Last weekend, no less than FOUR TMC TEAMS (that's 20 students representing years 6 - 11) went to the University of Queensland in Brisbane for the Opti-MINDS State Final event. Teams from schools all over Queensland gathered at UQ for two days of inspiration, creativity and fun!

On Saturday, students participated in an ideas market where they had to present a creative solution to a problem. The teams from TMC presented ideas inspired by corporate overuse of water, the need for the protection of turtles, and the importance of spreading positivity. One of our teams was selected to represent our region as the most inspiring idea: "Know the News". The team proposed a news channel that encouraged people to share community news, celebrate diversity, and reject news that is designed to entertain (like celebrity news stories). They shared slogans like, "Ignorance is not bliss", "SEE the change you wish to be", and "News may be negative, but it's necessary". Congratulations to TMC Team 4!

In the evening, the students danced up a storm at the Opti-Shindig. The disco was a highlight for all students!

On Sunday, the students gathered at the UQ centre at 7:30am for the three-hour challenge. Students faced the complex task of writing a play, making costumes and props, and addressing some tricky criteria along the way... Our Primary School Science/Engineering team also had to build a working machine to incorporate into the play! This took a lot of creativity, problem-solving and patience! All teams presented highly entertaining plays, and should be extremely proud of what they achieved together.

At the closing ceremony, it was so exciting to see one of our high school students, Scarlett T, taking part in the prestigious trophy-bearing ceremony. This was in celebration of her eight years' participation in Opti-MINDS. To top off a very special experience, one of our teams was recognised with an Honours Award (second place in the state!). Congratulations to TMC Team 6! What an amazing accomplishment!

Finally, I wish to make special mention of the incredible adults who gave up their weekends to support me in supervising, encouraging and celebrating our wonderful participants. Mr Haskins, Mrs Haskins and Mrs Watters were so generous with their energy, guidance and Opti-Spirit! Thank you also to Mr Horn who supported us too.

Congratulations: Team 2 - James H, Alex S, Poppy W, Lauren E, Will C Team 4 - Scarlett T, Will W, Leo W, Thomas W, Luka H, Skye P

Team 6 - Archie A, Niamh S, Oliver D, Ewen T, Aiden B

Team 8 - Molly S, Eli F, Will F, Annia R

You are extraordinary young people, and I look forward to working with you again in the future!

Mrs Deborah Horn

TMC's newest staff member, Ludo, chose today as his first day at work as our Wellness Dog. He visited Prep and Year 1 classrooms, and greeted students and staff this morning before school. 

Ludo is Mr & Mrs Stevens' dog, and he has been practicing his socialising and behaviour with people and other animals in preparation for his days at 'work'. Ludo's main role is to interact with students during break times and be a furry friend to children when they are upset or need a happy distraction. He is simply the friendliest pal anyone could want and he brought a smile to everyone he encountered today.

Ludo will come to school from time to time and he looks forward to his next visit to TMC. He is doing training on the weekends and he enjoyed his first day on the job.

Today is Day for Daniel. On this very special day we Wear Red, Educate and Donate. Even our special guest, Ludo the Wellness Dog, dressed for the day. Our TMC Pre-Prep to Year 11 fundraiser raised over $440 to donate to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. 

The Daniel Morcombe Foundation have developed conversation cards to spark discussions about personal safety. These cards are specifically designed for parents to use at home with children from Prep through to Year 12. 

Today Queensland acknowledges World Teachers' Day. The theme for this year is "Hats off to our teachers." Year 6 students, Ariana S and Skye P, show their appreciation to their teachers for all the hard work they put in. 

October

Year 12 External Exams - 24th October - 15 November

November

Prep - Year 2 Music Concert - 11:40 am Wednesday 2 November

Year 7 Immunisations - Monday 7 November

Year 7 2023 Orientation Day - Thursday 10 November

P-6 Swimming Carnival - Friday 11 November

Prep Gala Night - Friday 11 November

TMC Awards Day @ HOTA - Thursday 17 November

Year 12 Formal - Friday 18 November

Year 3 - 6 Music Concert - 1.40pm Monday 21 November

Pre-Prep Graduation - Wednesday 23 November

Year 6 Graduation Dinner - Wednesday 23 November

End of Term 4 - Friday 25 November 

December

Office Closes for Holidays - Friday 9 December 

January

Office Reopens - Monday 9 January

Term 1, 2023 Begins for all Primary, Year 7, 11 & 12 students - Monday 23 January

Year 8, 9 & 10 students return - Tuesday 24 January

Thank you everyone for all the wonderful Towel donations so far!

Wildcare are looking for old towels and facecloths for the sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. 

If you have any old (clean) towels that you could donate then Wildcare would love to have them. Our fabulous SRC students will be coming around over the next few weeks to collect them from students.  

If you have too many for your child to bring please bring them along to Admin, ask for Jules Booth and she will happily take them from you.

Next week will be our last week collecting Towels. So make sure to bring them in before Friday Next week!

We’re excited to announce that Elevate Education's next free webinar will be taking place on Wednesday 9th November.

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 9th November @ 6:30pm (AEDT) 

How to Help Your Child Manage Their Stress & Wellbeing

Click here to register for free

In this webinar Elevate will be showing parents:

 How to spot your child's stress symptoms early

 How to start a conversation about emotional wellbeing

 Techniques your child can use to self-manage stress 

Click here to register for free

Lily P in Year 10 was invited by the Tamborine Mountain Chamber of Commerce to be part of the 2022 Scarecrow Festival Organisation Committee. For the past several months, Lily has represented the College, and youth of the mountain, through regular meetings organising the event. Last night, Lily P attended the official opening of the festival along with the judges. The judges and TMC are very proud of Lily for her participation in this event.  Well done Lily! 

Students are advised to bring refillable water bottles to school and stay hydrated throughout the day. All water in the bubblers at TMC is filtered drinking water. We encourage parents to speak with their children about staying hydrated, especially during hot weather. 

Mrs Fiona Stevens - Head of Secondary

This week, 4VAL has been playing with words in poetry. We've looked at puns, spoonerisms and nonsense words. We were so proud of the nonsense poem we created together. We hope you enjoy it...

4VAL – Class of Dinosaurs

4VAL really likes dinosaurs, we think they are the best

We know everything about them, other classes say that we’re obsessed

And often when we’re all at school, we play a little game

We like to call each other by our special dino name.

Guntaas is a gym-o-saurus because she likes to flip

Scarlett is an art-o-saurus because she loves drawing pics

Isabella is a laugh-o-saurus because she tells jokes

Faryn is a climb-odon because she scales mountains using ropes

Josephine is a speed-o-saurus because she’s really fast

Leo is a zoom-o-saurus because he never comes last

Oliver is a Minecraft-o-don because he likes making machines in a virtual world

Melody is a friend-o-saurus because she’s such a kind girl

Anden is a book o-saurus because he likes to read

Josie is a ride-o-don because she likes travelling on her stead

Luca is a mess-o-saurus because his desk’s a sight

Lillia is a horse-o-saurus because she loves to ride

Britton is a clown-rex because he makes people laugh

Keenan is a mega-o-saurus because he’s as tall as a giraffe

Ariya is a dance-o-saurus because she likes to prance around

Henry is a times-o-saurus because he likes to divide down

Mrs Julie Sands

The sun came out for swimming lessons this week! As we are half way through our swimming lessons now, Year 3 have been working hard to develop their skills ready for the swimming carnival coming up! 

Ms Gemma Newman

This week Year 2 was lucky enough to have one of our wonderful parents, Sam, join us to explore and understand what it means to be a bucket filler. Sam shared the 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today?' story with us by Carol McCloud and some engaging hands-on experiences. Year 2 understands that a bucket filler is someone who says or does nice things for other people. By doing this, we are filling other people's buckets and filling our own buckets at the same time. A big thank you to Sam for sharing in this wonderful experience with us!

Ms Jodi Byron

On Wednesday the year fives had the pleasure to meet some of the volunteer firefighters of the Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade. The firefighters told the students what it takes to be a firefighter, how they serve the community during natural disasters and how to be prepared for an emergency situation. In class, the year fives are focussing on natural disasters and learning from the experts in the field was very interesting. And of course the most exciting part of the visit was to use the fire hose and hear the siren. We would like to thank the Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade for their visit and sharing their skills and knowledge. 

Issy would like to show her appreciation by adding her poem:

Oh firefighters

Whether it's driving through bogs

or clearing mud from houses.

Fighting fires with spotty dogs

or saving mum's old blouses.

You are there where there are fires,

rushing on the rubber tyres

of your gleaming yellow truck

charging straight through all the muck.

If there's a flood in someone's farmyard

triple zero is what they do,

you'll be there at the scene

before the cows say moo.

By Issy

Mr Robert Schönherr

Stamp, stamp, I feel the fire rising.

Stomp, stomp, my body is electric.

Hahahahah, the anger is slowly leaving me be.

Gasogaspgasp, I am calm, I am free, this feeling has left me glee.

By Mr Hall

A Red Poem!!!!!!! By Bella

Red can be all types of emotions,

But is not made from potions,

And not caught in motion,

For me, red feels like I'm hot and flushed,

And I feel like I am mushed,

Then again, red could be worry and happy,

But some people could be sappy,

Red is a colour that raises awareness!!

Red Poem by Josie

One day a girl was very angry. She was ridiculously red with fury. She was fiddling furiously and thumping like she was going to faint but no boggerling, banging, blasting, crashing it went BANG CRASH. GRR WAAA mummy! I want the fresh, fruity, fluffy, fabulous FRUIT!!!!!!! It’s cold cuddly and even wuddly. It's countless and boundless and I'm mad and sad so I want it so I  CAN BE GLAD!!! And then that little girl just burst into a big bubble or anger!! And she rangled across the floor!

Anger by Eden

Stomp, stomp, stomp go my feet

Made me really mad when I fell of my seat

Blood boiling like a kettle

Tried to calm down

When my mum told my to settle

I was as cool as ice until

I FOUND OUT I HAD LICE 

AHHHHHHHHHH!

Captain Cook By Eden

Captain Cook was a man, a man with a big plan. He went on the First Fleet and discovered aboriginals standing on two feet. Until he went to Hawaii and died, but at least he died with pride.

Captain Cook By Bella G

Captain Cook is cruel as a gun,

Used to be poor as a peasant,

Now he eats feathered pheasant,

He is angry as a fire,

He led the First Fleet,

Like a royal navy settler,

And died as a hero in Hawaii.

The students of Year 2 are learning how to write a character description. We have studied adjectives to describe appearance, personality and feelings. The kids put theory into practice this week, using their finely honed skills to create wonderful character concertinas about the primary teachers here at TMC. They wrote beautiful cards too and hand-delivered their creations on World Teachers Day!

Ms Jodi Byron, Mrs Martine Kramer

On Friday October 28 at 7:30pm, Brisbane-based quintet Topology will be celebrating 25 years performing across the nation with their Queensland Stories show at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre. The show will include blindly fast technical show pieces to film collaborations across regional Australia, as well as an original piece with our young TMC musicians!

Tickets can be booked here: https://aubeau.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/51553

Ms Kristy Jewell

We would like to thank the Players, Coaches & Parents for their support and participation in our Female Community Advanced Program for 2022. We are in the infancy of developing this program and are writing to all members to assist in further growing female participation at our Club. This year we had 108 female players reresenting 14% of all players.  For 2023 we would like to increase our female participation to 207 players representing 23% of all players. This is an ambitious target but with your support we can go a long way to achieve this.

The teams the Club wishes to enter into 2023 Competitions are as follows:-

Communnity Advanced Teams

·         FQSC FQPL3 Senior Women

·         FQSC Junior League Under 13, Under 15 & Under 17

·         FQSC Kangaroos Under 9 & Under 11

Community Teams

·         FQSC Metro Div 2 Senior Women

·         FQSC Div 1 Under 13, Under 15 & Under 17

·         FQSC Wallabies Under 9 & Under 11

If you have not alaready done so and have an interest in participating in the Community Advanced Teams please complete your expression of interest using the link below.

EOI Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet65jgymCg2x-sFR6JUu80zISbsqCTNBA8ZJpRSegEQ_TEyw/viewform?usp=pp_url

In support of our Community Advanced Football the Club will be reinstating it’s SEQ Football Academy Programs which will be supported by qualified Academy Coaches.

Click here to view all Community Notices