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Diving into the learning
What a great start in our classrooms, I have loved seeing our students engaged and diving into the new content! In Term 3, we once again focus on our 2021 Explicit Improvement Agenda – Lifting student achievement and engagement through targeted teaching and feedback. It has been exciting to see the students engaged in targeted learning the teachers have identified through students’ pre-assessments or investigations of the content and being supported by the Learning Walls and Bump It Up Walls that the students and the teachers are co constructing. These learning artefacts are another way for students to receive feedback on their learning. Teachers are providing feedback through developing peer feedback routines in the classroom, using work samples to show students how to bump up their work, and providing written and verbal feedback to students.
It has been exciting to see their engagement in the learning! Just a reminder that the Curriculum Snapshots for each class are available on our school website.
Intentional Collaboration for our staff
Last week our staff embarked on collaboration with the other education services in our local area. On Wednesday, our teachers collaborated with Mt Samson SS teachers to moderate pre-writing student samples completed with our students in week 1 of this term. This Moderation allowed the teachers to unpack what the students already know and can do in this writing task. Next steps for the student/class were then planned. This helps the teacher to target their teaching for the unit. In week 8 we are excited to be moderating the summative assessment for this task to see how much our students have progressed and moderate against the standard.
Last week we also held our first Dayboro and surrounds Early Years’ network meeting. We hosted educators from Barefoot, Dayboro Community Kindy, Dayboro LEAD Childcare and Mt Samson SS. Many of our Dayboro SS Early Years teachers collaborated with their fellow educators on best practice in transitions. Monthly meetings have now been established to share educational best practice and establish the strong partnerships for the littlest people in our community!
School Review – Week 4
Last week I sent you an email regarding our School Review 4-6 August. Thank you to parents who have volunteered to speak with the reviewers in a parent group. Please let me know if you would like to join this small group to discuss Dayboro State School on Thursday from 8:30-9:00am. Below is the fact sheet to explain how positive a School Review can be for our community in providing us with affirmations about what we are doing well and recommendations for our strategic direction for the next four years. We look forward to the feedback!
Have a great week!
Gabrielle
FRENCH DAY
The whole school celebrates French Day this Friday. Here at Dayboro we are fortunate to have a highly experienced LOTE teacher in Madame Shaw who teaches French to our Yr. 5 and 6 students.
Learning another language is such an important skill and certainly one that our high schools encourage and promote for our students to pursue in Yrs 7 and 8. While it may not be French on offer, the learning of a Language Other than English can assist children to enrich their learning in many other ways.
The Australian Curriculum describes the Learning of another language as
“Learning a new language does not require forsaking the first language. It is an enriching and cumulative process, which broadens the learners’ communicative repertoire, providing additional resources for interpreting and making meaning. Learners come to realise that interactions between different people through the use of different languages also involves interactions between the different kinds of knowledge, understanding and values that are articulated through language(s) and culture(s). They realise that successful intercultural communication is not only determined by what they do or say, but also by what members of the other language and culture understand from what they say or do.”
As part of this cultural celebration the whole school is encouraged to dress up in different French outfits and we even have a Special Tuckshop Day consisting of croissants, baguettes, French Cheesecakes and other French Epicurean delights. Madame Shaw also has some special activities planned for Yrs 5 and 6 students.
Here are some photos from last years festivities.
IMPORTANT PBL NEWS!
Our Awards are: Be Kind, Be positive, Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Proud and Be Tolerant.
Every week we also have 4 students who receive GOTCHA awards. These students are spotted by other teachers in the playgrounds and classrooms and rewarded for doing the right thing with a GOTCHA award. They then go into the draw box where very week 4 students names are pulled out of the box. The winners receive a prize from the Prize Box and an iceblock voucher.
Congratulations to this week’s GOTCHA award winners.
Author Visit – Dr Cameron Stelzer, The Story Doctor
A big thank you to Dr Stelzer for his inspiring visit in Week 1. The children were raving about his books and characters and a spark was certainly ignited! To follow this success, look out for details about our Writing Competition below:
Thank you to Mrs Taylor and her wonderful helpers for the food we will be getting at French Day. Here’s a reminder from last year.
NCCD
Please be aware that the NCCD census date is August 6th (The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability).
The NCCD collects data from our school about students with disability who are receiving adjustments across Australia in a consistent, reliable, and systematic way. It enables schools, education authorities and governments to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported at school.
For your information the website link is below:
DATE CLAIMERS TERM 3 Week 3,4 &5
Wednesday 28th July. - School Captains to Parliament House
- District Track and field
Thursday 29th July. - Dance Fever lessons continue.
- District Track and Field
Friday 30th July - Ferny Grove High School Circus Performance- For P-2
- FRENCH DAY- Special Tuckshop Day
Monday 9th August – Show Holiday
Wednesday 11th August- STEM Visit -Whole school- Pine Rivers High visiting
Friday 13th August - Junior Athletics Carnival
Wednesday 18th August- Prep Information Sessions (Hall - 9:30am)
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
SPECIAL TUCKSHOP – We’re Off to France!
Croissants, frog legs, cheesecake, and chicken pies! This Friday we share delicious French themed food. Orders have now closed for this special menu day. Normal menu items are not available except for drinks and ice blocks. Bon Appetit!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
If you’d like to be involved and support some worthwhile and fun events, mark these dates on your calendar. Volunteer registers will be posted on Facebook closer to the event or you can email your interest to secretary@dayboropandc.org.au
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Father’s Day
- Preparation - 25 August.
– an hour or so in the hall sorting sale items ready for the big day, pop in after the Book Week parade!
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Stall –1 September
– volunteer for a short shift, helping eager children purchase the perfect gift!
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Family Dance Fever Night
– 9 September – can you help with cooking meals, serving, set up or clean up? Many hands make light work!
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Colour Run
- 8 October, Could you help with building the obstacle course, throwing the powder, or packing up? Too much fun to miss!
BOOK LISTS
Following the school’s decision to defer exploring a Student Resource Scheme until 2023, the P&C will assist the school in sourcing a book resource supplier for 2022. Requests for quotes will be issued in the coming weeks and will take into consideration feedback from families. Families will continue to have the option of using the successful provider or using the book lists to source their own items.
JOIN NOW
To attend a P&C Meeting, please contact secretary@dayboropandc.org.au for meeting details. The next meeting is 16 August at 6:30pm via Teams.
Thanks
Mareeta
President
We would like to congratulate Alexandra, Maeve and Xavier for their selection to attend the Advanced Primary Instrumental Music Workshop for our region. Many students auditioned in our region and places are highly sought after, so these students were extremely skilled to be selected into the program. Congratulations and good luck next week!
Upcoming Events
We are making steady progress on our displays for Book Week 2021. Thank you to all of the classes who have made time to help with our displays to celebrate “Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds”.
Book Week
Our annual Book Week celebrations are scheduled for 21st-27th of August.Students have already been working hard to help us prepare art works to display in the Library to promote this year’s theme, “Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds”.
We have planned some exciting activities to help us celebrate Book Week.Our Character Costume Parade will be held on 25th of August (week 7) from 9.00 on the oval.We cannot wait to see all of the awesome costumes!
Meerkat Productions will be visiting the school to perform a live-action retelling of two of the books that have been nominated to win prizes during Book Week.This year’s books are “Your Birthday was the Best” for lower school students and “Aster’s Good, Right Things” for upper school students.We hope everyone is able to join us for these events.
The cost to attend the performance on the 26th of August will be $8.80 each.Notes were sent home with students yesterday.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
We are down to the last five weeks of the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2021. To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books. Reading record sheets are available from class teachers and from the Library.
Have a great week!
Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.
Thank you!
Special thanks to the P&C for helping fund the purchase of a class set of keyboards for music! 6C and 5/6F have been tapping away, getting to know how they work and testing different tones. We are keen to show our compositions down the track. Today we were getting a feel for what we can do.
Keep watching to see our progress
Mr M
Music
Just a quick note this week to send our best wishes to all those students representing Dayboro at the District Athletics Carnival later this week. We are looking forward to seeing the results of our BIG group who made it to the the Trials.
I hope you do your best, have some fun and represent Dayboro State School as great ambassadors.
Mrs Marks
PE
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Children eagerly participated in a game of capture the flag during the last fortnight, demonstrating awareness of strategic planning in order to obtain the flag and considering how each member of the team can contribute to the overall success of the team. Miss Jenny made goop with children and this fostered curiosity as they explored how and why the texture of the goop changes. It was wonderful to see older children explaining to their younger peers the science behind the process.
We are looking forward to exploring different games that are traditionally played in Indigenous communities across Australia and engaging in a variety of art and craft activities.
Please be advised that Helping Hands Dayboro will be closed on Monday 9th August for the Moreton Bay Show Holiday.
A reminder that if your child/ren participate in extra-curricular activities either before or after school, a new permission form will need to be signed to coincide with the new school term.
Thank you to all our parents for complying with the mask restriction and remaining outside of the service building. We appreciate your patience during this time.
If your child/ren will be absent from a session, please ensure they are marked absent on the iparent portal. This is done under the bookings tab by selecting the date/session and clicking the red x on the right. Please see one of our educators for support if you are experiencing issues making or managing your bookings. Failure to notify us of absences in after school care means educators are having to search for children and a no show fee may be applied to your account. A reminder that bookings with less than 24hrs will need to be made via contacting the service on 0459 991 697.
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.
