Principal's Message 

Dear TCPS Families,

Please be reminded of the return of our 'Open Learning Neighbourhoods' on Thursday next week (8:30am-9am) We are looking forward to once again being able to welcome our families back into our Learning Neighbourhoods where your children will be excited to share with you their learning. The focus of this particular event will be Inquiry for the term, and Writing. 

Children will also be able to share a celebration of their Specialist subjects via their iPads.

TCPS: School Council 

As we start the year with our new School Council, all of us at TCPS would like to thank Sophie Young for being such a supportive member of our School Council . 

The newly elected TCPS Council will have its first meeting next on Thursday, 30th March at 5:30pm.

The meeting will first commence with the Annual Public Reporting Meeting, where the Annual Report will be tabled. 

Parents of our school community are able to attend the Annual Public Reporting Meeting for the tabling of the Annual Report. Please contact our school office if you would like to receive the invite link.

Once approved by School Council, this will be made available electronically to the School Community.

2023 School Council Members:

• Kelsey Jamieson – Parent Rep
• Hutch Hussein – Parent Rep 
• Cat McConkey - Parent Rep
• Belinda Vaughan - Parent Rep
• Brad Millar – Parent Rep 
• Jessica Maxsted - Parent Rep

• Darren Roskosch (Principal - Executive Officer of SC)
• Jo Loader (Assistant Principal – TCPS rep)
• Bianca McSparron (Business Manager- Finance) 

Thursday 30th March: First Meeting for newly elected School Council

Last Day of Term

Please note that school finishes on Thursday 6th April at 2:10pm.

Students will eat lunch at 12:40.

Assembly will commence at 1:30pm.

Open Learning Neighbourhoods are back!

Each term parents will be invited into our Learning Neighbourhoods providing your child/ren an opportunity to share with you their current learning and just to just provide an opportunity for parents to be involved in their child's learning at school.

For the convenience of families (particularly those balancing around work commitments) each neighbourhood provides two opportunities in terms 2 - 4. 

One is a whole School 'Global' morning where all our neighbourhoods are open on the same morning and parents can move freely between each of their children. 

The other open day is a separately timetabled day so that only one neighbourhood is open at any given time. This allows parents to dedicate all their time to each child separately.

The two options are provided to in order to best suit the diverse availability of parents.

In term 1 we only have the one opportunity - the Whole School  'Global' option.

This will be on Thursday 30th March, 8:30 - 9am.  Please place this date into your diaries.

We of course understand that parents are not always able to attend due to work and other commitments

Early Pick up of Children from School

Can I please request that parents contact individual staff members as early as possible if you are collecting your child/ren prior to the end of the school day. This will help in organising for children to be sent to the office ready for collection. Based on the increasing frequency of these occurrences we are unable to use the PA system due to the distraction and disruption it causes to teaching and learning across the school. 

PA announcements occur in recess and lunch breaks.

As teachers do not have constant access to emails during the day, I encourage as much advanced notice as possible so we can do our best to have your child/ren ready and waiting for collection. Office staff will do their best to support you where possible, however with our increasing size there may be unfortunate delays especially if no advanced notice is provided.

Assembly

Assembly commences at approximately 2:20pm every Friday. All TCPS families are invited to attend. Entry via car park gym entrance.

Elements that TCPS families can contribute to our TCPS Assembly

TCPS Goes Global: Take a school flag (we have 5) or a TCPS polo on your journey's around the globe and send us a photo (3 max). I will then feature this at our assembly and have a photo added to our display wall at the front office.

TCPS Super Stars: If you know a TCPS child/teacher/family member who has achieved something amazing in any field (not just sporting) please send me the details and a possible photo so that we can all celebrate and acknowledge the achievement.

TCPS: Shout Outs: If you have a special family member visiting for the first time who are in an audience - please let me know and I will give them a special TCPS 'Shout Out.'

Education is free at TCPS - No Student Payments or School Fees in 2023

I am pleased to inform our families that once again in 2023, and for the foreseeable future, there will be NO requested payment towards Curriculum Contributions from families (previously known as student charges). This means education at TCPS is free for our TCPS families.

TCPS will provide ALL curriculum materials for our students without any requested financial contribution in the form of student charges, from our families. 

This includes ALL books/pens/pencils/paper etc, art supplies, online programs, classroom materials, sporting programs incl buses. Parents will not be requested to make any financial contribution to cover these items. 

There are a number of complex contributing factors that has enabled us to once again achieve and provide this for our families.

The ongoing support of our families has ensured that our school has been able to offer the best possible education and support for our students.  We want to thank all those over our school’s history for their support. This has made a huge difference to our school and the programs we have been able to, and will continue to offer.

Darren Roskosch

TCPS Principal