It has been a busy but exciting start to 2021!

Instrumental Music

Welcome back to Instrumental Music. Students have now had their first lessons and band rehearsals and we are looking forward to working hard to produce some outstanding performances for the year ahead. Junior Secondary IM students will be attending their camp in Week 6 where they will take part in team building activities, a bush MasterChef competition, guest conductors and lots of music making. The opportunity will be great for bringing our students together after a tough covid year without any performances in 2020. Students and parents can expect a great year ahead!

Mrs Kayla Latter

Drama and Drama Excellence

On Monday 8 February, SHOCK THERAPY PRODUCTIONS performed two award-winning plays for Drama and Drama Excellence students in the Theatre. “The Stones” and “The Apology” are based on real life events. Actors Sam Foster and Hayden Jones made storytelling dynamic, and the performance landscape entertaining and incredibly moving. Year 11 and 12 Drama students are both creating Dramatic Concepts based around each play as a stimulus.

For Junior Drama students, it was a rollercoaster ride as an introduction to live theatre - a tour de force of physical theatre!

Fantastic to have live theatre a part of our curriculum once more!  

PBC Comedy      

Comedy at PBC is back!

Let's rewind to this time last year... (in case you missed it!)

14 Reds started Comedy Writing Workshops with professional comedian Mandy Nolan, spent 6 hours working on generating ideas, exploring what makes funny funny and worked on their own unique stand-up material. They then put on a sold-out showcase in front of about 200 people consisting of parents, fellow students and staff! The result? Hilarity! What a great night that was, we even managed to raise over $700 for Beyond Blue - and we all know what an amazing organisation they are.

Beyond that, our 2020 comedy troupe embarked on an excursion to HOTA to compete in the regional heat for Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Class Clowns competition which runs right around Australia. Two of our Reds; Jai (now Year 10) and Fletcher (now in Year 11) made the State Finals and Jai was announced the State Winner - scoring a place in the National Final. Not bad for our first crack! 

It’s all happening again this year, with 14 PBC students engaging in the comedy writing workshops with Mandy Nolan ready for the showcase.

• Come along to support these talented young comedians at the ‘Reds Go Riot Showcase’ on Friday 26 February at 6:00pm in the school theatre. Tickets $5 from the Payments Window (Tue-Thu 8:00am-1:00pm).  
• From there it's the 2021 Class Clowns Gold Coast Heat on Thursday 4 March where our comics will do an MICF Crash Course and perform for a place in the Semi-finals.

Thank you to Bendigo Bank Tugun Community Branch who have made this all possible again with their Community Grant, and to PBCs Leos who have made a very generous donation. We can't wait to see you on the 26th! 

Erin Hull
Comedy Coordinator/Teacher