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ST Margaret Mary’s College is celebrating Health and Physical Education Week with a host of fun activities for students spread across the week.
These include tabata, dodgeball, volleyball, a trivia quiz, a Queensland beach safety information session presented by Life Saving Australia, and skills sessions run by the Townsville Basketball and Townsville Cricket associations.
The girls will also be able to attend wellbeing sessions on mindfulness, colouring and meditation.
Health and Physical Education Week celebrates the role of health and physical education in schools and communities.
The aim of this week is to promote the importance of HPE in the Australian Curriculum and highlight the importance of HPE to the learning and development of our young people.
An integral feature of the Health and Physical Education curriculum area is the wide range of learning contexts that provide students with substantial opportunities for developing interpersonal and collaborative skills, good communication, decisionmaking and goal-setting skills.
Research continues to show that physical activity is a powerful medium for learning and, through it, students develop and practise a range of personal, social and cognitive skills.
HPE classes in schools aim to contribute to the development of resilience strategies and skills needed in order to form positive relationships with self and others.
GRW Group is the developer behind the Whitsunday Paradise project and the organisation’s general manager Blake Thomas said GRW Group had entered good faith discussions with the council about what is trunk infrastructure, which are the main water and sewage pipes to suburbs, and what are cost offsets.
“Council’s refusal to enter into an infrastructure agreement will mean questions over what is defined as trunk infrastructure and what are cost offsets will now be determined by the court unless the council agrees to negotiate with the developer,” Mr Thomas said. “The infrastructure agreement was a mechanism for both the council and GRW Group to identify the costs involved in delivering the infrastructure.”
Mr Thomas said originally the council planned to deliver a $14.5m reservoir at Mt Bramston, the area where Whitsunday Paradise will be situated, with the council funding the cost through future developers’ contributions.
“In this instance, GRW Group was building the infrastructure and accepting all of the costs,” he said.
“In exchange, GRW Group wanted these costs recognised by the council and used for future offsets.
“In Bowen, developers pay approximately $30,000 in infrastructure charges to connect a residential property to the trunk infrastructure.
“In GRW Group’s case it asked the council to offset some of the initial $20m against the costs of future connection costs.”
Mr Thomas said the organisation asked for a 100 per cent offset on future water connections and a 30 per cent offset for future sewage connection in exchange for GRW Group spending $20m to build the infrastructure.
“In other words, GRW would pay approximately $20,000 per property connection instead of approximately $30,000 per connection,” he said.
“This would only apply when the properties had been developed. There would be no cost to ratepayers as incorrectly purported.
“Ratepayers will now have to contribute substantial funds to defend the council’s refusal to enter into the infrastructure agreement.”
Mr Thomas said the conditions compromised any development in the area and the Whitsunday Paradise project would be unfeasible if an agreement could not be reached.
INGREDIENTS
• 125g 125 self-raising lf i i fl flour • 125g plain flour
• 125g margarine • 100ml water
• ½ cup strawberry jam
SYRUP
• 2 cups boiling water • 1 tbs margarine
• ½ cup sugar
METHOD OD
1 Sift fl flours and d rub b margarine i through.
2 Add enough water to make a stiff dough.
3 Roll out into a rectangular shape and cover with jam.
4 Roll up, press sides and ends together, and place in greased casserole dish.
5 To make the syrup, mix boiling water, margarine and sugar, until sugar has melted.
6 Pour syrup over roly poly, then bake at 200C for about 40 minutes. Dust with icing sugar and serve hot with cream.
INGREDIENTS
• 1.5kg American-style pork ribs
• 3 cups Fanta Orange
• 2 tbs tomato paste
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 bay leaf
METHOD
1 Place ribs in a large saucepan, cutting to fit pan. Add Fanta Orange, tomato paste, garlic, bay leaf and just enough water to fully cover ribs. Bring to the boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 50 minutes or until pork is tender. Drain. 2 Transfer cooking liquid to a large, deep frying pan. Bring to the boil over high heat. Boil for 35 minutes or until sauce thickens. 3 Baste ribs with reduced sauce.
4 Preheat barbecue or chargrill on medium-high. Barbecue ribs, brushing with glaze and turning halfway through, for 10-15 minutes or until lightly charred and sticky.