Events
Twilight Open Night
Please help spread the word our biggest Open event of the year is coming up! If you are already a member of our PVCC Community, we would appreciate your prayers for this upcoming event. We pray that God would bring the right people to this school, we pray for good weather on the night, and energy for staff who are working on the night in the midst of a busy term of events.
For all families interested in joining our college community, we invite you to come along and enjoy a night of student-led tours, a chance to meet the principal and teachers as well as an opportunity to see how we as a Christian College live out our faith.
Register your interest here: Book a Tour - Plenty Valley Christian College - Private Christian School Melbourne (pvcc.vic.edu.au)
Looking forward to seeing you then!
Walk of Fame Dress-Up
If you thought things looked a bit over the top in the last week of Term 3, you would not be mistaken for thinking so, as PVCC launched its first-ever Arts Week takeover. And what a week it was! Obviously, a team of creatives did what they do best, throw events, organise showcases and tap into their individual gifts and talents bringing students on an Arts palooza!
The week brought together the Music, Art, Media and Drama worlds, and the tone was set right from the start where in Staff devotions John Metcalf launched the creative focus with the staff and highlighted from God’s word how integral creativity and Arts are to the bigger picture and biblical worldview of creation. Taren Handley brought her expertise in Trivia and used the morning notices to test students’ knowledge of a range of Arts related questions, and the Music team consisting of Matt Young and Katrina Wilson-O'Brien organized sensational VCE/VET Music Students featuring Chloe K and Elise M, covering the lunchtime block to entertain and inspire their peers.
Across the creative corridor, VCE Yr 11 Theatre students and VCE Yr 11 Media students embarked on a significant creative task, challenged with conceptualizing, planning and filming and entire Film in a Day. As luck would have it, leadership had planned a whole-school fire drill, which gave students the perfect plot point for a heist film; ‘a diversion.’ Quickly these students put their brains together and planned out a stellar narrative incorporating elements from Oceans 11, The Italian Job and Mission Impossible to come up with the perfect heist narrative outsmarting the alarms and systems to successfully plot and scheme a way to break into school’s safe. After an intense day of filming across multiple locations around the school, the production team celebrated, as all good production teams do and called a ‘wrap’ to filming at around 4:45pm with pizzas. Special thanks to Despina Kantzidis for being the ‘gopher’ of the day and to Lucy Watson for bringing the ‘vibe,’ scouting for costumes and all the expertise that comes with her line of work.
Visual Arts also played a significant part in the PVCC Arts Week takeover. Janet Hopkins led the charge in homegroup with a Whole School Art installation that was completed live at a whole school ‘Arts Assembly’ on Tuesday and showcased at HeArt of the Valley. Once again, Janet’s creativity and ingenuity were showcased as hundreds of tiny clay discs came together to create a piece of art that embodied ‘Habitat’, 2024’s HeArt of the Valley theme. ‘Art’s Assembly’ similarly focused on ‘Habitat’ and sought to pay respect to the creativity and stewardship of Indigenous Australians, exemplified by didgeridoo virtuoso Ganga Giri who literally blew his audience away.
Like the famous quote from the movie Field of Dreams says, “If you build it, they will come,” and never a truer statement was shared about Arts Week. Creatives came indeed! Lucy Watson, Janet Hopkins and Deb Shepherd led a Staff devotion on Wednesday and Wellness Morning on Friday with staff invited to sit with and explore the presence of God through creative, artistic mediums.
To celebrate the end of an exceptional week, the last day ended in a Walk of Fame Day where students were invited to come dressed as their favourite movie character, music band, artist or Broadway star and walk the red carpet. Students and staff alike processed down the red carpet, theme music blaring, in costumes that ranged from ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Banans in Pajamas’ and more.
The main takeaway from that week was that through community and engagement, all our staff and students deserve to walk the red carpet due to the talents and gifts they bring to the world. The Arts creative team have reminded us that the world is made up of unique and wonderful people, who have been designed and purposed by God to bring light to the world. For that week it happened to be artistic light that shone brightly at Plenty Valley.
PVCC Presentation Night
Thursday, 21 November 2024
