The Futsal World Cup Finals brought strong energy across the school, with both Junior and Senior teams competing with determination and pride. The atmosphere throughout the finals reflected not only the excitement of competition, but the encouragement students showed one another along the way. The Teacher match added another layer of enjoyment to the week, with plenty of enthusiasm from students watching staff step onto the field.
Let's congratulate our Junior winners, Portugal and Senior winners, Guatemala with a 2-0 score over Morocco!
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Parent Information Evening
This week also provided an important opportunity for families and staff to connect during the Parent Information Evening. These conversations remain an important part of supporting student growth, allowing reflection on progress, challenges, and goals for the term ahead. Learning is always strengthened when students, families, and teachers work together with openness and shared understanding.
Year Level Assemblies
During the Year Level Assemblies, students reflect on expectations, achievements, and the collective culture of each cohort. Year Level Assemblies continue to provide space for recognition, encouragement, and connection.
Our students also participated in the Young Einstein Outreach Program, engaging with ideas that encouraged curiosity, exploration, and creative thinking. Opportunities such as these allow students to step beyond routine classroom experiences and connect with broader conversations in science and innovation.
The STEM Scholars Workshop and Campus Tours also formed part of the week, welcoming future students and families into our spaces. There is always something valuable in seeing students speak about their experiences with honesty and pride. These moments often reveal the culture of a school more clearly than anything written on paper.
IB Programme Evaluation visit
A significant focus this week has been the beginning of our five-year IB Programme Evaluation visit. We warmly welcomed our reviewers to QASMT and look forward to sharing the excellent learning and teaching that takes place across our school community. Throughout the visit, reviewers will engage with a range of classes and programs, including Year 11 and Year 12 Theory of Knowledge classes, the Extended Essay program, IBL lessons, and our co-curricular activities. These visits are an opportunity for reflection as much as celebration. They invite us to consider who we are as a learning community, how we continue to grow, and how we prepare students not only academically, but as thoughtful and internationally minded young people.
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Excellence Awardee 2026 Australian Education Awards
Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology is proud to be an Awardee of Excellence in the Australian Education Awards in two categories:
Street Science Best STEM Program
This award recognises the most outstanding STEM-based project or education program implemented by a school in Australia in the 2025 academic year. Awardee criteria includes:
- Demonstrated school leadership and support of STEM education
- Consistently high standards of STEM teaching
- Staff participation in professional learning and collaboration to improve STEM education
- Evidence of student engagement and outcomes in the 2025 school year
A Team Tuition Secondary School of the Year Government
This award recognises the most outstanding government secondary school in Australia in the 2025 academic year. Awardee criteria includes:
- Consistently high standards of teaching and learning
- Academic and other achievements during the 2025 school year
- Rigorous professional learning to improve teaching and curriculum delivery
- Strong communication links with students, parents, teachers and the wider community
- Effective management of facilities, finances and human resources
- Demonstrated commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
- These nominations celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students and the culture of curiosity, innovation, and academic excellence that continues to thrive across our community.
From scientific research and global collaboration to creativity and service, our students consistently demonstrate what is possible when passion for learning is matched with opportunity and support.
We thank our dedicated staff, families, and partners who help create an environment where students are empowered to explore ideas, think critically and make meaningful contributions to the world around them.
Congratulations to our entire QASMT community on this recognition.
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As we move further into the term, wellbeing continues to remain important. With the colder season approaching and illness becoming more common, I encourage all members of our community to take care of themselves and one another. Rest, balance, and consideration for others remain essential parts of maintaining a healthy learning environment.
Across this week, one idea continues to surface. Growth rarely comes from comfort alone. Challenge is part of learning, but so too is compassion.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats
The ability to support others while continuing to push ourselves forward is something our students demonstrate often, sometimes quietly, but always meaningfully.
Warm regards,