Sunshine
Valley News

Sept. 5,
2000

Page 4

Palmwoods Primary School Update

During the past fortnight at Palmwoods State School there have been many wonderful events to celebrate.

Firstly, the school involvement with the Nambour Sugar Festival Parade led to an award for "The Best Juvenile Group" for their float. Palmwoods students decorated a truck to a variation of the town theme "Sugar and Fruit – The Sweetness of Spring in Palmwoods". Students made the decorations, arranged for donations of sugar cane and fruit and decorated the float on the Saturday morning.

The annual athletics carnival was held on the school oval on Thursday and Friday August 17 and18. With an emphasis on participation, students competed in field events and athletics with Nicklin House winning the shield for the carnival. Students displayed outstanding skills with many long-standing records broken on the day. Most pleasing of all was the wonderful atmosphere and sportsmanlike conduct of students during the carnival.

Tournament of the Minds was held on Saturday in Nambour and once again the students of Palmwoods State School were successful in their entries. From three teams, Palmwoods received two honours awards. The creativity and enthusiasm of these students is to be commended. They have worked cooperatively and consistently over the last month juggling sports practice and tournament rehearsals each school day.

Each year a number of our students enter the University of NSW Science and Maths competitions. Results for Science were two High Distinctions, five Distinctions, and eight Credits. Results from the University of NSW Maths Competition were five Distinctions and 11 Credits. These results are especially pleasing, as this is an Australia wide competition.

In the area of wider community involvement, our student council raised just over $250 from the sale of flowers and merchandise for Cancer Research on Daffodil Day on Friday August 18.

Trivia Night Fundraiser for P & C

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