BMG 2020 Grammarian Issue 4

4 ROSTRUM PUBLIC SPEAKING STATE FINAL Congratulations to Vasish Vasireddy for his outstanding achievement in winning the Rostrum Public Speaking State Final. Vasish was successful in the provisional rounds and qualified to represent the Western Region in the final. The whole BMG community congratulates Vasish on his amazing efforts. SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS EDUCATION PERFECT STEALTH CHALLENGE During the remote learning period, students in the Middle School at both campuses were given the opportunity to participate in a cross-curricular competition run by Education Perfect called the STEALTH Challenge. This Challenge required students to think critically about how they might work towards solving the issue of micro-plastics and their devastating effect on our oceans. The tasks themselves were both challenging and time consuming, and I would like to extend sincere congratulations to all students who opted to participate. After viewing many of the entries, I have to say I was thoroughly impressed by the high standard of work submitted and the effort of these students is to be commended. Excitingly, one of our Woodlea Year 5 students, Surya Sureshkumar, was placed third in the Year 5 to 7 category. This is an amazing achievement considering the huge number of entries from both Australian and New Zealand schools. The judges collectively agreed that Surya’s submission was of an extremely high calibre, and they were very impressed by the work he had put into the task. Congratulations to Surya on this remarkable achievement.