In the community
2020 TERM DATES
Term 1 - Wednesday 29 January - Friday 27 March
Term 2 -Tuesday 14 April - Friday 26 June
Term 3 - Monday 13 July - Friday 18 September
Term 4 - Monday 5 October - Friday 18 December
NATIONAL RIDE 2 SCHOOL DAY
TPS WHOLE EVENTS CALENDAR
You can subscribe to our school calendar using the below link or by copying the address into your web browser address bar on your preferred device, this will populate and keep in sync your personal calendar with the TPS Community Calendar
webcal://thornburyps-vic.compass.education/download/sharedCalendarLayers.aspx?lid=10006&key=0d54d7c3-0717-424d-b229-c020876ded57&c.ics
or it can be access via https://thornburyps.vic.edu.au/calendar/
COMPASS
This will be our primary form of regular and important communication to parents. We aiming to move to permission forms being delivered via this platform in the future. Please ensure you are set up with an account, it can be access via mobile apps or website.
https://thornburyps-vic.compass.education
If you have not received your unique login and password, please contact the office.
Info booklet on how to use Compass can be downloaded here
THIS WEEK @ TPS
This is a short bulletin publish on Monday of events occuring during the coming 2 weeks. It also has future important dates to give advance notice. It will be delivered via compass.
FUTURE LEARNING FOCUS
This is the year level term learning plans, what your child will be learning in the coming term. It is design to help parents support the child's learning through out the term. It will be published in week 3 of each term. It will be delivered via compass.
DHUMBAJIRRI "Let's Talk Together"
This is our new newsletter, it will focus on what you child has learnt during the past weeks and other community events taking place at TPS. It will be published in week 4/8 of each term. It will be delivered via email and compass on the iNewsletter. The newsletter can be translated in many language and support rich media.
Past issues can be viewed here
The TPS Enviro Team will be meeting on Friday Feb 28th at 3.40pm in front of the tool shed in the Prep Garden to discuss what’s happening for the year.
New members and ideas are always welcome. Your commitment can be big or small. Bring a nut free snack to share for the kids.
Our next Working Bee is happening on Sat March 21st, 10am-3pm.
Keep an eye out for more information and the sign up sheet link on Compass and around the school.
The Enviro Team is a sub-committee of School Council. We oversee the development and care of the garden spaces, encourage sustainable practice across the school, support the TPS Gardening programs, and are responsible for the care of our school chickens. In recent years we have developed the Farm produce garden, the Babajen Dreaming Garden and shade sail area between the Babajen and Prep Garden, the Indigenous Weaving Garden, and Food Forest on Hutton St. side, completed a Junior Landcare project, and Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation grant project.
FoodWeb: all students participate in the FoodWeb eco-literacy gardening program during the year. In Term 1 grades 3/4 and 5/6 are taking part on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Volunteer helpers from the school community are encouraged to assist our fabulous garden educator Aviva Reed. Ask your class teacher when you can help. All volunteers must have a current Working With Children Check, and sign into the office.
Projects currently under the Enviro Team umbrella at the moment include:
- Renovating the Kitchen Garden Classroom into a useable space. This is our next big project and we’ll need lots of fundraising for it.
- Getting a new flock of chickens this Autumn
- A rubbish reduction, and organic waste recycling campaign
- The Octopus School travel program
- The care and maintenance of our newly developed native gardens and continuing planting for them
- Working Bees
If you have any interest or skills in any of the following, big or small, come along and meet us, or get in touch via tpsenviro@gmail.com
weeding, gardening, landscaping, compost making, worm farms, nature play…
irrigation, repairs...
building, plumbing, carpentry, hard landscaping, solar power…
organising, sourcing materials…
waste reduction, sustainable practice, bike facilities...
grant writing, documentation…
community get togethers / working bees…
your own idea…?
Triganin,
The TPS Enviro Team
Dear Parents & Caregivers,
Wominjeka from the Malpa - Young Doctor Program. We have been running our sessions for over four years and have named our groups the Bubup Doctors. This means ‘young child’ in the Woi Wurrung language.
Thornbury Primary School continues to take part in this project, with a small group of students across grades 3-6. I am managing this project for Thornbury PS. I am familiar to many students as both a parent at the school and community member. I will be supervising the delivery of the program with the teacher – Melanie Harrison who will deliver the weekly sessions. Melanie is an Aboriginal teacher who has been at Thornbury Primary school for over ten years.
The children will be involved in weekly activities, which are fun and focussed around 6 main topics:
Nutrition, Health Literacy, Environmental Health, Hygiene, Leadership and Emotional Wellbeing. We have weekly sessions and each fortnight we have special guests attend our sessions such as: Ambulance Victoria, the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) and Lee Couch – Wayapa.
These sessions will begin Friday the 28th of February, 20. The purpose of the activities is to help provide the students with life skills in health and wellbeing to take through their life into adulthood. We also work in a real way with community Elders, respected community members and guest speakers during the project.
Your child has been chosen as someone who may like to take part in the 15 week program. If you agree for your child to take part in the project, please fill out the permission slip below and return it to the school as soon as possible. Any questions, please contact myself or Melanie at Thornbury Primary School.
Kind Regards,
Shara Graham
MALPA Project Manager
(m) 0433 645 888
Parents & Carers Craft Group
Kii TPS community,
Welcome back for 2020! Welcome new families! We are a group of parents and carers who come together every Wednesday (just about) and have a lovely time doing some craft. Items we make are sold back to the school community during Arts Festival or other social gatherings. The money made goes back to the Arts programme at school.
Some of you might remember Toshi the turtle from our raffle item last Arts Festival. Toshi is made from felt that have been hand-dyed and lovingly stitched up natural filling. Toshi was offered up as a raffle item with a beautiful wet felted ocean/sand scene.
We are currently trying to use up scraps to make useful items, like little lavender pouches and trialling making pencil cases.
So we welcome all who’s interested in crafting and a yarn. We are in the Arts room every Wednesdays. But we ask if you can email us at tpscraftgroup@gmail.com if you like to be involved so we can keep you in the loop if plan changes for the week. Toddlers welcomed!
Craftily yours,
Bernie and Yaz
FUTURE STUDENT TOUR DATES 2020
Wednesday 11th March @ 7:45am
Pre-order your lunch order here!
UNIFORM SHOP HOURS
Open Wednesday, 8.30am-10.00am or shop online at www.psw.com.au