Posted on June 8, 2021 / School News
Tintern Farm
Tinternwood Farm recently gained 10 new family members! Our Year 7 girls were excited to welcome our 2 new rabbits, 6 new quails and 2 new chickens.
Friends of Music Jazz Night 2021
Save the Date for the 2021 Friends of Music Jazz Night. This year we have a Winter Wonderland theme, and it will held on Friday 27 August.
2021 House Singing
After months of planning and House Captain led rehearsals, our annual House House Singing Festival returned to the CM Wood Centre on the 26 May.
With the set song being the Grease favourite, “You’re The One That I Want”, each house performed this plus a song of choice.
Somner Stewart set the bar high with their version of “Love Shack”, Gordon Grant matched the high standard with “Shut Up and Dance” and then Dann Watt delivered the entertaining “Ghostbusters”. Mansfield McKie had us very much believing their dreams could come true with “You Make My Dreams Come True” and Butterss Cross brought it all home with the catchy and spirit lifting “Hooked On a Feeling”.
While the judges retired to contemplate their verdict, the CM Wood Centre swayed and rocked as every Year 7-12 student joined in with the traditional House Singing karaoke, featuring classics such as “Uptown Girl”, “YMCA” and “Dancing Queen”.
Butterss Cross won overall competition, while Gordon Grant runners up.
More importantly, every student had enthusiastically supported their House, and provided one of the best House events; their passion, energy and sense of fun was inspiring!
The Smoothie Bar
Recently our Year 8 students took part in the Smoothie Bar program. The program helps to develop their understanding of what is required to create and build a business, including research into a particular product, financial analysis, marketing and pitching their product to an audience. The event was wonderfully attended by parents and friends, creating a fantastic atmosphere for each group to pitch their product to potential investors. A huge congratulations to all teams for their efforts over the two days!
ANZAC Day 2021
To commemorate ANZAC Day, the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, our Year 12 students Laura M, Oliver H, Charlie C and Mitchell S along with their parents, Mrs Ruckert and Mr Kenny attended the Ringwood Dawn service on Sunday 25 April. Laura and Oliver laid our School wreath under the Ringwood Clocktower as all in attendance paid their respects on this national day of remembrance.
Lest we forget.
TPG Trivia Night
Thank you to the Tintern Parents Group for hosting the 2021 TPG Trivia Night on Saturday 22 May. This incredible group of volunteers worked tirelessly to organize this wonderful community event. A special thank you to the Trivia Night Sub-Committee members; Haidee Wallace, Cindy Cao, Tim Bray and Roshini Higgins.
More than 200 parents and friends joined together, dressed in a range of wonderfully creative thematic costumes, and spent the evening contemplating, singing, drawing, laughing and entertaining one another in what was a most memorable event.
Thank you to our student led Green Team and Social Justice Groups for complementing the evening with wonderful a wonderful Silent Auction, raffle and activities. The have successfully raised fund to further 200 lantern packs.
Thank you also to Adam Kenny, whose hosting and Trivia on the night kept us all entertained and engaged. To Anne Bortolussi for her wonderful work managing the Silent Auction. And to Tegan Martin from Community Relations whose work behind the scenes on the night and in the lead up kept the working team on track and the on the night scoring up to date.
A special mention to the ‘Steampunk’ table who won the best Theme on the night, and congratulations to ‘Table 7; The House of Windsor” for being the overall Champions on the night.
