Kurt Guthrie is popular. He is smart, savvy and seems to have perfected the balance of juggling the pressures of school with his demanding social media schedule; complete with the perfect selfie smile. So when he stops turning up to school one day, without so much as a status update, people begin to talk.
APS Summer Season resumes in Week 1 of Term Four, with compulsory Monday and Wednesday practices and Round 4 vs St Stephens College. Friday 21 September was the deadline for all sports awards nominations.
Recently, the Year 10 Drama students were privileged to have Travis Dowling (Associate Director of Queensland Theatre) visit the College and work exclusively with them on an upcoming performance. Throughout the morning, students workshopped ways to extract meaning from a text and, as a result, engaged in meaningful discussion about the ideas they were trying to grapple.
Week 8 was an exciting time for us Year 10s, as we finally embarked on our adventure. This time, we were out hiking in the bush around Mt. Barney National Park, hauling our packs around, trekking up and down mountains, and swimming in natural pools.
Five student directors, 52 actors, three staff mentors, six weeks of rehearsal. This can only mean one thing…it is time for the Gold Coast Secondary School Drama Festival!
Mooting was once described to me by one of our students as “a debate (legal) on steroids” I do not suggest for one moment that one activity is better or harder than the other but simply to highlight differences. In mooting the adjudicator can interrupt you at any stage and proceed to ask you questions about what you are saying and even how you are saying it.
Stepping foot on South Stradbroke Monday morning, the small group of Year 11s who chose to do the fishing camp weren’t quite sure what to expect. After using upper-body strength to move all the boxes of food, we used guess-work to set up our tents on the island shore.
It is hard to know who enjoys the experience more, the students or the elderly they spend time visiting? Year 7s created memories this term after regular visits with residents at the aged care home, The Terraces.
As part of our wellbeing programme, on Tuesday last, Year 7 students were given an inspiring talk by Keneti Galo of 2Exhale. Mr Galo tried to show us that the resources that we each hold inside can help us to become the best possible version of ourselves.
A table tennis table in the middle of the Quad, a beautiful winter’s afternoon and Mr Bassingthwaighte playing against the champions of Year 7. What could be better?
There will be no games this Friday as the College will be closed. Next week there will be no compulsory practices or any Friday games due to Year 10 to 11 camps. Normal practices and matches will resume in week 9.
The Year 11 QCE and IBDP Business Management students have participated in separate excursions to four different local businesses during terms two and three . In June, the IB students visited the NuPure Bottled Water factory in Stapleton and the IKEA Super-Store in Logan.