We respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we walk, live and learn, the Bullongin & Kombumerri people. We pay our deepest respects to Elders resting in the Dreamtime and to the Elders of today, who will continue to care, protect and nurture the Country that we gather on to learn and connect. We feel both privileged, and grateful to now be sharing and caring for the country on which we are living and learning.

Events, dates and times may change.  Please check the school calendar regularly to keep updated.

Term 2

The Resilience Project

We hope you're as excited as us about the upcoming Connected Parenting Webinar with Lael Stone on Monday 12 May from 6:30pm -7:45pm (75 minutes) AEST.

What they will deliver:

• Grounded in the latest research, this 75-minute workshop provides parents and carers with practical strategies to raise resilient children.

Lael Stone, will discuss how to:

• Build stronger connections with your children.
• Support them through challenging and frustrating situations.
• Create a culture of cooperation in simple ways.
• Manage your own triggers as a parent.
• Understand and support big emotions in a way that helps children become emotionally resilient.

About Lael Stone:

• Lael Stone is an author, TEDx speaker, counsellor and parenting educator who specialises in navigating trauma and disconnection in families. She has spent the better part of two decades working with families, as well as running programs in secondary schools about relationships and wellbeing. She is a mother of three adult children and the co-founder of Woodline Primary School - a new innovative school focused on supporting emotional intelligence in children.

Our families are invited to individually register for the webinar by clicking here. The Resilience Project team will then send you a Zoom link and a calendar invite.

Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

We have the best P&C

Our P&C Association has again been short-listed for the P&C Queensland annual awards.  The announcement of the 2025 winners will be made on June 6 at the annual conference.  Congratulations to Gemma, Heather and Corina on this wonderful recognition.

We want kids at school each day

But not before 7:45am

We have a small number of children arriving at school too early - some are dropped off before 7:00am.  This is not ok.  We provide supervision before school from 8:00am as a courtesy because we value the safety and care of our students.  

If you need help from our OSHC for before school care, please contact them.  They do an amazing job!

We celebrate our mums and grandmas

We had a great day at school today when Prep and Year 1 classes shared time with their mums and grandmas.  The highlight of the day is always the pamper station - especially the fingernail polish.  And one of our mums told me that she is wearing her new nails when she travels to Paris tonight.  Now that is special.

Prep gallery:

Year 1 gallery:   

Uniform giveaway

When:  Monday 12 - Friday 16 May

Where:  Back entry to school office

Time:  Opens at 8:00am / Closes 3:00pm each day or until everything is re-homed.

We have quite a number of pre-loved, donated, or lost (& we cannot find an owner) uniforms.  We would like these items to go to a good home so we are providing them free to families of school. 

In the interests of fairness, we have the following rules.

• These items are free
• All items are of a reasonable quality - what you see is what you get
• These items are not intended for reselling but are intended to legitimately help our families.  
• There will be a limit of 1 item per type of uniform – eg 1 x shirt, 1 x pair shorts etc per student
• Not all items are available in all sizes
• Items are available on a first in basis
• They will be available all day from 8.00am – 3.00pm or until collected.  Please note that we cannot hold uniform items

       

    

Pasifikai Program - Seniors

Some of our Pasifika and Māori students in Years 5 and 6 have proudly joined a Queensland Health initiative focused on building healthy habits, staying active, and eating well. Throughout the term, we will explore the importance of including plenty of fruit and vegetables in our daily diet. This week, students have taken their learning a step further by planting seeds that will grow into a surprise superfood — ready to harvest and blend into a delicious, healthy smoothie in the weeks to come.

     

       

Kokoda training

Last Saturday the Kokoda Squad kept to the concrete paths instead of the rocky fire trails when we ran at the Gainsborough Parklands Parkrun event.  Students, coaches and parents pushed hard across the 5km course and recorded some huge improvements in their times.  Well done.  We have only a few weeks until the challenge event in Brisbane.

 

Tomorrow we take on Nerang State Forest again as we hit the hills and fill the lungs.

  

Gallery:

   

Thank you to our team sponsor:

                 

Traffic around the school

I receive regular emails from residents in our local community regarding parking and driving in the streets surrounding the school.  They are rightly very concerned that a growing number of motorists are often double-parking or blocking driveways. There have been many occasions where these residents have been unable to safely exit or enter their driveway due to cars obstructing access.  

        

Illegal parking or driving habits causes stress for residents and safety hazards for children.  There have been two separate incidents involving children (not at Coomera Rivers) being struck by cars in the streets surrounding our school.  

      

Chicken Pox is about

We have received word from families that some confirmed cases of chicken pox have been made.  Click here for more information about time out from school.

    

            

And most importantly

I hope that all of our sensational mums and grandmas have a lovely Mother's Day on Sunday.

     

       

Kind regards

Vic

Huge high fives to these amazing students for rocking their learning this week!

Awards Gallery

Celebrations of Learning

Prep

At the end of last term, Prep S were nominated to participate in RSL Queensland’s Postcards of Honour initiative. The Postcards of Honour initiative is a creative ANZAC Day learning and commemoration activity for primary school students. Throughout Australia’s military history, postcards and letters have offered vital support to those on active duty. The activity allowed children to learn about the importance of ANZAC Day and write and decorate a postcard acknowledging a local veteran for their service. All Postcards of Honour were distributed by RSL Sub Branches to veterans across Queensland, building connections within communities and across generations. We completed a directed drawing of poppies, coloured them in and then applied water colour over the page. As you can see, the results are just amazing!  

Year 1

Take a look at some of the wonderful things we did in Term 1 in 1S!

In English we listened to beautiful imaginative texts & learned how to present spoken retells and describe using adjectives. We explored letter sounds for reading and spelling and learned about sentence structure for independent writing. We are developing reading skills through pair/shared reading & independent reading.

In Mathematics we practised accurate counting, learned to represent numbers in lots of different ways and became Data Detectives, collecting, using and explaining data.

In Science we explored push & pull forces. We were very hands on in our learning about how forces are used to move things and learned how to explain like a scientist.

We also had lots of sporting and community events, like the Colour explosion, Cross country, the Easter assembly and more. I think the most fun was having our Family visit games afternoon.

We are looking forward to an even better Term 2!

Year 2

This term Year 2s are learning all about information reports by reading and writing texts linked to our HASS and Science units. To kick start our unit, 2B’s classroom transformed into a Book Cafe! Students sampled a range of informative and imaginative texts. It was wonderful to hear the kids talking about which books they wanted to finish reading and why. Since we are learning about a number of famous and significant places around Australia, we had to ’travel’ to our first destination. 2B boarded a flight on Coomera Rivers Airways. Miss Heath was our security officer and scanned boarding passes as students entered the plane. Miss Bray was the flight attendant and delivered a safety briefing before we took off. Our passengers enjoyed a juice and snack from the trolley and some in-flight entertainment on their iPads. Once we landed, we learned about the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales. Did you know that the telescope received radio signals from the Moon during the Apollo 11 Moon Landing? Without the Parkes Telescope, we wouldn't have been able to watch the astronauts stepping on the Moon for the very first time.

Congratulations to these outstanding students for their exceptional dedication and achievement in learning this week!

Awards Gallery

Leadership Duty Commitment

Congratulations to these dedicated students on successfully completing 10 duties to date. Your commitment and consistency are truly commendable!

Awards Gallery

Pimpama State Secondary School 2026 Year 7 Enrolment

Our Year 6 students had the opportunity to design a poster for Cyber Safety....

Congratulations to the following students

Cyber-Safety Competition for DigiDesign

In Digidesign, students learned about cyber-safety including all aspects students should endeavour to employ to stay safe in the digital age whether they are using their phones, iPads, computers, or even gaming with each other online. They looked at how to keep their personal details safe, what material it’s actually safe to share online, who has ownership of their images, who has access to their details, what to do when something doesn’t seem right when online, like unusual emails or text messages, and who to talk to when feeling they’re uncomfortable.

Year 6 students were encouraged to enter a poster competition to promote online safety throughout the school. Their posters could target a specific audience whether junior or senior, or a general audience.

This competition has run in the past and some of the posters can still be seen around the school. Most of the entries from this year will shortly be displayed too. Take the time to stop and learn some great advice from our students.

An overall winner was chosen from each class. The winners were awarded with a certificate and an iPad stylus pencil, their poster can be seen below.

Winners:

6A   Alannah Del Re

6C   Ruby Gilbert

6M   Arya Patel

6P   Samuel Diaz

6T   Emma Xu 

Gratitude - Empathy - Mindfulness

Get your Sport House colours ready!

With our Sport Fun Day event scheduled for late this Term, now is time to start thinking about those house colour accessories!

Our sports house shirts are made of a breathable fabric, have a collar for sun protection, school logo and, most importantly, your house colour and name!

Orders of these shirts are open now on School24 and Stock is limited! 

We have included below the size chart to assist with sizing for your orders. This chart is also accessible from the School24 site when ordering.

Please note

Sports House Shirts are now located in a dedicated uniform ordering section of School24. Please click on the Uniform Online - Order Uniform tab on the home page to access ordering.

If you have any questions, please email the P&C.

The Week 10 home-made meal is

Don't forget to order your Wholesome Wednesday

We our committed to making the Crusaders Café menu one that all of our students and staff love.   

The only way to achieve this is through honest feedback and continual change and, with this in mind, we want to thank those families and staff that have provided their honest feedback. Please trust that any suggestion is being reviewed and considered.

Cafe volunteers needed next week

We are looking for a couple of Crusaders Cafe volunteers for next week.

To sign up to volunteer, simply register on the School24 App - Click on "Volunteer Roster" select "view roster", select "register" under the date you can help and then "ok" to confirm your registration.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Each year, the Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) State International Officer runs competitions for school children from Prep to Year 6, in line with the QCWA's nominated Country of Study. In 2025, the Country of Study is Ontario Province, Canada.

The QCWA School Children's International Competition runs alongside the QCWA Branch Members own study program. So, while members are learning, school children can also participate in fun and educational activities focused on a specific country. 

This year QCWA members will be exploring all aspects of life and living in Ontario, including history and religion, people and fashion, language, geography and industry, flora and fauna, food and cooking, crafts and traditions and many other aspects of Ontario Province.

The competition is for individual students who wish to participate and please note this is not compulsory.

The Division levels are:

Prep - Colouring-in Competition A4 picture (see picture below). 

Year 1 - Colouring-in Competition A4 picture (see picture below - using correct colours for the flag).

Year 2 - Poster A4 size, hand drawn - any aspect of the Country of Study including Country title and captions.

Year 3 - Poster A3 size - Flora and Fauna of Contry of Study. Must show an interesting title. Any medium (coloured/collage/painted).

Year 4 - Tourism Poster A3 size - include name of Country and emblem/s. Minimum writing - maximum impact. 

Year 5 - Computer Generated Only Project Booklet - (Min 3 - Max 6) A4 size sheets - work to go on one side only. Judging Sheet, available on the QCWA website, Member's OnlyLog-in section.

Year 6 - Computer Generated Only Project Booklet - (Min 6 - Max 4) A4 size sheets - work to go on one side only. Judging Sheet, available on the QCWA website, Member's Only Log-in section.

Guidelines:

Prep - Colouring-in should be neat and between the lines. 

Year 1 - As above. 

Year 2/3 - Poster to have impact and not be too cluttered with information.

Year 4 - Impact is important, minimum writing.

Year 5/6 - See Judging Sheet. Booklet to be stapled on left hand side and placed in a plastic sleeve.

Only one winner will be awarded at each level of competition. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes and certificates may be awarded for each section.

If you would like a copy of the colouring-in picture, please see Miss Katie in the i-Centre. Entries will close Friday 16th May 2025 and can be given to Miss Katie.