The College would like to formally announce Mr Justin Andrews as the new Head of Secondary at Tamborine Mountain College. With Mrs Stevens rising to the role of Principal of TMC, Mr Andrews brings with him his years of leadership and mentoring experience to lead our Secondary students and staff. 

Currently at A.B. Paterson College on the Gold Coast, Mr Andrews is a trained mathematics and science teacher, and has been in their management team as the Head of House since 2014. Mr Andrews has completed a series of lead-in days at TMC, meeting with Coordinators, staff and some students as he toured the campus. He is excited and ready to lead the Secondary at TMC, and he looks forward to meeting students and parents at the start of next year.

For the last day of the year, students and staff were invited to dress in festive attire. There was much festive joy spread across campus with almost everyone getting into the holiday spirit.

We wish everyone a safe and restorative holiday and look forward to seeing students return for 2023. 

We’re excited to announce that Elevate Education's final free webinar of the year will be taking place on Wednesday 7th December.

Elevate Education works with our students, delivering high impact workshops on study skills, motivation, wellbeing, and exam preparation. By tuning into their webinar series you will learn how you can help better support your children at home through reinforcing the skills they learn at school:  

Wednesday 7th December @ 6:30pm (AEDT) 

Setting Up for Success

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This webinar is great if you have children heading into Years 7-12 in 2023. Elevate will guide you through the foundational study skills required to hit the ground running in January – skills such as: 

Effective Note Taking 

Deliberate Practice and Implementing a System of Review 

Extra Reading, and How to Read Around a Topic 

Meaning your child won’t miss a beat when Day 1 hits next year.

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This week marks Ms Andrea Jacka's last week as a teacher at TMC. Ms Jacka joined TMC in 2004 and after over 40 years of teaching, she is hanging up her calculator. 

For many years, Ms Jacka oversaw the Maths department at the College. As well as being Head Teacher, she was also in charge of Behaviour Management for many years. 

Ms Jacka's passion for mathematics was highly contagious and many students achieved great things under her tutelage. 

TMC is thankful for all Ms Jacka's hard work over the years and we wish her all the very best in her retirement. She will be missed. 

Congratulations to the following Year 10 students: Michael L, Jackson M, Ben B, Zain B, Joel W, Ethan H, Trae C, Noah P, Ethan L, and Mika S who have just completed a Certificate II in Sport and Recreation. This certificate offers a hands-on experience where students learned how to provide first aid, assist with activity sessions and work effectively in sports, fitness, and recreation environments. A great starting certificate to help with their future pathways and contributes 4 points towards their QCE. Congratulations! 

Miss Chanel Fletcher

This term in Year 7 science, students created models of Earth and Space.

They learnt about moon phases, tides, seasons and eclipses. 

Year 7 students learnt about why we experience these different phenomena and how this impacts our lives. 

Here is some of the amazing work that they produced!

Miss Chileen Radcliffe

Over the course of the term, the year 10 students have worked in groups to create, market and sell products with a view to raise funds for charity. With only $20 initial investment, the students have been able to pay back their start up funds and create $130 of profit. The students have worked incredibly hard to make their projects a success, with some students now looking to develop their own businesses in the holidays. 

The $130 the students raised is being donated to the charity Headspace, which works to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

Mr Kane O'Neill

It was a lovely afternoon today for our house challenges.  Our students participated in a water relay and a cross the river activity to earn house points.  The day finished with staff v students in basketball, touch & cricket.  It is safe to say it was a very competitive afternoon that saw both student and staff success.  A great way to finish the year.

Miss Chanel Fletcher

Congratulations James K! 

It has been a big week for our Year 6 students. On Wednesday, the children celebrated the end of their Primary schooling with a special dinner and dance. Set in the rainforest, the evening was a special event for our students to reflect on the last seven years of school.

Today at school, our Year 6 students walked through a guard of honour, formed by the whole school. At the end of the walk, they ascended the stairs to the Year 7 classrooms. In a new tradition for TMC, 'Stairway to Seven' is the name of our transition program which involves our Year 6 students participating in activities and lessons with the Secondary teachers and Year 7 students.

Congratulations to the Class of 2022!!

Year 2 eagerly showed off their achievements of the term to parents and families on Wednesday afternoon during our Open Classroom. The students have studied 'Connections to places' in HASS. Part of the assessment was choosing a country that they are connected to, either through family, vacations, food, books, or movies, and creating a poster about this country. The students researched their country's music, food, flag, weather, and traditional clothing. Some students even brought in share plates with food from their country! 

Ms Jodi Byron and Mrs Martine Kramer

Year 2 ventured out into our local community this week! We walked to Roslyn Lodge to meet the residents. This experience provided our students with the opportunity to share their favourite storybooks and our recent HASS learnings in a real-life and meaningful context. We spent the morning with the residents, sharing our stories and listening to theirs. We then enjoyed a play and games at a nearby park. A big thank you to our teacher aid Mrs Lewis and our parent helpers. 

Ms Jodi Byron and Mrs Martine Kramer

This week our Year 3 class enjoyed a science incursion from Street Science to finish our unit all about Heating things up! The children loved the show presentation and then getting stuck into experiments in the workshop that followed. It was such a fantastic experience for them and a great way to conclude the year.

Mrs Marie Fern

On Monday we held our annual Upper Primary Music Concert featuring our Yr 4 Band, Junior Band, Songbirds Choir and performances from all Yr 3-6 classes. Well done to all our students for putting on a great show!

Ms Kristy Jewell

It has been a busy term four at the Early Learning Centre. The children have been very excited to work in our focus groups, learning and practising many school readiness skills. 

We have been working hard to practise counting , name writing , letter and number recognition. We have also had a great time using our motor skills to write , thread, cut , throw and catch a ball.

It has been fantastic sharing our achievements with others and reflecting on all our learning that has occurred  throughout the year!

The children loved working together to make our scarecrow this term, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We were thrilled to receive a certificate of ‘Highly Commended’ for our efforts!

We have enjoyed using recycled materials to create some wonderful works of art working collaboratively, negotiating problem solving  to create pirate ships, doll beds, buses and radios using different materials as an extension from our scarecrow making!

We celebrated the achievements and growth of our Pre Prep children on Wednesday at their ‘Celebration of Learning Graduation.  We heard them sing songs from French and Music lessons, finishing with songs we have learnt in class:

‘Let’s be Superheros’ In term 3 we explored our superpowers learning we all have strengths and special gifts that are our powers!  Our powers align with our College values that are regularly discussed in class and during play. ( Kindness, bravery, being strong, helpful,  and friendly.)  

‘This Little Light of Mine.’ Our lights inside were shining strong as the children sang about letting their light’s shine now and into the next chapter of ‘Big School’.  

Kindy class has shared with their families online some wonderful holiday season songs as well as finishing up some special holiday gifts for their families giving our youngest children an opportunity to give a gift to those we are grateful at this time of the year.   On Tuesday Pre Prep and Kindy merged together providing opportunities for Kindy to explore Christmas themed activities inside the Pre Prep classroom, supporting transition to Pre Prep.    

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Early Learning Centre in 2022! 

As we move into the holiday season we wish everyone well and all the very best as the children begin their next adventure. 

Mrs Rachael Fernandez

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