Students in the Community
Soccer Finals Well done to our PCS students that participated this season in the Parkes & District Soccer games. A big shout out to Mr Wynstra (coach) and PCS students in the 'Budgie' under 8's Team, Ethan Drew, Lacey Berude, Shelby Skerman, Peter McIntyre, Bailey...
From the Primary Coordinator
Have a Fun Filled Holiday! Fun! In the year when many fun events and activities have been removed or reduced, fun was abounding at PCS last week. Beginning with RUOK? Mufti day and ending with Paint the Town Uniformly Read dress-up, fun was written on the smiles,...
Working at the Car Wash
With only a week to go of school our Year 12 students, with some help from our Year 11s, spent their second last Friday raising money for their school gift. It is tradition at PCS that the seniors present a gift to the school on their last day. This year students...
Visual Arts Sculpting with Stage 4
Our Year 7 and Year 8 classes have been busy sculpting this term during Visual Arts. They have had fun creating figure sculptures in the style of Alberto Giacometti, a swiss sculptor who was a prominent 20th Century artist. Our students learnt to create a human figure...
Northparkes Visit
Our Year 9, 10, 11 and 12 students spent Wednesday afternoon with Todd, Hannah and Jess from Northparkes Mine. They heard about the mining industry in general and the many and varied job opportunities that the industry provides. They were also given specifics around...
Term 3 Fun with Year 4
Year 4 have been enjoying all the fun activities happening in and out of the classroom this term. Some of the activities are: 6th August - Science Fun experiment with Liquid Nitrogen gas 27th August - King and Queen of the Mountain 3rd September - History Changes in...
ANZ Tennis HotShots Racquet Roadshow for Schools
The ANZ Tennis HotShots Racquet Roadshow is again providing 30,000 racquets to foundation students around Australia, thanks to ANZ and Tennis Australia. We at PCS are one of 832 lucky schools to be receiving racquets. It’s a great opportunity to get our kids moving,...
From the High School Coordinator
Kids Today! There are very few things that really grind my gears. Staff and students who have worked with me for a long time will know that I don't get annoyed or cranky very often, and I'm really not much different in my personal life - if anything I'm probably even...
Students in the Community
Ella Earns Her Wings! Five days short of her 16th birthday PCS Student Ella Ross earned her wings after completing a gruelling one-hour test flight. Well done Ella! Ella was featured in The Parkes Phoenix paper if you would like to read more click here
Athletics Carnival
Our 2020 Athletics Carnival was a massive success and easily one of the best we have had in recent years. After the disappointment of having to cancel our carnival in Term 2, there were plenty of people who assumed that we would not be able to have one this year....