21 September 2018

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Senior Leaders 2019

I am pleased and proud to announce our in-coming student leaders for 2019 as follows:

Executive Team: Chloe Ellis David Buchanan (School Captains), Isla Simpson Yuvi Rajakumar (Vice Captains).

Prefects are: Lily Biggs Aaron Forster (Arts), Elyse Beattie Brandon Elliott (Sport), Jude Saldanha (Indigenous), Irene Dao Megumi McGeown (International/Cultural), Kirsten Lim Charlie Fewtrell (Philanthropic), Anhad Jangra Mitchell Robinson (STEM).

Being Excellent

Being excellent is a state of mind and not a condition, status or even an end point. When we reach or surpass goals or points of measure, by means of relative comparisons we could be described as ‘excellent’ we should celebrate the achievement, but more so the effort from well laid and targeted plans, and the precision in the work that achieves that status and go further to seek to do even better. This is the instructional leadership in practice in our school.

At Cav we see hard work, innovation and high achievement on a daily basis. It is who we are, and we are making inroads in broadening the opportunities for inclusion of all students, not only those in the top strata, to experience success. A sense of belonging and recognition should apply to all of our students.

This term we have a lot to celebrate in terms of success in both academic and sporting fields. We are a high performing school because we have great young people coming through our front gate and dedicated staff and leadership seeking always to do better no matter the benchmark.

News

News we already knew, reported in recent print media, the attraction to savvy parents of high performing state schools, referring to Cav as being in the ‘top 20’. It is more like top 5. We are happy to champion the “state school brand” and be a sought after school of choice.

Mobile phones

Mobile phones in school also had a media blush recently. Forget real news, talking points of usually outraged and misinformed or poorly researched opinion pieces seem to rule. The fact is society is grappling with technology and how it is disrupting the old ‘norms’ in many ways. We are in ‘catch up’ when we need to get ahead and this causes all sorts of anxiety. Community trust wanes, challenges present to established institutions and how they are managed: a dis-connect between personal rights and freedoms as against social obligations, and decency and old-fashioned manners and etiquette forgotten. We need to be smarter than to be whipped up into populist reactionary movements.

In France for example, mobile phones are banned for students under the age of 15. Their context is very different and their experience is to risk manage student accessibility for security and other social reasons. Other Australian jurisdictions take varying views on the matter. Parents can go to the EQ website and search the site to find a number of Right To Information documents of our system’s consideration of the issue rather than rely on media for the ‘truth’.

The power and vulnerability parents place into the hands of their child by providing them with a mobile phone is at their discretion. Last Sunday Rebecca Sparrow gave another well attended presentation of advice to parents of sensibly managing their child’s mobile device. Students come to school to learn and to learn in a learning community where social mores apply. Our school has a sensible approach to student mobile phone use outlined in the appendix to our Responsible Behaviour Plan. The bottom line is, at Cav we harness technology for learning intent and manage the use of personal devices where learning isn’t disrupted, common decency and manners prevail and the law isn’t breached by the user on this school site. There are simply well founded rules for the use of devices at school.

Democratic values and systems not withstanding as Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst from of government except for all others.” Whatever view is held on this or any other matter of school and student management it is best discussed in a rational and respectful manner and not played out in the media as first resort or subject of an ill-willed email or text message.

Last newsletter I wrote of positive education and re-training our natural defence and attack mechanism. If we fall into the perpetual complainant or victim trap and aggressively pursue an opinion, without pause to consider the greater good and the intent, we do harm to the community and promote the schisms we see as a part of the daily diet reflected in tabloid media as the price.

Community needs to come together and not be splintered. I thank parents that I have come in contact with on occasion outside the norm of praising our school for the joy their child finds here, who take this approach of civil communication, taking the time to discuss any matter of concern in our learning partnership. Solid trust relationships are forged.

A High Point

A high point for me on this theme this term was RU Ok day. The school came together to celebrate community and belonging where students and staff celebrated in music and song, barbeques, stalls and motivational presentations. There was barely a spare seat in the auditorium, parade ground A was abuzz with activity and the theme enthusiastically embraced. School spirit runs deep at Cav. Keeping it positive is a great lifelong skill.

In sports, as the term closes off and winter fixtures draw to a close we saw our sports teams virtually ‘clean sweep’ the competition. Credit goes to coaches and the determination of student players. The high point however is not so much the ‘wins’ but of images shared of Cav players shoulder to shoulder with and embracing their opposition. Comradery, having a go and respect are lifelong quality lessons, win, lose or draw.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN preliminary results were released a couple of weeks ago and we are rewarded with a sea of ‘green’ of being above nation, and upward trends edging results within a hair of the 100% above national standard in every aspect of the national tests and close to 50% of Years 7 and 9 in the upper 2 bands in all but writing where our students still out-performed the state and nation by a factor of greater than 2.

Our school is not affected by the debacle over the difference of on-line compared to paper testing as our test format did not change. We can reliably gauge rates of improvement for every child.

This lay alongside first semester academic results where our pass rates C and above were 95% and 70% of our students received A’s and B’s that we expect will be duplicated at next reporting period.

There is a strong correlation between these two sets of results.

The synergy is obvious: students with competence in language will do better in their academic studies in the curriculum. Students who do well in their curriculum studies will necessarily do well in standardised testing. The link is clear. Teaching with rigour, includes knowing each learner, the tools and skills of language competence, taught, modelled, expected and we shouldn’t be surprised that our students are above nation in every aspect of the national testing.

The impact of great teaching is what matters: the causal connection and not simply a correlation. In my professional view, NAPLAN is useful as a diagnostic and to some extent a narrative to inform not only performance and hence comparative ‘excellence’, but whether, just like in the curriculum to measure if we made a difference to and progressed each child/student at or beyond their optimum.

NAPLAN is often used for unintended purpose by those ‘outside’ the system. I know of schools and Principals and teachers in much less advantaged schools and communities than at Cav who make such significant difference to the rate of exceptional improvement for their students and rarely see blue or green in their school reports such is the challenge. It isn’t as simple as “good” or “best” school or not.

Queensland has determined a review of NAPLAN and the terms of reference can be found here.

Discipline matters

Our BEST (Behaviour Education Support Team) program launched last week where young people who misbehave and subject to consequence are also invested in learning new skills. This is a unique initiative of our school. We have a team of terrific people led by Miss Gardiner, A/Deputy Principal as our resource to make this happen. We haven’t ‘gone soft’ on matters that are simply unacceptable, and there are very, very few of this nature. The introduction of these services, looking to the heart of issues arising, has reduced our suspensions from school to 20% on the same period last year. This is a big win for learning culture in our school.

Personal accountability can be hard for adolescents when there are many role models of negative influence. Our school and every school should be a happy place for all concerned. Teachers want to and have a right to teach while students have a right to and an obligation to let their peers be taught and to learn. It comes down to being respectful. Our Peer Support Program is one way we develop student capacity and resilience and dealing with misbehaviour also needs to have ends in mind of students being focussed on learning in a safe and caring environment.

After school activities

After school activities are frequent at Cav including academic excellence projects, homework tutorials or sports training. These are noted in our week ahead and school calendars on our website. Some students access our resource centre to research, write or read. Though some of these groups of students will be dynamic, students who remain on campus to participate in after school activities will be signed in or noted as being present as the case may be. Though parents will have knowledge of and have means of knowing their child’s movements and contact this system will provide a point of reference to check on such attendance which is not a part of the usual roll marking. Our Resource Centre closes at 3 to 3:45pm and other activities usually conclude by 4.00pm unless notified otherwise. Parents and carers should expect students to be on their way home after that time. Of course students not involved in these activities should make their way home as parents direct and not linger on school grounds. Students waiting to be collected from school must not wander the school and must remain at the front of the school where there are safe waiting areas or at Elgar Street access points.

Richard Usher BA LLB Dip Teach
Principal

Year 7 Geography Field Trip and Project Based Learning Task

Year 7 Geography and Science PBL - Excursion to Glindemann Creek

This term in Geography and Science, Year 7 students have undertaken a Project Based Learning (PBL) task. PBL inspires creative minds where problem solving and real-world authentic learning takes place. Students were given the task of investigating the water capacity of the school and creating a proposal for the use of this water, that would benefit the school directly or the environment of the school and its catchment. On 21st, 22nd and 23rd August students walked to Glindemann Creek and undertook a field study of our local catchment as part of their Geography research.

Year 7 Geography and Science PBL: Final Exhibition

Monday 17th September was the exciting culmination of the students’ term of work with their PBL exhibition displays. There was a flurry of model making and activity in the weeks leading up to the exhibition and students were very excited to present their ideas to the school’s administration, invited guests and parents. We had some exceptionally innovative proposals and displays. Teaching staff will now select proposals for anticipated implementation at the school and submit these to the school’s administration for consideration. This is the second year, that Year 7 students have completed the combined Science and Geography PBL task.

Tracy Laidlaw
Year 8 Coordinator/Teacher Humanities and English

Optiminds

On Saturday the 25th of August, Mrs Williams, Miss Moran and I joined four very enthusiastic teams of Cav Road students at the 2018 Optiminds competition. These four teams worked extremely hard for six weeks, largely in their own time, to put together a ten-minute presentation in response to their chosen Optiminds challenge. The results from the day are below and they are definitely something to be proud of.

Cav Road Team 1 (All Year 10): Jess Morgan, Jamie Johns, Ezekiel Colman, Kiara Taylor, Haley Tran - WINNERS!

Cav Road Team 2 (Largely Year 9): Rashmi Neela, Lizzie Davis, Richard Nguyen, Kashti Parmar, Carol He Lian, Sara Milutinovic, Jaden Smit (Year 7) – Participation

Cav Road Team 3 (All Year 8): Eva Skinner, Rhyan Bennett, Malika Do, Tom Bird, Aditi Sharma, Maggie Ramsay, Maeve Conlon - Spirit of Optiminds Award

Cav Road Team 4 (All Year 9): Fen Barraclough, Hannah Coggins, Honey Herrenberg, Erika Deacon, India Mucek – Participation

Kasia Kurylewska
English and Humanities Teacher

Year 11 Function

The finale to the PDP day was the long awaited Year 11 function. From the moment we walked in the door, the top floor of the Rydges hotel at Southbank was a flurry of colourful dresses and ties. The environment was immediately warm and comfortable, with people complimenting the attire of those they usually would not interact with. You could tell from the attitude of everyone in the room that we were all having a great time. As the night progressed, we got into a routine of dancing until out of breath, standing on the balcony for some fresh air and a dazzling view before returning to your friends inside. Nibbles and drinks were always in circulation, and even watching the crowds on the dance floor was good entertainment. Most of us were expecting out of touch pop music and a bare floor, but instead we were greeted with nostalgic hits and a fair portion of the grade (and teachers) doing the Macarena. Overall, if any future Year 11’s were considering the event, I would highly recommend you say yes to a night you’ll never forget.

Arabella Neil
Year 11 Student

Year 11 Personal Development Program

In week 5 of term three was the annual Year 11 PDP day. Held in pastoral care classes, each period of the day held a new host of activities and information. Period one began with simple activities to get to know the group and explore different personality types that appear in team building situations. This information was useful in understanding those around us and their actions that might otherwise seem foreign or conflicting. In period two we moved outside, engaging in a variety of team-building activities that created a whole new strategy to throwing a rubber chicken. It was good to just get outside and have fun with others you might not usually interact with, and witness the three boys who showed up in bathrobes. Period three began the more informative side of the day. However, all the presenters involved were determined to remain enthusiastic and engaged with us.

Each was given a presenter from Elevate Education, a company that gives high school students easy and helpful tactics to improve study habits. The good vibes continued into a final period in the auditorium, hosted by Joe Debattista the Sexual Health, HIV & Hepatitis Coordinator from Metro North Public Health Unit. Joe gave a presentation on healthy and safe intimate relationships. Although dreaded by most at second break, the short hour we had with him was not only hilarious, but genuinely helpful in clarifying information on the topic. Overall, I would encourage future Year 11s to not only attend, but also get involved. It can be a fun and informative day if you let it achieve its potential.

Arabella Neil
Year 11 Student

Year 10 Accounting Excursion

On Friday, the 24th August, our Year 10 Accounting students attended the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) School of Accountancy day. QUT ran a workshop for our students that introduced them to leaders in the accounting field, graduates and current university students. QUT also discussed opportunities for the students to begin university studies before they leave school and options for this entry.

The students reported that they thoroughly enjoyed the learning opportunity and it helped them to imagine themselves in a university setting. Interests were stoked as students became excited about the career paths that were possible with an Accounting qualification.

Leanne Nugent
Teacher

The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards Excursion

On Friday the 17th of August 2018, this year’s Reader’s Cup team went on a fun excursion to the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards. The group was escorted by Ms Kurylewska and Ms Janik-Sands who are just as passionate about books as we are. We took a maxi-taxi to the State Library of Queensland where the event was held, and represented Cav Road amongst other private and public schools.

During the ceremony, we got to watch two amazing performances which were an indigenous interpretation of the national anthem and a short play performed by a group of talented high school students. Most of the shortlisted books for this year were ones we have never heard of and it was very interesting to see the colourful and creative covers, as well as listening to the heart-warming acceptance speeches of the authors, editors and illustrators. One of the group’s favourite books was the winner of Book of the Year: Older Readers category called Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood. We really like this book because it explores the theme of friendship, feminism, identity and belonging.

After the ceremony had concluded, we went outside to enjoy the complimentary food and drinks provided for us by the CBCA and introduced ourselves to different authors. I was especially happy to meet Melissa Keil, author of The Secret Science of Magic, and she happily signed my copy of her book. It took us by surprise when Melissa told us that she once worked with Simon Mitchell who is the author of The Fighting Stingrays, one of five books we read for the Reader’s Cup! After an eventful day of discovering new books and meeting new people, we maxi-taxied safely back to school.

On behalf of the reader’s cup team, I’d like to give a huge thank you to Ms Kurylewska, Ms Janik-Sands and any other staff member involved for making our excursion possible.

Malika Do
Year 8 Student

Visual Art ‘Food for Thought’

The design brief asked students to create individual items of food using clay. The class worked collaboratively to combine individual pieces into an installation. Students then created their own photographic folios to complete the assignment. Great teamwork Year 11 Visual Art in Practice and Teacher Mrs. L. Scott. A more than delicious outcome.

Genevieve Tippett
Head of Department – Arts/Hospitality

Japanese Department

Omiya Koryo Exchange Students

In August we welcomed two students, Reina Ochiai and Koto Umekawa, from our sister school Omiya Koryo Senior High School. The girls thoroughly enjoyed their time in Australia and were warmly welcomed by the Cavendish Road community and their wonderful host families. We are very grateful to the Riggs and Reeves-Calabretta families for hosting the girls. Reina and Koto will in turn host Marissa Riggs (Year 12) and Chelsea Reeves-Calabretta (Year 10) who, along with Ashley Hancock (Year 10), will take up the opportunity for an extended homestay for a month in Japan at the conclusion of the Japan Study Tour in December.

Japan Study Tour Parent Meeting

In Week 2, Term 4 there will be a meeting for parents of students participating in the Japan Study Tour. The meeting will take place on Wednesday October 17 from 5:45 to 7:00 p.m. in the Resource Centre. All parents are encouraged to attend to receive information regarding packing and luggage requirements, gifts for host families, communication during the trip, spending money and options for carrying currency and so on.

Japanese Assistant Teacher Visit

Cavendish Road was lucky to have the services of a volunteer assistant teacher from Japan for two weeks in Term 3. Seina Higuchi is university student studying education who hopes to become a secondary school English teacher in Japan. During her time at Cav Road Seina taught students about Japanese housing, visiting restaurants and going shopping in Japan and she also assisted with Year 8 calligraphy lessons. Her visit gave students the opportunity to practise their Japanese with a native speaker and ask many questions about life in Japan.

Joy Balfour
Japanese Coordinator

Senior Schooling News

Year 12 QCS Test

The QCS Test was held over Tuesday 4 September and Wednesday 5 September 2018. Students completed four test papers including a Writing Task, Short Response and two Multiple Choice Question papers.

Congratulations to all Year 12 students for the effort they put into meeting their commitment to the two long days of testing. All students managed the strict testing conditions to complete the four papers with very high standards of behaviour. All students should be very proud of their efforts. Thank you to the Year 11 students who served a light breakfast to the QCS students on both mornings before the test. Students will learn the results from the QCS Test when they receive their Senior Statements in December.

Year 11 Overall Position (OP) Interviews

On our return to school in Term 4, I will be conducting the Year 11 OP estimate interviews. Students will be attending a short interview with me to discuss their current OP estimate, career pathway choice and to develop strategies that students are able to put into place to improve their current position. The interviews assist us in ensuring students have chosen the most suitable pathway that matches their ability and skills and to see that they are achieving the required results to enter their course of choice at University.

Our Year 11 and 12 students have just completed their mini exam block for Term 3. We look forward to seeing the results and will work with students in Term 4 to continue to achieve success.

I wish all of our Year 11 and 12 students a safe and enjoyable break and look forward to working with you all again in Term 4

Karyn Trapp
Director of Student Achievement – Years 11 and 12

Drama News

Incursion – Shake and Stir “Unfiltered” performance

Shake and Stir Theatre Company recently performed their new production UNFILTERED for our drama students in the school hall. This was an outstanding performance highlighting issues and themes relevant to young people.

Senior Drama

We are on the downhill stretch and students are preparing for final assessment items. Year 12 students have devised their OPEN WORKS production and have written scripts in order to perform at their live production in October. Year 11 students are finishing Greek Drama, having read the wonderful “Oedipus” by Sophocles and will be studying Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” next term. I wish all the students well in their end of Term 3 assessment.

Junior Drama

Our Semester 2 students have all just finished assessment, responding to both the Shake and Stir live production recently performed in our Hall and a small group performance-based assessment. The Year 10 students have just finished Gothic Theatre and the Year 9 students have finished Theatre for Young People. Both incredibly strong forms of theatre. The talent is outstanding and I have been most impressed. Thanks to students and parents for their preparation with performance “blacks.” Everyone was well organised and looked wonderful.

Save the Date

Year 12 OPEN WORKS PERFORMANCE – 29 October 6:30pm Hall
[Student devised final year production]

Holland Park State School Project

Every year Cavendish Road drama students work with approximately 130 Year 5 students from Holland Park State School on their final year Christmas Concert. This year the ‘Drama in Practice’ students and the Year 9 Drama students will be involved in this collaborative project. Each Monday during class time, the students will walk/bus to Holland Park where they will be responsible for workshopping, devising, scripting and directing this enormous project. Parents will receive a letter home during the last week of school to gain permission to participate in this event. Have a wonderful September break, stay safe and I will see everyone in Term 4.

Toni Ryan
Drama Coordinator

In Touch

National All Schools Sport – Kawana

Last week four of our Cav Road Touch Academy teams participated in the National All Schools (NSC) at Stocklands Sporting Complex – Kawana Waters. To qualify for NSC our Cav teams were invited to compete because of last year’s success at Qld All Schools. Playing were the Year 9 and 10 boys and girls teams, plus the Year 7 and 8 boys and girls teams. Students competed over three days, playing full games and on average three games a day. The weather was perfect and all of our academy students played some wonderful footy. Congratulations to all the students involved. Not only was there commitment in the lead up to the carnival in class and at after school trainings but the improvements made by all is well worth the effort and commitment made by all.

We had some excellent results and we cannot be more proud of our teams.

Overall, our teams finished in the following positions:

7/8 Boys - National Champions
7/8 Girls - 6th
9/10 Boys - 9th
9/10 Girls - 3rd (for the second straight year)

Chris and I would also like to thank all parents and families who attended the event. Thank you for your efforts in enabling your children to attend and participate in last week’s National Schools Cup event. Thanks to those of you who had to take time off work, pay for accommodation, and or drive through traffic every day to get your child to the event. We cannot thank you enough.

And finally a huge thank you to parents Neil Barker (Vinnie’s Dad), Ian Jordan (Noah’s Dad), Andre Boon (Imogen’s Dad) and finally cousin Nathaniel (brother also to Daniel) for taking time off work and study to help out with coaching and making sure the students always have some direction from the box.

The students that participated were:

Queensland All School - BMTA

Our final carnival for the year is the Queensland All Schools, which will be held in Week 1 of Term 2 at BMTA Whites Hill, from Wednesday 10- Sunday 14 October. A note would have come home with your child if they were successful in making the team and are to be returned to either Chris or me ASAP. There is no cost to your child and are expected to make their own way to the fields for each day of the competition. The draw is available at the All Schools Touch Football website:

for those that are interested. We wish all our teams and players the best in one of the most challenging yet fun competitions of the year.

Cavendish Road SHS - Thursday and Friday Night Junior Touch – BMTA

Girls Thursday night touch is almost half way through the season. Both the 13 years ‘Foo Fighters’ and the 15 years ‘Keen as Mustard’ teams have been winning most weeks and/or improving with every game. Many of our girls coach and referee and from all accounts from the team managers and administration they are doing a wonderful job.

Boys Friday night touch has just started and we also have two teams in this competition. The boys 13 years team ‘The Ramones’ and the 15 years team ‘Rage against the Machine’ are top of their divisions and playing some exciting footy. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Cathy Farrelly
Director Touch Football Academy

Ultimate Disc

In Week 7, the Inter-House Competition heated up again as the four mighty houses went toe-to-toe in the inaugural Ultimate Disc Tournament. All houses were well represented and every player had a stirring desire to win points in, what could prove to be, the last opportunity to do so. The first day consisted of the Page Pythons dominating with some big wins; meanwhile the Johnson Jaguars and Harpur Hawks tussled in fierce battles, trying to fight for second spot. The Harrop Heat showed real determination with such a young team; however, they really needed some seniors to show some leadership going into the final day.

The semi-finals were contested with the Pythons defeating the Heat with ease, and the Jaguars proving to be too good, booking their seat in the final against the Pythons. The playoffs saw the Heat score for the first time in the tournament, however, it was not enough as the resilient Hawks did enough to secure third place. The final saw two teams duke it out for Ultimate Disc supremacy, but it was a rampant Pythons team who were too strong in the end, eventually defeating the Jaguars. Ultimately, the Page Pythons succeeded, remaining in a comfortable position on the leader board, with 1100 points taking them into the final term of the school year. The Harpur Hawks are not yet out of striking range on 925 points, but the real competition appears to be the race to avoid the wooden spoon, with Johnson Jaguars on 450 and the Harrop Heat on 400. Listen out for upcoming notices, this and next term, to find out what exciting sports that could help your team get over the line.

Matthew Rutter
Health and Physical Education Teacher

Sport at Cav Road

Since our previous newsletter we have had so many good news stories for Sport at Cav Road. So here goes…

Interschool Sport - Winter Season

Interschool Sport has been very successful for our Cavendish Road State High teams. Here are the South District Grand Finals results for Winter Interschool Sport;

Netball 7A - Cav Road SHS v Rochedale (Draw)
Netball 7B - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Netball 8A - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Netball 8B - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Netball 9A - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Netball 9B - St James defeated Cav Road SHS
7 League - Rochedale defeated Cav Road SHS
8 League - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
9 League - Cav Road SHS defeated Rochedale
Basketball 7 Girls - Mansfield defeated Cav Road SHS
Football 7 Boys – Cav Road defeated Balmoral
Football 8 Boys - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield Junior
Ultimate Disc - defeated Mansfield
Football 9 Boys - Cav Road SHS defeated St James (Forfeit)
Football 8/9 Girls - Mansfield defeated Cav Road SHS
Netball 10A - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Netball Open A - Cav Road SHS defeated Rochedale
Netball Open B - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Football 10 Boys - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
Football Open Boys - Cav Road defeated Citipointe College
Football Open Girls - Mansfield defeated Cav
League 10 - Rochedale defeated Cav Road SHS
League Opens - Cav Road SHS defeated Mt Gravatt
Junior AFL - Cav Road SHS defeated Mansfield
AFL Opens - Mansfield defeated Cav Road SHS

Track & Field

Congratulations to the 17 Cav Road SHS students that competed in the 10 – 19 years Met East Track & Field Trials.

Student Success – Noah Burke (Year 7)

Noah Burke competed in the 12 year boys 800m at the Regional Track and Field Carnival on 7th August. He placed 2nd and has qualified for the State Championships in Cairns in October. Go Noah!

Student Success – Sophie Strongman (Year 7)

Sophie Strongman has qualified in the 80 metres Hurdles event to represent Metropolitan East at the State Championships in Brisbane (13-19 years) at QSAC in October. Well done Sophie!

Student Success – Ivan Hales (Year 7)

Congratulations to Ivan for qualifying for 12 year boys - 100 metres and 200m to compete for Metropolitan East Region at the State Championships in Cairns in October. Great work!

Student Success – District Cricket

Congratulations to Year 7 students - Jack Talbot and Byron Grant, they were selected to represent South / Logan District at the upcoming regional cricket trials.

Student Success – Tiana Afoa (Year 7)

A big shout out to Tiana was a member of the Met East U12 Netball team. Her team won the State Championships. Well done Tiana!

After the Siren - Griffith University Sports College

On the 2nd August, ten Cav Road students were given the opportunity by the Cav Road Sports Department and Griffith University to attend an event called ‘After the Siren’. I was hoping to explore the uni-life and get some free food, but we ended up learning some really important lessons. The day turned out to be full of interesting guest speakers and activities that helped us to understand the pathways young athletes have access to in our futures. We got to meet some upcoming and current stars like Matthew Denny, a 2018 Commonwealth games silver medallist, who is studying at Griffith and proving to young people like us that it is possible to achieve both the athletic and career-based dream. We immersed ourselves with extraordinary young athletes from schools across Brisbane and learnt about becoming leaders of change and working to become our best selves with proper recovery and nutrition. Overall it was a great day that taught us all some really helpful lessons, like the fact that chocolate milk is helpful with recovery after a big game. We won’t be forgetting that one!

Written by: Sisi Nicholson-Curran
Year 10 Student

As part of the Elite Athlete Friendly University Network, the Sports College integrates sporting and academic aspirations. To apply or for further information go to:

Cav Road Success – Metropolitan Finals Series

The following Cav Road Interschool sports teams have successfully made it through to the Metropolitan Grand Finals Series on 19th September.

A massive shout-out to the coaches involved in this finals series. Many sacrifices were made to allow our students the opportunity to compete. You are now the BEST IN BRISBANE!

Celebrating our success

Should your child have an outstanding sporting success, please don’t hesitate in contacting Interschool Sports Coordinator (Nikki Bairstow) to share your story in the newsletter / year parades.

Be sure to explore our Sport tab on the Cavendish Road State High School’s website for approaching dates for all interschool and representative sport events. Go Cav!

Ms Nikki Bairstow – nbair4@eq.edu.au
Interschool Sports Coordinator

Parents and Citizens’ (P and C) Association

P and C Meetings

Parents and Citizens’ (P and C) meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month from 7pm in the Resource Centre, enter through Gate 1. We hope to see you at our next meeting on Tuesday 16th October.

What’s new in the P and C

We have lots of news to share:

• We are happy to welcome our new Uniform Shop Convenor, Melanie Hill. Melanie has been in the uniform shop this week for handover and will start her role from the beginning of Term Four, just in time for the back to school rush.
• On Sunday 7th September we again hosted Rebecca Sparrow for the second in our series of community events. Rebecca presented very helpful information about managing the risks of social media with her talk “Before you hit Send”. We didn’t get quite as many as the attendance at Suncorp Stadium for the Broncos final on at the same time, but we thank the many parents and students who came along. We were also very pleased to welcome some of our new 2019 Year 7 families.
• Second hand uniforms – a reminder that the uniform shop is no longer selling second hand uniforms on consignment. A facebook group has been set up for parents to organise their own buying and selling. Used uniforms can also be donated for distribution to families in need by dropping them off at the uniform shop or student services. Donations in excess of need will be sold in the uniform shop with funds going to the P&C. The facebook group can be found by searching in Facebook for Cavendish Road SHS Second Hand Uniforms. As it is a closed group you will need to apply to join and wait to be approved.
• The canteen is very happy with their new larger bain-maries to meet the lunch time demands of so many hungry students.
• Entertainment Books – these are available from the uniform shop and both books and digital memberships (loaded on your phone) can be ordered at the link below. You can save even if you don’t eat out often with lots of discounted gift cards and e-gift cards on offer through your membership including Wish Cards (save on your everyday shopping at Woolworths, BWS and Woolworths Caltex), BCF, David Jones, Country Road, Supercheap, Rebel, JB Hi-fi and more.

How to participate

1. Attend Meetings
   7pm on the third Tuesday of the month in the Resource Centre.
2. Parents and Citizens Facebook page
   https://www.facebook.com/Cavendish-Road-PC-1372922086101301
3. Email list
   If you would like to be added to our mailing list and receive reminders about future meetings and copies of our minutes and agenda please email pandcsecretary@cavroadshs.eq.edu.au
4. Volunteering
   The canteen and uniform shop are always looking for helpers. If you have a little time and would like to help please feel welcome to pop in. Even coming along for a short time to assist on one of the days would be a huge help. For more information or to advise when you are available to assist please contact:
   - the Canteen team on 3394 0723 or canteen@cavroadshs.eq.edu.au
   - the Uniform shop - uniformshop@cavroadshs.eq.edu.au

The subcommittees are also keen for new members – if you are interested please contact pandcsecretary@cavroadshs.eq.edu.au.

Ashley Chan
P and C Communications Secretary

Canteen

A few changes to the menu this term… A new and improved Beef Burger is back on Fridays and a Chicken Parmy Burger is now Tuesday’s special. So remember to pre-order your lunch at breakfast, we are open from 8am. We look forward to the warmer weather so please keep an eye on the website for our new summer menu for Term 4.

We have 10 Students doing their Certificate II in Hospitality until the end of October. They are helping us out immensely and hopefully learning a thing or two.

Last week we purchased another large Bain Marie/Hot Food Server to help with service. It will allow us to serve food more easily.

Thanks to all our volunteers for their continued support. If you have some spare time and would like to volunteer in the canteen, please contact either Roberta or Madonna.

Roberta or Madonna
canteen@cavroadshs.eq.edu.au
Phone 3394 0723 7am-2pm

Lost Property

Please remember, where possible, to write your name on your personal items. There are many unnamed lost property items awaiting collection at Student Services, (B Block).

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