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Sunday, 18 June 2017

Year 3 Goes Bananas
This term the Year 3s have been looking at procedures in our English Genre lessons. We have learned about what procedures look like, when to use them, why they are...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

ESL Students Seek the Ear of the College Board
ESL STUDENTS SEEK THE EAR OF THE COLLEGE BOARDThroughout the term our Year 11 and 12 ESL students have been writing letters to our College Board regarding ideas on how...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

​Bond University Criminal Law Lecturer Visits Hillcrest Legal Studies Class
It is a great honour to spend an hour and a half discussing the fascinating intricacies of the defences of provocation, self-defence and battered wife syndrome in real-life criminal trials...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

Year 10 Legal Eaglets have their Day in Court
On 8 May, Hillcrest’s Year 10 Legal Studies class visited the Brisbane Supreme Court, providing them with the invaluable opportunity of participating in a seminar presented by a judge in...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

Year 12 ‘Legal Eagles’ Make Stirring Speeches in Queensland Youth Parliament
Four of Hillcrest’s Year 12 Legal Studies class, Alexandra Murray, Kayla Scheinberg, Paris Thompson and Shakirra Enright, had the wonderful opportunity in Term 2 this year to sit in the...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

World Oceans Day Photography Competition Short List: Holly Woodroffe
WORLD OCEANS DAY PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION: HOLLY WOODROFFECongratulations Year 8 art student, Holly Woodroffe, who recently made the short list for the World Oceans Day photography competition. Her task was to...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

​2017 Bond University Mooting Competition Success!
Hillcrest’s Senior Mooting Team, consisting of Senior Legal Studies students, Boyd Williams-Styles (team barrister), Georgia Cameron-Dow (barrister) and Jacob Thompson-Makras (solicitor), competed with distinction in the prestigious Bond University National...
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Sunday, 18 June 2017

Gardiner Chess
Our students had a great time at the recent Term 2 Gardiner Chess Regional Interschool tournament. A fantastic finish to the day with Isabella Marcos competing against our very own...
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Thursday, 15 June 2017

Engaging your Entrepreneurial Mindset
This term has again provided many opportunities for students in the Senior Learning Community to engage their Entrepreneurial Mindset in learning about innovations of the future. Students in senior IPT,...
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