Edition 10—23 June 2015
On 21 May our year 10 students attended the Careers Expo held in Cairns. This was a great opportunity for our students to talk to various industries about their future career options and the path that they would need to take to achieve their career goal. It was great to see our students participating in the range of activities on offer, like the TAFE beauty students offering manicures, the digger obstacle course, talking to the various university mentors about different careers, the developments of technology in agriculture of using remote controlled cameras. They were a fantastic group to take and I hope it has inspired students to think about their future. Thank you to all the teachers who came on the excursion, and to our year 10 students; you represented our school very well.
Mrs Connie Medley - Yr 10 Coordinator
Dancing, drums and plenty of denim! Innisfail State College is gearing up for this year’s musical blockbuster, Back to the 80s . The story follows a group of teenage boys who want to ‘cut loose’, cheerleading girls who ‘just want to have fun’, and a teacher finding out his ‘angel is a centrefold’.
The staff and students of Innisfail State College have been working incredibly hard to produce a show that incorporates a killer band, fabulous dancers and outrageous actors. Director and Drama Teacher Ms Lisa Kaluza said, “If you love 80s rock, mullets and corny pop culture references, then you will certainly enjoy this show.”
The show premieres on Friday July 31 at 7pm with additional shows on
Saturday August 1 st
at 1pm and the final presentation at 7pm. Adult tickets are $10 and Child/Concession tickets are $5. Tickets are now on sale at the Innisfail State College office or by calling 4078 0222. Tickets are in demand, so be quick to get yours!
The VC STEM Camp is a fully-funded five day camp where 160 students from across
Queensland will be given the opportunity to join leading QUT researchers in exploring some of the major challenges facing our society in biology, aerospace, robotics, pharmacy, chemistry, and computational mathematics. To be selected into the program students must be a current Yr 11 student and have earned a VHA in one or more of the following subjects:
Science, Mathematics B or C. ISC’s Isabella Sharpe and Harmeet Kaur both met these requirements and are off to Brisbane in September.
The camp’s research projects are based on the work of some of QUT’s most renowned researchers. For example, the project ‘The Future of Regenerative Medicine’ will see students mentored by Professor Mia Woodruff, head of QUT's Biomaterials and Tissue Isabella Sharpe & Harmeet Kaur
Morphology Group, where students will learn to design, model and 3D print custom-made replacement body parts in QUT’s biofabrication labs and investigate cell growth in these structures.
Mon 22 to Thu 25 June Hotshots visit 2
Tue 23 and Wed 24 June Yr 12 exam block
Tue 23 to Fri 26 June
Tuesday 23 June
Wednesday 24 June
Yr 11 exam block
Musical rehearsal full cast 11am—5pm
Athletics events (pre-carnival events for
Thursday 25 June
Friday 26 June
Friday 26 June
Monday 13 July nominated students only)
P & C Meeting 7pm
Yr 12 ski trip departs very early in the morning
Year 6 Transition Day No. 2
Final day of term 2
School recommences for all students
Mon 13 and Tue 14 July Townsville JCU experience for year 10s
Tuesday 14 July Maths tutoring all year levels 3-4pm in XG02
Wednesday 15 July
Friday 24 July
11s & 12s to JCU Cairns—uni experience day
Maths A & Maths B tutoring 3-4pm in XG02
College Athletics Carnival—families welcome
Our Peppertree Restaurant will be open on the following dates:
Friday 7 th
August
Thursday 13
Friday 21 st th
August
August
Thursday 27 th
August
Friday 4 th
September
Thursday 10 th
September
$30 per person for a set, three-course menu, prepared and served by ISC Hospitality students.
Please make bookings at the ISC Office.

Thank you for your support of ISC students through their semester assessment. This can be a time of anxiety for students, as their teachers work to determine how student learning is progressing, and we are deeply appreciative of the support that families provide.
Report cards for all students are being prepared by teachers. For students in years 7, 8, 9, and 10 report cards will be posted home on
Friday 26 June, so please look for them in the first week of the holidays. Students in years 11 and 12 will receive report cards in the post in week two of next term.
Also enclosed with report cards in the mail-out are other important documents:
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Parent-teacher interview information
Term 3 school events calendar
Newsletter for your specific year group
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School opinion survey invitation to participate
Term 3 assessment calendar for students in years 9, 10, 11 and 12
Parent-teacher interviews afford our families a valuable opportunity to discuss reported results and feedback. These will be conducted at the college library on Monday 27 July . Please use the link on our school website to make appointments to see teachers. Students are encouraged to attend these interviews to strengthen the relationship between the key stakeholders of teacher-parent-student.
The school opinion survey is conducted every year by Education Queensland. It gathers information from our parents, teachers and students (year 8 and 11 students are randomly selected to complete surveys) to help me evaluate how our school is performing. I would greatly appreciate your feedback via this online survey.
On Monday 31 August, 8 students (1 boy and 7 girls) and 2 teachers from Shimotsuma Dai Ni high school in Japan will arrive at ISC. They are participating in a study tour and will be based with us until Tuesday 4 August. Our school has hosted visitors from this school in Japan for the past 14 years. Please contact me if you would like to host a student or teacher at your house for that week. There is an allowance paid to families to help out with costs associated with hosting a visitor and showing them around our beautiful district. Email me on cmacd80@eq.edu.au if you would like more information. It’s a great experience for the whole family!
Finally, I am excited to tell you that I have been invited to work at Cairns State High School in term three, while principal Mrs Angela Toppin is on leave. This is a wonderful opportunity for our school, through me, to observe closely how another highly respected and successful school operates. I look forward to learning as much as possible during this experience and using my new knowledge to make our great college even better when I return in term four. Thank you to Mr Graham for stepping into the principalship at ISC in my absence.
I wish all our college families a relaxing and refreshing winter break and all the best for term three.
Kindest regards,
Innisfail State College held a free dress day to celebrate the 2nd state of origin game. The student council decided that it would donate part of the money raised to the Walking Wounded charity, which helps veterans and families of soldiers who did not make it back from war, to rebuild their lives through meaningful employment, networking, counselling and mentoring programs.
After school, a group of students made their way down to Jack Fossey Park to meet the Walking
Wounded team and donate $100 to the cause. They were very moved by the stories they heard and were equally impressed by the dedication of Brian Freeman and his teammates to attempt the
Great Australian Traverse for such a worthy cause.
Photo: Ebony Huey, Reuben Sharpe, Luke Portelli,
Libby Spannagle with Brian Freeman.
Zumba comes to an end this week after 16 weeks of fun, booty-shaking lunchtime physical activity.
A grant sourced from Back on Track has enabled us to bring Helen Belbin to the school every
Monday to shake up our lunchtime.
ISC families are very welcome to attend our
Athletics Carnival on Friday 24 July. All students are expected to attend and participate by competing for House points or cheering on their
House teams. Look for more information about
House themes in the first newsletter next term.
Program for Friday 24 July
Carnival events—all students
9:30am
10am
200m—all
400m—all
No field events
Shot put 2001,
2003; long jump
2000, high j 1999
Program for Wednesday 24 June
Pre-carnival events—competitors only
10:40am
11:20am
Novelty events
1998, 1999
800m—all
Shot put 2002, long j 2001,
2003, high j 1999
High jump 2002, long jump 1999, shot put 1998
Time
Born
2003
Born
2002
Born
2001
Born
2000
Born
1999
Born
1998
9am 1500m - - triple j javelin discus midday Novelty events
2002, 2003
High jump 2001, shot put 2000, long jump 1998
9:45am discus 1500m - - triple j javelin
12:40am 100m—all No field events
10:30am javelin discus 1500m - - triple j
11:45am triple j javelin discus 1500m - -
1:10pm Novelty events
2000, 2001
Long jump 2002, shot put 1999, high jump 1998
12:30am high j triple j javelin discus 1500m - 1:50pm Relays—all No field events
1:15am - - triple j javelin discus 1500m 2:20pm Presentations and Awards
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, present and emerging.