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On Friday 13 November, a group of Year 5 students, who were not at Interschool Sport, did some Science experiments on the refraction of light. In experiments another week, we learned that light travels in straight lines. On Friday, we were experimenting with refraction. Refraction happens when light is transmitted through a substance, the rays […]
Wow it was so great to be able to play Interschool Sport this week against Glasshouse Mountains State School. The Year 5 and 6 students were so excited about playing and enjoyed the experience competing in Touch Football in this friendly competition setting. We took eight teams to this competition which was twice as many
We had two special but very different commemorations during the past week. The first was NAIDOC Week and the second, Remembrance Day. NAIDOC Week NAIDOC Week is usually held in July each year but was postponed to 8 to 15 November in 2020 due to restrictions that would have stopped a lot of the planned
While the weather was warming up, the Year 1 (Wondrous) Workers were keen to get outside for some different learning experiences and to participate in Outdoor Classroom Day. The teachers organised fun-filled different activities for their classes and we had such fun that we are eager to do it over again. We were mindful of
The very best Primary athletes were rewarded for their efforts at the GCC Sports Awards Evening recently. Hannah Gassner and Izaac Kwarcianyi were awarded the highest Primary sporting award of Sportswomen and Sportsman of the Year. It was great to be able to celebrate the sport that happened over the year with several highlights being
Wait until you see what is in this action-packed Sports Report! Click on the following link to read all about GCC student achievements in sports over the last fortnight: Secondary Sports Report – Term 4, Weeks 5 and 6.
Many of our students are currently in exams or about to go through them. Most will have their own plan of attack. However there are five common strategies that are actually a disaster for preparing for exams. Here are five ways to fail an exam and why these strategies don’t work. Underlining and highlighting important
Naarah Harvey in 5M joined the Great Cycle Challenge to help raise funds for children fighting cancer. Originally Naarah’s goal was to ride 100km and raise $500 but she smashed through that ceiling by riding 150.4km and raising $1,428.55! At the beginning of the year Naarah and her classmates had an opportunity to go mountain
Over the last two weeks in the Kitchen Garden we have been harvesting our carrots and zucchinis. They have both grown beautifully. Our celery has done well and is nice and crunchy. We have been making a delicious zucchini dip with carrots, celery and homemade crackers. Most of the children loved it! The gardens are
Congratulations to Year 6 student Isabella Buckland who made it into the top five in her year level division of the Telling Stories Competition. The competition is organised by Mooloolaba Rotary in partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast and Voices on the Coast to encourage students across Years 4-9 to grow their creativity
It’s almost halfway through Term 4 of an extraordinarily challenging year and I know many of you are very tired. So instead of the usual blog on how to be an excellent parent, I thought it was time to encourage you to parent the “lazy way” for a change. I came across this quote by
Thank you to our amazing GCC community for your support of the 2020 Character Day and Primary Book Week Parade events! The ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’ theme was a fantastic opportunity to let our imaginations run wild as we celebrated all creatures great and small. The creativity in the costumes this year was outstanding and
Another exciting Sports Report by Matt Beattie with some great shots of our students in action. You can read the full report and see all the photos here.
The Year 10 Prac and Science Aggies are getting involved in the University of New England’s “Soil Your Undies” project and already they have had some great laughs while learning! ‘Soil Your Undies’ is a citizen science campaign run by UNE and Cotton Australia that explores soil health and allows participants to share their experiences.
Term 4 is always a busy one but earlier in the year we wondered if we would be able to hold any events at all! Fortunately, we continue to be blessed with cautious freedom and the events are ramping up for Term 4 once again. Dance Night Last Friday was our Dance Night which was
What a great challenge! Year 12’s final cooking lesson competing with the staff. Each student planned their own recipe including a selected list of ingredients and worked with a staff member to plate-up four serves in 80 minutes. Judges came in and critiqued the dishes, just like Masterchef. This was a great opportunity to showcase our
This week in Senior Chapels we were thrilled to have GodSpeed racing rider Trevor Wilson, who shared his life journey that took him to the Dakar Rally [think the Mount Everest for bikers!]. This epic rally sees elite riders race 14 hours a day for two weeks through deserts and dunes of nearly 8000 miles!
Students are buzzing each week as they arrive at the pool ready for their weekly swim lesson. It sure started with a big splash in Desley Palmer’s Year 3 group when students were learning how to get to safety quickly after jumping or falling into deep water. We look forward to watching students improve their
How would you feel about your children using a website that has this warning on its home page in the first paragraph? “Predators have been known to use Omegle.” Omegle is a website set up specifically for someone to talk to a stranger without the usual registration of people’s age, sex and location. The age
We have been harvesting our carrots and they are beautiful! We have an abundance of tomatoes and onions and our zucchinis are still growing, along with our squash and celery. The children have been enjoying making coleslaw chicken wraps using our beautiful cabbage and kale. These are great for easy dinners or school lunch boxes.
Last week, Year 6 presented each Preppie with a very special gift – a book of Parables Jesus Told. Year 6 students created these books themselves and some of the pages even had moving parts to them! You can see by the looks on the Year 6 and Prep students that these books will be
Patrick McKenzie (Year 12) and Aiden McKellar (Year 12) recently represented the Sunshine Coast in the U19 Division at the Queensland School Sport 16-19 Years Volleyball State Championship in Brisbane. Teams from across Queensland battled it out over the four days of the Championships. After initially playing some impressive games, the boys came up against
It has been a challenging, exhausting year for the whole world. Even though our little corner in Beerwah has been blessed with minimal interruptions in comparison, it has still taken a toll. As it is the beginning of the final term, I’d like to encourage our students to tackle Term 4 like a good piano
Congratulations to our very own Jemma Ritson who took out the Holmes Junior Art Prize for Realistic Australian Bird Art 2020. This award is hosted by Sunshine Coast Council and sponsored by the Friends, Regional Gallery Caloundra Inc. Jemma’s ‘Glorious Casuarious‘ caught the judge’s eye from the start for its fine detail and colour. They particularly loved the
Lily Short has had a busy holiday break competing in State Championships in Equestrian and is now the Queensland Interschool State Champion. Lily competed for Glasshouse Christian College against the very best primary riders in Queensland and won! She is the QLD State Primary Champion for the 90cm-1m class and gained selection into the Queensland
What could be better than running through the park and bush of Beerwah on a glorious day at the end of term? Well, lots of us enjoyed racing and others enjoyed a more gentle jog gaining valuable house points. War cries were loud and intimidating with each team trying to gain a psychological advantage even
Did you see the photos of our Year 6 students designing a new nature play space on Facebook? They began by interviewing Prep students about what they would like and are putting together creative proposals for Mrs Mitchell. With all the planning they put into these proposals, I’m sure no one asked, ‘how can we
Wown it’s Week 10 and what a great term we have had in Kitchen Garden. This fortnight we have been making zucchini spaghetti with tomato sauce and rosemary flatbread. We made the sauce from our tomatoes grown this term and naturally the zucchini and rosemary also came from our garden. Most of the children loved
Margaret Mead was a famous and sometimes controversial cultural anthropologist in the 1960s and 70s. She was once asked what she thought the first sign of civilisation was and her answer surprised many. Some expected that the archeological evidence of civilisation would be advanced tool-making or a flourishing economy. However, Margaret disagreed. An article by
Expression of thanks to our donors of “Save your Seat in the Spotlight” Campaign The College would like to thank all donors who have generously given to this Capital Giving Campaign so far. We look forward to formally recognising each donation in 2021 by way of an engraved seat plaque in the donor’s name, but
2020 has brought with it some challenges with COVID-19, but despite this, we wanted to create a space for our high-schoolers to rock out some tunes together. We had nine bands from Beerwah State High School, Glasshouse Christian College and Maleny State High School participating in the Battle this year. Click here to check out what the
The modern-day father is a complex role that comes in various forms. They are no longer always the traditional breadwinner and disciplinarian in the family. He can be single or married; externally employed or stay-at-home; step-parent or adoptive. Psychological research however across families from all ethnic backgrounds strongly suggests that a fathers’ affection and increased
Massive congratulations to Ebony for winning the Joyce Newton OAM Memorial Bursary! To win, Ebony wrote an exceptional 1000 word essay on the New Bradfield Water Scheme. In addition to winning $1000 to use at Concept IT, Ebony’s essay will hopefully be tabled during parliament and attend a dinner at Queensland Parliament. Ebony was presented
The oval was a hustling hive of activity from early in the morning as coaches, Senior Sport and Rec students, teachers and maintenance set up the fields for an action packed day. The students turned up to our junior oval with enough heat and enthusiasm to fill a stadium. After roaring each other up more
You have probably heard of TikTok and if you have a teenager in the family then you probably know more about it than I do! However, for parents with preteens, primary students, or those wanting to learn more about this popular social media platform, then please read on. In August 2018, a Chinese company bought
Good design focuses on people at its core, it is empathetic, educated and personalised. All of these elements are part of what makes it attractive, once you’ve got them as the base, you have your direction, your aesthetic and your solution – all are inspired by people. My name is Alija, and I am a
Authentic artwork in honour of our First Nations People Read More »
We are SUPREMELY proud of the amazing work our little students have created this term. Some work was based on guided drawings, to be more scientifically correct as we studied minibeasts, but some are all our own ideas! What year level is this you ask… Year 7? Year 9? Year 4? – NO! – Year ONE! Yes. We have had a
Middle School brings many new and exciting experiences for students at Glasshouse Christian College. So, in March this year they had the opportunity to venture off into another world under the ocean. This was part of the PADI Open Water Course that Years 7-9 are able to undertake here at GCC. Group A scuba divers
