Pinocchio by Lily Parker Year 9

During ArtsFest, the much anticipated and exciting Primary Musical ‘Pinocchio’ was finally performed. After more than two terms of costume and set preparation, rehearsals, learning lines and every part of the long, grueling process, all of the hard work finally paid off with a stunning performance!

After last year’s ‘Wizard of Oz’, this year’s musical had a hard act to follow. I asked the main cast of this performance [Lucas R - Pinocchio, Oliver D - Geppetto, Archie A - Cricket, James H - Puppet Master and Donkey Seller and Annabelle H - Blue Fairy] about their experiences with creating and performing this play and everyone agreed that those that had the opportunity to be a part of the performance, enjoyed it and that it was a success. Specifically, Annabelle H said she, “Loved getting to work with the cast”, while Oliver D elaborated by saying he enjoyed working with “people that he knows from past performances and working with new people in the school”. Finally, Archie A stated that he enjoyed “Watching the play come together!”.

Many of the cast members loved the opportunity that Pinocchio brought, as it meant that they were able to further their acting skills, work with others and show people what they were able to achieve in a short amount of time. Wonderful teachers, Mrs Addison, Mrs Horn, Ms Visser, Ms Jewel and Ms Criss, guided the students through the whole process of this play. Mrs Addison conducted the choir and handled all things to do with the music, Mrs Horn handled choreography and movement, Ms Jewel did musical accompaniment and Ms Visser handled costumes for the performance.

I asked Ms Criss what she liked about creating and performing Pinocchio. She shared that she liked “What the student’s enjoyed from the play, that they could make new friends and that they got to appreciate learning the main roles and elements of Drama.” She believes that they learnt good social skills and movement on stage in order to entertain an audience. All of the little unique touches made for an amazing atmosphere and overall performance.

A massive thank you to all other staff involved in the performance who worked so hard to make such a wonderful production come to life.

All in all, it is clear that this play was very enjoyable for not only the audience, but for the students and teachers involved, as they got to see it come together after so much effort and hard work. All of TMC is so proud of the final performance and a massive thank you must be made to all the staff and students involved in the performance who worked so hard to make such a wonderful production come to life.

From the Early Learning Centre Director

Book Week

We all had a fun filled week celebrating this year's Book Week dressing up as our favourite characters. The visits from the Tamborine Mountain librarians were a highlight, arriving in costume the children were enthralled as they attentively listened to a ‘Pete the Cat’ story. Thank you families for supporting your child by bringing them to the centre in their costumes. Children are naturally curious and creative. When children develop a love for reading books at a young age, it will stay with them forever and open up a whole new world.

Artsfest

The children at the ELC were well represented at last week’s Artfest. Every student in Pre Prep had a piece of artwork on display and Kindy and OSHC children contributed working in their groups to collaborate on a group piece. We are very proud of our children's efforts as we have been working all year on their learning around ‘Our Acknowledgement of Country’ . The display is in our foyer, we will send the drawings home.

Athletic Carnival

In preparation for the Colleges Athletics carnival Pre prep took part early in the week participating in a series of races. The Egg and Spoon race was a real highlight! So much concentration went into balancing the fragile egg. On Thursday for the big event Preprep walked over to the sports oval to cheer on the school children and take part in a sprint race. Everyone received a ribbon for participating. Excellent work PrePrep!

Scarecrow Festival

In October we are going to enter an entry jointly with Prep into the local Tamborine Mountain Scarecrow Festival. The theme will be the two characters from Julia Donaldson story ‘The Scarecrows Wedding.’

We would love your help in regards to some items the children could use to put this together.

Shells
Blue overalls
Check shirt
Red bandana
Blue floppy hat

Under 8’s Day

When: Friday 17 September 9.00am - 11.00am

Where: College Campus

Thank you to the families that have been able to assist us by collecting your child to enjoy the event together. This will support us to provide an amazing experience for all of the children. If you have not completed your permission slip please do so, it's not too late to help!

Save the dates

Tamborine Mountain College transition to school visits

Week 2 Tuesday 12/09 and Thursday 14/09
Week 4 Monday 25/09 and Thursday 28/09

All PrePrep children transitioning to TMC will walk to the Prep classrooms. Children attending other schools will have their own transition program starting very soon.

Kindy children will transition up to PrePrep to have their own transition to PrePrep session.

The new Scenic Rim public holiday is now scheduled for Friday 29/10/21

PrePrep Graduation

TBA - usually the end of November before the term finishes. Hopefully all families can attend (Covid safe)

Term 3 finishes on Wednesday 14 September for Vic group and Friday the 17 September for VAL group. If you require holiday care please see the Colleges website for details of the current program. There is a Google Form available for bookings or you can contact the ELC earlylearningcentre@qld.edu.au.

Mrs Rachael Fernandez

ArtsFest by Zoe Close Year 11

Well, that's a wrap! ArtsFest has once again shown us the wonderful creativeness of our TMC students. As described by Mrs Stevens and Mrs Melbourne, ArtsFest is about opening up the school to the school community, the wider community and surrounding areas in order to showcase and display the wonderful culture and artistic talents of our students, which has certainly seen great success.

Some of the things that were on offer included the viewing of the many artistic pieces by our talented students. These pieces of artwork included Year 8 Picasso faces, Year 9 Pop Art, Year 10 Surrealism paintings, including Mona Lisa paintings, Year 11 Appropriation artworks and Year 12 artwork. When asked about the artwork displays, Ms Radley, ArtsFest coordinator and Art teacher extraordinaire, commented that it took a whole day to hang up the art display, while also commenting on how her favourite moment of the day was seeing how awesome all of the art was.

There were also a number of performances on the day, including the Primary school who dazzled the audience with their incredible singing and acting skills in the musical ‘Pinocchio’. Mr Stevens commented on how the musical was, “One of the best musicals that had been performed, [with this year’s] having the most involvement by the choir, which helped drive the performance.” Mr Stevens also mentioned how his already high expectations were surpassed “All the students in the play had perfect sound and all the students remembered their lines.”

Both Mrs Stevens and Mrs Melbourne commented on how the event was a huge success and surpassed their expectations. With the rain clearing up and the wonderfully large turnout of people who were all engaged and showing off their artistic works, it was clear just hoe popular TMC’s ArtFest was. For Mrs Melbourne, the best part of the day was, "getting to see the crowds and visitors, as well as talking to families and new faces.” For Mrs Stevens, it was mentioning how she had many standout moments including, “watching the Primary and Drama Excellence performances, the many musical performances and Optiminds performance.”

With the 2021 ArtFest being such a great success, there is no doubt it will only get bigger and better next year. We can’t wait!