Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to Term 2. I trust that everyone had a restful time during the two week break. The term is going to be particularly busy as we work through many academic and sporting activities. NAPLAN will commence in Week 4 and the Senior Sports Carnival will follow later in the term. Please make sure you regularly check the important dates section of the newsletter to ensure that important occasions are not missed.

Staff News

I wish to advise that Ms Leanne Anderson (1/2A) will be on Long Service Leave next week. She will be replaced by Ms Beth Keilor for the week.  

ANZAC Day

This FRIDAY at 2.00pm is our ANZAC Day ceremony. Parents and community members are most welcome to join us for this service. The school band perform at this ceremony.

Our School Captains, the School Band and School Choir will also participate in the community ANZAC Day service on Monday 25 April at the Dayboro Showgrounds. All Dayboro students are invited to participate in the march and service at the Showgrounds. Children who would like to participate are asked to meet at the Dayboro Hotel in their formal school uniform at 9.00am in readiness for the march at 9.30am.  

Please note that Poppies will be on sale in the CSA from 8.20am on both Thursday and Friday mornings.  They are  $1.

Garry Drummond

Principal

Welcome back to Term 2.

We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break.  The children all seemed very excited to be back and had lots of great stories to tell about their holidays and Easter adventures.

PBL UPDATE!

A reminder that each week we give a Principal’s Award to a student who displays consistent and reliable efforts in living our school values of being Safe, Responsible and a Learner every day and in every way! The children who receive this award each week are invited at the end of each term to a Principal’s Morning Tea held in Week 10 of each term.

 Also, those students who receive our special Golden Gotchas  get a special certificate and go into the draw to receive the Sheriff’s Award also given out at the end of each term. This is a prize voucher and certificate presented by Sgt Ken on Assembly, also in Week 10, of each term and recognises those students who go above and beyond, to demonstrate excellent citizenship at our school

IMPORTANT REMINDERS ABOUT MEDICATIONS AT SCHOOL

All medication, including over‐the‐counter medications, e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen or alternative medications, are identified as drugs or poisons that may cause side effects. As such, the school requires medical authorisation from a prescribing health practitioner, e.g. doctor, dentist, optometrist, but not a pharmacist, to administer any medication to students, including those bought over‐the‐counter.

Unlike parents/guardians, school employees are unaware of a student’s complete medical history, and are unable to provide ongoing, direct supervision of the student for the course of their illness. They are therefore unlikely to recognise if a student is having adverse effects to any medications administered. Health practitioners also have knowledge of medical history in order to determine which over‐the‐counter medications are appropriate, dosage amounts and potential side effects or interactions with other medications.

What you need to know:

        The school can no longer administer any medication, including over‐the‐counter medications, e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen or alternative medications            identified as drugs or poisons that may cause side effects, to students without medical authorisation from a prescribing health practitioner e.g. doctor, dentist, optometrist.

        Medical authorisation from a pharmacist cannot be accepted.

        Over‐the‐counter medications currently stored at school will no longer be administered to students without medical authorisation.

        Listed emergency contacts for the student are able to personally attend the school and administer over‐the‐counter medications to their child if they do not wish to obtain medical authorisation.

Please ensure your medication details are updated with the school and that you have alerted office staff to medical conditions that we need to be aware of.

Thank you to the P&C for their highly successful organisation of the Easter Raffle this year.

A reminder that the Mother’s Day stall is being held on the 4^th May.

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

Easter Raffle

Thank you to everyone that sold tickets for our Easter Raffle.  This year the raffle was kindly sponsored by Craig Doyle Real Estate for which we are very grateful for their support.  We were able to raise $4,500 from this raffle.  Well done to everyone involved and to those parents that helped put the prizes together.

With the amount of chocolate donations, we received we were able to create 7 major prizes and 66 incentive prizes for those students that sold a full book of tickets.  That’s a lot of chocolate.

Thank you, Craig Doyle Real Estate!

Tuckshop

Tuckshop is back on Wednesdays and Fridays, starting next week!

While Alison has been able to fill a few more spots in the Tuckshop calendar to assist, there are still a couple of days that we are short, so if you are free on a Wednesday or Friday or can spare a couple of hours in the morning, please contact Alison (3425 6132, via email at tuckshop@dayboropandc.org.au or pop into the Tuckshop on a Wednesday and Friday) to have your name added to the calendar.  Back up volunteers are always needed.

Thank you to our volunteers that have already offered to assist on a Friday to allow our Tuckshop to get back up and running two days a week.

Mother’s Day Stall

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and we have volunteers for the day but always looking for more to fill in the sports.  We have had some that have now had other commitments pop up so there are a couple of vacancies but if you are free on Wednesday, 4 May please pop your name down on the volunteer register sign up link below:

Positions Vacant

We are still on the hunt for committee members for our P&C.   The positions still needing volunteers to fill are:

• President
• Vice President
• Projects and Activities Team

If any of these positions interest you, please feel free to contact myself (Mia) or Garry Drummond.

Regards

Mia Gillies (Secretary)

secretary@dayboropandc.org.au

Change to Report Card Format

Dear Parents / Carers,

At the end of this semester you will see that this year’s report card formatting is slightly different to what it has been in the past.

This year you will see an achievement and effort rating only for your child.

At the end of the report card there will be a behaviour comment as well as an overall comment encompassing your child’s academic progress.

If you have any questions about your child’s progress after receiving the report card, please contact your child’s teacher.

An e-mail will be sent to parents prior to report cards, reminding you of your child’s term overviews which outline what curriculum was taught throughout the semester in each learning area.

If you have any questions at all about these changes, please email me:  dmath9@eq.edu.au

Thank you

Dee Mathiesen

Acting Head of Department – Curriculum

Congratulations

Congratulations to Dylan B who was selected for the Pine Rivers District Touch team and is competing at regionals soon.

Cross Country

We had a wonderful cross country last term with great weather, wonderful staff, awesome parent helpers and an amazing bunch of kids who ran a very long way up and down lots of hills. There a lot of cheering coming from both the parents/carer/family/friends cheer squad on the oval and also from the house tents. The final result was: Terrors 226, Armstrong 229, Rush 270. Congratulations Rush.

District Cross Country

I know many parents and students are keen to find out if they have been selected to compete at the Pine Rivers District Cross country which will be held at Pine Rivers Park on Friday 6^th May. However, I am still waiting to find out the details regarding the number of students per age group and the required times. This is something that frequently changes and I do not want to tell students they are selected and then have to reverse the decision. The district will be finalising these decisions on Friday so I hope to get this information out to you by Monday at the latest.

AFL after school program

NAB AFL Auskick will be running a six-week AFL program this term. Details are as follows:

Day: Mondays 16/5/22, 23/5/22, 30/5/22, 6/6/22, 13/6/22 and 20/6/22

Time: 3.20pm – 4.20pm

Location: Oval

Year levels: Any student from P-6

Cost: $80 direct from participant to AFLQ via online registration

Benefits: football, bag, benefits pack

Coaches will run a session with each class over the next three weeks and hand out fliers. If you wish your child to attend the AFL after school program please either collect a permission form from the office or download the attachment from the newsletter and return as soon as possible.

Clare Marks

Specialist HPE Teacher

Library

Welcome back for Term 2!  Term 2 is always a very busy time for the Library with many activities and initiatives that encourage students to participate in regular reading.  We hope that everyone takes up the challenge to join in with as many of these activities as they can.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The 9^th of May marks the beginning of the reading period for the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge.  To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 2 need to read or experience 20 books, students in Year 3 and Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books (this number of books acknowledges that older students are more likely to select longer and more complex books).

Students will be given more information about participation in the Premier’s Reading Challenge during their Library time.

National Simultaneous Storytime

Students in all year levels are welcome to join in with the 22^nd annual National Simultaneous Storytime event on the 25^th of May during first break from 11.00 a.m.  After listening to this year’s book, “Family Tree”, students are welcome to stay for the remainder of first break and join in with our celebration activities.

May is National Family Reading Month

Welcome back to another term

We had a great vacation care program, with an excursion to Suncorp Stadium. We were privileged to have exclusive access to areas such as the Broncos dressing sheds/warm up area, explore the tv studio and corporate boxes, and we even got to experience running out of the home team tunnel (only onto the astro turf on the side of the field though!). Children loved viewing the field from the Broncos bench, and many went home eager to attend a live game soon.

Other exciting days included a go-karts incursion, various Easter crafts and experiments. This encouraged creativity, hypothesising and predicting, and supported the development of friendships.

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.

Looking to join in on the fun? Enrolling your child/ren is easy and there are no enrolment fees. Visit www.helpinghandsnetwork.com.au , click 'How to enrol’ on the right-hand side of the page, and follow the steps. When this is submitted, we will be in touch as soon as possible to support the finalisation of your enrolment and initial bookings. If you have any issues, please contact Jenny or Katie at the service on 0459 991 697 or our customer accounts team on 1300 612 462.