* Please note that this calendar is a guide only and dates and times may change as required.

Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

This issue of our Celebrations Newsletter is a bumper edition and is without a doubt, the single biggest newsletter ever in terms of opportunities, achievement and fun at school.  I hope you see our focus on Good at learning - Good at life.  

We have been on excursion, held our Pyjama Day, celebrated NAIDOC Week, completed report cards, attended music camp and writer's camp, held HASS presentations, presented Diamond level achievements and special assembly awards, held Under 8s activities, competed at the STEM Olympiad, attended the REACH program, participated at inter-school sport and so much more.  Read on for the reports and photo galleries.  

Report cards

Report cards have been emailed home earlier today (Friday).  Thank you to the teachers who have invested many hours preparing the reports.  You will instantly see the differences with these.  I urge parents to consider the report cards as they head to parent-teacher interviews next term.  

If you did not receive your reports, please check your junk / spam folder, as sometimes they end up there.  

Parent-teacher interviews

Parent-teacher interviews are planned for Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 July.  You can make your appointment by following the information below.  Interviews are short and sharp so please be early, be prepared and help us keep to schedule by finishing on time.  Interviews on Monday and Tuesday are in the hall.

Please note that:

• Prep S, 2S and 2F are not interviewing on Monday but are using Wednesday instead.  These interviews will be in the classrooms on the Wednesday.
• The teachers of 1D, 1O and 4R teachers are taking maternity leave - Best wishes ladies.  These classes will not have interviews at this time.  

Interview placements are given on a first in basis using an on-line booking platform.  Simply follow the prompts and remember to mark the appointments in your calendars.  

To make your appointments:

Link:  http://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/svjwb

Booking code:  svjwb

School Opinion Survey

The annual school opinion survey for families, senior students and staff is coming in early Term 3.  The survey links will be emailed to those involved around 11 July.  The survey will open on 18 July and close on 12 August.    

NAIDOC week

We acknowledged NAIDOC Week at school this week with a range of classroom and school activities and even had our own mini-museum.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this success of celebrating of our First Nation's culture.  

Pyjama day

We celebrated a great term with pyjama day this week.  Staff and students really enjoyed the day.  Visit your class Seesaw pages for more images.  

mySpeak

mySpeak is the school's public speaking program.  We do our best to involve every student in the program as it is such an important life skill.  This week, we announced the mySpeak winners.  Everyone involved was very brave and their skills were very impressive indeed.  Congratulations to:

Prep

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

mySpeak gallery

Book Fair

Thank you to the families and staff who provided fantastic support for our mini-Book Fair this week.  It was pleasing to see everyone so excited about books.  We sold around $5300 worth of books.  This gives us book rewards of $600 and Scholastic Reward Points of around $900 which we use throughout the year on more books for the library.

REACH and Stem Olympiad

Thank you to Miss Katie for leading our STEM Olympiad team this week and Mrs Boyd for leading the students at the REACH program.  The children involved thoroughly enjoyed the opportunities in the Arts (REACH) and Maths/Science (STEM Olympiad).

Band camp

This week, eight members of our Senior Band were invited to the Regional Music Camp at Tallebudgerra Beach.  They were immersed in music, made heaps of new friends and enjoyed the beach life - albeit for a brief few days.  Thank you to Mrs Blyth and Mr Owens for leading and supporting our young musicians.

Congratulations Hydee

Hydee had an amazing weekend at the cheerleading and dance competition recently.  She won gold and bronze in both cheerleading competitions and competed with distiction against older children in the dance competition.  Wow!

Buddies are designing and collaborating

Last week in DigiDesign with Mrs Hadfield, 5LN came down to buddy up with 1B to collaborate on some timed Lego design challenges. Each Year 1 student had a senior partner to complete the design. It was great to hear the discussions, and see the resulting builds. Having two different age groups work together highlighted how students think and what’s important to them when planning and constructing. What wonderful ideas our students have!  Thanks to Mrs Leick and her students for joining us.

Thank you

Thank you sincerely to our staff team and P&C executive who have worked tirelessly this past term.  We certainly had some tricky obstacles to deal with.  Not only did we overcome these challenges, but we an absolutely completed an outstanding school term.  

I hope that everyone enjoys the winter school vacation period.  School resumes on Monday 11 July at 8:30am.  

Breaking news regarding vaccination

This morning, the premier announced that the COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Workers in a high-risk setting Direction will be repealed from 1:00am, 30 June 2022.  

At this point in time I have not received direction from the Department, but once we have met the requirements, we will let families know of any changes.  

All of our newsletters

A school of our size relies on highly effective communication.  Consequently, you might be suprised to learn that we actually have 5 weekly newsletters that are sent out to different groups. They include:

1. Celebrations newsletter: This is the MAIN newsletter and includes lots of photos and snapshots of great learning and is focused on our kids.  This is sent out each fortnight.  Only those who subscribe to the school newsletter will receive it.
2. Events and reminders newsletter:  This is sent home each other week (alternates with celebrations newsletters).  Only those who subscribe to the school newsletter will receive it.
3. OSHC Newsletter:  This is our main OSHC newsletter and it is sent home weekly.  Only OSHC families who subscribe to this newsletter will receive it.
4. Weekly notes:  This is the staff only newsletter and it covers a lot of the organisation and logistics for events and activities that staff do behind the scenes.  Only staff have access to this information.  
5. Curriculum News: This is our fortnightly teaching and learning newsletter.  The content focuses on the Australian Curriculum, brilliant pedagogy and teacher achievements.  Only staff have access to this information.  Except today where it seemed to go out to families as well.  We will find out why this happened and fix the problem.  In the meantime, feel free to peruse it to see what teachers do behind the scenes.  

Kind regards

Vic

Wow!  What an enormous fortnight of excellence!

Prep 

Prep gallery

Special awards gallery

Year 1

Year 1 gallery

Year 1 Special awards

Year 2

Year 2 gallery

Year 2 Special awards

Year 2 excursion:  What a ball we were attending the Beenleigh Historical Village. We visited an old school, where the teachers used to hit their students with canes if they were naughty.

The students created a phot story where we watch Harley putting Lily's hair into the inkwell and Miss B'have saw it.  Harley was punished with the cane, "A great role play guys".

We also saw old houses, shops, factories for printing and wood chopping, funny toilets called out houses or thunder boxes. I truly would recommend a visit.

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What a fanatic day 2T have had at our excursion.  We learned how difficult it was to have things printed in the olden days and that it would take about 3 days to have something printed. The individual letters needed to be selected, put in order, secured in place, inked and put through the foot press to complete the printing process.  We had the opportunity to saw through wood and learn how wood was cut down many years ago.

We also went back in time to a school from the early 1900’s. Students were surprised to hear that teachers would smack the children with a cane if they were rude or disrespectful. Students got to use the small chalk boards and use the lead to write their name. The learning was very different to what it is today.

Year 2 spelling:  The Year 2 students were engrossed in their spelling group activities this week.  These were very clever activities designed by their teachers.  

Chinese class in 2A:  This week, 2A had the opportunity to learn some Chinese from our LOTE teacher, Ms Huang.  The students drew images, and learned the Chinese words and characters for mountain, tree, sun, moon, fish and much more. Thank you for an insightful and engaging lesson Ms Huang!

Year 3

Year 3 gallery

Year 3 Diamond awards

Celebrating HASS:  This semester, Year 3 has been learning about celebrations and commemorations from all over the world. Students chose one and were able to present it at our HASS culmination day last Friday. Parents, teachers, students and special guests all toured our amazing displays. Children dressed up and brought in food, books and props to help educate others on their chosen celebration. It was a very exciting way to wrap up our Semester 1 HASS unit.

Year 3 cooking:  3J had a very tasty day at school this week.

NAIDOC in 3J:  This week, Izzy's Mum, Latisha, and her brother, Matayus, visited 3J to share stories and items from their family and cultural background. The class loved learning about this and really enjoyed the Aboriginal dance and song lesson as well.

Year 4

Year 4 gallery

Year 4 Diamond awards

Year 5

Year 5 gallery

Year 5 Diamond awards

                          
Year 5 Chinese lessons:  Year 5 have been learning language for body parts.  They are creating their own alien and labelled each of thebody parts in Chinese text. They also learned to sing the Chinese version of " Head, shoulder, knees and toes".

Year 6 Chinese lessons: Year 6 were learning different countries around the world. They searched for locations, capital cities and and learned the Chinese terminolgy for each of the countries studied.

Collaboration:  5M have been developing their collaboration skills this past week.  

NAIDOC celebrations in 5B:  5B combined art, craft and cultural studies to celebrate NAIDOC Week.  Well done.

Year 6

Year 6 gallery

Year 6 Diamond awards

Year 6 writing:  Mrs Artz thoroughly enjoyed reading 6WC narratives based on some inspirational real-life people. Thanks for sharing Mrs Comley and Mrs Wager.

Year 6 NAIDOC celebrations:  6WC have a very impressive door that acknowledges the contributions of some incredible indigenous Australians.

Year 6 Writer's Camp

Ella, Dakota and Lucas all recently attened the Jacobs Well Writers Camp.  They had a fabulous three days extending our skills in writing.  They were able to experience some wonderful activities designed to promote their skills even further.  They particularly enjoyed the reptiles and walking through the sensory garden.

Their writinga has been sent off for printing and we look forward to seeing their work published in the book later in the year.

Check out the gallery and their pieces below.  

Battle of the Bands

by Ella

“Girls guess what?” Sierra yelled climbing into the groups tree house. She had found a loud flyer, that screamed ‘Battle of the Bands’. The biggest band competition ever! The event is being held in Exmouth, the town Bullara is just outside of. Recently Roxanne and her friends have tried to start a rock band. It’s going quite well, it’s a dream come true for all of them.

Roxanne, a teenage girl who is obsessed with music, is the lead singer in their band ‘Rocksanne and the Rockers’. All of the girls are the biggest rock fans ever. They love all the classics like AC/DC, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac and more. Someday she wants to be a singer in a famous rock band.

No one had noticed that Sierra brought another girl with her. Sierra thought this girl, Isobella is just the thing the band needed. Roxanne and the other girls agreed to let Isobella join. They already knew she has incredible musical talent.

It was about two months of hardcore practising before the Battle. Finally the Battle is around the corner. The last practise was perhaps the most promising yet. Todays the day, Battle of the Bands had arrived. All of the girls are at the venue and pumped. All of a sudden they saw another band walk by and saw a girl who looked like Isobella. It was ! They watched their performance and realised that Isobella had betrayed them and stole their ideas. What are the girls to do? The band strolled past them again and they stopped Isobella and confronted her. “How could you?” accused Roxanne. Unfortunately for the girls it was there turn, they had to come up with something on the spot.

They did it, they achieved a perfect score from the judges! The girls had won first place and got the prize money and record deal All of the girls are super excited, the look on Isobella’s face is worth it all. After the show, Roxanne headed for the door and was blocked by a record dealer, who was waving a record deal in her face. Roxanne didn’t know what to do she already had a record deal with her band. “Can I take this and still have my band record?” Inquired Roxanne. She couldn’t, what is she going to do?

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Dark Side

By Dakota

Oreo Paperbark awoke from his soothing slumber and turned to his one and only friend, Jimmy. ”Good morning Jimmy, are you ready for our next insane adventure?” questioned Oreo with a smile. Jimmy’s brain cells were still in a daze so he just nodded and agreed with Oreo, as he slowly emerged from his bed. The two of them peered out of their minuscule window, as they feasted their eyes on hundreds of aliens working in some sort of lab. “What on Mars are those goofballs doing?” bellowed Oreo. Jimmy murmured some strange language, but he probably thought the same thing. Both of them agreed that their next wild adventure would be figuring out what those pesky aliens were plotting! So they grabbed the necessities such as battle gear and lots of food, and set out on their way.

They made their way to their spaceship and both sat down on the connected leather seat. “Off we go!” exclaimed Oreo. Across the engulfing darkness… they spotted the aliens once more and realised, that the number of aliens started to decrease by the minute. The aliens started to form together in a gigantic beaker to form one enormous alien! “Quickly Jimmy, we have to see what is going on, before they do something absurd!” Oreo yelped. They zoomed across space until they finally made their way to Melmack, the planet of the evil aliens. They jumped out of their spaceship as quickly as a cheetah ,and stealthily made their way over to the beaker. Oreo and Jimmy stared up at the towering beaker filled with green, crazy looking aliens.

The aliens were making gibberish noises that almost sounded like a herd of infuriated bees. “I think we’re in trouble now Jimmy, there’s hundreds of them!” Shouted Oreo. Oreo and Jimmy scurried around the aliens trying to get as close to the centre as possible. “Hey, what are you doing on our precious land!?” shouted one angry alien. The other aliens tuned in and started becoming suspicious of what Jimmy and Oreo were doing on their planet. Whilst Oreo and Jimmy were being interrogated, they spotted a purple, gooey, bubbly substance in the beaker, that almost looked like some kind of poisonous virus! “Jimmy, we have to know what is in that beaker!” whispered Oreo frantically.

As Jimmy and Oreo crawled closer to the strange beaker, they overheard a group of aliens talking about their evil plan! The aliens were plotting to create an evil virus that when touched by a human or a good alien, the virus will suck all of the colour out of them transferring it into a separate beaker. Once they have enough colour they will transfer the colour to different aliens turning them to look like a human, so they can trick other humans into doing evil, cruel things for the evil aliens.  “Oh no Jimmy, what have we gotten ourselves into!” Whispered Oreo nervously. Oreo and Jimmy heard loud footsteps on Melmack’s floor. It was the foot steps of the evil aliens master, Mr Aliano! He had purple spikes on his back, red glowing eyes, and a tail as long as a giraffe’s neck. “Uh oh Jimmy, I think it’s time for us to scramble!” panicked Oreo. The pair began to tip toe back to their spaceship, hoping that the evil aliens wouldn’t notice.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Slithered a deep voice. The footsteps started to get louder and more threatening. “I am Aliano, and you are…?” questioned Aliano.
“Umm.. I am Oreo and this is my best friend, Jimmy,” replied Oreo nervously. “I don’t think you got an invite, to be part of our master plan!” hissed Aliano. A group of aliens started to form around the two, causing it to become claustrophobic.

Around 5 seconds later the whole surface of Melmack was swarmed with evil aliens targeting Oreo and Jimmy.  “Jimmy, whatever happens I want you to know, we will always be good guys!” Verbalised Oreo.

In the blink of an eye the aliens disappeared from the swarm, but there was a noticeable crowd of aliens walking frantically. It was almost as if they were trying to cover something up, something like another alien.

“Jimmy, are you ok!?” barked Oreo. There was no response from Jimmy and as Oreo turned his head, he stared at the blank space that once contained his best friend, Jimmy. The beaker started to bubble up to the top with evil aliens. Oreo turned his head to the left to see a lonely little alien getting hypnotised by the evil Aliano! “Jimmy!” cried Oreo. Jimmy was becoming hypnotised by the evil alien master himself, to become one of them! Oreo knew he had to save Jimmy, so without thinking he ran towards where Jimmy was seated. As Oreo was running, he felt his feet start to rise up off the floor towards the beaker.He felt his body start to slowly drift up towards the beaker, he placed himself next to Jimmy without any control over his body.

Him and Jimmy couldn’t do anything other than just sit there and let the evil aliens take control over them. They knew this was the end for them, but they couldn’t feel any emotions, it’s almost like they didn’t care whether they were going to the dark side or not.

5 hours later*

“Yes boss!” Chanted the crowd. Oreo and Jimmy were now part of the evil alien army, they were now named 506 and 507.  “We have finally created our poisonous virus, and now it’s time to take over Earth!” Screamed Aliano.  “I am so excited for this moment!” shrieked Oreo . As the roof started to close over Melmack, the planet and everyone on it, started to fall down to Earth.  They were finally ready to take over the world!

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No Turning Back

by Lucas  (C) 2022

The ring of chanting students on the oval encouraging the foolish fight, continues to get more deafening. “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The two boys in the circle begin to strike harsh punches at each other. They scatter around the circle, carefully calculating their next attacks. One of the boy’s swings his leg with all his might towards the other. He perfectly lands his kick as he sends the other boy to the ground. The crowd around them roar even louder cheering over the powerful hit. Krole, a bulky, young man can hear the insanity from the other side of the oval. He walks over with ground shaking steps, arriving to the scene.  “What is this madness?” He bellows as echoes trail behind. The two boys whimper in fear of Krole. He grips the boy’s t - shirts and effortlessly pulls them out of the ring and heads straight into the school office to report the conflict.  “How does he carry them that easily?” The students were discussing amongst each other, “It’s like he has uper strength!”

Krole is the coolest kid at school. He’s the captain of the rugby team and everybody adores him, especially the girls. One of the main reasons for his popularity though, is his strength. Krole has super human strength. Although he’s just a teen, he can carry uncountable amounts of weight. He’s built like a tank, but has a heart of gold. No one knows that better than his good friend Podis. Podis is a timid teen who seems to not have ever touched weights in his life. He has been bullied all throughout school but found protection after meeting Krole. Little does Krole know, that Podis secretly hides the fact that he loathes and covets Krole’s popularity and lifestyle.

Walking home from school, Podis still had the school fight on his mind. “How crazy was that fight today! You picked up those guys like they were nothing!” He mentions.
“It’s not a big deal,” Krole says modestly.  Podis pretends to be interested, “I’ve seen you do that a million times and it never get’s old!” He doesn’t really care about the fight. For a long time he’s been wanting to know the source of Krole’s strength, butnever had the guts to ask, until now. “How did you get so strong?” He knew Krole didn’t like talking about this but pushed him anyway. “Come on, I’m your friend, you can trust me.”
“Do you promise?” Krole asks seriously.
“I swear,” Podis could barely contain his excitement.
“My strength comes from this necklace,” he says holding it up to the sun. “It’s been passed down through the men in my family for generations. My ancestors were warriors so we have strength to carry this magical stone.” Podis stops listening. His eyes are locked on the stone and is already formulating a plan on making an attempt to steal it.

The next day, Podis arrives to Krole’s house early as he waits for him to get ready for school. When Krole disappears to shower, Podis puts his plan into action. He creeps through Krole’s room, heading straight for the dresser where the necklace is gleaming. He snatches it and flees out the room, back down to the door step. Just in time, Krole strides into his room to get dressed. He tramps down the stairs out the
doorway. “See you after school mum!” Krole waves goodbye.  “Let’s go Krole!” Podis exclaims. Krole strolling behind, catches up to be side by side with Podis. “Hey dude,” he pants, “Have you seen my necklace anywhere? I could have sworn I left it on my dresser.”  Podis shrugs. “Uhh I don’t know,” He answers guiltily. He stuffs his hand in his pocket to hide the necklace.  “Okay man, I guess I can trust you.” Mission accomplished? Podis wonders.

They arrive at school.  “Hey I’ll meet you at maths class, got to go toilet.” Podis smirks walking off to the bathroom. Podis pulls the fragile necklace out of his pocket. “It’s time,” Podis declares. He draws the necklace over his head, resting it on his neck. Podis puts his collar over the necklace to make sure it’s not visible.

He exits the bathroom. Walking through the hallway, Podis starts to stumble, trying to carry the weight of the power in the necklace. “Hey, Podis. Late again,” the teacher growls.  “Sorry, I didn’t keep track of time,” he pants, exhausted already from carrying the necklace. He sits down beside Krole in relief.  “You alright? You look tired,” Krole asks suspiciously.  “Yeah I’m fine,” Podis answers. He can feel the power of the necklace already seeping through his veins.

His body is changing and he’s loving it. The weak and timid Podis was no more.
As the lesson goes by, he starts to lose focus. The changes are taking over his body way too quick. But in his greed for more power, Podis ignores the pain. The bell interrupts his thoughts. He shoots up out of his seat accidentally knocking over his desk.

Unaware of his new found strength, he stands there shocked.Everybody in the room stares at him in disbelief, all except for Krole.  Podis grabs his bag and rushes out the door before noticing the look of hurt and betrayal on Krole’s face. He heads straight to the field, desperate to get away from prying eyes. I need some fresh air. I need some fresh air, Podis is thinking. Just before he can catch his breath, he hears a voice call from behind.  “I thought we were friends! Why Podis?” He knows it’s Krole but he can’t look back. His vision starts to blur.  “Podis?” Krole sounding a little concerned. Just as Podis collapses to his knees, Krole rushes to him to help,
“Podis! Are you ok?”  He’s sensing I’m weak, Podis thinks to himself. “Just leave me alone!” Podis yells pushing Krole away. He underestimated his strength because Krole’s bulky frame goes flying across the field.

Slowly getting up, Krole is filled with rage because in this moment he realises his suspicions are correct. “What have you done?!” he roars.  Podis laughs, his voice dripping with menace. “I’m sick of being your shadow and overlooked by everybody.
Nobody gives a damn about me, especially standing next to you! You get everything! That all changes today.” He says with an evil smirk. “It’s my time, and no one can stop me now.” “You don’t understand,” Krole exclaims, “you’re in danger, Podis. That power is only meant for my bloodline. It’s too strong for you!”
Podis refuses to believe him. He stalks towards Krole, looking for a fight. “You think I’m weak? Well let’s test your strength now that you have no powers!” He strikes Krole directly in the chest. This sends Krole back down to the ground. He tries to get back up before another combination of punches hit him again. With barely any breath left in him, Krole tries to explain. “Wait! You must listen! The necklace must only be worn by the people of the warrior bloodline. If not, the necklace will self destruct and destroy the one wearing it.” “That’s a bunch of lies! You just want it back,” Podis argues. As Podis raises his arms ready to strike again, a sharp pain shoots through his head. “Arrrrgh!” He cries as he slumps to the ground.
Krole rushes over. “Podis! The necklace is weakening you, please!” He begs, “Give it to me before it’s too late!”

Podis can feel the pain intensifying in his head like a grenade about to explode. Tears begin to fall down his face. He reaches up to his chest, and pulls the necklace away from him in shame. Holding it out to Krole, he whispers, “I’m sorry. I just wanted to know what it feels like to be you.”  Krole grabs the necklace and puts it back around his neck. “Why would you want to be like me? You’re perfect the way you are. That’s why you’re my best friend.”

“I’m your best friend?“ Podis asks weakly.  “Of course you are!” Krole laughs as he pulls Podis into a bear hug. Shame turns into relief as Podis hugs his friend. The jealousy and resentment he once felt is now replaced with love and adoration.

As they pull away from each other, Podis suddenly senses something doesn’t feel right. Krole is looking down at him, his eyes filled with sadness. “Krole, what’s wrong?”.  Krole falls to his knees. His face starting to turn pale. Then it hits him. Krole’s words ringing in his ears “The necklace will self destruct and destroy the one wearing it.”  “But I gave it back!” Podis cries. “Everything should be fine now because I’ve given it back to you!” Panic and fear rising inside him.  “Once the necklace starts to self destruct, there is no going back,” Krole replies.

He starts to cough uncontrollably and Podis notices he’s getting weaker. Tears begin to run down Podis’s face once again. “I’m so sorry! This is all my fault! I’m so sorry!” Podis weeps.  “Shhhh,” Krole whispers. “I was tired of being the cool guy anyway.” He jokes with a weak smile and watery eyes.

With that, Krole closes his eyes and accepts his fate. At that exact moment the necklace releases a blinding light so bright that Podis has to shield his eyes with his hands. Just as quickly, the light disappears and Krole and the necklace have disintegrated, leaving nothing behind but dust.  Podis sits there for hours, crying at the loss of his friend. Crying because he realises it was never about Krole’s strength. Krole was loved because he had a big heart. “I’ll never forget you”, he whispers to the sky, and vows to spend the rest of his life, making it up to him.

Mathletics

Well done to these amazing mathletes on their work this past week.

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As this falls during our school holidays we took the opportunity to celebrate NAIDOC week early at Coomera Rivers in a variey of ways across Week 10.

Each student from Prep to Year 6 decorated a paper hand with something meaningful to them to celebrate First Nations Culture. They made a beautiful site displayed along the entrance pathway in the school.

A mini museum was set up in the iCentre with different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts for students to visit. Thank you to any families who contributed. 
A Deadly Doors competition saw classrooms get creative with different displays.  Classes also celebrated in their own way - whether this was through reading Indigenous stories or visiting the school's Yarning Circle to conduct cultural lessons.  

Congratulations to Emily, Alexis, Harlow, Alex, Liliana, Aziah and Tahlayla who received Solid Pathways awards. Solid Pathways  is an online educational program focussing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), whilst embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. A big thank you to Ms Katie who helps supervise and coordinate the program. 

Under 8s Day is a special event held in our junior school to celebrate play, learning and creativity in our younger years. The morning got off to a joyful start with Tracy Pulupe from Polynesian Fitness sharing her dance moves and infectious smile. Mr Graham even got in on the dancing. From there students were free to explore a myriad of fun activities such as marble painting, chalk drawing, bubble blowing and capoeira lessons. Our fire services and local police officers also joined in the fun showing off their service vehicles and giving the students a treat in being able to use the fire hose and activate the police siren. 

Broadwater Sport news

Congratulations to Cruz who finished 5th in the Regional Tennis competition. Very well done!

Congratulations to Mya who was selected in Broadwater Rugby League Girls team. Awesome achievement, Mya.

Any boys or girls who play club cricket are encouraged to see Mr Burrows regarding upcoming Broadwater Cricket trials.

Inter-school Sport

A huge congratulations to all the students, coaches and parents who supported our first season of inter-school sport in our new cluster.  It was great to see how much the kids enjoyed playing sport with their mates showing Fun-Fitness-Friendship.  

Congratulations to our Coomera Rivers Brown Touch team and our Coomera Rivers Netball team who won their Divisions, bringing the plaques back to school for all to see.

AFLQ Schools Cup

Congratulations to our boys and girls AFL team who competed at the AFLQ Schools cup last Tuesday. It was an awesome day and the kids played really well.  The girls team managed to get through the day undefeated and will progress to the Regional Cup next term.  Well done to Remmy who won Player of the Tournament for the girls.

Rugby League

Coming up next term we have 3 separate opportunities for our students who are interested in Rugby League. Please note that as it is a contact and collision sport, game experience is necessary to trial for these teams.

1. NRL Gala Day
   • Year 3/4 Girls - 12 Players (Touch)
   • Year 3/4 Boys - 12 Players (Tackle)
   • Year 5 Boys - 12 Players (Tackle)
   • Year 6 Boys - 12 Players (Tackle)
   • Year 5/6 Girls - 12 Players (Tackle)
2. Broadwater Cup
   
   • Our best 17 players born 2011 or 2010
3. Interschool Sport
   • Any student who wishes to represent our school in Rugby League for our Term 3 inter-school sport season (Experience is necessary)

Inter-school sport in Term 3

We have our new season of inter-school sport in Term 3, and we have already sought out our interested students and notes have gone home. The sports we are offering out students for Term 3 are OzTag, Netball and Rugby League.

Kokoda challenge

We have had our last 2 training sessions for our Kokoda Schools Challenge. Our teams were very impressive at both trainings, managing to run over 10kms in each session. Mr Graham was looking all the worse for wear too.  There were some falls, some tears, some laughs and rivers to cross, as we ran along Burleigh beach and through Nerang State Forest for our final two training sessions, making the experience memorable for all. Good luck to Kokoda teams who will compete on Saturday 16 July.

On Monday quite a few of the children decided to create their own sandcastles, more specifically, natural landscapes including rivers and mountains.

They worked together to create a track that ran all the way through several mountains structures and they talked about how the water could successfully make it to the other end without stopping.

Jayden was very proud of his efforts during the building process of his very impressive mountain sculpture he built, he showed persistence and creativity.

During this activity the children demonstrated effective collaboration as well as respect, as they were very careful not to step on or damage their friends' sand sculptures.

We love using the sandpit as a play area for the children, as it provides sensory stimulation and encourages them to think outside the box when playing with different tools in the sand.

Not only that, but it's also incredibly relaxing!

Happy Families premium account available to our families

Our P&C has invested in the emotional support for our entire community this year and has engaged Dr Justin Coulson to share his expertise with us. 

You may have seen Dr Coulson on television. He talks regularly about parenting, education and psychology issues for The TODAY Show, The Project, Studio 10, Mornings, The Daily Edition and Parental Guidance.

Families have FREE access to his Happy Families website. The P&C has paid the 12-month account membership for all of our families. You are welcome to access it when you wish.

The link to access your FREE Happy Families account can be found here.  Further details can also be found in the flyer below.   If you have any questions, please contact the P&C.

To book, please ring 1300 300 850.