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Term Dates

Canteen Information

Tidings

Term 1

First Day:
Monday 3 February 2025
Last Day:
Friday 11 April 2025

Term 2

First Day:
Tuesday 29 April 2025
Last Day:
Friday 4 July 2025

Term 3

First Day:
Monday 28 July 2025
Last Day:
Friday 26 September 2025

Term 4

First Day:
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Last Day:
Thursday 11 December 2025

College Bell Times

Home Room 8:50am – 9:00am
Period 1 9:00am – 9:50am
Period 2 9:50am – 10:40am
RECESS 10:40am – 11:00am
Period 3 11:00am – 11:50am
Period 4 11:50am – 12:40pm
LUNCH 12:40pm – 1:20pm
Period 5 1:20pm – 2:10pm
Period 6 2:10pm – 2:55pm

Canteen Information

Racecourse Café provides a lunch canteen Monday to Friday.  Bring your orders into the School Office before school or by 10.30am.

Uniform

Uniform is an integral part of identity and belonging in RCC culture. Students who wear the uniform represent the unity, excellence and hope that typifies our school. Students are required to wear the RCC uniform, in full, on all school occasions unless otherwise stated.

General Uniform Guidelines

  • For girls with pierced ears, up to two pairs of matching plain studs or sleepers in the ear lobe
  • Girls – one flat ring per hand.
  • Single simple chain necklace permitted.
  • No bracelets or anklets (wristwatch and Medical Alert bracelet permitted)
  • Haircuts must be conservative and non-natural hair colouring is not permitted.
  • Girls and boys with long hair past the shirt collar must wear it tied back using blue, black or white hairbands and/or scrunchies
  • Coloured nail polish is not to be worn
  • School hats should be worn all year when in the sun
  • Uniform is to be worn properly at all times
  • A guide for the length of skirts, skorts and shorts is a hand width above the knee.

RCC Uniform Information

Uniforms can be purchased from The School Locker located at the Harvey Norman Homemaker Centre, 26 Boeing Avenue, Ballina NSW 2478.

Parents can wp-signup.php for The School Locker- Student Advantage Membership online which benefits the school, enables them to access ‘student pricing’ on selected items and buy the uniform online.

Secondhand Uniform

Some secondhand items are available for purchase at a reduced price from the School Office.

RCC Plateau Bus

As a part of our commitment to ensuring families in this area receive excellent Christian education, we provide a bus for the exclusive use of RCC students, from the Plateau to Richmond, with an afternoon return.

Service Route:

The service will begin at Wollongbar at 8am and proceed through Alstonville, Tuckombil, Teven, Tintenbar and Cumbalum and then on to Richmond Christian College by 8.40am. The service will then leave RCC at 3.05pm and conclude at Wollongbar at approximately 3.45pm.

The costs for unlimited travel in 2025 will be:

    • First child $260 per term
    • Second child $230 per term
    • Third & subsequent children $195 per term

Fees are charged per term and can be paid online using the Parent Lounge.

Pre-Kindy children can travel provided they are supervised by a responsible older student.

Contact the School Office to check availability of places available.

AM Service Information
STOP No TIME LOCATION
1 7:55am Wollongbar – Plateau Dr (Callicoma Crt & Avalon Ave)
2 8:00am Wollongbar- Lismore Rd cnr Rifle Range Rd (Old BP Service Station site)
3 8:05am Alstonville- Main Street Bus Stop
4 8:11am Teven Road /Tuckombil
5 8:15am Teven Road/Eltham Road
6 8:20am Tintenbar Store
7 8:30am Ballina Heights- The Ridgeway
8 8:40am Richmond Christian College
PM Service Information
STOP No TIME LOCATION
1 3:05pm Richmond Christian College
2 3:10pm Ballina Heights- The Ridgeway
3 3:20pm Tintenbar Store
4 3:25pm Teven Road/Eltham Road
5 3:29pm Teven Road /Tuckomobil
6 3:35pm Alstonville- Main Street Bus Stop
7 3:40pm Wollongbar- Rifle Range Rd cnr Lismore Road (old BP Service Station site)
8 3:45pm Wollongbar – Plateau Dr (Callicoma Crt & Avalon Ave)

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School hours

Monday to Friday                  8:50am — 2:55pm

Pre-kindy 

Wednesday to Friday         8.50am to 2.55pm

Office hours

Monday to Friday                  8:30am — 3:30pm

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To assist parents in the nurture of their children,

By providing a Christ-centred, biblically grounded, academically rigorous and culturally relevant education that instils a sense of identity, purpose and hope in students that equips them to live for God’s glory.

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7 Gallans Road,
Ballina NSW 2478

We look forward to hearing from you