Home Hill State High School LEARNING – PERFORMANCE – CITIZENSHIP

First Street Home Hill Qld 4806

Phone: (07) 4790 5666 Fax: (07) 4790 5600

www.homehillshs.eq.edu.au

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Newsletter November 2017 Principal’s Report We are rapidly nearing the end of the 2017 school year, and have been busy with assessment, subject selection, SET Planning and teaching during the school day, and Town of Origin, Sports Awards and Awards Night, and the Burdekin Students’ Ball outside of school hours. There is not a moment to slow down or pause during this term.

Awards evenings allow us to celebrate what is so great about our school and our students. Students who received awards across the areas of academic, cultural leadership and sporting achievement should be very proud of their success. The Burdekin Students’ Ball had been eagerly anticipated by students, and a great deal of effort had been put into the preparation of the venue and personal appearance. It is always a great evening for our students, and those of the other Burdekin secondary schools.

We are not far from saying farewell to our year 12 students. As this will be the last newsletter our year 12 students receive, I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank them for the tremendous effort they have made throughout their time at Home Hill State High School, and the affirmative impression they have made in their final year at the school. I wish each and every one of them all the very best in their future endeavours whether that be tertiary education, further training or direct entry into the workforce.

At the same time, we have also been busy with the follow on from the successful school review earlier this year towards developing the next school strategic plan. There has been a great deal of interaction across the school community in utilising the review feedback in progressing this process, and setting our key priorities for the next four years.

I am very comfortable with keeping the general direction pretty similar to the past track, including maintenance of our well understood Learning, Performance, and Citizenship framework to identify 3 broad key priorities for our school. These are essentially around 1) students effectively accessing learning, 2) high level student result expectations, and 3) aligning the school with our local community. With the planning now in the final stages I am now happy to share these key priorities for the next four years with our broad community, which you can find on page 13.

Finally, I am sure many of you would have noticed the rapid progress on the MPS over the past couple of weeks. With most of the framework now up the dimensions of this building are becoming clearer. We should see a great deal more construction over the next couple of weeks as completion is still expected to be finalised prior to the end of the year, and it should be a special occasion when we hold the first school assembly for 2018 in this site.

Next P&C Meeting

The November meeting of the P&C will be held on

Tuesday, 14 November at 7.45 pm in the Staff

Common Room. All are welcome to attend.

Dates to Remember

Thursday 16 November – Year 12 Valedictory

Friday 17 November – Last day Year 12s

Friday 24 November – Last day Year 10-11

Our school acknowledges the Juru Community as the first owners of this country. Today, they are still the custodians of the cultural heritage of this land. Further to this, our school acknowledges there are other Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Island people have lived, worked and contributed to the cultural heritage of our community.

CORONA Order forms for the 2017 year book are available from the office.

Cost $20. Orders must be placed by Friday 10 November.

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For the 54th Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony held in the Memorial Hall Home Hill on Tuesday 24 October, a large crowd of almost 450 parents, families, staff, students and invited guests from the Home Hill State High School community proudly celebrated the achievements of the student body. Over 170 awards were presented to acknowledge the numerous and extensive accomplishments of students in academic, vocational, cultural, leadership, community service and sporting fields.

The occasion was dignified with the presence of invited guests, including Mrs Lyn McLaughlin, Burdekin Shire Mayor, Mr Rod Alford, Rotary Club of Home Hill President, Mrs Nyree Woods, Lions Club of Home Hill President, Mr Steve Postma from Wilmar Sugar Australia, Miss Vanessa Warrington, representing the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mrs Christine Grimbaldeston, Home Hill Bendigo Bank Manager, Ms Merinda Greenwood on behalf of JCU, Mrs Debra Cochran representing the Zonta Club of Burdekin Inc. and Mr Andrew Roberts representing TAFE North. Also attending were Mr Philip Scuderi from Toastmasters, Mr Richard Wall, Parents & Citizens Association President, Mr Craig Whittred, Principal Ayr State High School, Principal Mrs Judy White and student leaders from Home Hill State School and Ms Hayley Laidlow, Principal of Osborne State School.

Year 9 student Flynn McKaig commenced proceedings, leading the assembled guests in the national anthem. School Captains, Naomi Loizou and Mitchell Price-Wilson warmly welcomed the assembly and presented the comprehensive Valedictory on behalf on the 2017 seniors. Presidents of the school Student Council Executive, Emily Cannavan and Paul Marano reported on the many and varied activities of this year’s student council. Home Hill High Principal, Mr Frank Kingma, reminded the school community of numerous achievements which have highlighted 2017. P&C President, Mr Richard Wall then addressed the gathering, reporting on the achievements of the P&C and wishing the year 12 group the very best for their futures.

During the evening, talented students Emily Cannavan, Flynn McKaig and Joel Blacklock entertained the audience with polished performances. After the ceremony, Mrs Anne Kerr and her Hospitality students once again delighted everyone with an extensive and tastefully presented selection for supper.

Congratulations to all students who received awards. Your efforts have been appreciated by your teachers. Special thanks to all guests, parents, guardians, family and friends who attended. A thank you is also extended to all the school staff who assisted in any way in the production of the evening. Many hours of work go into the preparation, which then ensures the smooth running of the ceremony.

Special Awards & Bursaries

Wilmar Sugar Award (Year 12 Dux): Nikola Poli Rotary Club Home Hill Inc Shield (Year 9 Dux): Laura Loizou Caltex Best All Rounder: Naomi Loizou Dale Cooper Memorial Bursary (Year 9 English): Leia Vass Burdekin Art Society Inc Award (Year 10 Art): Kellie Lowis Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy Bursary (Year 11): Rachel Kiehne Bendigo Bank Accounting Award (Year 12): Elena Postma Zonta Girl’s Science Encouragement Award (Year 10): Jenna Attard McDonald’s Award: (Hospitality) Eilish Farris (ITS) Sam Gibson Dawson Medal: Catania Musumeci TAFE at Schools Award: Benjamin Jacques JCU Encouragement Awards (Year 10): Bonnie Grimbaldeston Darcy Walters Senior Cultural Award: Naomi Loizou Junior Cultural Award: Flynn McKaig Lions Youth of the Year: Naomi Loizou Don McDowell Sportsperson of the Year: Keely Warcon

Wilmar (Dux) winner Nikola Poli with Mr Steve Postma

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Pierre de Coubertin Award: Naomi Loizou ADF Leadership & Teamwork Awards (Year 10): Selena Thorley (Year 12): Emily Cannavan Junior Secondary School Captains: Laura Loizou & Flynn McKaig Indigenous School Captain: Keely Warcon School Captains Awards: Naomi Loizou & Mitchell Price-Wilson Student Council Executive: Emily Cannavan, Paul Marano, Karli Linton, Nikola Poli

Rotary Club of Home Hill Inc Community Service Excellence Award: Naomi Loizou, Emily Cannavan

Rotary Club of Home Hill Inc Community Service Award: Nikola Poli, Rebecca Cerqui, Clay Brush, Catania Musumeci

Leadership Awards: Emily Cannavan, Karli Linton, Naomi Loizou, Paul Marano, Catania Musumeci, Nikola Poli, Elena Postma, Mitchell Price-Wilson

Caltex Best All-Rounder Naomi Loizou with Mr Kingma

JCU Encouragement awardees Darcy Walters & Bonnie Grimbaldeston

with Ms Merinda Greenwood

Dawson Medal recipient Catania Musumeci &

Mayor Lyn McLaughlin Rotary Bursary winner for best

academic performance in year 9, Laura Loizou & Mr Rod Alford

Mr Frank Kingma with ADF winners Emily Cannavan & Selena Thorley

Dale Cooper Memorial awardee Leia Vass, representing AusIMM Ms Vanessa Warrington &

Rachel Kiehne AusIMM recipient

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Burdekin Art & Bendigo Bank Accounting awardees with Mrs Christine Grimbaldeston McDonald’s winners Sam Gibson (ITS) & Eilish Farris (Hospitality),

Zonta’s Mrs Debra Cochran with Zonta awardee Jenna Attard

Ms Horan with Pierre De

Coubertin winner Naomi Loizou

Sportsperson of the year Keely Warcon with

Ms Tramayne Horan

Mr Kingma with Junior captains Flynn McKaig &

Laura Loizou

TAFE at Schools recipient Ben Jacques with Ms Vanessa Warrington

Cultural winners Flynn McKaig & Naomi Loizou with Lions President Mrs Nyree Woods

School Captains Mitchell Price-Wilson & Naomi Loizou with P&C President Mr Richard Wall

Rotary Community Service awardees Catania Musumeci, Rebecca Cerqui, Nikola Poli, Rotary’s Mr Rod Alford,

Emily Cannavan Clay Brush & Naomi Loizou

Mr Kingma with Student Council representatives Karli Linton, Paul Marano, Emily Cannavan & Nikola Poli

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ACADEMIC AWARDS 2017

YEAR SEVEN YEAR EIGHT

Level One Zoe Branch Caitlyn Swinney Lucas Forno Leah Poli

Level Two Malcolm Balmer Jackson Cooke

Chantel Newton Dayna Linton Mackenzie Linton

Level Three Aaliyah Gibson Kane Kirkwood Hayley Minuzzo

Liam Todeschino Ryan Zabala

Caden Colls Kaitlin Daley

Chloe Profke Nathan Shand

YEAR NINE YEAR TEN

Level One Brhee Christensen Laura Loizou

Sara Richardson Jenna Attard Danielle Rehbein

Level Two Chantel Ferrando Megan Pomeroy

Leia Vass Kellie Lowis Mikaela Price-Wilson

Selena Thorley

Level Three Liam Cannavan Holly Law Sophie Law Flynn McKaig

Amy Newton Nathan Todeschino Kody Wall

Joseph Forno

YEAR ELEVEN YEAR TWELVE

Level One Nikola Poli

Level Two Tayla McKaig Rachel Kiehne

Catania Musumeci

Level Three Aaliyah Calder Natasha Langridge

Reece McCubben Chelsea Wall

Emily Bonanno Emily Cannavan Rebecca Cerqui Kyla Falco Brena Galvin Karli Linton

Naomi Loizou Paul Marano Elena Postma Lily Woodlock

Mayor McLaughlin with Level One awardees Nikola Poli, Danielle Rehbein, Jenna Attard, Laura Loizou, Sara Richardson, Brhee Christensen, Leah Poli, Lucas Forno, Zoe Branch & Caitlyn Swinney

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TEACHERS’ AWARDS

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Year 7 Zoe Bosch Kyle Briant Sian Dedden Allie-Jo Farry Tahlia Ferrando Gabby Holden Jacob Howie

Beatrice Liddy Kiara Krug Jorja Marano Jade Nicolson Nahalia Oats Alex Scalia Billie-Shae Pegoraro

Emily Simpson Marnie Skipper Bailey Tolcher Ohran White Jordan Wood

Year 8 Zana Clifford-Harmsworth Sonia Crichton Lachlan Dobe Blake Fabian

Madison Mainwaring-Samwell Maggie Meech Andrew Patane

Craig Styles Liam Webb

Year 9 Clinton Gosling Khaleah Langborne William Jones Tamika Kelly

Chloe Minuzzo Tim Nagle Aiyana Robinson Abby Rossato

Hannah Rossato Sophie Rossato Kirra Simpson

Year 10 Libby D’Alessandro Rhegan Falco Clay Ford Myles Gelling

Bonnie Grimbaldeston Zander Musumeci Tatiana Newman Abby Oakes

Lucas Sunderland Darcy Walters Dean Zamperoni

Year 11 Elisha Ball Louisa Daley Aimee Gibson Emily Grabbi

Jessica Lewis Joel Minuzzo Callum Ricca

Keely Warcon Eboni Webb Steven Zabala

Year 12 Tahlia Bosch Eilish Farris Ashlea Gaia Thomas

Shari Hankin Stephanie Harris Rory Heatley

Mitchell Price-Wilson Jared Thorley Gabriella Wallace

Old School Uniforms If your student no longer requires their school uniform, please drop them up to the school office. Please

ensure that they are in good condition and are laundered.

Thank you

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On Tuesday 17 October, approximately 60 Sports Awards were presented to acknowledge and celebrate students at Home Hill State High School for their commitment, participation and success in sport over the past year.

4 students received Coaches Awards for effort and participation.

Shari Hankin, Malcolm Balmer, Abby Oakes and Kirra Simpson.

The ‘Level’ Sports Awards acknowledge increasing levels of success and representation with Level 1 representing the highest level.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Jonathan Caspanello Kaitlin Daley Liam Todeschino Keely Warcon

Brayden Cotter Erin Grimbaldeston Shae Scalia Nathan Todeschino Brock Wright

Zoe Branch Liam Cannavan Lachlan Dobe Joseph Forno Jakson Garner Dayna Linton Naomi Loizou Locklan McKenna-Gelling

Joshua Branch Briellen Carter-Mathews Levi Collins Libby D'Alessandro Kyla Falco Chantel Ferrando Aaliyah Gibson William Jones Ryan Kaminski Kane Kirkwood Laura Loizou Mackenzie Linton Madison Mainwaring-Samwell Paul Marano

Bradley McConville Megan Pomeroy Danielle Rehbein Callum Ricca Sara Richardson Thomas Shepherd Selena Thorley Leia Vass Liam Webb Phillip Williams Joshua Wilshere Steven Zabala

House and Vice-House and Junior House Captains were also presented with certificates and thanked for their commitment to the roles. It is understood by taking up these roles as House Captains and Vice Captains that they organise and encourage younger peers to participate in all areas of sporting life. They are to also co-ordinate and assist PE Staff with the running of carnivals.

We were extremely fortunate to have sailor Aaron Linton as our Guest Speaker this year. Aaron is sometimes known as the ‘fastest sailing canefarmer in the world’. Aaron is also a former Home Hill SHS student and has many state and national sailing titles under his belt. Aaron spoke on the challenges he has faced combining his sport, work and family life. We appreciate that Aaron took the time to attend our awards ceremony.

A big thanks as always to the various people who helped on the night and in its preparation, especially the year 12 Physical Recreation and year 12 PED class who did a fantastic job with speeches and trophy organisation. Well done to all students who received awards on the night and thank you for your efforts in sport this year.

The major awards for the evening were as follows.

Lloyd Mann Memorial Athletes of the Year: Erin Grimbaldeston & Rory Heatley Carol Coutts Memorial House Spirit Trophy: Beachmount Pierre De Coubertin Award: Naomi Loizou Vince Toohey Memorial Junior Sportsperson of the Year: Kaitlin Daley John Cook Memorial Senior Sportsperson of the Year: Keely Warcon Don McDowall Memorial Sportsperson of the Year: Keely Warcon

Thanks to all the staff and parents who have supported the students in one way or another with their participation in sport in 2017!

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Level 1 winners with Mr Linton; Keely Warcon, Liam Todeschino & Kaitlin Daley

Mr Aaron Linton & Senior Sportsperson of the Year Keely Warcon

Mr Pat Toohey with the Junior Sportsperson of the Year Kaitlin Daley

Mrs Brenda McDowall with Sportsperson of the Year Keely Warcon

Lloyd Mann Athletes of the Year Erin Grimbaldeston & Rory Heatley with Mr Tom Lane

Ms Tramayne Horan & Pierre de Coubertin winner Naomi Loizou

Coach’s awardees Kirra, Abby, Shari & Malcolm

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Mrs Anne Kerr with Beachmount House Captains

Rory Heatley & Erin Grimbaldeston accepting the Carol Coutts Memorial House

Spirit Trophy

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Another successful Town of Origin was held at Home Hill High on Sunday 8 October. Rugby League, Cricket and Netball featured in the program, with all sports being strongly supported. The P&C would like to thank all the volunteers who manned the bar or assisted in any other way. This is a major fundraiser for the school and a fantastic community event.

Year 11 Students Complete VET Course

This year, as part of our year 11 SET Course, students have been given the opportunity to complete a Certificate II in Skills for Work and Vocational Pathways. As we approach the end of the year, many of our year 11 students have successfully completed the course. Not only do the students receive a nationally recognised VET certificate, they also get 4 QCE points. Congratulations to the year 11 students who have now completed the course.

Year 11 Students Tayla McKaig, Damon Marano

and Callum Ricca with their VET Certificates.

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The year 11 Biology class woke up early on Sunday 15 October and made the voyage to Cape Upstart on the VMR (Volunteer Marine Rescue) boat. Upon arrival we unpacked and Joe Linton gave us a rundown of the history of VMR, the Molongle boat ramp and Cape Upstart. While we were at the Cape we conducted field studies of different ecosystems such as the sand dunes, mangroves, the gorge and the rocky shore. At each different area we looked at the flora and fauna in our transect area and then made a quadrat and examined that area more closely. From each area we took soil and water samples. The wet weather hindered some of the activities we had planned so we watched movies on the old VHS player in the hut. The highlight of the trip was watching Rachel pick up the sea cucumber at the rocky shore. On Tuesday morning we packed up and loaded our bags onto Mr Bojack’s boat and got back on the VMR and headed for Molongle. We walked to the old boat ramp and looked at the mangrove areas around Molongle when we arrived. Back at school we examined the pH and salinity of each soil sample and suspended solids in the water samples to gain a better understanding of the ecosystems. While it rained most of the time, our Biology class loved the trip and we had heaps of fun. A massive thank you to Mrs Thomas, Ms Poli, Mr Bojack and the volunteers at VMR because without them the trip would not have been possible.

Aaliyah Calder

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PROPOSED KEY STRATEGIC GOALS FOR THE NEXT HOME HILL SHS

4 YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN (2018 – 2021)

A) Learning – Ensure our students can effectively engage with/access the learning and assessment in their classrooms, and strengthen classroom teaching practice efficacy around vocabulary, reading and writing.

Develop a process of continual improvement and school wide practices ensuring consistency in reading, writing, and numeracy.

Identify and implement strategies across the curriculum to support development of students as 21st century learners.

Utilise discretionary (I4S) funding to target teacher capacity development with a whole-school strategic approach focussed on pedagogical practice and the expectation that every student will learn and achieve positive outcomes.

Engage a targeted team to drive this initiative across the school utilising coaching and modelling techniques to enable participating teachers to share acquired knowledge, skills and classroom teaching practice with peers.

Whole-school approach to coaching and mentoring as a vehicle to broaden a culture of collaboration within and across faculties.

B) Performance – Quality Assurance (QA) processes to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and responsiveness of our strategies to ensure we retain our superior outcomes and data and remain a ‘school of choice’.

Consolidate the school Performance Improvement Framework of continual improvement.

Develop and implement Quality Assurance (QA) and accountability processes to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to progress the school improvement agenda.

Assign responsibility to officers for: outcomes of priority performance action areas and targeted school wide improvement agenda activities.

Maintain and seek improvements in attendance improvement strategy.

Identify and implement designated extension programs and opportunities for high achievers.

Implement a Home Hill Indigenous Education approach to indigenous education data.

C) Citizenship – Promote the unique identity of Home Hill SHS and utilise the local and community contexts through school programs in Agribusiness, coding and robotics to reinforce the contemporary real world industry applicability of school programs.

Enhance our unique identity and implement future focussed curriculum and learning opportunities relevant to local, national and global contexts.

Develop the Agribusiness Gateway school model, including the agricultural industry and the trades to reinforce the relevance of school programs in coding and robotics to contemporary real world industry and local community contexts.

Develop and maintain community and industry partnerships (including work experience, SATs),

Ensure successful cross sector engagement (primary schools, TAFE, RTOs, Universities)

Explore innovative options to improve engagement with parents, carers and the wider community

Consolidate on the strong links that exist between local primary schools and the high school (seamless transition for enrolling students).

Continue the positive promotion of the school in the community and develop a marketing strategy around the unique identity of the school.

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Nearly 370 glamorous students from the four local high schools graced the red carpet as they entered the Memorial Hall last Friday evening for the annual Home Hill Harvest Festival Student Ball. There were many proud parents and family members who filled the bleachers and lined the walkway to get a glimpse of the fantastic display of vehicles, formal gowns and stunning attire worn by our very handsome and elegant young adults. Mrs Profke and Mrs Warcon snapped dozens of photos which were uploaded and watched on a continuous slide presentation inside the hall. “Carnival” was the theme this year which was epitomized by a spectacular display of fairy lights and glitter. The hall and lights were truly a spectacular sight. Students entered the Memorial Hall through a beautifully lit doorway created by students from our Student Ball Committee with assistance from P&C members. Once inside the students danced the night away to the beats of local DJ Brendan Ford.

P&C President, Richard Wall kindly guided the night’s proceedings. The 2017 judges: Miss Katelyn Lucey, Mrs Brooke Vass and Tyler Guides had the most difficult task of picking the Belle, Beau and Special Mentions as well as the SASS and SWAGGER awardees for the night from a short listed group of six boys and six girls. As well as the above awards, a category titled “Miss Elegance” was again sponsored this year by Spearritts Jewellers. The following students received this year’s awards:

Belle: Kelsey Rye (BCHS) Beau: Eugene Burelli (ASHS) Miss Elegance: Olivia Licciardello (BCHS) Runner up Belle: Paige Roncato (BCHS) Runner up Beau: Jared Giardina (BCHS) Sass: Sarah Furlong (BCHS) Swagger: Jesse Thomasson (BCHS) Best Dressed Couple: Reece McCubben & Briellen Carter-Mathews (HHSHS) Special mentions Girls: Libby D’Alessandro (HHSHS), Julia Nosworthy (BCHS), Grace Clive (BCHS) and Amaya Castrejana (BCHS) Boys: Stuart Clive (BCHS), Bradley Wright (BCHS), Kai Northwood (ASHS), Ky Whittred (ASHS)

A big thank you goes to all our wonderful and very generous sponsors. Another thank you goes to the ladies from Empower Photography for taking some wonderful photos. We would also like to extend our thanks for the hard work and dedication of Ms Mavanna and Mr Muldoon and many parents, especially Sheree McKaig, Annmaree D’Alessandro, Amanda Daley, Peta Kiehne, Lee-Anne Gelling, Janine Warcon and Fiona Ricca and to all the others who contributed money and/or supplied and served the lovely food. A big thank you to all the fathers too who were able to help with the decorations, supervision and clean up. Many other parents and teachers gave up their time to supervise the students and for this the P&C is very grateful.

2017 Student Ball Committee

Aaliyah Calder Imijen Cazzulino Tamika Crank Louisa Daley Aimee Gibson Rachel Kiehne Damon Marano Reece McCubben Tayla McKaig Callum Ricca Keely Warcon Eboni Webb

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A.M.M.E Rural Agencies Empower Print, Design & Photography Studio

Michael’s Menswear

Ashworths Home Hill Glen Dell Fashion Boutique

Nikki’s Hair Design

Bella Danza Harvey Norman Pathway to Holistic Health, Home Hill

Brennan’s Tyrepower Home Hill Bakery Penny Lane

Burdekin Delta Cinemas Home Hill Discount Drug Store

Power of Beauty

Burdekin Motorcycles Home Hill Engineering Queensland Country Credit Union

Burdekin Plaza Pharmacy Home Hill Friendly Grocer Red Rooster

Burdekin Tyre Service Home Hill Guardian Pharmacy

Repco Auto Parts

Campbell’s Jewellery Ispyit Boutique Selections

Chill Parlour Jade Body Fashions Sibby Saitta World of Fashion

Clove Licensed Restaurant Jan Hollingsworth Driving School

Snap Fitness Burdekin

Connie’s Nails Jetsetter Travel Spearritt’s Jewellers

Cornett’s IGA Home Hill JR’s Hair Salon Sportfirst

Country Timbers and Kitchens

Katherine Falco Millinery Sushi Yum Yum

Dal Santos Deli Katie’s Beauty Swerve Surf & Ski

Delta Cleaners & Laundry L’Shu on Queen Tamara Michielin

Dominique’s Laser Electrical Tasha’s Top Shop

Don West Toyota Leading Edge Appliances Terry White Chemmart Ayr

Dotty Daisy Flowers Lily May Flowers & Gifts The Coffee Club, Ayr

Eathorne’s Sportspower Luxe Hair The Rusty Kettle Tea Shop