Next Week @ TC

• Body Mind Spirit Festival

• We are recruiting

• VCE Success Strategies Presentation for Students and Families

• Rapid Antigen Tests Available - Round 2

• From Headspace - Body Project

• TCNEWS - Valentines Day
  
  
  
  

11/2/2022

Term 1 Community integrated learning

Week 5 Term 1 – Body, Mind, Spirit Festival Feb 21-25

Exploring all things related to the body, how we think and feel, mental health, movement, and brain science.

Each term we will hold a special Community Integrated Learning themed week. During this week, students will explore aspects of this theme in their classes and during Colour Community events with the aim of building shared experiences and a strong sense of belonging and connectedness. This term, the theme will be Body, Mind and Spirit.

The images above show the plan for the week including some of the activities taking place in classes.

The week’s feature event is the Swimming Carnival on Tuesday Feb 22nd. This day will be filled with community events, live music, games, yoga, circus skills, BBQ, water slides, and of course, swimming races. It is a brilliant day and all students are expected to attend and enjoy activities that appeal to them. Next week we will send out the consent forms for the day. It is vital that parents return the forms received through Compass so that students can attend.

We are Recruiting

Here at TC we are well known for our staff development in developing high capacity leaders, for our school community, for other schools and the education system. Part of the exciting things at TC is that with a healthy turnover of staff we have a continual flow of staff with new ideas, skillsets, diverse life experiences and backgrounds adding value to our school community and our current staff mindset around challenging the status quo.

It is with this that we are pleased to be now recruiting for some key leadership roles within the school. One of our Assistant Principals, Natasha, was appointed to the role of Principal of a school in Tasmania late in term 4 of last year, and one of our current Assistant Principals Aaron has secured a very unique and exciting position for 12 months setting up a school for twice exceptional students in America. This position will commence in term 3. This means that we are recruiting two Assistant Principals, one for 12 months and one ongoing, as well as a VET co-ordinator who will co-ordinate our ever expanding VET program.

If you know anyone who would be interested in the roles below, more information can be found by clicking here.

VCE Success Strategies Presentation for TC Students and Families

In 2022, TC is taking a focus on supporting VCE students achieve their best. 'VCE Success Strategies' is a presentation delivered by Success Integrated. This is one of of multiple approaches aimed at supporting students, (and families), with VCE. Learn about strategies and practical ideas to support study and workload throughout the year.

Presentation details:
Date: WED 23 FEB
Time: 4:30 - 6pm
Venue: PAC (onsite)
Audience: VCE students and families

A TryBooking link will be made available next week.

COVIDSafe Practice: This event will be capped at 150 people to meet/comply with COVID-safe regulations/planning. In line with DET Regulations, students attending the event will not be asked about their vaccination status, but non students (adults) will need to check in and show that they are fully vaccinated.

Rapid Antigen Tests Available for Collection - Round 2

A reminder that the second round of RAT Tests are available for collection from the General Office. These can be collected by students. The intention are that these are to be used next week and the week after. We have not heard any news on whether this is a program that will be continued beyond then. We will let you know when we hear any more around this.

From Headspace - Body Project starting in March

Please find below information on the Body Project for young people being run by Headspace in Hawthorn.

Valentines Day Fundraiser

This year for Valentine's Day, a group of TC students have been raising money and awareness for Food Bank Australia! This charity is a not-for-profit, non-denominational and federated organisation operating in every state and territory in Australia. Their goal is to provide good quality food for all Australians. Food Bank works with 2,950 frontline charities and 2,890 school breakfast programs to get over 87.9 million meals out to Australians suffering from food insecurity every year.

This week on Thursday and Friday, the group of students were outside of the Hub selling Ferrero Rochers to students and staff. Donators were able to get chocolate delivered to siblings, friends, other staff members or even themselves! During classes on Valentine's Day (Monday), the chocolates will be hand-delivered with a personalised card to the recipients. Student Volunteer Archana decided to get involved in the cause because she believes "sending someone chocolate on Valentine's Day can brighten their day and we should spread love to all no matter what. Food Bank is also a great organisation with an even greater cause."

To find out more about Food Bank Australia, click here: https://www.foodbank.org.au/hunger-in-australia/who-we-are/?state=vic

Thanks to all of the organisers, volunteers and donators!

By Bonnie-Mai Smith
TC Journalist

Announcements From Previous Weeks

• Reporting of Positive RAT or PCR Test

• Email notification of positive cases at TC

• Annual Privacy Statement

• Students riding to school and bike storage

• Subject Changes for Semester 1

• Whole School Hoodies - ORDER NOW

• Student Employability Skills Program - Now Hiring

• Some key dates for Term 1

• TC Times of the Day

• Where to find TC Policies

Reporting of Positive RAT (oR PCR) Test

If your child reports a positive RAT test result, please let the school know by emailing connect@tc.vic.edu.au and follow the instruction below (this has been copied and pasted from the DET information sent to us):

“If staff or students receive a positive test result at any time, they must report this through the Department of Health system (Rapid antigen tests | Coronavirus Victoria) or via the coronavirus hotline at 1800 675 398.

Students (or their parents) must also report a positive result to their school, either through the VicEd COVID portal or by phone or written notification; this is so the school can support them, record that they will be absent while in 7-day isolation, and let the rest of the school community know there has been a positive case onsite and that they should monitor for symptoms.

All students and staff who return a positive result from a rapid antigen test should also follow the latest advice at https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/rapid-antigen-tests.

Students who report a positive result must isolate for seven days and not attend school during that period.

Where a student is a household contact of a positive case (that is, they have spent more than four hours with someone who has COVID-19 inside a house, accommodation, or care facility) they must inform the school and isolate for seven days and not attend school during that period.

Email Notifications of Positive COVID Cases to Families

A reminder that we will send an email to families that is a Department of Education template should we have positive cases on site at TC. If you receive one of these, please read it and pass on the information to your student.

Annual Privacy Statement Reminder

Annual privacy reminder for 2022

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in nine community languages: Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Gujarati, Mandarin, Somali, Sudanese, Turkish, Urdu ,Vietnamese

Students Riding to School and Bike Storage

We have two bike rack spaces for students to secure their bikes when riding to and from school. 

The first is by the Administration entrance to A Wing and the second is along the side of S Wing nearest to the Permaculture and Animals spaces. 

All students with bikes must use these designated spaces for bike storage throughout the day.

We look forward to seeing as many students as possible riding bikes to school as we all look for different ways to reduce of environmental footprint.

Subject Changes Semester 1 2022

Subject changes are now open for students to complete for semester 1. The form is located on teams via students community channel and has detailed information about what to provide to request a change. This year the process is the same for all students and the same form can be used for VCE, curriculum specified subjects or electives.

Once a request is submitted the following process happens:

1. Request reviewed by Sophie Ellis

2. If more information is needed Sophie will contact the student via teams chat for clarification, or pass onto careers for VCE subject discussions.

3. Once actioned on the database a message will be sent to the student and a Compass Chronicle completed to alert families of the change.

4. Students can then start their new class the next day when they see the change appear on Compass.

The deadline for requesting a change is next Friday the 11th of February.

Please be aware that the subject changes are not a guarantee or always possible as many subjects are now full but we will do our best to accommodate students requests. We are working through these changes as quickly as possible while making sure every student receives the correct advice and support so changes may take a few days to be completed.

Whole School Hoodies - ORDER NOW

Although we do not have a uniform TC offers hoodies available to all students to keep warm in the cooler months and a great addition to any wardrobe when you cannot decide what to wear!
Our new order is now open - closing 28th February.

https://shop.reformclothing.com/join/zf1063

Size range available to try on at the general office now!

We also have beanies to purchase from the general office for $15 - pop by any time to pick one up.

If you are having trouble logging in or see the order is 'closed' please try opening the link in a private or incognito web browser. All information on sizing is available on the website in a size chart.
Happy ordering!

If you placed an order at the end of last term, these hoodies will be arriving with us very shortly and will be handed out to students within the next few weeks.

Student Employability Skills Program - Now Hiring

Some key dates for Term 1

Below are some key dates for term 1 as shared last week.

More information will be released on these closer to the event:

• Community Integrated Learning Week - Monday 21st February - Friday 25th February

• TC Swimming Carnival for all students – Tuesday 22nd February

• VCE Success Strategy talk for students and parents - Wednesday 23rd February

• Photograph day – Thursday 10th March

• Student, parent, teacher interviews option 1 (remote option) – Wednesday 16th March

• Student, parent, teacher interviews option 2 (in person option) – Friday 25th March

• Last day of term – Friday 8th April

2022 Times of the Day

These are the same as in 2021. If you are looking for these, please follow this link.

2022 School Policies

An annual reminder that our school policies can be found on our website here. Included are the following policies:

Administration of Medication Policy

Anaphylaxis Policy

Asthma Policy

Attendance Policy

Bus Passes

Bullying Prevention Policy

Camps and Excursions Policy

Car Parking Policy

Cash Handling Policy

CCTV Policy

Child Safety Responding and Reporting Policy and Procedures

Child Safety Sandards Policy

Communication with School Staff Policy

Concerns and Complaints Policy

Confiscations Policy

Digital Learning Policy

Dress Code Policy

Drugs, Alcohol and Smoking

Duty of Care Policy

Enrolment (DET Policy)

Electronic Funds Management Policy

Equal Opportunity (and Anti-Discrimination) - Staff (DET Policy)

First Aid Policy

Health Care Needs Policy

Hire and Licence of School Facilities

Home Learning and Homework Policy

ICT Acceptable Use Agreement

Inclusion and Diversity Policy

Mature Minors Policy

Mobile Phone Policy

OHS Policy (DET Policy)

Parent Disputes Policy

Parent Payment Arrangements

Personal Property Policy

Pets in School Policy

Photographing, Filming and Recording Students Policy

Privacy Policy (DET Policy)

Private Vehicle Use (DET Policy)

Purchasing Card Policy

Restraint and Seclusion Policy (DET Policy)

Statement of Values and School Philosophy Policy

Student Assessment, Reporting and Data Policy

Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy

Sunsmart Policy

Teaching and learning resources - selecting appropriate materials (DET Policy)

Visitors Policy

Vocational Education and Training VET (DET Policy)

Volunteers Policy

Working with Animals Policy (DET Policy)

Yard Duty and Supervision Policy