Regional chess tournament

On Thursday, students from Coomera Rivers, Labrador, Helensvale, Coomera Anglican College, AB Paterson College, Arundel and St Francis Xavier participated in a Gardiner Chess competition at our school. Each student played 7 games of chess, and the level of competition was very tough. Our students played hard, respectfully and improved with every game they played.

Two of our students managed to place in Top 3 of their year level. Well done to Alana (2W) and Joey (2H).

All of our students should be very proud of their efforts.  Thank you to Mr Burrows for leading our chess team to this competition.  Well done!

2B just love maths and skittles

2B students really enjoyed some yummy maths fun this week when they graphed data using Skittles.

Excellent writing

Well done to everyone in 1/2Mc this week on their awesome writing.

And...

Students in 2A have been learning how to write persuasively. Their latest persuasive writing was to Mr Meijboom to persuade him to allow them to be King or Queen of 2A and take over from Miss Mackay.  Yes, our very own coup d'etat.   They were very proud of their writing and they all had many great ideas for their takeover!

Our bee-lightful news

On Wednesday, bee keeper Peter, visited our school and helped us establish a hive of native Australian bees in our Indigenous Use garden.

He spoke with the school's Environmental Warriors and here are some things that we learned.

• These bees are native to Australia and don't sting, but they do bite!
• Unlike European Bees that just use wax to build their hives, these bees use resin as well
• They use resin to kill invaders by surrounding them in resin
• The bees can have more than one queen at a time
• They can travel up to 1 Km to find pollen
• And most importantly, honey should be produced early next year! (But I will need someone to send me some)

Now that's all that has been buzzing about the bees!

Thank you ver-bee much!
Micheal (5/6WC)

Service so young

Over the past year, Fifi has been supporting the Save the Children Australia organisation by creating succulent jars which are sold in their Wynnum Op-Shop. She has sourced the plants from her garden at home, and the jars are used from donations that the charity receives. Profits raised by the sale of Op Shop items go towards helping more than 17% of Australian children who are poverty stricken, as well as many other education and aid programs worldwide.

Fifi has also spent some time during the school holidays volunteering in the Op Shop - where she has helped with sorting donations, tidying the clothes on the shelves and racks, learned about customer service and of course, tried her best to convince customers to buy her succulents.

We are all very proud of her and the way that she selflessly gives her time to helping others.  Fifi's empathy and desire to help others are simply amazing.