Good Afternoon Parents and Caregivers

Our focus is always on student learning and well-being here at Dayboro SS. Over the past 18 months, we have set aspirational targets for our student learning particularly in the subjects of English and Maths. Our teachers are consistently collaborating to discuss student work samples with a view to planning the next steps for our students and deciding on the best strategies to engage our learners and move them along.

Recently our teachers have been digging into our successful level of achievement data from Semester 1 and celebrating these successes with their students. Did you know our outstanding semester 1 data includes:

• 93.3% of our students reached standard in English and Maths
• Over 64% of our students attained an A or B rating in English and Maths
• We had a 5-7% increase from semester 1 2021, to semester 1 2022 in students receiving and A in English and Maths.

We look forward to a wonderful second semester full of engagement and student achievement. Teachers are focussed this term on providing high quality feedback to students so that students know how they can be successful with their learning. Exciting times! Look at some of our amazing learning opportunities below….

Parent Teacher conferences

We know that our partnerships with parents help our students to be successful and engaged in school. In week 8 of this term, we will provide another formal opportunity for parents to engage with their child/ren’s teacher to discuss their progress. We look forward to this opportunity to collaborate with families. On Monday, 15 August, our online booking will open for interviews this week. Teachers will open the times they are available in the week. On Thursday, 1 September, we will offer our afternoon/evening interviews in the hall with our staff.

We look forward to continuing our partnerships with parents.

Congratulations DSS Athletes

On Monday and Tuesday last week, 33 students represented Dayboro SS in the Pine Rivers District Athletic carnival. This team were outstanding in their respectful and sportsmanlike behaviours. Congratulations to all of our team for qualifying!

We had some outstanding individual and team results over the two days and we were excited to hear that Dayboro SS won the Overall Average points 1^st place trophy!! This is awarded to the to the school with a calculated average of how our team places individually according to our number of total students in Years 4-6 at our school. We also had 7 of our students selected to compete as part of the Pine Rivers team at the Met North regional championships in late August:

• Heidi (Year 4) – 3 events
• Emily (Year 5) – 4 events
• Gemma (Year 5) – 1 event
• Kaycee (Year 6) – 1 event
• Laylah (Year 6) – 2 events
• Sienna (Year 6) – 2 events
• Ivy (Year 6) – 1 event

Congratulations Girls!!

A huge thank you to Mrs Cassell and Mrs Marks who organised our Team and Mrs Cassell for being the most organised and supportive team manager we could hope for!

Congratulations DSS Instrumental Musicians

Also last week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 of our instrumental music students were selected via an audition process to participate in the Intermediate or Advanced Music Regional Workshop. Congratulations to Claire, David, Eden, Jasper, Lilly-May, Ethan, Maeve, Olivia and Xavier.

We are extremely proud of these students who represented Dayboro SS very proudly in the combined school’s concert band. 

We look forward to listening and acknowledging their progress at the next performance!

Rock and Water

Last week, Chappy Rach and Inclusion Teacher Alicia Tavelardis, attended Rock and Water training with Carl Marshall leading the training. Rock and Water is an evidenced based program that builds kids self-confidence, self-reflection and self-respect. It does this by increasing self-esteem, self-regulation and social acceptance and thereby decreasing depressive feelings. The program has a strong appeal to students who enjoy the active nature of the many games and drills. Students learn to stand strong, negotiate using “rock” or “water” verbal approaches, walk away from trouble, consider alternatives to aggression, and develop understandings about who they are, their intuitive feelings and their personal direction.

We really look forward to implementing this program with students at our school.

School Opinion Survey

Thank you to all of those who have already completed the Parent/Caregiver Survey. If you have not had a chance to complete the survey yet, please note that the online surveys will remain open until Friday, 12 August 2022. This is your opportunity to provide feedback 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.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle

Dear Families and Friends

TRANSITIONS – HIGH SCHOOL

Do you have a student currently in Yr. 6? Have you enrolled your student in high school for 2023? You may not be aware but In Term 4, we start hosting visiting teachers from our local high schools who enjoy meeting and seeing how our students are progressing. At a recent cluster meeting with local high schools and primary schools we discussed important issues around ensuring successful transitions for our Yr. 6 students. We discussed the importance of regular attendance and the links to engaged, successful learners. Students who attend regularly in primary school tend to have more successful starts in high school. As we say in primary school “Every day counts!!” and this is certainly true for high school as well.  At the cluster meeting, we also recognised how important it is to tailor support and interventions for families who may have significant barriers to access high schools such as distance and financial difficulties. Students who are first in their family to attend high school may also need a more considered transition as this will be the whole family’s first experience of high school. If you or your Yr 6 student would like more information about high school and next steps, please reach out to our Y., 6 Transition Team consisting of the Yr. 6 teachers, our Hoc and myself and we would be happy to support you in any way we can.

LEARNING P-2 ENGLISH -WRITING GOALS

PREP

This term Preps have been learning how to recognise and create rhymes. This week they have been making up their own rhyming pairs and adding them to an existing rhyme. By the end of this unit they will be writing their own rhymes. Amazing!!

YEAR 1

The focus for Yr 1 in English this term has been retelling a cultural story. Why? Because retelling stories from our past how to keep cultures, memories and important events alive. The Yr. 1’s have been learning how to write interesting retells about a variety of cultural stories such as How the Birds Got their colours (Dreaming story), The Two Bullies (A legend from Japan) and Handa's Surprise (an African tale).

Right now, they are learning to retell a story in a logical sequence with main ideas and characters to add interest. Ask your Yr. 1 student what their writing goal is.

YEAR 2

Year 2 are learning what makes a story interesting by looking closely at the events and plots of stories. They are learning how to write and add in another event to an imaginative story. They have been reading and analysing books like Little Cat and the Big Red Bus and Toy Boat in preparation for their writing task.

SCIENCE NEWS

Year 2 are learning about living things and what they need to survive. They have been growing bean seeds and grass heads and setting up favourable and non-favourable conditions for their plants to grow. Learning through experimentation and inquiry enhances our students understanding of the natural world and allows them to ask the question - WHY?  One of the most powerful words to promote learning and understanding.

IMPORTANT PBL NEWS!       

Our Awards are: Be Kind, Be positive, Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Proud and Be Tolerant. The Principal’s Award is also given out each week.

We did not have our usual awards in Week  5. But teachers will be on the look out for worthy recipients this week for next week, Week 6.

 

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 ice block voucher.

We will draw the Gotchas in Week 6. week’s GOTCHA award winners.

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

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

Makerspace

Students have been very busy in the maker space creating display items to decorate the Library space in preparation for Book Week.

Have a look at the amazing clay wombats that were created by students in the last week.  If you were a wombat, what would you dream of becoming???

Book Week

Book Week is just 2 weeks away!

Our annual Book Week character costume parade will be held on the school oval on August 24^th from 9:00 a.m.  We cannot wait to see all of the wonderful costumes!  Remember that the maker space is available on Fridays at first break for students to work on costumes if they wish.

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 Eve Pownall Award for children’s non-fiction books are shown below.

Our pick from this category is “The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature” by Sami Bayly.  Her meticulous attention to detail when illustrating the animals that accompany the information presented in her book is absolutely amazing.

Remember to get your payments in as soon as you can to join us for our Meerkat Productions presentations of “Stellarphant” for students in Prep – Year 3 and “The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel” for students in Year 4 – Year 6. 

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.

In addition to Dayboro’s excellent results regarding the District Track and Field aggregate trophy and a large number of students due to compete at the regional carnival, Emily D was the 10 yr girl age champion with 37 points while Heidi W was runner up with 34 points.

Well done girls.

Welcoming our new coordinator Ryan this fortnight, it has been an exciting week for children as they have had a new staff member join the team and it has been a fortnight full of questions. We started our first week of ART club which was a huge success. It was amazing to see so many different children of all ages express their ideas and show off their artistic skills and abilities. It was great to see children of all ages communicating and helping each other when they needed.

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.