- September 1 - 6:30-8:30- Back to School Potluck Dinner & Orientation- Parents & Staff Only
- September 7 - First Day of School
Big Event
Every year, our students and staff present a special program known to all as The Big Event. This program focuses attention on one area of the curriculum and culminates a year's study. Even though the program spotlights one area of the curriculum, we integrate all areas of study-from math to language arts to art-into the final production.
One of the rewarding elements of every event is the sense of community our children feel working in "cross-age" learning teams. Students from Kindergarten through Grade Eight work side-by-side, learning from and helping each other. These groups allow our Middle School students to develop their leadership skills and allow younger students the opportunity work with the older students. These groups allow our students to work together and come to know each other which enhances the sense of each student feeling as if they are part of the larger community that is TCPS!
Students and staff maintain the Big Event as a surprise until the day of the event. Then, the campus is transformed into a setting which highlights the theme of the event. The day of the event is educational, fun filled, and a day that our families and guests enjoy a memorable time together.
Past Event Have Included:
1985 - Our First Big Event presented artwork inspired by Rousseau, El Greco, Calder, and other artists. Poetry recitations included works by our students and by other better-known writers!
1990 - A Continental Journey was chosen to foster a better understanding of geography and one's sense of responsibility for the environment.
2002 - The #1 Big Event featured several plays based on numbers. Our 7th and 8th grade "authors in residence" wrote plays while the whole school created sets, scenery, and costumes for The Wizard of Odds, Whoville and the Inch, Ruler Hood and His Band of Measure Men.
2005 - Art Galleries Classrooms were transformed into art galleries that featured the individual and group art projects students worked on throughout the year. Paintings, ceramic tiles, sculptures, and totem poles were among the hundreds of items on display. There were solo and group vocal performances, as well as instrumental performances on the piano, saxophone, and violin.
2009- Counting by 10s: researched the decades from 1920 to 1989. Major events, trends, personalities, inventions and innovations of each decade were explored and highlighted in six themed classroom displays and the Big Hall where attendees enjoyed French fries and root beer floats in a 50's diner setting. Through student mini-productions and costumes, scenes from the "Roaring 20's,"the Great Depression, the post-war years, the Cold War era, disco and the age of consumerism were depicted. Each classroom was transformed into a scene form the past allowing visitors to take a step back in time. You could visit Studio 54, a 20's speak easy, or settle into your living room for a fireside chat, all without leaving the comfort of the TCPS campus.
