Richmond Christian College TIDINGS

Term 3 Week 5 . 2019

FAMILY CINEMA UNDER THE STARS TONIGHT AT 5PM - SEE YOU THERE!!

Family Cinema Under the Stars

Our Family Cinema Under the Stars event is TONIGHT!  We look forward to welcoming our families and their guests to a wonderful night celebrating community and watching a great movie that honours individual gifts and differences on the school oval.  

What to bring?

  • Chairs or a blanket to sit on
  • Picnic dinner
  • Gold coin donation for entry and money for snacks


Popcorn, chocolates and cold drinks will be available for purchase on the night.  The Kerbside Coffee van will also be selling hot drinks and sweet treats. 

Profits from snack sales will contribute to our Tools for Schools program so we value your support!

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” -P.T. Barnum

P. T Barnum is right. It is those people who are willing to risk everything to be the person they believe they are created to be that truly make the difference in our worlds. Their story becomes the story that inspires us. When we hear someone’s story that involves encountering hardship, overcoming crisis or facing their own demons we are left inspired. We are forced to face the challenge to do this in our own lives or settle for the common place; mediocre existences where we conform to expectation and status quo. We end up living in the realm of the sub-par, but at least this way there is little resistance, little difficulty and no hardship…

 I believe the challenge for Richmond Christian College and its community is the same as the challenge that lies within The World’s Greatest Showman. Are we going to be an educational institution like every other in this town, this state and this world? Will we continue to manufacture kids who are ready to consume and behave as the world wants them to so that they may ‘succeed’, or, are we going to be as God intends for us to be? Can we be the light on a hill; a point of difference in our community that seeks to raise children, in conjunction with their families, to be individuals who uniquely contribute to the world around them based on who God designed them to be? Are we committed to raising unique individuals no matter the cost, or people who will simply dissolve into our consumerist driven world?

 So many challenges.

 George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi novel, 1984, suggests that “hope lies in the proles.” The Proles represent common man – and the suggestion is that when common man is uniquely himself and does not submit thoughtlessly to the god of the day (from technology, to materialism to consumerism to self), freedom can be had for all. Freedom from the tyranny and slavey of the sameness and mindless acquiescence to the powers that be. Orwell’s conclusion is the same as P.T Barnum’s – the world is a better place when people are themselves.

 Our Good Book says something similar. Psalm 139 encourages us to understand that we were each fearfully and wonderfully made by God. 1 Corinthians 12 reminds us that for a body of people to function well together each part of the body must perform its own unique role in order for the whole body to work well. I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt that God created us specifically to be ourselves, to perform a role that is valuable and unique. When I take the time to stop and think on this I am struck by the wonder of the Creator and the purpose and hope that lies with Him and in us. A fact all too often lost in our world.

 It takes the modern-day stories like The World’s Greatest Showman to remind us of a truth that existed a long time ago and no matter how I write it, it remains true – no one ever made a difference by being like everyone else. I guess you could also say, I am fearfully and wonderfully made for a purpose – so I must live it fearlessly!

 Good Tidings (and enjoy the movie!)…

Jonno

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

FAMILY CINEMA UNDER THE STARS

Friday 23 August @ 5pm

RELATE @ RCC

Tuesday 27 August from 2.30pm

PANCAKE BREAKFAST & FOOTY COLOURS DAY

Friday 6 September

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PRIMARY LIBRARY  KINDY—YR 6  

Every TUESDAY

HIGH SCHOOL HOMEWORK CENTRE

Every  Tuesday 3pm-4pm

SCHOOL BANKING DAY  FRIDAYS

LAST DAY  OF TERM THREE

Friday 27 September

FIRST DAY  OF TERM FOUR

Tuesday 15 October

Merit Awards Term 3 Week 4

Kindergarten

Amara, Archie, Delmy

Year 1

Siri, Kruz, Rahn, Leah

Year 2

Jye, Asha, Nyoka

Year 3

Ella, Eli, Cierra

Year 4

Jane, Jordan, Jaela

Year 5

Jeffrey, Violet, Faith

Year 6

Sophie, Acaciah, Samantha

Secondary

William, Samuel, Alyce, Olivia, Kit, Taj, Jack, Bethaney, Rachel, Liam 

TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

Tools for Schools Donations

Thanks to generous donors we have raised $3000 so far for our Tools for Schools campaign but we still have a way to go to reach our goals!

The online Tools for Schools Shop is now live on our website!  You can now "buy" a tool or donate to RCC or the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Zimbabwe simply by clicking on the appropriate picture or button and paying online.  Follow this link to check it out https://richmond.nsw.edu.au/shop/.  Alternatively, donations can be made at the School Office.  

Stage 5 PASS

Stage 5 PASS hit the course today for the first of many upcoming sporting excursions. A highlight was watching Mitchel smash a 242 metre drive down the 3rd fairway. 

Here is Lily teeing off on the first hole

Secondary State Athletics

Jacob, Year 10,  Kayley, Year 10 (absent from pic) Bailee, Year 10 and Evie, Year 7  are competing in the Secondary State Athletics Championships in Sydney.  Well done to all four of them for getting this far. We at RCC are so proud of you.

We wish you all the best. 

TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS PIE AND LAMINGTON DRIVE

To assist with our Tools for Schools Fundraising, parent Karin Mallam has arranged a pie and lamington drive.  Pies will be supplied by Kings Pie Cart Casino and the lamingtons are coming from Modanville.  

Orders with payment (CASH ONLY) are due by 13 September 2019 with pick up at 3pm on Thursday 26 September in the MPC.


NAB AFL AUSKICK

NAB AFL Auskick is the national AFL introductory program for primary school kids and their families.  Auskick is on during Term 3 this year, Wednesday afternoons from 3:00pm – 4:00pm at our College commencing 21 August 2019. To find out more or to register please go to play.afl/Auskick.

TUTORS AT RICHMOND

CANTEEN

CANTEEN MENU

Racecourse Café will continue to provide a lunch canteen Monday to Friday in Term 3.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME ITEMS HAVE INCREASED IN PRICE FROM 29 JULY 2019 

Bring your orders into the School Office before school or by 10.30am.
Please write the name and order on a bag or envelope and enclose the exact money. 

Note: No Change will be given as orders go straight to the Racecourse Café.