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…
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…
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 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…
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.
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…
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…
Our 9/10 Agriculture class have been busy little workers lately! They were outside all day on Friday constructing a new fencing system so we can get some sheep in for the students to learn about. Our students worked well all…
Parkes Tennis Junior Competition has been completed for another Term. Well done to PCS Students Lachlan Unger, Charlotte Wilson and Anna Davis on entering the Junior Competition. It really is great seeing our students participating out in the community!
Year 6 have been writing letters to Fiston, our Compassion Sponsored Child. Fiston lives in Rwanda, is in Year 7 and his favourite subject is math. He enjoys soccer, running, youth group and choir. Year 6’s have been telling Fiston…
