Broadening Student Learning

In addition to a rich, internationally-minded and diverse curriculum, Rivercrest Christian College provides many opportunities for students to broaden their learning outside of the school day. These include: 

Offered at School:

  • Choir – Tuesdays before school 
  • Code Club – Wednesday lunchtime  
  • String Ensemble – Friday lunchtime 
  • Dance Club – Friday lunchtime 
Co-Curricular
After School Options (Additional Cost): 
  • Code Camp – Mondays after school 
  • Chess Ideas – Tuesdays after school 
  • Kelly Sports – Wednesday after school  
  • Creative Art & Crest Dance – Thursdays after school 
  • Equestrian at Ayr Hill Equestrian Centre 

Students who are interested in pursuing private instrumental lessons have a range of opportunities to extend their learning, such as:   Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano, Voice 

Through our involvement in Christian Schools Education Network and State Sports Victoria, students also engage in a range of sporting competitions.

In Year 5, students also participate in a rigorous enrichment programme, which involves: 

Cooking, Bike Education, Outdoor Education, Debating, Problem Solving (Maths/Engineering) HTML and CSS Coding.

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Co-Curricular Houses

At many schools, the Houses are named after well-known people, Australian native animals or plants or some other theme. Rivercrest decided to name its Houses after four Christians who made a significant contribution to society. Click on the tiles below to read a brief outline of each of their lives.

All students enrolled at Rivercrest are placed into one of four Houses – Booth (Blue), Luther (Red), Fry (Yellow) or Lewis (Green).

Elizabeth FRY (Social Reformer) 

Fry devoted her energy to helping those in need, collecting clothes for the poor, visiting the sick and teaching Sunday School. She is best remembered for work in the prison system where she was pivotal in campaigning for a series of reforms to take place for better conditions and for improving the quality of the nursing system. 

C.S. LEWIS (Creativity) 

Lewis was known as a novelist, poet, academic, lay theologian and Christian apologist. His faith had a profound effect on his work and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. He is best known for his fictional series, The Chronicles of Narnia. 

Catherine BOOTH (Service to Community) 

Booth, together with her husband, William, began the Christian Mission which later developed into the Salvation Army. She was well known and respected for her preaching and for her contribution to fighting poverty and injustice. 

Martin LUTHER (Thinker) 

Luther was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines of Protestant and other Christian traditions. Luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received as a free gift of God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin.