FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Hi folks

Hope you’ve had a great start to Semester 2. Students and staff have come back from holidays full of energy and

enthusiasm, and lots of good things are going on. If you have any good stories about something special that has

happened in relation to your student at school, send me an email or drop in and tell me in person.

Are you getting excited about the Olympics? Go to the splash page in SEQTA or to the school website to see links

to information about our very own Matthew Glaetzer (pictured) competing in track cycling. This is Matt ’s second

Olympics, but this time he is competing in four events and is highly favoured to become the sprint king in the

men’s individual sprint – track cycling’s equivalent of Usain Bolt, in other words. Go Matt.

August is a special month for Year 8 to 11 students at school: it’s Subject

Selection Month. See the article later on in this newsletter: there are a

number of special parent events coming up, and students will be working

hard to make great choices for their elective subjects for 2017.

Science Week and Book Week are coming up in Week 4 and 5 of term.

There will be some great science workshops with Lee Harrison as part of

Science Week, and the theme for Book Week is Australia: Story Country,

Primary students and teachers will be having lots of fun as usual dressing

up as interesting storybook characters.

As you know, the great TVCS Waste Recycling Project (Version 2.0) has

started in earnest this term. Students have been enjoying learning to be

more thoughtful and caring in what to do with their rubbish. Our green

organics and yellow 10 cent deposit bins have been filling up nicely – if

you haven’t seen them already, come and have a look at our colourful

differentiated wheelie bin sets dotted around the school yard. There is

still a lot of waste going into our red landfill bins, though: this is all

(mostly plastic) packaging of student lunches. That’s the next thing we

want to work on: reducing the amount of packaging on student food and

drinks coming into the school. Please consider giving your student a

traditional re-usable lunch box and drink bottle to bring to school, with

minimal packaging of food inside.

We’re also planning some Nude Food days for later in the year (this means that the food itself is nude, i.e. has no

packaging) – stay tuned for more information.

Have a great week, and do enjoy the Olympics. Mrs Prattis will be back soon.

Fergus McGinley. Secondary Deputy Principal

3 August, 2016

Term Three: Week Two

TUESDAY PRAYER BREAKFAST - Kumangka Kuu

TUESDAY COMPASSION CHILDREN DAY (gold coin)

TUESDAY SCHOOL BANKING DAY

TUESDAY Vista Sports - Middle School 2.30pm

THURSDAY HOT LUNCHES - $3.00

Thursday, 4 August Hot Dogs

Thursday, 11 August Yumbos

Thursday, 18 August Hamburgers

THURSDAY R- 12 HOMEWORK/TUTORIAL (3.30pm - 4.15pm) in the HUB

THURSDAY SECONDARY MATHS TUTORING

(3.30pm - 4.15pm) in Room 30

AUGUST

Wed 3 P &F meeting (7.30pm - 9.30pm)

Fri 5 Playgroup (9.00am)

Sat 6 SCHOOL TOUR, Front Office(10am)

Tues 9 Mock Trial Semi Final Yr 11 excursion to Research Project Expo

Wed 10 Yr 11 & 12 for 2017 SACE meeting (9am) Primary Worship Assembly (9.15am) Yr 9 for 2017, Parent Information Evening All students and parents to attend (7pm).

Thurs 11 Senior school FUTSAL - Windsor Gardens

Fri 12 Playgroup (9.00am) Japanese Exchange Students arrive (2pm)

Mon 15 SCIENCE WEEK - Yr 7 to Yr 12 Triple C Craft - Kumangka kuu (8.30am) Yr 4/5 & Yr 6/7 Table Tennis - Tyndale

Tues 16 Yr 4/5, Yr 6/7 & Yr 8/9 Table Tennis

Wed 17 Revampt Secondary Assembly (9am) SENIOR SCHOOL 2017 SUBJECT EXPO (6pm - 8pm). See flyer in newsletter

Thurs 18 Yr 10/11 Excursion: Master class SA - Edwardstown

Fri 19 Playgroup (9.00am) 40 Hour Famine

Mon 22 BOOK WEEK Yr 9 - Yr 12, 2017 Subject Preference Week

Tues 23 Yr 6/7 AFL Football Carnival (9am - 3pm)

Wed 24 Yr 8/9 AFL Football Carnival (9am - 3pm)

Thurs 25 Open AFL Football Carnival (9am - 3pm)

Fri 26 Playgroup (9.00am) Japanese exchange student farewell

Sat 27 P&F Latitude Community Event - see flyer attached

Please Note: Year 10 Canberra trip - Sunday, 28 August, 2016 Year 11 Flinders Rangers camp - Monday, 29 August, 2016 Student Free Days - 8 & 9, September, 2016

Program Times Full Fee Out of Pocket

Before Care 7.00am - 8.45am $12.00 $3 to $6

After Care 3.05pm - 6pm $21.00 $5.50 to $10.50

Pupil Free Day 7.00am - 6pm $53.88 $8.29 to $26.94

Welcome back students, parents and teachers!

Here we are at the beginning of another term. It must be true when they say time flies when you’re having fun!! From the team at Camp Australia, we hope you have had wonderful holidays and are well-rested and ready for term three! Here at OSHC we are ready and raring to kick off the new term with our Camp Australia kids.

It is great to hear all the chatter around the OSHC room about the fun and exciting things the children did while they were on holi-days. As always, it is a pleasure to catch up with our regular attendees, as well as welcome some new smiling faces in the Be-fore and After School Care sessions this term.

We are very excited about beginning a new term in OSHC. As a group, we have decided that our focus for the term will be “all things living”. A new theme in OSHC means many new and exciting activities and experiences to share and be had. The children attend-ing OSHC this term will be involved in many opportunities to ex-plore and engage in activities in relation to all living things in our environment, with the aim to adopt a better understanding of how we can show respect to all living things and use sustainable practis-es to keep them happy and healthy for years and years to come.

Just to give you an idea of the kinds of activities we have already done, the children have been part of the process of planting our own succulent plants in our OSHC green house. The aim here is to watch our little plants grow and provide them with enough care to keep them happy and healthy so that they can grow into big, strong plants. With the weather being so cold, wet and windy, we wanted to make sure that our feathery friends had a place to cuddle up and stay warm at night so we decided to make some little bird houses using recycled pieces of wood. These are just some of the activities the children in OSHC have be involved with, of course there are many more new and exciting times ahead, so keep an eye out for what’s to come next!

Please do not hesitate to stop by the OSHC room and join in on all the fun we’re having. We also hope to see many more new faces in before and after school care, because there are so many great things to come and we would love to share them with everyone. Don’t forget to stop by in the morning time for a delicious warm breakfast and a bit of a play before school starts. That is all for now, but stay tuned for the next instalment, enjoy the rest of week.

Program Details

We have spaces available for both before and after school.

ATTENTION YEAR 8, 9, 10 and 11 PARENTS

SUBJECT SELECTION for 2017

August is Subject Selection month for students in Year 8-11.

Over the next four weeks at school students will be taken

through all the processes to do with selecting their Elective

Subjects for 2017.

Two very important Parent Meetings, providing vital

information about what your students will be studying next

year in 2017, are coming up shortly at school:

Year 9 for 2017 Parent Information Meeting,

Wednesday 10 August, 7.00pm -8.30pm in the

Hall (for current Year 8 students).

Senior School Subject Expo (Year 10-12 for

2017), Wednesday 17 August, 6.00-8.00pm in

the Hall (for current Year 9, 10 and 11

students).

The Year 9 for 2017 Meeting will be led by Mr Coward and

will be a great opportunity to hear about all the good things

coming up in Year 9 next year, including a detailed briefing

about curriculum and elective subject selection.

The Senior School Subject Expo on 17 August will bring

together all our prospective Year 10, 11 and 12 students for

2017, with their parents, in one big event in the School Hall.

See the flier elsewhere in this Newsletter for more

information about this event.

By Week 5 of this term students will be ready to start

selecting their subjects for 2017. Two big things will be

happening in this week:

Web Preferences: Year 8 and 9 students w ill

select their 2017 Electives for Year 9 and 10, using

Web Preferences, during this week (22-26 August), as

in previous years.

Year 11+12 for 2017 Subject Counselling Day,

Wednesday 24 August, 1.30-8.00pm. Year 10

and 11 students will select their 2017 Subjects at their

Subject Counselling Interview.

Counselling Interviews will be with students and parents,

and you will be able to book your interview on-line at

www.schoolinterviews.com.au.

Pay a visit to the Year 9 to 12 for 2017 Subject Selection

Portal in SEQTA Lea r n a nd Eng a g e, if y ou ha ven ’t

done so already, to see lots of detailed information about

everything that is involved in subject selection for next year.

Please put all these dates in your diaries now, and start

talking to your students about their subjects for 2017.

Fergus McGinley (Secondary Deputy Principal)

TVCS PLAYGROUP - Playgroup Animal Fun!

In term 3, our theme will be focusing on having fun with a variety of

different ANIMALS. Each week there will be a craft activity relating to

animals and often relating to our book for that week. Please also feel free

to bring in a favourite animal picture book (or puzzle) from home for us to

share at fruit/snack time. We will also sing animal songs each week.

We hope that you and your children have a great time playing at Playgroup. 9-10:30am Fridays.

Tanya Harrison (Playgroup Coordinator)

Triple C Craft Group Monday, 15 August

Meet at Kumangka kuu Room - 8.30am

LATITUDE FUNDRAISER

Saturday, 27 August, 6pm - 7pm.

Our community fundraiser is now only a

few weeks away. As places are limited, we

would encourage you to book promptly to

avoid disappointment.

We have exclusively booked the venue for

Saturday, 27 August between 6-7pm. It is

a whole school event for students R-12,

including family and friends.

Bookings can be made online, via our

website - using the News & Events tab,

followed by payment through the front

office (cash, card or EFT).

Please Note: You only need to book for

those participating. If you are a spectator

no booking or payment is required.

Join us to support our school for this fun

filled and challenging night where we can

climb, fly and bounce. Latitude, 13-15

Fosters Road, Greenacres.

We look forward to a great night.

2016 - TERM DATES

Term 3 Monday, 25 July - Friday, 30 September * Student Free Days - Thursday, 8 & 9 Sept Term 4 Monday, 17 October - Tuesday, 6 December * Student Free Day - Monday, 28 November

2017 - TERM 1 & 2 DATES

Term 1 Monday, 6 February - Friday, 13 April * Adelaide Cup - Monday, 13 March Term 2 Monday, 1 May - Friday, 7 July * Queen’s Birthday - Monday, 12 June * Pupil Free Day - Friday, 30 June

HOT LUNCHES every

THURSDAY - Term 3, 2016 4 August Hot Dogs 11 August Yumbos 18 August Hamburgers 25 August Chicken Burger 1 September Hot Dogs 8 September Student Free Day 15 September Yumbos 22 September Hamburgers 29 September Chicken Burgers

All lunches - $3.00 each

Orders must be placed in the class/care group lunch boxes on Thursday morning

with correct money.

Can you help? If so please call:

Hester: Mobile 0416 841 369

Assistance needed from

8.45am - 10.45am and then 10.45am -1.45pm

ORGANICS

Food scraps Plant material

PAPER + CARDBOARD

Newspapers Magazines Plain paper Cardboard

Pencil sharpening

Tissues

Paper towels

The great TVCS WASTE RECYCLING PROJECT 2.0 is here!

From Day 1 Term 3 our beautiful new MULTI- COLOURED WHEELIE BIN SYSTEM will be in place, as well as GREEN and RED Recycling Bins in classrooms.

Get excited! A la CAPTAIN PLANET, we’re going to TAKE WASTE DOWN (NEARLY) TO ZERO.

Cans Glass and plastic Bottles

Any type of 10c deposit container

10c DEPOSIT CONTAINERS

Plastic wrappers and bags

Yoghurt containers

Plastic straws and spoons

Art and craft materials

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