Dear Parents & Caregivers

It’s been fabulous settling back into Dayboro, seeing how the students have progressed with their learning as our staff continue their hard work ensuring that students are at the centre of our decision making and choices.

In the last couple of weeks, as I have visited classes, it has been great to have discussions with the students about their learning. Right from Prep, we ask the students:

• What are you learning?
• How are you going?
• How do you know?
• How can you improve?
• Where can you go for help?

These questions encourage the students to think about the purpose of their learning, what feedback they’ve been given about their successes and next steps and how they use their environment to learn. It is wonderful to see how students from Prep- Year 6 are able to discuss their work with confidence knowing what their next steps are. Look at these amazing learners.

Photos of students learning/student goals

Clubs – Let’s step up engagement!!!

We have many opportunities for students to follow their interests through clubs and special events at Dayboro. Thank you to our wonderful staff who make these possible. One of the fabulous opportunities for children to engage is Robotics club, on a Monday afternoon, for Year 5 and 6 students. Mr Reis, Mrs Wilkinson together with some help from Mr Horne and Mrs Mac, open the library doors each Monday afternoon for the students to engage in learning challenges…. Working in a team, communicating ideas is a major part of the process. We look forward to seeing how these students continue to develop their ideas and skills.

Other lunchtime clubs and Chappy clubs are offered regularly throughout the week. How luck are our students to be engaged and having fun! Clubs

Photos of clubs poster, students in clubs and chappy board

Attendance

On Monday at assembly, I spoke with the students about how their attendance is linked with success at school! We understand the current health concerns and while we certainly encourage students to stay home if they are unwell, we really need them to be at school every day, all day when they are well! High absences impact on students’ chances of succeeding at school both academically and socially.  

This semester we will focus on encouraging our students to attend EVERY day ALL day and we will need your help! Unless students are unwell, or attending school-based events, we want them at school. Please consider scheduling appointments or out of school events around our school times. We will update you in newsletters to let you know how we are travelling with our goal of students attending EVERY DAY.

Prep Interviews

It’s nearly time to introduce our new cohort of 2023 Preppies with their families to Dayboro SS. We can’t wait to meet our future students and let them know about the fabulous learning we offer here at Dayboro State School. Key dates are as follows:

• Prep Enrolment paperwork – due now! We are then able to contact these families to keep them informed of transition information
• Prep Information Session for parents/carers – Wednesday 17 August 9:30-10:30am
• Prep Enrolment Interviews – Saturday 10 September
• Prep Transition Sessions for 2023 preppies – 9:30-10:30am - 12 October, 9:30-10am - 24 October, 9:30-10am - 28 October

School Opinion Survey

The annual suite of School Opinion Surveys will be conducted in Term 3 and will close on 12 August 2022. All families, school staff and students in target year levels (5, 6, 8 and 11) will be invited to participate. We encourage you to take this opportunity to have your say about what our school does well, and how we can improve.

To have your say, check your email for an invitation from the Department of Education titled School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2022. 

Can’t find your invitation?  If your family has more than one parent/caregiver, check that they haven’t received the invitation and/or check your junk email folder.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines.

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

• year of schooling
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please feel free to contact our inclusion teachers – Tracey Hammond and Alicia Tavelardis.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

TRANSITIONS 

At this time of year, we start to look forward to a very important part of our role here at Dayboro and that is educating our students for all settings and preparing them for change. Not only do we start to think about welcoming and providing information to our future Prep students and families for 2023 but we also begin to prepare our Yr. 6 students for the next phase of their education journey- the transition into high school.

Our Partnerships with both early educators and high schools are very important to us and we encourage their involvement and participation in our school as much as we can.

PREP 2023

To help with the transition from Kindy to Prep we are planning to hold a PREP INFORMATION session on Wednesday 17^th August at 9:30 am where all parents enrolling their children in Prep for 2023 are welcome to attend and learn more about our school and our Prep rooms and teachers.  We follow this information session up with a series of visits to Prep for these students in Term 4.  These dates are Wednesday 12/10, Monday 24/10 and Friday 28/10. These are our Orientation days and our Prep teachers look forward to meeting and getting to know our future Preps also. We will also be holding Prep Interviews on Saturday 10/9.

(Next newsletter… More about transitions to high school!!)

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 – Gregg Dreise

A big thank you to Gregg Dreise for his inspiring visit last week. The Prep-Year 4 students were enchanted by his storytelling and his engaging way of capturing the imaginations of all students and adults.  His books are a big hit in the library and to hear how his stories came about and the land they are from gave an important real-life link to our learning. Furthermore, his messages of inclusion and celebrating differences resonated with all the children. We can't wait to have you back to our school, Gregg.

Thank you to Mrs Cassell and our teachers who organised and attended Interschool Sport competitions last week and for organising District Sports this week.

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

 

Makerspace

Robotics club has started for 2022 for interested students in year 5 and year 6.   Participating students will meet on Monday afternoons over the next semester to complete a range of robotic building and coding challenges.  It is wonderful to see so many enthusiastic students joining in with this activity.    

Library News

 

We have had some very creative students come along to the Library during lunch breaks to help us create our displays for Book Week.  Over the last week students have been working on colourful parrots and Dream Jars (inspired by the BFG) that will form part of our “Dreaming With Eyes Open” displays.

We have had many requests from students of all ages for new books with a dragon or unicorn theme.  We have been able to find a selection of books suitable for younger and older readers.  We were even able to find a series of graphic novels suitable for our younger readers and we have added these titles to the graphic novels section of the Library collection.

Book Week

 

 

During Book Week each year the Children’s Book Council of Australia award prizes to Australian authors in 6 different categories.  This year’s shortlisted books for the Young Readers Book of the Year and New Illustrator categories are shown below. 

Our picks from these two categories are “Dragon Skin” a story about a girl who finds a sick dragon hatchling and takes responsibility for nursing it back to health; and “Great White Shark” where the illustrator, Cindy Lane, has used a variety of artistic methods to create life like images of sharks and their ocean environment.

As part of our Book Week celebrations Meerkat Productions are returning 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 “Stellarphant” for lower school students and “The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel” for upper school students. 

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2022 is still running.    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.

District Track and Field

As I write this many students from year 4-6 are participating in the District Track and Field. We wish them all the best, hope for personal bests and that they enjoy themselves. Thank you to Mrs Cassell who has organised the team and is supporting them today and tomorrow.

District Trials

10-12yr boys and girls Cricket will be on 18/8/22. An expression of interest form is on the sports noticeboard, or you can email me. Students must play club cricket at a high level to be considered.

Interschool Sport

The year 5-6 cohort participated in their first of three interschool sport afternoons last week. There was a lot of positive chat in the CSA upon their return and everyone I asked enjoyed themselves and had a really good go at their selected sport.

Clare Marks, HPE Specialist

Dayboro S.S. (Mon-Tue)

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. In the first week, some students from Dayboro State School attended SHACK (School Holiday Action Camp) Murrumba which is a day camp organised by Scripture Union Australia, the organisation I work for. They had a great time playing nerf games, climbing an obstacle course, doing craft and dancing. I even got to pop in and join in on the activities each day. The camp finished with a free family sausage sizzle. In the second week, I attended the first ever Scripture Union Australia conference. School chaplains from all over Australia gathered on the Sunshine Coast for professional development and networking. There were upwards of 750 people there and I learned a lot.

Starting on 12 August, we will be starting a SUPA Club on Friday afternoons. SUPA Clubs (Scripture Union Primary Age Clubs) are voluntary programs designed for children who are interested in looking at spirituality and everyday life from a Christian perspective. They are fun, interactive and age appropriate, providing children with a place to build supportive friendships and learn important skills to assist them in their social development. It will run by myself alongside Mrs Vicki Johns and trained volunteers. See the flyer below for more details.

I will also continue to meet with students this term to work through the Big Life Journal and to provide additional emotional support where needed. If you or your family need assistance in any way or you just have questions about any of the above, please feel free to contact me at: rachael.woodrow@suchaplaincy.org.au

Our game of the fortnight has been uno. Each day, children challenge the educators to several rounds of uno, demonstrating fair play and sportsmanship. It's great to see younger children showing development in colour and number recognition to be able to play independently.

Spring vacation care planning has commenced, and bookings will be open before we know it. Stay tuned for insight to what we'll be getting up to.

A reminder to confirm your bookings are correct via the iparent portal. We also have some lost property still in the black bucket outside the service, so please encourage your child/ren to check this regularly (there are drink bottles, jumpers and hats with no names).

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. Alternatively, please send the service a text message on the mobile number below. 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.

Need a helping hand before or after school? 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 Ryan at the service on 0459 991 697 or our customer accounts team on 1300 612 462.