Week 2 Term 3 Newsletter | 1 August 2018

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Students experience the forestry industry for National Schools Tree Day

Six classes from Tenison Woods College were fortunate to participate in National Schools Trees Day, last Friday. This year, the College worked in partnership with OneFortyOne Plantations to share the important role forestry has had in shaping our Green Triangle community and learn more about the timber industry locally. Students ranging from Year 1 through to Year 8 planted approximately 3000 pine trees at the ‘Six Mile’ cell, located in close proximity to Tenison Woods College...

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From The Principal

Tenison Titans Director of Basketball and Head Coach

I am delighted to inform the Tenison Woods College community that under a new Titans Basketball Program and High Performance approach, Richard Hill will be the Director of Basketball and Tom Daly will be the Head Coach...

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CIM Team News

Regional Mass

On Wednesday August 15 we will celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast day is one of only 2 holy days of obligation on the Australian Catholic church calendar – the other being Christmas Day...

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Tip of the Week from your Deputy Principal

The Tip of the Week this week will focus on up to date parent contact details in PAM, namely parent’s emails.

Each family receives a unique PAM login at the time of enrolment, which includes a username and password. For existing families, the login details will roll over each year...

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Beyond the Role- Nathan Fleetwood

To get to know me I think it is important to understand my biggest failure, yet biggest achievement – and how this has shaped my life and bought me to where I am now.

As a child, teenager, young adult, I strived to be a professional soccer player. I had a ball at my feet wherever I went (I luckily had supportive parents who didn’t mind a broken window or two along the track)...

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Book Week 2018 at Tenison Woods College

Each year the Children’s Book Council of Australia celebrates Children’s Book Week. This is a celebration of Australian Children’s Literature and brings together schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators, parents, teachers and children. During this time the Book of the Year is also announced...

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2019 Year 8-12 Pathways Expo and Subject Selection Information Evening

The Subject Counselling process for the Middle and Senior School will begin August 7 with the 2019 Year 8 - 12 Pathways Expo and 2019 Subject Selection Information Evening...

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Hard-working Students devote their time for Charity

While most students have been spending their Saturday mornings sleeping in, playing sport, working or checking social media, a number of very committed students have been helping run the barbeque at the Rotary Market for the month of July...

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Image and Artwork Consent Form Reminder

REMINDER: All Image and Artwork consent forms are due back immediately. The form is valid for your child's entire schooling at Tenison Woods College and will therefore not need to be completed each year. 

If you have lost your form, you can download it here. Please return it to your child's homegroup teacher or to the Front Office.

 
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USA Basketball Tour Wine Fundraiser

Plans are well underway for the 2019 Titans USA Tour, with a contingent of approximately 30 students and staff set to take part in our 8th biennial tour. The group will leave Melbourne on 30 November and return on 22 December 2019, taking part in sporting and sight-seeing activities in Canada, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hawaii – it’s a once in a lifetime experience...

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The Watoto Choir

Thanks to everyone who supported the visit of the Watoto Choir last week. The visit was a huge success with the children lovingly and joyfully telling of the love of God through story, dance and song. The Watoto Choir is a group of African based children that has been travelling the world since 1994...

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Photo of the Week - Opportunity for Students

If you have a passion for creativity and photography, we have the perfect opportunity for you...

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Recipe of the Week!

The Recipe of the Week is back for Term 3!

Each week, we share with the community, a recipe from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.

This week, Tenison Woods College students have made Colonial Style Vegetable Soup, perfect for this cold Wintery weather. The Students would love to share their recipe with you!

 

Click here to view their recipe!

 

 
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Canteen Roster - Week 3 Term 3

For those rostered to work in the canteen, your starting time is 10:00am and your finishing time is 2:00pm. If you have any questions, contact the Canteen Manager, Leanne Sandow.

  • Monday - Cassie Edwards
  • Tuesday -  Lyn Wilson
  • Wednesday - Jenna Stratford
  • Thursday - Renee Szopory
  • Friday - Kate Pohlner

​New to Menu:

  • Hot chicken and cheese pocket $3.00
  • Chicken burger/ coleslaw $4.70
  • Hot chicken and gravy roll $4.00
 
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Uniform Shop

Regular Opening Hours: 

  • Tuesday 8.00am - 12.00pm
  • Thursday 1.00pm - 5.00pm

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Upcoming Events

Thursday 2 August
  • Mount Gambier Music Eisteddfods begin (until Saturday)
Friday 3 August
  • Weekend Retreat begins (until Sunday), Robe
  • Open Mixed Hockey, 8:40am, Blue Lake Sports Park 
Saturday 4 August 
  • Mass, 6:00pm, St Paul's Church 
Sunday 5 August 
  • Mass, 11:00am, St Paul's Church

Monday 6 August

  • WEB Choice Opens. Years 10, 11 and 12

Tuesday 7 August

  • 2019 Year 8-12 Pathways Expo and Information Night, Pam Ronan Centre
  • Debating Eistedfodds begin (until Friday)

Wednesday 8 August 

  • Year 11 Self Reliant Camp, Great Ocean Road (until Friday)
  • New Receptions Rest Day
  • Environmental Student Leadership, 8:30am, Naracoorte Caves
  • Wellbeing and Resilience Training for Parents, 6:00pm

Thursday 9 August

  • Year 8/9, 10 and Open Knockout Netball, 8:30am, Olympic Park
  • Australian Mathematics Competition, 9:00am

Friday 10 August

  • SAPSASA District Basketball Day, 8:30am, Mount Gambier Icehouse
  • Schools Waste Challenge Presentation, 9:00am, Barn Palais
  • Junior School Assembly, 2:30pm, Barrie Holmes Stadium

Saturday 11 August

  • Mass, 6:00pm, St Paul's Church

Sunday 12 August 

  • Mass, 11:00am, St Paul's Church 
 
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Female Umpire recognised for her Football Umpiring talent

Year 11 student Portia Holdman has recently returned from the National U/16 Football Championships held in Adelaide. While goal umpiring a series of preliminary rounds throughout the week-long carnival, her performances were rewarded...

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HPSP 2019 Subject Application Deadlines

Please click on the links below and complete the appropriate form.

  • Year 9-12 Form is due to the PE office by August 3 THIS FRIDAY
  • Year 8 Form is due to the PE Office by August 10 (next Friday)

For further information please contact Kate Exelby

 
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Music Identity Project

The last two days of Term Two provided students from Mount Gambier High School and Tenison Woods College the opportunity to participate in a collaborative learning experience.

The Music Identity Project was funded by the Multicultural Education Languages Committee (MELC) and the following description is from the program overview...

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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden News

New classes this semester:

This term we welcome our Year 2 students into the programme for 2018, students will participate in bee watching this term as part of their activities in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden immersion sessions. As always, parents are invited to attended class lessons with more details available from class teachers...

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Academy of Hospitality Uniforms

Students wishing to sell their chef's uniforms are able to advertise their uniform for sale on the Tenison Woods College used uniforms - buy, swap and sell page on Facebook  

There are new Hospitality Academy students seeking to purchase uniforms over the next couple of weeks, this will be a great way for them to source uniforms no longer needed by past students.

 
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Chess Well Played

The Tenison Woods College Term 2 Chess Competition saw Year 9 student Gay lay Htoo Ku take on fellow Year 9 student George Wimshurst in the final. The final match was set for Week 1 of Term 3...

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Library NAIDOC Competition Winner

Fergus Tarr from 2KC wrote a very impressive entry for our Library NAIDOC competition ‘Because of Her, We Can!’. The competition asked students to focus on influential Indigenous women. His information on Rachel Perkins was interesting and accurate. Well done Fergus on winning our competition.

Chris Lloyd | Teacher Librarian

 
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Students make a difference through Days for Girls program

Days for Girls is a global movement which prepares and distributes sustainable menstrual health solutions to girls who would otherwise miss school during menstruation. Locally there is a very active Days for Girls group and we are proud of these students involvement in the cause...

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Shining Light Awards tickets on sale now

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The 2018 Shining Light Awards will be held on Saturday 27 October at the Commodore on the Park

Tickets can be purchased here...

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Contact Us

Tenison Woods College
Shepherdson Road (PO Box 965)
Mount Gambier South Australia 5290

t: (08) 8725 5455 (Main Office)
f: (08) 8724 9303
t: (08) 8724 4650 (Senior School)
Absentee Line: (08) 8724 4659
OSHC Line: (08) 8724 4633

e: news@tenison.catholic.edu.au
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