{"id":4767,"date":"2024-08-20T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/?post_type=article&p=4767"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:31:24","slug":"from-the-college-principal-7","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/from-the-college-principal-7\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE COLLEGE PRINCIPAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am always so impressed with the level of student engagement across a wide range of events in our College. In the last few weeks alone, we\u2019ve celebrated success across a multitude of events:<\/p>\n

NAIDOC CELEBRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our NAIDOC Community Celebration earlier this month, was a living example of the beauty and strength found in diversity and the sharing of traditions. It was wonderful to see our whole College community join together to learn, listen, and through doing so, strengthen bonds. Thank you to Ms Tallisha Harden, our Indigenous Community Engagement Officer, and Ms Regina Foster, our Indigenous Liaison, along with all the dedicated staff whose hard work made the event exceptional. We are very fortunate to be a College enriched with diverse backgrounds, allowing us to come together and celebrate this precious culture and shared knowledge. A special thanks goes out to our market stall holders who created a fantastic laneway of stalls for the community to enjoy. If you weren\u2019t able to make it this year, please keep an eye out for our Save the Date in 2025.<\/p>\n

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BOOK WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n

The theme this year was ‘Reading is Magic’. Our amazing staff treated students to a spectacular production of The Wizard of Oz, and it was a resounding success. <\/span>A big thank you to Ms Jillian Turner, Head of Faculty – English & Languages, whose passion and talent brought this production to life with unparalleled flair. It was wonderful to see our students dress up as their favourite book characters and parade at lunch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SCIENCE WEEK<\/strong><\/div>\n
Science Week is a celebration of science and technology that aims to encourage an interest in science among the community and encourage students to be fascinated by the world we live in. In this year’s Science Week, students were invited to a range of engaging lunchtime activities including a lip balm lab, creating ecosystems, dissections, and a quiz in the quad! To complete the week, the College hosted its eighth annual #STEMLikeAPatsGirl Conference. It was an exhilarating celebration of innovation and curiosity. With 200 enthusiastic students diving into the realms of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the day was filled with hands-on workshops and exciting discoveries. We extend our thanks to this year’s keynote speaker, Catriona Saunders from the RFDS, all our incredible sponsors, and Ms Belinda Coombe and Mr Grant McGregor for their ongoing support for STEM.<\/div>\n
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Amber Hauff<\/h2>\n

COLLEGE PRINCIPAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I am always so impressed with the level of student engagement across a wide range of events in our College. In the last few weeks alone, we\u2019ve celebrated success across a multitude of events: NAIDOC CELEBRATION Our NAIDOC Community Celebration earlier this month, was a living example of the beauty and strength found in diversity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4767","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}