Buses

Metro

http://www.metrotas.com.au/schools/taroona-high-school/

Country Bus Services

WISBY’S BUS SERVICE - Phone: 6267 1789

HOWDEN - BRIGHTWATER ROAD - BURWOOD DRIVE - BLACKMANS BAY
KINGSTON BEACH - KINGSTON - TAROONA HIGH SCHOOL (articulated bus)

MORNING		AFTERNOON
7.30am	Channel Highway, Howden Road	2.50pm	Taroona High School turning circle
7.35am	Brightwater Road at Tinderbox Road Junction	3.00pm	Channel Highway, Beach Road Intersection
7.38am	Burwood Drive, Woodlands Drive	3.03pm	Beach Road, Roslyn Avenue
7.40am	Edison Avenue, Garnett Street, Roslyn Avenue	3.06pm	Mirramar Park
7.45am	Illawarra Road	3.10pm	Illawarra Primary School
7.48am	Wells Parade, Roslyn Avenue
7.53am	Stop opposite Mirramar Park, Mt Royal Road, Osborne Esplanade
8.00am	Beach Road, Kingston Beach Hall, Church Street, Freeman Street
8.05am	Kingston Central North (outside Denison House), Channel Highway
8.20am	Taroona High School

SNUG - MARGATE - KINGSTON - BONNET HILL - TAROONA PRIMARY/HIGH SCHOOL

MORNING		AFTERNOON
7.45am	Snug Primary School Car Park	2.50pm	Taroona High School turning circle
7.46am	Harts Road	2.50pm	Mal’s Plant Hire
7.48am	Electrona Oval, Van Morey Road	3.05pm	Maranoa Road, Cleburne Street
7.52am	Margate Hardware Shop	3.13pm	Redwood Road, Mitre 10, Huntingfield
7.54am	Howden Road	3.15pm	Tarremah Steiner School, Huntingfield
8.00am	Mertonvale Circuit	3.18pm	St Aloysius College, Huntingfield Campus
8.05am	Kingston Primary School, (pick up THS students from Maranoa bus)	3.30pm	Maddocks Road, Howden Road Margate Hardware Shop, Beach Road
8.05am	Channel Highway		Margate, Bundalla Road, Margate,
8.20am	Taroona Primary School		Incana Road, Channel Highway
*7.50am	Redwood Road, Hawthorn Drive		Electrona Oval
*7.58am	Maranoa Road, Dennison Street	3.45pm	Snug Primary School
*8.05am	Kingston Primary School

TAROONA PRIMARY SCHOOL – KINGSTON – KINGBOROUGH SPORTS CENTRE

*	Students boarding and exiting at these stops change buses at Kingston Primary School in the morning, and take the bus from Taroona Primary School at 2.50pm and change at Mal’s Plant Hire & Hardware in the afternoon.	2.50pm	Taroona High School turning circle
		3.00pm	Mal’s Plant Hire & Hardware
		3.05pm	Kingston Primary School, Freeman Street, Channel Highway, Summerleas Road
		3.20pm	Kingborough Sports Centre

Other Metro Bus Service Timetables

Metro Tasmania also operates school bus services from the D’ENTRECASTEAUX CHANNEL area.

Bus No 415 commences from WOODBRIDGE at 6.48am, and travels via Kettering, Snug, Margate, Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Redwood Road, Maranoa Road, Denison Street, stops at Kingston Central on request and connects with Bus No 429, leaving at 7.46am.

Bus No 416 commences from MIDDLETON at 6.31am, and travels via Kettering, Snug, Margate, Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Redwood Road, Maranoa Road, Denison Street, stops at Kingston Central on request and connects with Bus No 429, leaving at 7.25am.

Bus No 418 commences from CYGNET at 6.50am and travels via Nicholls Rivulet; stops at Kingston Central on request and connects with Bus No 429, leaving at 7.46am.

For further information about transfer and connections, please see http://www.metrotas.com.au
or ring METRO 13 22 01

ROBERTS COACHES operates school bus services from the HUON VALLEY

For further information about transfer and connections, please ring ROBERTS COACHES
6264 1174, 0408 641 174, or 0417 535 214

Latest News

Levies Refund by Department of Education

30 Apr 2020

This message is just a reminder to parents about the Department’s School Levy Refund Process. If you have not already completed this process, a simple online form and related instructions have been made available here: https://levyrebate.education.tas.gov.au.

The online form can be completed up until Friday 1 May 2020 on a computer, laptop, tablet or mobile device with internet capabilities. Safety and security steps have been built into this process to ensure complete confidentiality for parents/carers.

Once validation has occurred and the online form has been completed and submitted, the reimbursement of funds will occur within five business days.

The Department of Education will offer an alternative arrangement where this online option may not be possible. For more information please visit: https://www.education.tas.gov.au/parents-carers/novel-coronavirus-covid-19.

For any enquiries regarding your refund, please contact 1800 827 055 or email stas@education.tas.gov.au.

Monday 27 April - Professional Learning Day

21 Apr 2020

Reminder that the first day of school for students is on Tuesday 28 April. Teachers have a Professional Learning Day on Monday 27 April.

April 8 Newsletter

08 Apr 2020

Click here to view the April 8 Schoolzine eNewsletter!

Levies

06 Apr 2020

In order to assist our Head Office Finance Department in processing refunds for levies and other payments they have asked if you have set up regular Bpay instalments to please cancel before close of business this Tuesday please. Thank you!

Please find a Frequently Asked Questions document which provides more detail on Levy refunds and hopefully addresses anything else you are still unsure about....

Hope you have a fabulous weekend.

https://publicdocumentcentre.education.tas.gov.au/…/FAQ-for…

School Holidays start Monday 6 April

02 Apr 2020

Please keep an eye out for our latest newsletter, this will be distributed tomorrow (Friday). To read or subsribe to our newsletter, please click on the School Newsletter tile here on our home page. https://taroonahigh.education.tas.edu.au/subscribe

Student Email

02 Apr 2020

If your student has forgotton how to access their student email an example of student email is here: firstname.surname.00@education.tas.edu.au

Passwords are the same as students Canvas password, to access their email students can logon to the school's intranet page via the Taroona High School website - link below:

https://taroonahigh-intranet.education.tas.edu.au/intranet/SitePages/Home.aspx

Changes to Metro School Bus Services

31 Mar 2020

Extract from Metro letter dated 30 March 2020.

On Wednesday 25 March, the Tasmanian Government announced that the end of Term One for students in Government primary and secondary schools would be brought forward to Friday 3 April. Subsequently, Catholic Education Tasmania also brought forward their calendar to align with Government schools.
The Department of State Growth, which contracts Metro Tasmania to deliver bus services, has advised that school bus services will conclude for Term One on Friday 3 April. For schools remaining open in the week from 6 to 9 April, the following arrangements will apply for Metro-operated services.
HOBART
 Public services (routes numbered in the 400, 500 and 600 series and their express variants) will continue to operate to the usual Term timetable. Services marked on timetables as ‘ S – operates on school days only ‘ will continue to operate as normal.
 School bus services (routes numbered in the 200 and 300 series, along with Hobart College Route 451) will not operate. Students requiring travel to and from school will need to use public services to make their journeys.

THS Update

30 Mar 2020

We are business as usual for staff and students whose families are unable to keep them at home this week.
Any students needing items from their lockers our preference is for you to send students to collect items after 3pm.

Chickenpox (varicella)

26 Mar 2020

We would like to make our school community aware that there has been a confirmed case of Chickenpox (varicella). We are following Public Health advice on this matter. Please contact your doctor or the Public Health hotline on 1800 671 738 if you are concerned, or your child has the following symptoms : fever, feeling unwell and an itchy skin rash .

Please see the fact sheet here: https://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/…/Chickenpox_Factsheet_15_04_20…

Phone Issue - 17 March 2020

17 Mar 2020