Director of Culture | Mr Matt Cocking

Debating

The State Debating Trials were recently held via Zoom and Terrace had three students who made the top 12 for the State – Thomas Musgrave (Year 10), Luke Ames (Year 11) and Benjamin Scuderi (Year 12). Congratulations to Benjamin who was made a Reserve position for the State Team. 

Chess

As noted in last Term’s Terrace News, our top Chess players attended clinics over the holiday break, where our Premier Board took online lessons from Australian Grand Chess Master and International Chess Federation Senior Trainer Mr Ian Rogers OAM. 

His credits and biography are quite impressive and include: 

  • First Australian-raised chess Grandmaster. Rogers attained the Grandmaster title in 1985 after becoming an International Master in 1980. 
  • Australia's highest-rated player for over twenty years, and represented Australia at fourteen Chess Olympiads 
  • Peak international ranking was 50th in the world in 1999
  • Highest-ranked Australian player from 1984 until his retirement in 2007
  • Rogers was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for his Service to Chess.

With a pedigree such as this, I am sure you will agree our Terrace Chess students will be primed for Term 3 GPS competition.  The very best of luck to our GPS Chess team who travel to Ipswich Grammar this Friday night for the first round of competition.

Holiday workshops

Thanks to all of the students who were involved with the many holiday clinics we ran. It was a great time to get back into our activities. Following is the footage from our Terrace Choir Workshop where we welcomed our new vocal teachers Mr Jacob Bradford and Miss Irena Lysiuk. We look forward to working with Mr Bradford and Miss Lysiuk as we grow our vocal program.

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