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Homelessness week community dinner

A big congratulations to our student leaders for their amazing contribution to Wyndham Council’s homelessness week dinner held on Wednesday 7 August  at Arndell Park Community Centre.

Our students did a fantastic job helping pack bags, write messages of hope and serve dinner. They were fantastic role models for our College and we should all be proud.

Thank you to our amazing teachers who gave up their time to support our wonderful student leaders.

Homelessness Week Donations

A big thank you to all of our students and families who donated items to our homelessness week drive.

 

The staff at Arndell Park Community were stunned with the generosity of our staff, students and families. Your donations are greatly appreciated and all of you should be extremely proud of the efforts you made to help those in need! 

STEM

R.E.A.L Robotics

Last week the Tarneit Robo Titans competed against 22 other schools and took out the major award and were the First Lego League grand champions for the day.

Sosakmak 5RM  -  Sahil 5RM  -  Zainab 5JH  -  Chris 5JH  -  Riley 5AN  -  Jye 5AN  -  Ruby 5AN  -  Tahlia 6RP  -  Oliver 6RP  -  Sharzil 6BT

Riley:

So on the TRT’s previous excursion we won the overall award ( The champions award) by scoring the most points in the overall 4 parts which were robot games, robot design, core values and research project. When they announced that we had WON we were all so psyched that it was us that were the victors overall for that competition. We also felt really proud of each other for what we had accomplished because we all had a say and we all took part in at least one of the different parts that we did! GO TRT! 😁

 

Sahi:

In every robotics excursion we go to we improve more and more. In the research project the judges thought it was a great idea. They told us that we should probably make a prototype and then show the people at NASA. I think that we had got most of the points from the research project. In the robot design we had to show what we had made for the robot. We had made a claw and a hammer. The claw could do 7 different missions and the Hammer could do 1 or 2 of the missions. In the core values part we had to show the judges our poster that we had made back at school. In the poster we had different topics we what we had problems with. In the robot games we had different missions that we had to complete by coding the robot the brick. By brick I mean on the robot. At the end of the day we couldn’t believe that we won the champions award. The champions award was the overall win. There is only one thing to say, go TRT ( Tarneit Robo Titans).

SRC Report

Message from our student leaders:

It has been a busy start to Term 3 for the SRC. We have successfully collected a massive amount of donations for the homeless within the Tarneit and Truganina community. The SRC would like to thank the Alpine students for organising this fundraiser for us.

On Friday 2 August the SRC ran the Jeans for Genes day fundraiser to raise money for kids with genetic illnesses. It was great to see so many teachers and students in their jeans supporting us, we raised a massive $1109.40. Thank you for your support.

SRC reps have been working hard to collect feedback from their classmates about what they would like to see in our college. Ms Spencer took these away and joined our meeting to inform us that there will be a new undercover outdoor sports space, she had ordered 5 bins to go around the school to reduce rubbish and we have prompted teachers to think about lunchtime clubs and how they are running.

A select number of students worked really hard to thank our principals by making cards and sending out messages over the loud speaker on World Principals Day.

 

Message from the Student Leadership Coordinators:

This term the SRC will be having a focus on what makes a successful student leader and running workshops around this. We have had student leaders attend meetings with the teachers to get feedback and suggestions for new initiatives involving students in our college. A big thank you to our student leaders for working so hard and being amazing role models and displaying all 4 of our school values.

Ms Harris, Ms Keating, Mr Page.

 

Coming Up:

  • STEM Night: Tuesday 3  September  (SRC will be involved in running activities and helping the night run smoothly)

Werribee Zoo

In week 5 our Prep Students went to the Werribee Open Range Zoo. They saw lots of animals and investigated their habitats. Our Prep students really enjoyed their first excursion and have lots of wonderful ideas as they begin to create a habitat for a chosen animal in Investigations.

Royal Melbourne Show

The Arts team would like to thank the 22 students who expressed interest in the Royal Melbourne Show art competition this year, the 13 students who submitted work to be entered and congratulations to 6 students whose work has been successful and will be exhibited during the September school holidays at the Royal Melbourne Show.

We will know how successful these 6 students are in the last week of the term. Stay tuned.

A special mention to these students who artwork will be on display at our Spring showcase in Term 4.

Lam 7A, Shi 5J, Evalyn 5E, Devshree 3K, Parekh 3NG, Pooja 4MM, Yash 2B

The House That Charlie Built

Students who participate in the Life Skills program had a very exciting day on Tuesday 20 August when a very special visitor, Charlie came to Tarneit P-9 College. Charlie talked about sustainability and the environment. The students had to come up and choose what rubbish goes in the right bin. Guess what they always choose first, "NAPPIES"!!!!

Betty Amsden Youth Scholarship

The annual Betty Amsden Youth Scholarship Course is a five-day course in developmental drama for students aged 14 to 16.  Students are guided through processes of performance- making and encouraged to extend their expressive skills, learning how to contribute as a member of an ensemble. 

Students are nominated by a teacher at their school, with only one nomination accepted per school. The selection panel, comprising MTC Education staff and the course teaching artists, selects 25 students. 

This year we nominated Darius in Year 9 for consideration. We are very proud to inform you all that Darius has been accepted. He is the 3rd Tarneit P-9 College student who has been accepted in as many years.