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Physiologix Phone: 3511 1112
The Physiologix Corner
Women’s health week was last month and we want to remind you about just some of the things we work with at Physiologix, that so often women out there just think they have to live with. 1. Weak Pelvic Floor - this can be at any age. Poor pelvic floor has been shown in teenage athletes......and it is an issue that becomes more common as we move through the different stages of life. Our physios use ultrasound imaging which is put onto the lower part of the tummy and angled down so that we are able to see the base of the pelvic floor. We can then assess what happens when you do a pelvic floor contraction - does your pelvic floor lift as it should or does something else occur. This can help guide how we can then. progress to help you. It is also a brilliant reassessment tool, to see how you may have improved over time. 2. Pregnancy - having literally just had my second child, I know first hand how much preparing your body in pregnancy, and then making sure you get into the right exercises after birth, is vital to helping support your body both at the time of pregnancy and birth, but also for the long term future. This is something I am hugely passionate about. Younger women assume things will work out ok … they don’t prioritise this small but essential part of their future well being. Our physios will assess any issues, specific exercises will be set, and we have the most incredible pilates program for those that are able to commit a little more time. No matter what your situation, how much time you have, and what constraints life is throwing at you, we can tailor something specifically for your needs. 3. Healthy ageing - as we age, and especially as we travel through and into post menopause, there are so many changes that our bodies have to endure. And there is so much you can do to help age well. No matter if you want to continue as you are and work on prevention, or you have never done a thing and think it is time to start we can help. Dont leave it too late. Osteoporosis, balance and falls prevention, maintaining muscle mass these are all things you can work on with hugely effective results. You can work through an individually designed program, specific to your needs, in our small pilates equipment classes in the beautiful Physiologix private rehab area. Or we can design a program that you can take with you to the gym, or do from home.
So ladies, spread the word about women’s health awareness, and that means, girls its time to think about yourselves, your health and your future. At Physiologix we look forward to helping support you, no matter what your journey.
Please call us on 3511 1112, visit us at The Gap Health and Racquet club or via our website Physiologix.com.au
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The PHYSIOLOGIX studio space has expanded!
Our bigger and well equipped pilates studio offers custom programs for individuals or small group classes, with all sessions run by a highly qualified physiotherapist. See you there!
We offer a variety of classes including:
Pilates equipment classes Pregnancy classes
Group classes Sports specific programs
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Click, Clack! Click, Clack! Pictured is the Enoggera tram on its final day – travelling to Chermside on Sunday, 1 December 1968.
While the very last tram journey took place in Brisbane the following year on 13 April 1969 (over 50 years ago!) – this would be the last service that took place to the Enoggera area.
Who out there remembers when trams were an iconic feature of Brisbane’s transport network and way of life? Who still has some memorabilia from those days – such as photos, tickets, an old timetable or other?
Feel free to share your memories with us. Visit our Facebook page or email enoggerahistory@gmail.com We’d love to hear from you.
And remember: you can still re-live such memories from yesteryear by visiting the wonderful Brisbane Tramway Museum in Tramway Street, Ferny Grove – next door to the Grove Sports Club. The centre is open to the public every Sunday from 1pm to 4pm. For enquiries phone 3351 1776.
And don’t forget: the Enoggera & Districts Historical Society Inc. has just re-opened its history display to the local community each Thursday morning from 9.30am. Just visit the Enoggera Memorial Hall in Wardell Street (parking in Trundle Street). Social distancing and COVID-19 rules apply, but you are most welcome to drop in for a look and a cuppa ?
Finally, thank you to the late T V Gall of Alderley for donating to the Society the accompanying photo of the last Enoggera tram
Take care, everyone.
Andrew McMicking - President
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Newmarket VIEW Club
Val Palmer receiving a raffle prize from President Heather Nightingale, with Estelle Schoch and Doreen Cavanaugh
‘Voice, Interests and Education of Women’
Venue - Gaythorne RSL Club
As the Gaythorne RSL, following COVID restrictions, is allowing social lunches in the Bistro until at least January 2021, only a total of 40 members are able to attend, each purchasing their own meals but, at least, are able to get-together and socialise. Hopefully, these get-togethers can be continued until normal life returns. Our lunch on 22nd September was attended by 37 members and was enjoyed by all.
Raffles and donations are being used to raise funds to continue to sponsor the six students following The Smith Family’s Learning for Life Program.
The Newmarket VIEW Club, Brisbane, is a small. friendly club with members coming from all walks of life, and we would be delighted if you could join us in our mission to provide better educational opportunities for young Australians.
If you wish to know more about the Newmarket VIEW Club, email us on newmarketview@gmail.com or ring our president, Heather, on 0437 343 163 or vice-president, Jean, on 0438 177 176
TRAINING AREA/ RANGE WARNING NOTICE
Residents and visitors to areas surrounding the Enoggera Training Area are warned that it is a Defence live firing range and to expect periods of heightened noise volume.
The Training Area is generally described as the area to the northwest of Gallipoli Barracks bounded by Gimba St, Mitchelton, Yarrabee Rd, Keperra, Ashgrove Golf Course and Scenic Reserve, The Gap and Enoggera Creek, Ashgrove. The area is fenced with range warning signs displayed on the boundary.
Defence training includes firing practices with live ammunition, explosives, pyrotechnic devices and lasers that generally occur daily between 0700h – 1600h. Night time practices may occur and are generally completed before 2200h. A notification service for high noise periods is provided via text messaging. Please contact Range Control to register.
Unauthorised entry to the area is prohibited and exposes any trespasser to serious injury or death.
Unexploded ordnance from Defence activities is extremely dangerous and should not be handled. Persons found trespassing within the TA/range boundary will be prosecuted.
For inquiries regarding the Enoggera Training Area please contact the Range Control Officer on 07 3332 7456.
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Marist College Ashgrove 2020 CyberTaipan Competition -
Marist College Ashgrove had three teams participated in the 2020 CyberTaipan Competition. The teams placed 6th, 10th and 11th with the top ten teams moving onto the National Finals. This competition requires students to examine Windows Servers, Linux Servers and Windows 10 images to find vulnerabilities within the systems.
T h i s i s t h e s e c o n d time that Marist College Ashgrove has taken part in this competition they were a part of the pilot in 2018/2019 with all three teams made it to the National Final in 2019.
Congratulations to all of our teams: 11th Place Team 445 – Liam Morris and Michael Nolan 10th Place Team 444 – Ben Hartfiel; Luke Nisbett; Will Johnson and Zac Apelt 6th Place Team 090 – Aiden Ortizl; Michael Gormley; Will Jennings; Chadd McCoy and Hugh Torpie
2021 College Captain
Congratulations to Henry Thomasson (pictured right) who yesterday was announced as the 2021 College Captain of Marist College Ashgrove. Henry follows in his brother William’s footsteps, who was College captain in 2011. Henry is a boarder from Emerald. He will take over from current College Captain James Clarke.
P e t e r M c L o u g h l i n - Headmaster
St Peter Chanel
Primary School
Term 3 at St Peter Chanel school was a feast of great teaching and learning!
Our Year 6 students have hosted an exciting and actionpacked Fab Fair day as they raised funds to support 13 charities that they nominated from across the community. In the absence of many events across broader community life this year, it was fabulous to see our children enjoy so many fun and inventive activities, all in the name of worthy causes. The grand total raised was $1361.30, meaning that each of the charities will receive over $100.00. It was exciting to see the Business and Economics
Cyber Taipan 6th place National Finalists Hugh Torpie, Aidan Ortiz, Will Jennings, Michael Gormley Recently elected 2021 Marist College Captain
Henry Thomasson with current Captain James Clarke component of the Year 6 from a collection was the curriculum learning unfold heaviest. In Year 1, at the time this way. Congratulations to of my visit, the children were all involved. simultaneously learning about L a s t m o n t h , o u r c o m m u n i t y t o o k t i m e to honour National Child Protection Week. Amongst other things, we welcomed our new Adopt-A-Cop, Detective Sergeant Greg Bishop, at a school Assembly where he spoke about child protection related matters, as we continue to put our children first with child protection. 2D and 3D shapes, whilst integrating their knowledge of coordinates. In Year 2, students were reviewing the last three books that they had read and choosing their favourite character. This involved them writing about this character, drawing from justifying actions in the text. One of the Year 3 classes visited were in the midst of their Literacy block, with focus learning including
Our staff have enjoyed guided reading and targeted a pupil free day where we spelling. Our Year 4 students focused on two important have been very busy working matters in the life of our in teams to create diorama school. Firstly, we devoted scenes depicting an element time to moderating student of time related to the First work samples to ensure Fleet and connected events. consistency in teacher Not only were the children’s judgment. Secondly, we d e s i g n s w e l l p l a n n e d engaged in our internal and meticulous in their review which cultivates a construction, their attention collaborative culture for to detail and accompanying improvement by fostering commentary was nothing staff engagement with the short of inspirational. During strategic direction of the my visit to Year 5 classes, school in learning, teaching the students were exploring and well-being. financial planning, with one
I e n j o y v i s i t i n g group of students creating classrooms for Learning a budget for an excursion. Walk and Talks and do this I was pleased to learn, in frequently. In recent weeks one Year 6 classes, more it has been inspiring to see about lights and lighting as a Prep children engage in their group of students presented focus text, Giraffes Can’t information to the class about Dance, as well as use scales features of electrical devices. to determine which object (Continued on page 23) website: http://www.westernecho.com.au
St Peter Chanel School
(Continued from page 23) The second Year 6 class were engaged in Teams meetings with their Pen Pal buddy from Milpera State High School. During these conversations, our students learned more (from a primary source), about life as a child in the likes of Eritrea, Afghanistan, Samoa, Thailand, The Conga and China. Incredible inspirational learning is happening across our school!
Each term we formally recognise students who have displayed one or more of the CHANEL Virtues of Charity, Hope, Acceptance, Nurture, Excellence and Love to the highest level. Congratulations to the students who were recently honoured:
Prep Blue - Lachlan M, Prep Maroon - Lincoln J-B, 1Blue - Ned H, 1Maroon - Amelia McK, 2Blue - Archer H, 2Maroon - Fletcher J-B, 3Blue - Preston R and Sebastian C, 3Maroon - Abe P and Asha F, 3White - George H and Tia M-S, 4Blue - Marissa T, 4Maroon - Molly N, 5Blue - Evelyn C, 5Maroon - Ashleigh P, 6Blue - Chloe P, Maroon - Almira R.
The children in Years 3 - 6 have been attending coaching sessions with AFL QLD, Cricket Australia, Netball Australia and Touch Football Australia. In the first two weeks of Term 4 the children will put their new skills into practice and compete in a friendly round robin competition. Students will be placed into teams within their cohort and play a number of mini matches on the day.
Our final day of term involved an Active Fun Day for the children. Each cohort rotated through a variety of enjoyable physical activities such as Vortex, Horse Race Relays, Ruckman’s Treasure, Octopus, Line Tiggy and Cross the Ocean.
Congratulations to the children who have recently received the Sacrament of Confirmation – a special time in their faith journey. Many of our children are also preparing with the parish to celebrate their First Communion in the coming weeks.
Following our highly successful Author- inResidence with Mr David Lowe, we are excited to announce that our very own publication, written and illustrated by all our students during their time with David, has been launched. Families may purchase copies of ‘Hidden Talents’ for just $10.
We have commenced welcoming to school our Prep 2021 children and their parents, spending time considering readiness for Prep. I am regularly asked, “Is it too late for an interested family to contact the school about a place for Prep next year, or any other year level?” It is certainly not too late, so if you know of anyone who may be interested in a place with us, please encourage them to give our office a call.
Any families in the local community who are interested in knowing more about what our school has to offer are warmly invited to contact our school office on 3300 1202 or by emailing pthegap@bne. catholic.edu.au. We currently have limited vacancies across year levels for 2021 and interested families are welcome to book in a time for a guided tour through our modern teaching and learning spaces and spacious grounds.
M a r g o C a r w a r d i n e – Principal
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BEN RODEN-COHEN
MARIST COLLEGE ASHGROVE
CHESS T'MINIT
With Covid-19 restrictions now being relaxed, physical tournament and social play at The Gap Chess Club has recommenced with Covidsafe play rules in place. Game night starts 7.30 pm on Friday nights at Room B6, The Gap State High School. The club has a Facebook Page, “The Gap Chess Club”, with updates on club play, local chess news and puzzles.
The Stuart Wilson Trophy tournament, is close to completion, and a report of the results will be in next month’s column. With the completion of this tournament, 3 shorter tournaments will be held to finish the year.
This month’s problem comes from a game on lichess. com, which is often featured on the club’s Facebook page. The position seems quite blocked, but black (to move) has a nice way to force a quick win. Solution to last month’s puzzle. 1 … Qg3 wins white’s queen as the pawn on f2 is pinned
Solution: 1 … Qg4 2. Qxg4 hxg4 3. Kg3 Rh3 is checkmate
Although no one in his family is a journalist, Year 12 Marist student Ben Roden-Cohen, pirctured above, has his heart set on a writing career.
He recently won the Independent Education Union of Australia Literary Award for nonfiction for a well-argued article on “cancel culture’’, which has reinforced his ambitions to make a living out of writing.
“I wanted to write about the defacing of Winston Churchill’s statue and included quotes from (George Orwell’s book)1984 as I felt the historical ignorance underpinning these incidents are damaging to us as a society,’’ Ben said.
He wants to study western civilisation at the University of Queensland and one day work in journalism or write historical prose.
The Gap State High School
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In August our Year 11 leadership team held a free dress day to raise funds for the Alive Organisation as part of Mental Health Week. They encouraged students to come in their favourite outfit paired with the silliest socks they could find. By wearing their favourite outfit they hoped students would feel extra happy and confident in their own skin!
Over the long weekend in August four of our students very bravely represented The Gap SHS in the QUT High School Mooting competition. For those that don’t know a moot is a legal argument or mock trial, a bit like a debate. We had two teams in the competition, both teams received high praise from their judges for their preparation, well drafted submissions and confident presentations. One of our teams won the grand final which was an amazing achievement.
Our Year 11 and Year 12 students finished term 3 with a two week block of exams. For our Year 12 students we tried to simulate the external exams process that they would experience in November. The processes for the end of the second year of the first iteration for the new QCE system has school leadership reflecting and reviewing on almost a daily basis to ensure our students are set up for the best and most positive experience possible.
Our Science department celebrated National Science Week (17-21August) with a variety of activities. Their aim was to encourage an interest in science and STEM and to inspire students to become fascinated by the world in which we live. Undoubtedly the highlight of Science Week was the Big Watermelon Experiment. Our Year 11 UQ Science Ambassadors dressed in their protective coats and glasses conducted an experiment that the whole school could enjoy. The aim was to see how many rubber bands could be placed around a whole watermelon before it exploded. The result was 438 bands which caused a lot of trepidation and laughter.
A n n e M c L a u c h l a n – Principal The Gap State School
During Term 3, students at The Gap State School were offered a variety of extra lunchtime activities in which they could choose to participate. Some of the highlights were:
Music - We are very proud of our Music program at The Gap State School. Engaging classroom music lessons build the essential foundations, with strong choral and instrumental programs that further grow the skills and knowledge of our students. We were feeling the impact of COVID-19 and the loss of our performance opportunities, so for Term 3 ‘Thursday Beats’ was implemented. With assistance from all our Music Leaders, students signed up to sing or play during lunch break on a Thursday. From our huge list of enthusiastic performers and working with our Technology Leaders, our team of helpers put together weekly programs of five performances including individuals, duets or small groups. We have had beautiful singing as well as piano, flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin and viola playing. Some performances came directly from the instrumental music lessons, others from lessons at home and some sang enthusiastically. At all times we experienced the most amazing sense of support and respect from our student-filled audiences. This has been a wonderful way to build the feeling of community at The Gap State School. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics. During Term 3, students in Year 4 and above worked in the school Makerspace on projects of interest, including
Robotics - Proving programming Lego EV3 that learning is loads of robots to complete complex fun, students have been challenges and working programming robots to through the design process o v e r c o m e a s e r i e s o f to create objects using the obstacles relating to water school’s 3D printer. Younger management. Using a game students developed their board created for the First programming skills to create Lego League robotics animations using block-based challenge, students from coding apps, Scratch Jr and Years 2 to 6 have designed Pyonkee. EV3 robots capable of completing various missions and are learning how to control the movements of these robots. Through this design process, students are developing crucial problemsolving skills and resilience in the face of adversity. Missions ranging from the collection of rainwater to the irrigation of plants encourage students to reflect on current water utilisation practices and highlight the importance We a r e i n c r e d i b l y proud of the progress and achievements of all our students in Term 3. We have provided rich extension tasks, opportunities for inquiry learning and an explicit teaching focus on writing. We highly value our partnerships with our families and have had a successful term with the P&C and School Council making significant decisions to further improve our school. of conserving this valuable I w i s h e v e r y o n e a resource. wonderful spring break and STEAM Kids - Students from Year 1 all the way up look forward to a busy and productive Term 4. to Year 6 are enthusiastically Warm regards, involved in STEAM kids. Joanne Nicholls - Principal
Quote of the Day
You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smater than you think. - A.A. Milne
Term 4 2020 Begins Tuesday
