Sustainability at Genesis

The Genesis Environmental Club (GECko) runs weekly in both the Secondary School and Primary School (Years 4-6). Our Primary GECko club members exhibit strong leadership skills by regularly emptying our recycling and compost bins, picking up litter, and encouraging other students to use the correct bins.

We are incredibly proud of Kate, a Primary GECko student who submitted a winning entry in the Australian Marine Conservation Society's colouring competition. The AMCS organised this competition to celebrate the $100,000 raised by ocean lovers who donated their refunds from recycled drink containers. Kate will receive a prize pack valued over $200. Genesis will also donate all funds received from our Containers for Change program this year to the AMCS. So far, we have raised $356.90, which corresponds to 3,569 containers saved from ending up in landfills. We are very grateful to our Secondary GECko members who helped sort the containers from Annie the Musical. We encourage all students to deposit their eligible containers into our special Containers for Change bins. Additionally, we have noticed that popper cartons in the Lower Primary bins are often still very full. By checking with your little one if they can manage a whole popper, you may be able to save some money and prevent wastage.

The Genesis Environmental Club (GECko) runs weekly in both the Secondary School and Primary School 6). Our Primary GECko club members exhibit strong leadership skills by regularly emptying our recycling and compost bins, picking up litter, and encouraging other students to use the correct bins.

Mums enjoyed their Mothers’ Day Celebration! Wheelies Week in PE

Year 3 students attended a Starlab incursion as part of their Science unit - Earth and Space Sciences

Duke of Edinburgh activities underway

Yr 9 LEEP COGs students learn to think about their thinking (metacognition)

Year 12 Leadership Commissioning Service – House Captains

Family Friday’s

In March, we held our first Family Friday of the year. More than 250 members of our community gathered for a pancake breakfast provided by Genesis P&F Association. Following the breakfast, families moved into Oasis Church for a short time of worship.

Family Friday’s have become a much-loved tradition at Genesis, they are a special opportunity for students to share in worship with their families and for parents to connect with one another.

We warmly invite you to come along to our next Family Friday on Friday, 9 June.

P & F Mother’s Day Stall

On the 4th and 5th of May, the Genesis P&F Association hosted their annual Mother’s Day Stall.

Over the two days, students from across the College visited the stall and thoughtfully picked out special gifts for Mum.

The Mother’s Day Stall would not be possible without the support of our incredible volunteers. A big thank you to all those who volunteered their time to serve at this event.

Fuel for School has kicked off again for Term 2. Funded by Genesis P&F Association, Fuel for School offers a free breakfast of cereal and fruit for all Genesis students. Fuel for School takes place outside Eden Eats on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning from 7:45am-8:15am.

Your child is invited to attend the inaugural Youth Sports Stars event. This event will bring together rising sporting stars, from across our region for one special morning. At the event you will hear from inspirational guest speakers who are excelling in their chosen sport. You will also have the opportunity to meet and connect with other athletes from throughout the Moreton Bay region. 7am – 9am | Tues, 1 Aug | Norths Leagues Club, Kallangur. For more information contact Kate White k.white@genesis.qld.edu.au

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For more information contact Kate White k.white@genesis.qld.edu.au

Tennis

The tennis program is off to a great this Term! The new structure within the tennis program is proving to be very functional and efficient. Welcome to Coach Jacob, our new assistant coach.

This term we have 3 teams from Genesis representing for the Queensland Secondary School Team Tennis Competition, we have 13 players representing the college at Shaw Park Tennis Centre on the 10 & 12 May.

In addition to all of this we have trials for the Primary School Cup taking place on the 23rd of May for the event in Mid-August. This is a large event across Queensland Schools and a great opportunity for players in the Orange and Green ball levels to show of their skills.

We still having available spots in our Red Junior Development tennis program for the players that are in the 6-8yrs age group wanting to give tennis a go.

If your child would like to give tennis a go, all players are welcome for a free trial lesson to see if they enjoy our sessions and want to continue!

Multisports

Multisport has had a great term and participation numbers have more than doubled.

We had a fantastic day at districts and CSSAQ cross country events with plenty of PB results and selections to teams for regionals.

We look forward to athletes vying for selection to states.

With Athletics season coming up we have started to focus on performance for these events.

Fitness Centre

Our Fitness Centre has seen great growth in the past 6 months with record number. In saying that stay tuned as exciting new changes are coming soon!

Over the past six months, Johnny has embarked on a journey and has been training for the Cairns 70.3 Ironman event in June. During this time, he has swum, run, ridden and hundreds of kilometres and lost over 25kgs with the guidance of Steve Moss. We wish him all the best on his up coming event

Rowing

Genesis Rowing has competed in two regattas so far this term. In the first event, we had excellent results that included several first places before the regatta was called off due to high wind conditions. Last Saturday we competed in a 500m Head-to-head sprint regatta, in which we again came away with a large number of wins. The hard work the squad has been putting in is paying off and we are looking forward to the final practice regatta in two weeks, with the focus of the term being the Trophy regatta at the end of week 8.

Football

What a fantastic start to the GSA Football 2023 Season, not just games on a Saturday, in all areas including training, Football Fun and Social Football. So good to see the excitement on the players’ faces and a great turn-up to the clinic in the last holidays. Saturdays have been fantastic with our home games and worth a look. This year we introduced the Genesis Shooting Stars program which was a huge success.

Swimming

The Swim School has amazing, passionate long term staff and we have seen a huge number of children moving up a level and getting stronger and safer in water. Term 1 has seen increased numbers in all levels and we have had several children progressing. We love seeing all our little swimmers having fun whilst learning in the pool o A selection of our Grade 3 RAD Ballet students will be examined in May and so are preparing for this over the holidays with exam workshops o A number of grades of Jazz students are also working very hard in holiday exam workshops to get ready for their CSTD Jazz exam come June. o Our Performance teams are getting performance ready for their first Eisteddfods in April. o Our Drama and Musical Theatre students are getting ready for their annual Term 2 Parent and Friends concert. Its busy, hard work and great fun! o Our new 9.30am Tuesday Tiny Stars class for 2-4 years olds has been a wonderful success, especially for the dancers from Little Genesis that are collected by our team each week and bought over to join the class. o Outside of the classroom we are talking concert… can you believe it? We have a little surprise change to our concert this year and we are very excited about it! o We have new admin/Social Media support on the team, Stephanie McLean our Musical Theatre Teacher has come on board to freshen up our social media and we just adore this multi-talented lady! o We had our first Solo and Duo Dance Eisteddfod a few weeks back and our team did fantastically. o We also had one of our beautiful ballet dancers, Lucy Wood enter the Jaqueline Morland Awards in March, which is a RAD Ballet (Royal Academy of Dance) run competition. Lucy did exceptionally well and we are so proud! o Excited to share any of the above! o A big welcome to the many new families who have joined GDA from both inside and outside the GCC community o Saturday 13 May - Measurement Day o Saturday 21 October - Photoshoot Day o Saturday 04 November - Dress Rehearsal & Concert Costume Collection o Friday 10 November - AV and Technical Run (3.30pm onwards) o Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 November - Concert Weekend

Our pool is warm, and our coffee is hot! We look forward to seeing more great results from our little swimmers across term 2 !

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