Student opportunities and activities

At Turramurra Public School, we offer a variety of programs in the classroom and across the school to help students build new skills, make friends and explore new interests.

Our programs include:

school sport, athletics and inter-school competitions
creative and performing arts groups and showcases
activities that support high potential and gifted learners, including enrichment classes
cultural activities
excursions and incursions
public speaking and debating
lunchtime and interest-based clubs
student leadership opportunities.

Our extra-curricular highlights

Band

There are three main Concert Bands at TPS:

Junior Concert Band
Intermediate Concert Band
Performance Band

There is also a Jazz Band, which consists of students from Years 5 to 6

Dance

We run three gifted and talented dance groups:

Senior Dance (Years 5 & 6)
Intermediate Dance (Years 3 & 4)
Junior Dance (Year 2)

The Senior & Intermediate dance groups perform at the Sydney North Dance Festival held at Glen Street Theatre during Term 2.

Enrichment

We run Enrichment programs for students in English and Mathematics, led by Mrs Rowe. We run an English Enrichment group and a Writing Enrichment group. We run Maths Olympiad for Year 5-6, Maths Games for Year 3-4 and Maths Explorer for Year 2 students. Students are challenged to develop their creativity in solving maths problems.

Choir

We have junior and senior choirs. These groups learn a repertoire of songs and perform at school events and externally, including at Schools Spectacular.

Sports Aerobics

Selected Years 5 and 6 students compete in highly energetic and entertaining sports aerobics routines. Recently, these talented performers took part in the Australian National Sports Aerobics competition and one team came first and the other third out of all groups across Australia

Hornsby Zone School Sport

Students in Years 3-6 can try out for a multitude of teams to play in an inter-school sports competition on Fridays. The sports are:

Softball (Years 5 and 6) Tee-ball (Years 3 and 4)
League Tag
Cricket
Football (soccer)
AFL
Netball

School Carnivals

The school holds three carnivals each year, which are:

swimming
athletics
cross country

Students learn athletic event skills during sport lessons. Students who achieve certain times/distances compete in higher level carnivals against students from other schools (zone, area state and nationals).

Robotics

Robotics lessons with upper primary students run outside of school hours. These students work collaboratively to learn about robotics and experiments with builds

Debating

Our debating team is made up of Years 5 and 6 students who excel at public speaking. The team competes in the Ryde District Debating Competition.

Trips and excursions

Our students enjoy getting out of the classroom to explore, learn and try new things. These experiences help them grow, build confidence and see how their learning connects to the world.

Beyond excursions, our Stage 3 students attend camp each year, alternating between Canberra and the Great Aussie Bush Camp

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