Student News

Festival on the Lawn

Due to the inclement weather this year, unfortunately we were unable to run our outdoor community arts event that is Festival On The Lawn.

What we have done instead is record and video all our performances. There is also a visual art exhibition in the ALC.

Below is where you can find the link to watch the videos.

Music Class Performances Including Foundation and Staff Song , Drama and Dance Productions.

TPS Music Website - homepage

Drama

The lead up to the Festival on the Lawn for the drama students was filled with creativity and plenty of practice. 

The five drama classes, each selected a song that they would act out. Then came the fun as the students and I collaborated on creating the performances you see can watch via the links below. 

I'm very proud of what they have produced. 

It is also a bitter sweet time as I farewell the grade 6 drama students. It has been a real pleasure to see them develop their drama skills over the years (some since Grade 1!). They will be missed in our drama family. Raewyn MCMahon (Drama teacher)

Grade 6 Drama feedback:

Hi, I'm Abigail and I have really enjoyed my years in drama. I chose to do a drama performance to the song 9 to 5. It was really fun but it was hard to remember. It was kind of awkward but otherwise it was really fun. It was sad that we could not perform it in front of the school but we still got to record it. It was kind of relieving to not have to perform it though because it was hard to remember but I think I was getting it. I have done multiple performances over the years and they were all really fun and if you are a parent who has kids I recommend signing up your kids for drama if they want to.

There are many differences in plays and dances. Plays are fun to remember because the song might change over every paragraph. Both are really fun but can be really hard to remember depending on what it is.

by Abigail V

Hi this is Max and Jon. This year in drama we did a great performance for a festival on the lawn but sadly it was cancelled so we had to do a recording of all stars by smash mouth. It was really fun. I really recommend doing drama. For the first two terms we do plays and then for the other two we do dances.  

by Max & Jon

Visual Art Exhibition

Term 4 Instrumental Concert

Twice a year The TPS Music Department holds an instrumental concert for extra curricular instrumental students. These concerts are used to showcase the work students have accomplished in instrumental lessons with their instrumental teachers.

The End of year instrumental concert took place on Thursday 7th December in the gym. It was a huge success with many great performances. Congratulations to those who took part. 

If you are interested in your child being a part of the thriving TPS music instrumental program in 2024, either visit TPS Music website - Instrumental page where you can find information about the program, bios on our teachers and a link to the instrumental form, or grab a form from outside the music room or the front office. I will also hand out forms at the start of next year.

Term 4 Assembly performers

In term 4 we had a music performance at every assembly on Friday afternoons. Here are all the students and bands that performed.

 Junior School Council Workshop

I’m Aleena Khan and I am a Junior School Council representative. During the past few weeks we were invited by Sarah and Michelle as part of the Baw Baw Latrobe LLEN to join them in youth leadership workshops with Trafalgar High School student leaders. 

On the 22nd of November we had our first meeting. In our first workshop experience we first started off with a game of giant rock paper scissors to get our brains ready for the next activity. After we sat down they gave us a couple of sheets of paper we had to draw our superhero. Then we wrote about a day in our superhero’s life. It was fun. 

After we had finished, we got another piece of paper which had 24 different values on it. You had to choose your top five most important values. Afterwards we had to go around the room and see if other people had the same values as us. Then we had to go sit down on the table with the people who wrote down the same values. The people who we sat down with formed a new group. It was now morning tea time. Morning tea was delicious. We got popcorn, fruit and a bottle of water. We could also go outside and play.

 After morning tea we got started on our next focus. This was different: we got a marshmallow, spaghetti and bluetack. Our next challenge was to make a tower out of the spaghetti but we had to have the marshmallow on top. Then we got some butcher's paper to write down issues affecting youth in our community and how we might solve it. Now it was lunch time, for lunch there was party pies, sausage rolls, sandwiches and chocolate slices. 

We got back in our groups and we had to write a question and Sara and Michell asked us to go home and make a survey and ask the community. Finally it was time to walk back to school. The first workshop was great. I couldn’t wait for us to do it again.

by Aleena Khan

I’m Sienna Giles and I am also a Junior School Council representative. The next time we went  was on the 6th of December. First we did the giant rock paper scissors again. After that we sat at our group tables. 

We looked at our previous work and added any data that we collected to our question. In our group we then came up with 100 ideas on how we could solve our problem. We narrowed it down to 3 suitable solutions. The other groups also got to write ideas on our problem. We then chose 1 idea and turned it into an advertisement. As a brain break we played a game where we got on a bus and then had to choose which side we got off depending on the question that was posed. 

For example; water or fire, pizza or pasta, camping or the beach. 

At the end of the day we rehearsed our advertisements and then performed them to the group. Sarah and Michelle are going to use all the information from the sessions to write a report to the Trafalgar Community using our ideas on how we can improve our community through the lens of our youth.

by Seinna Giles

Times Tables Challenge

This year a times table challenge was given to Mrs McMahon's maths students. There were 3 levels and the students had to be able to multiply and divide at each level. 

Bronze Level - 2x, 4x, 5x and 10x

Silver- 3x, 6x, 8x, 11x

Gold 7x, 9x, 12x and random

Bronze level recipients 

- I Bennett

- N Bennett

- D Gorton

- I Bennett 

- D Matthews

Silver level recipients 

- D Plavins

- H Mathrau

Gold level recipients 

- H Cochrane 

- L Fischer

Grade 5/6 Solar System Projects

Principal Awards

Foundation Awards

Aubrey Conroy

Aveer Matharu

Axl Garo

Emma Schrader

Esther Mccormack

Hannah Johnstone

Hendrix Ally

Kallum Salt

Oliver Bobe

Oliver Robb

Patrick Griffin

Rachel Bannister

Rhys Mynard

Zeke Gould

Congratulations to our highest achieving Foundation student, Hendrix Ally

Year 1 Awards

Darcy Rankin

Edward Cheatley

Eloise Griffin

Georgina Fowler

Gracie Gerlach

Harvey Hawkes

Isabella Cook

Kody Byrne

Kody Dawson

Millie Foster

Peyton Hines

River Rantall

Rowan Blake

Thomas Townsend

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 1 student Rowan Blake

Year 2 Awards

Binh An Nguyen

Connor Mcintosh

Harriet Kolody

Hunter Barnes

Isabella De Haas

Lachlan Austin

Mack Pratt

Margaret Townsend

Oliver Paynter

Paige Mynard

Quinn Rudy

Thanish Paridi

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 2 students Paige Mynard and Margaret Townsend

Year 3 Awards

Adelyn Hobson

Elizabeth Blake

Havana Brown

Ivy Lynch

Judd Edwards

Lola Bannister

Mabel Brain

Myah Wyatt

Mykenzi Anderson

Phoebe Barnes

Yasmine Mynard

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 3 students Judd Edwards and Elizabeth Blake

Year 4 Awards

Alexis Pratt

 Audrey Cheatley

 Aurora Coffey

 Elisha Ijiyera

 Ella Speed

 Ellie Nunn

 Imogen Radic

 James Bryant

 Jaxon Barnes

 Macy Hearne

 Mohammed Shareef

 Oliver Hill

 Scarlett Van Dyk

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 4 student James Bryant

Year 5 Awards

Abel Lynch-Berend

 Aleena Khan

 Evan Speed

 Hannah Kolody

 Holly Dove

 Indianna Bentley

 John Smith - Heizer

 Olivia Schrader

 Sefton Brain

 Sienna Giles

 Skyla Embleton

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 5 student Hannah Kolody

Year 6 Awards

Abigail Vandersteen

 Addisson Harbour

 Charli Ashworth

 Jason Pilch

 Naite Aplin-Perry

 Oscar Hoiles

 Otis Stretch

 Phoebe Absolom

 Reid Barnes

 Riley Taylor-Bowman

Congratulations to our highest achieving Year 6 student Addison Harbour

GPA Perfect 4 Awards

Foundation Awards

Alyssa Wiemann

Aubrey Conroy

Emma Schrader

Esther Mccormack

Hendrix Ally

Jayden Mann

Peyton White

Rachel Bannister

Rhys Mynard

Sienna Jenkins

Zeke Gould

Year 1 Awards

Amarlie Hanley

Darcy Rankin

Eloise Griffin

Ethan Mcintosh

Isabella Cook

Liam Nash

Lily Potter

Nina Boschin

Peyton Hines

Violet Brincat

Year 2 Awards

Binh An Nguyen

Connor Mcintosh

Elise Dart

Harriet Kolody

Oliver O'Donnell

Remi Jennings

Thanish Paridi

Thanishka Paridi

Year 3 Awards

Adelyn Hobson

Dakoda Mcphail

Eliza Jacovou

Elizabeth Blake

Ellyra Jennings

Georgia Jacovou

Grace Donald

Havana Brown

Heidi Davis

Ivy Lynch

Kaylee Mcgrady

Lola Bannister

Mabel Brain

Myah Wyatt

Phoebe Barnes

Sophie Malady

Yasmine Mynard

Year 4 Awards

Alexis Pratt

Amelie Brown

Aurora Coffey

Ellie Nunn

Harleen Matharu

Illythia Malcolm

James Bryant

Lennox Jennings

Macy Hearne

Maddison Beagley

Milly Mckinnon

Penelope Brownbill

Phoebe Jenkins

Scarlett Van Dyk

Trinity Barry

Zahlee Gunn

Year 5 Awards

Aleena Khan

Bella De Malmanche

Hannah Kolody

Hannah Payze

Holly Dove

Indianna Bentley

John Smith - Heizer

Michael Zelley

Sienna Giles

Zahli Byrne

Year 6 Awards

Montana Reid

Alena Stoneman

Addisson Harbour

Liam Knight

GPA Silver Awards

Abigail Vandersteen

Alena Stoneman 

Phoebe Absolom 

Zahli Byrn

Perpetual House Trophy

Our 2023 House winner, for the second year in a row, with a total of 102,000 points is Uralla!

Student Leaders 2024

School Captains:

Hannah Kolody

Holly Dove

Sienna Giles

Indi Bentley

HOUSE  CAPTAINS

Balfour House Captains

Riley Fallon

Charlie Franke

 Uralla House Captains

 Amelia McIntosh

Griffin Hoiles

Davey House Captains

John Smith

Lachlan Van Boven

McGregor House Captains

Siena Arthur

Bella De Malmanche

Technology Captain

Hamish Baker

Sports Captains

Evan Speed

Skyla Embelton

Performing Arts Captains

Aleena Khan

Jon Vandersteen

Visual Arts Captains 

Daniel Zelenewicz

Olivia Schrader

Environmental Captains

Poppy Brown

Misha Reid

Abel Lynch Berends

Isaac Hardman

Isaac Telford

Emily Dickinson

Ryan Ross

Alarni Tilgner Smedley

Zahli Byrne

Bonnie Radford

Elf Trap Project - LA7

We have been doing our Elf traps everyday after lunch this week. It's a way to unleash our creativity and have some fun. We had to bring in some scrap stuff like plastic bottles,ornaments,bubble wrap,bells and lots of other amazing stuff.I hope we all catch an Elf!i

by M Hearne and P Brownbill

On Monday the 4th December, the Grade 3/4 unit started a how to catch an elf project. We had to bring materials from home to make a good elf trap. I hope to catch an elf. It has been really fun. 

by L Bannister and H Fanning. 

This week LA7 has been making an elf trap. First we did some planning, and drew out our design. After that we got to the building stage. We could use fabric, plastic straws and cardboard boxes and much more. That’s how we have been making our elf traps. It’s been really fun. 

by S Malady and A Merrigan. 

Art Awards

Golf Clinics

Colour Run Fundraiser Winners

Congratulations to all students who raised funds for the school through the Colour Run.  Our school raised $17,879.30  of which we will receive about $10,000.  FAntastic effort.

The highest fundraisers from each class when into a draw at assembly today.  Congratulation to the lucky winner .......... Porscha Lee.