Congratulations to Pacific Soccer’s retiring Vice-President, Mr Ian Barnes, who won the highly prestigious Chaplain’s Award at the Sunshine Coast Churches Soccer Association’s annual awards night on Saturday. The award is presented to a volunteer, administrator, player, or group for providing an outstanding service to the community. Ian has been involved with Pacific Soccer and the College for more than 10 years and has made significant contributions to our community.
As well as contributing significant time and enhancing the leadership of Pacific Soccer, Ian has also been instrumental in leading many of the Friends of Pacific initiatives including managing the logistics of OCEANfest. We thank Ian for his humble and generous service to this community, which has not only benefitted our current students but also leaves a strong legacy for the future.
This week we farewelled our two Seishin Gakuen exchange students, Akito and Mayumi. Throughout this term they have developed strong friendships and fully engaged with all aspects of College life. The warmth, sincerity and humour exhibited in their farewell speeches reflected just how much this exchange has meant to them and our Pacific students and families. The opportunity to spend time and learn with people from other countries enhances our cultural understandings and our humanity. We thank Akito and Mayumi for their engagement and openness in connecting strongly with this community and wish them all the best for the future. We thank Mrs Michiko Hauser for the considerable time and expertise she puts into leading these exchange experiences. We also express appreciation to our hosting Dines, Watson and Cheney families for their generous hospitality. Thank you to our community for welcoming Akito and Mayumi so very well. We wish Austin Beasley and Tamika Cheney all the best as they spend Term 4 as guests at Seishin Gakuen.
This week we had eight senior staff visiting from St Peter’s Lutheran College in Brisbane to learn about our integrated approach to developing staff and student wellbeing. They very much appreciated hearing how we have implemented the learnings of research in the areas of positive psychology and emotional intelligence with those of Lutheran theology to create rich learning experiences. We thank Mr Brendan Delaney, Miss Kim Stone and Mr David Druery for leading the growth of this culture as well as this professional learning activity.
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At assembly this week, we farewelled Akito and Mayumi, our two Inbound Exchange students from our sister school, Seishin Gakuen. Akito and Mayumi have spent the past nine weeks at Pacific, learning and immersing in Australian school life. They participated in our classes and College events to develop a rich understanding of our culture and lifestyle. We thank the Dines, Watson and Cheney families for hosting Akito and Mayumi and all Pacific students who helped Akito and Mayumi have a great experience.
The Junior Girls A team travelled to Peregian Springs this week for their grand final match against St Andrew’s Anglican College (SAAC). The last time these two teams met it was an 8-2 victory to SAAC, so the girls and Mr Darren Hooper were nervous going into the match. The girls were down at half time 1-0 and needed to regroup and refocus. Whatever Mr Hooper said at half time worked. The girls came out firing and levelled it 1-1 after a steaming run from Bethany McKenna. With only two minutes left on the clock, a set move was run close to the line and Brianna Smart dived over to score the winning try. 2-1 winners! It was a gutsy effort from all players who worked extremely well as a team and never gave up. Well done!
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