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The Resilience Centre is running an online seminar providing support to parents on Wednesday 1 September.

Presented by Neil Worsley, a father of three who has experienced the stress of the HSC, is Director of Schools & Organisations at The Resilience Doughnut, and a former College principal of the largest high school in NSW. Learn from his considerable experience in training and working with schools and students to enhance positive wellbeing and resilience.

To register please click here.

Book Week is promoted across Australia annually by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). This year the theme is Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds.

At Tara, we are celebrating Book Week online in the following ways:

Junior School

Dress-up Hat Day

On Tuesday 24 August, students are encouraged to wear a funny hat (book related if possible) to their morning class meeting. Here’s some ideas for book related hats: https://www.worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas/  but any hat will do.

Author/Illustrator Visit

Aura Parker will provide a pre-recorded session for ELC to Year 2 students and a live online presentation for Years 3 to 6 students on Wednesday 25 August. Aura will share her enthusiasm for drawing, writing and reading in a visual literacy presentation, story time and illustration session. 

Biographical information about Aura and an order form for books can be found here. Books will be posted to your home address and will have a signed book plate.

CBCA Book of the Year - Shortlisted books

Class teachers will include StoryBox online readings of CBCA shortlisted books throughout the week.

Copies of these titles are available in many book stores. The Children’s Bookshop has made them available for order here and will post books to your home address, if you choose to purchase any.

TEARfund Readathon

The 2021 TEARfund Readathon commences on Monday 23 August and concludes on Friday 22 October. An information package was emailed to all families last week. Students are asked to seek sponsorship for the books they read during the readathon. Sponsors are asked to make all payments online at https://readathon.tearfund.org.au/taraanglicanschoolforgirls 

All proceeds go to the work of TEARfund Australia, particularly projects that support basic education.

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Senior School

Read Every Day

Year 7 to 12 students are asked to honour Book Week by setting aside time each day in Week 7, to read.  This blog delves into some interesting university research on the benefits of reading. 

All readers are encouraged to access our eBook platforms online or through apps on your mobile device: BorrowBox and Wheelers ePlatform eBooks . Choose Tara Senior School Library and sign in with your Tara network username and password.

CBCA Book of the Year - Shortlisted books

Our Library Oliver site is highlighting Book Week, particularly the Older Readers Shortlist for the CBCA Book of the Year. Check out the front page of Oliver, which is displaying videos featuring Shortlisted authors speaking about their books and judges speaking about the Shortlist. There are also links to some of the titles on our Wheelers eBook platform. 

Copies of these titles are available in many book stores. The Children’s Bookshop has made them available for order here and will post books to your home address, if you choose to purchase any. 

Personal Reading Journey

The keen readers in Senior School are collecting mini book covers on a keyring to showcase their 2021 Personal Reading Journey. So far, we have 453 tags claimed. 364 of the submissions are from students and 89 are from staff. Year 7 has the highest number of participants, with 27 students. This activity continues throughout 2021, even in lockdown. Term 3 tags will be distributed by post in Week 10, if we are not back onsite by then. 

All readers are encouraged to claim your own keyring and start collecting mini book covers for each book read in 2021. Create your own colour coding system with the tags if you wish.

Submit your images and apply for a keyring here

Wishing everyone a wonderful Book Week. Remember to keep reading.

Your Library Team

Tara is an amazing School with ingenious staff and talented students. In this time of extended lockdown, Wednesday afternoons have been dedicated to a variety of Inter House Competitions.

Joan Waugh Scholarship applications are now open! 

Miss Mary Elizabeth (Joan) Waugh was the headmistress of Tara Anglican School for Girls from 1887 to 1845. 

In recognition of her long career which spanned two centuries, Miss Waugh received strong appreciative respect amongst her peers and students. The Tara Old Girls' Association decided to honour her work and memory through the naming of the first Old Girls' Scholarship to the value of $5,000. 

The Joan Waugh Scholarship is reserved for the candidates who demonstrate excellent endeavours in different aspects of community life and a potential for leadership in addition to their academic abilities. The Award aims to assist the former student in the undertaking of further studies, research or development in a particular field of interest, skill or expertise, either in Australia or overseas. 

Applications close 30 September, 2021. To apply please download the application form from the Tara Anglican School website at https://www.tara.nsw.edu.au/community/. 

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With our Inventive minds, we had a wonderful time during Science Week building an oozing volcano with Miss Kuldeep. The children had an opportunity to construct a volcano and made a working model of a volcano erupting. We also made A Storm in a Jar.

Recently our ELC’s have shown an increasing interest in imaginative doctor’s play. The girls have used both their imaginations and our doctor’s toys to create scenarios with ill or injured patients, nurses, surgeons and doctors.

With Miss Kimberly, the girls have been learning about healthy eating habits.

We were brainstorming about healthy foods and the girls had the opportunity to express their favourite foods for healthy eating habits. After discussions with the girls about healthy eating choices which effect our bodies and minds Miss Kimberly has written up new yummy menus for breakfast.

Good eating habits helps us to keep calm and improve our ability to focus which leads to improved concentration for learning.

During Online Learning year 2 have been learning about animals in How the World Works. They have been Zoologists and have been keenly exploring how living things depend on their environment for survival and they were able to take part in two special learning experiences.  

The Tara Community are thinking of all our amazing Year 12 Girls and sending our support as they commence HSC Trials this week. 

With rescheduled and restructured Trials taking place, there has been a lot of work that has gone into making this happen. Appropriate computer software was sourced, evaluated and installed and staff and students have had to learn how to work with it. It has been quite a team effort and we are very grateful to everyone involved. We pray the girls will feel well supported through this time.

Jessica S – Year 11 Modern History

This term in Modern History, Year 11 have been studying our unit on World War 1. After studying three units already this year, the anticipation for this topic has been building up. While we haven’t been learning the content in person as we assumed we would be doing, learning Modern History online has been extremely rewarding and super engaging. Recently, we have all started learning from virtual, pre-recorded lessons, meaning that we get to learn from our own teacher, plus the other Year 11 teachers among the History faculty, as well as a special guest appearance from Miss Abadier, talking to us about the impact of the Russian Revolution on the war. 

Hearing from all of the History teachers and their different perspectives on topics such as the changing role of women during the war and the reasons for the Allied victory has been so much fun, and has made learning online even more interesting. From Miss Brown’s historical costumes, and Mrs Donato’s source analysis practice, each teacher has their own unique learning style and has made learning in lockdown as enjoyable as it can be. Nothing beats the real-life classroom, but learning about World War 1 online has proven to be very successful! Thank you to Miss Brown, Mrs Donato, Mrs Morgan, and Mrs Awadalla for their continuous support of us during our lockdown learning! 

A student Watercolour workshop is now available via the Canvas Art page.  This workshop is made for all ages, and is something families can complete together for a bit of fun.

The workshop has been created by a production team and Tara's Art Assistant Ms Sally Conwell, who has been working as a full time artist and art therapist running workshops based around wellbeing. This workshop has been gifted to the Tara community during this isolation time to provide a bit of extra fun. Click on the link below and using your Canvas student login to view the workshop.

Workshop Link

Workshops: Visual Arts (tara.nsw.edu.au)

Mrs Michelle Williams - Careers Coordinator

Careers Newsletter - 12 August 2021

Careers Newsletter - 19 August 2021

For more information please contact Mrs Michelle Williams via email.

All girls are encouraged to register for and attend University, College and TAFE Open Days in August and September. To view detail

Girls and parents are also encouraged to read previous newsletters, career and course information and details of many early entry programs on the Careers Canvas page. 

2021 University Open Days and Tours Updates