2020 Award recipients

Edition 17 - 24 November 2020

Year 7 Most Outstanding Student Lily De Brincat

Year 8 Most Outstanding Student Stefanie Sambo

Year 9 Most Outstanding Student Caitlin Hegarty

Year 10 Most Outstanding Student Ashleigh Moir

Year 11 Most Outstanding Student & Subject Prize Winner Felicity Caruana

Top year 7 students

Top year 10 students Top year 9 students

Top year 8 students

Top year 11 students Most Improved Student - Year 9 Jade Leecherta

Most Improved Students - Year 8 Brian Vang, Archie Averkoff, Lochie Hunter & Sophie Andersen

JCU Encouragement Award Year 9 - Mercedes Micale

Most Improved Student - Year 7 Casey McConochie

Most Improved Student - Year 10 Hamish Hunter

ADF Long Tan Award - Year 10 Tiarna McKay

JCU Encouragement Award - Year 10 Abigail Rigano

Halpin Partners Bursary Year 10 - Kirrily Csukardy

QITE Encouragement Award Year 10 - Kimberley Bryant

ADF Future Innovators Award Year 10 - Kai Darveniza

Most Improved Student Year 11 - Patty Maubog

Webb Memorial Bursary Year 11 - Rylee Donald

QITE Encouragement Award Year 11 - Ki-Shaun Fejo

JCU Encouragement Award Year 11 - Lucia Trotter

Volunteer Award - Gabrielle Doyle & Rose Butcher Vocational Student - Ashleigh Andersen TAFE Award-AJ Staines & Cade Gravagna

School-Based Apprentice Michala Spry

School-Based Trainee Latifah Turner

Halpin Partners Bursary Rohan Irving

Oades Bursary Charlotte Grima

CQUni Award Zarllea Balke

Kateifides STEM Bursary Fynn O’Shea

Most Improved Yr 12 student Tage Kennedy

Harro’s Award Thomas King

MSF Vocational Bursary Liam Wood

MSF Academic Bursary Selena Guglielmi

JCU Award Madison Lyons

Citizenship Award TJ Lawton

ADF Future Innovators Award Lori Edgerton

ADF Long Tan Award Toby Jarvis MacDonald

4KZ—KOOL FM Bursary Kylie Vecchio

Alfio D’Urso Bursary Jemma Turner-Maher

College All Rounder Monica Vecchio

Innisfail State College acknowledges the Mamu People, Traditional Custodians of the country in which this College is located, and pays respect to their Elders past and present and emerging.

Friday 27 Nov Final day for Years 10 & 11 Instrumental Music Jazz workshop Tully Monday 30 Nov Year 11 Orientation Program Tuesday 1 Dec Year 11 Orientation Program Year 6 transition day Wednesday 2 Dec Yr 10 & 11 First Aid Course Year 6 HOTSHOTS P&C final 2020 dinner meeting Thursday 3 Dec Year 6 HOTSHOTS Business Liaison Assoc. Awards Cairns Friday 4 Dec Yrs 10 & 11 reports posted home IVAAR On-Country Excursion Tuesday 8 Dec Newsletter Final day of tuckshop Wednesday 9 Dec DLC end of year Concert & Awards Final day of school 2021 Wednesday 27 Jan School resumes for Yrs 7,8,9,12, all DLC Thursday 28 Jan School resumes for Yrs 10 & 11 All students in routine attendance

Upcoming events

Six talented young instrumental music students from ISC recently attended the State Honours Ensemble Program (SHEP) Middle School. SHEP is an educational program that is run by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University for young musicians and gives them the opportunity to work with a team of eminent university conductors. Participants travel from Mackay north and west to the State border for this innovative and intensive weekend program.

Kyanna Wirth, Eliza Cook, Jordann Lyons, Ashleigh Binello, Caitlin Hegarty and Matthew Haigh participated in this event, which was held at St Mary’s Catholic College from 23 - 25 October. Students worked under the experienced batons of Alex Khafagi (strings), Kate Albury (vocal) and Jeanette Douglas (wind ensemble). These students proudly represented ISC in a Grand Finale Concert at the end of the weekend. Congratulations to all musicians for a job well done!

Griffith University Conservatorium of Music SHEP workshop

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Extended uniform shop hours in January 2021

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15th 8:30am-12noon

18th 2pm-5pm

19th 8:30am-12noon

20th 8:30am-12noon

21st 2pm-5pm

22nd 2pm-5pm

25th 2pm-5pm

26th Public Holiday

27th 7:30am-9am

28th 7:30am-9am

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From 2nd February, resume normal trading hours: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 7:45am-9:30am and Thursdays 2:30pm-4pm.

106 wonderful, hard-working students were awarded prizes and bursaries to the value of $10 450 last week at six awards ceremonies. These funds were generously donated by our amazing community in a true show of “Community Pride” and every cent donated was presented to students. Academic achievement, community spirit, striving for improvement, and teamwork and leadership were all acknowledged as traits we value highly. We are indebted to our supporters for this partnership in education.

Recently, 53 of our year 12 students completed no fewer than 23 external exams; the first of their kind in the new Queensland senior system for university entrance. The Cassowary Coast Regional Council made available, free of charge, the Disaster Management Centre, which we sensibly renamed the “Exam Centre” for the three-and-a-half week exam period. Our students are now awaiting the external marking of their exams and await the release of final results and ATARs (formerly OPs) on 19th December. Universities have this year extended early entry offers and we are very proud that 10 of our graduates have already received offers to study Engineering, Education, Marine Science, Music, IT, Business, Animation & Visual Effect, Crime & Justice at Griffith University, JCU, TAFE, and the Conservatorium of Music. We anticipate many more university offers over the next weeks.

Over the past three weeks, we have undertaken our student leadership selection processes in years 7 to 11 and we have identified our student council representatives for the 2021 school year. A record number of students made up a very strong field of candidates in every year level, leaving students and staff spoilt for choice. I extend my sincere thanks to all student leaders who contributed to the work of student council in what was a most challenging year in 2020, and my congratulations and admiration for every student who nominated to become a leader in 2021. Stepping forward for any public service is most admirable, and student leadership is no different. Next February we will welcome our successful nominees at the Student Leaders & Seniors Induction Ceremony.

Celebrating student success

It’s time to check under the bed and in the depths of your school bag for all your school text books and library books! As students complete final exams and assessments, please return all resources to the library so they can be re-conditioned as required and made ready for hiring to new learners in 2021. If you are uncertain what resources you are looking for, please email our library at cross170@eq.edu.au for a complete list of outstanding loans. Invoices will be issued for texts not returned.

Time to return all text and library books