Executive Principal 

Dear Parents

Today we launch a new style of newsletter that is aimed at being more user friendly for our entire community.  We hope you like the condensed information with articles linked to headings allowing you to engage with the content that relates to you.  The new format will be easier to read on smartphones and should download quicker when clicking on content. 

Welcome back to term 2.  With NAPLAN now well behind the year 7 and 9 students, this term promises to be as busy as ever with day-to-day life being full of normal learning programs, additional lunch time fun House & Care activities and extra-curricular events.  It is important that students attend school each and every day to make the most of their time at PBC.  Our end of semester reporting results highlight a direct correlation of higher levels of attendance resulting in higher levels of achievement.  Post cyclone we had the highest levels of school attendance since the Covid years, and we are aiming at keeping up that momentum. 

Students riding e-bikes continues to be the biggest concern for the school and wider community in terms of complaints to the school.  We have had a number of students involved in serious accidents requiring medical attention last term, even after police talks to the students at multiple assemblies.  After the assemblies, police launched Operation Elektra across the Gold Coast and a number of students had their e-bikes impounded with fines then being applied not only to the students but also in some instances to their parents.

Chris Capra

Executive Principal