Tintinhull Newsletter Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Term 1, Week 6

Phone: 6760 9273 Fax: 6760 9361 Email: tintinhull-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: www.tintinhull-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Wonderful Community Spirit

It gives me great pleasure to write this thank you letter to Tintinhull Public School and the school community as a whole. A number of weeks ago I sought support for my son Joey, in regards to Farrer Memorial Agricul-tural High School’s campaign to raise funds for The Leukaemia Foundation. I am just so appreciative and indebted to everyone that supported Joey in this quest. The spirit within the community was astonishing and from the bottom of my heart; I say thank you.

Special mention must go to those families and teachers who donated through Joey’s ‘Shave for a Cure’ page. Further praise goes out to the SRC. The SRC decided to implement and organise a Mufti and Cupcake day raising funds for the abovementioned cause. A super effort from the SRC. Tintinhull Public School as a collective group raised just over $1200. This figure has me speechless. At the last count Farrer raised a massive $51,000 and a chance to climb.

I thank Kate, John and Tilly for making the shave fun for all those watching.

Tintinhull Public School should be incredibly proud of the empathy shown in the past weeks. Tintinhull has a heart and it is beating strong!

With appreciation, Mr Mead

Reptile Show

Yesterday we had a special visit from R.E.S.T.A (Reptile Education Safety Training Australia). Our guests had a number of various species to show us during their show.

The first reptile we were shown was a two headed lizard (tiliqua rugosa) and we were told about how they use their tails to protect themselves. The next animal was a humongous goanna which gave her handler a kiss, and students got to pat her. Continued pg 2

Change of Date

The school cross country and the Tour De Tintinhull bike race has been shifted to Friday 23 April, starting time 12.30pm. This is the first Friday of Term 2. Parents are welcome to attend but will need to sign in to the school via the QR code.

(athletics pg 2)

Dates For Your Diary

MARCH

Wednesday 17 P & C meeting 7pm in 5-6 classroom

Thursday 18 Year 5/6 - science and

engineering challenge

Monday 29 School assembly - 3.00pm

Wednesday 31 S.R.C. Easter disco 6.30-8.00pm

APRIL

Thursday 1 End of term 1

Monday 19 School development day

Tuesday 20 Students return for term 2

Friday 23 School cross country & Tour

de Tintinhull

Sunday 25 ANZAC Day

MAY

Tuesday 4 Year 6 - Grip leadership

Wednesday 5 2022 Kindergarten information

morning - 10 to11.30am

Friday 7 May Combined athletics carnival

Thursday 25 May Kindy kids’ photo published in

Northern Daily Leader

Thursday 27 Zone cross country

Mon 17 - Fri 21 Year 6 combined small

schools Canberra excursion

Other animals we got to see and learn about were bearded dragons, long necked and snake necked turtles and 3 different snake species – green tree python, olive python and jungle python.

There was one final special visitor for the students to see and hold yesterday. A baby salt water crocodile! We all overcome our fear, held it and gave the camera a big smile.

The show has certainly been a highlight of the year so far.

Charli, Taylah and Isobel

Additional photos are on the school website.

Athletics Carnival

This year we will be combining our athletics carnival

with Timbumburi PS. Our schools have formed a

partnership as we have many similarities. Both

schools’ staff have been working closely together and

we have combined a lot of joint learning during our

staff development days. This partnership is a

‘community of schools’ initiative which the

Department of Education fully encourages, hence I

was extremely pleased that we are able to join them

for the athletics carnival and compete against

students from their school.

We will have separate age champions and runners

up, however our students will be competing against

Timbumburi students in running and field events.

The athletics carnival will be held Friday 7 May at the

new athletics track. This is much earlier than we

normally run our carnival, however it is very difficult

to get bookings and fitting in all schools at the new

track.

We will still be competing at the small school’s

carnival at Dungowan for those students who want to

and we will also be sending students to the Zone

carnival if they qualify.

Any questions regarding any of this, please contact the school and I will be happy to field your enquiries.

Harmony Day

This Friday, Tintinhull Public School will participate in

Harmony Day. All students will dance in

synchronisation to five dances from around the world.

The students have been working hard in class over

the past month to perfect their moves. These dances

include: ‘The Salsa’, ‘Belly Dancing’, ‘Hip Hop’,

‘Bollywood’ and an ‘African Dance’. Students will

wear their normal sports uniform. It is not mufti as we

have just had such a day.

The overall message of Harmony Day promotes social cohesion and racial harmony, and it is expressed through community participation, inclusiveness, celebrating diversity, respect and belonging. These are the important messages the school will focus on come Friday.