Global innovators REALLY impress

The final Global Innovators Trade Show & Pitch Event for Year 5 students was another successful showcase of learning this week when students displayed their passions and design solutions for the Global Goals. After the buzz of the trade show, six teams were selected by their teachers to pitch to the panel of experts from our local community.

Five experts (sharks) including teachers from Pimpama State Secondary College and lecturers from TAFE Coomera and Central Queensland University gave the students feedback on their pitch presentations.

An additional exciting outcome from the event was a proposal from the Head of Business/Enterprise at Pimpama State Secondary College for one of the teams to collaborate with senior fashion students in 2022 to create the scrunchies for selling and raising money for the very personal (for one of our students) and important cause of IBD - Inflammatory Bowel Disease. A parent in attendance has offered to sell the scrunchies on his website and this means this team will be able to proceed with their idea to campaign and raise money for the hospitals treating IBD patients.

Congratulations to the teams who made it through to the Pitch Event including The Veggie Warriors, Guardians of the Ocean, IBD Warriors, The Wildlife Hero, Raising Awareness and Ocean Officers. The winner on the day was The Wildlife Hero. Ceda's idea to create a Koala sanctuary and promote the financial adoption of Koala's in need was the one the sharks believed to be the best on the day.

Run run as fast as you can

The last fairy tale to learn about in Prep S this term was The Gingerbread Man. We spent a whole morning doing Gingerbread Man activities - write the room, playdough, story sequencing, puppet retell and Gingerbread Man cookie decorating.

It was great learning fun.

Year 4 Dancers Perform For ARCARE Residents

This week, Year 4 dancers, selected by Mrs Blyth, gave a fantastic performance for the residents of the ARCARE Aged Care Facility in Pimpama. This was an exciting opportunity for our students to have an authentic purpose for choreographing and performing their dance routines. Coomera Rivers has established a community partnership with ARCARE this semester, which is providing students with genuine, real world, Citizenship experiences. The clapping along and happy smiles in the audience, confirmed that the residents absolutely loved the performance. Well done and thank you to Mrs Blyth and our fabulous Year 4 students.

Is Mr Meijboom busy?

2H students setup reindeers in Mr Meijboom’s office to check on what he does through the day. Students had to write about what the reindeers saw him do. Baylin guessed that Mr Meijboom was eating cookies and Taylor guessed that he was having a party with Santa and the reindeers. I guess only the reindeers truly know what Mr Meijboom does through the day.