SACRED HEART PRIMARY SCHOOL

Sacred Heart Primary enrolments are now open for 2024. We are very proud of what our school has to offer and encourage all prospective families to visit and experience our community firsthand. To arrange a school tour and to meet our Principal Pauline Hindson please contact the school office on 5824 1841.

Enrolment applications are available from the school website www.shtatura.catholic.edu.au or please contact the school office directly.

- Sally Dickinson, Admin Officer

The Community Heritage Awards were held on Saturday 22nd April on the 4th Floor at the Shepparton Arts Museum. Pictured are the Tatura friends who celebrated with Brian Williams whose book ‘Worship at Toolamba 1874 – 2016’ had won the ‘Best Research Publication or Manuscript’ section. Also present were Arthur and Lurline Knee who had won the same category in the last heritage awards with their book “The Nazi Camp’.

Tatura Primary School

If a visitor walked into The Village at Tatura Primary School, they would be amazed at the level of learning that is happening. In F/1 this year, we have incorporated exciting elements of the Little Learners Love Literacy program, a structured and systematic approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

In Foundation, our learning builds each week on the student’s prior knowledge to become excellent readers. Students meet new letter characters, practise forming letters and are engaged through songs, games and craft.

In Grade 1, students delve into the importance of vowels and consonants and learn the rules for decoding and encoding digraphs. All students then get the chance to apply their new learnings by practising their reading with our beautiful new Little Learners decodable texts.

We have been absolutely amazed by how easily the children are retaining these concepts and how they are improving not only their decoding, but their comprehension and fluency as well.

We are hosting an Information Night at Tatura Primary School on Wednesday, May 24. This is for our 2024 Foundation families and will commence at 7:00pm. If you would like to see our school in action, we are also offering a second Open Day at Tatura Primary School on Friday, June 16. This will begin at 9:30am and conclude at 1:00pm. Our Grade 6 leaders will be conducting tours on the day.

We look forward to welcoming new students and families to our wonderful school in 2024.

- Susanne Gill, Principal

81 Hair Studio

Wendy McDonald has recently opened her hairdressing salon, 81 Hair Studio, at her home in Thomson Street.

Wendy has been in the Goulburn Valley for over 16 years and recently moved to Tatura. The move to Tatura was prompted by her husband’s great love of golf and Wendy is working towards getting her golf handicap. During her more than 36 years as a hairdresser

Wendy has operated her own shopfront salon, worked in salons, and operated a homebased business. She offers all hairdressing requirements for both women and men and caters for children.

Wendy can be contacted on 0401 379 117.

Together with about ten other interested people, I recently attended a very interesting presentation on ‘The Defence of Australia 1942’. This was held at the Tatura Library and the speaker was Peter Spring from Springs Military History. Two of Peter’s great-grandfathers fought in WW1 and two grandfathers in WW2, no doubt leading to his great interest in Military History.

I had a personal interest in the topic as my father was stationed at an airbase at the top of WA following the bombing of Darwin in February 1942.

Peter gave an excellent insight into the history of Japan and its transformation from an agricultural to industrial nation following the opening of its borders, and its expansion into China and the Pacific region. He spoke of the ties which Australia had to England in WW1 and how the threat of Japan having control of the Pacific region meant that Australia was more reliant on America than England when the Japanese concentrated on the Pacific during WW2.

Following the Battle of Midway in June 1942, it was clear that air power was very important, and the naval emphasis changed from battleships to aircraft carriers. Peter spoke of the importance of airfields and the Battle of Milne Bay which was the first defeat of the Japanese on land.

We spent over an hour and a half listening to Peter and could have spent longer; however, he was due at the Numurkah Library at 2pm. Thanks Peter for a great presentation.

You can find out more about Peter on his Facebook page and he also takes Battlefield Tours in Europe with one in September/ October this year.