The Inaugural TMC P&F Christmas in July Dinner.

Friday 22nd July at 6:30pm.

A beautiful 3 course meal at St Bernard’s Hotel. 

Book your babysitter and dig out your daggy Xmas sweaters! 

Fabulous door prizes and a prize for the best/worst Xmas jumper or outfit!

Will be a great night, so pencil into your diaries as tickets will be limited !!!!

Tickets on sale here

TMC study skills partner, Elevate, is offering a free webinar for parents on how to improve your child's memory.

Wednesday 1st June @ 7pm (AEDT)

How to Improve Your Child's Memory

 Register for free here

Here's what Elevate will be covering:

• How you can set up your child’s study space to maximise attention;
• The best techniques for improving memory;
• The 7 most common mistakes which actually reduce memory retention.

The webinar is run live online from 7-8pm (AEDT) where the presenter will share Elevate’s key research and skills, and will conduct a live Q&A so you can ask them questions directly.

If you are unable to make the webinar, don't worry! If you sign up to attend, you'll receive the webinar recording on Thursday morning.

The Opti-MINDS Creative Sustainability Challenge is an inclusive team challenge which empowers participants to think, create & communicate. Opti-MINDS is a creative problem solving event for teams of participants from Preschool to Year 12 within three divisions. 

Teams are required to collaboratively devise, prepare and present a solution to an open-ended challenge from one of four categories - Language Literature, Science Engineering, Media Communication, Social Sciences. Completing the challenge requires the team to harness the vast and varied talents of each team member in order to create their own original response to the challenge. 

Participation in the Opti-MINDs challenge gives ALL students the opportunity to utilise their unique skill set and develop their creative and collaborative potential. Opti-MINDs encourages students to think outside the box and embrace new ideas and ways of thinking. 

Last year TMC entered five teams into the Opti-MINDs Challenge achieving great success with our Division III Social Sciences and our Division II Science Engineering teams placing first and second respectively in the state final - an AMAZING achievement. This year our goal is to enter 12 teams - one team per category, per division. 

The Opti-MINDs Creative Sustainability Challenge officially opens at the beginning of Term Three with the release of the six week challenge scenarios.  Students are encouraged to register their interest to participate in Opti-MINDs 2022, by attending lunchtime ‘warm up’ sessions starting Monday next week (23/5) with Mr Horn for secondary and Thursday (26/5) with Mrs Horn for primary. 

Mr Dan Horn

A big congratulations to Max Lavagna-Slater from year 12!  Max has completed a school-based traineeship working at Three Kings Pizza and studying a Certificate III in Business with Aurora Training, all while completing his year 12 studies.  Max is now able to add eight points to his total of 20 to be awarded his Queensland Certificate of Education.

Mrs Peita Parker-Browne

On 5th May, four students from the STEM Club, Chloe Crawford, Ethan Hodder, Tia Hodder and Layth Johnston, were nominated to attend Griffith University's annual STEM Ambassador's Conference. Students travelled to Parliament House to participate in the conference. During the day, students were required to participate in a workshop about entrepreneurial thinking and designed an 'iBin' which would encourage students to keep the school tidy. They then went on to brainstorm STEM activities for the STEM Club and for Science week later in the year. Finally, students walked from Parliament House to the Queensland Museum to have fun at SparkLab where they investigated a number of exhibits and build earthquake proof buildings. These students were awarded with STEM badges at assembly for their excellent effort and participation throughout the day as TMC's STEM Ambassadors for 2022.

Mrs Rebecca Smith

Year 12 Visual Art students have been working hard to complete their Visual Art submissions for their second body of work. Works below by Magenta Watney, Jamie Castley and Sophie Byrns; all will be on display at ArtsFest in September. 

This week, TMC’s junior and senior debating teams participated in Round 3 of debating. The junior team, made up of Year 7 students Archie Antunovic and Allirah Hembling and Year 8 students Scarlett Thompson and Isaac Bailey had a topic of ‘Single Sex Schools Should Be Abolished’. They competed against Saint Stephen’s College and did an excellent job at convincing the audience that single sex schools are an archaic institution and do not reflect the needs of modern students. With this, they have secured the win for their third week in a row. 

The senior team; Keane Diong, Annia Regi, Elijah Fern and Molly Smith of Year 11 and Year 12 student, Maddy Graham, competed against a highly experienced team from Saint Andrews, focusing on the topic ‘That Workers Should Continue To Be Paid Penalty Rates on Weekends’. Unfortunately, the team was unable to take the win for this round, however, we have no doubt that they gave it their best and will continue to do so, leading into the next round. 

Amazing efforts from everyone involved and good luck for the next debates!

Next Thursday we are holding an information session and workshop for parents focused on how children interact online and helpful strategies regain control of technology at home. Open to Primary parents from all year levels, but information and examples focused to those parents in Years 4-6. Click HERE for more info and tickets. This is a parents / guardians only event.

Two of our Primary mums, Bodean and Nicole, are organising a 'Meet & Mingle' on Friday, May 27, up on the mountain. What a great initiative! All welcome - RSVP details on the flyer.

One of the best gifts any parent can give a child is the love of books and the joy and benefits of independent reading for fun.  Children who read at home, or are read to, have a head start on reading success in school.

Our School participates in the Scholastic Book Club.  Up to twice a term, catalogues containing a selection of books for all ages, are sent home with children.  Each order helps earn free books and teaching materials for our classrooms.  If you would like to access the catalogue on line please clink on this link

It is easy to order.  The Book Club Loop platform for parents allows you to pay by credit card.  Your child’s order is submitted directly to school and the books will be delivered to class.  You can place your child’s order at scholastic.com.au/loop or by using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

Moving from Year 6 to Year 7 at TMC is a smooth transition. Mrs Stevens and Mrs Garner welcome Year 6 parents to a one-hour information session about what to expect for the year ahead. The purpose of the event is provide our families with useful information and answer any questions you may have.

Year 6 students are welcome to attend with their parents. Tickets are available HERE.

With respect to COVID safety, guests must not attend the event if:

* they are a currently diagnosed with COVID-19

* had a fever, cough, sore throat, headache, distorted sense of taste, shortness of breath, chills, vomiting or any cold/flu like symptoms in the last 48 hours

While masks are not currently mandated, parents can of course wear a mask if preferred.

Students have been enjoying lots of fun learning activities in Drama this term.  In Year 6 our unit of Transfigured Fairy Tales have seen students exploring traditional fairy tales. Students have been working in small groups to rehearse and perform traditional fairy tales and this week we began to modernise these tales with lots of great ideas being developed.

Year 5 have been exploring Circus, Clowning and Comedy and enjoying making each other laugh.  We have explored circus clowns from Cirque de Soliel as well as clowns such as Mr Bean. All students have bravely and creatively rehearsed and performed individually and in pairs which has been a lot of fun!

Year 4 have been exploring Aboriginal Dreaming and have worked in small groups to devise their own Dreaming stories which they have gone on to rehearse and perform with use of various props. Students have had a chance to use their imaginations and develop creativity, characters and confidence through dramatic processes.

I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching Drama for these past five weeks and look forward to seeing students continued development and growth in this subject.

Mrs Felicity Addison

Year 7 students have been devising and painting an Australian icon in the Pop Art style.  Students have been enjoying using bright, bold colours with acrylic paints to create an iconic Australian image.  Students have made a great effort in developing their painting techniques in the Pop Art style. 

Mrs Felicity Addison

TM Universe has developed a course, in 4 sessions, about the main elements at the core of astronomy nowadays. Together with an introduction session, the five presentations will take place in consecutive months of 2022, starting on 14 May.basic understanding of the most fundamental aspects of astronomy.

The level of information is accessible for any adult will sufficient curiosity and interest in the universe, as well as for children of about 12 years and older. Formulas, large numbers and mind-blowing figures about speeds, sizes and distances have not been excluded. The focus is on understanding of essential elements in nowadays astronomy.

Sessions start with a 'light' element, including some video of research from the past, or silent films from the early 1900.

Then a quiz will take place including all topics of the upcoming presentation. This is highly interactive (using polleverywhere technology and mobile phone direct response on multiple choice questions), but can also be performed with a simple pen and paper answer form. Answers (right or wrong) are NOT shared among attendees.

Then the presentation takes place during 45-50 minutes. It includes visuals and audio where relevant.

Each session ends with a repeat of the quiz and comparison by each attendee whether or not they have more answers correct; the results show the progress made by the attendees.

Q + A may take place if time allows.

The introduction session (14 May 3-5pm, Zamia Theatre)

The sun's annual movement through the sky; what are the zenith and the analemma; the start of an art competition to create a 6 metres diameter analemmatic sun dial; sun telescopes and the foreseen purchase of one. Explanation of the use of this high quality solar telescope at weekly session on Long Road, and options for special presentations for organisations, events and, for instance, schools.

Session 1: Sun and stars (12 June 3-5pm - Zamia Theatre)

How does the sun operate? Nuclear fusion of Hydrogen leads to Helium. E = mc2, and other aspects of Einstein's relativity theories. How are stars being born? Space missions to the sun. Nature of sun spots, solar winds, sun flares. The solar cycle. Double Stars.

Session 2: The universe, galaxies and clusters (9 July 3-5pm - Zamia Theatre)

Solar system -- galaxy -- Universe. Movement through space of sun and planets; black holes, dark energy, dark matter (the general concepts). Gravitational waves, lensing, time space, gravity. Value and aspects of the recently launched James Webb Space telescope. Indigenous astronomy.

Session 3: Planets, exoplanets, Life in the Universe (14 August 3-5pm - Zamia Theatre)

Recent developments exoplanets: types, distances. Goldilock zone; search for water on moons and exoplanets. SETI. Positioning the latest space missions and telescope in this perspective. How to find exoplanets. Drake equation. Missions to asteroids. Differences between asteroids and meteors.

Session 4: Our Moon. (11 September 3-5pm - Zamia Theatre)

Birth of the moon. The Artemis mission; people going to the moon, and later to Mars. Search for water on the moon. Solar and Lunar eclipses. Watching the moon from Northern and Southern hemisphere. Observations with binoculars (and telescopes). Identify former landing sites. The moon phases and rotation of the moon. Gravity between earth and moon, tides.

On 1 October 2022 TM Universe will organise with NASA another Observe the moon events, including special presentations and life telescopes.

On 8 November 2022 TM Universe will organise an event (Tuesday evening from 7pm) to observe a full lunar eclipse, including information about photography of the moon.

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