Next Week @TC

05/08/2022

• Student Services Website Update

• Victorian Interschool Snowsports - students register your interest now!

• New Student Employment Jobs Available!

• Course Planning Update

• TC Leadership Positions Commencing in 2023

• TCNEWS - Student Led Recycling Program

Student Services Website update

Please click on the link below for our new-look website for the TC Student Services Team. This encompasses our four colour Community Teams, Specialist Wellbeing Services, Learning Supports, Community Integrated Learning and Careers/Pathways. The site outlines the roles of these teams and the processes for accessing support.

Victorian Interschool Snowsports - students register your interest now!

Templestowe College is now registered for the Victorian Interschool Snowsports competition to be held at Mt Buller Wednesday 24 August to Sunday 28 August.  

The event schedule can be found here:
2022 VIC IS Draft Summary Schedule.xlsx (revolutionise.com.au)

To compete, you will need to be:

• An intermediate/advanced skier/snowboarder.  There is a race for GS, Cross and slopestyle (jumping) for ski and snowboard; and a mogul event for skiers; 7 races in total

  • You do not need to compete in all events

  • Registration for the cross country ski event is now closed, sorry.

• Able to make your own way to Mt. Buller for your events; and have accommodation if required

• Have a snow ID, which you can get by going to snowracer.com.au, takes less than 5 minutes

• Able to cover your race entry fee $64 per race and lift ticket cost $57 for 1 day, discounts for multiple days

Event rules and other information about the event can be found here:
Policies & Important Documents - Snow Australia Interschools

If you wish to compete, please e-mail me with your snow ID and the events you want to compete at: lem0001@vic.tc.edu.au on or before Thursday 11 August.  Registration closes on 12 August.

The Student Employability Skills Program is Now recruiting

2023 Course Planning Update

We have now completed another step for the course planning process for 2023. The next step is the course counselling meeting between students, connect mentors and parents to agree on the 2023 subjects.

TC Leadership Positions commencing in 2023

We have now started the recruitment process for our staff for 2023. The first stage of this focuses on the Leadership of the school. If you know of someone who would be interested in any of the roles or who would be a great fit for TC, please let them know that more information can be found on our website.

Student-Led Recycling Program

Since the start of the year, our TC school captains have participated in some amazing opportunities. In February, Maiya McClean was involved in TC's school review that occurs every four years and fellow captains Madeleine Ng and Kyra Teichtahl recently visited Parliament House with other School Captains from the Eastern Region. As part of school captaincy at TC, each of our captains have their own legacy projects. For Maiya's project, she's chosen to focus on sustainability and environmental education by developing a recycling program! 

Here, I asked Maiya a few questions about her school captaincy and legacy project. Read on.

Could you tell me about your role as a school captain?

Maiya: As School Captain, my role includes supporting my fellow students in collaborating and making plans to benefit TC, both as a school and community. I aim to facilitate discussions between students and staff to help new ideas for TC come to life! 
I participate in multiple weekly leadership meetings that revolve around whole-school activities, community announcements, student meetings, fundraiser ideas and the creation of each school captain's legacy project. 

What are legacy projects at TC?

Maiya: Kyra, Madie and I are the first School Captains to try and build ongoing projects and events that will continue after our year of leadership. This vision, created with the help of Sally Holloway, aims to make the School Captain role worthwhile by sparking inspiration in leaders and strengthening student collaboration.

What is your legacy project about?

Maiya: I've chosen my legacy to be based on sustainability within the school, and I'm currently in the process of creating a recycling program! I have many goals for this project so my intention is to stay connected to its development even after I graduate at the end of this year. As the definition of legacy suggests, I hope the projects that myself and my fellow School Captains are developing, stay a part of TC's community for years to come.

Why did you choose sustainability and environmental education as your legacy project?

Maiya: For years now I have been passionate about environmental education and action, and have worked hard to be in leadership roles to help spread awareness of our rapidly changing climate. I hope to encourage students to get inspired and learn how they can help build a more sustainable future through small changes in their daily routines.

How does your recycling program work? 

Maiya: With the help of Jeremy Carr, I've been able to find some potential companies to ship all the things we collect to be properly recycled. 
Tubs will be placed next to Jeremy's office in S-wing with labels indicating what materials go in each (they must be emptied and clean). Each month, some volunteers and I will sort through all the tubs and ship them off to companies who will recycle them for us! 
I'm running the program as a two-month trial to be able to get a clearer plan on which companies we'll be utilising the most! 
Make sure to drop off your items between August and October.

How can the TC community participate?

Maiya: Simply set up a small shoe-sized box somewhere in your home and start collecting things like bread tags, bottle caps and drop them off whenever it suits you. 

Donatable items include:
Household:

• Writing pens, highlighters, biros and markers

• Empty correction fluid and tape

• Plastic bottle top lids

• Plastic bread tags

• Single-use cutlery and straws

• Prescription drug packaging (blister packs)

• Filters

• Party supplies

• Coffee pods

Beauty:

• Toothpaste tubes, floss containers and old plastic toothbrushes

• Electric toothbrush heads

• Medical ointment tubes

• Hair gel tubes and caps

• Lib balm tubes

• Face soap dispensers and tubes

• Lotion bottles, tubes, dispensers and jars

• Shaving foam tubes (no cans)

• Plastic razors and blades

• Lip gloss tubes

• Mascara tubes

• Eyeliner pencils and cases

• Eyeshadow tubes

• Concealer tubes and sticks

• Medical blister packs

What are your aims and goals for the project?

Maiya: I have many short and long-term goals set for this project but I'm currently just focused on getting it up and running! I do, however, hope to make it as simple as possible so it can continue after I graduate. 
I aim to find companies we can rely on to recycle all the items we collect, and hopefully inspire students and future leaders to further develop the project in more sustainable ways. 
I'd absolutely love to one day have the items we recycle be exchanged for donations to a fundraiser, such as providing refugees with funding to purchase sustainable items for their new homes.
If you'd like to become a monthly volunteer or have any questions about the program, please contact Maiya McLean at mcl0015@tc.vic.edu.au

Stay tuned for more updates about the program. Let's start recycling!

By Bonnie-Mai Smith 
TC Journalist

Last Weeks Announcements

• Course Planning for 2023 and Onwards Has Started

• Laptop Donations

• Elevate Education Webinar

Course Planning for 2023 and Onwards Has Started

Our course planning process for 2023 onwards has started! Thank you to all who took the opportunity on Wednesday at our Subject Expo to find out more information on what our subjects involve.

The checklist below will be used each week to help you know some of the key dates coming up. For more information, go to our course planning website, www.subjects.tc.vic.edu.au

LAPTOP DONATIONS

‘Do you have any unwanted laptops or laptop chargers, in working condition, taking up space in your house? TC will happily take them off your hands. Our IT department will wipe all your information from the laptop, and repurpose it for one of our students? Please hand your unwanted laptops and laptop chargers into TC’s IT department in the HUB.

Elevate Education Webinar

RE: Upcoming Webinar for Parents - How to Help Your Child's Essay Writing

We’re excited to announce that parents of our school have exclusive access to Elevate Education’s Parent Webinar Series this year. Elevate 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 to better support your children at home through reinforcing the skills they learn at school.   

Wednesday 10th August @ 6:30pm (AEST) 

How to Help Your Child’s Essay Writing 

 Here's what Elevate will be covering: 
✅ The importance of goal-setting in essay writing; 
✅ How you can provide real-time support & feedback to speed up the process of improvement; 
✅ How students can begin to self-assess their work so they can become independent writers; 

The webinar is run live online from 6:30 - 7:30pm (AEST) where the presenter will share Elevate’s key research and skills, and will conduct a live Q&A so you can ask them questions directly.

If you are unable to make the webinar, don't worry! If you sign up to attend, you'll receive the webinar recording on Thursday morning.

Should you have questions or would like to contact Elevate directly, their details are listed below.
📞 1300 667 945
✉️ aucoaching@elevateeducation.com
💻 https://get.elevatecoaching.info/au/schoolwebinar

Announcements from Previous Week

• Media Event @TC - Announcement for Potential School Funding

• Athletics and Indigenous Games

• Term 2 Newsletter Release

• Key Dates for Term 3

• COVID Safe practices for Term 3

• Parents/Carers Facebook Group

Media Event @ TC today/Announcement for Potential School Funding

Today we had The Hon. Matthew Guy MP visit TC, along with the relevant media, to make a pledge that should the Liberal Party win at the State Election, that TC will receive $15 million for a Community Sports Hub, consisting of 3 full size Basketball Courts, retractable seating, changing rooms, a Canteen, parking, and Offices, all with disability access.

The Liberal Party press release for this can be found here: https://vic.liberal.org.au/media-releases/2022-07-22-guy-students-set-to-score-with-templestowe-college-community-sports-hub?topic=

As a school we always aim to remain apolitical, and therefore only report the information in its most factual form, in line with the Department of Education guidelines. Should the Labor party wish to make a similar announcement we shall pass that information on as well to the Community in a similar way.

Peter

Tuesday August 16 Athletics and Indigenous Games Day

Almost 450 consent forms in already!!! Let's make it 1000+ for this huge festival day. Jump on Compass, check out the event description and complete consent form. 2 minutes of clicking for 7 hours of fun on the day!

As with all normal school days, we love to see TC students at school. This Athletics and Indigenous Games day is a normal school day except for the fact that we are the Athletics track in Doncaster so... get that form in and get ready for a deadly time.

Term 2 Newsletter

KEY DATES FOR TERM 3

Below are some of our key dates for next term repeated from the last next week @TC in term 2. This is not the entire list, but one which will help families to plan ahead. This is a very busy term as we spend a lot of time on the course planning process so that students are able to select their 2023 subjects after the Course Counselling Day:

• Athletics Carnival/Indigenous Games - Tue 16th August (Week 6). All students participate in his day.

• Course Counselling Day (Online) - Wed 17th August (Week 6). All day. No lessons running onsite.

• Staff Professional Practice Day & GAT Exam (all VCE Unit 3/4 and VCAL Students) - Wed 7th September (Week 9). All day. No lessons running onsite.

COVID Safe Practices for Term 3

We still have RATs available from our General Office for students to collect. We do also have masks available for those that require them.

We will be continuing to send out updates if we have any relevant positive cases. If there is not an email that day, there are no relevant cases. We continue to ask that families send any notifications of positive cases by email to connect@tc.vic.edu.au. As a school community, we will continue to use the Air Purifiers within the classroom and school environment, under the direction of the Department of Education and Training.

PARENTS/CARERS FACEBOOK GROUP

A termly reminder that we have a parents/carers Facebook group.

Promoting a safe space for parents and carers of students at Templestowe College to share information online, the group will celebrate school achievements, keep up to date with school events, and more. This page will be run by a parent group with the approval of TC.

To join please follow this link https://www.facebook.com/groups/templestowecollegeparentcarersgroup/ all members will be confirmed by a school staff member, please ensure you answer the requested questions to join.

Previous TCNEWS Articles

Events Wrap

Over the last week and a half, TC held some awesome events, specifically the TC Market, Elevate Education Presentation and the Monash Psychology Sleep Incursion. To learn more, read on. 

TC Market:

Students Edward Astill and Jack Wheeler were the minds behind last Tuesday's TC Market. As part of their community health and wellbeing project, the two choose to run a market featuring stalls, live music and food. Students and staff could grab a snag and browse the stalls run by TC students while jamming out to some tunes performed by TC's resident musos. Stalls included handmade jewellery, stickers, crochet and more! 

Elevate Education Presentation:

On Monday this week, guest speakers from Elevate Education delivered a valuable talk to our VCE students. The multi-award-winning study skills provider came to TC last semester to discuss organisation, motivation, time-management, note-taking and confidence in abilities. This semester their interactive talk focused on, utilising memory mnemonics and speeding up memorisation. This presentation was a great opportunity for students to learn more about how they can improve their performance. 

Monash Psychology Sleep Incursion:

On Wednesday and Friday this week, TC had some very exciting guests! Aligned with the Unit 4 Psychology curriculum, Monash University came and performed a practical sleep demonstration. The incursion involved a "comprehensive 1.5- hour sleep education session [that covered] the purpose of sleep, normal sleep patterns, identification of sleep stages and how these are interpreted using EEG, EOG and EMG, the effects of sleep deprivation and recovery sleep and adolescent sleep patterns". During the Wednesday session, student LJ was wired up to a portable sleep diagnostic device while the other students observed his brain waves (EEG), eye movements (EOG), heart (ECG) and muscle tone (EMG). 

Congrats to all students and staff behind the events!

Check out some of the vendors for the TC Market:

Nouche Jewellery: 
http://nouchejewellery.com/
https://www.instagram.com/nouche_jewellery/

Little Nick Nacks:
https://linktr.ee/Littlenicknacks

Elevate Education: https://au.elevateeducation.com/

Monash Sleep Program: https://www.monash.edu/turner-institute/community/vce-psychology-sleep-program

By Bonnie-Mai Smith
TC Journalist

Subject Expo

Save the date! After three years, TC's subject expo is finally back. This Wednesday, the 27th of July, expect bundles of fun and valuable information regarding subjects for 2023. The expo will be held in S-Wing (bottom of the school) from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. Information sessions will also be held in S-Wing, about the transition from Entry to the FLE program and FLE transitioning into VCE.
Sessions:
2:30 & 3:30 pm - Entry students moving into the FLE (Flexible learning environment)
3:30 & 4:30 pm - FLE moving into VCE

Each faculty area will have their own snazzy booths, featuring information about their subjects and pathways.
You can try out a wide range of delightful props in the photo booth, run by the Photography Elective students and grab a hot chocolate, coffee or a waffle from the Food Tech.
With a growing number of unique visitors to their website, Yelling at Children will be on show! The site is entirely written and edited by the Level Up: Game-Based Writing students.
If you hear a few crying babies, no need to fear it's just the Health classes Realtek babies!
Head to the Music booth to grab some freebies and don’t forget to say hi to the mudskippers, rats and lizard at the Animals stall. Student work will also be showcased in most areas and you can see examples of text books and typical class activities for all our TC subjects.

With course counselling and subject selection later in the term, it is strongly recommended the TC community attend this event. Don’t forget Student Parent Teacher Conferences are also in Week 3 & 4 with a focus on planning ahead for 2023 so the subject expo is a great opportunity to meet staff, ask questions and gain student insight into the subjects at TC.
Hope to see you all there!

By Bonnie-Mai Smith
TC Journalist

The Pat Cronin Foundation - Be Wise Presentation 🦉

Welcome back! On Wednesday, the Pat Cronin Foundation (PCF) came down to TC and talked to the FLE 2 & 3 students regarding the importance of preventing social violence, making good choices and looking after your mates. In the past PCF has come out to TC but sadly, their work was impacted by COVID, so it was great for them to see them back!

On Saturday, the 16th of April 2016 after playing his first senior footy game, Pat Cronin went out for a few quiet drinks with mates. A brawl started to build outside the pub and Pat stepped in to pull a friend away. He was then, punched in the head from behind. Sadly, Pat was taken to the hospital unconscious and two days later, passed away. After the tragic death of their son, Robyn and Matt Cronin established the PCF in hopes to raise awareness, education and research about the Coward Punch. 

Seeking education surrounding the Cowards Punch the foundation has developed a highly successful 'Be Wise presentation' which aims to "address the psychological, social and economic impacts of violent acts... It encourages students to reflect on attitudes and behaviours around anger and aggression and together discuss strategies to deal with these issues personally, and as mates and bystanders". 

Throughout the presentation, students gained an insight into Pat Cronin's story and the effects of how students can "create solutions to Be Wise, Think Carefully and Act Kindly". For presentation organiser Ryan Griffith, the talk is "so meaningful and relevant for our students. As young people become young adults it is important to consider the consequences of one’s actions and to know that we can all play a part in reducing violence in our communities".

For more info on the foundation: https://patcroninfoundation.org.au/
Check out their Instagram page for updates: https://www.instagram.com/patcroninfoundation/?hl=en

By Bonnie-Mai Smith
TC Journalist