COMING UP

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Friday

20 September

End of Term 3

3:20pm

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Monday

7 October 2019

Staff & Students

Commence Term 4

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Thursday

10 October 2019

Year 12 Valedictory

Dinner

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Monday-Friday

14-18 October 2019

Year 9 Camp

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Tuesday

22 October 2019

Twilight Night

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Thursday

24 October 2019

Year 3 Enrichment Day/

Night

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Tuesday

29 October 2019

Kinder Parent

Information Night

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Tuesday

29 October 2019

World Teachers Day

Lunch

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Wednesday

30 October 2019

VCE Exams Commence

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Wednesday

30 October 2019

4yo & Prep Orientation 1

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Issue 13 19 September 2019

Term 3 has flown by. Although teachers used to think of it as the less hectic term it has proven not to be true this year at Plenty Valley. Staff returned from the International Transforming Education Conference and other professional development ready to do great things with their students. Year 10 students thought long and hard about what career they would like to pursue and investigated how they could reach their goals. Year 9s commuted into the city each day to gather information and critique the world’s second most liveable city. Secondary Production where the cast and crew were hard at work all term rehearsing and performing. Year 8s left their parents to head off to camp. Year 5s went off to freezing Sovereign Hill for a day excursion. Preps cele-brated 100 days. The Primary Senior Choir went to the Royal South Street Eisteddfod. The Heart of the Valley where students and staff shared their creativity. And the list goes on and on ... Needless to say, Plenty Valley Christian College provides many opportunities for our students. Not only a quality education with staff who pray for and care for their students, but we aim to assist in offering many opportunities to grow students’ positive character. The Education Support Centre refurbishment is now complete, and our Ed Support team has been moving into their new space this week. Two weeks earlier the Executive also moved into their refurbished office space creating a more central meeting room and allowing our Registrar to be more accessible for new families. Next term, work begins on our new Year 7 rooms which were once the old Prep classrooms. This will create a special place for the Year 7s next year; close to their old Primary area but still very much a part of Secondary. As the Strategic Plan is readied for publication next term thoughts are turning to the facilities and resources we will need to support that plan. A Master Plan will provide an outline of the timeline and facilities that we will need in the next 10 years. This will allow us to plan our finances to match. Expect to see the Secondary section of the College featuring fairly heavily in our next round of refurbishment and construction, as much work has already been done in the Primary to create space for Secondary.

COMMUNITY NEWS

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ENROLMENT We are currently in the process of determining our whole school class lists and structure for 2020. While most of our students continue on at PVCC, we recognise that you know your child’s educational and care needs better than anyone and that, occasionally, a different school meets some student’s aspirations.

With this in mind, please be aware that in accordance with the PVCC enrolment terms and conditions, one term’s notice must be given in writing to the College Registrar if your child is withdrawing from the College. If one term’s notice is not received in writing, the College requires one term’s fee to be paid in lieu of this notice.

If you have made plans for your child to continue with their education elsewhere in 2020, can you please email office@pvcc.vic.edu.au no later than Friday October 4th 2019.

Mardi Anderson

Registrar

UNIFORM CHANGE-OVER

Summer uniform period is Terms 1 and 4.

There will be a three-week overlapping

period for wearing summer and winter

uniform depending on the weather, at

the student's discretion. This will only be

at the beginning of Terms 2 and 4.

In Terms 1 & 4 the wearing of the College sun hat is compulsory when undertaking lessons outdoors in

direct sunlight, including specified Physical Education classes or sport events. Primary students must also

wear the hat while outdoors during recess and lunchtimes. Click here to read the full Uniform Policy.

Recently I have had the joy of interviewing students for the position of the Senior College Captains for 2020. Although wedged into a very busy day it was so encouraging to see so many worthy applicants. Solid young men and women with a heart to serve the community and their God. I am not exaggerating when I say that any of them would have brought credit to their community in a leadership position. Unfortunately, we cannot choose everyone. There is some disappointment. When plans don’t go the way we expect it is hard to believe God actually has a plan, but He does. It appears He enjoys turning disap-pointment to joy, lost direction into something strong, productive and rewarding. We have seen this so often in the past.

Jeremiah 29:10-11 This is God’s Word on the subject: “… I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. Jeremiah 29:10-11 (The Message)

The successful applicants will be announced at the end of term assembly tomorrow. Please pray for our new Captains, Senate, and Christian Ministry Team as they seek to serve our community. Also thank God for the excellent leadership we have enjoyed from the 2019 student leaders.

John Metcalfe - Principal

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Trivia Night Acknowledgements

We were excited to have over 100 parents, teachers and students attend our bi-annual trivia fundraising evening on 31st August. Over $3,500 was raised, money which will go primarily to Relay For Life 2020, but also contribute to student initiatives around the school.

A huge thank you must be extended to our trivia masters the Mason family, with all 8 family members making the night fun and memorable. The Senior Student Senate also worked hard to bring the night together, with support from our fabulous Parents and Friends Association.

Please note the businesses listed below that donated items and vouchers for the night, their generosity made the fundraising total possible. In return for this we’d love you to support their businesses where you can:

Businesses associated with PVCC:

Mason White McDougall Real Estate

Dench Butchers Wallan

Mr Chocolate Travel

Frost Real Estate

EnCompass Financial Brokers

Beauty on Walnut Whittlesea

Matthew Duke Photography

Memorial Ave Dental Clinic

Creative Memories (Vicki Donnelly)

Fair Dinkum Fertilisers

Other local businesses that generously supported the night:

Aksorn Thai Diamond Creek Slumberest

Anytime Fitness Diamond Creek Simply Beautiful Decorations Diamond Creek

Salon Vie Hurstbridge Yellowtail Fish and Chips Diamond Creek

Gigliola Intensive Home Diamond Creek

Artist Photographer Diamond Creek Pharmacy

Hairy Cherubs Whittlesea McDonald’s Doreen

McDonald’s Whittlesea KFC Doreen

Lilydale Chicken Doreen NVS Hair and Co Wallan

Jsala Candles Yan Yean Stock Feed

Wallan Central Pizza Open House Café Wallan

King Swim Eltham Bookshop

Dan Murphy’s Eltham Le’s Bakery Wallan

CJ’s Fish and Chips Wallan Koorong Books

Spanners Automotive Whittlesea Whittlesea Physiotherapy

Greensborough Newsagency Hadlow and Sons Pet Supplies

Wallan Fruit and Veg OPSM Greensborough

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PRIMARY SPORT

Year 5/6 Winter Sport

See below the results for each sport and who won player of the match.

September 6th – FINALS

Softball Boys v Apollo A = 1st Soccer Boys v Greenhills = 3rd

Division Athletics

On Thursday September 12th, 6 students qualified to represent

our school at the Division Athletics, which was held at Mead-

owglen Athletics Stadium. Olivia G finished 2nd in Long Jump

and Asher A finished 1st in Discus and 2nd in Shot put, allowing

them to qualify for Regional! Regional Athletics will be held

next term on Wednesday October 16th.

Footy Day

The Kinder to Year 6 students participated in the Primary Footy Day on Monday September 16th ! They

day started off with the students wearing their colours and proudly supporting their teams during the

parade. Then the students had a session in the gym, which was run by SEDA AFL and included inflatable

football activities. They also had a football clinic run by our secondary VCAL students on the oval.

A massive thank you to the VCAL students for all of their hard work and leadership to the younger

students. The rest of the day the primary students did AFL activities in the classroom. GO TIGERS!

PRIMARY NEWS

Early Years Tennis Clinic Day

Students in year Prep-2 have begun to experience a Hot Shots Tennis clinic this term run by coaches from the Plenty Tennis Club. They have been developing their forehand, backhand, volley shots and under-standing of some of the rules used in tennis.

3/4 Netball Day

On Thursday September 19th all the Year 3/4 students participated in an interschool Netball Day! The students travelled to Diamond Creek Outdoor Netball courts and competed in 8 different teams. The students did a fantastic job representing our school, while learning more about netball and sportsman-ship. A massive thank you to the Year 6 House captains who coached some of the teams and the second-ary students who volunteered to umpire!

All the teams played really well, plus the Boys Blue team and Mixed Purple team finished 4th after playing off in the finals. At the end of the day the coaches selected one student from each team to receive the Best & Fairest; Ally H, Ruby S, Isaac R, Nicholas P, Elijah A, Josh F, Kobe M & Aria L.

Sally Donaldson - Primary Physical Education & Sport Coordinator

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FROM SECONDARY

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SECONDARY SPORT

EISM CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

The EISM XC Carnival was held on Wednesday September 11th on a beautiful day at Ruffey Lake Park in

Doncaster and in the Central Division, Plenty Valley came 5th out of 8 schools.

The boys had a good day out winning the boys’ U14 and Open age groups.

We won 2 medals with Year 8 students Matilda F & Isaac C winning the silver in their U14 3km events.

Some races had around 80 runners so it is a very competitive carnival.

Congratulations to our top placegetters –

U13 G – Jasmine T 4th / Mabel M 12th

U13 B – Aaron B 17th /Hayden A 20th

U14 G – Matilda F 2nd / Nikola C 9th

U14 B – Isaac C 2nd / Levi L 4th / Micah Y 11th / Michael P 14th / Zach C 15th / Matthew S 16th

U15 G – Charley M 6th /Ali B 10th / Arielle E 15th

U15 B - Jack R 11th / Austin W 18th

U16 G - Inge T 6th / Mikayla C 11th

U16 B – Jack A 6th / Jono Y 11th / Josh A 13th / Eric B 15th

Open G – Jaymee B 27th / Charisse R 32nd

Open B – Zac K 5th / Marnus P 6th /Nathan A 7th /Caleb L 8th / Cameron H 13th / Ben T 15th / Sam C 20th

The 2019 Individual XC Champions and the XC house winner will be announced at the next assembly.

Helen Padget

Helen.padget@pvcc.vic.edu.au

CANTEEN

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Have a look at the canteen menu online -

CLICK HERE

Flexischools App

Fliexischools have now released an app on both Android and iOS which makes the process easier than before. Just search for: ‘flexischools’ in the app stores.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexischools&hl=en

All work in the Canteen can be counted towards Parent Participation Time.

Dads and grandparents are most welcome too!

NOTE: Due to Health Regulations, space and safety reasons, we are unable to accommodate any

children in the Canteen.

Contact Wendy or Denise in the Canteen if you can help.

FROM THE CAREERS OFFICE

Dates to Diarise in Term 3

Year 12 VTAC timely applications – throughout August and September

VTAC SEAS and Scholarship applications open August and September

VET Course Applications due by the end of term 3.

Year 10 – Real Industry Job Interviews – Tuesday October 29 – Plenty Ranges (more details to come next term).

The Careers Newsletter will be available fortnightly with lots of important information on courses, events and opportunities for career exploration as well as important dates for VCE students.

CLICK HERE TO READ.

Our Careers website has a wide range of information for all ages and stages in the career journey. Find it at: www.careers.pvcc.vic.edu.au

I am more than happy to assist students and parents. Please call the school or email me at

helen.madden@pvcc.vic.edu.au to make an appointment.

Helen Madden - Careers Practitioner/VET Coordinator

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UNIFORM SHOP

The uniform price list and uniform policy are

available on the College Website.

Our direct number is: 9036 7354

Lydia Ross

Shop Hours Term 4:

Mondays 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Tuesdays 8:00am - 2:00pm

Thursdays 12:00pm - 5:00pm

1st Saturday of the month 9:30am - 12:30pm

LOST PROPERTY

Please mark all uniform items with a permanent marker. Named uniform items may be collected at the

general office. Named items will be listed on the Notices through the Seqta portal.

PLEASE NOTE!

The shop will be open on Orientation Day,

Tuesday December 10th 8:00am - 4:00pm

Last day of trade for 2019 - December 10th 2019

Extended trading hours in January 2020 - click

here

COMMUNITY ADVERTISEMENTS

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ATHLETICS

The Diamond Valley Athletic Club invites any student interested in a season of Track & Field athlet-ics to come along to a TRIALS AND REGISTRATION AFTERNOON on Sunday 29th September

2019 at Willinda Park, Greensborough (Melways 21 A4) beginning at 2:00pm.

The club also welcomes interested athletes to join in club training sessions at Willinda Park on Tues-day and Thursday afternoons from 5:00pm. Athletes will find qualified coaches on hand to assist

with their preparation.

For further information, check out the club website www.valleyaths.org or contact Max Balchin on 0409 350 280.

The season of competition with Athletics Victoria commences on Saturday 5th October 2019 and is open to women and men from Under 14’s through to open age.

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