Post-School Options for Students with Additional Needs

Parent Seminar: Post-School Options for Students with Additional Needs

Date:          Thursday, 6 June

Time:           2-3pm

Venue:        PCCS, in the Meeting Room

Speakers:   House With No Steps (Transition to Work and Community Participation)

                        Kingscliff TAFE- Student Support (Disability Consultant)

Contact for further info: Mandy Mercer on 55239700

MUST REGISTER ATTENDANCE by Friday, 31 May (at the office) 07  5523 9700

*Light refreshments provided.  Parents and friends of students with disabilities, and other interested community members are invited to our first Parent Seminar specifically designed to support families of students with disabilities. We look forward to supporting families and students in considering and planning early for the future.

CSSA Zone Soccer

Last Friday, 17 May, Dr Lamont, Mrs Thompson and 13 enthusiastic girls headed off bright and early for the North Coast CSSA Zone Soccer Gala day in Yamba.  Our girls played exceptionally well considering the majority of the team had not played soccer previously and our last minute entry into the competition meant that we only had a brief 20 minute training run with Mr Peck the day prior to the competition.  The girls improved their game play and skills as the day progressed. Results included losses to Coffs Harbour Christian School 4-0,  Summerland Christian College 2-1 and Coffs Harbour 3-0 with our final game against Summerland resulting in a nil all draw, indicating the girls incredible improvement throughout the day.  Congratulations to Brooke, Georgia, Caitlin, Amy, Charlotte and Courtney, Nicole, Emma, Latia, Ammarylla, Katrina, Keira and Rene; your enthusiasm, sportsmanship and excellent behaviour made it a very enjoyable and fun day!

Cross Country

The Secondary School Cross Country was held last Monday 6 May with great participation from students. Congratulations to all who participated in the carnival, especially the following age champions: 12years Eden and Tyrone, 13 years Amaria and Izak, 14 years Jessica and Kytelan, 15 years Courtney and Benjamin, 16 years Georgia and Kaleb, 17 years Catherine and Luke and 18 years Aiden.

House points from the carnival Bradman 19, Goolagong 55 and Norman 63. Thank you to Mr Grigg who organised the event.

On Friday 10 May Mrs Thompson and Mr Buckley took a team of 15 secondary students and 23 Primary students to Casino for the CSSA North Coast Zone Cross Country Carnival being hosted by Casino Christian School.  Our students performed brilliantly on a cross country track that lead them through paddocks, slight hills and mud! Congratulations to all who participated, especially the secondary school placegetters Amaria (4^th – 13yrs Girls), Kytelan (1^st- 14yrs Boys), Jake (3^rd -14yrs Boys), Benjamin (3^rd – 15yrs Boys), Courtney (2^nd – 15yrs Girls), Latia (3^rd – 15 yrs Girls), William (2^nd – 16yrs Girls), Georgia (3^rd – 16yrs Girls), Ammarylla (16yrs Girls) and Luke (1^st – 17yrs Boys).  Thank you to the parents who were able to travel to Casino to support the students.

Students who placed first at the Zone Cross Country in Casino now have the opportunity to travel to Sydney for the CSSA State Cross Country Carnival on Friday 31 May with Mr Peck. We pray they will enjoy the experience of competition at state level.

Well done to all the students that participated in the cross country.

The following is a list of the students that gained 1^st place for their respective age/gender:

8yo girl Rachel Lee

8yo boy Corey Corbett

9yo girl Sarah Lewis

9yo boy Sharmin Langlo/Gordon

10yo girl Lilli Tamaira-Chalmers

10yo boy Nathaniel Jensen

11yo girl Lexi King

11yo boy Lingiari Langlo/Gordon

12yo girl Jamie Swain

12yo boy John Watson

Can't wait to hear how they go in Casino!

ANZAC Day in Tweed Heads

Thank you to the students, parents and teachers who attended the ANZAC March last Thursday.  At least 70 students participated in the March. As a thank you token to the students and teachers who came to the March there will be an excursion planned later in the Term.

Mrs Vandersteen visits Cambodia

Mrs Vandersteen spent 10 days in Cambodia, here is an update from her on the trip......

We spent the first day in Phnom Pen learning the history of the War from 1975 to 1979 through visiting a genocide museum and one of the killing fields established by the Pol Pot regime. The gruesomeness and evilness of the Khmer Rouge was hard to take in and many of us struggled. I will never forget the eyes staring at me from the photos set up on boards in the prison. They had little or no emotion in them. It was good to start at this place as it helped us to understand why Cambodia is struggling to rebuild itself. The Khmer Rouge killed all the educated people they could arrest and continued to fight in the north of the country until 1997, where they land mined the farmland.

We went from there to visit a church and hand out the Samaritan Purse Shoeboxes.  We were very encouraged to see how the younger people from 17 to 25 years of age were stepping up and teaching the children about Jesus. After the children receive a box they are given the opportunity to attend a twelve week discipleship course and this is led by young people. We had the privilege of attending a class for a short time and witnessing how interested and keen to learn the children were.

We visited many of the Samaritan Purse projects and saw how they were rescuing people from the streets, supplying fresh water and toilets to schools, providing bicycles for students to get to school and providing materials to set up chicken businesses in order to have an income and be able to stay at school.

I had an amazing time and despite the difficulties of heat and humidity we were able to work and bond as a team to support us through those times. We spent time together in devotion and reflection each day and prayed constantly for health and safety. God truly blessed us with our guide and the people we met. The Samaritan Purse workers are amazing examples of servant hearts and we were treated to two amazing testimonies from Cambodians who had survived the horrors of war and family and who were now living for God.         

                                           

Pacific Coast Christian School celebrates its fifth birthday

Pacific Coast Christian School celebrated turning 5 on April 12. A special whole school assembly was held in the PD Draper Centre, with our local State Member, Mr Geoff Provest as a special guest. Both Dr Lamont and Mr Provest addressed the assembly, focusing on the achievements and growth of the school over five years, and the importance of Christian values in education and as a foundation for the future. There was a ceremonial cutting of the birthday cake, with all students receiving a piece.