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The Physiologix Corner
The importance of exercise in improving health comes through time and time again in research. This may be from things like cancer through to back pain or chronic pain conditions, for example fibromyalgia. A recent study looking at exercise in older athletes in the British Medical journal stated the following: “Engaging in regular physical activity may be one of our best ‘life enhancing medicines’ and should be used extensively”.
In this study higher intensity exercise was found to be more beneficial than moderate intensity exercise, following a twice a week program, at home or in a class setting. Being given a set program helped gain more motivation and compliance from participants. At Physiologix, we are passionate about getting you moving. In our stunning private gym area, with state of the art pilates and rehabilitation equipment, we run an extensive timetable of small, pilates classes where you will have your own individualised program to follow. We also run small physio supervised classes for those needing a little more help and support.
Here is a snapshot of a few pilates based exercises and why we might be doing them
The ‘Scooter’ on the reformer is a great exercise to work on hip stability and strengthen for glutes and legs. The idea is to keep your body weight and your balance on the supporting leg, as you kick back with the other leg. Yet it is amazing how many people have done this in Pilates workouts for years before coming to us and felt the exercise more in the front of the thigh…..totally missing the point of this exercise!!! A few little tricks and this becomes one of the best buttock muscle activation and strength exercises there is.
The ‘Step Back’ on the wunda chair is one of the functional exercises that we use during our physio rehab and the Pilates classes. Depending on the springs that you are using, you can have more or less support to step up, so we can always adapt the exercises for your level.
This is a fantastic exercise to strengthen your glutes and legs, and work on your balance and full body control.
Pilates is not only about rehabilitation. You can also work really hard! Our pilates instructors have a fitness background to help you to reach your fitness or sporting goals.
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This ‘long stretch series’ is an example of a challenging core work.
Our ability to mix rehab and pilates equipment together at Physiologix allows us to progress and challenge you. In this case, the addition of the BOSU for Kneeling Chariot/Lat Pull creates an added challenge by being on an unstable surface. Your deep core stabilisers need to work harder to maintain stability without compromising posture.
Motivated? No matter how unfit or fit you are, no matter what your injuries or health issues, at Physiologix we will get you moving. Get in to see our Sports and Exercise physios to get an individualized program for yourself, either to do in one of our many classes, or to do from home. Call us on 3511 1112 or email us from the ‘contact us’ tab on our webpage physiologix.com.au
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Mt Nebo State School
Our little school on the mountain has not had as many opportunities this year to compete or participate in competitions with our cluster schools. We have, however been able to host several events and have also been able to have parents as spectators (following all guidelines), due to our smaller numbers. Since last year, our school enrolments have grown from 24 to 39 and we continue to welcome enrolments in our multi-age setting.
We have seven students heading off to High School in 2021- Five of these students will attend The Gap High while two are moving south. Our wonderful Chappy Kay organised two transition afternoons for the Year 6 students, which they have thoroughly enjoyed. So far, four students have enrolled in Prep for 2021 and have enjoyed a number of transition days, finding out what it’s like to participate with their fellow peers, in activities from Reading Groups, Perceptual Motor Program, to Music and Forest School.
At the end of Term 3 all students participated in a wonderful “Colour Run” also organised by Chappy Kay, and raised over $6500, of which the school has received just over $4000. The funds are being used to renovate our school library. We were all excited to enjoy a spectacular Book Week Parade early this term, where staff all dressed in Dr Seuss themed costumes. The students had a wonderful time.
In the same week we had a virtual meeting with Olympic Rower, Ria Thompson, who inspired students with her amazing outlook and messages about aiming high, striving to do your best by setting goals. We were lucky enough to win this special virtual meeting, which our library teacher aide, Mrs McDonald organised.
Our students were incredibly successful in the annual Moreton Bay Youth Art Awards. The Prep-Year 2 class took out first prize and won $1000 for our school’s art program. Their mixed media canvas was entitled “Reflections of 2020”. Individuals took out a number of trophies and prizes too, which made us very proud. Paintings and drawings were some of the highlights of the winners - 1st - Year 3-6 Ishmael, 1st - 2D – Yahli, 2nd - Year 3-6 – Rory 2nd, Prep-2 – Poppy and 3rd – Prep - 2 – Phoebe. Another 10 students received Highly Commended awards.
Our students in Prep-2 recently enjoyed a visit to Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre and spent a day learning about animals and plants in a different forest environment with our partners from the centre.
Every Monday this term, the whole school travels down the mountain to Taylor Range Country Club where all students have been enjoying swimming lessons taught by qualified coaches, who are able to differentiate to the needs of students. We are all looking forward to our small swimming carnival on the 30 November to finish off the season.
At the time of writing, we were anticipating the arrival of a special guest, His Excellency, The Governor of Queensland, Paul de Jersey AC whose visit on the 17 November, inspired us to find out more about the role of The Governor in our society. We think we are pretty lucky having such a special guest and were delighted that he wanted to see our unique little school on the mountain.
As the year comes to a close, our Year 6 students have been completing writing the annual school play with one of our wonderful parents. The coming weeks will involve every student in rehearsals with the culminating night being the Year 6 Graduation, Awards and Play on December 4th at school.
As we wind down after the play, we will have one final event which will be participation of our school community in the Mount Nebo and Mount Glorious Christmas Market on Sunday December 6th.
Robyn Burke - Principal
Payne Road State School
We are a school of excellence!
It has been a privilege to support or dedicated teams of highly capable learners at Payne Road SS in their quests for academic excellence this term – through Optiminds and Brainways quests community challenges!
Our Junior Optiminds Team has recently achieved honours and a spirit award!
Our Junior Brainways Team have just this weekend, won the State Finals and are now set to compete at national level!
Our Senior Brainways Team reached the state finalist threshold and they achieved an invitation to participate in the online State Finals.
All of these students have shone in their sheer dedication, inspiration and together they have shown a real synergy within their respective teams. Such learning capability in collaboration will see them in good stead for life-long learning as ‘together they can achieve more’.
Our competitive teams have been prepared by our highly capable teachers with extension and group challenges in English, Science, Humanities and Mathematics – they proudly facilitated growth and confidence in our highly capable student teams!
We also recognise the parents who have supported our teams by organising materials, transport and online interaction – it really does take a community to raise a child!
At Payne Road State School our motto is – We Aim Ever Higher!
Nicky Brazzale – Principal
St Peter Chanel School
Term 4 is typically a busy one in the life of schools and this year is no exception.
Children in Prep – Year 2 have begun their coaching sessions with Gymnastics Australia, with the children eagerly participating in their learning! The program’s focus is on fundamental movement patterns which assist students to progress to more advanced skills or sports. Safety, teamwork and building self-esteem are also key components. Our families are enjoying lesson photos which are posted on the school’s PE blog.
We have hosted a Band Information Night for parents of students thinking of joining the Junior Band in 2021. It is great to see the interest in this enjoyable program remaining high.
Day for Daniel is another day we commemorate in Term 4, where we focus on raising awareness of child safety, protection and harm prevention. Students were (Continued on page 23)
St Peter Chanel Primary School
(Continued from page 22) invited to wear a splash of red to school and we appreciated a special visit from our Adopt-a-Cop, Sergeant Greg Bishop, along with Senior Sergeant David Farley. They shared valuable information with the students regarding how to stay safe in physical and online environments.
Early in November we commemorated NAIDOC 2020, taking up the invitation to all Australians to embrace the true history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations. Like many around our country we explored this year’s theme, Always Was, Always Will Be.
Congratulations and well done to three of our talented students. Lexi S represented St Peter Chanel at the Queensland All Schools Weightlifting Championships on the Gold Coast in the U13 girls’ section. Despite competing against girls a year older than her, Lexi placed 9th overall breaking her Snatch (24kg) and Clean and Jerk (34kg) PBs in only her second ever competition. Thomas C participated in the Queensland Schools Orienteering Championships. Over 100 students from all around Queensland took part in three events: a Sprint Distance event at Nudgee College, Boondall, and a forest event at South Ripley. Thomas came 3rd in the Sprint and 3rd in the Long Distance, competing two years above his age group. Sienna P’s Cheerleading Team recently competed in the State Allstar Cheerleading competition and placed first in their division. Sienna competes as a tumbler and flyer. These are great achievements for our students.
Our end of year, preparations are well underway for our Christmas Concert. All classes will be involved in leading the singing of Christmas carols and our Junior and Senior Concert bands will also be performing. Whilst we will not be able to welcome families and friends to join us (due to COVID-19 restrictions), we will be filming the event and posting it on our Parent Portal for our families to enjoy.
We have also begun collecting goods for the Christmas hampers we create and give to St Vincent de Paul for distribution in both the local area and the areas supported by the Sisters of Charity’s Downs and West Community Support group. The Sisters are our school’s founding religious order. The Year 6 virtue group of Charity will take the lead with this initiative by helping build the hamper boxes, as well as by talking to the other children at our assemblies about this wonderful Christmas tradition. It never ceases to amaze me how generous our school community is with projects such as this.
To all in The Gap and surrounding areas, wishing you a blessed Christmas and a new year filled with hope and joy.
Margo Carwardine – Principal
The Gap State High School
We celebrated NAIDOC during the week of 8-13 November. We were very lucky to have Aunty Ruth James, Lydia Oppermann, Uncle Desmond Sandy and Katharine Wiltshire visit our Junior Assembly. Lydia Oppermann, a local Yuggera woman did a traditional Welcome to Country and told a dreamtime legend of how a battle between the
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land animals and the sea animals resulted in the land animals being injured and laying at rest across the land as mountains and other landforms within the Brisbane region. Katharine talked to us of local Aboriginal figures and history as well as the meaning of some Yuggera words we may recognise from places around Brisbane e.g. Pinkeba means Turtle (Binkin) place (ba). Students were treated to cultural performances by Indigenous artist Ben Barber; screenings of critically acclaimed Indigenous films; displays of year 8 digital posters on Indigenous Perspectives; lunch time Indigenous artist radio; and creative ways for students to get involved in acknowledging and celebrating our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture.
The Year 10 Action Initiative saw overwhelming support in aid of the Brisbane Basket Brigade. This is a non-for-profit organisation that provides food and gifts for people that need a hand during Christmas – children, the elderly, the hungry and the homeless alike. The students and community have relished giving donations of hygiene and personal bathroom products to help those that are less fortunate than themselves.
One of our Year 9 students, Andy was picked as a finalist in the Future Anything 2020 Grand Final for his Funpunsbyandy initiative. This is an amazing achievement as there were over 120 students and over 40 teams involved in the competition. Andy, along with the other finalists pitched their ideas to a panel of high profile judges for the chance to secure the funding and support he needs to launch his social enterprise ideas out of the classroom and into the real world.
The Gap State High School would like to wish The Gap Community a very happy Christmas and best wishes for the new year.
Anne McLaughlan – Principal
The Gap State School
NAIDOC Week - A recent highlight for The Gap SS was our whole school NAIDOC celebration. All students positioned themselves around the school (much like the Qantas ad – We are Australian) and sang Yugger Djarra-na. A fitting acknowledgment to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Special thanks to music teacher, Mrs
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(Continued from page 23) Debbie O’Shea for teaching the song to all students during their music lessons.
Mt Coot-tha Young Writers - Last month four of our Year 6 students, Aiden, Brittany, Julian and Tara, attended the Mt Coot-tha Young Writers’ workshop at Rainworth State School. A cluster initiative, the workshop provides talented and motivated young writers with the opportunity to work through the writing process under the guidance of a published author. This year, Brian Falkner returned tosharehis skills and passion for his craft with the students. I am looking forward to receiving the students’ anthologies from the event organisers to present once they have been published. Well done students!
Sporting Success - Year 6 student, Nathan recently represented The Gap State School at the All Schools Triathlon Championship held
at Lake Kawana. This was Nathan’s first ever triathlon. Racing conditions were not ideal, yet his hard work and tenacity certainly paid off as he secured a spot in the Met North School Sport Triathlon Team. Nathan will now compete at Qld Schools State Championships early in 2021. This is certainly a wonderful achievement for Nathan as he had set himself a goal of making the Met North Team earlier this year. Congratulations Nathan!
Year 3 student, Connor competed in the Under 13s Queensland All Schools weightlifting competition, children travelled from all over Queensland to compete. There were 8 lifters in his session, ranging in age from 8 to 12 years. Connor achieved personal best lifts in the Snatch – 21kgs and Clean and Jerk 26 kgs and was 2nd in his session. Well done Connor!
Finally, a very Happy Christmas, prosperous New Year and a safe holiday to all in The Gap community.
Joanne Nicholls - Principal Paddington Probus
Even though Probus Club meetings were suspended during the COVID lockdowns, since August, Paddington members have made up for lost time by enjoying belated first birthday BBQ celebration in a park, movie get-togethers, musical mornings, afternoon teas at members’ houses and a number of interesting walks around Brisbane. Walks normally conclude with a coffee where members get to know one another. A recent cruise to the Gold Coast in conjunction with the Newmarket Probus Club proved a popular outing as did a visit to a Camel Farm outside Ipswich. Our Book Club caters for the avid readers amongst the members - our members are most certainly living the Probus Mantra of “An Active Retirement”. The Club has a COVID Safe Plan and all activities and meetings comply with this.
The Club was formed in June 2019 and has grown rapidly as 17 months later, 80 members are enjoying new friendships through the many and varied activities on offer. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month when members enjoy morning tea and a variety of interesting guest speakers. Members meet at the Red Hill Sports and Community Centre, Fulcher Road, Red Hill and new members are welcome. Our first meeting for 2021 will be on 3 February - for further information contact our Membership Officer, Doug Shepherd on 3368 2451.
MOTT President Cr Steve Toomey welcomes the assembled guests and MOTTs
The Men of the Trees Qld, a small tree planting group but with a big tradition, turned 40 years old on Saturday 14th November. So of course a tree was planted to mark the occasion.
MOTT volunteers, members and friends rolled up for the special event, most with current or recent involvement, and some from as long as 40 years ago. Two ladies came because they noticed the invitation in last month’s Western Echo. When 25 years younger, their boss David Morgans was chief of the Brisbane Forest Park, and member of MOTT’s management committee. They came to pay their respects to the organisation that meant a great deal to him. Shows just how much their boss meant to them, as well!
Five engaging speakers confronted the generously loaned PA sys- tem mike, and told their stories:- Councillor for The Gap Ward, and MOTT President Steve Toomey, founder/coordinator of the Queensland Relaxation Centre, Lionel Fifield, former Curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens (Toowong), Ross McKinnon, former Councillor for The Gap Ward, Brian Hallinan, and former MOTT volunteer from the age of 11 years, now a leading Queensland ecologist, Brad Jeffers; all speakers having had, some continuing to have, a hefty involvement with MOTT. President of SOWN, John Abbott also attended and spoke, not only to support us in that way, but also by rolling up his sleeves and assisting with the set-up and set-down on the day.
The tree, a Tallowwood, was planted by Brian and Ross in Paten Park, The Gap, (MOTT’s centre of activities for many years), to
MOTT President Cr Steve Toomey, PPNN representative
Fay O'Sullivan and SOWN President John Abbott photographed after the presentation of an iconic photo of the founder of MOTT Richard St Barbe Baker with MOTT's first President Ngairetta Brennan, at Sunnybank SS in 1981. The framed photograph is for displaying on the wall of "Twahamwe Cottage" at the Paten Park nurseries commemorate the outstanding service to the environment and the community by Ngairetta Brennan, first and long-serving President of MOTT QLD, and to celebrate 40 years of bush restoration by 40 years of volunteers.
With water provided by the Scouts, the children watered the tree, and one of the children, Alex Croll read for us a tree-planting quo- tation much favoured by the founder of MOTT - words that apply as much to tree planters themselves, as to the trees:
“Stand firm Grip hard Thrust upwards to the skies Bend to the winds of Heaven And learn tranquility.”
MOTT's Alex Croll about to read the "blessing" of the tree Brian Hallinan and Ross McKinnon planting the MOTT tree
Enoggera & Districts Historical Society Inc.
When the Valley was ‘King’ at Christmas time
For many long-term Westside residents, a memory from Christmas time from their stockings on Christmas morning? years gone by would have All these department been the role played by retail stores ceased operating in the stores in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley by 1988, with the rise Valley in preparing for that of CBD-based shopping and special day of the year. large centres in the suburbs For decades up until the early 1980s, the Valley was ‘King’ when it came to shopping at Christmas time and celebrating the season. Who remembers McWhirters (built at the such as Chermside and Indooroopilly. The buildings which were McWhirters and T.C. Beirne were listed on the Queensland Heritage Registry in 1992 and 2003 respectively. turn of the 20th century and Does anyone out there taken over by Myer in 1955), have special memories of T.C. Beirne (built in 1902 the Valley at Christmas time? and later renamed David We’d love to hear from you. Jones) and Waltons? Who Visit our Facebook page also remembers the fabulous or email enoggerahistory@ Christmas window displays? gmail.com Or ‘Myer on the Rooftop’ And the Enoggera & featuring rides, attractions and Districts Historical Society an opportunity for children Inc. takes this opportunity to to whisper in Santa’s ear wish its members, supporters what they wanted to find in and friends in the general
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PART 2 OF “MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN COOK” CAPTAIN COOK’S FAMILY
In 1762 James Cook married Elizabeth Batts in London. They had six children. James Cook - Born 1763-Died 1794 at sea, the Isle of White Nathaniel Cook - Born 1764 Died 1780 at sea in the West Indies Elizabeth Cook - Born 1767 - Died 1771 aged four Joseph Cook - Born 1768 - Died aged one month George Cook - Born 1772 - Died aged three months Hugh Cook - Born 1776 - Died of diptheria aged seventeen.
None of Captain Cook’s children married or had children of their own. In other words, there were no direct descendants of the Cook- Batts marriage.
Christmas in the Valley community a VERY Merry hang in there and look out for Christmas and Happy 2021. each other. There are better Please remember ‘the reason days ahead. for the season’. 2020 has been, for many of us, the Take care, everyone. most difficult year of our Andrew McMicking - lives. Let’s all stay positive, President
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Captain Cook had a sister Margaret. She was younger than James and was born in 1742. At the age of twenty-four, Margaret married James FLECK, a shopkeeper and fisherman of Redcar. They had eight children and the Fleck line became very strong.
As there were no descendants of Cook-Batts marriage, this meant that the Cook family descended through the Margaret Cook- James Fleck marriage, so making the Fleck family the continuing family line. There is an Australasian Society for the descendants of the Cook-Fleck family and this was recently updated by Mr Rodney Fleck who lives in Sydney, Australia.
On 29th April each year, Australian members of the Fleck family gather at the landing spot of the ship HMS Endeavour in Botany Bay near Sydney. There is a ceremony to commemorate the first landing on 29th April 1770. Unfortunately on the day following the landing one of the crew members died. His name was Forby Sutherland and Captain Cook dedicated and named the landing area in remembrance to Forby Sutherland and the name continues to this day and is now known as Sutherland Shire.
A replica of Captain Cook’s ship The Endeavour was built in the late 1990’s and has sailed around the world. The ship is now berthed in Australia and carries out short cruises, which are quite expensive but well patronised.
Captain Cook’s widow, Elizabeth, continued to live in London after her husband’s death and died when she was 93 years old. She died quite wealthy and left a very detailed will, copies of which can be seen at the museum.
