DATE: 21st August 2019

DATES TO REMEMBER

23 August 9am Year 6 Leadership Presentation 23 August School Opinion Survey CLOSES 2 Sept Playgroup commences 9-11am 3 Sept Yr 6 MIE Workshops MV College 2-6 Sept MD Week Dress up as a Super Hero 6 Sept Mary Valley Poetry Comp (Kandanga SS)

20 Sept End of Term 3

The Newsletter

of

DAGUN STATE SCHOOL

& P&C ASSOCIATION

Contact Details

Phone: 5484 3232

Email: admin@dagunss.eq.edu.au

Website: www.dagunss.eq.edu.au

Our 2019 School Improvement Goal: to improve student outcomes in Writing.

Our School Rules: * Be RESPONSIBLE * Be RESPECTFUL * Be SAFE * Be a LEARNER

President: Alison Hensel Vice President: Kristi Holliss Secretary: Kassie Dilger Treasurer: Kerri Santos Assistant Treasurer: Jaye Shaw Uniform Convenor: Lauren Bryan

Baseball….PE Thanks to Jordan, PE teacher, for organising the baseball workshop here at Dagun. We already have an aspiring baseball player in Tyson. Well done Tyson! Student Leaders…. This Friday 23rd August, at 9am our Year 6 students will be invested as Student Leaders and presented with their badges and Year 6 shirts. All parents, family and friends are welcome to join with our school community for the presentation, and afterwards for morning tea. Playgroup—commencing Monday 2nd September…. We will be re-commencing our Playgroup at Dagun School. To start, we plan to have informal meetings each Monday morning from 9am to 10am. The morning will begin with a shared reading for children, followed by free play. This time is valuable for children to get to know each other through play and for parents to meet and share over a cup of tea or coffee from our Life Skills kitchen.

Our first Playgroup meeting will be Monday 2nd September. For our second meeting, we are very excited to have Curtis Dray from the Gympie Library to read and share stories with Playgroup as well as our Prep to Year 2 class. We hope to see Curtis twice a term at Playgroup. MIE Lab Workshops—Tuesday 3rd September…. Students in Year 6 are invited to participate in MIE Lab Sessions on Tuesday 3rd September. This is a terrific opportunity provided by University of Sunshine Coast for our students to be immersed in a range of technologies. For more information, please read the attached letter from Natalie McMaster of the University of Sunshine Coast explaining this case study and MIE Lab Initiative. As well, an attached draft timetable of Sessions shows the variety of opportunities for students.

There will be no cost to our students or school. This Project involves the 4 schools in the Mary Valley and will be held at Mary Valley State College. USC will be providing a free bus to collect students at 8.30am at Dagun School and return students back to Dagun School at 3.05pm. Our children will be supervised by our staff as well as USC staff.

If you would like your child to participate in this STEAM research Project, could you please complete the attached Dagun State School Student Activity Consent Form and USC Consent Form and return to the school office by NEXT MONDAY 26TH AUGUST. Mary Valley Poetry Competition—Friday 6th September…. Practice…. practice…. our children continue practising their poems and are making good progress with group and individual recitals. If parents could please encourage children to practice at home and to discuss items your child/ren may need for their individual costumes. Group costumes are being made/prepared at school.

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From the Principal…. Mary Valley Show…. Congratulations to all our students who participated and exhibited work in the Mary Valley Show at Imbil. They should be very proud of their contributions. Well done to all our students, and congratulations to students below who received a placing. PHOTOGRAPHY Prep—Yr 1 Olivia 1st Scarlett 2nd Year 2—3 Charlotte 1st Noah 2nd Year 4—6 Bella 1st Ebony 1st Harry 2nd ART Prep Arthur 1st Year 2 Charlotte 1st Year 3 Noah 3rd Year 4 Lachlan 2nd; Avena 2nd Year 5 Harry 2nd Year 6 Indiana 1st; Ebony 2nd; Kye 3rd HANDWRITING Prep Arthur 1st Year 1 Halen Judges Choice…Special Mention Year 3 Noah 2nd Year 5 Kacey 1st; Harry 2nd Year 6 Bella 1st; Indiana 2nd; Ebony 3rd COOKING Year 1 Scarlett 2nd Year 2 Charlotte 2nd Year 3 Heidi 3rd Year 4 Connor 2nd Year 5 Kacey 1st Year 6 Indiana 1st; Ebony 2nd P&C…. Thank you to Alison for organising Dagun School to be volunteers for the Noosa Bicycle Ride last weekend. Thank you to our parents, past students and friends who volunteered their time. Your efforts have raised about $300 for Dagun P&C.

Mary Valley Poetry Competition cont’d…. All students are required to perform an individual poem at school as part of our ENGLISH curriculum learning and assessment this term. However, only 3 from each year level will be selected to perform Individual poems at the Mary Valley schools competition on the 6th. ALL children are included in the group poems and will be performing on the 6th September at Kandanga School…...a very exciting event!

Parents are very welcome to attend—it’s a great day and very entertaining!

A sausage sizzle will be operating and home baking will also be available. These can be purchased from the Kandanga State School tuckshop with a gold coin donation—no need to order. Students will need to bring their own morning tea and water.

Please complete the attached Student Activity Consent Form and return to the office BY NEXT MONDAY 26TH AUGUST.

School Opinion Surveys…. Thank you to all the parents/caregivers, students and school staff who completed this year’s School Opinion Survey. Please ensure all completed Parent/Caregiver Survey paper forms are returned to the school BY THIS FRIDAY, so that we can send them away to be processed by the cut-off date. We look forward to reviewing our survey results when we receive our school report later this year.

Jane Desmarchelier Principal

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