Thank you, on behalf of all the TIME teachers to all the incredible musicians who performed on Saturday at the Arts Festival!

And a big thanks to all their amazing parents who supported them on the lead up and on the day! What enormous success it was, an unforgettable event, and every child who performed should be immensely proud of themselves!

From Erica and Antionette:

A massive thank you to everyone who came and celebrated the arts at TPS on Saturday!

A very special thank you to Di Thornley, who has been instrumental in getting the Arts Festival up and running! Di once again has passionately led all the design and artwork, coordinated the initial volunteer and job list, known what needs to be done and spent much time in our festival meetings coming up with ideas and to do lists. Thank you for the last five years for your passion and vision!!!

A MASSIVE THANK YOU ALSO TO:

David Letch, who single handedly resourced and ran the sound for the outside stage from 8am to 5pm. He allowed our students to literally be heard and gave them a special balance.

Adrian Lobbo for getting so many parents on board and coordinating the Activities Stalls, the wash up station, the set up and pack down and SO many other bits and bobs. Adrian, you are unstoppable!

Colin Liddle for the incredible work with all the stall marques and trestle tables set up and then packed down, communicating with stall holders and knowing what was where. What a mammoth job.

Kristie, Jasmine and Shirley who worked with the Festival Committee to problem solve hiccups and set up systems to make things run smoothly before, and on the day, including all money and first aid.

A big thank you to Kelly and Jemma for sourcing and putting the raffle hamper together.

To our food stall holder reps for doing all the logistics of food sourcing, roster coordinating and bringing it all together!

Heather Brady	Lexi McDonald	Max Wheeler	Siew-Lian Spitz
Cass Cassillas-Smith	Ali Gratian	Hannah Mancor	Katrina Forstner
Amanda Stevens	Celeste Grant	Joanna Francis	Kerstin Steger
Hannah Mancor	Megan Johnson	Lizzy Skinner	Adam Walsh
Yaz Ash

All our community members who helped out in a stall and around the festival - so much joy seeing everyone working together.

Kirsty Letts for coming to help out with the 5/6 Music Classes in the weeks leading up to the festival and then played bass with them on the day.

All the teachers who helped set up the displays and get the school ready for our big day and to those who helped wrangle their class, ready to perform on the day. It was such a beautiful way for our school community to come together to celebrate the arts.

The Arts Festival committee who have worked throughout the year to get this all going!!

Antoinette Vaiano	Di Thornley	Yaz Ash
Jemma Rossel	Adrian Lobo	Erica Pringle

The T.I.M.E team:

Finley Francois	Caitlyn French	Justin Fermino
Liam Gerner	Emma Tonkin	Matt Shears
Phil McLeod	Maria Moles	Charlie Woods

It was also so lovely to see so many past students come back and say hello to their old teachers and friends.

Finally, an extra special thanks to our lovely and dedicated TPS students that came up with concepts for their stalls and ran with them on the day. So many entrepreneurial ideas that they followed through with. Well done!

Some Students thoughts:

"I think the Arts Festival is special because families get together to see their children perform and look at their artworks on display." Willa 5/6

"Something I thought was magical about the arts festival was the music and all the people came to watch us perform and then we got to see our artworks on display." Poppy 5/6

"I loved the student run transformations stall, and all the homemade cakes that were so yummy. I also loved the weaving and hope there will be a festival again next year." Maddy 5/6

"The arts festival was awesome this year! I bought a plant that turns into a rose and my mum helped out at the BBQ. The performances were great and there were so many interesting stands run by students." Matilda 5/6

"I loved hanging out with my friends during the arts festival and also performing on stage. I loved going around with my friends eating different foods and looking at the artworks with them." Nirvana 5/6

"At the arts festival I helped run the shaved ice stall and it was so much fun! The food was great and the music was better." Astor 5/6

"My favourite thing I saw at the festival was Pepi and Archer’s performance of Super Mario on piano and drums." Sid 3/4

"I liked running the origami stall." Henry 3/4

"I enjoyed running the stall – Guess The Taste." Wolfie 3/4

"I enjoyed watching my sister doing her performance." Margot 3/4

"The person who was playing Pirates of The Caribbean was amazing!" Yossi 3/4

"It was nice showing my family my Art." Ada 3/4

"I loved the Burrito stall, it was my favourite food." Charlie 1/2

"My favourite part was the fairy floss as we have never had that before." 1/2

"I really enjoyed the cheese toastie." Arik 1/2

"I helped in the toastie stall and it was so cool to make the sandwich with all the filling and put it in the sandwich press." Frank 1/2

"I played the ukulele with my group and Liam is so funny and he is a great listener.

I loved the Community Jam." Charlie 1/2

As has already been mentioned this will be the last Arts Festival that Antoinette will be coordinating. She is both very excited to see what the community will be doing going forward.

Regards,

Erica and Antoinette

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

A big thank you to all the business and community for contributing to the TPS Arts Festival Raffle!

We would like to make a special mention to the following businesses which donated items or vouchers to the raffle!

Kiozwi	Bespoke Wines & Spirits	Carwyn Cellars
Manuki Hairdressing	Primary Colours Art School	Deans Art
Maton Guitars	Fairyfields	Elk
Nancybird	Byron Bay Cookie Co	Melbourne Museum

Also a big thank you to the following businesses that donated to our cake stall!

All Are Welcome	Publique Bakery	Billy Cart Bakery
Ice Cream Social	Loafer

Thank you!!

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