Tallowood School

Newsletter8 November 2019

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

14 November E-Tea Epi lepsy Awareness Morning Tea

29 November Year 12 Graduat ion

4-5 December New Student Or ientat ion

9 December Parent Socia l C lub

12 December Year 6 Graduat ion

18 December Presentat ion Day

Creating Pathways - We Learn - We Care - We are Safe

tallowood-s.school@det.nsw.edu.au

https://tallowood-s.schools.nsw.gov.au

9836 3810

https://www.facebook.com/tallowood5459/

44 Redden Drive, Kellyville NSW 2155

@TallowoodSchool

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are now almost half way through term 4 and teachers have been busy writing end of year reports, planning celebrations for our Year 12 graduating students, Year 6 students moving into our high school programs and of course our celebration of achievement and success – our presentation day. Along with this, great learning continues every day in every classroom – our school is a hive of activity!

Metropolitan Athletics Carnival

A big congratulations to all our students who represented our school at the Combined Metropolitan Athletics Carnival at Homebush last Friday. Tallowood School came third place in the march past and many of our students received places in individual events throughout the day. You can check out some photos from the day in this newsletter.

Epilepsy Awareness

“Epilepsy is the world’s most common serious brain disorder. It is more prevalent than Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy combined. It can affect anyone at any time”.

“Right now about 250,000 children, young people and adults are living with epilepsy [in Australia]”. Epilepsy Action Australia

On Thursday next week we will be holding a mufti day to raise awareness of Epilepsy. Students are invited to wear something purple, the official colour of Epilepsy awareness.

Values at Tallowood

Earlier in the year our staff began the journey of developing a consistent set of values for our school. This has been a long journey to really drill down and develop some core values statements that we believe represent Tallowood School and that our whole community can support and exemplify. Consultation with parents at our recent information session was very positive and our values have now been finalised and are displayed in our school foyer. They are also included below. Please take some time to read and understand our values statements and use the key language of these values when talking with your child.

Greg WoodPrincipal

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VALUES IN ACTION

tallowood school at the combined metropolitan athletics carnival

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LIBRARYWelcome to the library for Term 4. During our lessons this term Junior and Primary students have been covering the theme of “Stories from Africa”. We read African Big Books, listened to African music, played African musical instruments, learnt all about African animals and did lots of communication and literacy activities.

We aim to make our lesson engaging, enjoyable and educational as well. The theme books we have been focusing on are the classic stories by Eileen Browne, ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and ‘Handa’s Hen’.

High school students have been covering the theme of “Growing and Changing - Adolescence and Puberty”. These lessons teach important information that everybody needs to know and I am proud of the way our students respond and engage with such important information, resources and activities. It is a privilege to watch our Year 7 to 12 students developing and growing into respectful young members of our Tallowood school community.

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Class 1

We are back to school with a bang! Term 4 is all about learning about ourselves. We are enjoying reading big books explaining our body parts, life cycle and how everybody is different. We have been busy in creating self-portraits, measuring how tall we are and how different we look to each other in class 1. We are growing plants in our classroom from the Woolworths growing pods to relate it to our unit of work this term.

On hot days, we have been trying to beat the heat by water play and eating icy poles. We try to stay indoors and drink plenty of water to keep ourselves hydrated.

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Class 3Class 3 have been enjoying the swimming pool playing water games and learning to duck dive. We have been working on jumping into the pool and swimming to the edge by ourselves, floating on our backs unaided and kicking with our legs straight.

Some of the students in Class 3 have thoroughly enjoyed riding horses at RDA, they have made friends with Apache, Karoo and L.J. They have learnt tasks such as matching colours, posting items as well as balancing, mounting and dismounting their horse. They also practise using a quiet voice while riding.

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Class 5Class 5 has been looking at chemical changes as part of our Science unit. We have cleaned coins using Coke, enjoyed watching colours move using milk and dishwashing liquid and investigated the different pigments in textas.

We look forward to more exciting experiments in the next few weeks.

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CLASS 7

With the return of the warmer weather this term, Bianca, Bailey, Therese, Benjamin, Dan and Taharaat have enjoyed spending time in the garden. We were lucky enough to have a beautiful display of sweet pea flowers which not only smelt and looked good but also provided a fabulous photo opportunity! We have also been venturing inside the chicken coop to collect eggs, feed the chickens and, if we are lucky, to have a pat.

Switch and sensory activities are another favoured activity. We have enjoyed feeling the different textures of some messy sensory play, including, shaving cream and Goop. We have also been practising eye gaze with bright lights and using our hands (or heads) to activate a variety of different switches and switch activated toys.

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Tables at TallowoodEvery Tuesday from 2.00pm to 2.40pm the senior students at Tallowood School run a Café which is open to the public. They prepare fresh food, both savoury and sweet, for sale. The menu changes each week.

Savoury items are $4 each and sweets are $2.

They also make coffee and hot chocolate, milkshakes and sell soft drinks.

Parents and friends are welcome to attendOur week 5, Tuesday 12 November, treats are: Curried Sausage Stew and White Chocolate Caramel Slice

Our week 6, Tuesday 19 November treats are: Three Cheese Bolognese Pasta Bake and Caramel Coconut Macaroon Slice

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Join us in celebrating International Day of People with Disability.

Date: Wednesday, 4th December, 2019

Time: 10am - 1pmLocation: Blacktown Showground, Entry via Richmond Road

We recognise the achievements and contributions of people with disability through a fun filled event with live entertainment and activities like art in the park, silent disco and much, much more!

For information and to RSVP, contact Customer Connections on 1300 372 121 or email customerconnections@dsa.org.au

Picnic in the Park 2019

Free BBQSports

Vision boardSensory activities

Live music

CELEBRATING 15

YEARS

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NEW EDITION AVAILABLE NOW

DIGITAL CHILD SAFETY HANDBOOK We are pleased to advise that a new edition of this valuable safety resource is now valuable online with updated safety content.

We urge all parents and carers to download this latest edition and discuss the safety content with your children.

Child Safety Handbook App available for download:

Read the Child Safety Handbook at: https://issuu.com/associatedmediagroup/docs/cshb_2019_second-

edition_digital?fr=sY2MzNzMyNzE1OQ

Visit the Child Safety Hub

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