High Achievers - Year 5 & 6

Each year students are invited to Kelvin Grove State College to participate in the Brisbane City Collective High Achievers Program involving over 300 students in Years 5 and 6 from our Brisbane City Collective of Schools.

The Program will run at KGSC on Wednesday afternoons 1:00pm - 2:30pm from 7 May to 11 June 2025. A celebration evening will be held immediately following the last session on 11 June 4pm - 5:30pm with parents and staff invited.

Schools nominate high achieving students from Years 5 and 6. Programs include: English, Maths, Science, Digital Technologies – DigiSpace, Drama and Visual Art.

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected for this year’s High Achievers program for year 5 and 6 students.

Beatrix C

Maximus R

Kinoli C

Quinn L

Sophia L

Elsie J

Emily G

Jaclyn L

Maggie M

Abigail Q

Magnus J

Liam E

Catherine K

Charlotte C

Alice L

Cooper C

Hazel L

Please do NOT contact the school or teacher to nominate your child or to advocate for a program. This process is complete.

Teachers nominate students, then a rigorous process of using a range of evidence is use to shortlist students. Not all students can participate who are more than capable as the numbers are limited.

If they have been involved previously, it does not exclude them, but opportunity is given to those who previously missed out and fit the criteria. They cannot repeat a program from the previous year. We wish these students a wonderful experience as they engage in these programs in a high school setting.

This term Year 5 have been learning to create a written adventure narrative. 

Here are 2 examples from 5M. Enjoy!

The Mysterious Door

By Charlotte C     5M

Annabelle enthusiastically clambered to her feet at the sound of an eerie creak coming from the ancient door. She had been sitting in the long, dusty hallway right in front of the old, creaky, wooden door waiting for something miraculous to happen. “What is it?” she muttered under her breath. She stared at the door, with a vile expression on her face. It truly was unbearable not knowing what was behind the door. Annabelle contemplated about what might be behind the mysterious door. A labyrinth? A cage? A bustling village? Annabelle was still thinking about all the possibilities that might have be behind the door when it let out a muffled sound. In result, Annabelle cringed at the awful noise. Annabelle went to the cupboard and started scrabbling through different draws, trying to find the key that would open the mysterious door. Annabelle found items that she had never seen before. Portraits, old pictures, trophies. Why had she never seen them before?

Annabelle continued looking through the dusty draw. Finally, her hands fumbled with something cold and sharp. Annabelle quickly pulled it out. It was a sharp, shiny, smooth key. The key glinted in the sunlight as Annabelle held it up. Happy with her find, Annabelle quickly ran to the creaky door. She slotted the key in the hole, and turned the key. A stream of happiness, curiosity and eagerness rushed up her spine as she found out that it was the exactly right key. She heaved the door open, and stood in the doorway, amazed by what was behind the door. It was a beautiful bustling village, overflowing with small dwarfs. They were shouting all sorts of greetings to her. “Hello! Bonjour! Ola!” Annabelle felt completely flustered that she hadn’t knew that there was such a incredibly cool place behind the mysterious door. But as the little dwarfs kept shouting out greetings, it soon became havoc because the little creatures kept stopping to say hello. Plus, the poor little dwarfs behind them had to stop too.

Through bobby pins and keys, Annabelle triumphed opening the mysterious door, but now it was a big problem because every single time she opened the door to visit the tiny dwarfs, they would always stop to say hello. She figured out that if she sneakily slid through the door like a sly snake, without the welcoming dwarfs noticing, she could avoid the problem. The bustling little village was such a nice place to be, that Annabelle would frequently visit the miniature creatures. When Annabelle visited, she discovered that the dwarfs had amazing talent through music, because every time she visited, they always seemed to be doing a music concert, or practicing their instruments. She loved the times when the played the electric guitar, because the awesome little zips felt like a mustache hair being pulled out every time.

But this time when Annabelle entered, she heard a loud, deafening wail. What is it? Annabelle wondered. Sprinting to the square, she saw an older dwarf standing in the square, eyes flooding with tears. Her other friends were trying to comfort her. “Are you alright?” Annabelle asked.

“No!” she wailed, “My golden necklace is gone!”

“What does it look like?” Annabelle questioned.

“It was a family heirloom!” she sobbed, “It was gold, with a diamond in the middle.”

Annabelle sprinted to a nearby stack of golden treasures. It has to be here somewhere! She thought to herself. As she scrabbled through the precious piles of golden treasures, a chilling feeling crept up her spine. If the poor old lady had lost the necklace and she couldn’t remember where she had put it, a thief could have slipped the ancient necklace right of the back of the poor dwarf’s neck!

Annabelle crept down a desolate alleyway, making her way towards the box of treasures. The mission of the missing golden necklace was definitely a perilous journey for Annabelle. Could she complete it and return the necklace to the poor, old lady? The crates of treasure were stacked high above the ground, it looked impossible to find one specific necklace! Annabelle started climbing to the top of the treasures, but after a few minutes, her foot slipped. Annabelle flailed her arms, desperately trying to cling onto something. She continued falling, until she reached a small platform. Bam! Annabelle felt her ribs crushed against the hard material. Suddenly, rushing pain began in her rib cage. Surely there are at least a few ribs that are broken! she thought to herself. Annabelle slowly clambered down the pile of shining treasures. She hobbled to the nearest bench and lay still on the bench, waiting for a doctor to come.

“Annabelle Chase? Annabelle Chase?” a voice called. Finally! Annabelle thought. The doctor had finally come! He rushed over, bandaging her ribs with a tight plastic seal. “You should be fine now!” the doctor said, voice sounding triumphant. Annabelle sprinted back over to the treasure, desperate to return the necklace to the old dwarf. “Annabelle! Annabelle!” a mysterious voice called. Annabelle whipped her head around to where she had heard the voice. The alleyway was completely deserted. No one was there at the end of the passageway. “Weird.” Annabelle muttered. The desolate alleyway was deserted. She continued scrabbling through the precious piles of treasures. Annabelle knew that she had to be tenacious, no matter what or who got in her way! Meanwhile, a dark silhouette was lurking in the shadows, watching Annabelle’s every move.

By Pippi B

She fumbled with the labyrinth key then clambered into the desolate entrance. The door banged shut behind her, she began to contemplate her decision for the place felt eerie, a chilling feeling crept up her body and filled her lungs. It was different, not like the other times she had been there. Although she was tenacious to finish the job.

Bella had been working this job for two months now, she knew it was perilous but she needed the money! Every day just clean and leave. It was an easy job but she had dreaded the deafening silence every day, the dry air and the faint ‘stomp, stomp.’ That seemed to get closer every day.

“Ow!” She cried. The keys slipped in her grasp and she immediately fell to the ground and began to look for them but they were nowhere in sight. There was a six hundred dollar fine if you lose them! Finally, she spotted them a Millimetre away from her hand and picked them up, stuffing them into her pocket.

The girl began to stumble forward stupidly, mop in hand but as soon as the turned the corner a vile sight met her eyes. “A giant...” she muttered under her breath. She tried to lurk in the corner but too late! The giant greedily picked her up by her hair and roared in triumph. The girl cringed in pain, it was utter havoc. Her wail was muffled. It was almost unbearable, she had to think fast, she had to get away!  ‘Crash!’ she hit the floor, her stomach churned as she lay there flustered, with a still ominous feel about the place.

As soon as she could she began to run towards the exit but as soon as she ran through the intersection a horrid sight met her eyes. A towering man was standing in front of her, drooling uncontrollably. He had dry blood in his sticky beard and eyes like a snake’s. She screamed but no one could hear her, the man was scurrying towards her showing chipped black teeth and a bloodstained mouth. Bella began to back away but the man was gaining on her. “Hello little girl” he sneered. “Leave me alone!” She cried, Bella started to run backwards for she was too scared to look away from the man.

At last, this was the end, the man was barely a metre away from her. She felt a knob behind her and immediately twisted it. Bella fell back onto the grass, the door slamming behind her. She definitely wasn’t going in there again.

Kind Regards 
Anita Heinrich
Deputy Principal
ahein8@eq.edu.au