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COMING UP
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Monday
24 February
Year 7 Swimming
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Tuesday
25 February
Year 7 Immunisations
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Tuesday
25 February
Secondary Pancake
Tuesday
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Tuesday
25 February
Plenty Kids Session
Helper Workshop
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Friday
28 February
PVCC Relay for Life
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Friday
28 February
Primary Sub-School
Assemblies @ 2:30pm
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Monday
2 March
Early Years Walk-a-thon
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Monday
2 March
Year 7 Swimming
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Wednesday
4 March
Mission Trip Parent Info
Night
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Friday
6 March
Primary Assembly
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Monday, 9 March
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
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Issue 2 21 February 2020
EDITORIAL
Over the summer holidays and before the new school year began, the Senior
and Leadership Team (or SaLT as we like to call ourselves), met together to
dream, strategise and plan for 2020. It was a great time of exploring God’s
purpose for our students, staff and College community and lining this up
with educational research and practice.
One of the main outcomes of our planning day, was to clarify our priorities
and to develop a set of values that relate to everything we do as a College.
We now have a new common language to support our Strategic Goals.
Because we are Image Bearers of Christ, we:
Build Community,
Learn Courageously,
Strive for Excellence,
Actively Steward and
Nurture Godly Character.
As a College, we will continue to unpack what each of these values mean and
look like in practice. We are excited to use this language in every aspect of
College life and to work together to bring them to life. We will be asking
questions of each other, such as, “What does excellence really mean?” “Can
it be something different for different people?”, “How can we actively stew-
ard?”, “Who is our community and how do we build each other up?”
As the year progresses, we will discuss each of the values in the newsletter
and invite you to be part of that discussion by giving feedback.
I am looking forward to this new year and to building, being courageous,
conscious of stewardship and nurturing relationships with
each other and with God.
Lily McDonald
Deputy Principal
COMMUNITY NEWS
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Friday, February 28th will be a whole school out of uniform day for Relay For Life. Each year level/sub
school has been allocated a colour to wear for the day.
K-2: Gold (Childhood cancer)
Year 7: Yellow (Bone cancer)
Year 10: Orange (Leukemia)
Year 3/4: Dark blue (Colon cancer)
Year 8: Green (Liver cancer)
Year 11: Purple (Pancreatic cancer)
Year 5/6: Burgundy (Multiple myeloma)
Year 9: Grey (Brain cancer) or white (lung cancer)
Year 12: Pink (Breast cancer)
PVCC Parents Prayer Group
From Chris Griffin, parent coordinator of the Prayer Group:
As parents we entrust our children’s education to the school and the teachers, but we
choose PVCC strategically for the Christian worldview and nurturing environment.
We desire for the best for them and realize that prayer forms a part of that. So we pray !
The parents’ prayer group meets roughly fortnightly while school is on, and we pray wherever the spirit is
leading. There is lots of stuff going on in the school, in all sorts of different places from the strategic, high
level stuff to the small stuff in the playground, and our desire is to earnestly be aligned with God’s heart
and praying His will into the school. Come join us if you’re likeminded.
Venue: the Conference room (next to the general office)
Time: 7:30pm
March 12th and 26th April 16th May 14th and 28th
June 11th August 13th and 27th October 15th and 29th
November 12th December 3rd
For any questions please email Chris on [email protected]
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PRIMARY SPORT NEWS
Interschool Sport
On Friday the 14th of February, PVCC played against Apollo Parkways B at home.
Basketball: Boys won by 44 points & Girls lost by 2 points, player of the match: Jenna C and Lachlan S
Rounders: The girls lost, the player of the match was Aria
Volleyball: Boys drew and the girls lost, player of the match was Nathan K and Esther
Hotshots: Girls won and boys lost, player of the match Nick, Louis and Bella
Cricket: The boys lost, the player of the match was Nicholas
House Swimming
Junior Years 3-6 had a fantastic day at the Whittlesea outdoor pool for their swimming carnival. Lots of
students participated and gave it their absolute best. Crichton house were the winners on the day scoring
overall 766 house points. We would love to thank all the students, teachers and parent volunteers for
making the day a memorable one.
District Swimming
Plenty Valley Christian College participated in the Diamond Valley District Swimming Carnival. Overall,
PVCC finished 6th out of 10 Schools. The day was a success and students represented their school with
excellence. Isaac D and Jenna C will be progressing onto the division stage for achieving a top 2 finish in
their individual events. Well done to all the other students who participated who received a ribbon for
their events.
Josiah Garisto - Primary Physical Education
PRIMARY NEWS
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FROM SECONDARY
NEWS FROM SECONDARY SPORT
SECONDARY HOUSE SWIMMING CARNIVAL – Thursday February 13th 2020
The whole secondary school travelled to Aquarena in Doncaster for the annual house swimming carnival
the second week back at school. A warm sunny day was forecast and shade, sunscreen, Tshirts or rashies,
hats & hydration were encouraged for the day.
Each house had chosen their house coloured theme for the creative dress competition which made for a
colourful start to the carnival. Upton won this event in a very colourful turnout with the majority of the
house participating.
All the regular individual & relay swimming events were keenly contested with both student participation
and the general standard of all strokes being at a high level.
Other activities available to students were the diving & tug o’ war competitions, TShirt relays, the Year 12
Inflatable relay and water slides at lunchtime together with a staff/student relay where the teachers
finished 3rd to Meers in a hotly contested race.
Crichton backed up their 2019 win with another victory in the 2020 swimming carnival winning by 184
points from Schippers. Crichton was superbly led by senior captains Mikayla C & Archer H from Year 11
who encouraged fantastic participation from their house across all year levels.
Final points were
1st Crichton 1975 pts
2nd Schippers 1791 pts
3rd Meers 1721 pts
4th Upton 1563 pts
Year 9 student Ryan C was again the outstanding swimmer of the meet breaking 5 records. He claimed
new records in all four of the U15 boys’ individual events (all of which were 2010 records) and also the
Open Boys’ 100m – a record which had stood since 2011. Ryan smashed the 2010 breaststroke record by
a clear 5 seconds, the 100m free record by 2 seconds and both the freestyle & backstroke records by well
under a second. Fantastic effort again this year Ryan!
Crichton intermediate captain Charley M claimed the U16G butterfly record by well over 2 seconds in a
super swim. Well done Charley!
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Four 4 X 50m relay events had records tumble this year. Congratulations to all these swimmers!
Upton in the U13 B medley relay – Noah G/Jett O/Kyle G/Asher A
Crichton in the U15G medley relay – Gabby G/Nina T/Jasmine T/Kayla P
Meers in the U15B freestyle relay – Tristan W/Oliver H/Matt S/Regan H
Upton in the U16B freestyle relay – Elijah B/Jack B/Delandt P/Asher A
Congratulations to all Crichton captains and special thanks to all staff, student & parent helpers and to ex-
students Jadzia Kearnan, Prudence Wilson & Teya Brown who ably assisted at the carnival.
Swimming training has now commenced on Wednesday & Friday mornings at 7am at Diamond Creek Pool
in preparation for the EISM Div 2 Swimming Carnival at Ringwood Aquanation on Tuesday March 10th . All
are welcome at training which is being overseen by alumni swimming experts Prue Wilson and Josh
Christalow.
Helen Padget – Head of Secondary Sport
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STUDENT SPORTS OPPORTUNITY!!
Ex-student & Plenty Tennis Club coach Jarad Marshman is facilitating a new VicHealth funded initiative to assist 12 – 17 year olds to get active and off their screens.
The sessions are about social interaction with activity as a base. It would be great for small groups of friends to head to Plenty Tennis Club for some light exercise & food!
Activities are definitely not limited to tennis with the newly surfaced supergrass courts at Plenty Tennis Club providing a great venue for a variety of sports which Jarad will run also utilising the adjacent oval.
I’ve met with Jarad and the program sounds great for $5 per student per Thursday session including food!
Jarad is more than happy to answer any queries – his number is on the flyer.
UNIFORM SHOP
Shop Hours for Term 1:
Mondays 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuesdays 8:00am - 2:00pm
Thursdays 12:00pm - 5:00pm
1st Saturday of the month 9:30am - 12:30pm
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! See the roster - CLICK HERE
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.
PLEASE NOTE!
The uniform price list and uniform policy are
available on the College Website.
Please note that we cannot take in any more
uniform items into the swap shop (2nd hand
uniform shop). We can resume taking in 2nd hand
items in the last week of February 2020.
Our direct number is: 9036 7354
Lydia Ross
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Getting the most out of the PVCC App!
See what’s happening on the up-to-date College Calendar; never miss an event
Manage your child’s attendance using the Absentee function – no need to call the school, simply fill in your ab-sence details inside the App
When you need more information, the College Connections newsletter and PVCC website are only 1 click away!
And don’t forget to turn on Notifica-tions to receive the latest notices from the Office of any day-to-day changes
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