From the Executive Principal,

Our primary method of communication with parents in the case of urgent messaging is through mobile text messaging.  We will support this with social media and email.  With most families now on QParents we will investigate also providing any notifications through this platform. Please ensure your details are always kept up to date.  There will be an opportunity at the Parent Teacher Interviews to provide any changes you may have in this area.  Email is important as this is the method to provide academic reports. 

In the next week the Parent Teacher Interview portal will open to accept bookings.  This is an ideal opportunity to connect with teachers to partner in the learning of your child.  I encourage you to book early to secure the spots you require.

This Thursday is the ANZAC day public holiday, Friday is a normal school day with all lessons.  From Channel 7 regarding ANZAC Day: “We have a special edition of Sunrise live from Currumbin beach (right near the surf club).  We would love to invite your school community to be a part of the show from 7am.  We're cooking up a delicious breakfast, there will be some fun performances and lots of chances to get on national TV.”

Best wishes,

Chris Kern
Executive Principal

Welcome back to our entire PBC community for Term 2. We hope that you had a restful and enjoyable Easter break with your loved ones. As always, the term ahead promises to be a jam-packed one for our students and families as we work towards the half-way point of the year. We look forward to celebrating success with each family at our upcoming Parent Teacher Interview nights and through our first formal reporting junctures, held across this term.

ANZAC Ceremony

We invite all members of our parent community to the PBC ANZAC Ceremony, to be held in our Quad at 9am on Wednesday 24th April, 2024. We are proud of how our school commemorates such an important day, with all 3000 members of our student and staff body being gathered at once in recognition of our ANZAC's.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Booking information regarding our upcoming Parent Teacher Interviews will be emailed to all parents directly on Monday 29th April. These are to be held across Tuesday May 14th, Wednesday May 15th and Thursday May 16th. Please note that teacher availability is varied and spaces will fill quickly, with most staff teaching over 120 students each. We look forward to seeing as many students and parents as possible for this very valuable opportunity for feedback on progress and results.

Any questions, please contact our SS administration on 55259333.

Academic Reports

• Year 10 and 12 reports will be emailed home in Weeks 3 and 4 of this term
• Year 11 reports will then be emailed home in the week beginning June 3.
• Year 11 students will have their end of Unit 1 assessment coming up in weeks 3 to 5 of this term. It is essential that students meet the satisfactory requirement in Unit 1 in the majority of their subjects so as to meet the completed core component of the QCE. Please visit the following link for more information on the requirements for the QCE:

https://myqce.qcaa.qld.edu.au/your-qce-pathway/about-the-qce

• The Year 11 Exam schedule for week 5 will be published on the school website ( https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/curriculum/testing-and-assessment ) in the coming week. This exam schedule is not a shutdown all classes run as per normal and students just attend the library when they have a scheduled exam.
• Year 10 and 12 students will again have assessments scheduled in the last week of this term June 17 to 21.

Other senior schooling news

• A group of Year 12 students completed their First Aid and Safety course on Monday April 22. As this course is structured as 25% of a Certificate 3, these students will attain 2 QCE points. This course will also be offered again in term 3.
• Year 10s and 11s are again encouraged to register for School based traineeships and apprenticeships (SAT) in Y block. A SAT will give students paid employment, work experience and a Certificate 3 qualification which gains extra QCE credits, but also opens up a tertiary pathway. Year 11 students must commence a SAT before July to ensure it is completed by the time they exit school. Please contact Ms Shreeve in Y block for more information.
• Students in Year 10 are again reminded that their academic performance in Year 10 semester 1 will determine which pathway they can choose in Year 11. Students wishing to complete an ATAR pathway need to achieve Bs in English and Maths.  Students wishing to study a senior science course in year 11 and 12 also need to achieve a B in Year 10 Science.

TERM ONE SUCCESS 

We are happy to report overall a very good set of academic reports went out to families at the end of Term 1.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS 

If you have not done so already, please take the time to sit with your child and discuss their interim report, emailed at the end of last term. Celebrate successes and where improvements are needed, set some specific, realistic and measurable goals. Should you require clarification or need to immediately discuss your child’s progress, remember that teachers welcome contact from parents; all teachers’ emails are listed under ‘contacts’ on the PBC website.     

Parent Teacher Interview bookings are opening soon. Booking information regarding our upcoming Parent Teacher Interviews will be emailed to all parents directly on Monday 29th April. These are to be held across Tuesday May 14th, Wednesday May 15th and Thursday May 16th. The interviews are conducted over several afternoons and evenings, to provide as many opportunities as possible for you to meet with teachers. Students are most welcome to be part of the interviews; it can be very useful for them to ask their own questions and to receive direct feedback from teachers, with you present. Teachers are also hoping to learn more about the student, and will welcome information that will help them support each individual in their learning. We look forward to meeting with you.     

WORK EXPERIENCE YEAR 9  

All year 9‘s are invited to organise work experience in week 10 of Term 3. This is an opportunity to explore a career of interest and for those interested in school-based apprenticeships and traineeships for senior school can be the start of this relationship.  Information packs will be distributed to students at Assemblies and initial paperwork can be returned to student services.  The school will then make contact with the employer to finalise the placement.     

FIGHT FOR YOUTH 

Fight for Youth is an inclusive, multicultural youth centre in Currumbin, that supports a diverse range of youth and offers therapeutic-based programs through physical activities for people of all abilities. Fight for Youth aims to build confidence, self-awareness and acceptance through sport, music, art, leadership, mentoring, empowerment and crime-prevention programs.   

Due to the success of the Fight for Youth program we have 11 students in Year 9 participating this term.   

GUIDANCE OFFICER WEEK 

We are celebrating the invaluable contribution of our guidance officers who provide counselling, and advice across the areas of educational, behavioural, vocational, personal, social, family, mental health and wellbeing. 

School staff play a vital role in recognising the early signs of students’ stress or struggles. If you think a student may benefit from support, reach out to our Junior Secondary school guidance officer Anna Willis - awill464@eq.edu.au 

School based traineeships available

New exciting traineeship opportunities are available for year 10 & 11’s in the Pathways Centre Y Block. Job boards will be updated regularly with new positions. Students can collect a registration form and apply now. Get updates on the student portal – New Traineeship VETis Tab

Get paid while gaining a qualification when doing a school-based traineeship and earn up to 8 QCE points!!

Already working!! Why not convert your job to a traineeship, gain QCE points, and gain a qualification in your current job

A variety of new traineeships are on offer with a focus on business, hospitality, retail, sport and tourism

Garden of Vegan: Currumbin business specialising in events and catering, markets stalls etc online ordering, sales and social media. Great opportunity with a variety of tasks

Hospitality and Business Traineeships:

• Garden of Vegan – Currumbin Waters
• Tugun Leagues Club
• Zarraffas Tugun
• The Paddock Bakery
• Seeds of Life Q Super Centre
• Brumbys Bakery The Pines
• Bellakai Coolangatta
• Passiontree Velvet Pacific Fair
• Boost Juice the Pines
• The Pines News and Gifts
• Colores Custom Cosmetics Coolangatta
• Chempro Chemist
• Jamacia Blue Café Robina
• Burleigh Heads Surf Club
• The Coffee Club Stocklands Burleigh
• Southport Yacht Club
• Bakers Delight Robina
• BSKT Nobbys Beach
• Coming Home Co Robina
• Pizzeria Coolangatta
• Airport Retail Enterprises – Gold Coast Airport
• Third Base Coffee Palm Beach
• Kooco Espresso Bar & Kitchen Robina and Nerang
• The Shelf Café and Deli the Pines
• Wendys the Pines
• Maries Pizza – Various locations
• KFC – Palm Beach, Mermaid Beach & Robina

Airport Retail Enterprises:

ARE manage many of the cafes, restaurants and fast-food outlets at Coolangatta Airport. They are looking for enthusiastic and energetic applicants for their traineeships. In this traineeship students will rotate through a range of outlets including fast food, cafe and retail. This is traineeship is ideal for students who are hospitality driven as the diverse experiences will equip the students with a vast range of skills and knowledge. Students must have availability to work weekends to apply for these traineeships

School based vacancies links:

Aurora Training Institute please visit their vacancy page: http://www.aurora.edu.au/schools-program/

First Choice College: Please visit their vacancy page https://fcc.edu.au/?s=traineeships

School Leavers should check the following links for fulltime employment opportunities

https://www.goldcoaststudentjobs.com.au/

https://www.busyatwork.com.au/support-jobseekers/jobs/

https://www.megt.com.au/job-board

https://novaskill.com.au/jobs-available

Looking for a Trade??  Tracy from Gold Coast Trades college has many opportunities available for school leavers looking for a trade eg: metal roofer, painting/decorating, carpentry, tiling, Automotive & plastering.

Please email your resume and industry of interest to Tracey Egan tracy@peopleperformance.com.au 

MEGT Vacancies: Visit the Career Hub job board for a variety of apprenticeships, Roof Plumbing, Landscaping Construction, Soil Technician, Engineering… just to name a few

Visit this link: https://www.megt.com.au/job-board

Mas National vacancies: visit this link https://mas.jobreadygateway.com.au/vacancies

OSMAC are seeking keen YEAR 12 students that want to secure an apprenticeship in the following trades only:

Air/Con & Electrical, Engineering Trade, Plumber, Carpentry, Plastering, Painting, Cabinet Making, Shopfitting, Tiling, Light & heavy vehicle & Panel beater/spray painting

Email resume -   reception@ogt.com.au

Grill’d Stores: Hiring now. Send email to recruitment@grilld.com.au or pacificfair@grilld.com.au>

McDonald’s casuals: apply via these links

• Tugun: https://smrtr.io/4LXdX
• Palm Beach: https://smrtr.io/4RX8W
• Elanora: https://smrtr.io/4LXbg
• Coolangatta and Burleigh Heads visit: https://careers.mcdonalds.com/australia

There are more opportunities on the job boards. Please come into Y Block to register

Love your current job? Would you like to turn it into a traineeship? Come to the Pathway centre and let’s see if we can create a traineeship for you in your current role.

The Pathway Centre is open before school and first break to apply for any of the above positions

Sonia Shreeve - Industry Liaison Officer

PBC Cross Country – Tuesday 23^rd April

The PBC Cross Country will take place this Tuesday 23^rd April (Term 2, Week 2)

Key Information for Students:

• ALL students wishing to take part MUST sign up in S block Foyer (or email Mrs Hart with Name and DOB) by Friday 19^th April, 3pm
• Those who sign up will be released from 1 lesson that day to participate.
• Students MUST run in REDS or House Colours

PERIOD 2

10.30am (PERIOD 2)                      12 GIRLS (2012)              3KM

10.40am (PERIOD 2)                      12 BOYS (2012)               3KM

10.50am (PERIOD 2)                      13 GIRLS (2011)              3KM

11.05am (PERIOD 2                       13 BOYS (2011)               3KM

PERIOD 3

12.25pm (PERIOD 3)                      16 GIRLS/OPENS (2006/07/08)  4KM

12.40pm (PERIOD 3)                      16 BOYS (2008)                        4KM

12.55pm (PERIOD 3)                      OPEN BOYS  (2006/07)              4KM

PERIOD 4

1.45pm (LUNCH 2)                        15 GIRLS (2009) 4KM

2.00pm (PERIOD 4)                       15 BOYS (2009) 4KM

2.15pm (PERIOD 4)                       14 GIRLS (2010) 4KM

2.25pm (PERIOD 4)                       14 BOYS (2010) 4KM

Senior Secondary Guidance Officer – Steve Jones

To begin, you’ll need to pick a goal. That might seem obvious. But many people fail to achieve their goals. Why? They don’t spend time defining their specific goal(s). To do so, follow steps #1-6:

Step 1: Choose a Priority Goal

During goal setting, people often want to overhaul too many habits at once. For example, start a diet, workout, sleep more and start meditating. All starting January 1st. Pursuing too many goals simultaneously often leads to failure of all goals. Instead, set a priority goal by asking: What is the one goal I can give the necessary time and energy to pursue right now?

Step 2: Pursue a Lofty Goal

Your chosen goal should be ambitious. Simple goals won’t cause sufficient levels of neural arousal and stress to stimulate real growth and learning. Therefore, aim for a lofty goal.

Step 3: Define Specific Actions

While overarching goals like “get fit,” “write a book” or “run more” are helpful to list during brainstorming, you must identify the actions involved in achieving each of these ‘macro’-goals. Break down your desired outcome into specific actions steps to significantly improve your likelihood of achieving your goal. For example, run three times per week.

Step 4: Goal Measurability

Establish a finite time course to complete your goal; I’d suggest a 12-week time period is appropriate for most goals. Within this quarterly timeframe, define:

1. Total hours per week
2. Specific days
3. The length of each goal-oriented work session
4. A specific time window (e.g., from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.) or a time constraint (e.g., before 9 a.m.) for the goal-oriented work session

Step 5: Quantify Your Goals

Some goals have easily quantifiable outcomes (e.g., running a marathon in less than a given amount of time). Others are more subjective (e.g., developing a meditation practice). With loosely defined goal outcomes, take extra care. Outline the specific, necessary actions for your plan. For any type of goal, it can also help to designate smaller outcomes along the 12-week journey. They will keep you feeling motivated.

Step 6: Don’t Tell the World!

Have you ever started a goal and wanted to share this news via group text or a social media post? Unfortunately, receiving positive feedback on a newly set goal can undermine your success. This positive encouragement can activate the brain’s reward mechanisms. This reduces your motivation to continue pursuing the goal. You already got the reward without the hard work. So, when you start a goal, it’s usually best to keep this endeavour to yourself. It can also make sharing with friends and family more fun once you’ve hit your first milestone.

Guidance Officer Anna Willis (Email : awill464@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.

It has been a HUGE couple of weeks for Surf Lifesaving with the QLD Titles and Aussie Titles and many of our students involved, see below for some of these results.

QLD State Surf Lifesaving Titles

Taj Murray and Summer Murray competed at the state surf lifesaving carnival over 3 long days coming away with some great results.

Taj Murray

2 gold  2 silver  and 4 bronze  

1st U15 Board Rescue with Byron (pbc team)

1st U15 Cameron Relay

2nd All Age Beach Relay

2nd U15 Surf Teams

3rd U15 Surf Swim

3rd U15 Beach Relay

3rd U15 2x1km beach run relay with Byron (PBC team)

3rd U15 Board Relay

Summer Murray

3 gold 2 silver 1 bronze  

1st U13 Board Race

1st U13 Cameron Relay

1st U13 Board Relay

2nd U13 Board Rescue

2nd All Age Beach Relay

3rd U13 Surf teams

Speedway - Australian Wingless Sprint Titles

Year 12 PBC student Harry Fowler has qualified to compete in the Australian Title for Wingless Sprints over the ANZAC weekend April 25-27. This is Harry’s first Australian Title in an adult division. There are 78 competitors from all over Australia nominated to compete over the 3 days. Harry will be the youngest competitor in the Title with many competitors having raced in the division for many years - some for up to 30 years! This is Harry’s first season in the wingless division. The event will be held at his local track ‘The home of Champions - Lismore Speedway’. Congratulations and best of luck next weekend Harry! 

Athletics

Dylan started the week with the Decathlon, competing in ten events across two days, this was a very tough competition and he ended up with 4th place, a great achievement. Only being relatively new to pole vault he was very happy to receive a Bronze Medal in the u17 Men’s Pole Vault competition with a big 50cm personal best.

SRS Payment Options

For all other payment options please email finance@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au or visit our website https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/support-and-resources/payments.

The Finance Window is located in D Block. The Payments Window is open on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 8:00am to 12:00pm.

Canteen News

As the weather is getting cooler we have added some new weekly specials to the menu this term

MONDAY

Teriyaki chicken poke bowl $7.00

Grilled Vegetable & Pesto Panini $7.00 - Pesto, grilled capsicum, pumpkin, caramelized onion, baby spinach, mozzarella cheese & toasted

2 x Panko chicken tenders & wedges $7.00

TUESDAY

Roast of the Day $7.00       

Veggie frittata $7.00

 Banh mi roll Pork - Fresh Baguette, Mayo, pickled carrot, cucumber, spring onion, topped with soy & hoisin sauce.

Vietnamese chicken noodle bowl $7.00

Lemongrass chicken, carrot, cucumber, bean sprouts, coriander mint,

WENDESDAY

Butter chicken with steamed rice & mini naan bread $7.00

Vegetarian Curry with steamed rice & mini naan bread $7.00

Spaghetti Bolognese $7.00

THURSDAY

Bao Bun

Karrage chicken or Pork $6.50

FRIDAY

Enchiladas $7.00

Beef or Chicken

Vegetarian Mexican bake potato $7.00