Attendance Congratulations

We are very proud of our 400 Middle School students that have reached the 95% attendance target in 2019. The P&C support this and will be rewarding those students with an opportunity to win an Event Cinema Movie ticket for 2. We will draw the prize during our final Optima assembly in Week 8. Congratulations to all students and good luck for the final draw prize.

End of Year Program

The 2019 Middle School ‘End of Year Program’ will begin on Wednesday 4 December with a House Carnival and will continue an alternative educational program until Friday 13 December. We are very pleased that students will be involved in a variety of activities including Year 7 Camp, Year 8 Camp, Year 9 Work Experience and Musical rehearsals.  

Murri Jarjum

Our Murri Jarjum students in Term 3 are participating in the Deadly Choices new initiative “Good Quick Tukka’ program. Students spend two weeks obtaining their food safety certificate, before spending the next five Wednesday morning creating an assortment of healthy meals together. The breakfast fruit cup was enjoyed by all students.

Community Service Program

PBC is committed to fostering a balanced, yet dynamic curriculum within a friendly community where all members may achieve their potential. PBC students have a strong sense of personal responsibility; demonstrate initiative and commitment to our school and our community. Our Community Service Program aims to engage students in community service participation and encourage reflection to promote service learning.

Current opportunities for Middle School students to engage in community service include:

• Leo’s Club
• Extracurricular opportunities offer a number of community service activities such as Cooking for the Homeless, aged care visits, the prep reader program and mentoring programs
• Recreational sport such as unpaid refereeing or game official eg: water runner or timekeeper, canteen volunteer, coach/assistant coach and clinics, maintenance work of facilities or equipment and any volunteer work at a club or community event
• Volunteering Gold Coast offers hundreds of opportunities each week

Making your Hours Count

Students are asked to submit a participation form which details the activity they did, the date/s, hours completed and a contact person who can verify their participation. These forms are available from Middle School Student Reception or can be downloaded from the PBC website.

Completed forms should be returned to Middle School Student Reception. Students who do so by the end of term will have their hours count towards the next round of OPTIMA Awards. 

Year 7 Optima

Congratulations to all the Year 7 students that received awards at out Term 4 Optima Assembly. What an outstanding group of students.