Newsletter Edition 05 5th March 2015 Early Learning Centre Now Open. Details on page 3. An ancient battle cry has become the theme and motto for NCC secondary students in 2015. Its origins are an encouragement given by God to the people of Israel as they prepared to face challenges of identity, bravery and personal commitment. Preparing for conflict, for hard work or for leadership: Go in God’s strength. Be strong in Him, let God fight for you, He goes ahead of you… As this year’s Week of Worship opened, our speaker Ray Moaga took the message of this battle cry to talk about living without fear. “God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity,” Ray quoted from 2 Timothy, “But a spirit of power Rak Chazak! (to overcome), of love (to resist anger and hatred), and of a sound mind (self control and straight thinking).” During the week, students heard testimonies and stories from their peers and teachers, which reflected on God’s strength from their different personal experiences. With the Chapel Band leading worship music and special items from students and staff, as well as moments of prayer and reflection - the daily Chapel time created a window in each day to think about life differently. The goal is for this thinking to translate to every day in every student’s life. Ray Moaga is visiting with NCC from Young Leaders Day Danielle Speirs Nathan Choo Alanna Isla Last week our primary school leadership team; which comprises our school captains and vice captains, as well as our sport house captains, attended a training day at the Adventist Schools Victoria offices. Karen Horsley and Marita McKeon, our primary chaplains, arranged a special program for our young leaders where they were taught vital leadership and planning skills. Throughout the year these student will put these skills to work as they lead our student body. the South Island of New Zealand where he and wife Chantal are sharing ministry with teens and youth. Ray is also Youth Director for the Seventh-day Adventist church. This year our service project during Week of Worship was to create pamper packs for residents of Asher House, and was completed in collaboration with ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency). For more information on how to contribute, please check the announcement in this newsletter! Lili Panozzo Secondary Chaplain Teacher’s Aide Position Available The primary school is seeking a new teacher’s aide for one of our primary classrooms. If any of our parents are interested in applying for this position, please contact Mr Michalski at pmichalski@ncc.adventist.edu.au or phone the school to make an appointment. Lian Songput ncc.adventist.edu.au A member of Adventist Schools Australia. Building Fund Donations “The Good Book or a good book?” Exploring the evidence for the validity of the claim: The Bible is God’s Word. You are invited to Nunawading Adventist Church for a presentation on this informative topic and then to a small group discussion afterwards where questions can be asked. Saturday, March 7th 10am-11:15am 11:30-12:30pm (Discussion Group) Followed by fellowship lunch Meeting at Nunawading Christian College Hall 161 Central Rd, Nunawading More info: call Karen on 0427 426582 Clean Up Australia Day Last Friday was Clean Up Australia Day for schools. The program has been running for 25 years. The children in P/1 and 1/2 collected rubbish from the creek that flows between the school and Advent Care Whitehorse. Participating in this community program was a practical way for us to demonstrate our support for caring for the environment. The children had such a good time that they can’t wait to go back and do it again. Parent/Teacher Interviews Primary and secondary parent teacher interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 17th March. The primary school interviews will run from 3.30pm-8.00pm and each appointment is ten minutes. Please ensure you arrive on time for your appointment and finish on time. If you require longer than the allotted ten minutes, please arrange for another appointment time. To make a booking, log on to www.schoolinterviews.com.au and enter Event code: VVCN3. The secondary school interviews will run from 4.00pm-8.00pm and each appointment is five minutes. The efficient running of our secondary school interviews relies on parents arriving promptly for their appointments. Please also ensure that you adhere to the five minute time limit for each of your appointments. To make a booking for secondary school teachers, log on to www.schoolinterviews.com. au and enter Event code: 9TSNS. Ride2School Day Students, parents and teachers can cycle, walk, skate or scoot to school on national Ride2School day on March 15th. Last year more than 300,000 participants were involved across Australia and the Whitehorse council is backing the March 15th event as a wonderful opportunity for people to see how much fun it is for kids to ride to school. As we have communicated in the past, Nunawading Christian College has engaged an architect to outline a ten year master plan to fully refurbish the school facilities. Stage 1 of this plan has seen the inclusion of the full sized school oval and tennis courts to our facilities, the new parent car park and the upgrade to the secondary school quadrangle. Stage 2 was the wonderful refurbishment of the primary school classrooms that our students and teachers are currently enjoying. We are ready to move on to the next stage of this plan which includes further refurbishment to the existing secondary classrooms. Specifically, this year we plan to replace the old windows in the upper level of these classrooms as well as an upgrade to the secondary school library. The school administration has been hard at work obtaining funding to complete these works. However, we would benefit greatly from financial assistance from our families to supplement the funding we have received and therefore push these plans forward. If any of our families would like to make a donation toward our building works it would be gratefully appreciated. All donations to the building fund are tax deductible and a tax receipt will be issued. Thank you. Early Learning Centre Now Open We are thrilled to announce that the NCC Early Learning Centre (ELC) officially opened its doors on Monday the 2nd of March. the school basketball court, and experimenting with colours through painting. Session times are: Six excited new "students" arrived on the first day and we are so happy to have these new children and their families join the NCC community. This week our children have been learning each others names, working on their fine motor skills and literacy by singing songs such as 'Where is Thumbkin' and 5 cheeky monkey's'. They have also been learning a morning prayer, 'The lords prayer'. The children have spent some time playing running races on 9:00am -11:30am 3 Year old kinder 9:00am - 2:00pm 4 Year old kinder Both sessions run five days a week with a modified program to meet the needs of the 3 year olds. We look forward to seeing the ELC grow. Any questions please contact our ELC teacher Jessica Taylor. a Fun& D Open Day y y Famil Sunday, March 22nd 12-4:30pm Amusement Rides for children Cricket Victoria Clinics – 4-7years, 7-10years, 10-13years, 14-18years House Games in Dodge Ball, Tug-o-war, Sack races Face Painting, Tattoos, Pinatas, Mexican Crafts, Mariachi Band in Food Court School 11:00am, 1:00pm, 4:00pm SchoolTours: Tours: 11:00am and 1:00pm. Food Stalls Mexican, Veggie Burgers, Hot Chips Café Hot Drinks Scones, crepes, cakes & biscuits Three Amigos Cantina y Famil Sunday, March 2 Amusement Rid OPEN: Every Cricket Vict 4-7years, 7-10years, 1 Monday at Recess House Games in Dod (Tuckshop Window) Sack Come & grab: Face Painting, T Power Food Pack – $1.00 Mexican Power Balls – $0.50 Mariachi Band Brain-Berry Yoghurt $1.50 SchoolTours: Tours:11:00 11: School Food Mexican, Veggie C Hot Drinks Scones, c Three Ami Mocktails, Slushies, Soft Drinks FREE ENTRY ELC–Yr12 Buy your food and drinks. 161 Central Road, Nunawading, Phone: 9878 9927 Mocktails, Slus FREE ENTRY ELC–Yr12 B and 161 Cen Nunawa Time to Spring Clean Galaxy Play Dough On Friday, our classes (Year 5/6 and Year 6) made our prep buddies some play dough, with glitter to make it look like stars. We are currently learning about the Solar System so it was kind-of educational. It also helped us to get to know our little buddies a bit more because when we gave them the play dough, well... they loved it and us! Especially play dough with glitter. It was a squeeze in the prep classroom, but it was a room full of happiness! By Zoe Bews Yes, it is officially Autumn, but the NCC Home & School Committee would love it if you could go through your house and garden and have a spring clean. In the last week of Term 1 there will be another Metal2Metal collection where we’d like you to bring along all those unwanted items in your house, garden and garage that are made of metal. There will be a big skip in the Secondary car park waiting to devour all your bits and pieces, for which the school receives an excellent commission. To get you started you could: throw all your (clean) tin cans in a bag to bring along; go through your baking cupboards and take out all those cake tins etc that clutter up the space; get out old computers and equipment that’s made of metal; and hunt through your garden shed for metal tools and machinery that you don’t need anymore. Any items, large or small, that you can collect and bring along in the last week of term will be gratefully accepted - and the heavier the item, the more money we get for it! Thank you in anticipation for your support of this fundraiser. New Picnic Tables We would also like to thank our Home and School Committee for providing funds to install new seating in the secondary school quadrangle. New picnic tables and benches were installed at the start of the year and have been well used by our secondary students. As well as providing a great place for students to sit and eat their lunch, teachers have made the most of some of the beautiful summer days we have had recently, using the picnic tables for their classes. Primary Chapel Fridays 10-11am All parents and friends welcome to attend. Date HOSTS 6th March Grade P/1 - Mrs Reed’s Class 13th March Grade 5/6 - Mrs Santiago’s Class 20th March Grade 6 - Miss Sajdl’s Class 27th March Grade 1/2 - Mrs Hailey’s Class GOLD Award Congratulations to our latest Mathletics Gold recipients: Charlie, William and Husain. 8 9 12 17 19 22 23 25 26 27 Upcoming Events March Weet Bix tryathlon Labour day holiday EISM swimming carnival Prep-Year 12 parent/teacher interviews Combined Primary sports day (Grades 1-3) School open day EISM swimming championships School at work tours – 9.30-11.00am Inter-house athletics carnival Last day of term 1