Junior School Captains 2023

On Friday 25 November,  we celebrated our Year 9 students on their completion of Junior School at our 2022 Junior School Graduation.  At the ceremony, we were entertained by our Junior Choir and Chamber Strings ensemble and the BSHS Rock Band who all performed outstandingly.  Our students were delightful and it was great to have parents join us in the room and online.

At the ceremony, we introduced our 2023 School Captains:

 I celebrated with this group of student leaders with lunch together on Thursday 1 December.

2023 Junior School Captains at lunch with Mr Wade Haynes

David Sutton Award 2022

In the last newsletter, I announced the 2022 recipient of the David Sutton Award for All Round Excellence and provided a brief overview of Chanel Li’s achievements. I felt it was important to expand on this information to share Chanel’s many achievements:

In 2018, Chanel was a Griffith University STEM Ambassador.

In 2019, Chanel completed her Cello Associate Diploma (AMUSA). She has also completed her Theory of Music Grade 6 exam.  

Chanel was a Peers for Academic Success volunteer tutor in 2021 and 2022. She was allocated to the literacy program and paired with junior students. Her commitment to the literacy of these students saw their school results improve over 2021.  

Through these community and leadership roles, Chanel also led and promoted a learning culture. Chanel also had a significant extra-curricular commitment in addition to her STEM commitments including the Student Representative Council, choirs, instrumental music groups, debating, badminton, netball, cross country, as well as media and photography teams.

Chanel has participated in the following competitions and achieved highly in all of these pursuits:

• Queensland Regional Titration Competition: 2021
• Australian Mathematics Competition: 2021 (High Distinction), 2020 (Distinction), 2019, 2018, 2017 (Prize Winner)
• ICAS Mathematics Competition: 2020 (Distinction), 2019 (Distinction), 2018 (Distinction), 2017 (High Distinction)
• ICAS Science Competition: 2020, 2019, 2018 (High Distinction), 2017 (High Distinction)
• Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers Problem Solving Competition: 2022, 2021, 2020
• Australian Intermediate Olympiad: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

In 2022, Chanel was a Peer Supporter and was selected as a Prefect. Chanel was also the 2022 Badminton Captain. 

At the completion of Year 12 internal assessment, Chanel was on 100% for all subjects (Chemistry, French, Methods, Specialist, Physics), with the exception of Literature where she has obtained 74/75. 

Chanel is was part of the school’s Medicus program. Prior to this, Chanel applied for and won a holiday research program through SPARQ-Ed.

In her final year of high school, Chanel was the recipient of the 2022 Peter Doherty Award for Senior Student STEM Excellence.

Chanel was awarded an All-Rounder Scholarship through the Australian National University (ANU).

Chanel is also a joy of a human who is caring, friendly, warm, kind and humble.

Congratulations to Chanel on these outstanding achievements throughout her six years at Brisbane State High. We wish her the very best with her future endeavours.

Staff changes for 2023

I would like to extend my thanks and best wishes to these staff:

I’ll introduce our new staff in the first newsletter of 2023. We had the pleasure of working with many of them for a day this week.

Key dates | Term 1, 2023

Please note the following key dates during Term 1 of 2023. We are currently working on populating our website events calendar and aim to have 2023 key dates available by the commencement of Term 1. I encourage you to keep checking our website events calendar for the most up-to-date details.

Reminder: Student Start 2023

Our Year 7 students, together with our 2023 Prefects and Year 11 Peer Supporters and leaders, will commence the 2023 school year on Monday 23 January. All other year levels (Year 8 – 12) will commence on Tuesday 24 January 2023.

A reminder: If it is not possible for your student to attend from the first day, parents are required to seek approval from the school prior to the end of this school year.

Students not returning until after Thursday 2 February 2023 are required to provide documentary evidence of travel or other arrangements that preclude the normal start dates. Without this documentation, we will not hold places in classes. Please provide us with early advice so we can attend to these arrangements with you.

Thank you

This is our final newsletter for 2022. I wish all our students and staff a safe and happy holiday and look forward to working together in 2023. I’d like to extend my thanks to everyone in our community for your support, feedback, input, ideas, volunteering, financial support and encouragement. It is all greatly appreciated.