Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

It has been a week where work over the past term has culminated.  The Gold Coast Eisteddfod concluded and our music department shone brightly.  5 groups - 5 Honours awards - 2x 3rd place awards.  But more importantly, the students represented Coomera Rivers with pride and spirit and I am so proud of them all.  Well done to the music staff on their wonderful work preparing the students for this event.  

Our mathletes competed at the school Mathletics Live challenge (Year 5&6 are next week) and the speed and accuracy in number facts is mightily impressive.  Check out the story and year level winners later in the newsletter.

And last Sunday saw three talented young ladies - Lacey, Ava and Laila - represent us at Griffith University as they competed in the 2019 languages competition.  The results are later in this issue - but suffice to say that I am thrilled with each of them.

And it is with incredible pride that I can inform our community that Mrs Pinnigton has won the 2019 ACEL Keith Tronc Award for Outstanding Teacher Leadership.  This is a national recognition and Mrs Pinnington is a very worthy recipient.  She will receive her award at a gala event in Sydney in the coming weeks.

And last week Mrs Young and Mrs Walsh travelled to Sydney to represent Coomera Rivers at the Australian Education Awards.  While we didn't win in either of our two categories I remain so proud to be associated with a school community that competes with some of the best in Australia.  It is just so satisfying to see the outstanding work that happens at our school each day recognised and celebrated by these education groups.

Good luck

Good luck to the chess team this Wednesday when they compete in the regional tournament at Carrara.  We have been working hard and it will be good to measure our progress against the best players on the Gold Coast.  Thank you to Mrs Hardwick, Mr Burrows and Miss Nic for their continual support with our chess club.

Save the date (Parent-teacher interviews on Monday 9 September)

Bookings for parent-teacher interviews will go live next weekend.  How to make a booking will be advertised in the newsletter first so keep an eye out for the booking link.  

Newsletter treasure hunt

As a lead up to our Book Week celebrations in Week 2 next term, we will be hiding a character related to the Book Week theme, ‘Reading is my super power’ within an article in our newsletter each week.  When you find the character, simply email Mrs Artz and tell her what article you found the character in.  Be sure to include your children’s names and classes.

Each week we will be giving away a free slushy to a family (all school children in the family) and each submission will guarantee you a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win a $25 Book Fair voucher to be spent at our Scholastic Book Fair throughout Book Week.

This week, we have hidden this cute Harry Potter clipart.  Best of luck finding him.

     

Have a great weekend

Kind regards

Vic