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Weekly Updates
Updated on 2022-11-09
Eagles Take Flight!
MISSIONS CONFERENCE RETURNS!
Missions Conference is FREE to attend. For more information, visit: https://www.
May we continue to lift up the
beautiful name of Jesus to the world!
THANK YOU MARTINE KELSEY AND RACHEL TEO AND TO
THEIR GIFTED WORSHIP TEAMS FOR AN AMAZING NIGHT
OF WORSHIP!
and to ALL who attended the Worship Night in support of the
2022 Transformative Times’ Missions Conference, THANK YOU!
CELEBRATING 50+ YEARS OF
OUR LORD’S FAITHFULNESS!
… AND MORE TO COME!
If you missed the in-person ceremony, you can still celebrate with us
through the streams! FRIDAY CELEBRATION | SATURDAY CELEBRATION
The Gym will be Alive with the Sights & Sounds
of Music, Celebrations, Missions Conferences
and Concerts!
Almost there: flooring in its final treatment
Get your Missions Conference concert tickets TODAY!
The Walk is ON!
Please see our ‘A Special WALKATHON Message!’ post on how to participate!
And COMING SOON to a gym near you:
RUNNING!
“God loves a cheerful giver…You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way,
which through us will produce thanksgiving to God” (2 Corinthians 9:7, 11)
Dear PCA Families,
The new gymnatorium will be completed soon, with FIBA and FIVB courts, and with an elevated indoor track for running and walking!
Next week, students will be taking turns walking laps around the school to raise funds, especially for Raise the Roof and also for IT upgrades!
Sponsorships are important as we share the vision and mission of our wonderful school with others we love and care for, even those whom we want to come and join us here at PCA!
Please Give Generously and Significantly!
This project involved over 2 years of planning, and 17 months of vital construction through the pandemic! Since this project has always been for our kids and our community to the glory of God, the project needs your generosity!
When it comes to PCA families, the direct beneficiaries of the project, while we do not want you to compromise tithe to your local church, we are appealing to you to give a significant one-time offering!
Thank you for giving to our kids and community to His glory!
Reminder Instructions: How and When to Give
Please refer to the instructions and sponsor sheets re-attached for your convenient reference.
Submission Deadline to Qualify for Prizes!
To qualify for prizes, students must return funds by Friday, October 21:
- Whole-School Grand Prize Winner: $500
- Each Division Winner (after Grand Prize Winner): $250
- 2nd Place By-Division Winner: $200
- 3rd Place By-Division Winner: $100
The top class in each division with the highest average amount raised AND highest average number of participants per homeroom will receive a special, individually prepared class party snack!
THANK YOU!
A not-so-minor setback… Yet, grace abounds! The LORD IS SOVEREIGN AND GOOD!
Water damage to part of the flooring is being resolved speedily by the Gym-Con team. We covet your prayers.
Track-ready!
How “sweet” it is!
Spirit Wear inbound!
LET THERE BE (JOYOUS) SOUND!
RUBBER HITS THE TRACK!
LIKE MAPLE SYRUP
Last FIBA light up!
Looking upwards!
Up next: when the rubber hits the track
Let there be lights…FIBA lights!
Flooring Progress – Stage, Maple Gym Floors, Tiling in Kitchenette, Gym Offices, and Classrooms:
The small gym is getting a makeover as well! Ready for the hardwood flooring.
In the meantime, the senior school hallway is getting ready for tiling.
Putting up walls for our Resource Teacher:
Go Eagles Go!
The new classrooms are almost ready!
It’s been a very eventful and productive week of finishings after 15 months of behind-the-scenes structural and infrastructural preparations. The “muscle and skin” are being laid upon “good bones” beneath (foundation and flooring), above (roof structure, wiring, and HVAC) and within the new walls (columns, wiring).
Here are the photos of gym Floor Self-Levelling concrete underlayment
Almost all six (6) basketball standards have been installed!
The entire circumference of our 100m running track will be illuminated by a series of above track LED lighting fixtures.
The scoreboard is up!
Below is a 360 video of the ceiling. Over the last two days, the Soundbox technicians have installed 12 ceiling joist-mounted speakers for performances, which will be tied-in to the A/V perch control system, and they have been preparing the rigging above the stage for lights and sound.
All basketball standards were up as of last night!
Here are a few short Progress Videos of Change Rooms, PE Storage Room and Kitchenette
Looking down from the running track:
Finishing the stage with cement!
We are showing you a little secrete time capsule here!
Change rooms and Kitchenette:
Mid-Stairway Landing/Under running track storage room:
Wide angle shot of mid-stairway landing storage area and access hatch.
Stage and stageside PE Office:
This pic gives a great view of the system of understage storage space for chair trolleys!
Here are the Great bird’s-eye views of stage and PE offices:
Another bird’s-eye view of stage from future stairway landing:
Here you can see the concrete pumping for running track:
Pumping Concrete onto Running Track from truck to rooftop and onto running track deck:
The running track concrete pour is done!
Here are some photo updates:3 photos looking down from the running track, photos of the under-stage storage compartments, one with the metal sheeting in place, which will hold the concrete. Then there are pictures of the future kitchenette, the gym storage area, and the west change room.
The interior is starting to take shape including the A/V room.
This is a pic of the running track with corrugated steel deck with rebar laid before the concrete base gets poured. Very soon we will be able to run on this track!
Here are a few videos of the running track from above, benneath, and around.
These photos show the west side vertical and horizontal supports for the running track. You can also see the south side vertical steel supports hanging from the joists.
During March Break, after 10 months of work, the last of the structural steel was installed, namely the elevated running track. See this 360-degree video taken from the future centre-court of the gymnatorium reveals what looks like a “train track” that runs along the inner perimeter of the entire gym.
Here you see the running track steel, the cleared out area where the stairwell will go, and a photo of the gym without any supporting columns!
This week we worked on the removal of the old roofing before removing existing metal roof deck. Then, the metal roof is demolished from beneath using heavy equipment.
Here is the A/V perch foundation piers, both inside and outside videos of the wall and door frames of the future kitchenette and changerooms.
Old roofing and deck removal progress has begun!
Videos of our new roof:
February 4, 2022
The gymnatorium floor has been cleared to facilitate the dismantling of the old existing gym roof to reveal the new raised roof that is being roofed and recently sheathed.
Here is the new 360° view!
Over the first two weeks of January 2022, prior to the blizzard, the raised roof’s steel frame was enclosed and sealed all around and made watertight from bottom to top on all four sides.
The raised roof walls are wrapped!
The A/V Perch is taking shape. Here are the foundation for its steel structure:
The plumbing underground lines are recently completed to feed the kitchenette and changerooms, as well as the opening to the combined PE storage room.
With prayer and tremendous team work, we have just completed the reinstatement. Senior School returned to in person learning as planned on December 1, and, above all, safely.
December 1, 2021
Welcome back Senior School!
Here are the Area 100 reinstatement progress, and gymnatorium block wall progress:
CONGRATULATIONS PCA
FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL WALKATHON!
A crane is here to position roof decking to start covering the new raised roof structure. 
The roofing deck steel being craned safely over unoccupied space to the new raised roof! 
Building Upon a Firm Foundation with Block Walls! 
The gym is starting to take shape! See the Joist reinforcement above the soon-to-be-reinstated west classrooms
September 29, 2021
Here comes our new roof!
On Monday, all the columns were installed. On Tuesday morning, all the internal support beams were installed.
The first column has been craned into position!
Shoring in the big gym!
Shoring is adding temporary structural support to the existing roof ahead of new columns and steel spans, girders and joists. When the roof structure is completed, the shoring is no longer required and is removed.
Preparing to install the temporary structural support to the existing roof!
Getting ready for the new school year!
The footings and piers were being set for the columns, and then filled with concrete – Done!
In the Grade 1 rooms and JS lab, the mechanical systems have been reinstated along with the beautiful new skylights, new paint, and new drop ceilings! Just in time for teachers to prepare for the new school year!
New skylights looking great!
Time to fill in cement to secure the new poles
Opening the wall!
Finishing the rebar and the concrete footings being poured.
Joists being installed in the cafeteria, skylight frame taking shape, and rebar reinforcement completed!
Soon-to-be filled footing hole 
Steel reinforcement work completed!
First phase of steel reinforcement along with foundations being dug for the new gym columns.
Construction has begun!
RTR Town Hall Zoom Meeting (May 6, 2021)
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/nGeX_ueR-rtkBis0raX9eFGDUR1EoV2t508RKiUS133MsB071TJBC58-Bmc4SBMZ.8bypXABVS_rL7jNG
(Please contact marketing@pca.ca for the passcode to view the recording)
Teachers and staff have been clearing out their rooms in preparation for the construction to commence.
See more pictures in our gallery
Prayers and Testimonials
Please send your prayers and testimonials to raisetheroof@pca.ca