Palm Beach Currumbin State High eNewsletter

Student Achievements

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.

Youth Music Venture - PBC Music Excellence Students tour China

Congratulations to PBC Students Myles O'Grady and Griffin Light-Law. Myles and Griffin have been selected to perform with 5 other members of the Youth Music Venture in Chengdu, China. They are part of one of only two bands representing Australia to perform at the festival.

Way to go Myles and Griffin!!

Traineeship Completion

Congratulations to Grace Wilkinson, who recently completed a Cert 3 Business school based traineeship with Boost Juice the Pines and Aurora Training!

Queensland Training Awards

Well deserved recognition for Shaylee Borg, who is the winner of the South East Region Queensland Training Awards – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year. On Friday 19^th July Shaylee Borg was presented this award held at Gold Coast Turf Club Events Centre. Congratulations Shaylee!

Basketball

Congratulations to Year 7 PBC Basketball Sports Excellence student Oscar Shaw who recently travelled to Port Macquarie to compete in the finals of the Spalding Waratah North Eastern Junior League, representing Byron Bay and their U14 team won! Oscar is now off to the Spalding Waratah Junior State Cup in Bathurst on 16 August!

National Youth Championships - Football

Congratulations to Year 11 PBC student Fenner Lee. Fenner is a dual QLD football (soccer) representative who has recently returned from the Football Australia National Youth Championships in Woollongong, where he was part of the Qld U16 White team. Fenner's team qualified for the Grand Final and ended up with a silver medal. Fenner will also be representing Qld U16 next month at the Australian Schoolboys Championships in Perth. We wish you the best of luck Fenner, and well done on your achievements thus far!!

QLD School State Surfing Championships

It was a successful few days on the Sunshine Coast for PBC Students at the QLD School Surfing State Championships. Results below and photos attached if you’d like to use any of it for the newsletter or social media feeds:

U19 Boys MR Shield – 1^st – Will Martin and Davi Glazer

U16 Boys MR Shield – 1^st – Jai Nield and Hunter Andersson

U19 Girls MR Shield – 2^nd – Jordy Halford and Gidget Kowalski

U16 Girls MR Shield – 2^nd – Meika Locke and Anna Huppatz

Individuals

U19 Boys

2^ndJimmi Hill
3^rdWill Martin

U16 Boys

1^stHemi O;Brien
3^rdHunter Andersson
4^thSunny Clarke

U19 Girls

1^stJordy Halford
4^thMaddison Kenchington

U16 Girls

1^stMeika Locke
4^th Gidget Kowalski