We proudly share the 2022 TAP newsletter that describes a very busy year for our students, staff and TAP community / industry contributors. The focus is on TAP 2022 - Celebrating 10 Years with a feature on the 10 Things We Like About TAP! Thank you to everyone concerned and to Anne Frazer, the editor of our 2022 TAP newsletter, who documented the TAP journey. As always, we would like to acknowledge this support and thank our students and school families who supported these endeavors and tasks so enthusiastically. The TAP is a real school-community partnership as it would not have existed for years without the active support of so many in our community. The 2022 TAP newsletter is also attached as a PDF in the "What is TAP?" section of the TAP Blog 2022…What a year in the TAP! We’ve learnt about abalone, astronomy, eels, engineers, excavators, entrepreneurs, electric fences, feed, flavours, fencing, fire, food, force, FLAIM, forensics, duck farmers and drone pilots. We’ve considered catchments, communication, chefs, camembert, Coastcare, crime, cordial, collars, community, cheesemakers, Curdies, culture and CSI Timboon. We’ve pondered publications, planes, processors, police, painted cows, paramedics, and Power Creek whilst looking at Lions, lifesavers, lids and lavender. Students have studied shearing, shovelling shite, storytelling, stomachs, soil, silage and skid steers, butchers, bakers, beaches, mushrooms, mixes, mechanics, moons and Maths&Science@Work. We’ve heard about helicopters, honey, geologists, glass, genetics, ice cream, interviews, vets, volunteers, tourism, rangers, recycling, rivers, regen, robots and technology. This year we also acknowledged our community contributors during our TAP 10 Year Anniversary celebrations with over 566 individuals working with students or providing PD to teachers since Aug 2012 and over 137 people involved in the TAP in 2022 alone. Thank you to our amazing community of educators, creative teachers engaged students! After two years of COVID restrictions, this year's Timboon P-12 School magazine, Baringa, celebrated a year of catching up and re-engaging with a Lion King themed issue. The Lion King school production was a celebration of life and community as was the TAP year with lots of excursion, incursions, visits, experiments, challenges and opportunities celebrating our 10th Year of TAP right through the P-12 campus! Get your hands on a copy of Baringa to check it out! We join our Picasso Cow, Milky Way, to excitedly announce that the Timboon P-12 School library is a beneficiary of the Rabo Community Fund / George the Farmer partnership to support George’s mission to help educate children about where their food and fibre comes from in both a fun and educational way. The Rabo Community Fund supports local grassroots initiatives, identified by Rabobank clients in the heart of their communities. The Rabobank partnership champions agricultural literacy and will not only enable the education of many more kids, but hopefully inspire them to consider careers in agriculture. The Timboon library has quite a few George the Farmer books that are already shared amongst our community and used in our classrooms but this collection will add to the already popular series. Thanks George and the Rabo Community Fund! One of the activities at TAP’s On! was inspired by our Year 5/6 ‘travelpreneurs’ and the incredible Mark Cuthell from Port Campbell Tourist Information Centre. The Year 5/6 students had investigated Holiday Maths earlier this term and at TAP’s On! they facilitated a workshop for their Year 3/4 peers based on a maths activity that challenged students to devise a family holiday for a family in our region with a budget of $1,600. Balancing holiday budgets, timetabling an itinerary, calculating fuel costs, reading maps all in the context of the wonderful holiday destination that these kids are lucky enough to call home. Motivated by this challenge, the students in Years 3/4 were then tasked with creating posters, even an imovie, to showcase our region that will be shared on the visit12apostles.com.au website to encourage other families to explore our amazing region. Check out some of their pitches on the website! https://visit12apostles.com.au/explore/nature-wildlife/treasure-the-land-we-love/why-our-region-rocks/ Four regional students who contribute to their local communities will be supported to further their studies with Powell Legacy Fund (PLF) Scholarships. Congratulations to Timboon P-12’s Willow Smith, Rachael Morden and Alysa Hibburt and Mercy College’s, Susanna Ryan, on receiving the 2023 Powell Legacy Fund scholarships. The scholarships were presented on Saturday at Port Campbell Surf Life Saving Club in front of a crowd of 150 nippers and their families. During the presentation, convenor of the Powell Legacy Fund Committee, Chris Hibburt, outlined the background of the scholarship program with funding coming from the Commonwealth Department of Education, the Powell family and the DemoDAIRY Foundation (DDF). The applicants have demonstrated volunteering and leadership in the local community, continuing the legacy of Ross and Andy Powell. The fund is named in honour of Ross and his son Andy who were tragically killed when their boat flipped while they attempted to save a tourist in rough seas near Port Campbell in 2019. Read more on the DDF website. https://www.demodairy.com.au/four-powell-scholarship-winners-announced/?fbclid=IwAR2mq39wfC9gj-iva7Jc3Qhbg3nBvIlir43WmBkFBjIO2BRiDEzdF7sZiyo Bring on 2023 and our ‘Our Kids in the Garden – Kitchen Garden’ upgrade which will be a wonderful space for our students to harvest their own produce for use in food tech classes, learn how to restrict food miles and teach students how to be more sustainable in their food choices. The Kitchen Garden project and new native garden on the north side of the basketball court were instigated by a successful application to the Corangamite Shire for an Environment Support grant. The grant funds were used to plant out the native garden by the Year 7/8 Garden Guru students earlier this year and were appreciated by students from the Years 7-10 Step up program who have built a post and timber fence around six capped and raised garden beds that will be the foundation of their school garden. A feature of the garden is the hinged gate that depicts a panorama of one of our local waterways and was designed and built by our students. Thank you to Julie Broomhall, Kylie Treble and HDLN for your input and advice for our project, to Denise Murray who made the initial application and to Carolyne Wakefield, Kelvin Bell, Jamie Mackieson and students for our two great new garden areas. The unpredictable spring / summer seasonal weather hasn’t thwarted our annual lavender harvest as once again Ms Wakefield and staff have galvanized the senior students to work together to gather our aromatic crop. The students reaped the Riverina Alan florets using battery operated trimmers, and the more traditional sickles and secateurs while Ms Wakefield distilled the flowerets which will produce a combination of lavender water and essential oil. The lavender yield will be used by our 2023 students to produce a variety of products including soaps, hand creams and lavender water. The students also collected bunches of Pacific Blue and Avice Hill to dry for lavender products including heat packs and sachets. Thank you to everyone who helped gather our aromatic crop. The Year 3/4 students and teachers are proudly announcing that Milky Way, their gorgeous Picasso Cow, was awarded the Best Cow Design in the Dairy Australia’s Semester Two, 2022 nationwide wide Picasso Cow competition. The judges found that “the calibre of work produced by the students whilst learning about the Australian dairy industry, creating the learning journal, and decorating their cow was of an extremely high quality and standard. The high-tech inspired art work was extremely creative, as was the attention to detail and use of artistic techniques. The additional artefacts including the ear tag, collar and technology samples added to the overall concept. The photos and video commentary provided the judges with an insight into how the program evolved at the school and provided evidence of how the students designed and decorated ‘Milky Way’ using the knowledge and understandings gained from their research, excursion, and classroom activities. Scorecard: 50/50” You can check out the winners on the following website https://www.dairy.edu.au/information/picasso-cows-program/past-winners while the students deliberate over how to spend their $1,000 cheque! Thank you to everyone who was involved in our investigation of Paddock to Plate in Semester Two as you are part of the reason for our success.. |
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