Community News
Introducing our New Registrar
Angela has served with the College since 2013, most of that time on Reception as part of the Administration team. Angela and her husband have raised three sons, all of whom have been through Green Point Christian College. Angela and her family live at Avoca and attend Green Point Baptist Church.
This is a busy time of the year for our Registrar, so please pray for Angela as she settles into her new role. Please do not hesitate to contact her directly if you have questions about your enrolment application, or to organise a tour of the College. Her contact details are: 02 4363 1266.
Yearbook Cover Art CompetitionThank you to the students who entered in our 2020 Yearbook Cover Art Competition.
Congratulations to our winners:
Scotia E – Year 10
Hannah M – 5H
The winner's entries will feature on the front and back cover of our 2020 Yearbook.
Parent Lounge Details
The College has a legal requirement to keep our records up to date.
Please review your details on Parent Lounge to ensure that all your information is correct. This includes medical information on your child/children (only complete the immunisation question if your child is not immunised).
Please note: Should you require both parents/carers to receive SMS notifications, please tick the appropriate boxes.
Thank you.
BUSWAYS SCHOOL BUS SERVICES UPDATE
COVID-19 and back to school
With the recent announcement of social distancing on bus services, Busways wants to clarify that school services are not affected and will not have limited capacity.
Service operations
School services will continue to operate as normal, with no student to be left behind. NSW Health advice is that children are at lower risk of contracting COVID-19. Transport for NSW and Busways have increased cleaning measures on board bus services and will continue to monitor transport usage to support students travelling safely to and from school.
Our policy is that no school student will be left behind and as such, school students will be given priority over other passengers on regular route services even if this means a service goes over physical distancing capacity. Adults may have to wait for the next service or choose to get off if they are not comfortable with how many customers are on a service. All services will continue to operate to a normal timetable until advised otherwise. Please remind students that they are still required to tap on and off with their Opal card, or show their school bus pass when boarding.
Current COVID-19 advice
It is important to continue communicating to students that we all have a responsibility to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Where possible, students should maintain social distance from each other on board bus services. If different school groups are boarding a bus, each school should maintain social distance from the other and students should always maintain a safe distance from their bus driver, where practically possible.
Busways has continued to exercise additional procedures for all Busways employees to follow in order to limit any chance of the virus spreading. This includes issuing employees with hand sanitiser, requiring employees to wash their hands every time they enter and leave a worksite, employees staying home if they are unwell, and minimising the handling of cash.
For any further questions, please contact Busways’ Customer Experience team at infoline@busways.com.au.
RED BUS SCHOOL BUS SERVICES UPDATE
With the recent announcement of social distancing on public transport, Red Bus Services would like to clarify that dedicated school services are not affected and will not have limited capacity.
Our policy is that no school student will be left behind and as such school students will be given priority over other passengers on regular route services even if this means a service goes over physical distancing capacity.
Where possible students should limit their travel to catching dedicated school buses as this will help us mitigate the risk and help provide a service to regular passengers where capacity is currently restricted.
Please remind students that they are still required to tap on and off with their Opal card when boarding, but are requested not to use the Opal card reader nearest the driver.
To help minimise the risk of spreading an infection, every bus in our fleet is being hygienically cleaned daily by a team of cleaners.
Red Bus Services has continued to exercise additional procedures for all our employees to follow to limit any chance of the virus spreading.
This includes issuing employees with hand sanitiser, face masks and gloves requiring employees to wash their hands every time they enter and leave a worksite and requesting that employees stay home if they are unwell.
https://transportnsw.info/covid-19#home-carousel
For any further enquiries, please contact Red Bus Services: info@redbus.com.au
Canteen
The Munchery (Canteen) has now resumed full time operating hours.
Uniform Shop
Uniform Shop has recommenced normal trading hours.
Prayer
We pray that “… the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.” Ephesians 3:17-19 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Green Point Baptist Church
In light of the current COVID-19 crisis, Green Point Baptist Church has suspended all regular Church activities and has encouraged any Church member who is not in a high risk category to find ways to serve the vulnerable in their community. If you are in need of assistance, please contact the Church office on 4369 1585 or office@gpbc.net.au
GPBC has moved their services online:
SERVICE TIMES
Sundays
9:30am
6:00pm
Sunday Service
Green Point Baptist Church invite you and your family to join the Sunday service LIVE on Facebook at 9:30am every Sunday.
Thrive
Thrive is on hold for now, but kids can join via Zoom from home each week during the school term. Join the “Thrive Green Point 2020” facebook group for information.
Constructing a Food Hamper …
Over the past few weeks, Green Point Baptist Church has been partnering with Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre to help those who are doing it tough in our neighbourhood as a result of Coronavirus. The One + 1 Food Aid Project is based on a simple idea, when you are out shopping, buy a few extra items each week and build up a food hamper that can be passed onto a family who really needs it.
We would love for you to get involved with us in this project, so we want to show you visually how to put together a food hamper for a family.
A couple of questions we have had from people putting food hampers together:
Q: Are there absolute must haves in a food hamper?; and
Q: Can we put in some lollies or something special for children?
The answer is simple. Be guided by how you shop for your own family - not too much sugar or salt or processed food. Buy items that can be combined and added to with simple fresh food items to make simple meals and items that might drop off your list, like Vegemite, if you don’t have too much cash at the moment.
So let’s get this hamper for a family done ...
First up are hygiene products. These include toilet paper, antibacterial soap and tooth paste, as well as germ killers like antibacterial wipes, surface sprays and hand sanitiser. The bargains here were paracetamol for 69 cents and Lynx deodorant for $3.99, both from Aldi.
Next are food items for meals ... canned soup, instant noodles and most of the ingredients for nachos minus the mince, cheese and avocado. There is also pasta and good quality sauce, as well as rice and a simmer sauce to make butter chicken.
Last but not least, are all those items that make life a bit more comfortable - half price chicken crimpies, sour squirms, tea and chocolate, all bought on special from Coles.
Remember, once you have completed your food hamper, your items can be dropped off at the kitchen behind the Church office between 9:00am and 12 noon, Tuesday to Friday, or the College office if it needs to be earlier.
For more information, feel free to call the Church office on 4369 1585.
Coast Shelter Restaurant
Due to COVID-19, Coast Shelter have had to suspend dinners and are not allowing volunteers to enter.
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