Student Late to School SMS/Text from parents/caregivers

Starting Week 8 (Monday 20 November) we are directing parents to SMS/text in to 0426 305 728 when their child is going to be late to school and prior to their arrival at school.

Please provide:

• student's name and year level
• date of absence/time of ‘LATE’ arrival to school
• reason for absence/’LATE’ to school
• eg. “John Smith Yr 9, 14/11/23 LATE 9.30am Medical Appointment

We will be also trialling a student self-sign in process at student services. The SMS/Text message from parents/caregiver will approve the students sign in at school.

Junior School Awards Ceremony

Last week we celebrated our annual awards night. It was wonderful to see such a range of students in specific subject areas and also for leadership and participation across our wider school community in school based clubs and communities. Of special mention are the students listed below who represent our top academic achievers in each year level selected from the academic excellence cohort of around 100 students in each year. Our mastery and engagement winners who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement across all four core subjects and very high levels of engagement at schools demonstrated through attendance and effort, academic excellence students are not eligible for this award, instead it is chosen from the remaining 350 strong cohort. Well done to all students acknowledged on the night.

Highest Academic Achiever Year 7

Zak Little

Highest Academic Achiever Year 8

Isla Crossan

Highest Academic Achiever Year 9

Bella Wilson

And our Mastery and Engagement Awardees:

Year 7 – Connor Shaw

Year 8 – Ella Brown

Year 9 – Jua Nakauchi

Year 7 Camp

At the start of this term year 7s went on a three day actioned-packed camp in native Queensland bushland, students formed ‘tribes’ and worked together to complete a services of survival-themed challenges. The following students exemplified the qualities and behaviours of a PBC red and were nominated by their tribe leader as they displayed and demonstrated the following team skills of leadership, team work, initiative, group participation, group planning and team spirit.

Congratulations!

- Frankie Molloy

- Francis De Gracia

- Sopja Chislett

- Koa Bordie

- Willow Sutherland

- Rylee Sladden

- Charlize Hunt

- Hamish Raymant

The tribe ‘The Survivors’, led by teacher Andrew Jordan, were the overall winners of the survival camp. They were awarded the most points whilst completing the activities by displaying and demonstrating unity and working to individual strengths. ‘The Survivors’ were presented with a group trophy at a recent year level assembly. Congratulations to:

Tayla Hancock

Pickelle Bianco Fouraux

Nate Corowa

Skylar Cox

Connor Buttress

Aurora Cotton

Koen Clout

Tom Campradt

Levi Cook

Isla-Belle MacDuff

Charlize Hunt

Locke Guilfoyle

Ash Chapman

Dylan Ferguson

Harper Garrad

Bradlee Commins

JS GRIP student leadership conference

On 7 November student leaders in years 7 and 8 attended the GRIP Student Leadership Conference that was held at Griffith University. The students were involved in a variety of activities focusing on school culture and ways of working as a team to make a difference.