I would like to officially announce to our College community, my retirement at the end of this year. This will mark 21 years as Principal of TMC. I actually joined TMC in 1998 as an English teacher, when Mr Rob Nicholls was our Foundation Principal and he entrusted me with the Principalship from 2002.     

I have seen many changes and growth over the years with new buildings and property acquisition, but the fundamental things have not changed – the culture and spirit of the College with its family-like feel. This College has been a great joy to me and my family. The students and parents are forever part of my family too. Visiting past students, and even those enrolling their children at TMC, have been truly wonderful and rewarding experiences. TMC staff will always be in my heart as family too – I know they are so important in your life as they educate and guide your children.

After more than 40 years in education, graduating from the University of Sydney in 1978 and teaching in many schools in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Queensland, I can honestly say that TMC is the BEST! 

I love this College and thank you for the privilege of being part of your family-life. 

Wishing you all “Victory & Valour” in the future.

Mrs June Melbourne

Last Saturday, Year 12 students Lachlan W, Jordan B, Liam J and Coen B, accompanied by Mr Hall,  pushed themselves to their limits and participated in the 48km Kokoda challenge. Facing the extreme conditions of wet weather, steep hills, and rough terrains, the boys were able to cross the finish line, after 12 excruciating hours.

When asked about the experience, Coen commented how he enjoyed the challenge, and would love to compete in the 96km race in the near future. Jordan also mentioned how the experience taught him diligence and teamwork, and was ebullient at the opportunity to run with alacrity and purpose. 

We would like to thank Mr Hall, Ms Ryall and Ms Hiron for their amazing support and commitment, and for helping make this event possible. We would also like to congratulate the team for their efforts, the College is so proud.

Below is a message received by the College from one of your fellow parents:

"I would just like to bring to your attention a couple of concerns I and a few other parents have regarding a lot of erratic driving of late in the car park. I and others have noticed people driving very fast, people driving up the no entry side of the car park, just to get a good spot, some people don't stop at the crossing when there isn't anyone on crossing duty, cars are parking on top of the yellow walking path, cars parking in the pick up drop off section. I myself had my car door ran into. The man who ran into me said he didn't even see me, now that is very concerning when we were in a school parking lot, where a lot of the children are shorter than my car door. We were very lucky I had already put the kids in the car at the time and not standing next to it."

Every school car park is a vulnerable space to drive in. No one should ever be in that much of a hurry that safety is compromised. It is up to everyone to drive safely in our car park.

In Year 9 science the students demonstrated the parts of a Wave. They  created a Wave Model made out of Gummy Babies. The Wave Model is a fun and useful tool for the science classroom as it demonstrates how Light Waves travel through different mediums. The class worked on two wave models and it was a great hands on approach to reinforce the concept of Energy and Waves. 

Miss Chileen Radcliffe

QATSIF (Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation) was created to give Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families increased educational choices and life opportunities. It is an independent, not-for-profit trust managed by The Public Trustee of Queensland and operates through a small Secretariat.

QATSIF Scholarships are open to students who meet their eligibility criteria (https://www.qatsif.org.au/student-eligibility-criteria *) and are on track by the end of Year 12 to successfully complete their:

• QCE (Queensland Certificate of Education) – each student and their family need to complete the Student Application form.
• QCIA (Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement) for students with a verified disability.

For more information please go to click here for their website

 Wednesday 27th July @ 6:30pm (AEST)

How to Help Motivate Your Child

Register free here

Here's what Elevate will be covering:

 What impact does praise and reassurance have on your child's motivation?

 What are the best types of goals to be setting with your child? 

 How can you help your child create meaningful and lasting motivation?

The webinar is run live online from 6:30 - 7:30pm (AEST) 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

Interschool sport is back in Primary! Covid restrictions and weather events over the last two years have greatly impacted our ability to be involved in interschool sports days, but it returns on August 17 with a day of touch football between TMC, Hills College and Kooralbyn School. Our competitors will travel to Kooralbyn for a day of fun competition. TMC, Hills and Kooralbyn form the Hinterland Independent Alliance (HIA) and have had a long history of competition. Our Secondary students compete for HIA Sports trophy, which has been proudly held by TMC for the last seven years.

We have a large number of lunch boxes and water bottles in lost property waiting to return home.  Please contact reception, or ask your children to visit reception to see if we can return some of these lost items to their owners.

Please write your children's names on their lunch boxes and water bottles so we can return them straight away.

Thank you for your assistance.  

This week, Year 5 started our amazing project to hopefully lead to the protection of the Powerful Owl. We already learned what species of owl it is, its distribution, its habitat and how to do field research. Andrew Dinwoodie, coordinator of the Powerful Owl Project of Birdlife Australia, came into our classes and did a wonderful job teaching us about the owls. We also went to the botanical gardens to do our own bird survey.  We had an awesome time and can’t wait to learn more.

Mr Robert Schönherr

This week we have been learning to write sentences using capital letters, full stops and connectives. We drew a picture of our favourite toy and wrote a sentence about why it is special to us. 

The children drew amazing pictures and worked really hard on their sentences. Well done, Prep Val!

Ms Chloe Scholes

Last week our Year 5 students headed down the mountain and towards the coast, attending the Gold Coast Recreation Centre at Tallebudgera as part of a three day camp. Students were exposed to a number of activities that required them to step outside their comfort zones and work collaboratively including canoeing, rock climbing, beach games, high ropes and the giant swing.

VACATION CARE

Over the June/July holidays Vacation Care enjoyed a program of fun activities.  Professor Jellybean came for an incursion demonstrating how to make slime and rainbow fizzlers. I heard from many parents, educators and children that this was amazing especially since the children were able to take away what they made. We will definity book this experience again!  

During Naidoc week at the end of the holidays many of the experiences planned had an indigenous element such as using some indigenous herbs in cooking experiences, playing indigenous games using skittles, balls in small groups. 

PJ day and crazy hair dress up days delighted all ages having fun in silly activities eating popcorn while sipping hot chocolate together.   

Be sure to book in early via the Colleges website for the next school holidays, this is available after week 7 of the term. 

TERM 3 NEWS

We have welcomed 5 new families to Kindy and Pre Prep so far this term with several more having staggered starts over the next couple of weeks.  This is super exciting for a new centre only 3.5 years old in a unique remote location to be full with only one position in VAL available. 

At 3 years of age many of the children have not yet participated in care and education programs.  The educators are working closely with the families and children to have a smooth transition to the centre. In some cases flexible attendance, ongoing amendments to the routine and revisiting experiences to support and promote the ‘Early Years learning Framework Outcomes’ have been implemented  to develop children's:

• Sense of Identity
• Sense of Connectedness 
• Sense of Wellbeing

Pre Prep have been working on exploring healthy foods and cooking meals following up on an interest in our recent role play learning area. 

What are we learning?

Numeracy

• Sorting foods into categories fruit or vegetables
• Counting the number of ingredients
• Developing an awareness of sequencing by recognising the order of numerals 

Communication/Literacy

• Exploring and engaging with literacy in personally meaningful ways noticing labels, recalling information and looking at a variety of text to research information. 
• Developing vocabulary for describing items and working with others  

Wellbeing 

• Exploring ways to promote own and others health
• What are healthy foods and sometimes foods?

Weeks 1-6 

Phonemic Awareness Learning  Phase 1 of Jolly Phonics S, A, T, P, I, N.  Be sure to look around for items with the initial sound as each week we encourage the children to have a show and share of an item that begins with the sound of the week.   

Reminders

• Photo day 28 July
• Reminder to bring back your consent forms for parent helpers for Under 8’s Day,  3 August.

Mrs Rachael Fernandez

Our TMC Equestrian team has recently had the prestigious honour of competing at the 2022 Hygain State Interschool Championships. They competed in a number of exciting events including Showjumping and dressage.

When asked about their experiences at states, year 12 student Talia C commented on how, “It was a great experience competing at my last Interschool State Championships. Though by the very end of the competition it started raining so that wasn't pleasant. But the committee did a great job running the event with lots of entertainment so everyone could enjoy it.”

Ashlee L, a year 9 rider, also commented on how the event was, “Such a great experience being able to compete with my friends and represent the school in a competitive environment.”

All the riders competing did an amazing job and were able to place in the top 10 for each event. We would also like to announce a big congratulations to students Amelia W, Sienna W and Ashlee L who will be competing at the Nationals later this year. The college is incredibly proud of all the students and we can’t wait to see more in the future.

Photography courtesy of Oz Shots

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