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PE/Sport Update

Trafalgar Bowls Their Way to 3rd at Regionals! 🥉

Congratulations to our Trafalgar Primary School Lawn Bowls team, who represented the school proudly at the Gippsland Regional Lawn Bowls competition on Friday 24 October at the Traralgon Bowls Club.

After a weather-related reschedule, our students showed great adaptability, teamwork, and composure on the green. Competing against the best schools from across the Gippsland region, the team performed superbly throughout the day—earning a 3rd place finish overall!

This is a fantastic achievement and a testament to the group’s sportsmanship, focus, and positive attitude. Congratulations to all team members for their excellent effort and for continuing to showcase Trafalgar’s commitment to participation, teamwork, and respect in school sport.

Music Room Chronicles: Festival on the Lawn 

Excitement is building for this year’s Festival on the Lawn - Friday 5th December. 

The students are practicing hard on their chosen instruments, and the class songs are starting to sound great in music class. 

The Art, Drama and Dance depts are also busy preparing for the day.

Many vendors including: Lions Club BBQ, Big Bear Donuts, Twistie Potatoes, Wheelie Good Pizzas, Oz Whip gelato van, Mr Whippy soft service icecreams, a coffee van, Neirbo Eats grilled cheese toastie van, and Gippsland Jersey are all locked in and will be there on the day.

We're all really looking forward to it!

Stay tuned for more updates.

Ricky Allan 

Specialist Music teacher and Music Coordinator

Grades 4 and 5 - Tower Building Challenge

The grade 5s have been learning all about how things are built around the world. Last week, they learned about how skyscrapers are built. They tested some of their knowledge by trying the Tower Building Challenge. They worked in groups and had 20 minutes to build the tallest, strongest tower they could that could hold a can of beans for at least 60 seconds without falling over or collapsing. The towers they built were fabulous and many of them completed the challenge really well!!! Take a look at some of the towers they built.

Lunchtime Clubs Launch into Action!

In Term 4, Week 2, we kicked off our new schedule of lunchtime clubs whilst continuing to offer our popular ongoing activities in STEM, Music, and the Library.

So far, our clubs have been a great success! We’ve had more than 25 students attending both Craft and Connect on Mondays and Lego Fun Club on Wednesdays. Book Club launched with When the Crayons Quit, where students enjoyed listening to the story, engaging in discussion, and completing a related colouring activity.

This week, we added a fun Halloween theme to our Craft and Book Clubs — lots of creativity and laughter all around!

To help these clubs continue, we’d greatly appreciate any donations of craft supplies or spare Lego/Duplo that families may have at home. 

If you’re able to contribute, please contact me at emma.semaan@education.vic.gov.au to arrange drop-off or collection.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Emma

SEL Leader

💫TPS Assembly Awards 💫

                                     🌟 CHAMPIONS ACROSS THE BOARD! 🌟 

What an incredible group of students we had to celebrate at assembly!

Artists of the Month go to wonderfully creative students who have shown outstanding artistic talent and imagination. Your creativity brightens our school!

Our Most Valuable Players have demonstrated exceptional sportsmanship, teamwork, and dedication on the field. You make us so proud with your positive attitude and effort!

Amelie and Roy proudly showing off our frisbee Silver Success from the Ultimate Frisbee State Championships! 🥈🥏

Congratulations to our GPA Award recipients who have worked so hard in their studies. Your dedication to learning and academic excellence is truly inspiring!

And a huge round of applause for our Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge achiever, Carter McKenzie! Thank you for showing us all the joy of getting lost in a good book!

Keep up the amazing work everyone! You are all superstars! ⭐

Breakfast Club

It has been wonderful to welcome students and families back to Breakfast Club this term!  We have had so many students visit us in the mornings for delicious toasties, cereals and hot milos to help kick start their learning day.  We are so thankful for the many generous food donations provided by the community and from our sponsors - Foodbank, IGA Trafalgar, Bakers Delight Mid Valley and Gracie’s Bakery.

Due to these donations, Breakfast Club continues to be able to support families through the provision of Care Packages.  We remind families that our Traf Pantry can be found in the Gym Foyer and continues to be stocked with many excellent products, available to anyone - and they’re free!  If you would like to receive a Care Package or know of a family who may benefit, feel free to drop into our School Office, or see Mrs Marslen.

Donations of Milo needed, please!

Thank you again to all families who have generously donated tins of Milo to our Breakfast Club.  Any extra donations of Milo would be greatly appreciated to support our school community!  

Get ready for Friday treats! Cool down with delicious icy poles available every Friday at lunchtime for only $1.

Looking forward to seeing you for brekky!

Mrs Marslen

Breakfast Club Masterchef