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“Educating students in Christian leadership for tomorrow’s generation” KING’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE Thursday, June 23, 2011 T he Sounds of Music INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCERTS A large contingent of our upper primary and high school students learn a musical instrument. This week, parents, friends and staff had the opportunity to appreciate their achievements and experience some fine music making. On Monday 20th June, band students performed in the chapel in three ensembles - beginner band, wind ensemble and the high school jazz band. From the earliest beginners to the groove of jazz, it was a fantastic night. It was also a great opportunity to meet new instrumental music band teacher Philip Harden, also known as ‘the trumpet man’. Tuesday evening saw our strings concert in the drama room. The concert opened with a beautiful rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon by violinists Tom Thexton, Alex Jack and Jaebin Lee. This was a farewell performance by Tom who returns to New Zealand next week. Small groups of all ages and abilities presented a wide variety of music, as well as larger ensembles King’s Fiddlers and King’s String Orchestra. Finally all the students - more than fifty – squeezed onto the stage combining together in a rousing finale of “Variations on Twinkle”. Well done to all the performers on both nights.

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“Educating students in Christian leadership for tomorrow’s generation”

KING’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGEKING’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

Thursday, June 23, 2011

T he Sounds of MusicINSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCERTS

A large contingent of our upper primary and high school students learn a musical instrument. This week, parents, friends and staff had the opportunity to appreciate their achievements and experience some fine music making.

On Monday 20th June, band students performed in the chapel in three ensembles - beginner band, wind ensemble and the high school jazz band. From the earliest beginners to the groove of jazz, it was a fantastic night. It was also a great opportunity to meet new instrumental music band teacher Philip Harden, also known as ‘the trumpet man’.

Tuesday evening saw our strings concert in the drama room. The concert opened with a beautiful rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon by violinists Tom Thexton, Alex Jack and Jaebin Lee. This was a farewell performance by Tom who returns to New Zealand next week. Small groups of all ages and abilities presented a wide variety of music, as well as larger ensembles King’s Fiddlers and King’s String Orchestra. Finally all the students - more than fifty – squeezed onto the stage combining together in a rousing finale of “Variations on Twinkle”.

Well done to all the performers on both nights.

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Early Learning ProgramsParenting with Power

Scripture of the week: “If you lack wisdom, ask God.” James 1:5

How to Survive the Term Break

With the holidays approaching, school aged children will spend lots of time at home. As parents, we want children to be able to anticipate the consequences of their inappro-priate actions, which often happen when they are couped up on a rainy day. One of the greatest sources of sibling conflict is foolishness. Children often don’t recognise the future consequences of their present actions. Thomas trips his younger sister. Karen teases her brother until he cries. These are examples of children not anticipating the con-sequences of their actions. Foolishness is one of the three roadblocks to sibling harmony. Helping your children to learn about responsibility offers the solution. Responsibil-ity teaches wisdom in relationships. One of the ways that you can recognise not taking responsibility (the Bible calls it foolishness) is to listen for the flags. Excuses like, “I was just joking” or “I didn’t mean it” or “I was just playing around” or “I didn’t do anything wrong” are all cues that a child is not taking responsibility for their foolish behaviour. Children often evaluate life in terms of black and white and when they do something foolish, the behaviour may not have been wrong to them. These children don’t understand that a good behaviour can sometimes be wrong because it leads to something bad.

The first solution is to help children learn to take respon-sibility for their part of the problem. This is hard for many children who view mistakes as a sign of weakness. Help chil-dren take responsibility for foolishness and you will go a long way to teach them about wisdom.

You might ask, “What could you have done differently to avoid this problem?” This question helps children look at an offense a little differently. Instead of evaluating it, based on right or wrong, now the behaviour is judged based on its foresight and wisdom.

Strategy for the week: Of course the solution for fool-ishness is to help children learn wisdom. You want to help them anticipate the consequences of their actions. Tell sto-ries of people in the Bible who would not foresee the con-sequences of their actions such as Adam, David, Samson, King Saul or Moses. Use the Action Bible stories which are beautifully illustrated to demonstrate consequences of ir-responsible behaviour. Don’t forget to pray with your chil-dren because God says in James 1:5, “If you lack wisdom, ask God.”

We pray that you enjoy this break and have quality time that is relaxing with your children.

~ In His service, Klaus Knobloch and Rosemary Whincop

Super WitnessPL and the King’s Kittens cheer squad helped Mrs

Lawson with her talk during lower primary chapel. They had fun acting out the good samaritan bible sto-ry, showing how to be a super witness for God.

Primary

A Laugh for the End of Semester

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Secondary

They’re here – semester holidays!!! I am sure there are many happy students out there. I thought you may enjoy a laugh at our last article for Semester 1. You may like to share this with the grandparents in your family.

Grandparents - Grandchildren

• Grandmas are mums with lots of frosting. ~ Author Unknown • What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure. ~ Gene Perret • Grandmothers are just ‘antique’ little girls. ~ Author Unknown • Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~ Welsh Proverb • A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~ Author Unknown • Never have children, only grandchildren. ~ Gore Vidal • Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One mo-ment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~ Pam Brown • Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because grandfathers have only so many horsey rides in them. ~ Gene Perret • When grandpa enters the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash • Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree • Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~ Author unknown • Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~ Author Unknown • If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first. ~ Lois Wyse • My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~ Gene Perret • If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! ~ Hannah Whithall Smith • It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that’s why the world calls her grandmother. ~ Author Unknown • Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old. ~ Mary H. Waldrip

• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~ Proverb • An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~ Gene Perret • The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable en-trusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~ Dave Barry • I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. ~ Gene Perret • Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~ Author Unknown • Nobody can do for little children what grandpar-ents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~ Alex Haley • Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice. ~ Author Unknown • A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~ Author Unknown • One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~ Joy Hargrove • It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~ Author Unknown • If your baby is ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time’, you’re the grandma. ~ Teresa Bloomingdale • Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~ Author Unknown • Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~ G. Norman Collie

[Author Unknown]

I pray the holidays go well for you.

Happy parenting. And so it is. Maintain good rela-tionships. Bring heaven to earth. Fear prevents, faith prevails. God bless. True meaning of Easter. Celebrate the risen Christ. Happy Mother’s Day to all our mums. Find the joy. Defend the Australian way of life. En-courage goal setting. Be thankful. Bloom where you are. Develop resilience.

~ Rhonda Bevan, Head of Secondary

“Educating students in Christian leadership for tomorrow’s generation”

KING’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGEKING’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

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GeneralSchool Fees Accounts News

• Term 3 fees are now charged and due by 22nd July. Fees are due by the first week of each term unless you are on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly payment plan.

• Payment plans can be paid via direct debit or BPay on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.

• Credit card plans can be set up automatically on the 15th, 26th of each month or the first week of term.

• Statements will be sent to your email address. For credit card payments, address changes or queries please email [email protected]

• A term’s notice is necessary in writing now if you choose to remove your child from the school. If this is not given, it is school policy to charge the subse-quent term’s fees. Please note that all outstanding fees must be paid before ceasing enrolment and all library and textbooks must be returned.

King’s Christian College uses and recommends Toshiba Photocopiers

Bible Study - Thursday mornings 9.00am, Barista LoungeSpecial Monthly Key Women MeetingsComing Up:Thur 14th July – 7pm - 9pm in Auditorium Popcorn & Movie Night Cost: $5.00 (incl. popcorn) Note: Candy bar items for purchase For more information please contact Shirley Sykes at

the church office on 5593 4233.

“Key Women”… A ministry of King’s Christian Centre

Uniform Shop News For your convenience the Uniform Shop will be open

Monday 18th July, first day Term 3, 8am – 11am and 1pm – 4pm.

Make Time for God:Quote from Power New Testament

Excuses are like elbows - we all have two of them! If you can make time for sports, friends and entertainment, you can make time for God. It will be the best thing you do all day.

“Very early the next morning, Jesus got up and went to a place where he could be alone and pray.” Mark 1:35

If you wish to contact Guy Ormerod, College Chaplain, you can write to - [email protected] or pastoral care: Kerrilee Walsingham - [email protected]

Dates for your diaryJune 24 Last Day Term 2July 18 First Day Term 3July 19 Primary Parent/Teacher InterviewsJuly 20 HS Careers & Subjects EveningJuly 20-22 Year 6 CampJuly 22 Half Day HS Athletics CarnivalJuly 26 Whole Day HS Athletics Carnival

For more details and updates visit the website -www.kingscollege.qld.edu.au click on calendar.

Flu SeasonWith winter truly upon us it is a good time to remind

students, parents and the school community not to be complacent about the flu as it is a highly contagious and serious disease.

Symptoms may include sudden fever, cough, muscle aches and pains, fatigue, headache, sore throat or a stuffy or runny nose.

If your child has flu-like symptoms, the following is ad-vised:• keep your child at home and don’t send them to school;• avoid letting them visit aged care facilities and hospi-tals, if possible, so that they don’t pass the infection to others who may be at risk of complications;• ensure your child washes their hands regularly with soap and water or uses an alcohol-based hand gel;• encourage them to cough into a tissue;• make sure they dispose of tissues quickly and wash their hands;• if a tissue is not immediately available, sneeze or cough into elbow, not hands;• use warm water and a neutral detergent to keep sur-faces such as door handles, kitchen bench tops, phones and toys clean;• ensure they drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest; and• paracetamol is useful for relieving symptoms, but please consult your GP or call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) if you are concerned about their symptoms.

Children with some existing medial conditions are at increased risk of complications and parents are strongly recommended to have them vaccinated against influenza each year. These conditions include: • heart disease• severe asthma• chronic lung condition• chronic illness requiring medical follow-up or hospitalisation in the past year• diseases of the nervous system• impaired immunity • diabetes

Children aged six months to 10 years and on long-term aspirin therapy are also at risk. Flu vaccine is provided free for these children.

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Primary

Tiffany Chavez

Regional Cross CountryHurray! I made it into the state titles from the Regional

Cross County in the 2000m. I would like to tell you a lit-tle bit about my experience how I felt the night before my race. Before I went to bed I prayed and asked God to help me and give me the strength to run my hardest and to make my parents and the school proud. The day of the race I felt very nervous and it was very cold so I had to run a bit to warm myself up. Then they called out under 10 girls and that made me even more nervous but it was time to run and I told myself, ‘Tiffany you can do this, you can do this, you can win this race’. Then the gun when off and off I went running for my life ready to overtake the girls in front of me and get to the finish line. It was so cold that I couldn’t feel my legs and my eyes were so watery. When I was coming up to the finish line I saw my dad, mum and sisters cheering me on. ‘Go Tiff Go’ and I finished 5th and made it onto the re-gional team. It was a very proud moment for me. So now off to Roma we go and I’m training so hard and I have my dad to thank for he gives me all his time after work and trains me very hard four times a week. Thanks dad and mum for taking me to every race.

~ By Tiffany Chavez, 4B

Congratulations Tiffany. We wish you every success for the state titles in Roma.

We would also like to the congratulate the other fine ath-letes who competed at the Regional Cross Country – Dimitee Conventry, Brandon Shiel-Butera, Sophia Muller and Erika Chavez.

Regional TennisOn May 16 I competed at district tennis which led to re-

gional tennis. I was selected at school to compete at district along with three other boys - David Flueckiger, Jesse Hoge-ling and Rahul Mathur. The rules were that you kept playing until you had lost two matches and that only the top four were selected for regionals. I played six matches of which I lost one and lost another deciding the position of whether I was seeded 3rd or 4th. I came 4th which meant I was into regionals held on June 6. At regionals the same rules applied and I lost my first and second match which unfortunately meant I was out of the competition. Even so, it was still a great experience and showed how well I am doing at my age and what I have to do to improve. I thank the school for the experience and hope that I may be able to have it again.

~ Elaina Vanderburg, 7M

I was selected to play at district tennis which led to my selection for regional tennis. There were a lot of tough-look-ing competitors and I knew that if I wanted to go through I would have to play my best. Only the top four could go through to the next round and I placed third with a total of five wins and one loss. I felt really proud of myself when I knew I was going to regionals on June 6. At regionals there were more tough-looking opponents around me. I felt quite intimidated when I watched them play. I didn’t play my best due to illness and lost in the second round. Although I did not make it through I was happy that I made it that far and am looking forward to next year where hopefully I can have this amazing experience again.

~ Rahul Mathur, 7J

Elaina Vanderburg

Rahul Mathur

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Primary

Year 2 Gardening Boys Harvest

Our Year 2 boys put so much time and effort into weeding, ploughing, fertilising, planting and watering their vegetable patch during Term 1. This week, finally, they were able to enjoy the fruit (vegetables) of their labour. Being a very wet season this year, radishes, eggplants, basil and carrots grew extremely well and the compe-tition of “who grew the biggest vegetable” was announced. There were some real monster rad-ishes and carrots and it was great to see the boys’ faces as these were pulled out of the ground. The vegetable trophies were taken home and hope-fully enjoyed by the whole family. What a fruitful season.

~ Mr Klaus Knobloch, Boys in Education

Primary Colours PresentationThe Term 2 Primary Colours presentation was held in the

auditorium at a special Colours assembly this week. The stu-dents proudly received their Colours awards for sporting, academic and spiritual achievements and many parents and friends of the award recipients were on hand to celebrate.

Primary Colour - Gold, our highest award Presented to Elijah Winnington for being selected to com-

pete at the national swimming titles.Primary Colour – Red Awarded to Megan Bogatie and Dimitee Coventry for be-

ing selected to compete at the state swimming titles and to Dimitee Coventry and Elijah Winnington for being selected to compete at the state aquathlon titles.

Primary Colour – Teal Presented to 17 students for competing at a regional level

sport competitions including cross country, hockey, rugby and rugby league.

Primary Colour – White Presented to 74 members of the cross country team and

15 debating Colours were presented to the debating team. These students completed at least 75% of the required training/practices and represented the college in local APS or district competition.

Primary Colour – Amber This year for the first time, students will receive a scrip-

ture Colour signifying diligence and effort in scripture memorisation and recitation. The colour (bright orange) is symbolic of God’s fire (the gift of the Holy Spirit in us) be-ing ‘fanned into a flame’ (2 Tim 1:6). The award requires memorisation of select bible verses, over and above those being instructed by the classroom teacher. 19 Year 7 stu-dents were presented with this award.

Congratulations students on your achievements. ~ Lindsay Genge, Primary Sport Coordinator

Megan Bogatie, Dimitee Coventry and Elijah Winnington

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Secondary

Dates for the Diary• Monday June 20th - Thurs June 23rd Nominations at lunch times for field events for King’s athletics carnival• Friday July 22nd Half day athletics carnival at Pizzey Park (12.30pm - 3.00pm)• Tuesday July 26th Full day athletics carnival at Griffith University

Regional BaseballWe congratulate both Lincoln Crooks and Jace Ise who were both selected for the South

Coast regional U/14 baseball team last week. Both are talented and keen club players and have demonstrated skill and determination to make selection into the south coast team. They will now represent south coast at the Queensland championships at Narangba later this year. Both boys have performed exceptionally well to achieve to this elite level. We wish them both all the very best as they prepare for these championships.

Blake Lawrence also trialled for this team and was unlucky to miss selection. Well done Blake we applaud your effort. Keep up the good work!

APS Finals Day – 10 GRAND FINAL WINSThe high school completed a highly successful season with 10 grand fi-

nal wins on the final day of the winter season. The boys’ teams won six premierships. In volleyball the boys won five of the six premierships to be contested. Mr Askin’s Year 8 boys defeated All Saints 3 sets to 2.

In the girls’ teams Mrs Weathered’s Year 8 netball reversed their season result against All Saints and won a close and exciting game 23-19.

Finally the girls Junior B Tennis coached jointly by Mr Robertson and Mrs Morgan defeated All Saints 20-4.

We congratulate all teams and their coaches for a great effort all season. Teams will celebrate with the traditional pizza lunch this week.

Focus SportsThis year we have decided to focus our resources on developing volleyball, netball, soccer and rugby. As a result we ended

up winning premierships in all four of these sports. At this stage we would like to extend our gratitude to coaches in these areas:

Mr Jason Grady (volleyball), Mrs Michelle Roux (netball) and Mr Roscoe Deacon (rugby).

These coaches freely gave of their time and energy and have been a tremendous asset to the college and sport develop-ment. Great work!

Lincoln Crooks Jace Ise

Secondary Sport

Roscoe DeaconMichelle RouxJason Grady

Year 8 Volleyball

Year 8 Netball Junior B Tennis

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SecondaryAthletics CarnivalThe annual athletics carnival will be early next term. The programme for the days will be:

PROGRAM - FRIDAY 22nd July (Pizzey Park Athletics Oval) 13yr 14yr 15yr 16yr 17yr +12:45pm 1500m 1500m 1500m 1500m 1500m High Jump Javelin Triple Jump Long Jump Discus1.45pm 400m 400m 400m 400m 400m Shotput High Jump Javelin Triple Jump Long Jump

PROGRAM - TUESDAY 26th July (G.C. International Athletics Track)9:45am Official Welcome 13yr 14yr 15yr 16yr 17yr+9:45am Hurdles Hurdles Hurdles Hurdles Hurdles Discus Shotput High Jump Javelin Triple Jump Long Jump10.45am 800m 800m 800m 800m 800m Long Jump Discus Shotput High Jump Javelin11.30am 200m 200m 200m 200m 200m Triple Jump Long Jump Discus Shotput High Jump12.30pm 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m

~ Peter Gillett, Secondary Sport Co-ordinator

Year 10 BusinessThe Year 10 Business Administration students organised the Term 2 secondary school dance on Tuesday night May 31st. After

surveying other students it was decided on a “Mask Dance Party” theme. The students were arranged into three teams: hospi-tality, marketing and operations. The night was a great success with lots of prizes. The ultimate prize being a trip to Hillsong in July. Great work Year 10 Business!

~ Mr O’Donnell

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Carnival Day Saturday 30th July, 12.00pm - 6pm

DONATIONSWe are in need of donations of chocolates and lollies

for games and prizes. Could the primary classes please bring

in the following...

Years P-4 small packets of lollies

Years 5-7 packets and blocks

of chocolate

The class that brings in the most donations will win a pizza party! (next term)

EXTENSION OF TIMEDonations now due by next term - Friday 22nd July

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CARNIvAL DAY 2011

Saturday 30 July

12pm - 6pm

BUY YOUR PRE-PAID RIDE PASS BEFORE TERM 3 STARTS.

FOR ONLY $21 YOU’LL RECEIVE

UNLIMITED ENTRY ON ALL RIDES

All tickets for purchasing available online www.kingscollege.qld.edu.auor from main administration

NB: Price increases to $26 after Term 3 starts Individual rides will be $4 each on the day

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General

Primary Chess Coaching : this term our primary chess students had the opportunity to participate in a weekly chess coaching class with past student Sam Grigg. The above results speak for themselves on how much they have improved. Learning various openings and end games along with building confi-dence in chess strategies, our students have shown great enthusiasm in improving their game. Thanks Mr Grigg! (photo: Prep chess student Jordan Chan)

TERM 3 SCHOOL CHESS TOURNAMENT EVENTS :

Wednesday 3rd August Finals - Gold Coast

High Schools Competition Wednesday 7th September

Finals - Gold Coast Primary Schools Competition

Doeberl Cup in

Canberra It was

great to see the following students heading down to Canberra during the last school holidays to partici-pate at one of the most prestigious annual chess events in Australia. Daniel Lapitan, Matthew Pyper, Martin Jack and Daniel Nowshadi participated against the best adults and juniors in Australia along with titled players from all over the world. Matthew Pyper won the U/14 Lightning event, awesome result!

King’s Chess News

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Daniel Lapitan 2011 U/12 ASIAN YOUTH

CHAMPIONSHIPS

to all of the above parents and families who travelled intra/interstate and overseas for their child to participate in the above chess events!

Gold Coast Junior

Championships was held on 9th-10th April at the Gardiner Chess Centre. Being in-volved with strong chess events enables our students to have the experience and confidence when competing at state and national level. Congratulations to: 1st place U/16 : Martin Jack 1st place U/14 : Kees Huband-Lint 2nd place U/14 : Matthew Pyper Also participating and played great chess - Daniel Nowshadi, Joshua Russell, Sam Shaw, Tosh Allan, Elijah McNamara. Well done boys! QLD Open in Toowoomba

Martin Jack headed up to Toowoomba during the Easter week-end to participate at this year’s Queensland Open. Winning one of his best games this year, Martin was pleased with his performance and level of competition before heading down to the Doeberl Cup in Canberra.

Daniel Lapitan, current U/12 Austra-lian Chess Champ, was chosen to represent Australia at the 2011 U/12 Asian Youth Chess Championships held in the Philippines last month. Daniel’s highlight was having the experience of playing against the best U/12 chess players from the following countries : Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Korea, Philippines and Vietnam. Daniel now waits for the official selection of the Australian team for participation at the 2011 World Youth Chess Championships being held in Brazil, November this year. All the best Daniel, your dreams are becoming a reality!

King’s Junior Chess Club THIS FRIDAY - 24TH JUNE 6:15pm - 8.30pm - $5 entry @ KING’S BARISTA CAFÉ

***ALL WELCOME***

King’s HS top team L-R : Daniel Nowshadi, Martin Jack, Kees Huband-Lint, Matthew Pyper

Primary winners : Back Row L-R : Daniel Lapitan, Elijah McNamara, Jesse Becker, Cayd Robertson, Blake Gittins, Jaxzyn Follett. Front Row L-R : Jacob Chan, Sam Shaw, Mizuki Hara, Justin Park, Eran Dance, Andrew Clare-Brown, Jin Jung

KING’S TOP PRIMARY & HIGH SCHOOL CHESS TEAMS WIN 1ST PLACE IN ROUND 2

This term was another great highlight for our chess students. Round 2 of the Gold Coast Schools Teams Chess Competition was held over the past month with our top chess teams in primary and high school winning the premier division. At the high school event our top chess player, Martin Jack year 8, individually placed 2nd overall and that was a fantastic effort especially since Martin was suffering with the flu that week. The primary event once again had our top chess player, Daniel Lapitan year 7, individually winning every game he played proving yet again the champion that he is. Also our primary students blitzed the event with 2nd in A division, 4th in B division and 3rd in C division along with many students individually receiving awards for great chess on the day. Player of the day was our year 2 student, Justin Park, who played up against year 7 students and won. Congratulations to all our primary and high school chess students and thank you to all the parents for your support.

Keep on chessing! Raelene Barton - Chess Coordinator

High School : Premier : 1st Place Martin Jack, Matt Pyper, Kees Huband-Lint, Daniel Nowshadi + all students received an individual award Primary School : Premier : 1st Place *Daniel Lapitan, *Sam Shaw, Elijah McNamara, *Jacob Chan A Division : 2nd Place *Jaxzyn Follett, Jin Jung, Andrew Clare-Brown, *Eran Dance B Division : 4th Place Will Battese, David Flueckiger, Zak Young, James Moore C Division : 3rd Place Blake Gittins, *Jesse Backer, *Cayd Robertson, *Mizuki Hara *Individual Winners: + *Justin Park

PLAYER OF THE DAY JUSTIN PARK-Year 2

Queensland Junior Chess Rating List

May 2011

Most Improved Chess Players in Qld

1st Elijah McNamara 7th Martin Jack 13th Tosh Allan 14th Sam Shaw 29th Jacob Chan

Top U14 in Qld

3rd Matthew Pyper 4th Martin Jack 8th Kees Huband-Lint

Top U12 in Qld

1st Daniel Lapitan

Top U10 in Qld

5th Sam Shaw 11th Jacob Chan

New Members

Kevin Kim, Jin Jung, Andrew Clare-Brown, Eran Dance, Zak Young, Elijah

Winnington, Lewis Kay

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GOLD COAST BIATHLON SERIES

1st/2nd/3rd medals for every category per race including series prizes. Prize money for elites. Over $3000 Random draw prizes, spot prizes including FREE 2XU wetsuit given away each race, school challenge prizes. See website for more details and to enter www.goldcoastbiathlon.com.au

Phone: 0424 580 464

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Race 2: Sunday 26th June Race 3: Sunday 24th July

Race 4: Sunday 21st August

Pre-register by: Friday before each race. On the day

entries include $10 late fee

Entry fees:/Series 6-9 Years $25/$70 (3 races) 10-12 Years $25/$70 ( 3 races) 13-15 Years $35/$90(3 races) 16-65+ Years $35/$90 (3 races) Teams $50/ $140 (3 races) Corporate Teams $50/$180 (3 races) No Elite Race

4 Race series held at the Iconic Evandale Lake, Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise (Behind Gold Coast Arts Centre). Race in your age group. Multiple distances from 6 years old to over 65+ including teams and a competitive corporate division . Elite race included with cash prizes. Run/Swim/Run for all events. Enter one race or save on series. Entries expected to reach capacity early. To get information booklet and register online please visit:

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6-9 years 500m 150m 500m

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