This morning, Mr Holm facilitated our Day for Daniel Fun Run.  Our oval was transformed into an interactive obstacle course!  Students from Year 6 and Year 9 caused havoc for our runners with water squirters, pool noodles and dodge balls!  There was lots of laughter - and a few soggy shoes... Thank you, Mr Holm, for creating such an exciting experience for us all.  

Congratulations to all participants!  It was truly wonderful seeing the school come together to promote The Daniel Morcombe Foundation.  We can proudly say that we have all played a part in keeping Australian children safe. 

Mrs Deborah Horn

Last weekend, the 2021 Opti-MINDS State Finals took place. This year (due to Covid restrictions) the finals were held in “satellite” events across Queensland. TMC played host to the 2021 Gold Coast and Brisbane South regions. Mr and Mrs Horn together coordinated and facilitated the day, opening the College to over 100 staff and students from eight schools. 

The Opti-MINDS Creative Sustainability Challenge asks students working in small teams to “think, create and communicate” and collaboratively devise and present a ten minute dramatic performance to an open-ended challenge. At the State Final level, students must complete this challenge in just three hours! 

Our College was represented by three teams of students who competed against schools from across Queensland - Cairns to Roma to Gold Coast and everywhere in between - 94 teams in total across the state. 

Congratulations to the following team for their outstanding efforts: 

TMC Team 3 (Science Engineering Category, Division II) - Jack Armstrong, Emma Anderson, William Fern, Logan Hayden-Du Plessis, Luka Haydock, Phineas Thomson and Mia Walshe 

TMC Team 4 (Language Literature Category, Division II) - Archie Antunovic, Sophie Ashley, Chloe Creed, Harmony Corden, Lucas Regec, Sean Robinson and Scarlett Thomson

TMC Team 5 (Social Science Category, Division II) - Zoey Adam, Mia Armstrong, Annia Regi, Molly Smith

It is with great excitement that we announce that our Science Engineering team placed SECOND in the state, receiving an “Honours Award”, and our Social Science team placed FIRST in the state!  

We couldn’t be more proud of our students!

We wish to extend a special thanks to our Parents and Friends organisation for sponsoring our students’ participation in the State Final.  We are so grateful for your generous support. 

Thank you also to Mr Holm and Ms Visser for attending the event as our caterers! We appreciate the many hours you invested into

We look forward to more Opti-MINDS fun in 2022!  

Mr Dan Horn and Mrs Deborah Horn

This week's featured image is of our Year 10 State Champion OptiMINDS team members. 

It has reached the point of the year where our year 12 students must begin their external exams and prepare for graduation, including our Year 12 leaders. This means that it is time to pass on the role of TMC leaders to the Year 11 students and say goodbye to our leaders. This year TMC’s two captains are none other than Cleah Sullivan and Dylan Sippel, who were asked about their time with leadership and what they have learned.

Cleah has said that being a leader can create opportunities outside of the classroom such as Lions Youth of the Year (possibly her favorite event of the year and one she wouldn’t have been able to participate in if it weren’t for her status as Captain), the ANZAC Day March on the Mountain, the Bond University Model United Nations, Open Day and Arts Fest and Drama Excellence, in which we went to the Gold Coast Secondary School's Drama Fest.

Cleah has also provided some advice which all future leaders should see, “Just do your absolute best. Learn to solve problems and communicate with your team, and remember that leading by example does so much more than you think, so be aware of what you do. Be kind, but firm, and don't take any nonsense”, this is definitely some advice that can and will follow people throughout their lives. Cleah has said that some of her favorite moments of being School Captain are the simple yet good times where she simply helps and leads the students around her, whether it's on stage or in extra curricular activities.

When asked, Dylan commented on how some of his favourite moments included standing up and talking in front of the whole school, as well as the assembly videos. He enjoyed taking part in school events like swimming, sport and athletics carnival, as well as taking part in the SRC events like the toilet renovations, which he said was great since everyone came together to achieve a common goal. He also talked about how being a leader helped him to improve his public speaking skills and wanted to become a leader to help the students feel that they could be heard through a captain.

Dylan has also provided some advice for the new leaders, which was, “Don’t let pressure or power get the better of you, it's always gonna be there and if you need to talk to anyone I’m always available. Also trust your teachers and your peers.” 

We wish our leaders and Year 12 students the best of luck for the future and their exams, as well as welcoming our new Year 11 leaders.

 by Emily Clarke & Zoe Close Year 11

Over the past two years, it has been my pleasure to support the students of TMC' s Journalism Club in developing and publishing articles for the Lion's Roar each week. This a large commitment on behalf of the students as they complete their articles outside of class and school time. With the culmination of Year 12 the Journalism Club says goodbye to two of its founding members, Editor Portia Ilaoa and Lana Bignell. Their efforts and organisation will be missed and the rest of the Journalism team wishes them all the best in their upcoming external exams. 

Mr David Haskins

This week saw the conclusion of the 2021 AB Paterson Public speaking competition. This year, TMC boasted a considerable number of entrants with 22 students from Years 4 through to 11 taking part. After last week's heats, the Preliminary Finals for Years 5-7 were held on Tuesday with the Grand Final held immediately afterwards. Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 finals were held on Thursday. TMC had a large contingent of students successfully make it through to the Preliminary Finals including:

Year 5  Ariana Stevenson

Year 7 Ava Byrnes and Emma Anderson

Year 8 Nick Brennan and Finley Greig-Byrne

Year 9 Lily Parker and Zara Woodrow

Year 10 Ania Regi and Elijah Fern

Year 11 Magenta Watney and Talia Criss

Due to withdrawals, the Year 11 preliminaries were collapsed into a single Grand Final. Whilst Magenta and Talia spoke beautifully, they did not place. However, their character and conviction made all at TMC proud. 

Of the other year groups, Ava Byrnes, Lily Parker, Zara Woodrow and Elijah Fern were each successful in progressing through to their respective Grand Finals. And it is with great pleasure that we can announce that in the Year 9 comp Lily Parker spoke brilliantly on the topic of 'In Darkness there is Light' and received 3rd place and Zara Woodrow received a special mention for beautiful delivery. In the Year 10 competition, Elijah Fern, speaking on the topic of 'Mending Fences', wowed the judges with a personal and touching speech and received 1st place. These achievements are further bolstered by the incredibly high quality of this year's speeches. 

I would like to extend a huge thank you to Mrs Deb Horn, Mrs Brianne Rodgers and Mr Michael Worton who all gave up their time to help mentor the students in the development of their speeches and who gave up their time to adjudicate during the competition. 

Mr David Haskins

Work Experience is a wonderful opportunity for students to explore their areas of interest to find a career pathway that is enjoyable and rewarding. There are currently several Year 9 and 10 students out in the community, working with local businesses to get a first-hand look at their careers of choice. 

Deegan Alderson (Year 10) is showing future sports stars the ropes at Park Lake State School

Charles Greig-Byrne (Year 9), Chad Fitch (Year 10), Noah Watson (Year 10) and Braydon Croker (Year 10) are trying out careers in construction and electrical technologies

Keane Diong is spending time in a Pharmacy in Pimpama to get a feel for life in the medical field

Cy De Freitas is our own budding Indiana Jones, excited for his placement in the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology (and is particularly excited to be involved in their upcoming Egypt exhibit).

Natasha McKenzie (Year 9) is interested in a career as an Early Childhood Educator. She is currently spending one day per week at a local Daycare Center.

We love to hear our students' stories about being in the workforce. They return to us more determined than ever to teach their goals. 

Ms Liz Black

Our Year 9 and 10 students invest a lot of time into creating and refining their future learning pathways. At TMC we tailor our senior students' learning to ensure that they are well prepared for their lives and career aspirations post-school. We currently facilitate a huge range of Vocational Education and Training Qualifications for our senior students, and we are proud to be fostering the learning of future nurses, mechanics, electricians, designers, artists and more through nationally recognised Industry Qualifications. These students are completing their qualifications alongside their formal schooling arrangements, and we are very proud of their dedication. If you have a student in Year 9 or 10 that is interested in enrolling in this type of program, please email Ms. Black (lblack@tmc.qld.edu.au) or Mrs. Parker-Browne (pparker@tmc.qld.edu.au) for more information.

Ms Liz Black

To mark Day for Daniel in year 10 and 11 today Red Frogs Education presented an information session based around being safe at parties. Red Frogs aim to educate, equip and empower students to make positive choices and to look after themselves and each other. 

Mrs Peita Parker-Browne

On Wednesday, judges David Kirkpatrick and Barbara Hams from the Tamborine Mountain chapter of the Lions Club came to TMC to judge a number of Primary School art pieces. The competition, called the International Peace Poster Contest, run by the Lions Club, allows children the opportunity to express their creativity by designing a poster based on a yearly theme. The 2021-22 theme was ‘We Are All Connected’ and our students did an amazing job taking on the challenge and showcasing their artistic talent. 

It was a long and hard decision, but in the end the top 3 students (in no particular order) were Neesa Duong, Archie Fetter and Freya Hawkey, with a special mention being made to Archer McLean. Before the judges left they also commented on how, “The quality and drawing skills of the students was excellent”.

Congratulations to all the winners and a wonderful effort by all students involved. You should all be proud of yourselves and we can’t wait to see more of your artworks in the future.

This term Charlie H from 5VAL is running an origami club, at Tuesday lunchtime in MN1.

Origami has many benefits for our students.  It helps to develop hand-eye co-ordination, sequencing skills, attention skills, patience, temporal spatial skills and problem solving abilities. It is also a fun activity to do with our friends.  

Each week Charlie will be teaching us how to make something different. This week it was how to make an origami ghost! A very big thank you to Charlie for taking the time to teach us the art of paper folding.

Everyone is welcome at origami club, we hope to see you there next week.

Mrs Sam Noel

Friday this week Pre Prep and Kindy had a visit from Josie and Finn’s Dad’s who are rural Fire Brigade officers. The children listened to a talk about when the rural service is called to an emergency, noting that their uniforms and truck are a different colour to the urban brigade. With great excitement the children experienced using the fire hoses and climbing through the truck investigating some of the different parts that are needed to help fight fires. 

Both VIC and VAL groups have practiced fire drills this week. I wonder if your families have had a discussion at home about what to do in the event of an emergency?   

Daniel Morcombe Foundation is an annual event on our calendar as we demonstrate support to the foundation for the work they do in child Protection. At the ELC we wore red and supported the children to identify 5 safe people they can talk to for help and the emotions you might feel when you are not safe.  

Thank you to our families who donated to this worthy foundation all funds will go to the College who are fundraising today with the children participating in a fun run! 

Mrs Rachael Fernandez

This week Year 10 and 11 went on an excursion to 19 Karen Gallery and HOTA, as a part of their Visual Art studies. As well as seeing the most contemporary in Art on the Gold Coast we explored variety of mediums and brush techniques as well as seeing Energies up close at HOTA.

Ms Jenny Radley

Last weekend Amelia W, Year 7, led her Tamborine Mt Eagles soccer Team to victory in the Grand Finals at Palm Beach by kicking all goals and taking out the Player of the Match!

She also took out the Years Golden Boot award for the most goals at the Club presentations

During the school holidays Amelia  competed in three State Equestrian Events each over a week in duration. Shcq Classic GN Qualifier, Shcq State HOTY and Equestrian Qld State HOTY. She came away with Champion and Golden tickets in every class on her own Show Galloway at each event, as well as riding and qualifying 2 other horses for clients for Nationals and Grand Nationals in 2022!!

She has been nominated for Junior Sports Person of the year with Equestrian Queensland due to her success, sportsmanship and contribution to the sport and fellow competitors, not only at her recent state champs but also for Interschool.

Congratulations on an amazing year Amelia and good luck in your running for Junior Sports Person!

Miss Chanel Fletcher

CeCe and her team at the River City Cali Dance Studio won 5/5 routines which means they are the senior state champions for 2021! CeCe’s team had a clean sweep this year as they won all three competitions. 

Congratulations on a great final year CeCe!

Miss Chanel Fletcher

Three players from Year 6, Archer M, Ciaran J, Lucas R, who play for Tamborine Mountain Eagles under 12 soccer team, played in their grand final last Saturday and won 5-0 against Pacific Pines. Wyatt Chapman from Year 6 also played in the Pacific Pines team.  Congratulations to the boys on their success.

Mr Trevor Jamieson

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