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Entries Open - Nextwave Youth Short Film Competition

SWIFF’s Nextwave Youth Short Film Competition is open for entries!

The Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival is looking for the next wave of young filmmakers! Enter a short film into the Nextwave Youth Film Competition for your chance to win awesome awards and prizes, including Best School, and have your film premiere at SWIFF 2023 on the Coffs Coast. If you like being creative, and want to have a go at filmmaking, SWIFF wants to see what you can do!

The rules are simple:

Make a film under five minutes
Include the theme of TRANSFORMATION and a GREEN item in your film!
Enter before October 25th to win!

For full terms and conditions, visit www.nextwavefilm.com.au

Great Southern Ability Festival

The festival is inclusive and will be great for any students who have a disability to potentially see and participate in activities that are on offer. It is also very much aimed at everyone who will be looking for work in the future including as a career or perhaps while they are studying for their impending career. The care and support sector has work all over Australia and this is a very mobile workforce. This career pathway is also quite varied, providing many opportunities for different roles.

Halloween Quiz Night - Albany Girl Guides

Get your tickets here: Halloween Quiz Night - Fundraiser for Girl Guides National Jamboree Tickets, Sat 29/10/2022 at 6:30 pm | Eventbrite

MAMMA MIA! in Albany

Over 60 million people all around the globe have fallen in love with the story and the music of ABBA that makes MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good musical. And now, in a stunning new production, the show finally comes to the Albany Port Theatre presented by Albany Light Opera and Theatre Company. Voulez Vous, S.O.S, Take a Chance On Me, Dancing Queen and so many more hits you know and love make this worldwide phenomenon a fabulous night out for audiences of all ages. Set on a Greek island paradise, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. A celebration of love, laughter, family and friendship, MAMMA MIA! is exactly what the world needs right now.

Presented by Albany Light Opera and Theatre Company

Directed by Anne Davidson

Musical Directors James Turner and Roger Hey

Choreography by Maxine Jones

Tickets: https://paperbark.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/78411

$35 general; $30 child/student/concession (Companion Card honoured)

Row seating only.

Free Dental Care - Spencer Park Dental Therapy

The Spencer Park Dental Therapy's School Dental Service continues to provide free general and preventative dental care for all enrolled students until your child turns 17 or the end of Year Eleven, whichever occurs first. If you would like to enrol your child in this service, please call (08) 9841 3967 or email spencerparkdtc@dental.health.wa.gov.au.

Kalgan Playgroup

With the relaxation of COVID restrictions the School is excited that families can once again join Kalgan Playgroup. Playgroup runs on a Monday morning from 9.00am to 11.00am in the Kindy room at Great Southern Grammar. Please feel free to share with your friends and families as the Playgroup is open to all members of the community. If you have any queries please call Julia on 0413 946 720.

STS Leeuwin II Coming to Albany in 2023

Sail Leeuwin have a special offer for Great Southern Grammar students to sail on the Leeuwin January 2023. This is separate from our in-school Year Ten expedition programme and is open to anyone at GSG who is interested.