Early ‘Energetic Events’ for Term 1…

We currently have our children in Grades 3 to 6 participating in a 10-day Swimming and Water Safety Program. Over multiple years, this program supports our students to become competent swimmers and be water safe.

The program has a strong emphasis on:

• water safety, including boat safety
• using personal floatation devices
• survival swimming
• reach to rescue
• entering aquatic environments safely
• efficient stroke development
• building swimming stamina

These skills build the foundation for safe participation in aquatic activities.

Australian Curriculum:

The swimming program supports the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education Strands of:

• Personal, social and community
• Movement and physical activity

In particular, the focus areas of:

• Safety
• Health benefits of physical activity
• Fundamental motor skills
• Lifelong physical activities

NWPSSA 2025 Athletic Carnivals - Penguin Athletic Centre

Year 3/4 Competitors– Wednesday 5th March and Year 5/6 Competitors – Thursday 6th March – Both day the events commence from 9.45am to 2pm at the Penguin Athletics Centre. Our teams will depart school at 8:30am on their respective day and competitors are asked to be at school no later than 8:15am. We anticipate the team bus to return to school by 3pm.

Annually our representative teams compete in these NW all schools’ regional event. (NB Students will not attend 1 day of their SWSP program if they are competing at the NWPSSA Athletics Carnival.) 

Our team has been selected from our Term 4 School Athletics Carnival results (along with any new enrolments having an opportunity to ‘run-off’ this year) and will be in the Division B category whilst also competing  runners from other schools and other divisions. Families are invited to attend as spectators and an event program and competitor information has been sent home with each team member.

Best wishes to all students from TCPS… striving for ‘Personal Bests’ both in field and track events next week! I am especially looking forward to accompanying the teams this year.

Celebrating Student Success...

It is particularly pleasing for me to hear of the many outside achievements of our students – so please either encourage your child to let me know about their achievements or parents, please send me a brief note about their successes so they can be shared with our whole school community in our newsletter.

Australian Government School Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) over the NBN

The Australian Government has made a commitment to deliver access to free broadband for up to 30,000 families with school-aged children who are not connected at home currently via the NBN network. SSBI is a targeted affordability measure to help boost education opportunities.

To be eligible for the SSBI, families must have at least one child studying in a Tasmanian school in grades K-12 and live at a premises with no active broadband service over the NBN network.

The NBN will install connection equipment at the premises of the student. The internet connection will be a standard unfiltered NBN internet connection, which will need moderation of use by the student by their parent or carer.

Contact:

• Families can contact the National Referral Centre on 1800 954 610 (Mon-Fri, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm AEDT) or by visiting www.anglicarevic.org.au/student-internet.