Tides

Tides

Flow like water, adapt like the tide, and discover your inner flow-master with Tides House!

Tides
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Mascot

The Eternal Tideback Turtle

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Colour

blue

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Captain

Pam

"Water can flow, or it can crash - be water, my friend."

— The Eternal Tideback Turtle

The Eternal Tideback Turtle

Deep in the swirling creeks of Kimbercote, where Blue Mountains' ancient waters rush and roar like hidden giants, the Tideback Turtle awakens as a colossal guardian born from the first great flood that shaped the valleys into secret havens. Legends say this mighty turtle, with a shell vast as an island and etched with glowing blue runes of forgotten storms, once carried lost dreamers on its back through crashing waves of chaos—teaching them to ride the wild surges of big feelings that bubble up fast and fierce, or to let gentle flows wash worries into tranquil pools.

"Water can flow, or it can crash - be water, my friend," it rumbles in timeless wisdom, shape-shifting its shell from crashing waterfalls that smash obstacles with unstoppable power to serene rivers that carve patient paths through stone. Tides kids inherit this magic by diving into watery quests at dawn's rush or dusk's calm, learning to flow around fears like a turtle glides unseen, crashing through doubts with shell-shaking roars—unlocking empathy's deep currents, turning emotional floods into bonds of unbreakable calm, and guarding Kimbercote's streams as eternal flow-masters who adapt, heal, and inspire endless adventure.

Tides
Four walls and a desk works for controlling large numbers of children. It does not work for empowering, inspiring, and fostering life long learners who will become the changemakers that we so desperately need.
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Jeff Barrett
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