"We have finished Term 2 with our traditional Saint Josemaria feast day, with its whole school Mass and the food festival.

Once Saint Josemaria was asked in a gathering with young people what he was expecting precisely from them, the young people. His answer is applicable not only for students but also for parents and staff. To be young is not just a matter of age but a matter of the spirit. It is worthwhile quoting his full answer:

"I want all of you to be happy, and I ask this of our Lord with all my soul. But if you want to be happy, you have to be ready to follow our Lord, following in his footsteps. He didn't hesitate in following the path, one which was tough, requiring strength and resistance. So you have to make it your goal to work and to sanctify your work.

Healthy Harold

Healthy Harold visited Tangara Infants once again. Harold is a caring giraffe who helps to explain important health and safety issues to our students. Everyone enjoys and learns a great deal from Harold who is not only loveable, but very wise. Through interactive sessions with Harold the giraffe, students explore ‘Big Feelings’, healthy eating, the importance of exercise and how to keep safe at home and in the community.

Future Engineers

During lunch, our Kindergarten and Year 1 students happily play together with building blocks and bricks, fostering creativity and teamwork. They enjoy the challenge of designing and building constructions for a variety of purposes.

'We are building a tower that can hold a 1000 cars, it even has ramps.' Year 1 Students.

'This is a castle with a winding pathway, we worked together to make this.' Year 1 Students.

'We constructed a neighbourhood with a church.' Year 1 Students.

'I love building a tall tower until it falls over.' Kindergarten students..

'It’s fun to build something and then knock it over.' Kindergarten students.

We have all enjoyed a fabulous week celebrating our patron saint St Josemaria! The highlight of the week being our school Mass and green and gold mufti day! If only we could wear mufti everyday! Please enjoy the photos.

The holidays are fast approaching, and everyone is looking forward to a good break. Although it has been a short term, it has been action packed!

There is a lot that can be done in the holidays to continue the learning momentum going.

I found some great suggestions from By Dr Samantha Hornery, Executive Manager of Learning Education. I have summarised her suggestions below:

Fun School Holiday Activities for Learning

During the year your child has learnt many important skills. School holidays are a great time to relax and have fun, but it can also be enough time for this important learning to be forgotten. To avoid this, we have compiled a list of suggested activities and games to keep your child thinking during the holidays. You can use these ideas anytime as they are fun and help your child practice the wonderful skills they have worked so hard to learn.

Year 4 Rust has had a busy term. During week 3, we attended an excursion to Old Government House and Experiment Farm Cottage. We learnt about how early settlers live in Australia and how the Indigenous population made their own tools.

We learnt a play about early colonisation of Australia also and we performed it in week 6 at the Primary Assembly. During science we have been learning about the interdependence of nature and how raw products are manufactured. We all researched raw products and how they are manufactured. This research was presented as google slides to the class.

In our English time, we composed persuasive texts about whether indoor or outdoor play is better. Most of the class agreed that outdoor play is better.

We look forward to learning more during this year.

Design and Make Day: MR BEAR'S HOLIDAY

This term, Tangara girls have been giving up lunch time to play at Prep with the little ones, helping out at a Korean Community Language School, visiting their ‘old’ friends at Anglicare Nursing home, participating in our Tangara Vinnies Van shift and cooking up a storm of delicious meals for hungry families via the Dignity Dish organisation. This coming Saturday Year 11 students will be joining Redfield students and cooking and feeding 100 “rough sleepers” in Woolloomooloo. A great term’s service!

Year 7 - Kids Giving Back

Year 7 worked tirelessly preparing and cooking 155 meals for those most in need around Sydney. They demonstrated excellent team work and a cheerful and industrious spirit of service to make these wholesome and delicious meals for those that would otherwise go hungry. They also learnt a great deal about the many false stereotypes surrounding homelessness and how important it is to show compassion, charity and mercy to all those in need whenever we can.

Year 8 - Our Big Kitchen

This term, members of the leadership team have initiated a series of Academic Excellence Interviews with our Year 12 students. These interviews are aimed at fostering academic excellence and preparing our Year 12 students for the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

Purpose of the Interviews

The primary goal of these interviews is to support our students in setting and achieving their academic goals. By engaging in one-on-one discussions with members of the leadership team, students can reflect on their current progress, identify areas for improvement, and set realistic and achievable goals for their HSC preparation.

Focus on SMART Goals

During the interviews, students are guided to create SMART goals—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. This approach ensures that their goals are clear and attainable, providing a structured pathway to success. Here’s a brief overview of what SMART goals entail:

This term, five Year 10 students: Evelyn Sheppard, Surin Jung, Ruby Vassallo, Marina Diab, Andrea Villafano, had the opportunity to participate in the Senior Ethics Olympiad, competing against other schools throughout the day via Zoom. In preparation for the competition, students thoroughly familiarised themselves with eight ethical cases. On the day of the event, they were required to articulate well-considered responses to one of the three questions associated with each case. Considering this was our first time competing in such an event the students did very well to come 8th.

What is an Ethics Olympiad?

An Ethics Olympiad is a competitive yet collaborative event in which students analyze and discuss real-life, and timely, ethical issues.  It differs from a debate in that students are not assigned opposing views; rather, they defend whatever position they believe is right and win by showing that they have thought more carefully, deeply, and perceptively about the cases in question.  

Experience shows that the event encourages and promotes ethical awareness, critical thinking skills, civil discourse, international engagement, and an appreciation for diverse points of view.

On Thursday of Week 7 elective Music classes from 9-12 went to the Sydney Opera House to watch the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music of John Williams. It was an amazing opportunity to be able to hear the pieces live as the orchestra performed some of Williams' most renowned compositions, including Superman, Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park and Star Wars themes which filled the air with excitement and anticipation. In Term 1 I studied John Williams and his compositions, so being able to attend the concert was an amazing experience.

- Amelie A (Year 9 Elective Music)

We are delighted to announce that for the first time in PARED history, Tangara and Redfield students will join forces in the 2025 production of High School Musical. We believe that this unique experience will not only enrich the musical production, but also foster a spirit of inclusivity and unity within our PARED community. We can't wait to see the amazing talent and creativity that will come from this joint effort.

Auditions will be held in Term 3, week 5 and is open to all students in Year 6 - Year 11. 

Link to book auditions

Tangara celebrated International World Music Day with our 2024 Recital Evening themed: 'Music from Around The World'.

Congratulations to our students from K-12 for their wonderful performances. A big thank you to all the teachers, students, and parents who made it possible, and to everyone who attended and supported the event. We hope you enjoyed it!

-Mr Joel Richardson

The 2024 HSC Art and Music Soiree will be held on Friday 23 August.

Please save the date!

We are delighted to announce that Tessa Gutierrez, will be offering percussion and drum kit tuition starting next term.

With over three decades of teaching experience at prestigious schools and leading her ensemble, Drumfill, to multiple first-place awards in the Sydney Eisteddfod, Tessa is a highly accomplished tutor. Recognised for her exceptional teaching, she has received numerous AMEB Top 5 teacher awards and was named the most outstanding private teacher for Drums and Percussion in 2019.

We encourage all interested students to seize this fantastic opportunity to learn from one of the best in the field learning either the Drums, Auxiliary Percussion or Mallet Percussion (Xylophone).

Please contact us at musicacademy@tangara.nsw.edu.au for more information.

In class Music, the Year 2 students have worked in pairs to compose three notes melodies using a set 8-beat rhythmic pattern.

The students used notes from the C major pentatonic scale and performed their original melodies on glockenspiel. The Year 2’s also learnt the "Popcorn Chant", performed as a class group in canon and then in pairs using body percussion to create ostinato rhythms. The girls enjoyed testing their co-ordination by performing a rhythmic marching chant called "I Left My Wife in New Orleans". 

Mrs A Goldsworthy

Class Music Teacher

In class Music, the Kindergarten students explored pitch on tuned percussion. We used chime bars to create high and low sounds to represent Jack and Jill in the children's song, "Two Little Blackbirds sitting on a Hill". The students created glissandi by gliding the beater across the chimes, to represent the flight of the blackbirds leaving and returning.  

Our Year 1 students have explored ascending and descending notes of the C major scale and then performed “Hot Cross Buns” on the glockenspiel. They had great fun learning a Circassian circle dance which involved the whole class performing a sequence of choreographed 8 beat steps with partners, to a lively Irish jig.

The Infants students all thoroughly enjoyed learning a few traditional hand clap songs, such as "Double Double This " and "High Low Chick-a-low".  They tested their co-ordination by singing and clapping the songs in pairs. 

Mrs A Goldsworthy

Class Music Teacher

We have had about 35 mothers and daughters sign up for our Like Mother, Like Daughter Holiday Reading. All books have now been distributed, so make sure to check with your daughter for your books. We hope you enjoy sharing this experience with your dauighters and look forward to your feedback next term.

The end of term is the time for some fun reading activities in the Library for Yrs 7-10. This term was Genre Bingo, where the girls get to work as a team to match 16 different books to their genres. The girls learnt that genres are quite flexible and somewhat subjective, and that books can often be classified in  two or more different genres. There was a lot of noisy discussion!

We had a fun week in the Primary Library last week creating wonderful craft to decorate the Library for Book Week next term. Our craft activities reflected  this year's Book Week theme, Reading is Magic, with fairies, unicorns, mermaids and wands!

Year 2 decorated lots of fairies, unicorns and mermaids. Yrs 3 and 4 made their own fairy wands, while Yrs 5 and 6 made gorgeous fairies from pegs and leaves! Make sure you check them out when you visit for the Book Fair next term!

I’m Abi Roy, the 2024 Public Speaking Captain.

You may remember me from the very first Captain’s Corner, which was quite a few moons ago, so here is what’s been happening with Public Speaking recently.

This month, it was a great privilege and honour to launch the “Voice of Tangara,” - an internal public speaking competition, where our students from years 7-12 participated. Round 1 was on the 7th of June, and Round 2 was on the 21st of June. Participants had to pull out an unseen topic from a hat e.g. “The true crime genre is popular, but is it ethical to watch?”. They had a few minutes to prepare an impromptu speech either for, or against the topic. We had a total of 16 courageous girls put up their hand to participate, and deliver a speech on an open soapbox for our Tangara secondary students and staff.

Our amazing judges, Mrs Sakr, Mrs Pagano, Mrs Vukovic and Miss Tropea made the decision to select the top 5 and top 3 scoring participants from Round 1 and 2 respectively, for our final round next term. A big thank you to them for dedicating their time to judge.

Congratulations to the Righetti family who recently welcomed little Amelia Catherine into their family. A younger sister to Madeleine 5N, Julia 3R and Gabriel 1N.

Year Group	Day	Timing	Duration	Spots Available
Yr. 3-5	Wednesday	3.15 - 4.15pm	1hr	3
Yr. 3-5	Wednesday	4.15 - 5.15pm	1hr	3
Yr. 5-7	Wednesday	3.15 - 4.45pm	1.5hrs	5
Yr. 6-8	Monday	4.15 - 5.15pm	1hr	6
Yr. 4-6	Monday	3.15 - 4.15pm	1hr	4

Focus for Term #3

Term #3 will lay an in depth emphasis on Speaking Manner that will help captivate audiences. The students will be examining their physical and verbal manner/body language and expressions, get insights into best practices on a world stage and will have ample opportunities to apply the new techniques taught to them. They will also learn tricks to overcome speaking anxiety and sounding confident even though they may/may not feel so internally. 

For EOI please use the following form. Seats will be offered on a first-come-first-serve basis.

https://forms.gle/qNE8fhEaKcZtbtfYA

For further details, please get in touch with Marianne Parackal @ Cornerstone Creative Academy on #0411678854.