Tharwa Primary School Open Day
Wednesday 13th September, 9.30 am - 3.30 pm
You are invited with your children to visit Tharwa for its Primary School Open Day on Wed 13th September.
Kids activites for the day will be facilitated by a local Indigenous educator, and visitors are invited to experience the school’s unique multi-age classrooms in action, in it’s setting of environmental and heritage significance.
Morning tea will be provided, and visitors are encouraged to chat with school staff and parents for their views on the educational, social and physical environment.
Tharwa Primary is open for enrolments both for present and next year.
Enquiries can be directed to the Principal, Mary Hutchinson on 6205 7244.
To learn more about Tharwa Primary School, please see the attached press release or visit:
http://www.tharwaps.act.edu.au/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharwa_Primary_School
Students, Teachers and Parents at Tharwa Primary School look forward to welcoming visitors at the school’s Open Day next Wednesday, 13th of September.
The day will be the perfect chance to show off ‘the best little school in Canberra’ and will offer prospective students and their families the chance to see the school in action, speak with Teachers and staff, and meet the wider school community over a friendly morning tea. Activities will be facilitated by a local Indigenous Educator, in keeping with the school’s strong connection to local Indigenous and European history and the classes’ current study area of Indigenous culture.
For a positive, real life story read the account of “The boy who came to Open Day and never left!”
As a small school, Tharwa is able to offer a complete learning experience within a nurturing community environment. The school is ideally situated in the rural village of Tharwa and the smaller class sizes enjoy focussed attention from teachers as well as world renowned educational methods as part of the Lanyon Cluster group of schools. Despite listing the school for closure at the end of this year, the government has encouraged future enrolments and is considering what Education Minister Andrew Barr calls “exciting plans for Tharwa”.
The Save Tharwa School community group feel that the school offers a wealth of opportunity to future students who don’t fit the model of a larger, less personal school or who value Tharwa’s enviable location just outside of Canberra’s suburbs.