Book Week 2025

It’s official – Book Week 2025 was an absolute sensation!  It did NOT rain on our parade, and our students and teachers were able to show off their costumes and enthusiasm to a delighted crowd of onlookers; parents and peers.

Days like this are only made possible with the willingness and commitment of our staff and parents, working together to make the magic happen.

To our behind-the-scenes literacy coach and organiser Amie Neil and our supercharged MC Sascha Rogers, the BIGGEST thank you for all you did to make Book Week 2025 one of the most spectacular school events of the year!

2026 School House System

At the recent Student Council meeting, the re-structuring of the school house system for 2026 was the main agenda item for discussion amongst members of the Student Council.

The inevitable question of ‘why?’ generated a lot of discussion and deep thinking from the students, resulting in the following suppositions and conclusions:

• The consequences of the explorations of Cook, Flinders and Oxley had a negative impact on First Nations’ peoples; their arrival led to significant trauma including loss of culture and dispossession of land and rights
• The large number of students at our school necessitates more houses, so there are fewer students in each house
• It will provide opportunities for students of different and varying skills and interests to contribute to house competitions.

At our Values parade in Term 4, we will retire he exiting house names, with the swimming carnivals in Week 9 next term being the last event students will compete in the Cook, Flinders and Oxley houses. In Term 4 Week 10, the five new houses will be introduced.

Silly Socks Day

Past student Mia Wilkinson is a strong contender for the Brisbane 2032 Paralympics – let’s show our support by wearing our silly socks and bringing a gold coin donation on Friday, 12^th September.

Silly Socks Day, an annual event in the ISS calendar is held each year to raise awareness of the dangers of sepsis and in support of ‘Movement for Mia’. https://www.givenow.com.au/movementformia

https://www.worldsepsisday.org/news/2018/8/28/mia-sepsis-took-her-hands-and-feet-but-not-her-spirit