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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: reception@rccc.vic.edu.au 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: reception@rccc.vic.edu.au

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.

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