District Cross Country – Monday 10 May 2021

Another great district competition for our PBC Cross Country Team. The students performed exceptionally well again, and we now have nearly 50 students heading off to the Regional Cross Country in early June. 13 individual medals and 7 team Golds. Special mention to the following students who stepped up out of their comfort zones to ensure we had full teams: Kai Colless, Logan Manuel-McGarry and Alannah Welsh.

Regional Information has been emailed to parents and students. Good Luck to those competing at Regionals.

PBC Comedy Club

After 2 great years of Comedy at PBC with Reds Go Riot, we are looking for the next group of students keen to explore and develop their comedy chops!

Students can join in on the action at LUNCHTIME LOLs on Fridays Lunch 1 in N11.

Why not have some fun making others laugh and learning a new skill - it takes guts but it's well worth it!

Find out more by speaking to Mrs Hull. Email: ebhul0@eq.edu.au.

Sport Ex Online Learning Hub

REDS Track & Field and Soccer Champion David Lonie, Rugby League Champion - Tom Dearden and AFL Champion - Jesse Joyce all recently returned to share their experiences and advice to our next generation of REDS as part of our new Like a Champion series. 3 more REDS Champions returned to PBC to share their experiences and provide advice to our next generation of REDS as part of our new Like a Champion series. They are Ironwoman Champion Karla Gilbert, Track and Field Champions Lizzie Forsyth and Jye Gillard. Touch Champion Abby King and Netball Champion Abi Houston are another two 'Forever REDS' who recently returned to share their experiences and advice to our next generation of REDS as part of our new Like a Champion series.

PBC is launching its own e-learning platform www.pbcreds.com.au. The first roll out of courses aimed at personal well being is set for mid term 2. Stay tuned!

Reds get Grateful

Growing Good Humans

As part of our Growing Good Humans project we have recorded 4 amazing young people’s story as video podcasts. These are raw and honest discussions about the challenges these phenomenal young people have faced very early in their lives.

Students will be engaging with these as part of their CARE curriculum this term and will explore concepts like GRATITUDE, Forgiveness and Resilience as they hear each of these stories.

The first of our PODCASTS features Remy Heremaia a current Year 12 student.

https://youtu.be/SSMFGzecV4k

Student Feedback

The students were particularly keen to tell us which staff they were grateful for:

• Mr Morley - Positive reinforcement of good behavior
• Mr Walsh - Kind and full of praise
• Mr Flood - supportive and helps gets work done
• Mr Saunders - Helpful, supportive and positive in class
• Ms Branton - Always positive and friendly
• Mrs Woodcock - Helps understand work
• Mr Brentnall - Makes learning in chemistry fun
• Mr Mackay - Supportive particularly with sport ex training
• Ms Jones - Going above and beyond to train for volleyball
• Mr Clarke - Organising and coordinating cluster sports
• Mr Williams  - providing additional 1 on 1 support in English
• Mr Walsh - He is funny and makes my day
• Mr Flood - Takes time to talk to me when I am down and helps me out
• Mr Dixon - Changed timetable to make me happier
• Mr McPherson - Chilled and relaxed
• Mr Morley -  ‘Gets and understands us’ makes extra effort
• Mr Patterson  - Always happy, makes us feel better about school
• Ms Kenwood - Friendly, amazing and makes a difference
• Mr Howard - Always relaxed and funny in care, great start to the day
• Ms Hage - Always happy and caring really good to talk too
• Ms Hyatt - Always putting extra effort, committed to getting the best out of us, and just a lovely person.
• Ms Lovesy - Kind and compassionate
• Ms Hage - Always positive and takes time for a chat
• Ms Willets - Funny
• Ms Mruck - Makes maths easy to understand
• Ms O’Neil - Kind and happy
• Mr Semple - Lots of positive praise for work done
• Mr McPherson - Positive reinforcement about class work
• Mr Semple - Organiser and great at his job
• Mr Later - Happy and makes maths great
• Mr Morley - Helps me cope emotionally
• Ms Smith - Lots of energy
• Mr Jordan - Good teacher and funny
• Ms Kimber - really nice and supportive
• Ms Cairney - Love her the most
• Mr Robb - “Good as Teacher”
• Mr Capra  - Pretty decent principal
• Ms Tsai - Really helpful
• Ms Withington - Understanding
• Mr Bond - Get’s us to do cool stuff
• Ms O’Kane - Nice and considerate
• Ms Masia - Caring and Compassionate
• Ms Parker - She gives me responsibilities
• Ms Deb - “She the best” Really helpful
• Ms Selby - She’s kind and caring
• Ms Gill - Kind and very helpful
• Mr Lane - He really cares about us
• Ms Hillcoat - Always helps us out
• Brooke Philo - Awesome mum
• Ms Davidson - Positive perspective always. « She’s the best”
• Mr Johnstone -  I love his modesty, really loving the Instagram contest ‘Shakkas With Johno’
• Ms Reid - Heaps of support for extra curricular activities
• Mr Price - Extra help on scratch
• Mr Robb - Extra help in class to get work done
• Mr Walsh - Great explanations of topic
• Ms Frisoli - Always helping with English
• Canteen ladies - Always friendly with great food
• Mr Zacharia - Relaxed but gets the job done
• Ms Apanui - Always supportive and positive
• Ms Day - Funny, relaxed and chilled
• Ms Swanbrough -  Helping me become a better person
• Ms Kelly - Makes math fun
• Ms Thomas - Nice, makes English fun
• Mr Hamilton - Always listening and caring
• Mr Scott (prac) - Chilled and funny
• Ms Withington - Approachable, can ask anything
• Mr Darnett - Supportive, funny chemistry puns
• Ms Maher - Funny ‘My favorite teacher’
• Ms Dufty - Kind and supportive
• Mr Wallace (prac) - Awesome prac teacher
• Mr Hamilton - Supportive, great teacher
• Mr McCullagh  -  Great understanding of student needs
• Mr Sarasola - Great at listening and caring
• Ms Wyatt - Great CARE teacher, gets everyone involved
• Ms TG - Absolutely amazing. “The Bomb”
• Ms Whalin - Always knows her students, checks in. We love her outfits too.
• Mr Larter - Loves to have a joke, he’s caring and really chill
• Mr Clark - “He’s such a sweety”
• Ms Hill - Such a good teacher, she does o much for us.

This is what the Clontarf boys said they were grateful for:

• Mr Babovic  - He is chill. He is the “Man”
• Mr Lane - He is chill funny and always in a good mood
• Mr Morley - He is a Mad Dog ( apparently highly complimentary)
• Mr Brown - Adam/Chris take your pick: Cool
• Mr Johnstone - Good bloke, really helps me
• Ms G Moss - helps me so much in class
• Mr Bond - Helped us with our exam
• Ms Haidley - “Helped me with everything #lovely”
• Mr Bishop - He don’t take no #$%^ from anyone
• Ms G Moss - Always helpful

Follow PBC on Social Media

Our social media accounts are the best way to stay connected with the daily happenings of our school. We will upload any important messages, reminders, student achievements and general action. With posts every day this a great way to celebrate our awesome school. If you have any news about your student that you would like to share please message us via Direct Message on Instagram, Messenger on Facebook or email to news@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au.

Instagram @PBCSHS

Facebook @PalmBeachCurrumbinStateHigh and @PBCAlliance

PBC Fundraising

The P&C have been very busy putting together a number of options to help parents and caregivers support PBC and raise funds for school projects to benefit our students. There is an option to suit everyone. Thank you for supporting our school.

Water Fountains

Our P&C are offering a FREE 12 month Entertainment Book multi-city subscription valued at $69.99 to one lucky donor to the school’s hydration station fundraiser. The Entertainment Book offers thousands of dollars’ worth of savings on groceries, dining, entertainment, travel and much more. If you haven’t already donated to the campaign to install filtered, refrigerated water bottle filling stations around the school, please click on this link https://www.pozible.com/profile/pbc-p-and-c . Every donation over $2 will receive a tax deductible receipt. The winner will be drawn after 15 June.

Reds Sports Towel

The PBC P&C Association have produced a fantastic 'PBC Reds' Sports Towel for our latest fundraiser. The towel features the PBC Reds logo and are a perfect size for all our students to use during their training activities. The towel has ultimate absorbency, is lightweight and quick drying and looks great! At just $25, these towels are available now at the PBC Uniform Shop.

The money raised through the sales of our Reds Towel will go towards more chilled water bubblers for our students.

Towel size 50cm x 110cm

Entertainment Books

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Dates to Remember