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.

A reminder to parents to not sent child who are unwell to school. Covid-19 continues to challenge all schools, and this winter is seeing a return of influenza. Thank you to families for keeping sick children at home until they are better. Please update any absences via Parent Lounge.

This week's Featured Image of the Week is a beautiful and thought-provoking painting by Year 10 artist, Brooke G.

Each week here at TMC, three students are awarded a Prefect Award in recognition from their teachers for displaying one of our KIES values - Kindness, Integrity, Equity, Success. One student is chosen from years 7 - 8, 9 - 10 and 11 - 12. 

This week the students we would like to congratulate are:

Phoenix K, Year 8

Blake H, Year 10 

Brody S, Year 11

Well done to these students for showing aspects of kindness, integrity, equity and success around school and in the classroom! 

Students in 9VAL seized the opportunity to complete a practical Health and Physical Education lesson on Friday morning under a beautiful blue sky and the radiating sun. This term students have been learning to play cricket. From the balcony, both students and staff looked on and cheered for the competing 9VAL students. 

Asiya H showed off her dominance in the role of a fast bowler, leaving the batting students dazed. Emily S performed a perfect spin bowl that took the wicket out from behind Hamish Thompson to end his 26 run streak. Ryan W, in the role of wicket keeper got Eli S out on 27 runs. Also, Ryan claimed the next batter out, Emily S on 24 runs, with the College Cricket rule on ‘One Hand, One Bounce, You're Out!’ Ezekiel V in the role of bowler took the wickets from both Oliver P and Chase P, ending their batting turn early with only 2 runs. In bat, Ezekiel scored a run total of 34, demonstrating a high level of skill and strategy. Previously mentioned, Asiya, scored a total of 16 runs that included 3 hits that each provided her with 4 runs. Her long strikes took the fielders by surprise. Portia T, amatuer cricket player, contributed in both the roles of wicket keeper and bowler. At the crease, Portia hit a long strike and scored 4 runs off one hit. Portia got out on 26 runs. With a low score of 2 runs initially, Oliver P was provided with the opportunity to have a second bat. With a clear determination to take out the top run score that sat with Ezekiel V on 34 runs, Oliver took the bat with focus and left the game with a total score of 37 runs. 

Thank you to all students for their outstanding efforts and the enjoyable lesson in the sun.

Total run scores:

Alyssa C - 13

Gretchen L - 16

Asiya H - 16

Zara H-D - 16

Addison M - 15

Chase P - 4

Oliver P - 37

Emily S - 24

Eli S - 27

Hamish T - 26

Portia T - 26

Kari T - 7

Ezekiel V - 34

Ryan W - 17

Mrs AJ Power

We are excited to announce the reintroduction of the TMC talent show, which will be held in week 8 of this term. The talent show gives students the opportunity to showcase their amazing talents, including singing, dancing, playing instruments and much much more, which over the many years has shown the spectacular talent of our TMC students. 

There is also a prize on offer to the competing students, including a $50 JB-HI-FI voucher to the first place winner(s). The teacher that has organised the event, Ms Green, who when asked about the show, commented on how she is excited to see the students take the stage and the positive audience reactions, as well as seeing the students courage and bravery on stage. She commented on how she loves watching the performances take shape, with students being judged based on entertainment value, skills and audience response. She also believes that commitment and passion are the most important skills to have when performing.

Not only will our amazing students take the stage, but also our Year 12 students and teachers, which will be amazing to watch. The productions have been kept a secret, but according to Ms Green, there's been a lot of laughter so far! I am sure everyone is excited to watch the amazing talents of our students, and we wish everyone the best of luck, we know that everyone will do well.

The Primary Learning Centre (PLC) will be renamed at the start of 2023. First opened in 2015, the PLC was our first building on the Primary campus and four classrooms were built inside the original house on the block. In 2017, two new buildings were opened, and so started a new tradition of naming our Primary learning spaces after local native animals.

As part of the College's commitment to enhancing our connection to the indigenous peoples of Australia, all building names will also proudly display the traditional Yugambeh word for the animals.

The Primary students voted on their favourite animal to rename the PLC. The choices were:

• Bandicoot (Yagoi)
• Eagle (Mibunn)
• Wallaby (Wongari)

This was a 'kids only' vote - no teachers had any input at all. And the winning animal was...

EAGLE!!!

Today, the students of 6 Val were introduced to Reconciliation Week - a very important event on the Australian calendar. 

Students gained some perspective about what Indigenous People have experienced since the arrival of the English.  The students watched a video showing individual responses to the sometimes painful questions that non-Indigenous Australians can ask about history and culture.  They also watched Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations.  

The class engaged in conversation about how we can all play a role in reconciliation.  Students then made posters designed to inspire Australians to come together in a united and peaceful future.

We will continue to honour this special event with activities and ceremonies next week. 

Mrs Deborah Horn

On Thursday night, Mrs Horn presented an information session to parents about cyber safety. A keen group of interested parents were able to take away some valuable strategies that they can implement at home, and learnt how and why our young people are struggling to deal with social media and online conflict. If you are struggling with your child's use of social media or an addiction to technology, please empower yourself with knowledge about how you can regain control of their consumption of online media.

This week in Year 4 Science, we have been having some fun with forces. Our creative students designed and constructed their own cars, using different household materials. They had to consider contact and non-contact forces with their designs, observe their cars in motion and also describe how to make improvements, based on how well their cars drove. 

We had some quite competitive students (as well as one very competitive teacher). 

The force is strong with this group!

Mr Cameron Hall and Mrs Julie Sands

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.

Be Brave, Make Change is this year's theme for reconciliation week.   The Early Learning Centre has a published Reconciliation Action Plan to inspire us to be brave as we continue on our journey of embedding indidgenous perspectives into our program.  

This week  Pre -Prep learnt all about Australian animals. The children are beginning to develop an understanding of where we live and the animals that are native to Australia. During a  Grouptime they took a look at an Aboringinal lullaby that showed beautiful artworks and Australian animals.  

On Friday to kick off a week long awareness the children participated in symbol drawing on the chalkboard, playdough and painting with colours to represent the Aboriginal flag, instrument playing, yarning time sharing stories with each other.

In the Kindy room during outside play an elevated car track complete with ramps and a slide created the perfect opportunity for working together.  Moving plastic tubes and wheels around to alter the levels tested the children to explore how fast each car could travel as they raced them down the pipes. 

Pre Prep and Kindy are showing so much progress and growth it is getting harder to choose what to write in our weekly article!  

Mrs Rachael Fernandez  

Year 11 Visual Art student Anais B rocked the spray paint this term creating the most beautiful Surreal landscape on a skate deck! Well done Anais!

Ms Jenny Radley

Year 11 Visual Art students Shanae, Ash, Chloe and Rory have been working overtime to create our new banners for ArtsFest.

Ms Jenny Radley

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