Any bookings in January should be made prior to COB on 20/12/2019 to ensure we have enough educators to keep your child safe and entertained.
