.....Principal's Points.......Principal's Points...... Payne Road State School Excellence is one of Payne Road State School’s core values: We encourage all learners, including staff and parents to strive for personal best (challenges, gifts, talents, passions, teams). We foster challenge, extension and future-proofing capabilities to excel in the wider community. On Saturday 16th of October, 94 teams across Queensland came together both physically and virtually to accept the Opti-MINDS State Finals Challenges. Payne Road’s Media and C o m m u n i c a t i o n Te a m was one of those teams who characteristically and excitedly rose to these challenges, at University of Queensland, for a huge day of
team work, problem solving and creativity. In champion style, our team handled the challenges in a high pressure situation with only 3 hours preparation and limited materials to devise a creative response to new long-term and spontaneous challenges commendably. Payne Road State School are to be congratulated on being awarded the outstanding achievement of HONOURS in the Media and Communication category, Division 1. Well done to our AWESOME team members Mia, Isabel, Quill, Aidan, Clara, Dylan and Andrew for their inspiring ideas, creativity, presentation, enthusiasm, commitment and achievements! We also congratulate our STEAM Teacher and Opti-Minds Facilitator Ms Gibbs for her
Santa Sleigh 2021
Rotary Ashgrove The Gap are pleased to be holding the Santa Sleigh once again this year. Santa and all his helpers will be visiting The Gap during the week Saturday 4 December to Friday 10 December. There may some small changes to the streets we visit but we do not anticipate any major changes. This is not only an opportunity for Santa to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but it is also a fund-raising opportunity for Rotary Ashrove The Gap. Rotary donates to a wide variety of organisations and projects and your generous donations are greatly appreciated. Once again, we will not be knocking on doors so please come out and say hello when you hear the Santa approaching. More details will be available in next month’s Western Echo. We will be updating our website soon and keep an eye on our facebook page towards the end of November. Francine Hinton - Santa Sleigh Co-ordinator The Western Echo November 2021 Page 22
dedication to this challenge. All students at PRSS are encouraged to strive for and achieve their personal best, each and every day, through daily, and weekly opportunities and extra curricular opportunities to engage in strength-based and extension activities such as Environment Club and Leadership Days, Drama, STEAM Club, Chess, Robotics and Coding, and Gateways District Extension days in Language & Literacy, Mathematics and Cross-curricular Thinking Challenges. At Payne Road SS we our core value of Excellence is alive and well! Nicky Brazzale – Principal
St Peter Chanel School World Teachers Day - Last Monday, we congratulated members of staff who have worked for Brisbane Catholic Education for 5, 15, 20 and 40 years. We celebrate their years of dedication, generous service and faithful witness to the calling of Catholic Education in all places they have worked over these many years. We are most grateful as a school community for their presence among us and for the continued blessing they bring each and every day with their work and lives. Mrs Kate Marsh – 5 years Mr Tony Everson – 5 years Mrs Simone Donnelly – 5 years Mrs Kelly Jenkinson-Rock – 15 years Mrs Genevieve Dubois – 15 years Mrs Julia Churchman – 15 years Mrs Angela Callins – 15 years Mrs Tina Mryteza – 20 years Mrs Di Hitzke – 40 years The Parents and Friends Committee hosted a staff lunch last Friday, to coincide
with World Teachers Day. We thank them greatly for their time, effort and thoughtfulness! Future Focussed Learning - Podcasts - Our Senior Primary students commenced a three week program with a company called Podshape, which will result in the production of a series of Podcasts. During this program our learners will:Find 6 topics to focus on for the show. Collaborate within a team Brainstorm Develop a script Record Source SFX and music Edit Sound shape (this is the final stage) We are all really looking forward to hearing the podcasts once they have been developed, in the coming weeks. Future Star Congratulations to Juliet Eedy on her selection into the National Talent Program for Diving. Juliet has been identified as an emerging elite athlete by Diving Australia. Juliet is extremely committed to training with the NTP Diving program and she currently trains between 10 and 20 hours per week. We wish Juliet all the best as she commences her journey to becoming an elite diver. Camp - Last week we welcomed back our intrepid campers. I would like to thank all of our staff who have been involved in our Outdoor Adventure Camping Programs for Year 5/6 and Year 4. Year 5/6 attended Luther Heights at Coolum and Year 4 attended QCCC at Mapleton. It has been fantastic to hear the students sharing their experiences of camp and to discuss some of (Continued on page 23)
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