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Heatherton Christian College

Locality: Clarinda

Phone: +61 3 8551 6650

Address: 316-322 Kingston Rd 3169 Clarinda, VIC, Australia

Website: https://www.hcc.vic.edu.au/

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25.01.2022 Interested to know what HCC is all about? We’ll let our students inform you!

25.01.2022 We love our Preps and here at Heatherton Christian College, we are committed to partnering with our students (and their families) on their journey of discovery. With innovative programs that are both engaging and motivating, our students enjoy being part of a dynamic, enterprising Christian School. It is our honour to walk alongside our students as they begin their learning journey. Share this video or tag someone who needs to enrol their child at Heatherton next year!

24.01.2022 We were honoured to celebrate our magnificent Year 6 students on Monday. It's been a year like no other and they have showed incredible resilience, grace and love for another. We were thrilled to be able to celebrate the end of their primary schooling with a blast before they head into Secondary School.

24.01.2022 Congratulations to our students in the graduating Class of 2020 who have received their VCE results today. We are very proud of not only your results, but particularly proud of your efforts and the character and faith that you have displayed both this year and in your time at Heatherton CC. You have had to show tremendous resilience and perseverance in your studies to simply get to this stage of your journey, and this has been particularly so with the additional challenges of 2020. We are so thankful for your contribution to the HCC community over the years, and look forward to seeing what God has in store for you in the future. Well done the wait for your results is now over and we pray God’s blessings on you and your families in the days ahead.

23.01.2022 Please enjoy a few Digital Design pieces from some of our Year 9 and Year 10 students.

23.01.2022 ~Heatherton @ Home - Term 3~ Following the advice of the Victorian Chief Health Officer and Department of Education, students in Grade 1 to Year 10 at Heatherton Christian College will learn from home from Monday 20 July until further notice. Learning packs for Grades 1 to 6 and Secondary Art students will be available for collection from the auditorium from 10:00am on Thursday 16 July. Named packs will be laid out in class order for collection. Please ensure that these are ...collected by 3:30pm on Friday 17 July as students will need it in order to complete their work. Secondary students in Years 7-10 with textbooks and folders in their lockers, will be able to come and collect these on either Thursday 16 July or Friday 17 July. All students collecting items from their lockers are required to sign in and out of the Compass Kiosk in the auditorium and have their temperature checked in the College office. College devices are available for loan if required. Please collect them from the College office during College office hours as there will be forms to be signed. As we move back into another period of uncertainty for students, families and staff, we will continue to focus on what is most important - the health, wellbeing and education of our students and the health and wellbeing of our staff and families. You can be confident that your child will continue to receive an exemplary learning and personal growth experience, whether on campus for our older students, or remotely for our younger ones. It will again be a time that tests us, but our community was unified in its approach to the last period of disruption and we are sure it will be the same again now. Thank you in advance for your support of our staff and College. This is a fast-changing situation, so we will seek to keep you up to date with any developments as they occur.

23.01.2022 ~ Heatherton Update ~ The Victorian Government has announced that there will be a further tightening of restrictions in view of the Covid-19 situation in Victoria. This includes a continuation of remote learning for students and a return to remote learning for all VCE students from this coming Wednesday 5 August. This situation will not impact those students in Prep to Year 10 as we have and will continue to operate Heatherton @ Home, until at least the end of Week 9 of this... term. Our College Leadership team has made the decision to not have a whole school Pupil free day tomorrow, Tuesday 4 August (although Government schools will be), but to continue with remote learning classes as usual. Our VCE students (and Year 10 students doing a VCE subject) will be informed before midday today as to whether they will be required to attend their particular VCE class on Tuesday - some VCE classes may need to take place (e.g. where SAC preparation or practical work is required), whilst other VCE classes will be cancelled to enable teachers to prepare more fully for remote learning. Hence, the next 2 days of the week will look as follows for the College student community; Tuesday 4 August Prep to Year 10 Heatherton@Home remote classes. Year 11 and 12 VCE students to be advised if their VCE class will be required to run onsite or will be cancelled for the day. Wednesday 5 August Prep to Year 12 Heatherton @ Home remote classes for all students. Onsite Learning We will also be continuing our onsite learning program for students whose parents are required to work or whose learning may be at risk. Parents will need to continue to pre-book students in the week before for this. With further announcements from the Government regarding business and work, the requirements for students attending will be tightened up by the Government, we will advise parents accordingly. Please contact us at school if you have any further questions. Otherwise, we encourage us all to continue to pray for the health, safety and wellbeing of our community and fellow Victorians, as well as for all of our students staff and families as we return to a remote learning environment for the next period of time

22.01.2022 At the end of Term 4 students in Years 3 through 6 experienced an onsite adventure camp. Students had the opportunity to grow in resilience and independence as they made decisions relating to building shelters, solving orienteering based challenges and racing billy carts. We were able to reinforce and extend a variety of classroom lessons and to further develop social skills such as co-operation, tolerance, communication, individual and group interaction during activities ov...er the two days. Students' understanding of their physical and cultural environment was extended as they approached the tasks associated with rock wall climbing, obstacle course racing, and kite and paper airplane building and flying. The camp program promoted self-esteem, resourcefulness, independence, leadership and judgement. They also had a lot of fun!

22.01.2022 The theme for National Science Week 2020 was Deep Blue: Innovations for the Future of our Oceans. Throughout this week, students celebrated with a variety of activities such as trivias, science competitions, artwork, creating board games, creating video presentations, and many more. One of our Grade 6 students decided to write a rap on the effect that plastic pollution in our oceans has on people, animals and the environment. We hope it encourages all.

22.01.2022 We continue our Motivation in Isolation series this week with an incredible encouragement from our SRC Prefects, Hannes and Emily.

21.01.2022 As we have started Heatherton @ Home 2.0, our Primary College Captains wanted to share some tips for our primary students to have a successful experience.

21.01.2022 ~Remembrance Day~ Today we pay tribute to the men and women who have served and are still serving in our defence forces and remember those we have lost. #WeRememberThem

21.01.2022 As restrictions continue to ease in Victoria, our students are able to embark on adventures that they've been hoping for all year. Earlier this week our Year 7 and 8 Outdoor Education class went to Cardinia Reservoir and Dandenong Ranges National Park for hiking and orienteering.

20.01.2022 Join us for this weeks Motivation in Isolation video with one of our very loved teachers, Mr B, as he shares with us on being Prayerful

20.01.2022 Over the past week, the Primary students held a food and gift drive to collect donations for The Salvation Army to distribute to families in need over the Christmas season. We would like to thank the HCC community for their kindness and generosity in the donation of food and gift items. All donations are much appreciated and will be a true blessing to those who receive them. Thank you!

20.01.2022 Katrina, a teacher based in Melbourne, wrote this poem/song (to the rhythm of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) about the why behind wearing masks and we wanted to share it with you. A friendly reminder to our HCC Community to abide by government guidelines and wear a mask, especially when onsite at Heatherton, for the safety of our community.

19.01.2022 ~GET ACTIVE~ Today we launched our Get Active live Zoom session with Mr Bunyon. This is a 10 minute session for our primary students to have fun and get active. It is one of the initiatives that we are running to support the wellbeing of our students. Parents and siblings are more than welcome! Our Get Active session happens every Wednesday.

19.01.2022 Congratulations to all our Year 9 students who did the Bike Ride challenge today! Huge effort from all and we are so proud of them. Thanks to all the staff and parents who assisted.

19.01.2022 ~Year 7 Information Evening~ We are holding our Year 7 information evening via Zoom this year. It will be held on Tuesday 25 August @ 7:00pm. This is an important event for all parents of students transitioning to Secondary to attend. ... To register for our Year 7 Information Evening (via Zoom), or for more information, please email our College office at [email protected].

19.01.2022 ~Class of 2020~ It has been an exciting and emotional day as we honoured and farewelled our Year 12 Class of 2020 who have made such significant contributions to our College over their time with us. We are immensely proud of who they have grown to be and cannot wait to see what the future holds for them! We continue to pray for them as they prepare for exams and their future endeavours.

19.01.2022 To our HCC Community, we wish you a Merry Christmas!

18.01.2022 #Flashbackfriday to our VCE Camp in Term 4 2020. A time where our 2021 Year 11 and 12 students got together for some fun and team building as they prepared for the year ahead.

18.01.2022 As we come to the end of Term 3, our Year 11 Chapel Prefects encourage us to lean on God from whom we get our strength and peace.

17.01.2022 Today wouldve been our annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day. On this day, the grandparents and special friends would have had the opportunity to have some morning tea together, watch performances by our Primary students and visit the classrooms of their grandchildren/special friend. Despite being unable to hold this event, our Primary students and teachers decided to make it a special occasion! They chose to show some love for their grandparents or special friends.

17.01.2022 Our Grade1s are currently learning about different cultures and have a done few activities on China. Our students have done a variety of activities to show case their learning. This includes artwork such as lanterns, dragons and origami, as well as video presentations. We hope you enjoy this video presentation by one of our students sharing how her and her family celebrate Chinese New Year.

17.01.2022 Congratulations to our Dux of 2020, Sandra Saad, and her classmates on their VCE achievements this year. Sandra has been a part of our Heatherton CC community since Prep and achieved an outstanding final result in her studies. Her results are a reflection of her diligent and focussed approach to her work over many years she is someone who has consistently strived to do her best in all that she has taken on. Sandra is also a person of great character, always showing humilit...y, joy and faith. We wish her well as she now seeks to study Dentistry in the next part of her journey. Well done Sandra!

15.01.2022 A huge congratulations to one of Heatherton Christian Colleges Grade 4 students, Zachary, for being selected to participate in the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (APO) Virtual Play-in of Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Sr. The APO Virtual Play-in involved over 250 musicians from across the world and our very own Zachary was one of them. This achievement also resulted in Zachary being featured in the local newspaper, Dingley Dossier - https://www.dvnc.com.au/i/Dingley_Dos...sier/July20_online.pdf I felt nervous at first because the music was very challenging, but I still wanted to give it my best shot. When I knew I was going to be part of the play-in, I could not believe it! I hope to be able to be part of a real orchestra one day. Music makes me feel relaxed and happy and it also gives me a sense of accomplishment when I master a challenging piece on my instrument. Zachary. We are incredibly proud of Zacharys achievement and continue to cheer him on his musical journey! The Virtual Play-in can be found on the APO website or on YouTube - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yo9TXQzuo0

15.01.2022 Following on our theme of Faithful, here are a couple of acrostic poems written by two Grade 4 students as they explored the theme.

14.01.2022 HCC will be celebrating Book Week this year with a range of activities across Primary and Secondary. To kick us off, our staff wanted to show off their favourite / wild reading spots. P.S. How many Mrs Sandersons can you spot?

14.01.2022 A few of our Grade 6 students took some time out last week to share with us examples of Gods faithfulness in their lives. We hope it encourages you.

14.01.2022 ~ Heatherton Update ~ Following the Premiers announcements today, please see below details relating to HCC: Remote learning will continue for all of our students for the remainder of this term. ... The good news is that students in Prep, Grade 1, Grade 2 and VCE students (including year 10 students undertaking a VCE subject) will return to school for onsite learning from Monday 12 October, which is Week 2 of Term 4. We sincerely hope that our students in Years 3-10 will be able to return to onsite learning at some stage during Term 4, as the coronavirus cases reduce. As soon as this return date is confirmed we will let you know. The GAT examination for our VCE students will be held on site at Heatherton Christian College on Wednesday 7 October, which is in Week 1 of Term 4. Specific details about the GAT will be emailed home to families shortly. A reminder to parents that the College remains open for students in all year levels who are not able to learn from home, and who meet the current criteria.

14.01.2022 Premier Daniel Andrews announced earlier today that Victoria will reenter Stage 3 Restrictions as of 11:59pm Wednesday 8 July. He also announced that Prep to Year 10 students will have an extended term break until Monday 20 July. At this stage, all VCE students will resume classes on Tuesday 14 July as originally planned. Our College leadership will be meeting tomorrow to discuss government guidelines and HCCs next steps. Further updates will be provided as soon as possible.

13.01.2022 Congratulations to all the students that participated in the Education Perfect Science Championship during Science Week - they came 3rd place in Victoria in the 101-250 category! HCC also came fourth in Australia in the same category. Our students put in a great effort and we are extremely proud of them!

13.01.2022 Exciting things are still happening in the life of our College! We recently received our brand new Netball Uniforms and they look great! We patiently await the day we can wear them and compete.

12.01.2022 HCCs Missions Prefects, Grace and Skyla, share an encouraging message around remembering Gods faithfulness in every season. We pray it blesses and encourages you.

12.01.2022 A number of weeks ago, HCC celebrated our annual Heatherton Creates week. This year, we added a the third component, Heatherton’s Got Talent. There were many creative entries and all students are to be congratulated on their contributions. Featured below are some of the entries we received, from both primary and secondary students, for the Photography and Cookery sections of Heatherton Creates.

12.01.2022 To celebrate this magnificent week that was Book Week, here are some photos of our students reading in "Wild places".

12.01.2022 It was the perfect end to the year - celebrating our Class of 2020 with a Valedictory Celebration. We believe in each of them greatly and wish them all God's best for their futures!

11.01.2022 This morning we welcomed back our VCE students for Term 3. It looks a little different and not what we were expecting for the term but we believe in and pray for Gods protection and joy over our community.

11.01.2022 Happy New Year! We pray God's blessing over you and your families this new year.

11.01.2022 Excitement is growing here at HCC as we get ready to welcome back our Primary students next Friday! We hope you have had a wonderful holiday. We can't wait to see you.

11.01.2022 ~World Teachers' Day~ Though it is celebrated internationally in October, we celebrate World Teacher's Day a little later as it falls during school holidays for many parts of Australia. This year has been a particularly challenging year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our teachers, as well as support staff, for their extraordinary work. ... As a College community, we appreciate them and are grateful for their dedication and passion!

11.01.2022 It has been tremendous having ALL students back on site this week! Our Year 9 students utilised their time face to face to work on their Community Service projects. Students wrote personalised thank you cards and created care packages for healthcare workers and patients at Monash Children's Hospital as well as thank you gifts for their teachers all in a Covid safe manner.

10.01.2022 HCCs Arts Prefects share some practical ways for us to encourage those around us. With R U OK? Day coming up tomorrow, this encouragement comes at a great time.

10.01.2022 We continue our Motivation in Isolation series with Joash sharing about the spirit of Generosity. Joash is an alumni student and is currently on staff at HCC as a Teachers Aide.

10.01.2022 ~Heatherton Update~ We are facing a rapidly changing situation in our city and are closely monitoring the situation. Unfortunately, the number of infections are continuing to rise. With this in mind, we feel that, for the safety of our students and staff, we have no choice but to revert to remote learning for our Preps at this stage. Please note that this decision will be reviewed on a regular basis and when we believe that it is safe for our Preps and their teachers to retu...rn to face to face learning, we will do so. Furthermore, the government advice remains in place that it is safe for our VCE students to attend school at this stage. We will continue to monitor this situation carefully and, should we believe that the risk is becoming too great, we will return to remote learning for these students. Should you have any questions or need further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact our College office on 03 8551 6650.

09.01.2022 A staff member created this sketchnote for herself of simple, practical and effective ways to help increase her wellbeing whenever she feels overwhelmed, sad, or anxious, especially during this season. She felt to share it with our HCC community with the hope that it helps and blesses someone else too. 2 Corinthians 4:16 - 18... That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and wont last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we dont look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. See more

08.01.2022 As we move back into another period of uncertainty, we want to encourage and support our students, families and staff. Therefore, we have created our Motivation in Isolation series and we pray it blesses, encourages, and helps. Here is Episode 1 brought to you by our College Captains.

06.01.2022 Today we got to hear a number of our Year 5 students present speeches as we begin the process of appointing our Primary House Captains as well as Primary College Captains. It was inspiring to hear them share their ideas and vision for the future.

06.01.2022 Year in the Yard is an excellent program which encourages our Year 4 students to grow into great thinkers, designers, problem solvers and entrepreneurs. The staff are working hard to expand and evolve the program and we are excited for the students to enjoy it.

04.01.2022 Today is R U OK? Day. Its our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask, Are you OK? if someone in your world is struggling with lifes ups and downs. This years message is "Theres more to say after R U OK?". HCCs Wellbeing Prefects, Joelle and Matthew, share with us some insightful and encouraging ways we can ask for help as well as help others.

03.01.2022 It has been a crazy term, to say the least. However, our staff and students put in place initiatives to help this term be manageable, fun, and interactive. Our Grade 4 students, for example, had Fun Fridays throughout the term with themes such as Crazy Hair, PJs, Sports, Book Characters, and more! Our students, families, and staff have once again shown great character and strength and we pray everyone has a restful and safe holiday.

02.01.2022 From all of us at Heatherton, wed like to wish all our fathers a Happy Fathers Day! To celebrate, here are some great dad jokes for you.

01.01.2022 Some of us, especially our Grade 4 students, may have been wondering how our chickens are fairing during this lock down. We are happy to announce that our chickens now have cage free spaces to roam around. Theyre that much happier enjoying some worms and laying extra happy eggs. A huge thank you to Mr Clark for all his work on this, as well as cleaning up our garden beds ready for our students return.

01.01.2022 HCC's Year 9 Year of Challenge Program is about developing students' character, resilience, confidence, leadership, and relationships and 2020 has pushed them beyond their expectations in these areas, and more. We are so glad that our Year 9s were able to celebrate their achievements and growth together as a year level.

01.01.2022 There are 40.3 million slaves in the world today, more than at any other time in history. Despite the best efforts of abolitionists across the centuries, the buying and selling of human beings for profit is booming. Exploitation is no respecter of gender, age, race or status. The Year 10 students of Heatherton Christian College are passionate about this issue and believe that every young person deserves to live a life that is free. Each student is taking part in a Slavery Awa...reness Challenge to raise awareness about slavery in their community! Activities include exercise challenges, sports challenges, musical challenges and more. Our students have also teamed up with the organisation, Ping Pong-A-Thon - a virtual table tennis event that supports the work of several amazing organisations committed to protecting and caring for young people impacted by modern day slavery. Here are a couple of ways you can join our students efforts, show some support and/or encourage them: 1. Visit their fundraiser page and donate: https://pingpongathon.com/heathertonchristiancollege 2. Spread the word! Share what our Year 10 students are doing.

01.01.2022 While most of our College will begin Term 3 next week remotely, our VCE students have been back hard at work onsite. Here is our Year 12 Chemistry class conducting a Titration experiment to determine the concentration of bases in household cleaners including Handy Andy, Nifty, Pine O Kleen and Cloudy Ammonia.