ISSUE 8 | TERM 2 2025
JAPANESE STUDY TOUR
Year 2C did an amazing job at hosting 30 Japanese Senior Students from Nara Gakuen Tomigaoka High School on a tour to Queensland last week for about 2H. Together, the students completed a range of activities, participated in a shared afternoon tea and were given a special presentation by our visitors in various games played in the traditional Japanese Culture.
I wish to thank Miss Jill, Miss Jade and Miss Chung for their wonderful coordination of this experience for our children. I’m sure it left fond memories for all those who were involved.
MANGO TREE PLANTING
Students in 1E have been involved in planting a mango tree. A big 'thankyou' to Jason in 1E, for donating a mango tree to our school. 1E was lucky enough to participate in the planting of this delicious fruit tree.
Miss Monique came along with a bucket of ‘Benowa grown compost’ and helped us give this little tree the best start on its growing journey. Jason and his mum added compost, soil, and lots of love with the help of many little hands.
The mango tree has become a big focus in our maths lessons on measurement! Come on over to the Yarning Circle and take a look.
KOKODA CHALLENGE SUCCESS
What a tremendous weekend our Kokoda warriors had. Our 10 teams were courageous from start to finish of the gruelling 18km trek through the D'Aguilar National Park in Brisbane.
Our School managed to raise over $10,000 for the Kokoda Youth Foundation.
Thank you to all of those who donated and supported our teams this year. With a big thank you to our teachers and support people who took time out of their weekends and after school to train and prepare our students for the Challenge. We are very proud and grateful to you all.
SPORT
Our Prep - Year 2 Junior Sports Day will be held on Thursday 26 June. We welcome parents and carers to come along to support our Junior students on the top oval from 9am.
We also wish to congratulate Lennox who made the South Coast team for Rugby Union Under 12's. Well done Lennox.
PERSONAL LEAVE
Next week, I will be taking 7 weeks of Long Service Leave to embark on a Central Australian Trip with our offroad camper, a trip I have wanted to do for many years. We will be working our way through all the famous stock route tracks of our Australian history including the Strzelecki, Oodnadatta, the Plenty Highway and Diamantina River run from Bedourie to Old Cork Station, ending in Winton (the wonderful world of dinosaurs). While we are on this trip, we will be visiting and flying over Lake Eyre, which is currently full of water, the third time it has filled in only 160 years. We are so fortunate to experience this rare wonder.
During this time, Mr Anthony Larkin will be the Principal. I am very excited to have Mr Larkin with us and he is very familiar to many of you. He is the Deputy Principal of the Junior School at Benowa State High School and, as a result, has a lot to do with our Year 5 and Year 6 classes and transition to Benowa State High School. I know that he is very excited about this opportunity as well and is looking forward to his time here.
I will return to duties on Monday 11 August, ready for our Eisteddfod program.