Welcome to Week 6 – a very busy and exciting time in junior secondary with assessments and many extra-curricular opportunities also occurring.

With the borders now open to the world, many families are taking the opportunity to travel to visit family or for holidays. We encourage families to schedule this travel during school holidays wherever possible. If you do need to travel during the school term, please know that the school cannot grant an exemption from compulsory schooling for this reason. If you are choosing to travel during the school term, please notify the school of the absence period and inform classroom teachers. To continue their learning and assessment, students are to access their Class OneNote. They are also welcome to communicate any questions about the content to their teacher via email. Teachers are not required to supply individual or different work to the student when they are absent due to travel, nor will exemptions for assessment be granted. If your travel is overseas, students will need to see our tech department to ensure they will still have access to the network.

As we are approaching the half-way mark for Term 3, this is a great opportunity to check in with your children to see how they are going with their assessments and time management. What do they have coming up? Are they allocating time after school to keep up with the demands? It is important to get students into good study habits in junior secondary so that they are ready for the demands of senior secondary and time management is something that our young people often need help with. For some it comes naturally, but for most it is a habit that needs support to form. Monday afternoon tutorials, held in the Library during Period 4, are a wonderful way to keep on top of homework and assessments with additional support. Also, Thursday tutoring after school.

At PBC, after school detentions are often issued for a variety of reasons when students have breached the Optima Code. The success of these detentions in terms of changing behaviour and future choices, is hinged on the student attending the detention. Students who fail to attend the detention without an approved reason, may progress to an external suspension. We are encouraging families to facilitate their child’s attendance at the afternoon detention to avoid further consequences.

Over the past couple of weeks, we have had so many successful outcomes with our students representing PBC in a variety of sports and cultural events. Well done to all of the students and teachers who put in the additional hours that lead to this excellence and success.

The Track & Field Carnival was a wonderful success with so many students engaged and participating in both sporting and non-sporting events to represent and earn house points. The fun had by all students was evident; a lot of organisation and planning goes into large whole-school events such as these and all staff involved are to be commended.

Don’t miss out on the Junior School House Camps, spaces are filling quickly. Permission slips are available from D Block and need to be returned ASAP as spaces are limited. This is a wonderful opportunity for students create lifelong memories with their friends and build house culture and team spirit – essential aspects of positive psychology and creating a sense of belonging.

The 2023 Year 8 Student Leader process is currently underway. Last week, short-listed students participated in a group interview and the final leadership decision will be announced this week. Thank you to all students who applied, it was marvellous to see such a large number of students as aspiring future leaders.

A huge thankyou to our Senior School community for your support in some significant Senior School events in recent weeks. Over the past fortnight alone we have had the opportunity to celebrate the successes of our Year 10's, 11's and 12's through the Mid-Year OPTIMA Awards. We hope both recipients and parents alike enjoyed the changes to the format of these awards and it was wonderful to get together to acknowledge some wonderful achievements. Thanks also must go to all parents and students who attended both the Year 12 Pathways Information Evening and Year 10 SET Plan process. Both of these processes are vital to ensuring the success of all of our students and align their study path with their chosen field outside of our school gates.

A special mention and good luck to all of our Creative Arts students - many of whom are participating across multiple disciplines in the Gold Coast Eisteddfod commencing this week. We have a rich and proud history of success in the Arts and look forward to watching you represent our school with pride.

Senior Exams & Shutdown Timetables

Exam timetables and schedules for Years 10, 11 and 12 will be published on the school website shortly: https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/curriculum/testing-and-assessment

Term 3 assessment calendars are already available on this page.

Main points are:

• Year 12 full shutdown all of Week 9 and 10 (September 5 to 16) for Mock exams and Applied assessment.
• Year 11 full shutdown Week 10 (September 12 to 16)
• Year 10 full shutdown Week 10 (September 12 to 16)

Note that as External exams will commence at 9:00am, PBC will have the same start time for Mock exams. For consistency and due to the vertical nature of Care roll marking the following arrangements will occur:

• All end of Term 3 exams will commence at 9:00am for Years 10 to 12
• Senior Care Roll marking classes will not run in Weeks 9 and 10 of term 

SET Plans

All Year 10 students should by now have completed their subject selections for 2023 and 2024. This involves an interview with a senior teacher to ensure that students are on the appropriate pathway in Year 11. If you have not completed this please attend the allocated catch-up session as published in the students notices.

Year 10 students are reminded that they are much better off commencing a school-based apprenticeship and traineeship (SAT) in Yea r10 than in Year 11. Please see Ms Shreeve in Y block for more information regarding SATs.

Senior Study Skills – Year 12 students 

Week 7: External assessment Study Skills workshop

This session will be delivered by Griffith University and will focus on providing strategies and skills to support students in preparation for their external assessments and mock exams. 

This session will run on Monday 22 August - 1:55pm- 3:05pm, where students are encouraged to remain at school to attend.

QCAA Login - Year 12's

The QCAA no longer mails out certificates and results to students at the end of the year. On 18 December they will provide a digital copy of results into each students’ QCAA learning account.

All Year 12 students should by now have logged onto their QCAA learning account in the QCAA student portal. This is accessed via the myQCE website https://myqce.qcaa.qld.edu.au/index.html.

Please check that your student has completed this. They have been reminded on many occasions and sent emails regarding this but we can see that there are still some students that have not yet registered. 

Upcoming dates:

22 August – Year 12 Griffith University presentation on Study Skills for External exams (1:55 to 3:05pm in Trade Training Centre)

24 August – GC5 Cluster sport day – Year 12 First Aid and Safety course

26 August – Gold Coast Show Holiday

2 September Student Free day – Year 12 Connect Education sessions for English, Biology and Legal Studies

Help with External Exams

To access the External Assessment timetable please visit the myQCE website:

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/assessment/external-assessment/timetable

Year 12 students also have access to practice exam for all General subjects on the QCAA website. This should be used in preparation for both the upcoming Mock exam and the External assessment. As an example, the practice External exams for General Maths and General English can be located on the following links:

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/senior-subjects/english/english/assessment

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/senior-subjects/mathematics/general-mathematics/assessment

It is expected that all students complete these practice exams for their General subjects in preparation for their External Assessment.

Sunshine Coast All Schools Touch Football

On the weekend of Week 3, the Sport Excellence Touch Football Girls travelled to the Sunshine Coast for their first big competition of the year. After an early start and a long bus ride on Saturday, the girls started their trip with rock climbing, where Charlotte North, Lilika Yamada and Martine Brekhoff-Jones were particularly impressive at defying gravity. Then, after some training on the oval, the girls were thrown into six teams and competed in games such as; blind folded pool noodle sword fighting, trivia, cup stacking, long distance dart throwing and much more. The White team of Romaney Berry, Martine, Mikayla Robison, Amali Nixon, Tayah Cubby, Sienna Hodges and Jayah Hall were the ultimate champions despite the efforts of Kaiya Tom, who was terrifying with a pool noodle in hand.

The next day, it was off to the Glasshouse Mountains to play some touch. All three teams were outstanding with the Open Girls finishing runners up and the Under 15 and Under 13 teams winning the Championship. The Open Girls dominated their round games with some sensational skills. Captain Sierrah Dawson and the Year 12’s led by example, setting an extremely high standard and the Year 11’s and 10’s really stepped up to the moment. But in the final, Chancellor’s rucking and shooting was just too good.

In the Under 15’s, the girls were utterly dominant. Evie Clarkson, who was player of the final and the rest of the Under 15’s were unstoppable, winning the grand final by an extremely impressive score of 6 to 0. As if that wasn’t enough excitement, the Under 13’s won their grand final in extra time. They scored with 30 seconds to go to tie the game and then played twenty minutes of extra time, eighteen of which was played with only 3 players on each team. But finally, with sun having set and emotions at breaking point, Alexi Fabian set up Emmi Cross in the corner for the game winner. Jaida Flores was also unbelievable and due to her devastating speed with the ball was named player of the final.

We were also very lucky to have former PBC graduate, Teagan Phillips, volunteer to give up her weekend and coach the Under 13 team. She showed an extremely level head under incredible pressure and was a fantastic role model and leader for the young group of girls.

Thank you so much to all of the girls for their efforts and also a huge thank you to the parents for their support. We are now looking forward to QLD All Schools which is the biggest touch football tournament in the world, with over 300 teams competing. It will be held at the Runaway Bay Sports Centre, at the end of Week 1, Term 4 and we would love to see as many people from the PBC community as possible in attendance to cheer our girls on.

Geoff Eggert and Ty Russell, Sport Excellence Touch Football Coaches

AFL Junior Boys

A massive thank you to our PBC Alliance Partners Southport Sharks and Fraser Financial Services for their sponsorship of the junior boys AFL team's recent tour of Melbourne.

The team travelled south with the aim of trying to take their individual and team performance to the next level in preparation for their upcoming knock out finals in the Q Cup competition.

After touching down at Tullamarine in was straight off to the National Sports Museum at the MCG. The boys had some time in the interactive games section before moving through the museum itself. It was wonderful when Nate Round came across his grandfather's Brownlow medal and Riley Clark could show the team his mother's Olympic Gold medal that was on loan to the museum. After the museum visit it was on to the famous Melbourne trams to travel to our hotel. Once settled it was off to the dinner and then a team meeting for the next's day match against Albert Park Senior College. 

On a cold and rather overcast day (at least it wasn't raining) the boys arrived at South Melbourne district football club that is located inside the F1 race precinct. The Melbourne skyline made a wonderful backdrop. Albert Park jumped the undefeated PBC Reds and went into quarter time with a handy lead and then kicked the first two goals of the second quarter to go out to a twenty point margin. The Reds rallied well and kicked the next 4 goals to go into half time one goal up.

The second half saw the Reds improve their contested ball wins and run. Slowly but surely they put a gap on the opposition who couldn't go with them to run out comfortable winners. Congratulations to Deacon Streader and Dylan Patterson for their best on ground performances. 

Overall the boys were wonderful to take away and they represented the Reds well leaving a positive impression on the people they met. They received lots of recognition for their manners and general conduct.

Finally to all the relatives of the boys who came down from Queensland and from all over Victoria thank you for your support. It was lovely to see the young men supported so well and having the opportunity to catch up with family.

Neil Mackay and Danny Darnett, Sports Excellence Snr AFL Boys Coaches

Surfing Excellence

Congratulations to the 15 PBC Sport excellence surfers who represented the South Coast region at the Qld School Surfing State Championships over the last few days.  The u19 boys placed in 6 of the top 7 places with Kyan Falvey being selected in the Qld team.  Kyan teamed up with Dane Henry in the Mark Richards (MR) Shield to win the Qld title for the school.  Rico Haybittle and Fletcher Kelleher repeated this in the u16 boys MR Shield with another state title coming back to PBC.  Fletcher also won the u16 boys division with Josh Cabral and Rico Haybittle finishing 2^nd and 4^th respectively. Congratulations to Kyan, Dane, Rico, Fletcher and Josh who have made up a third of the Qld school team to compete at this year’s Australian Junior Titles on North Stradbroke Island at the end of November.

Blair Semple, Surfing Excellence Coach

Junior Secondary Guidance Officer – Anna Willis

Senior Secondary Guidance Officer – Steve Jones

Read the attached article for the latest information targeted to senior students of careers and pathway information.

https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/support-and-resources/guidance-officer

School Based Youth Health Nurse

School Based Youth Health Nurse-

Hilary Wilson (Mon, Tues) hilary.wilson@health.qld.gov.au

Vanessa Bradley (Tues, Wed) vanessa.bradley@health.qld.gov.au

School Nurse appointments SBYHN@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au

We encourage parents/caregivers to email your student’s excellent recent achievements to us. These achievements can be in The Arts, sporting, academic or community service. We would love to hear from you! Please email us at news@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au with details of your student’s achievement and include at least one photo, and/or any links to media articles that we can share.

Optima Awards – Term 3

Missing from Optima Award Recipients list (last newsletter):

Congratulations to Oliver King, Year 10 – Red Sport Optima for Tennis - PBC Schools Regional Team Champions.

QLD Schools Basketball Championships

Congratulations to PBC's Skye Adams (Y9) who represented South Coast in the U15 Basketball Team and went undefeated over the last four days, coming home with the Gold Medal. This was Skye's first time representing South Coast and he was also named in the QLD School Basketball 13-15 Yrs Boys Merit team. Great job Skye!

National Football Championships

Congratulations to Oscar Myers (Yr10), QLD U16 Schoolboys Football team, Milan Della Bosca (Y7), QLD U12 Schoolboys Football team and James Durrington (Yr10), QLD U16 Schoolboys shadow player. The boys will be competing at the National Football Championships in Sydney in September. Good luck REDS!

National Netball Championships

Congratulations to PBC's Summer Woods (Yr10) who travelled to Canberra in July to participate in the Under 15s School Netball Nationals. The QLD team played each state going though undefeated until the Gold medal Grand Final where they unfortunately got beaten by 1 point against WA bringing home the silver. Fantastic effort Summer!

QLD Rugby Union Championships

Last month PBC's Noah Mariner (Year 7) captained the 12yr old South Coast Rugby Union team in Rockhampton. They placed 6th. Noah won the 2022 Lifetime Member Players Award for the tournament. Congratulations Noah!

Our next PBC Alliance Business Networking Breakfast ($20) is on Friday 19 August. Come along, listen to our guest speakers while enjoying a delicious meal and network with like minded people while supporting a wonderful cause… PBC students!

Friday, 19 August 2022
6:45-8:15am
PBC Trade Training Centre

Key speakers:

Guest Speaker: Hilary Jacobs, President - Southern Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce

Business Showcase Speaker: Joel Mulvenney, Director (& PBC Alumni) Grip Star Socks

PBC Productions Teacher: Tom Pasley

and

Neil Mackay, Founding member of PBC Alliance

A full seasonal breakfast is prepared and served by our senior hospitality students under the management and direction of our professional and experienced hospitality teachers. All dietary requirements can be catered for.

Thank you to all our amazing community partners and members for regularly attending our business breakfasts and helping these events be successful. These events are a key platform providing a great opportunity for the community to connect with each other as well as Palm Beach Currumbin State High student leaders and key staff members. The popularity of our breakfasts highlight the wonderful support for our school and we are very grateful. Many business connections are regularly made between guests that result in beneficial relationships, it's win-win!

To RSVP click here. Please be sure to indicate any dietary requirements.

Partner Spotlight!

PBC has a number of amazing partners supporting our students from the Health, Wellness and Beauty Services. If you are looking for products and services and are keen to support those businesses that support our students, visit our online Business Directory. There are often specials for the PBC community listed too! This week we are spotlighting the following Health, Wellness and Beauty services:

Platinum Partner! Dr Ramesh Sivabalan is a great supporter of PBC students smiles! Offering our sport excellence students free mouth guards to ensure they keep their pearly whites looking good. Smile Street are located in Coolangatta and Murwillumbah and are a family friendly dental practice providing a high standard of dental care in a fun and friendly environment. Whether it has been a few years since your last check up or you're looking to improve your dental experience, the Smile Street team is who you need to call. Visit them today at www.smilestreet.com.au

Silver Partner! Adrian Pudlyk is supporting PBC sports excellence students by educating them on good foot health. The Foot and Balance Centre is located in Tugun and operate Mon-Sat. Specialising in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of lower-limb and foot ailments since 1986. The Foot and Balance Centre is a family owned and stand-alone podiatry clinic. They have an experienced team of Podiatrists that treat patients in our clinic as well as provide home visits for those patients who wish to remain in the comfort and safety of their own homes in areas from Pottsville to Labrador. Get in touch for all your podiatry needs at www.thefootandbalancecentre.com.

Bronze Partner! Dental Haus began supporting our students in 2021. Dental Haus is located in Palm Beach and prioritises world-class dental care and positive patient experiences. They aim to make general dentistry and cosmetic dentistry available and accessible to all the community, so every family has the opportunity to achieve the smile they desire. Caring about each individual patient who enters our clinic, and it's our goal to help everyone achieve their unique goals. When you visit Dental Haus, you will immediately recognise our core clinic values of respect, care and quality treatment. PBC Alliance customers are offered a comprehensive examination, scale and clean, fluoride and x-rays GAP FREE. Vising Dental House here: www.dentalhaus.com.au

Thank you to the amazing businesses that support PBC!

For more information on all the great businesses that support PBC Students click on their names below or visit our Business Directory here: https://www.pbc-alliance.com/business-directory.html 

These amazing businesses are supporting PBC students with their education in many different ways. This support assists many PBC programs and students directly ensuring all have the opportunity to reach their potential. Please support those that support our students.

Keep an eye on this section of the newsletter each issue for a spotlight on some of our fantastic partners.

PLATINUM

Aurora Training Institute

Bendigo Bank Tugun Community Branch

Find Ya Feet

Gold Coast Titans

Grip Star Socks

SmileStreet Coolangatta

Synergy Fitness

Tweed Sea Sports

GOLD

Annabel Trends

Belle Property - Rhys Wildermoth

Capital Pest Management

Prestige Services Training

Southport Sharks

Stone Style

MSP Photography

SILVER

99 Bikes Burleigh

Balloonery Gold Coast

Coles The Pines

Currumbin RSL

LJ Hooker Palm Beach

Michael Hart MP, Member for Burleigh

Palm Beach Surf Club

PlayBk

PFD Food Distributors

The Foot and Balance Centre

Trade Glass

BRONZE

Burleigh Bears Rugby League Club

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

Dental Haus

Esportif.com - Nash Dawson

Fraser Financial Services

Southern Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce

McDonalds The Pines

Meatsmiths The Pines

PFD Food Distributors

Platinum Realty - Alicia Kropkowski

Snap Fitness Palm Beach

Stacks Law

REDS SUPPORTERS

City Venue Management

CVM Academy

Fight 4 Youth

Razor Edge Sharpening

VMA Promotional Products

Youth Music Venture

TERTIARY PARTNERS

Bond University

Griffith University

Gold Coast TAFE

Southern Cross University

PBC Alliance Business Directory – support our local businesses

SRS Fees

SRS Fees to list the instalment dates:

1st Instalment (Term 1) - Monday 24 January 2022 - OVERDUE

2nd Instalment (Term 2) - Tuesday 19 April 2022 - OVERDUE

3rd Instalment (Term 3) - Monday 11 July 2022 - OVERDUE

Make payments the quick and easy way using BPOINT. Visit www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete, follow the prompts or phone BPOINT on 1300 631 073.

Parents/caregivers experiencing financial difficulty can email Finance on Finance@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au.

Payment plan options are available including Centrepay - a service to families whereby periodic payments can be made to the school or Direct Debit via credit card (monthly). Paperwork is available from the Finance Office to activate either of these plans.

Payments

Payment method 1:

BPOINT - This link can be found on the bottom left hand side of your invoice, please click on the link and follow instructions.

Payment method 2:

Qparents – Sign up or Log into your account. Locate your invoice and follow instructions to pay.

For more information - Qparents

Payment method 3:

Internet Banking via direct transfer into the school bank account.

School's Bank Account: Palm Beach Currumbin SHS General A/C

BSB: 064 404 

Account Number: 00090303

Reference/details: Please record the "student name &/or Invoice reference" in the reference/details section so that your payment can be recorded correctly. 

Please visit our website for further information -  Payments

If you are seeking assistance regarding your account, payments plans or experiencing financial difficulty please email finance@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au

Finance Office Window Operating Hours

Over the counter payments can only be accepted between 8:00am and 1:00pm on Tuesday to Thursday. Alternatively, you can make payments via BPOINT from your invoice or statement or Direct Deposit. CLOSED Mondays & Fridays

Q Parents

Home Instead

Spark their future

It might be something you’ve never noticed, or something you’ve seen for years.

Finding their spark

When your child is struggling at school or refusing to go to school, knowing you are on their side is what matters most. Every child has something to offer and deserves success, whatever that looks like for them. Keep believing in your child and work with them to find something that brings them joy – an activity or interest they want to spend time on. When your child does something they enjoy and can learn to do it well, it helps build their confidence. Over time, and with the right support, you can grow that spark inside your child. And as your child’s confidence grows, and with your help, they will feel ready to get their learning back on track so they can get the most out of going to school.

https://www.sparktheirfuture.qld.edu.au/finding-their-spark/

ALCE Australia:

The Association of Spanish Language and Culture in Australia, is a program of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training that provides, free of charge, complementary Spanish language and culture classes to children of Spanish residents in the ACT, QLD, NSW and VIC.

For more information, please visit the following website. https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/australia/alce-australia/portada.html

Nippers Sign on…

TH&C Surf Lifesaving Club has a large number of families from the PBC community in our club, and we’re keen to keep this connection going into our new season. Several current PBC students have competed and placed nationally through our Surf Sports programme, and we’ve just launched an elite squad program to extend this support for our junior members in the water and on the beach. We’d love to see more students take advantage of this in the upcoming season.

Tallebudgera SLSC: With the 2022/2023 Nipper Season starting soon, Tallebudgera nippers invite families to attend upcoming sign on days.