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Dear Parents and Caregivers
Free Dress Day – Friday 5 April
To coincide with the Easter Hat Parade next Friday the whole school will be having a Free Dress Day to support the Save the Bilby Fund. For the cost of a gold coin, students can wear sun safe clothing whilst supporting a wonderful cause.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent Teacher interviews are currently being conducted by teachers up until Friday 5 April. Invitations have been distributed, however if an appointment still needs to be made, please contact your child’s teacher. Please take the opportunity to attend the school and review student progress at this time.
Woolworths Earn and Learn 
Our school has once again signed up to be part of this program for 2019. In 2017, our school was able to purchase over $3000 worth of teaching materials from Modern Teaching Aids as a result of participation. The promotion runs from 1 May to 25 June. The stickers will once again be collected at the school office.
School Holidays and Public Holidays
Term 1 finishes next Friday 5 April. Term 2 commences on Tuesday 23 April 2019. I wish to remind everyone that Thursday 25 April is a public holiday to commemorate ANZAC Day. On Monday 6 May, the school will be also be closed as we recognise the Labour Day holiday.
ANZAC Day
Our first assembly in Term 2 on Wednesday 24 April is our ANZAC Day ceremony. Parents and community members are most welcome to join us for this service. The choir and school band will perform at this ceremony.
Our School Captains, the School Band and School Choir will also participate in the community ANZAC Day service on Thursday 25 April at the Dayboro Showgrounds. More details about our ANZAC Day commemorations will be provided in the coming weeks.
Dear Families and Friends
Parent teacher interviews here at Dayboro have begun! They will continue over the next two weeks. Thank you to those parents who have already organised their times and attended their interviews. Our teachers go to a lot of effort to prepare for these interviews and look forward to sharing the progress of every child in their class, so it is important that all parents take the opportunity to attend.
Below is some information from the following website, supported by the Australian Government and Social Services Dept., about what to expect at Parent Teacher Interviews, particularly if you are a first time parent!
Parent-teacher interviews at primary school: what to expect
Throughout your child’s time in primary school, you might be asked to attend parent-teacher interviews, or conferences, usually once or twice a year.
These interviews are usually just short meetings – about 10-15 minutes – between you and your child’s teacher or teachers. Every parent is invited to attend at least one interview a year. Being invited to a parent-teacher interview doesn’t mean there’s a problem with your child’s progress.
Interviews might be held during school hours, before or after school, or in the evening. Your child will usually bring a note home that outlines the available times. It’s good to make a time when both parents can go along, if you can. If you can’t manage any of the available times, you could call the school to arrange another time.
It’s important to be on time for parent-teacher interviews. But be aware that teachers might be running late because previous interviews have run over time.
Why it’s worth going to parent-teacher interviews
Parent-teacher interviews give you a great opportunity to:
- learn more about your child’s academic, emotional and social development
- meet and get to know your child’s teachers
- help your child’s teachers understand more about your child
- make plans with the teacher about how you can both support your child
- build a relationship with your child’s school.
If you don’t have any particular concerns, you might wonder whether it’s worth going to parent-teacher interviews. But going along is one way to show your child that you’re interested in his learning and what’s happening for him at school.
Of course, if you do have concerns, it’s a chance for you to raise them with your child’s teacher if you haven’t done that already.
EXCITING NEWS! 5B’s Awards Competition
It’s time! Time for us to re-design our 5B VALUES Awards given out at Assembly! As the designs were last updated around 2009, we would like our current children to have the chance to have their artworks on our 5B and Kindness awards.
More exciting news...... we are also introducing a PRINCIPAL'S AWARD. One student will be selected to receive the Principal's Award each week- Mr Drummond and/or I will be selecting a student each week who consistently demonstrates our school values of Kindness, as well as Being Proud, Positive, Tolerant, Respectful and Responsible. The student that receives the Principal's Award each week will then go into the draw to be eligible for the Sheriff's Award at the end of each term.
Each year level has been given a VALUE. See below:
Prep- Kindness
Year 1- Be Proud
Year 2- Be Positive
Year 3 - Be Respectful
Year 4- Be Responsible
Year 5- Be Tolerant
Year 6- Principal's Award
The teachers will explain to the children the details in class. They will have the last 2 weeks of this term and the two weeks of the holidays to complete their artwork. All artworks need to be on A4 paper with name, class and a brief description of what the artwork represents, and then placed in the Colourful 5B Poster Competition Box in the office by Tuesday 23rd April. The winners will be announced at Assembly on the 29th April.
Happy designing everyone!
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR GIRLS IN YEAR 5!
Parents of Year 5 girls please read below. The Spine Society of Australia is recommending that all parents use the National Self-Detection Program Fact Sheet below to check your daughter’s spine alignment and if concerned to seek further medical advice. We have also sent the below information as a flyer home with your daughters. For further information you can go to the following link:
REMINDER OF EVENTS
Monday 25th March- Some of our teachers will be away at important Professional Development courses this week. We are very fortunate that we have outstanding staff who are committed to ongoing Professional Development opportunities to enhance the learning of our students. The following teachers were at Professional Development yesterday- PT, 1L and 2/3P teachers.
Wednesday 27th March- 5M, 6C and 5/6F teachers will be out at their Professional Development Day and Replacement Teachers will be on these classes.
Wednesday 27th March- Easter Raffle Tickets due back!
Behaviour Focus for Week 9 – Eating Times
Thank you from Mrs Ryan
Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”
Voluntary Contributions
By participating in 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.
The costs involved in the Voluntary Financial Contributions are:
- $50 per student; or
- $100 per family of two or more enrolled students.
Proceeds raised through the Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme will benefit all students, so we encourage parents to participate in the scheme.
The Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme is approved by the P&C each year, and is aligned to the Department of Education policy requirements.
To pay the Voluntary Contributions online, click here for a direct link to BPOINT.
Congratulations to all our award winners this week.
Easter Raffle
This week sees the final days for donations of chocolates for use with the prizes for this raffle, along with all unsold/sold raffle tickets and monies needing to be returned to the drop off box in Office by Wednesday 27 March. Please do remember to leave the white student name label on the front of the ticket stubs when you drop these off. This year’s Easter Raffle prizes will be drawn at Assembly in the Hall on this coming Monday 1 April.
P&C would very much like to thank Laura McIntosh for offering to take on the new P&C role of Tuckshop Co-Ordinator (a revisioning of the former Tuckshop Treasurer position). We greatly appreciate your interest and enthusiasm to kick start this role to further assist and improve the operation of our School’s Tuckshop. Thanks heaps Laura!
Our next P&C meeting is scheduled for Monday 29 April, after the term holiday break (6-18 April) and Easter long weekend (19-22 April).
Jeff Hopkins-Weise (P&C President)
Learning is core business at Dayboro State School.
Teaching Strategies: WALT, WILF and TIB
At Dayboro State School explicit instruction is an important component of all lessons. Teachers use WALT, WILF and TIB within their lessons to guide students through the learning process. These tools give students clear statements of the purpose and rationale for learning and clearly defined expectations about what they need to know and do to experience success, or mastery.
WALT, WILF and TIB are teaching tools designed to assist students to be more actively involved in their learning. They are based on the work of Shirley Clark, an academic with expertise in working to improve teaching and learning.
WALT (We Are Learning To) states the learning intention and highlights what students are being asked to do.
WILF (What I am Looking For) states the success criteria, or what teachers are expecting to “see” as an indication of student’s learning.
TIB (This is because…) is used to identify the purpose for the learning. The student is able to connect their learning to the world, community and themselves. It is important that students see a connection to their learning and understand why they are learning the lesson.
Linda Smith
Team Leader – Curriculum and Intervention
(lsmit70@eq.edu.au)
Hop to it.. and Remember to bring your permission to 'participate and leave the school grounds', back to the school office ASAP
Last week, the whole school sang for Harmony Day. All students rehearsed every week during music lessons and the choir students learned a harmony part. The voices sounded beautiful, thank you everyone for your hard work.
Remember Remember!
If you do not attend rehearsals, you may not be able to attend performances.
♫ Dayboro Voices - (Years 4 to 6)
♫ Little Dayboro Voices – (Years 1 to 3)
Extra Practise – Dayboro Voices – Monday morning 8:30
(with band)
Upcoming performances
Dayboro Voices – Next Monday 1st April – This is no joke!!!!!
Please wear formal school uniform or choir shirt
ANZAC Day Week 1 Term 2, community and school performances.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Dayboro’s Arts program
Janet Almond Classroom Music teacher and Choir Conductor
CONNECTING WITH YOUR KIDS IN MICRO-MOMENTS PART 1
Most parents would never question that they love their children wholeheartedly – even when their little darling has drawn a lipstick picture on the wall, won’t eat their vegies or sleep in their own bed, or thumps their brother. Even though we might get annoyed, we still love them absolutely.
However, children don’t always feel our love because ‘love’ is a difficult concept for children and even teens to grasp. In a way, children see love as connection – where they sense that you not only see them, but that you feel them invisibly and strongly.
Many people talk about having quality time with their children and, while that is a good thing, it might only come around once a week — or once a month in our busy society.
I am more inclined to recommend micro-moments of loving connectedness or building ‘love bridges’ which happen often, rather than just focusing on quality time created by an adult at a time convenient to them.
Children live in the present moment and when we come and join them, even briefly, in that amazing place it makes their hearts sing. When we can come to them and share in their childlike view of the world, children know we love them.
Many parents who have to work tell me how they struggle with feeling guilty that they are unable to spend a lot of time with their children. The same goes for those who work away from home like FIFOs (fly-in-fly-out workers) in our mining towns and those in the military services.
There are many ways, some really tiny, that build a heart connection.
I was blessed to spend hours of my childhood in the ute driving around the farm with my dad as a captive audience for my endless chatter and questioning about everything. No wonder he struggled with his hearing as he got older, however I knew I was loved.
The way we live our lives today creates experiences of separation for our young children, rather than experiences that connect and bond us with our children, which he calls bridges. It is a different way of explaining ‘attachment’ or the innate need of every child to feel strongly bonded to a significant caring adult.
When this occurs repeatedly, children’s trust in us is broken and the relationship will be weakened. “Love bridges” — which build stronger heart connections with our children to ensure that they feel safe and secure within their families.
If you can keep in mind that, when you are dealing with challenging behaviour in your child, your priority is to work at the relationship first and the behaviour second; this will ensure that you will be on the right track to use discipline in a way that benefits everyone. And when children feel connected they are less likely to need to act out to gain power or attention.
What’s happening at Before and After school care 22/03/ 2019
Ph 0459 991 697
Children this week have re-ignited their love for lego, constructing various things during the morning sessions and late afternoons. This has promoted great fine motor skills from the children and inclusiveness of various ages. Children have also enjoyed participating in touch football, oz tag, netball, basketball, volleyball and various other group games. We have also seen a spark in dancing, playing musical instruments and acting out plays. Children have continued their curiosity for other languages and explored counting to 10 in Spanish.
Our afternoons have been filling up very fast and we currently have a waiting list for some afternoons. We still have a handful of spaces every morning, so if you are interested in booking your child/ren in please see below on how to do this to secure your spot.
If your child/ren are going to be absent for a session, they can be marked absent on the iParent Portal by clicking the day and session you would like to mark absent and clicking the red x on the right-hand side. The service will receive a notification when this occurs. Please note, our service has a 48hr cancellation policy to avoid being charged for the session. If you need to change your bookings or your needs have changed, this can also be done on the iParent Portal. One of our friendly team will be happy to assist you if there are any issues with this process.
Homework club is now back and running from 4:30-5:00pm Monday-Thursdays. Please let one of our friendly team know if you would like your child to be included in this.
We welcome all new families to the service, Helping Hands Dayboro requires online enrolment forms to be completed before attending the service. Online bookings and enrolments can be made through the iParent Portal which can be access through the Helping Hands Network site by selecting Dayboro as your service and signing up following the prompts. If you have any issues, please contact Katie at the service on 0459 991 697 or our customer accounts on 1300 612 462
