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Term 2 Newsletter Week 4 2025

 
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The famous Australian childrens entertained Peter Combe is coming to our school on May 30th from 10:30am for a full school concert! Learn the songs he will perform and get ready to sing a long
Our P&C have a united focus on raising funds for promoting the embedding of culture at our school. We join with them and as a whole school, all funds raised will go to supporting this focus. From excursions to cultural practices, funds raised will celebrate, promote and enable students to be proud of their culture at our school. To donate, please follow the link https://www.zingactiv.com/donationsdeceptionbaystateschool
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Online Bullying

Over the past few weeks, there has been an increase in negative online communication between students outside of school. This has increased social challenges during school time. We are engaging with "Think U Know" which supports students and families with understanding online communication and cyber bullying. Watch this space for more information to come! https://www.thinkuknow.org.au/index.php/about/our-program External link



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Our students are amazing! Daily they proudly represent their families proudly making great choices. We want to show just how wonderful student behaviour is in a graphic. This graphic shows the % of students within the week whose choices never once needed a correction or consequence! This is fantastic! Our goal is 100% each week. Let’s go team DBay!

Teaching Kindness

All of us together need to teach what it means to be and how to be kind. How we speak to one another is critical to reducing social challenges between students and continuing to make our school a great place to be!
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Teaching Reading

Preparing students to learn to read comes first from learning to speak and listen. We are using Promoting Literacy Development (PLD) to explicitly teach and track core language skills. A series of videos unpack early literacy skills explained by PLD. External link

To better understand how learning to read works, we are using a model called "Scarborough's Rope". 

oin us as we look at each "strand" of rope and engage students in improving each skill one strand at a time.


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Last reviewed 24 May 2025
Last updated 24 May 2025