This weekend, on the 4th of September, from 11am- 5pm, Tamborine Mountain College’s annual ArtsFest is going ahead! However, this year, ArtsFest will be live and virtual, rather than last year’s ArtsFest which took place online. 

ArtsFest will be an enjoyable and fun day for families, friends and the TMC community to visit the school and to take part in various free workshops and classes, look at all of the wonderful artwork from the students and so much more. On this wonderful day, there will be chances to get food from food trucks, join in Storytime and free art activities, watch performances by the band and dance group and have the opportunity to view TMC’s amazing visual art showcase. 

Ms Radley, TMC’s Art Coordinator, has shared what some of the events will include. Tamara Armstrong, an award winning artist based on Tamborine Mountain will be directing the painting workshop, where people will have the opportunity to work with acrylic paints and boards. The African drumming workshop will be held on the basketball court, where visitors will get to learn how to drum African style. Finally, the Goat Track Theatre workshop will give participants the chance to learn improvisation skills.  

TMC can’t wait to see how the day unfolds and are so excited to see everyone there! Please register your interest on the College's website.

https://www.tmc.qld.edu.au/eve...

Following on from the short survey we recently sent out about Year 6 transition, we are holding our information session about the transition process for parents and students moving into Year 7 in 2022.

This will be an opportunity to meet Mrs Helen Garnar (Year 7/8 Coordinator), find out about key dates in Term 4 and ask questions in preparation for January 2022, as well as learning about life in secondary school.

Date: Monday 6th Sep 

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

If you would like to attend please book your place using the link below. Students are welcome to attend with parents. 

Entry is by ticket so please order one for each member of your family attending (Children under 12 years do not need a ticket)

Year 6 Transition - Information Night

Mrs Helen Garner

The 2021 Readathon has now concluded. A massive thank you for your fundraising efforts! We have now raised over $5700 as a school, surpassing our efforts from last year! The highest fundraising students, class and biggest reader will receive their awards in due course. 

Thank you once again for supporting this great cause and helping families affected by Multiple Sclerosis. We are delighted with our fundraising efforts again this year!

Mr Sean Golden

Throughout Terms 1, 2 and 3, TMC Primary students have been hard at work preparing the 2021 Primary Musical. This year's performance is a musical on childrens’ fairy tale 'Pinocchio'. It is a story of a marionette who dreams of one day being a real boy. Under the direction of Mrs Criss and Ms Jewell and with the help of a large number of Primary and secondary staff, the students have worked diligently to learn their lines, practice their songs and prepare their costumes. The performance promises to be an amazing display of the incredible talent here at TMC.

The Primary Musical will be performed at 11.30am and 12.20pm on the stage. Audience registration is a must and can be made by follow this link: Artsfest 2021

Mr David Haskins

During Term 2 & Term 3 the TMC Dance Troupe, Led by Year 12 student CeCe Knight, has worked extremely hard to put together a routine which they'll perform at this weekend's Artsfest. The routine is based around the concept of challenging society & the stereotypes women face. At the beginning of the routine you see 'Society' control the dancers, however throughout the remainder of the performance the dancers all come together to stand up for themselves & fight against 'Society'. The mashup includes various empowering songs such as; Salute by Little Mix, God is a Woman by Ariana Grande, and Masterpiece by Jessie J. 

When asked how it felt to lead and choreography the Troupe, CeCe stated, "I'm so proud of all the dancers and how far they've come over the past two terms. I'm honoured and excited to perform alongside them all this weekend". 

The TMC Dance Troupe will be performing in the Stage area at 2.20pm

Mr David Haskins

It's that time of the year! The time for our amazing TMC students to showcase their beautiful pieces of artwork to the TMC community. One of the highlights, among the many events on this Saturday, will be the opportunity for the wider TMC community to view this year’s productions from the Drama Excellence and Primary drama groups. 

The award winning 2021 Drama Excellence performance ‘The Call’ which will be performed on the stage at both 3.20pm and 4.30pm. The play has been in production since the start of the year and consists of Year 11 and 12 students. The play was entirely student devised and was performed at the Gold Coast Drama Festival back in June, where the group took out the awards for ‘Best Student Devised Play’ and the ‘HOTA Innovative Play’ award. All of the teachers and students involved have worked very hard on their performance, including Ms McQueen and Ms Carlyon who we would like to thank for their hard work and dedication to Drama Excellence this year. We also would like to thank other students including CeCe Knight, Elijah Fern and Owen Castley who also helped contribute to the play’s overall performance. 

So, if you are coming down to ArtsFest on Saturday, why don’t you come on over to the stage area where you will be introduced to a wonder of storytelling, dancing, acting and so much more. All audience members will need to register by visiting ArtsFest 2021 

Feeling the need for some high quality musical entertainment? Well, why not come on down to ArtFest and grab the chance to watch the TMC Senior and Junior bands perform. The Senior band will be on at 11:00am and 12:00pm and will be performing Zydeco Cajun Crawdad Dance and Bohemian Rhapsody. We will also have small groups and duets performed throughout the day including:

Flutes, Jorgia and Mia with 'The Ash Grove'

Clarinets, Harmony, Phoebe, Lana, with 'Largo', and 'Flower Duet' by Delibes

Jazz, Ava and Nick: with 'Caravan' and 'It Don't Mean a Thing'

Classical Flutes, Portia, Hamish, MsJewell with 'Duets 5 and 2'

Classical, Cleah and Emily with 'Romance (7)' and music from 'Carmen'

The Junior band will also be performing 'Blue Sky Rock', by Francois Dorion, and 'Dragon Dance', by Michael Story. You can catch the junior band at 2:30pm.

Both bands have been rehearsing songs since Term 1 and are looking forward to showing off their talents.

Mr David Haskins

On Wednesday this week, the HIA exchange round went ahead and was a huge success. It was great to see our students finally able to participate against Hills College and Kooralbyn International School after a long wait due to covid restrictions. The day included events in basketball, touch and volleyball, with perfect weather for the official first day of spring. Our Junior and Senior basketball teams won all their events. Our Junior and Senior touch teams both lost to Kooralbyn, but showed skill in being victorious against Hills. Unfortunately, the Senior volleyball team did not win any events, but showed great participation and sportsmanship against the other schools. Well done to all involved.  

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