Director of Culture | Mr Matt Cocking
Chess
It was a pleasure this week to present the 2020 Chess Premier Board to the College community for their Presentation Assembly. Our team is predicted to place seventh this season, worked out on a comparison of individuals Queensland Junior ratings. This means our real challenge will be how we compete against this benchmark. Great work is going on behind the scenes to grow the ratings of current and future players as we try to climb the ladder in GPS Chess. Well done to the following boys in the 2020 Premier Board who all sit within the top 33 Chess players of GPS.
- Yang Zhang ranked 17th in GPS
- Jonathan Hsu ranked 22nd in GPS
- Jack Giufre ranked 30th in GPS
- Alex Ong ranked 33rd in GPS
Check out the 2020 Chess video here!
Debating
With the cancellation of the QDU season now official, the Debating staff have created a series of seminars to keep the students sharp and take time to further work on skills in preparation for 2021. This week’s seminar was a great success and well attended.
The next seminars will be:
- Tuesday 25 August
- Friday 18 September (Student Free Day)
To attend future seminars sign on here.
The QDU are offering a condensed three-day program (including quarter and semi finals) for Year 12 students only. Sign on will be sent shortly.