Thank you to all the stakeholders who were involved in our Year 9 PPP Meetings. Together the Executive, Leadership and Coordinators led over 228 individual meetings with parents, carers and students for their future pathways and subject selections. Any student who is still yet to complete this is encouraged to see Mr Dunn to complete their Year 10 2025 Subject Selections. 

Dance Academy:

Our Dance Academy students have commenced their units on Lyrical and Jazz dance. This semester they will work on three tasks; performance, choreography and responding. In our performance task the team has learned a Lyrical and Jazz routine that they will perform at two eisteddfods this term. The students have been working hard on their expressive skills and communicating meaning in their dance routine. We wish them all the best for the Ipswich Performers Dance Festival next week! 

• QFSL
  • Round 9 v Pimpama SC - Away (Week 8)
• U14 SFL (School Futsal League)
  
  • Gala Day 2 - Nissan Arena (Week 7)
• #AlwaysVeto U14 Futsal Knockout
  • Finals Knockout Day - Monday (Week 10)

Ignite Academy:

It's a busy and hands on term across Ignite at the moment.  

Our Year 7 group are building skills around programming and troubleshooting their builds for the Lego EV3 Mindstorms robots. This is a great task for developing communication skills as the students break down problems and potential solutions as a team to get their robots functioning as planned. The Year 8s have also had the opportunity to explore their unit, Indigenous Science, through a series of experiments over the last few weeks. There has been much excitement around these, in particular the opportunity to ignite a fire through traditional techniques – hard work, but very satisfying when they had success! After a grueling two-term long unit, the Year 9s are currently at the very end of creating their reports responding to the ASDC's Request for Tender. While it has been an interesting journey pushing the boundaries of our existing knowledge, the teams will be glad to see the final results of their work in the next few days.  

The Year 9s will also be visiting RVSS in Week 6 for Science Week. After the success across the World Science Festival events this year, we will be sharing our explorations of waterbugs with the Year 3 students to celebrate the Science Week theme of Species Survival – More than just sustainability. Following this, these students will launch into their very final unit as part of the Ignite Excellence Academy before being our very first cohort to complete the program! We're looking forward to this special moment for our Academy and are excited for the next steps for these students.

eSport Academy:  

We are in prime eSports season at the moment, with many students attending a range of representative events through the middle of Term 3. FUSE Cup, Yagera Gala Days and Ekka events are full steam ahead at the moment. We're also very excited to have what might be the finishing touches added to our eSports room with the installation of two more large projector screens, meaning we are now able to use every wall space for honing our gamecraft! Keep an eye on this space for updates on our competition results over the next few weeks.