Instead of saying I'm not good at that, 

try getting into the habit of telling yourself, 

I may not be good at it now, 

but if I learn a lot and work hard,

I CAN BE GOOD in the future!

Interschool @ Stretton State College

On Wednesday 18th June, 39 chess students from Warrigal Road State School competed in the 2025 Term 2 Brisbane Primary Interschool Chess Tournament, Logan Division.

Our coaching team is extremely proud of the behavior, discipline and chess knowledge demonstrated by our students who were competing against approx. 300 students from both public and private primary schools throughout the Logan area.  

🎉Congratulations to all our WRSS chess students. In particular, we would like to mention the dedication and skill of Ian C who is one of our Prep students – Ian won a Gold Medal.  It’s never too early to light up your passion of learning to play chess!

After a day of highly competitive (and at times quite challenging) chess games, the final results were:

♟️Division A:

WRSS Team 2 (Mason S, Jayden N, Zachary M and Nathan L) – 4th Place (Equal 3rd Place but placed 4th on tiebreak) 

Individual Merit Ribbons were awarded to Mason S, Joanna C, Jayden N.

♟️Division B:

WRSS Team 4 (Toby V, Elicia Y, Collin J and Ethan L) - Equal 1st Place but placed 3rd on tiebreak. Awarded Bronze Medals:

Individual Merit Ribbons were awarded to: Toby V, Elicia Y, Collin J and Ethan L.

♟️Division C:

WRSS Team 6 (Eliana P, Reece Y, Ian C and Jonah W) - 1st Place and awarded Gold Medals

Individual Merit Ribbons were also awarded to: Eliana P, Reece Y, Lexter L, Harrie K, Ian C and Jonah W

♟️Division D:

WRSS Team 8 (Luke W, Mila C, Ted K and Lucas L) – 2nd place and awarded Silver Medals

Individual Merit Ribbons were awarded to: Olivia L, Luke W and Mila C.

Chess is a game of learning, discipline, strategy and resilience. We teach our students that in chess, whether you win or lose a game, you have gained knowledge from the experience and can apply that knowledge in the future.

We appreciate our principal, school staff and parents for your ongoing support. Without your involvement, our children couldn't achieve such a great success within a short time.

Interschool @ St. Bernardine's Catholic Primary School

Congratulations to all 23 fabulous chess players who proudly represented WRSS in the Interschool Chess Tournament (Logan) on Tuesday, 25th March. The performance by all our teams was outstanding and the entire chess squad behavior was perfect. It was a very competitive tournament as can be seen from the results.

♟️WRSS Team 1 (Isaac R, Bethany C, Austin W, Eston T) placed 4th out of 13 teams in division A.

Team 2 (Jayden N, Nathan L, Elicia Y, Oliver L) placed 7th in division A.

♟️WRSS Team 5 crowned the champion out of 13 teams in Division C, and all players were awarded Gold Medals.

Team 5 Players were Reece Y, Eliana P, Jonah W and Laureen H. 

Players who also won in the Individual category were:

=1st Place:    Reece Y    2nd Place on Tiebreak*

=1st Place:    Eliana P   4th Place on Tiebreak*

* Four =1st Place players in the Individual category had won 6 out of 7 games.

♟️WRSS Team 6 took 3rd Place from 18 teams of division D, and all players were awarded Bronze Medals.

Team 6 Players were: Zaivyor O, Mila C, Arianna Z, Ian C.

Merit Ribbons: Isaac R, Eliana P, Ian C

At the last moment before the tournament, Ted stepped up from Div D to fill a vacant spot of Div B. Teamwork and support for each player led to good performances all round.

By the way,

Bethany C won 2nd place in the 2025 Term 1 Brisbane Girls last Sunday. Congratulations to her for such a fantastic achievement in the Open division.

Girls State Final @ Holland Park State School

🎉We proudly congratulate Stella L, Gold Medalist (1st Place in Open C) with an unbeaten score of 7 out of 7, and Eliana P, Silver Medalist (2nd Place in Open C) who, together with Bethany C represented Warrigal Road State School in the Girls Queensland State Interschool Chess Finals which were held on last Friday 11 October. We are all very proud of your efforts and dedication to chess. We would also like to thank your parents and teachers for their ongoing support.

Interschool @ Stretton State College

♟️𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬: 𝟏𝟎 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝🥇𝟗 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫🥈𝟏 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐞🥉𝟗 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐬

🎉𝐖𝐑𝐒𝐒 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

On Wednesday 21st August, 37 Warrigal Road State School students participated in the Term 3 Brisbane Primary Logan Interschool Chess Tournament at Stretton state College. Ten teams from WRSS participated in tournaments across all divisions including: Premier Division, A, B, C, D, and E Divisions.  We were extremely proud of the behaviour of all our students. Collectively the teams supported each other, demonstrating skill, dedication and discipline. They celebrated their fellow students when they won and commiserated with them when they didn’t.  At the end of the day, we were thrilled to see so many of our students receive medals and merit ribbons in acknowledgement of their success. 

4 WRSS chess players received Individual Medals and 16 WRSS chess players received Team Medals:

💥Division B:

🥇Team 3 Gold-Nathan L, Anosh K, Elicia Y, Yuto M

🥇Individual Gold-Nathan L with a perfect score 7 out of 7

💥Division C:

🥈Team 4 Silver-Marcus N, Collin J, Luke W, Austin W

💥Division D:

🥇Team 7 Gold-Eston T, Reece Y, Jonah W, Toby V

🥈Team 8 Silver-Eliana P, Oliver L, Stella L, Laureen H

🥇Individual Gold-Eston T

🥈Individual Silver-Reece Y

🥉Individual Bronze-Eliana P

💥Ribbons: Anosh K, Marcus N, Collin J, Luke W, Jonah W, Oliver L, Stella L, Toby V, Chitak K

Congratulations to all our students who participated in this major event and fought extremely hard games against strong and competitive opponents. Thanks to the school and staff for their continued support. Thanks to our coaching team for their hard work and dedication. Thank you to all the parents who supported the children, especially those who volunteered and assisted the children throughout the day.

Interschool @ Stretton State College

Congratulations once again to our Warrigal Road State School Chess Players who participated in the Term 2 Interschool Chess Tournament (Logan Division). 

31 WRSS chess students participated in the Term 2 Interschool Chess tournament which was held at Stretton College on Tuesday 2nd June. 

Congratulations to:

 Individual Silver Medal winner:

  -  2nd Place in Division D - Austin W. 

Team Gold Medal winners: 

  -  1st Place Division C: 

      *  Nathan L, Vidun W, Yuto M, Anosh K. 

Team Silver Medal winners:

  -  2nd Place Division D

     *. Eliana P, Reece Y, Oliver L, Stella L

Ribbon winners:

Alex Z, Nathan L, Vidun W, Yuto M, Anosh K, Eliana P, Reece Y, Oliver L, Jonah W

Team 1 including Alex Z, Isaac R, Jayden N and Bethany C placed 5 out of 16 in division A.

Team 3 including Matthew T, Elicia Y, Serena Z and Anamya G placed 6 out of 14 in division B.

Team 7 including Austin W, Luke W, Laureen H and Eston T placed 4 out of 16 in division D.

Team 8 including Jonah W, Dimo Z, Amos L and Olivia K placed 4 out of 16 in division E.

We are extremely proud of the dedication, attention and behavior of all our students each of whom played to the best of their abilities. Thank you to all the parents, our entire team of volunteers and coaching team for your ongoing commitment and support to the goals of our chess club and also to Principal, teachers and staff of WRSS for their ongoing support. 

Interschool @ Yugumbir State School

𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 || ♟️𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐒

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that 29 students representing Warrigal Road State School achieved outstanding success in the 2024 Term 1 Brisbane Logan Primary Schools Division at the Official Inter-School Chess Championships which were held yesterday at Yugumbir State School. 

Our Division C Team was hugely successful with a score of 22 points out of a possible 28. 

All four members of this team won GOLD medals. Avyan G. with a perfect score of 7 wins from 7 games was also presented with the individual GOLD medal. In the same team, Elicia Y won the individual BRONZE medal with a score of 6 out of 7; and Nathan L and Collin J each scored 4.5 points were awarded merit ribbons.

WRSS had a total of 7 complete teams participating across four divisions.

Representing WRSS our students won:

Gold Medals in Division C

Avyaan G, Elicia Y, Nathan L, Collin J

Silver Medals in Division D

Luke W, Reece Y, Eston T, Oliver L

Bronze Medals in Division B.

Zachary M, Lincoln L, Markus B, Vidun W.

Merit ribbons were awarded to individual students who scored 4.5 points or more.

Division B:  Zachary M, Lincoln L

Division C:  Nathan L, Collin J

Division D:  Luke W, Jonah W, Stella L, Reece Y.

WRSS students participating in this tournament include:

Isaac R, Bethany C, Jayden N, Arina W

Lincoln L, Zachary M, Markus B, Vidun W

Anamya G, Harry K, Ethan L, Anosh K

Nathan L, Avyaan G, Collin J, Elicia Y

Joseph W, Arianna Z, Jonah W, Lucas L

Sunwoo K, Stella L, Eliana P, Alexandra O

Eston T, Luke W, Oliver L, Reece Y

Olivia L

Thank you to all the parents for their ongoing support and particularly those volunteers who helped throughout the day.

As a final comment, the coaching team would like to add that we are extremely proud of all our students including those that won medals and ribbons and those who didn’t.  Each and every one of our students was well behaved, demonstrating support and encouragement for their friends. They demonstrated maturity when they won and resilience when they didn’t. 

Well done everyone!

All our chess classes concluded successfully in term 1 and you can 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝟐 via our website link🔗WRSS Chess Program. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone back safely next term and enjoy Easter!

Interschool @ Stretton State College

♟️𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 | 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐒

On Monday 28 August, 35 Chess students represented Warrigal Road State School in the Term 3 Inter-school Chess Tournament which was held at Stretton College. We are very proud of the manner in which our students represented the school and of their behaviors throughout the day. 

Congratulations to the WRSS Team 5 consisting of: Mahil M, Markus B, Vidun W and Jayden L for placing 2nd and winning Silver medals.

Congratulations also to each of the 12 WRSS Merit Award winners who achieved a score of 4.5 or above. Award recipients were Kaiwen S, Mason S, Isaac R, Yuto M, Mahil M, Vidun W, Ryder Y, Lexter L, Collin J, Toby V, Jack L and Eston T.

In the Premier Division, our WRSS Team 1 placed 4th, missing out (by less than half a point) on qualifying for the Qld State Finals. In spite of this disappointment, this was a significant result for our fledgling Premiers as, according to their ratings, they ranked 6 out of the 8 teams. We are proud of the substantial progress made by our WRSS team members who faced the challenge of participating at Premier level for the first time. Individually, Kaiwen S placed 4th scoring 5 out of 7 and obtaining the highest rating change (an increase of 22 points).

This term we were so close to achieve a place in the top 3 in each division because we got so many 4th places in both the team and individual rankings.

We are seeing our students demonstrate their potential and a promising future. All of the students have learnt and have grown from representing WRSS and participating in the inter-school tournaments.

Once again, all our children were well organized and looked after by a supportive team. A big thank you to the school, our volunteers, parents and coaching team.

We believe that our WRSS chess teams will place in the top 3 in more Divisions as they continue to gain skills, experience and confidence. We also believe that before long our hardworking and dedicated Premier team, with the support of our school community, will have the opportunity to represent WRSS in the Queensland State Finals.

Welcome more students to join this mind sport and enrolment for term 4 could be done via the link 🔗WRSS Chess Program. 

Termly Tournament @ our classes

Interschool @ Stretton State College

♟️𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 || 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬

On Tuesday 6th June, eleven WRSS chess teams (44 students) competed in the Term 2 Brisbane Logan Primary Inter-school Tournament which was held at Stretton College. In total 306 students in 88 teams competed across 5 divisions.

🎉Congratulations to our team 4 for winning 1st Place in Division B. The winning team consists of: Jaden L, Zihan L, Max H, and Jayden N. Jayden N also won 1st Place for his individual performance.

Daniel A, Isaac R, Jayden L, Bethany C and Chris K were awarded ribbons for their individual performance.

Division A - WRSS Team 2 placed 6th and WRSS Team 3 placed 7th out of a total of 17 teams.

Division B - WRSS Team 5 took 5th Place out of 13 teams.

Division C - WRSS Team 8 placed 6th out of 24.

Division D - WRSS Team 10 took 6th Place out of 28 teams.

Well done, WRSS chess players!

We are very grateful to the parents, coaches and school for supporting our students, which made them have a fabulous day and we are thrilled to watch the significant progress of our students as they grow and develop.

School Teams @ Somerville House

On 7th May, some of our Warrigal Road State School chess students competed in the Term 2 Somerville House School Teams Chess Tournament. The students had a good time and achieved great success.

Congratulations to Easton Y, Isaac R, Mason S and Iniyan R for who, competing as a team, won 2nd place in the Intermediate Group, and to Jayden N, Max H, Zihan L and Bethany C for winning 1st place in the Novice Group.

Mason S scoring 7 out of 7, Isaac R (5 out of 7)  and Bethany C (6 out of 7) were awarded best boards in their respective groups.

Collin J, Max H, Jayden N, Zihan L, Ryder Y and Vidun W all played well and were awarded ribbons.

We would also like to congratulate Steven S, Easton Y, Iniyan R and Zachary M for achieving their first Queensland Junior ratings in our chess program.

Well done, WRSS chess players!

We are looking forward to further success in the coming Southside Interschool Chess Tournament which will be held at Stretton College on 6th June.

Brisbane Girls @ Somerville House

Interschool @ Macgregor SS

🎉🎉🎉 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 | 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬 ♟️On 7 March 2023, 31 of our Warrigal Road State School students participated in the Term 1 Inter-school Chess Tournament which was hosted at Macgregor State School. There was a total of 239 players competing in 4 divisions from Primary schools throughout the south (Logan) side of Brisbane.

We are happy to report that our students showed an excellent spirit of competitiveness, fair play and integrity and achieved an amazing result in this brain battle between all the traditionally strong schools on the southside.

🥉Team 2 composed of Arina (3D), Mika (4A), Isaac (2B) and Lincoln (5E) placed 3rd out of 16 teams of Division B

🥈Team 6 including Mason (2H), Bethany (2F), William (2A) and Serena (1E) placed 2nd out of 17 teams of Division D

✨Team 1 made by Alex (3D), Daniel (6E), Forrest (6C) and Kaiwen (6F), placed 4th with only a half point less than 3rd place out 12 teams of Division A.

✨Team 4 made by Jaydon (5C), Yuto (4A),  Yuna (5B) and Zihan (5B), achieved 4th place with only half a point less than 3rd place out 19 teams of Division C.

Special mention that Mason was crowned Champion with a perfect score 7/7 in his group once again after the recent Somerville House tournament.

Alex (3D), Daniel (6E), Mika (4A), Arina (3D), Easton (6C),Yuna (5B) and Zihan (5B) were each awarded merit ribbons.

We were very pleased with the performance of our first-time competitors in this inter-school tournament and all of them achieved or surpassed their expected level of performance. 

We are so proud of all our players and their performance.

Our children were proud to represent Warrigal Road State School in this highly competitive and mentally challenging sport. They enjoyed their games and were well organized and looked after by our parents' representatives and every parent on site. Thank you all.

A big THANK YOU to Oleg, our coach for his assistance throughout the day. 

We look forward to even greater chess success in the future from these promising players.

Go,WRSS!

Brisbane Individual Age Championships @ Calamvale Community College

📢STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SPOTLIGHT

Huge congratulations to Alex Z who placed 2nd under the age of 8 division of the 2022 Brisbane Individual Age Championships last Wednesday, and Mason S who was runner-up under the age of 6 division.

Amy Z and Isaac R were awarded ribbons as well.

All our players enjoyed the tournament and had a very good experience at CHESS competition.

Even more good news one good news is that Alex Z has improved his Queensland Junior Chess Rating (QJR) by 33 points in the past two months.  We would also like to congratulate Isaac RYU who achieved a Queensland Junior Chess Rating of 500.  Since the WRSS Chess Program commenced in Term 2, Isaac is our first student to achieve a rating.  These are significant achievements and a QJR is highly prized within the chess community. 

Well done, our chess team!

QLD Girls State Finals @ Calamvale Community College

13 students represented our school to compete in the inter-school tournament which attracted more than 160 players at SunPAC.

As you know, our school chess program started very late, most of our students are beginners without ratings.

However, our students had a great time, performing very well and achieved an amazing result.

🎉Congratulations to our team for winning 1st place🥇 in division C. All team members (Lincoln L, Mika C, Annie Y and Mason S) got medals.

Individually, Annie Yu, a little girl born in 2015, placed 2nd🥈 in division C and there are many ribbon winners🎗️, including Alex Z, Arina W, Jayden N, Lincoln L, Mika C, Mason S and Isaac R.

Rounds of applause👏 to these winners, and nicely done, Warrigal Road SS team!

We appreciate our parents who stayed together with our children all day. Without you, we cannot make it so successfully.