Herald 20201208

National win for Glennie students
Three gifted Year 9 students
from The Glennie School have
won the coveted BRAINways
Education The QUEST National
competition for 2020.
Students Rheanca Lincoln,
Sophie Fleming and Zoe Waters
used their abilities in creativity,
problem solving and teamwork
to achieve some outstanding results
at the QUEST.
Six teams from co-educational,
all boys and all girls’ schools
competed in the learning areas:
Science - Neuroscience of
imagination, Humanities - Philosophical,
psychological and
economical theories of value,
Mathematics - Correlation and
causation, Network Theory and
correlation networks.
At the conclusion of The
QUEST, hosted by Central
Queensland University, Rheanca,
Sophie and Zoe, our Year 9
team, won convincingly taking
out the first place win in Mathematics,
second place in Humanities
and fourth place in Science.
The girls would normally
qualify to progress to the International
competition, however,
due to COVID-19 this competition
will not take place.
“The QUEST was an incredible
experience, we are so glad
that each of our strengths could
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is
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combine to achieve a rewarding
win,” said Sophie
“In the Humanities challenge,
we had to create two new civilisations
with conflicting values.
“We invented cultures, landscapes,
economies, governments
and society rules, all in an hour
and a half. Despite the short
timeframe, our creativity and
collaboration helped to produce
something incredible we are
very proud of.”
Fellow student Rheanca said
during the Science session, we
had an hour and a half to complete
a plan for our own science
museum, including eight different
exhibits.
“The challenge was all about
explaining how the brain imagines
and dreams for our civilisations
from humanities,” she said.
“Even though the science concepts
were hard to grasp, we all
powered through the challenge
and completed all the given
tasks with a smile on our faces.”
Zoe explained the mathematics
session had them complete
scatter plots to investigate relationships
between the two civilisations
and draw conclusions to
whether causation or correlation
was evident through correlation
networks.
After a bit of a crazy year (can anyone guess why?)
Christmas is coming up fast! We sadly won’t be doing
our usual Santa Paws Photos/family fun day this year
due to social distancing but we do still hope to raise
some money for our local wildlife carers and hopefully
make a few peoples day with a great raffle! Tickets are
up for sale in our surgery at reception.
Lucky us!
We are so lucky to live in an area that is bountiful in wildlife.
Living closely with wildlife can certainly have its benefits.
Enjoy your close encounter with Australia’s amazing animals!
This year unfortunately has seen an increased number of
birds brought into our clinic for care. We have fantastic local
wildlife carers who will tirelessly collect and care for birds
and other species of wildlife from us after they have been vet
checked.
If you ever come across injured wildlife, please either call
for advice or safely bring them in to the vets to be assessed.
There are numerous ways that you can help to protect our
native wildlife. One simple way is to be a responsible pet
guardian. Dogs and cats cause injury and death to many of
our wildlife species. Supervise them at all times and keep
dogs and cats inside or confined at night.
For more information on wildlife care or our great raffle,
please see our website or Facebook page for more
information.
Eclipse Park
Veterinary Surgery
19 Eclipse Court, Highfields
(07) 4698 7309
www.highfieldsvet.com.au
“Professional, personal and reliable
veterinary care to protect, promote and
enhance the human animal bond.”
“Due to our light-heartedness
and ability to find something to
laugh about we got through this
task in a very positive manner
Looking for the owner
Highfields police are searching
for the owner of a mountain
bike that was left at the Highfields
State Secondary College
last month.
The school contacted the police
to have the bike removed after
it wasn’t claimed for several
weeks.
• If you are the owner of this
mountain bike, contact the Highfields
police on 4614 7444.
and came away with the win,”
said Zoe.
Deputy principal Ms Tonia
Gloudemans said it is a fantastic
achievement for the girls and
the first time students from The
Glennie School have won at the
National level.
Rheanca Lincoln, Zoe Waters and Sophie Fleming celebrate their National win in The QUEST.
• The mountain bike for
which Highfields police are
searching for the owner.
Casuarinas for Cockies
The Friends of Land
for Wildlife Toowoomba
held its last public
tree planting on the
weekend, by planting
100 sheoaks at Cressbrook
Dam in the conservation
group’s Casuarinas
for Cockies
project.
The group received
a $10,000 grant from
WIRES and Landcare
Australia for 700 trees
planted on public land
and private properties.
FLWT president Peter
Sparshott said most
of the trees the group
had received from the
grant had been planted
on private properties.
“It has been one of
those things that once
it was put out, people
came out to take it up,”
he said.
Mr Sparshott said the
Toowoomba Regional
Council had been
helpful with support in
sourcing locations for
planting.
Secretary Margie
Young said the goal of
the project was to aid
the endangered cockatoo
species by planting
more the casuarina
trees which is the bird’s
main source of food.
“Cressbrook was one
of the chosen places for
the programs because
there were so many
trees lost due to last
year’s fires and now the
drought we are currently
going through,” she
said.
“Hopefully, by having
more sheoaks planted
in the region, we will
see more of these beautiful
birds here.”
- Sean White report
and photo
Peter Sparshott, secretary Margie Young, and James Sparshott.
Government
support for
shows
Mr LITTLEPROUD
Huge economic spin-offs
Crows Nest Show will receive
an early Christmas gift with
Australian Government funding
to help ensure it can bounce
back next year.
Maranoa MP David Littleproud
said the Government was
keen to ensure show societies
and field day organisers were in
the best shape possible to continue
in 2021.
“These events bring our
families and farmers together,
build community spirit and help
bridge the divide between country
and city,” Mr Littleproud
said.
The Crows Nest Show Society
will receive $10,000 under the
Supporting Agricultural Shows
and Field Days program to help
ease cash-flow pressures and
cover costs after cancelling their
2020 show due to COVID-19.
Mr Littleproud said shows
and field days were uniquely
Australian and provided huge
economic spin-offs for local
communities as well as opportunities
for the businesses and
services who exhibit.
“They also help to maintain
our farmers’ competitive edge
by providing an outlet for new
ideas, new technologies and new
ways of working to be shared,”
Mr Littleproud said.
“I am very pleased the Crows
Nest Show is able to access this
funding to help get them through
this tough period and out the
other side in a sound position to
host again in 2021.
“Next year is looking so much
brighter and I know this support
will be a fantastic boost for our
volunteers, families and school
children.”
In addition to the latest
$10,000 grant, the society this
year received $124,610.65 to
upgrade infrastructure at the
showgrounds through the Agricultural
Show Development
Grants program.
They received a further
$156,889.88 grant through this
program to construct an all-abilities
ablutions block.
Eighteen shows across
Maranoa will receive a total
$310,637.28 under the Supporting
Agricultural Shows and
Field Days program.
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