STEM Olympiad

Pimpama State Secondary College

Imagine spending the day completing the work of a civil engineer. Well, that’s precisely the way some specially selected year 5 & 6 students spent last Friday. The students were invited to take part in Pimpama State Secondary College’s STEM Olympiad where they studied the problems of a civil engineer. They put their teamwork skills together to solve a multitude of problems from designing the tallest building, to creating a chair which would hold the weight of one team member. They were busy creating towers that held “oreos”, marble runs and boats, just to name a few. An inventive and enjoyable day was had by all - some of us even won trophies!

Our school museum

This term year 3 have been learning about living, non-living and once living in science. 3WH decided to open a pop up museum and our wonderful families contributed to our exhibit. We had living animals such as a bearded dragon, birds, green tree frogs and a guinea pig. Our exhibit on non-living was filled with crystals, car parts, toys and so much more. The most interesting exhibit was the non-living section we had so many amazing items from a snake skeleton to an umbilical cord. Classes from all over the school came for a tour. We had a blast and loved bringing our science unit to life.

Representative sport

Best wishes to Trey and Spencer when they represent South Coast at the State School Boys Hockey Championships at Ipswich. We are very proud of their achievement.

Year 1 in DigiDesign

This term students in year 1 will be learning to write algorithms using Dash robots. Students started to learn how to connect their robot to the app on their iPad using blue tooth and write a simple algorithm in the correct sequence.

Writing and maths in Year 2

Imran chose a selfie stick to share his work around persuasive writing. Meanwhile Nathen and Noah recorded chance possibilities in their maths explorations.

Miss Conroy earns special recognition

Over the recent holiday break, Miss Conroy was named the winner of the Kennelly Constructions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Achievement Award. Congratulations to Cheyanne as this is a fabulous achievement.

Cheyanne is a proud Wurundjeri woman, a primary school teacher and Indigenous leader. She helped introduce our school-wide program allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at Coomera Rivers State School to identify with and connect with their culture. As a member of the school's Indigenous Champions team, she has coordinated with AIME to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with a focus on learning the Yugambeh language.

Cheyanne was the first Aboriginal to receive the Sir Samuel Griffith Scholarship at Griffith University where she completed Bachelor of Primary Education and Bachelor in Child and Family Studies, both with distinction.  Our school is incredibly proud of her and this achievement.

Smart money in Year 4    

This week the Year 4 students participated in a Start Smart session run by ‘Coach Cash’ from the Commonwealth Bank. The session focused on beginning to educate children about financial maths, budgeting and the importance of saving. The catch phrase to remember is, ’Spend some on you, save some too!'

Year 1 visit was fun

Each week at school, I try to reward the class that has the highest attendance percentage.  This week it was 1CM and they managed to achieve an incredible 99% attendance in Week 2 of this term.  My visit to the room included the reading of the class story at the moment and some carpet games where I was working hard to trick them.  I also spent some time perusing some of the excellent work they have been doing.

Congratulations to all of them on a super week of school.

And around the classrooms this week

Day 10

Year 6 calls every tenth day at school, Day 10, and, as luck would have it, Day 10 falls on every second Friday.

Day 10 was another highly successful day for everyone lucky enough to be involved last Friday. The wide range of activities on offer for our Year 6 students, gave them opportunities to engage and learn in their chosen areas of interest and passion. From coffee art with an expert, to creative arts, leveraging digital, hairdressing, baking, special effects make-up, Yoga, Zumba, cultural activities, sport and more; there was definitely plenty to excite, challenge and engage all students.

The Hour of Power

This week Year 4 students eagerly dived into their second round of Hour of POWER. These session are an opportunity for students to pursue their Passions, have new Opportunities, Wonder about new things, develop Empathy and strengthen Relationships. All the teachers involved love the chance to work with students from other classes and explore students’ interests. Everyone is super excited for our next session in a fortnight!

• Our sessions for Term 4 are:
• The Global Write
• Wellbeing Warriors
• Dauntless Debaters
• Minecraft Mini-City