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Rachael, Class 5
Diary Dates
Issue Number 3 l Thursday 14 March 2019
Friday 15 March 3:15pm—5:00pm Tarremah Growers Propagation Meeting Vegie Garden
Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 March School Photos
Monday 18—Friday 22 March Class 1, 2 & 3 Swimming
Sunday 24 March Sibling Photos
Monday 25—Friday 29 March Class 4, 5 & 6 Swimming
Wednesday 27 March Harvest Games
Friday 29 March 10:00am—2:00pm Secondary Surf Carnival Blackmans Bay Beach
Monday 1—Friday 5 April Class 4, 5 & 6 Swimming
Tuesday 2 April 6:30pm P&F AGM Honeysuckle Room
Wednesday 3 April 9:00am—11:00am Heartwarmers Café Hall Foyer
By What Do We Wish To Be Remembered? We come slowly, throughout the course of our lives, to
realise more and more of our individuality – to
recognise the individual gifts with which we entered the
world and through which we might contribute toward
its enhancement.
Each step on this path is an outgrowth of the former, a
metamorphosis of what has gone before. Our self
evolves from transfiguration to transfiguration. As John
Henry Newman so eloquently put it, “To live is to
change, and to be perfect is to have changed often”.
And we do well to remember that throughout all this
self-development, at every step, we are nourished by
the fruit of trees we have not planted and sustained by
water from wells we have not dug.
In aspirational communities where self-actualising is
cultivated one sees a good deal of change occurring in
one another, both in who we are and in our
circumstances. Such changes can inadvertently incite a
good deal of uncertainty and distrust in others and
ultimately even adverse judgements.
How do we discern what in our judgements or criticisms
is sound and not just projections of our own selves on
to the other person? Indubitably every judgement or
criticism of another is in part a criticism of that in
ourselves which remains untransformed.
Indeed, what can we judge soundly when we still do not
fully understand ourselves and the ways in which we
perceive the world and others? Rabindranath Tagore’s
observation that, “What you are you do not see, what
you see is your shadow”, could just as easily have been
rendered, “What another is, you do not see, what you
see is your own shadow.” We judge justly, to the
degree that we can rise to that highest of human
conditions of love and freedom – freedom from our
own narrow interests, allowing us to love others and
the world. We indubitably understand this world and
others, in the degree to which we can love them.
In this spirit, let us all strive for the wisdom that Rumi
attained to when he wrote, “Seek the wisdom that will
untie your knot” and may we all be careful not to
inadvertently tighten the knot in others by unduly
illuminating them with the tinted light of our own
tainted selves.
“If you treat an individual as they are, they will remain
as they are. But if you treat them as if they were already
what they could be, they will become what they could
be.” Goethe
Rod Tomlinson
Autumn Abundance Class 1 has been busy harvesting, drying and weaving
produce from the school garden. We are eating and
dehydrating apples from the orchard everyday and
have prepared jars of dried fruit, not to mention
making delicious apple crumble. Outside we have
constructed a Harvest Weaving with corn stalks, flax,
and long leaved plants from around the school.
Elise
"I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea." Captain James Cook Last week saw Class 8 camping on Bruny Island and
participating in daily surf lessons as part of their
Outdoor Education studies. We had ideal conditions at
stunning Cloudy Bay and all the students had a great
time while improving their surfing skills and ocean
confidence.
Apart from refreshing themselves daily in the sea, the
students shifted camp each evening, balanced rocks
and learnt about some of the indigenous history of the
island.
Many thanks to Matt and Maddy for their help, to Trish
and Mitchem from Nita Education for walking us
through the Aboriginal history and bush tucker of the
island and to Zoe, Sam and Jonno from CoastRider for
the surfing sessions.
Frank
“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven … a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” As part of the Class 9 Primary Industry Work
Experience, students visited several farms in the
Channel area as part of their Pathway Studies.
Amongst other things, they prepared soil for planting,
harvested and dried herbs, weeded blueberries, fed
chickens and braved tasting a spicy garlic called
‘Vulcanite’.
Many thanks to Letitia from Tasmanian Gourmet Garlic,
Greg from Bronze Wing Herbs, Susannah and Mark
from a blueberry farm, 5 Bob Farm, and Grandvewe
Cheese for your time, patience, wisdom, and energy.
Frank
News and Events
2019 Tarremah Surf Carnival Friday, 29 March, 10am – 2pm
We are holding our Surf Carnival
earlier this year, due to popular demand and scheduling
difficulties in Term 4.
Staff and students will depart School around 9am and
will walk down to Blackman’s Bay Beach (north end)
and prepare to start the first activities around 9:45am
which will be House chants to start the day.
Activities will then run throughout the day including:
Triathlon
Swimming Races
Novelty events
Sand castle building
Dinghy races
Synchonised Sand Dancing
Boogie board derby
Tug-O-War
Sand castle sculpting
Students will be very active on the day but as always
the weather can be unpredictable and the sea
temperature will be cold, so could you please ensure
your child brings the following items on the day:
Warm clothing and/or a small blanket on the day
Change of clothing
Towel
Bathers
Goggles
Wet suit (if they have one)
Drink Bottle/Water
Lunch and snacks (slightly more than usual)
Hat (and sunscreen)
Epipen and/or asthma medication (if required)
The events will conclude just after 2pm. Students will
then have time to change, clean up the house areas and
equipment and will then return to school via Bus.
Family Help Request
If you can assist the running of the day by loaning any
of the following items, please email me at
[email protected] by Monday 25 March:
6 Boogie boards
Life jackets (x 8)
Thankyou for your support,
Greg Orr
Thank You Parents Thanks to the generosity of parents from my
previous class, I experienced an amazing plane trip this
weekend, along the south coast of Tasmanian and into
Melaleuca. Then I took a boat trip into stunning
Bathurst Harbour. It was spectacular and something I
might not have done otherwise. On my return flight, I
flew past the Western Arthurs and saw the massive
devastation from the recent bushfires, something which
affected many of our Tarremah families. I can't thank
these parents enough for their generosity, the same
group that earlier last year had spontaneously funded
my teacher training in Sydney in January, 2018.
Thank you so much, Elise
Tarremah Growers - Propagation Days 2019 The Tarremah Growers is a community of 'growers',
who meets approx 4-5 times throughout the year to
propagate plants for the Plant Stall at the Spring
Fair. Being part of this stall is fun and rewarding, seeing
how this significantly contributes to the fair. We focus
on propagating and offering a wide variety of plants
using a variety of methods. This is a hands on
'community' who are willing to share and/or learn with
each other, therefore there is no experience is
necessary. The skills we all continuously learn are an
asset to our own garden. There are also other 'non
growing' tasks that could be undertaken, if you are
interested but growing is not your thing.
We would like to invite all of those interested in being
part of the plant stall 'community' to come along to our
first meeting for the year: Friday 15th March @ 3.15 -
5.00 up at the school vegie garden. Please feel free to
come along to part or all of the meeting.
Joining the community can just be as simple as coming
along to planting days (when available),
communications, plant labels, providing a
'temporary home' for plants, or have a garden with
propagating potential (have plants we could propagate
from).
Alternatively, if you or you know somebody who are
unable to attend these propagating days, however
would like to contribute by propagating plants for the
fair at home, we would like to hear from you!
Please contact Janine Maney on 0418 991 657 (Class 3 & 5 parent) or Penny Finlay on 0427 659 598 (Class 4 parent) if you are coming along, are interested but are not available this afternoon, or you would like more information.
Publishing details
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UPCOMING GATHERINGS:
Easter Market
An amazing array of stalls for all your Easter shopping
needs. Story telling for the children and a fantastic
raffle! The P & F, with the help of Class 5, will be putting
on a delicious bbq and there will be pies/pizza and
outdoor seating again for a sit down relaxing dinner
with friends and family.
If you're interested in having a stall, there are still a few
stalls left, but are filling up fast.
Contact Kylee (Market Coordinator) for details or to
book a stall [email protected] .
See you there!
CLASS PARENTS for 2019 The P&F are compiling a list of class parents for 2019.
Each class should have a class parent to nurture the
social aspect of the class for the year and to be involved
in any P&F associated gatherings for the school, the
main one being the Spring Fair.
If you are the Class parent or know who your Class
parent is , please let KRIS know at:
P&F Gatherings for 2019 This year the committee are asking the different classes
to help with our different events throughout the year.
For example Class 4 helped the P&F run the Welcome
BBQ. Each year Class 4 will help run this event. We are
aiming to compile a booklet for each event, so there is
an easy transition each year. It is so wonderful to have
the extra help at these wonderful community events,
and takes the pressure of the small P&F group. Upcom-
ing gatherings are; Working Bee catering, Easter Market
BBQ, Grandparents Day café, and Cake stall.
There will be a hard copy Welcome letter from the P&F
explaining all the above.
Any queries please email Amanda :
Parent and Friends meetings We always welcome new members to the P&F. If you
would like to be part of this rewarding and fun team,
how about thinking of joining up for the year. We will
meet in the Honey suckle room and always have
nibblies, lots of laughs and a variety of hot drinks!
NEXT MEETING will be our AGM: Tuesday 2 April at
6:30pm. Please email us if you would like to come
along: [email protected].
TUCK SHOP Every Thursday at lunchtime for students in Classes 1 -
10 and staff.
Marguarita Pizza: $4 or $2 for 1/2
Slushies: $1
GF and DF options
The school garden has grown many heirloom tomatoes
which we are gratefully using on the pizzas!
If you have excess basil or tomatoes we would love you
to drop them off to the kitchen on a Thursday morning.
We do need parent help to make the tuck shop run
smoothly, please check out the sign up zone below, and
put your name down for a time.
https://signup.zone/xDWmhgHwnSq4mnMDT