Principal’s Report

WAYNE KENNEDY

Dear Parents,

The end of Semester 1 is upon us, with much anticipated relaxation (warm sleep-ins), travel and quality family time being at the forefront of our communities’ conversations. The concluding weeks have remained busy, with many classrooms culminating and showcase opportunities, excursions, assessment finalisation, report writing, and Term 3 planning being undertaken. The Semester 1 Reports are to be emailed to parents early next week.  The Teaching Team have been extremely pleased with the high standards achieved across all year levels. Our Year 12 students receiving results of excellence in a range of subjects.

This Issue

One of the highlights for me this week was the planning and preparations undertaken by the Teaching Team within our staff meeting for next semester’s Minds program.  The Minds program is an initiative to enhance specific individual students learning needs, with an emphasis on literacy, numeracy & social skills. The Teaching Team had substantive conversations on each student within the College (excluding Sporting Academy Students who train when the Minds program is undertaken) to identify which Mind activity would provide the most benefit to enhance and enrich that student’s education.  The Mind programs activities (Years 2 – 12) for Term 3 will include: Tournament of Minds/Opti minds, movie making, College newspaper, creative writing, STEM, enrichment games, social skills, escape room/problem solving, drama/public speaking, environment/gardening, and inclusive education, and study support programs. The individual educational needs of our students, and the professional discussion associated with those needs, remain the College’s priority. The Minds program will commence in Week 1 -Term 3.

Movement Program

The planning and preparing for next terms Movement program (commencing in Week 2 – term 3) was also undertaken this week, with the TryBooking platform used by parents/students to select personalised Movement choices.  To best accommodate seasonal changes and to create variety within the Movement program, the following options were presented:

  • Skateboarding
  • Golf
  • 7 Sports in 7 weeks
  • Dance Club
  • Fishing
  • Junior Tennis
  • Walking Club
  • Martial Arts
  • PBC Fit Kids

(Surf Life Saving, Gymnastics, and Learn to Surf were extremely well received by our students this semester and will be options again in Term 4.)

Bill Turner Cup

Another highlight was the opportunity to watch our Under 14/15 Boys compete in the final of the Bill Turner Cup on Monday 20th June.  The Under 14/15 Boys were well prepared for the competition and versed a formidable Chancellor College. The competition was well matched with both teams playing quality football.  Although our boys did Peregian Beach College proud, we were narrowly defeated 2:1. I would like to thank all parents that were able to attend the match (and assist in transportation), and I provide a special thanks to Alec Wareing, Melvyn Wilkes and his coaching staff for their organisation and preparation of all football students throughout the tournament. Peregian Beach College is now not only a recognised presence within a range of school sporting events, but our students are raising the bar on teamwork and sportsmanship.

Building Works

Unfortunately, tradesman’s issues have hampered the anticipated return to buildings 2 & 3 in recent weeks, however we anticipate that grounds staff will be preparing classrooms with new furnishings next week. The Staff Professional Development Day (18th July 2022) will allow the Teaching Team to make final preparations for the students to return to their classrooms for the commencement of Term 3.  The proposed extensions to the College car park will commence next week, with an anticipated completion prior to the commencement of Term 3.  The College Board have been in consultation with draftspersons, fabrication firms and suppliers to resurface our exiting multipurpose court, develop a second court and enclose both.  This project will provide appropriate wet weather facilities for existing and future Sporting Academy, Movement and HPE programs.  The new change room facilities will be operational within the early weeks of Term 3.

Staff Changes

I look forward to welcoming Hayley Clifton (Guidance Counsellor) and Brett Hicks (Humanities teacher) to our College community at the commencement of next term.  I would also like to thank Jackson Smith (Junior HPE/Humanities teacher) and Ben Conquest (ESO) for their dedication to supporting our student’s development throughout the semester and wish them all the best in their future teaching endeavours.

I wish all a safe and enjoyable mid-year holiday and look forward to seeing students return refreshed and invigorated on Tuesday 19th July for the commencement of Term 3. I also look forward to talking to parents within the Parent/Teacher interviews in Week 2 and the Senior Secondary Information Evening scheduled for Tuesday 2nd August 2002 (Week 3).

Library News

Hello students and families,

I would like to wish you all happy holidays and hope you have a good book to enjoy over the break.

I would like to thank you for your Book Club support this term.  We achieved the highest sales ever which means we have reward dollars to spend on new library books through Scholastic.

There are quite a few overdue library books and if you find one under a bed or up in the fort or in the dog basket please return it to the library returns chute next term.  Each book is precious to our humble library.  

Yours in reading
Miss Tania
Librarian

Housekeeping

School Administration Housekeeping.

  • The email address to use for all correspondence relating to student absences is admin@pbc.qld.edu.au, this email address is accessed by all administration staff. Please add admin@pbc.qld.edu.au to your address books so that our emails to you don’t go to your junk email folder.
    You can also lodge an absence via the form on the website located here.
  • Don’t forget to order canteen through the My School Connect app – orders are to be placed no later than 8:40 am.
  • When signing students in late or signing them out early please ensure to put a reason in the text box for College records.
  • Please ensure students are in their correct uniform, we are going to be checking to make sure that the uniform policy guidelines are being followed, this includes correct footwear with formal uniforms.

Year 3

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

Savannah Davis

This term students have been exploring the concept of sustainable practice and the design process. Students worked extremely hard to design and build a playground model using recyclable/reusable materials. In Week 9, Year 3D students were provided the opportunity to showcase their projects to parents and P-6 classes.

All students were very excited to present their creations!

Peta Golding

You may have seen the repurposed t-shirt bags the Year 3G class made in Design Technology. (A video was posted in the last issue of the Emu Chronicle – be sure to check it out!) The class have been at it again, busy designing and creating their latest product… Bird feeders! Students noticed local bird life enjoying a snack or two out of lunch boxes left behind at play time, so the class decided to create bird feeders that would provide the birds with a proper lunch to eat.

Year 5

HEATH CAHALAN

STEM:  Egg Drop Challenge

Year 5 were challenged to design a contraption that protected a raw egg from a high fall. This contraption could only be made from recycled materials and had to be made in 60 minutes. In the end, 3 teams survived the carnage, with the winning Team (Carter and George) being handed the crown due the least amount of materials being used.

Egg-cellent job year 5.

Year 6

SHARON HEMMINGS

History:  Multicultural Day

In History this term, students looked at various migrant groups who have now made Australia their home. The students all chose their own group and researched the ‘before’/’during’ and ‘after’ experiences regarding the move away from their homeland.

To celebrate the multiculturalism that we enjoy today in Australia, we arranged an opportunity for the students to share their knowledge and showcase what they had learnt regarding migration and the various groups that are now in ‘our world’. It was a wonderful afternoon. We shared knowledge, stories and of course food from various countries of origin. A big thank you to parents and carers who helped with the supply of food and props etc to make this an occasion to remember.

Please enjoy some of the comments made by the Year 6 class regarding their experience of the day.

Multicultural day was a lot of fun yesterday. I loved learning about new cultures and tasting the new foods I have never had. My favourite stall was Aydin’s Turkish stall, his information on his poster was very neat and the Turkish delights were very tasty. It makes me want to visit Turkey every day. – Eli

Hi, I think the best part of the day was when the parents came because most of the time the younger kids didn’t ask many questions with worthy answers. But it was pretty funny when the Yr 4 came and about 8 kids came, and all asked for strawberry flavour. The lesson I learned was that I probably should have had a piece of paper that had an array of questions and when some ones get a piece of food they have to ask one of the questions. – Finn

My favourite part of yesterday was that everybody else was having a good time and that people came to my store and asked me questions about Juby Cassad and the Netherlands. I think food other people’s food was amazing as well. – Marley

My highlight of multi-Cultural day was spending time with Jasmine and my mum seeing the work I’ve been doing in class. Although I do think my candy and Chips were a success.  Overall I am happy with the results! – Mia

My Highlight about yesterday was that Me and Mia where next to each other to tell them about our stalls and with our food as well, when I was walking around to look at the other stalls I felt like it  was amazing that everyone else in the class was really great and that when the year 3, year 5, year 4 and year 7  not much people came to our store but when the parents came to our store a lot of parents came to our store. – Jasmine

Multicultural was much more fun than I thought yesterday. I was not exited at all and was worried for the event. I thought it wouldn’t end very well. I enjoyed a lot of things but my favourite part of it yesterday was pretty much the whole thing but if you really want to know a favourite it would be looking at everyone’s food or trying Zach’s jam and cream scones.😁 – Luca

My highlight of the day would be that I liked everyone’s food and that they asked me some questions that I knew and learnt and how everyone dressed up was amazing. – Olivia

One thing I learnt is that people are widespread about what foods they want to try and one thing I enjoyed was making foods and seeing people enjoying the foods we put our hard work into. I told the customers about the country and the foods.Thank you Mrs Hemmings for planning the day. – Asher

Loved how if anyone had any spare napkins, toothpicks, or other things, they would give some to whoever needed them. Loved how everyone’s significant Australian had been researched loads and it looked as if they put lots of effort into all their stalls and making the space of the table used up, which they did. All the food looked fantastic, I tried some food, and I can say every time I did, I fell in love even if it was store bought. It just made me smile seeing everyone have success for that day. The outfits had lots of love and care put into them, and they looked beautiful on everyone. – Breanna

What I learned is flies are super-duper annoying but despite that, I learned that people have quite impolite manners and kept stealing things without the toothpicks. What I liked is that everybody was working together very well and helping each other out. I also loved the happy support comments that people were giving me Milli, and I enjoyed everybody’s food I tried them all and it was delicious. – Noah

I learned that in some parts of England scones are called scones rhymes with cones.  My Grandad taught me that in the car on the way home. – Alfie

Hello, I think the best part of yesterday was when the parents came because all the parents had a more open mind and tried more of our food. I learnt that having a plan can do a lot and that you don’t need them to ask you something when you can just tell them anyway. – Max

I had fun talking and answering questions from my older and younger friends. Also want to thank the other people doing Japan as we worked very well together. ….and thank Mrs H for organising this for us, it would have been very different and very boring learning about this section of history without this multicultural day.  – Milli

My highlight of the day was when the kids that tried my food gave me a nice compliment and said they would tell their friends about how good they were.  I learned that I needed to manage my time better and put more effort into the poster and setup. I also had a lot of fun trying my friends food too especially Jakes. – Roman

The best part of multicultural day for me was seeing that everyone helped the people in their group. And the thing that I Learned was that I was good at answering questions. – Aoife

The highlight of my day yesterday was when I finally got my food and started to set it all up. I also enjoyed going around and trying other people’s food. I learned that some younger kids don’t really like rice-related foods except for Sushi, but the older students and adults do. – Adam

My favourite thing about multicultural day was when I gave people my shepherd’s pie because it was awesome to see the people enjoying my food and others. I also loved it when people would read my poster and notable Australian PowerPoint. Although some people did not ask questions, I should have asked them to ask a question about Ireland but other than that it was one of the best days ever and I am very thankful to have been allowed to do this. Thank you, Mrs H! – Jake

My highlight of the day was that I got to serve my food and dress up and got to see everyone’s happy faces enjoying the foods and asking questions. The teachers were cheerful and asked heaps of questions about my notable Australian it was a fantastic day filled with happiness and food! – Sanzia

My favourite part was when people started trying my food and seeing more people coming and going……that was my favourite part! I learnt that people will try anything! – Luke

My favourite thing was the when the Yr 7’s came in. They had some background knowledge of what we were doing as they had done something similar last year. I learnt that not everything is perfect ….. it is important to give it your best shot. – Zach

My Favourite thing from yesterday was the Netherlands stall with the profiteroles by Marley-Rose and the Turkish stall with the Turkish delights by Aydin. I learnt about the god Buddha and the fortune cookies from Chinese stall. – Cooper

I loved seeing people smile when they tasted the food at my stall. It was also fun answering people’s questions about Turkish immigration. – Aydin