St Columba's Primary

SPEECH & COMMUNICATION EISTEDDFOD 🎤🎬

Speech & Communication Tuition is one of the many extra-curricular opportunities offered at St Columba’s, helping students build confidence and communication skills that last a lifetime. 🙌🏼

It was fantastic to see those skills come to life at Saturday’s Eisteddfod. We loved watching some of our students take the stage! What superstars!! 🌟

🤔QLD JUNIOR SCHOOL PHILOSOTHON🤔

Twelve of our Year 5 and 6 students participated in the QLD Junior School Philosothon at Hillbrook yesterday. 🙌

A Philosothon encourages students to investigate philosophical questions and ideas through discussion with students from other schools. It helps students develop critical thinking and reasoning skills and aims to promote a sense of community.🗣

We are VERY proud to share that one of our teams won the competition and Clara (Year 5) won the 'Junior Philosopher' award. This is a remarkable achievement for our students, many of whom attended the event for the first time.🏆

Congratulations to all students who represented St Columba's. Keep up the critical thinking!👏🏼

🚒FIRE TRUCK VISIT🚒

Last week our Year 1s were immersed in learning about fire safety!🚨

They learnt what to do if they see a fire, ways to prevent fires and some simple strategies to stay safe.👨🏻‍🚒

Thanks to the Windsor Fire station crew for helping our students understand important warning signs, how to respond in an emergency and for keeping our community safe!🙏

🗓WEEK 10🗓

Can you believe it is Week 10 already? Time flies when you are having fun at St Columba's!🙌🏻

Best wishes to our Year 5/6 students who will represent St Columba's at the Junior Philosothon on Monday. 🤔

We are excited to be hosting the inaugural Inner North Readers Cup on Wednesday in our new Library. We wish our Year 5/6 St Columba's teams all the best in the competition.📚

A HUGE thanks to Mrs Irwin and Ms Morgante for providing both of these fabulous enrichment activities for our senior students. 🙏

Please join us for our final assembly of Term 2 on Friday at 2.20pm. 👋🏼

🏉RUGBY 7S🏉

Congratulations to all our students who represented St Columba's at the BCE North Region Rugby 7s Carnival! 👏

All players took to the field with courage and determination, giving💯%. We are proud of our students who all showed great teamwork and represented St Columba's so well.

A special congratulations to our Under 10s Boys team who were the Division 2 Champions!👌

Last week we welcomed Australian BMX Freestyler Alec Danelutti to St Columba's as part of the ‘Olympics Unleashed’ program.🥇

Alec spoke to Years 4-6 about his journey from a young boy with ambitions of competing in the Olympics, to now being on-track to qualify for the LA Games in 2028. 🚲

He shared valuable insights about resilience, goal-setting and overcoming challenges. Our students also had the opportunity to ask Alec some very insightful questions about his career.❓

We wish Alec all the best for his future, as he aims to represent Australia in LA and Brisbane (2032). We also know that Alec has inspired some future olympians here at St Columba's!👏

🗓WEEK 9🗓

Best of luck to all our students participating in Wednesday's Rugby 7s Carnival! We have a good feeling there will be some wins during the day as well as a big win for Qld at State of Origin that night! 😄🏉

Students are welcome to wear their State of Origin colours on Wednesday!💙❤

✝ST COLUMBA'S FEAST DAY ✝

The sun shone brightly on us as we celebrated the feast day of our patron saint, St Columba.🕊

Our community BBQ Breakfast kicked off a fabulous day of events which included Mass, a drama performance (Saving Lil & Archie), Blankets-Buddies-(ice)Blocks, and pastoral group activities. 🫶

A HUGE thank you to our P&F and all the incredible volunteers for serving up a tasty breaky - it was the best way to start our special day!🍳

We are also so grateful to our amazing APRE, Mrs Lewis, for organising such an enjoyable day for our students - our St Columba's community spirit was very much ALIVE. 🙏

Our new jumpers have arrived and they are already very popular! 👌

Available via Qkr! or the Uniform Store is open tomorrow morning!