Pioneer State High School

Wear purple and or rainbow accessories tomorrow, Friday 28th August for Wear it Purple Day 💜🌈

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕
2008 graduate Michael Cotter shares his story, thank you Michael.🦁 Cotter Builders

𝑻𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒊 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔! 𝑷𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆🦁

It is National Skills Week and the theme this year is Life Changing Skills, celebrating how vocational education and training (VET) can transform lives.

Tiani, a QMEA Student Ambassador from Pioneer State High School in Mackay, is passionate about becoming a heavy diesel fitter once she has graduated from school at the end of the year.

"I have always enjoyed practical tasks, problem-solving and working with tools, which led me to explore careers in the trades," said Tiani.

👉Read Tiani's story here: Tiani is building a future in the trades | Department of Trade, Employment and Training (https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01jRS70)


Queensland Resources Council
Skills for Queensland
Mining Queensland

𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒚𝒏🦁

Year 11 Hospitality – Tanghulu!

Yesterday our Year 11 Hospitality students made Tanghulu, a traditional northern Chinese street food featuring fresh fruit coated in a crisp, shiny sugar shell. 🍓🍇🍊 In Hospitality, we always try to minimise food waste, so this was also a great opportunity to use up some of the leftover fruit from our Year 10 Mocktail Party assessment and turn it into these delicious little treats! A big thank you to Miss Pip for coming up with the idea, and to Miss Bec for helping the students safely work with the hot sugar syrup. They looked fantastic and, most importantly… they were delicious!

Alex from Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy led a workshop with Year 7 students last week. Students worked in teams to assemble and complete a hydraulic arm. They then designed and built attachments to demonstrate innovation, aspects of engineering and design thinking. The day concluded with each team presenting their hydraulic arms and explaining it's purpose and features. Well done to the winning team! 🦁

𝑷𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅!
Over the weekend Mrs Garioch (HPE/ ITD teacher) was inducted into the Australian BMX Hall of Fame, recognising her achievements and contributions to the sport of BMX. Mrs Garioch is a 6x time world champion who grew up in Andergrove riding at the local track, not too far from our school. Congratulations to you Mrs Garioch on this amazing achievement! 🏅🦁

Have a wonderful Sunday!☀️

🎣 Yesterday Year 12 Aquatic Practices students spent the day fishing at Louisa Creek with the Mackay Recreational Fishing Alliance (MRFA).
A huge shout out to the MRFA volunteers who shared their knowledge and time supplying bait and tackle and giving our students a fantastic hands-on learning experience, thank you! A special mention also has to go to Bonnie and Penny 🐶🐶, who were very popular members of the MRFA crew.
And the fish were biting! Our students caught around 50 fish throughout the day. Most were undersized and returned to the water, while a few legal catches made their way onto the BBQ alongside our sausage sizzle.
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