Extra-Curricular & Well Being
NAIDOC Week Assembly
On Monday 1st July we celebrated NAIDOC Week assembly with our indigenous students and families. Our assembly was opened by a traditional smoke ceremony. Each member of our Indigenous Leaders Group took part in the assembly with dances, songs and speeches. Thank you to Mr Nolan, Jessie Simon-Fitzpatrick and special guests.
Week of Well Being!
Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Premiers Reading Challenge
The Premiers Reading Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
Student Reading Records need to be completed by AUGUST 30! Please record all books online before this date!
The new PRC student site is now LIVE! Click here to visit!
You can also download this handy map to see which levels you can progress through as you complete the challenge - have fun as you catch the reading bug!
2019 Key Dates:
March 4: Challenge opens. Students will be able to log books on their Student Reading Record, and coordinators will be able to create accounts for new students.
August 30: Closing date for student entries.
September 13: Final date for validation of Student Reading Records by coordinators.
Regional Dance Festival
Our fantastic dance ensembles have performed at the Regional Dance Festival at the Seymour Centre. Thank you to Ms Reed & Ms Hunter.
Ensemble News
After the excitement exhaustion and success of our 2019 School musical production all our Ensembles are back on track and working towards a variety of performance opportunities. Whether it be Dance, Band, Choir, Strings, Ukelele, Percussion, Drama or Theatresports they are all underway learning, polishing and getting to ready to excel. MADD Night ( Music Art Dance & Drama) night is on our school calendar for Term four Thursday 14th of November. It will be another opportunity for family members and friends to see the extended skills and abilities of our students on display. New members are welcome to join Ensembles and to become part of those performance.
HSC Drama Showcase
Year 12 Drama Students have been working furiously to prepare for their upcoming Practical Examination will takes place on the Thursday 29th August 2019 @ 6pm. With limited time remaining they still have work to do. In order to enable their best presentation on the big day we will be holding our HSC Drama Showcase in the Cantabrian Hall on Thursday 15th August. Students, parents and friends are welcome. The presentation will run until 7.45pm (approximately).
Write4Fun Competition
Earlier this year, many of our students entered the Write4fun writing competition. Students wrote a variety of stories ranging from historical fiction to contemporary stories. All our students received Honorable mentions and certificates in recognition of their outstanding work. We're proud to nurture the creative talents of our many students and congratulate them on their efforts.
Autism Peer Support Group
The Autism Peer Support Group said farewell to Grace Matthews-Rowney this term. Grace is leaving us to explore a pathway to a career in Veterinary Science and we wish her all the best and thank her for her advocacy. Grace addressed our school community sharing her lived experience of being on the Autism Spectrum. We reprint Grace’s speech here and thank you for all her contributions.
Music News
The end of Term 2 saw all the music ensembles and elective classes perform a variety of repertoire at the annual Winterfest concert. We saw the students showcasing what they have learnt in semester one, check out the videos of the performances .
Students had a wonderful time at the Capitol Theatre on the last Wednesday of term watching the magical performance of the pure imagination spectacular that was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Look forward to School of Rock at the end of the year, secure your tickets now!
Don’t forget to enter the National Songwriting Competition: http://acmf.com.au/, it is free to enter and there are cash prizes for first, second and third. Students can submit multiple songs but hurry, entries close on the 24th of August!