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45 Ben Lexcen Drive Email: [email protected] Sunshine Beach QLD 4567 Phone: 07 5440 4222 Subscribe: https://sunbeachshs.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe Fax: 07 5440 4200 Term 3 Week 6 2021 bounce back from difficult life events. Being resilient does not mean that people don’t experience stress, emotional upheaval, and suffering. Some people equate resilience with mental Principal's Report toughness, but demonstrating resilience includes working through emotional pain and suffering. Resilience is important because it gives people the strength needed to process and overcome hardship. Those lacking resilience get easily Dear families, overwhelmed, and may turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms. The last few weeks have been another of Resilient people tap into their strengths and support systems disruption and adjustment due to the to overcome challenges and work through problems. The 7 Cs global pandemic. resilience model was developed by paediatrician Ken Ginsberg, MD, to help children and adolescents build resilience. Learning I would like to thank our staff, students competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, and community who have demonstrated coping, and control is how Ginsberg says we can build inner their ability to adapt and continue. strength and utilize outside resources — regardless of age. This last snap lockdown and the subsequent restrictions has Empathy: the ability to share someone else's feelings or highlighted to me a number of qualities, that a vast number of experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that our students demonstrate. I wanted to highlight a couple of person's situation. Lower levels of empathy may contribute to behaviours and qualities that have been spoken about quite a conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of bit during the last 18 months. Let me start with a few definitions negative emotions experienced by some children. (from the Collins Dictionary): Thorough our New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL) we Rights: those things that one is morally or legally entitled to do work with our young people to develop 6 Cs – Character, or have. Rights are the fundamental normative rules about what Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, and is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal Citizenship. These 6 Cs all work together aligning with the 7 Cs system, social convention, or ethical theory above in building resilience. Responsibility: having the job or duty of dealing with or taking The global pandemic has highlighted the need for us as care of something or someone. Able to be trusted to do what educators, parents, significant adults, to work with our young is right or to do the things that are expected or required. people to understand that as part of this global community it is Responsibility is important because it provides a sense of important to understand your rights, but you must be purpose, in addition to building resilience amidst adversity on responsible for your actions. As a global citizen, as a member an individual and societal level. Like an addiction, sidestepping of our community, it is important that we consider the rights of responsibility may feel good in the short-term, but leads to everyone, to not just think of ourselves but to think of our exponentially worse pain and suffering in the long term. community. We need to be a responsible citizen, and assist in Resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; developing resilience in our whole community. We need to toughness. Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity and empathise with the situation of others, so that we can thrive years and it is great to see it now receiving the funding to be and achieve together. completed. Student Leadership The Science Block will be undergoing a major refurbishment from the latter part of Term 4. The last general classroom in This year our student leaders have been very active and the block will be converted to a full laboratory and the Prep undertaken a number of projects. Their major project – The Room will be expanded, taking over the current courtyard. Billy Goat Bash is scheduled for 9th September. This is a major This will mean some considerable disruption to the science event, put on by the students for the students and one that block during construction. has developed the leadership, organisational, managerial and logistics skills of all those involved. Air-conditioning – The school is on track to be air-conditioned for the start of the 2022 academic year. As part of the As we move into the latter part of the year we again look government’s cool schools project our school will undertake a for nominations for our 2022 leaders. Our student leadership major electrical upgrade and air-conditioning will be installed in structure has been evolving over the last few years and with our all classrooms. school structures now encompassing Junior, Middle and Senior Schooling we are looking to expand our student leadership Covid Update structure to reflect this. As such we will be looking for leaders We have been notified that as of 4pm Friday 20th August our in Years 8, 10 and 12 in 2022. This will create leaders of each of Covid operating conditions will be as per Scenario 2 on the the sub schools within our school, providing more opportunity attached QED covid planning framework. for students. https://sunbeachshs.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/1237/ P&C Trivia Night qed_covid_planning_framework1.pdf Til next time Grant Williams A reminder about the P & C Trivia Night as a fundraiser for Principal audio- visual equipment for the school’s Student Centre. This fundraiser is an exclusive adult’s only private event and includes canapés, dinner, raffle, auction and prizes, along with a professionally hosted trivia event all for $99 per person. With Deputy Report - Paul Fitzgerald only a limited number of tickets for the night, secure tickets today so you don’t miss out! Tickets can be purchased here: Dear Parents and students – All senior school students are right in the midst of an CLICK HERE FOR TRIVIA NIGHT TICKETS extremely busy time. All students Venue: Land and Sea Brewery completing general subjects have either completed their final school-based Friday August 27th assessments or are putting the final 6pm – 10pm touches on them given the extensions we put in place in response to the last Covid Can’t make it on 27th August but would love to be involved? lockdown. All Applied subjects and VET You can purchase raffle tickets or make a donation to the courses are still extremely busy completing a wide range of school via the ticket link above. This will be a great night with practical and theoretical assessments as well. lots of laughs and prizes, along with a silent auction and raffles. What this flurry of assessment means of course is that we are getting close to the final external assessments in October. School Improvements To prepare students for these we run weekly ATAR subject Between now and the end of the school year and into next preparation classes for the full 2 years to ensure students know year there will be a number of improvements to buildings and and understand the format and style one needs to understand structures that will take place. and answer the questions. In addition, we will be conducting trial exams in all general subjects in week 10 of the term. These In conjunction with the P & C the Health and Physical exams are then used in classes to fully develop and prepare Education Department has received a grant of $35,000 to students for the actual exam. The timetable is below (except build a shed to be utilised as a gym. This will increase the size student names with clashes and rooms/teachers – students of the space we have for our gym and enhance the programs have been emailed a full copy) and I wish to remind students on offer. that participation and attendance is mandatory and when they Also, in conjunction with the P & C, the school has received are not completing an exam their normal classes will run so all $165,390 to complete the shade structure over the basketball students are expected to be in attendance 100% of the time. courts. This grant combined with the $100,000 being contributed to the project by the P & C will see our two full Week 10 sized outdoor basketball courts become almost all-weather Term 3 courts. This has been a major project of the P & C over many 2 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday Thursday 16 Friday 17 Languages Italian September September 15 September September Other Passion September Session 1 - Session 1 - Session 1- Session1 - Session 1 - One (1) subject will be a major (3 lessons) and the other a minor AHS122A ENG122A BIO122B (2 lessons). ART122B BIO122D ART122A ENG122B FTM122B Students in Year 9 going into year 10 will have the opportunity CHM122B BUS122B BIO122A ENG122C to choose two (2) elective subjects in Semester 1 including – GEG122A FTM122A DAN122A BUS122A ENG122D MRN122D The Arts Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Visual Arts, HEA122A LEG122B ENG122E DES122A Music and Music Extension ENG122F PHY122B ITL122A MRN122B DRA122A Technologies Geography, Business, Digital, Industrial, ENG122F PSY122A ESC122A LEG122A PED122A Engineering, Graphics, Foods, Textiles and LIT122A PSY122B MAS122A Early Childhood Studies MHS122A MUS112A Languages Italian MCX122A MHS122B MRN122C MRN122A PED122B In semester 2, Year 10 students will choose Preparatory PHR122B subjects for Senior school. PHR122A PSY122C I will be presenting information to students and parents next week. Session 2 - Session 2 – Session 2 – Session 2 – Session 2 – (exam 2) (exam 2) (exam 2) (exam 2) MAG122A Chris Robinson PHY122B ESC122A BIO122A MRN122A MAG122C PSY122A Deputy Principal CHM122A BIO122D MRN122B MAG122D PSY122B BIO122B MRN122C MAG122E Deputy Report - Helen Leyden MRN122D MAG122F MAM122B MAS122A MAM122C Performance report cards In week 2 this term, all students were Session times – provided with their performance report • Session 1 – 8.20am – 10.50am cards.