Next Week @TC

28/04/2023

• Term 1 Newsletter

• Athletics Indigenous Games Day

• TC Music Present “Living Culture”

• Attendance Processes Reminders

• Connect TV on TV!

• Term 2 Clubs

• Position Open - Student Hub Administration Support

• Staffing Changes for Term 2

• Tours of TC for Prospective Students (Currently in Year 6)

• TCNEWS - ANZAC Day Service

Term 1 Newsletter

If you have not had the opportunity to check out our term 1 newsletter it is a jam packed read - highlighting what we have been up to: TC - Newsletter, Issue 1, 2023

Athletics Indigenous Games Day

Our annual Athletics and Indigenous Games Day is on again at the Doncaster Athletics Track on Tuesday May 23 (Week 5 Term 2).  This is an important day in our community calendar and all students are expected to attend. There will be no classes and supervision at TC on the day.  Consent is now open on compass.

In addition to the full range of Athletics events, Wanyara will host a massive day of traditional Indigenous games culminating in TC sending a team to compete against other schools in the inaugural Buroinjin Cup to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the Aboriginal Advancement League in Fitzroy.

TC Music presents "LIVING CULTURE" Concerts May 16 & 17.

Two nights only! 
Doors open 6:30 for a 7:00pm start
$20.00 per person

As part of our Community Integrated Learning theme 'Living Culture', TC Music is proud to present a jam packed program of original works, reworked interpretations, and unexpected collaborations exploring the nuanced and interconnected lens of Culture. Through personal stories, research into sub-culture and counter-cultural movements, and inspiration taken from seminal artists in various genres, the many bands and ensembles will entertain, provoke thought and laughter, and reflect the diverse and multifaceted community at TC. 

Featuring a special guest performance by Wurundjeri dancers Djirri Djirri on Tues May 16 only! 

Tickets must be pre-purchased: https://www.trybooking.com/CHJMJ

ATTENDANCE PROCESSES REMINDERS

A reminder about the following processes to do with Attendance @TC:

• Student absence and reason for absence should be recorded via the Compass portal on the day of absence

• Students who are completing a VCE subject must achieve an attendance requirement of 80% or over to pass the subject

• Any students who miss a VCE class should provide a medical certificate to the school to have that attendance approved under DET guidelines

• If you believe your student was in class but has been marked absent, please contact the relevant classroom teacher to discuss

Should you have any queries regarding attendance, or if you would like further support from the school, please contact the relevant Community Team.

Yours sincerely,
Katrina Katz - Assistant Principal - Community and Wellbeing

COnnect TV on TV

Connect TV’s guest game-show collaboration with RMITV will be broadcast on Channel 31 on May 4 at 5pm! Watch Channel 31 following these instructions: https://c31.org.au/tune-in/

CLUBS for term 2

Position Open - Student Hub Administration Support

Staffing Changes for Term 2

There are a few staffing changes for the beginning of term 2. We have emailed the families of those students impacted directly.

We would like to congratulate our Assistant Principal Director of Learning Adam Cribbes on being appointed to an Acting Principal role at Thornbury High School. We are in the process of appointing a replacement for Adam in this role, and will inform the community when this is complete.

Tours of TC for Prospective Students (Currently in Year 6).

We are in peak tour season now as Year 6 students are making their choices for High school in 2024. Whilst tours of TC are nothing new to our students, due to the regular occurrence of them, if you are speaking to anyone who is looking for a tour as a year 6 family, please direct them to our website for more information.

Schools ANZAC Day Commemoration Service

Yesterday, Assistant Principal Darren, Nurse Donna and School Captains, Chloe, Finn and I attended the 32nd School ANZAC Service held at Templestowe Memorial Park and laid a wreath on behalf of our school community. This year, the service was attended by over 600 students and staff representing schools in the City of Manningham and prominent attendees included The Hon. Keith Wolahan MP (Member for Menzies), The Hon. Matthew Guy MP (Member for Bulleen), Councillor Deirdre Diamante (Mayor - City of Manningham) and Mr Brian Atherton (Past President - Templestowe RSL Sub Branch). 

Starting at noon, the ceremony began with a welcome delivered by the Rotary Club of Templestowe. Then the Deputy Mayor, Deirdre Diamante gave a response speech and an Acknowledgement of Country. Following the speeches, we all stood to sing the hymn ‘O God, Our Help In Ages Past’. After the hymn, Keith Wolahan delivered the ANZAC Address. His speech was incredibly moving and personal as he provided us with some wise words and reflected on his friend in the army who had sadly lost his life. 

After the touching speeches, representatives from all the participating schools then laid their wreaths at the foot of the monument. The structure was surrounded by four members and an armed guard of the Australian Defence Force School of Signals Catafalque Party as a sign of respect for those who have fallen. The wreath is used as a commemorative symbol to help us honour and remember those who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Provided to us by Donna the rosemary on our wreath signifies remembrance and the colour purple for mourning, spirituality and ceremony. 

After, School Captains from East Doncaster Secondary College delivered the ANZAC Requiem (see below), which was followed by the Templestowe RSL Sub-Branch reciting 'The Ode' then the playing of the last post, flag rising and a minute of silence to honour those that did not return home. The ceremony concluded with everyone standing to sing Advance Australia Fair and God Defend New Zealand, performed by the Doncaster Secondary College Wind Symphony. 

As a Captain, it was an honour to represent TC at the ANZAC Service. It was an emotional tribute to the ANZACs, recognising how their qualities of courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice continue to be relevant today. 

Thank you to the Rotary Club of Templestowe for providing the annual Schools ANZAC Day Commemoration Service.

Lest we forget. 

By Bonnie-Mai Smith 
TC Journalist

ANZAC Requiem

On this day above all days, we recall those who served in the war and who did not return to receive the grateful thanks of the nation.
We remember those who still sleep where they were left - amid the holly scrub in the valleys and the ridges of Gallipoli - on the rocky and terraced hills of Palestine - and in the fields of Flanders and France.

We remember those who lie asleep in the ground beneath the shimmering haze of the Libyan Desert - at Bardia, Derna, Tobruk - and amid the mountain passes and olive groves of Greece and Crete, and the rugged, snow-capped hills of Lebanon and Syria.
We remember those who lie buried in the rank jungle of Malaya and Burma - in New Guinea - and the Pacific.

We remember those who lie buried amid loving friends in our Motherland and in our own far North.
We remember those who lie in unknown resting places in almost every land, and those gallant men whose grave is the unending sea. Especially do we remember those who died as prisoners of war, remote from their homeland, and from the comforting presence of their next of kin.

We think of those of our women’s services who gave their lives in our own

foreign lands and at sea, and of those who proved to be, in much more than name, the sisters of our fighting men.
We recall, too, the staunch friends who fought beside our men on the first ANZAC Day - men of New Zealand who helped to create the name of ANZAC.

We recall of those who gave their lives in the Royal Navy, the British Army, the Royal Air Force, the Merchant Service and in other British and Dominion Forces.
We think of those British men and women who fell, when, for the second time in history, their nation and its kindred stood alone against the overwhelming might of an oppressor.

We think of every man and woman who in those crucial hours died so that the lights of freedom and humanity might continue to shine.
We think of those gallant men and women who died in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan and in Peacekeeping Forces assisting to defend the Commonwealth and other countries of the Free World, against a common enemy.