Tech girls movement

The Tech Girls Movement Foundation delivered an online workshop this week for some of our students for the Australian Government initiative Academy for Enterprising Girls (AEG) across Queensland. This program is designed to help create an entrepreneurial mindset and build confidence in female students aged 10-18.

The workshop was facilitated by Jaq who is a Neuroscientist & a University Lecturer in Robotics with a real passion for changing gender inequity in STEM fields.

15 girls from Year 6 enjoyed a morning of designing, creating and sharing their entrepreneurial ideas and finished off with an app design to solve a community problem related to the Global Goals. Plenty of smiles to end the session with their certificates and swag bags.

Year 3 investigate shapes

Well done to the students in 3B and 3GB this week when they were busy investigating the characteristics of two and three dimensional shapes.

Aiden shares his appreciation

For homework, Aiden wrote a letter to Bluecare to thank them for all their services throughout COVID.  And they were very appreciative.

The wise little owl

Lyra and Harper both have a copy of a book called The Wise Little Owl. Their Aunty Alle is the author and before she passed away in 2014 while battling breast cancer, she wrote a few children’s stories.  The Wise Little Owl is the second book published.

This book is now in our school library thanks to the kind donation from Lyra and Harper.  

Science and puppets

Students in 1D and 1C have been exploring light and sound within their science unit and had lots of fun making shadow puppets this week.  They experimented with the shadows created by the sunlight.  Learning is fun!  

A budding author is recognised

Last term, some of our talented and passionate Year 4 writers entered the 2020 Seven Steps Narrative Writing Competition, as part of their Hour of Power, Story-a-thon group with Mrs Walsh.  Late this week, the winners, runners up and highly commended recipients were announced.

We are excited to report that Maya from 4C was shortlisted and awarded highly commended. This is an amazing achievement in a national competition with over 1900 entries. Congratulations Maya!

Year 4 day camp

The arrival of coronavirus to our shores earlier this year meant that many of our planned school activities for the year were either cancelled or changed.  Year 4 camp was one activity that changed from a sleep-over camp to a day camp.  A change of venue and a change of season saw the students and teachers head off to Runaway Bay Sports Centre this week to take on the teamwork challenges programs. 

It was a full day of collaboration and creativity where teamwork was brought to the forefront.  Thank you to the Year 4 staff who supported the students across the day.  They did an amazing job.

And in classrooms

Reading, writing, investigations and maths this week have all resulted in some terrific learning outcomes.