On Friday 27 November there will be a Free Dress Day with the theme of wearing yellow. Please bring a gold coin donation to support Queensland Surf Life Saving.

The Greenhouse Gang formed by Mr Baldwin earlier in the year is continuing its operation as the gardening gang. We have branched out into growing vegetables with our first crop of lettuce due for harvest before the holidays. Mr Stockton has helped enormously in setting up our vege patch.

A special, huge thank you goes to Mr Nelson Melon from the Yandina Markets who supplied us with all the seedlings free of charge. So if you are visiting the Yandina Markets please say “Hi!” to this generous benefactor.                                           

Parents are increasingly concerned about the effects of cyber bullying on children.

Cyber bullying can occur through emails, internet chat rooms, via instant message or mobile phone text messages.

It is important that parents talk to their children about the dangers of cyber bullying, however it is difficult to know where to start.

A new campaign, Cyber Bullying Affects Real Lives, aims to educate young internet users about the impact of cyber bullying and ways to prevent it happening to them and their friends.

The campaign is part of the Smart Online Safe Online (SOSO) initiative, an interactive and engaging website which encourages children to be smart and safe online.

There are many resources available on the SOSO website to raise awareness of cyber bullying and allow any cyber bullying to be reported.

The website includes a short YouTube video and a cyber bullying checklist.

There is also an interactive online game called Web Warriors where children from across the country take a stand against cyber bullying.

For more information visit the website -www.soso.org.au              (Information provided by Education Queensland)

On Tuesday, our school cricket team played our second match against Yandina State School. Coolum batted first with openers, Daniel and TJ putting together a solid partnership to get us off to a good start. After they retired, having faced their allotted balls, we lost a couple of quick wickets before Luke and JA steadied the innings. Blake top scored with 17 and Matt contributed a handy 7 not out, enabling us to reach a total of 111 from twenty overs. Yandina gave a fantastic run chase and only some good bowling from TJ, who took four wickets and some good catches in the field helped to restrict Yandina. In the final over, Yandina needed seven runs to win with one wicket in hand. With a great piece of fielding, we ran out the last batsmen which saw Coolum victorious by one run. An exciting game all round. Well done boys. Many thanks to parents for transporting the boys and for giving such great support on an extremely hot afternoon.