General News
Gold Coast Theatre Awards
Congratulations to Ms Skyring and her wonderful team of staff who have been acknowledged in the Gold Coast Theatre Awards for the efforts in executing the outstanding “All Shook Up” this year. The Gold Coast Theatre Awards are a prestigious event at which PBC is regularly recognised, but acknowledgement in a year such as this one is a significant and well deserved achievement. The PBC All Shook Up musical received 7 nominations in the GC Theatre Awards this year.
- All Shook Up (PBC) - Best Youth Production
- Madonna Hall - Best Director of a Youth Production
- Abby Swanborough - Best Choreographer of a Youth Production
- Krissy Tassone/Kayla Latter - Best Vocal or Music Director of a Youth Production
- All Shook Up (PBC) screen projection - Best Technical Achievement or Effect
- Bayley Jacobsen – The Jock and Beverly McIlwain Special Encouragement Award
- Oliver Childs – Best Actor or Actress in a Supporting Role
The winners of those categories were announced last Thursday night and PBC won in the following categories…
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Oliver Childs (Yr 12)
- Best Choreographer - Abby Swanborough
- Best Director - Madonna Hall
Congratulations to all!
CARE Carnival
Care Carnival was on Friday 4 December and was a huge event with EPIC food, live music, game stalls and of course the inflatables. Students came in free dress and enjoyed all the fun activities.
'Engineering Confidence' - Women and Girls Workshop Breakfast
On 17 November ACCIONA and Surfing Australia held their ACCIONA ‘Engineering Confidence’ Women and Girls Workshop Breakfast at PBC. The event was designed to not only build confidence in young women, but kickstart thoughts and discussions about real career opportunities in the construction engineering industry via STEM.
ACCIONA will continue as a major support partner of key Surfing Australia program, the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle, Australia’s biggest grassroots boardriders event series involving over $100,000 prizemoney across eight state events and a large-scale National Final. ACCIONA's involvement in the national final earlier this year saw the event granted carbon neutral status – a first for Surfing Australia.
CAX Experience Day
Thursday Week 7 PBC welcomed our 2021 CAX students by inviting them to a CAX Experience day. Students participated in student led dance and music workshops, met their mentors and lived a life as PBC CAX student for a day. We cannot wait to welcome these students into our community next year.
PBC Fundraising - Entertainment Books
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Crazy Sock Day
This term the staff participated in a wellbeing event designed to celebrate people's creativity and differences while raising awareness of the importance of mental health. Staff were challenge to wear odd socks to school with a winner for the most creative images submitted announced. Congratulations to Ms Phillips and a huge shout out to SockieLala for providing some awesome crazy socks to our winners!
SockieLala believes individuality starts at your feet and has been triggering twinkles in the eye for the bearer and giggles in the soul for the wearer since 2018. If you are keen for some quality, quirky and quizzical socks for any occasion visit the SockieLala website https://www.sockielala.com.au!
Beat the Teachers Week 2020
PBC introduced a ‘Beat the Teachers’ competition during Term 4 where students were given the opportunity to take on their teachers in a number different activities throughout week 7. This year’s events were Spelling, Basketball Free Throw, Times Tables and Footy pass through a target.
The competition was fiercely competitive throughout the week! The teachers took an early lead winning the Spelling on Monday followed by a narrow win in the Basketball Free throw on Tuesday but the students didn’t give up and came back strong taking the win in the Times Tables on Thursday which took the event to the wire on Friday. The students needing to win the Footy pass to take the competition to a sudden death shootout. The students took out the footy pass competition which meant that the scores were locked at 2-2. To decide the winners both the staff and students had to pick 5 people to play a knockout round of the footy pass competition to decide the winners. The teachers eventually came out on top and were crowned champions for 2021. A huge thanks to all students and staff that took part and we look forward to next year’s event.
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Dates to Remember
9 December - Last day for all Year 7-9 students of 2020
18 January - PBC School Admin offices re-open 8:00am
18-22 January - PBC Uniform Shop opens for extra trading 7:00am-12:00pm
25 January - PBC offices will be closed for Australia Day long weekend
26 January - Australia Day holiday
27 January - First Day of Term 1 for Years 7, 11 and 12
28 January - First Day of Term 2 for Years 8, 9 and 10
17 February - PBC Excellence Programs Information Night Year 7 2022