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River City Christian College Term 02, Week 06
rccc.vic.edu.au Monday, May 18, 2020
In this issue
From Alan Corby 1
Prayer Points 2
School News 2-6
Calendar of Events 7
Direction
There is a TAC ad on TV at the moment that says,
looking at our phone is like driving with our eyes
covered. I checked on the internet and when we
are travelling at 60kph we travel 17m and at
100kph we travel 28m. An awful lot can happen on
the road in that distance that we would be unaware
of as we wouldn’t see it. This isn’t a driving
instruction article, but if we think about how we
live our lives it is very easy to become distracted
and shift our focus off what is important. So, what
should be the focus of our lives?
In Proverbs 3:5-6 it says “5 Trust in the LORD with
all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
And in Proverbs 4:25-27 it says “25
Let your
eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly
before you. 26
Give careful thought to the paths for
your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. 27
Do
not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot
from evil.”
Here we are instructed to give careful thought to
God and what he wants in our lives and not to
deviate from that.
If we consider how far each one of us has come in
our lives, and how often we haven’t concentrated
on what God is calling us to do, or offered up to
him all that is happening in our lives, how fortunate
are we that he hasn’t taken his attention off us! Just
think of the joy we have missed out on as we have
strayed from his path.
Beginning this week, let us give more time to God
in our lives for we cannot give him too much
attention.
God Bless
Corbz
Next week’s Newsletter will come home with students when they are back in class on
Tuesday May 26th, plus distributed by email as usual.
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Prayer Points
• Thankfulness to God for the way He has
provided for us over these recent weeks.
• For wisdom as final preparation is made for a
return to classroom learning at RCCC and
elsewhere.
• That we would be united in Christ’s love, being
one in spirit and of one mind.
• For the school Board as it meets for its normal
monthly meeting on Wednesday evening.
• Just as the RCCC pioneers were moved by God
to consider a different way for their children’s
education almost 40 years ago, as we approach
and move beyond this significant milestone,
please continue in prayer and listening for what
God now wants us to be and to do as a school
community.
While prayer can be at anytime and anywhere, parents
and friends are also welcome to unite in prayer at
home or at school each Monday during the school
term, 8.50am to 9.10am. If at school, this will be in
the Library for now.
RCCC Inc. AGM
The RCCC Inc. Annual General Meeting will be held at
7.30pm on Wednesday May 27th this year where reports will
be received from the Chairman, Treasurer (including audited
financials) and the Principal. Current parents in the school are
also welcome to come to the AGM as non-voting visitors and
applications for membership of RCCC Inc. are welcome at
any time. However, as this year’s AGM will be held via video
conference, if you would like to attend as a non-voting
visitor, please let me know and I’ll advise you of the
arrangements. Peter Nelson
Special Online Opportunities
Due to our friendship with Belgrave Heights Christian
School, three of our students have commenced a short
online tutorial to expand their writing skills through the
Melbourne Young Writers' Studio.
Also over the last couple of weeks, a short online
mentoring program arranged by I CAN commenced and
we are pleased to continue our relationship with this
organisation which supports young people on the Autism
Spectrum. Four of our secondary students have taken up
this opportunity.
The Beacon organisation have converted their Interview
Technique and Resume Writing course into an online
workshop which our Oven Class will be involved with next
Monday. It is expected that online Mock Interviews will
also follow before the end of this term.
Open Day
During May each year is Education Week and a
time when many schools have an open day,
welcoming people into their schools and
classrooms to build the existing community and to
encourage enrolments for future years. We are
continuing with the promotion of the school in
the local press during this time but not proceeding
with an Open Day as such. None-the-less, we are
very keen to talk to people about how we can
support the education of their child, providing
them with the information they are looking for at
this time.
If you know of anyone likely to need to enrol
their child in school for next year or even earlier,
please encourage them to contact us. We are also
keen to receive enrolments for any 2021 Preps
within the current RCCC community.
River City Christian College
Wisdom, Integrity, Compassion
A faithful Prep to Year 10 school in Echuca for
almost 40 years, with bus arrangements for
students from surrounding areas.
OPEN & READY
WHEN YOU ARE School Days from 9.00am to 5.00pm
We welcome you to check out our website, give us a call and arrange a suitable time
to visit with us.
29 Rose St Echuca, Vic 3564 P: (03) 5482 4594
E: [email protected] W: www.rccc.vic.edu.au
Enrolments are welcome now for Prep to Year 10.
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Resuming Classroom Learning
Please check out the poster at the back of this Newsletter for display at home.
A more detailed description of this was emailed to parents in a Bulletin last Thursday but if you missed that or
have any questions or comments, please call or email me. However, below is how we at River City Christian
College will manage a phased return to classroom learning, along with the conclusion of remote learning at the
end of this week. All classes will attend as follows:
Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28
th May only during this week, for a special program of reuniting on-site and getting
back into classes.
Monday 1st, Wednesday 3
rd & Friday 5
th June only during this week, for a return to normal timetabled classes
in most cases.
Tuesday 9th to Friday 12
th June (Monday is a Public Holiday), following our normal timetable of classes.
Monday 15th to Friday 26
th June, normal classes through to the end of Term 2, with a 2.15pm dismissal on that
last day as usual.
In that Bulletin last Thursday, I outlined the various areas where additional attention and processes will be applied
to suitably care for students and staff in the weeks ahead, complying with various health and other guidelines.
Please return any completed work and school equipment we have loaned you on Tuesday 26th May as there will
be no drop off / collection this Friday afternoon. Normal transport to school arrangements will apply on Tuesday
morning May 26th, with suitable cleaning and physical distancing being implemented on the buses. We are relying
on you to make good use of the days during this return phase where the children are at home (May 25th, 27
th,
29th, June 2
nd & 4
th) as remote learning packages will have concluded.
Please note that students should be in their full winter uniform when classroom learning resumes and if you are
missing any parts of that, please contact Joan at the school office as soon as possible. Peter Nelson.
Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal
As we further build a connection with the local Salvation Army, in our endeavour to support
local people who are struggling to have enough food or have other welfare needs met, we
want to encourage the school community to support their upcoming Red Shield Appeal. If you
are able, there are a number of ways you could do this but one would be to donate online to
https://digitaldoorknock.salvationarmy.org.au/t/echuca-moama-salvos
Money given in this way goes to welfare needs in the Echuca Moama region and while they
welcome gifts at any time, their annual appeal weekend is coming up on May 23rd & 24
th. They have started
promoting the need for donations and will continue to do that through to the end of June.
Their mission is to live, love and fight for everyone in need and they are experiencing that need to be greater now
than ever.
Please generously give if you are able as we partner with the Echuca-Moama Salvos in this manner.
Some visitors at school
when no students are
here to play!
Friday Themes
Next Friday, May 22nd
, we will be wearing our dressing gowns (respectfully) during our final remote learning
Zoom meetings! This will be bit different to our school uniforms of last week.
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Ovens Class Remote Learning
Zoom meeting class
Online Birthday party for Chloe
& Macca
Jasmine Ryan
Guess whose Isolation Desks these are???
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How Great Thou Art Throughout the remote-learning period, the Ovens Art class were assigned with a project in which they had to create a ‘temporal’ artwork on the ground, from ‘found objects’.
Ovens students’ ARt WORKs
Taya Calder Paige Doherty Luke Broad
Michael Pikokivaka Paige Doherty
Some videos “released”
during last week’s Chapel!
In addition to Pastor Kez Sinapius’
great message delivered on video
during last week’s school Chapel, a
group of young singers prepared a
video of themselves singing the
school’s anthem but they were
somewhat reluctant to be identified
as you will see in the clip below!
Sebastian Luckman-Grey practicing his chopstick skills for a LOTE activity.
2019 Annual
Report
Available
As part of our
school
registration
requirements,
we prepare
and make
available an
annual report
regarding the
operation of
the College.
This briefly
covers a range
of areas and is
different to the
annual report
presented to
the RCCC Inc.
annual general
meeting. This
annual report
is required by
the school
registration
authority
(VRQA),
posted on our
website under
the “About
Us” tab and
also available
from Joan at
the school
office.
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Contact Us: Phone: 03 5482 4594
Website: www.rccc.vic.edu.au
Email: [email protected]
BSB: 063 511 Account: 1005 5226
River City
Christian College
School Calendar of Events
May
2020
4 Staff
Development Day.
Chapel only for
students. Week 4
5
6 7
8
9
10 Mother’s Day
11 Week 5
12 13
14 15
16
17
18 Week 6 19
20 21
22
23
24
25 Beacon
Interview
Technique session Week 7
26
27
RCCC Inc AGM
28
29
30
31
Jun
2020
1 Week 8
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 Queen’s Birthday
Public Holiday Week 9
9
10
11
12
13
14
15 Week 10
16
17
18
19
20
21
22 Week 11
23 24 25 26 BUPA—Ovens Last day Term 2
2.15pm dismissal
27 Holidays
28 Holidays
29 Holidays
30 Holidays
1 Holidays
2 Holidays
3 Holidays
4 Holidays
5 Holidays
School Calendar Changes
At the end of this term we had a couple of special events which have needed to be rescheduled into Semester 2. They
are the Waverly Christian College Grade 6 student leaders’ visit to RCCC and our Year 10’s week of work experience.
Updates on these events will be provided as they become available.