Alison McLaughlin & Angela Doubleday

Following months of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new website and are excited to share it with you!

www.tara.nsw.edu.au

The Tara website is for our current students and their families, parents of prospective students, School staff, past members of our School community and any interested members of the wider community.

It is mobile responsive, making it easy to use on all browsers and portable devices and can be translated into sixteen languages. Text size can also be adjusted for individual viewing preferences.

This is all accessible from the Menu button which appears and scrolls down with you on every page across the website.

View MY TARA on the homepage for online services and handy quick links, also included in the Menu.

Content will be updated weekly with student news, stories, videos, publications, articles as well as current and upcoming school, sporting and community events.

Shortly we will be professionally filming all new School virtual tours with students sharing what they love most about being a Tara girl.

If you have any feedback, or suggestions for other information you would like to see on the site, please do not hesitate to contact us via EMAIL.

Sr Sue Peterie - School Nurse

NSW Health has been working with education authorities to implement additional measures to ensure that students in Year 7 and 10 can be safely vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Meningococcal clinic will be conducted at Tara on 11 June, 2020. For more information on the vaccination program please click here.

Jonathan operates Sanctuary House Counselling at North Epping and is a current parent at Tara. Sanctuary House offers professional, confidential and compassionate counselling for individuals, couples and families. In addition to Sanctuary House, Jonathan is the Pastoral Services Coordinator at a private psychiatric hospital in Sydney, providing individual counselling and facilitating wellbeing groups for inpatients with anxiety, depression, addiction and other various mental challenges. Jonathan can be contacted on 0432 744 864 or by email on jonathan@sanctuaryhouse.net.au 

To view the Tara Community Business Register click here

To register your business click here

Social distancing German Style! 

A local cafe in Germany has made customers wear swimming noodle hats to enforce social distancing. Customers wore straw hats with two swimming pool noodles tapped to the top, maybe an idea for the next social gathering at school! 

During our second week back at school this term in ELC, our teddy bears came to visit. We were learning all about the letter Tt and the sound it makes. We had lots of fun with them during the day as they played and learnt with us. They even went with us to our specialist lessons throughout the week. 

Mrs Barbara Edge - BASC Director

This week we celebrated twenty years of reconciliation. We have engaged in many deep and progressive conversations regarding how we as a centre can contribute to shaping our journey towards an unbiased, equitable and reconciled nation. Collectively, we have deepened our shared understanding of the cultures, religion and backgrounds present in our service. Together with the children we created a Reconciliation flag, decorated a poster and painted wooden native Australian animals. This experience provided the children with a creative and engaging activity that motivate them to communicate with their peers about Reconciliation.  

Mrs Maryanne Chaiban

Year 10 students have returned to Tara, enthused to see their friends and teachers in this new ‘normal’ of school life. With the impossibility of gathering for a Year Assembly in a single venue, Year 10 students celebrated their achievements in their own classrooms via a virtual Awards Assembly where they could hear all achievements announced as they proudly accepted their certificates from their Mentor Teachers. 

In honour of its former patron, Bob Walshe, who passed away in March 2018, Sutherland Shire Environment Centre holds an annual Writing for the Environment prize.

Writing was a passion and a skill of Bob’s. He taught and inspired many people to write and write and write!  And the origins of the Sutherland Shire Environment Centre was in a writing course in the Sutherland Shire. Through the R D Walshe Memorial Writing for the Environment Prize, SSEC continues to value the role and place of writing in helping to shape a sustainable world – healthy people living on a healthy planet. This is a call to writers and those who want to write. The competition is for people who are Australian citizens and 25 years or younger.

Mrs Elizabeth George - Head of Social Science

Tara Girls in Years 11 and 12 studying Economics, have been very excited to read and learn about the effect of government policies aimed at improving the Australian economy after the devastation of COVID-19. Please see below the beginning of any extended response by Jenny in Year 12 Economics. 

A reminder to all parents to read information on the Careers pages on Canvas with your daughters. 

Mrs Michelle Williams - Careers Coordinator

The information contained in the newsletter link below is intended as a guide only. Please confirm all details on relevant websites. Information provided by JobJump Pty Ltd which takes no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

Careers Newsletter - 28 May 2020

Careers Newsletter - 4 June 2020

For more information please contact Mrs Michelle Williams via email.