Last Friday, 46 parents and friends of TMC enjoyed a night out at our first P&F Christmas in July. The wonderful atmosphere at Saint Bernard Hotel was thanks to the organisation of the event by our outstanding P&F volunteers. What a great night out!

A big thank you to those who made it such a wonderful night by donating and supplying prizes:

• Janice from Inspire Me Naturally for donating a prize and gift vouchers
• Deb from the Body Shop for the lucky door prize
• Angela from Angela’s Pantry for gift baskets
• Sam from Edge Hairdressing for donating gift vouchers 
• Amanda from The Pilates Crowd for donating class passes
• Vicki the event coordinator from St Bernards who was so accommodating and easy to work with
• Alana our P&F president who donated wine from Witches falls and chocolates from Granny Macs
• Mark Stevens - for being the best Santa and such a good sport!

A number of reports have again been made about some drivers going too fast in our car park. The car park has a maximum speed of 10km per hour. For reference, a person walks at about 5 km/h. No matter what time of day it is, if you're running late for work, if you're feeling grumpy, or listening to your favourite driving music, there is no excuse for speeding in our carpark.

An observation has also been made about some cars dropping children off in the middle of the driving lane and double-parking to let children out. This is not a safe practice for your children or other drivers. Please always park your car in a space before letting your children out.

If you use Flexischools to order your students lunch please take a moment to update your account.  Unfortuantely accounts are not updated automatically at the begining of the school year, this is a manual process that needs to be done by the account holder.  We have noticed that there are a lot of students with incorrect classes leading to lost lunches.  Please take a moment to update these details.  Help is given in the link below.

How do I change my student's class

Currently, any student seen using a mobile phone has that phone confiscated for the day. As of Monday, 1st August, any student seen with a phone will not only have it confiscated, the student will also be issued with a 30-minute lunch time reflection. If a student has their phone confiscated three times or more, the parent will be required to collect the phone from the office. 

While students are on campus, we want them focused on learning, as well as engaging face to face with their peers. 

We encourage students to leave their phones at home. While this may be difficult for some students initially, it provides a good conversation starter for parents to discuss the strategies used when they were at school (if pre-mobile phones). 

FAQs

What if I need to contact my child?

Parents are welcome to contact the College reception to communicate with their children.  If a student needs to leave school early, for example, the school must know why before it happens, and the parent or carer should be the one to contact the school.

What if my child needs to contact me?

There is a student-use phone located in the administration area that students may use free of charge. Students are not permitted to make calls or send messages from their phone throughout the school day.  

What if my child doesn't know my number? 

We are able to provide your child with parent/guardian contact numbers as listed on their file. Reception is open from 8am to 4pm each school day. 

by Mrs Fiona Stevens, Head of Secondary School, and Mr Mark Stevens, Head of Primary School 

Please mark these days in your calendar: 

Monday 8th August - SRRC Show Day holiday

Friday 26th August - Gold Coast Show Day holiday

Friday 2nd September - QLD Student Free Day

Saturday 3rd September - ArtsFest Open Day

Friday 16th September - End of Term 3

This week's featured image is our HIA team that competed recently at the HIA Athletics Carnival. The full story is in Sports News.

For the fourth competition running, TMC Primary has won the Primary Debating Competition on the Gold Coast! TMC has now proudly held the trophy since 2018. The teams would like to thank their coaches, Mrs Horn and Ms Byron for their help and encouragement. The Year 6 members of the team are looking forward to joining the Secondary competition next year, and the two Year 5 members are looking ahead to next year's primary competition.

(Front L to R) Jasmine, Ariana, Isobel, James, Sky.

(Back L to R) Ms Byron, Kai, Aria, Nicholas, Ivy, Riley, Mrs Horn

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:

Dom R in year 8 - Effort and Integrity in Class

Noah P Yr 10 - Effort and success at the Athletics carnival

Magenta W Year 12 - 100% in her Visual Art IA2 Assessment

Well done to these students for showing aspects of Kindness, Integrity, Equity and Success around school and in the classroom!

On Tuesday, our Year 5s went on an excursion to the Glow Worm Cave in Tamborine Mountain. We learned about how the cave is protecting the local glow worms through ecotourism, education and planting native vegetation. We are looking at applying this knowledge to protecting the local powerful owls. After our trip to the cave we walked to the Witches Falls section of Tamborine National Park to look for signs of the powerful owl. We found plenty of suitable tree hollows and signs of their prey such as wallabies and birds but still the powerful owl itself remains elusive.

Mr Robert Schönherr & Mr Luke Bourke

4VAL and PVAL had a wonderful time together on Friday morning. We solved a plethora of addition and subtraction sums together. 4VAL thought the Preppies were amazing and had a vast amount of knowledge. 

Mrs Julie Sands and Miss Chloe Scholes

Students in Year 1 have taken on the role of a town planner as they design and construct the perfect town. Aspects of infrastructure and community needs are considered as they work in groups to plan, design and construct a 3D model. This hands-on Investigation allows students to use directional language and to explore and apply their knowledge of 2D shapes and 3D objects as they negotiate and complete the project. Joining our towns together we think we made an amazing community!

Ms Kathy Hiron

In Year 2 VIC we are reading George’s Marvellous Medicine. This week the students wrote a 6-picture retell of the story. They made wonderful drawings to accompany their hard work.  Mrs Kramer & Ms Byron were very proud of the beautiful work the students produced and have displayed it all in the classrooms!

Next week, the students will do a real life science experiment and create a pretend medicine, just like George! Then we will write a procedure about it.  We promise we won't feed the medicine to Grandma!

Mrs Martine Kramer

This term in Science, Year 3 are learning about the changes between day and night, the sun, the Earth and the moon. In this week's science lesson, the students made predictions about the changing appearance of their own shadows throughout the day. The students had a buddy trace around and measure their shadow at three different times of the day; the morning, middle of the day and afternoon. We explored the relationship between the Sun and the Earth, and the daily patterns that result from the movement of the Earth. This is a fun activity to do at home with a piece of chalk and a measuring tape!

Ms Gemma Newman

Well done to everyone who competed at Athletics Carnival last Wednesday. It was so lovely to see everyone dressed up and doing their best for their house. It was also great to see multiple records broken and an increase in participation at the carnival. The results from the Athletics Carnival are in. The winner of the House Spirit Trophy is Nicholls House! Overall for the carnival in 3rd place on 1321 points is Nicholls house, in 2nd with 1361 points is Walton house! I am excited to announce that the winner of the 2022 Athletics Carnival is Kyle House with 1511 points. Well Done Kyle!

Congratulations to the following Age Champions:

9-10 Years: Leo G & Maelle R

11 Years: Reid R & Jasmin d S M

12 Years: Asher T & Ava H

13 Years: Lucas L & Stevi R

14 Years: William H & Lovisa L

15 Years: Ethan H & Mia K

16 Years: Ethan L & Ashlee H

17-18 Years: Gregory F & Charlotte F

Miss Chanel Fletcher

Over the past two months it has been Rugby Union Rep season. Matti G was selected for the Gold Coast Cyclones Under 13 team and captained the side. They played at the South Queensland carnival in Mooloolaba and his team won the tournament.

Matti was then selected from that tournament into the South Queensland team to play at the Country Championships in Toowoomba, this is a competition for all the regions of QLD. From that tournament a Queensland Country team was selected to play Brisbane City. Matti was selected in this team and was lucky enough to be named Vice Captain. They beat Brisbane City 12-10 to win the Championship. This is the highest level these boys can make until under 16’s.

Congratulations Matti, absolutely outstanding achievements so far this year. We can't wait to see what he continues to achieve in the future. 

Miss Chanel Fletcher

On Tuesday, Lachlan W and I attended the 2022 After the Siren program to aspiring athletes in Years 10, 11 and 12 which was organised and hosted by the Runaway Bay Sport and Leadership Excellence Centre and Griffith University Sports College.

After the Siren is a program that provides student athletes with the unique opportunity to learn firsthand about life as an elite athlete from a range of current industry professionals, in order to help them prepare for a successful life on and off the sporting field. It also educates teachers on how to manage elite athletes in schools and how to best prepare them for life after school as an elite athlete. 

The program was highly engaging and interactive. It was clear that the Runaway Bay Sport and Leadership Excellence Centre and the Griffith University Sports College are passionate about providing the next generation of athletes with the knowledge and insights required to achieve at the highest level. This event happens every year. If you are in Years 10-12 next year and would like to be considered to attend please email cfletcher@tmc.qld.edu.

Miss Chanel Fletcher

On Wednesday, 28 Students were selected to represent TMC and travelled out to The Kooralbyn International School for the HIA Athletics Carnival. It was a beautiful warm sunny day and the students were praised for their outstanding sportsmanship and positive behaviour by the teachers from Hills and Kooralbyn. Overall we placed 2nd by just 5 points!! The carnival was a great opportunity for those students to not only challenge the HIA schools but also make new friends and prepare themselves for the upcoming Hinterland District Athletics Carnival which will take place at Somerset College next Monday and Tuesday.

Miss Chanel Fletcher

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