Faith has the vision to be a dynamic Christian learning community embracing innovation service, global thinking, and excellence. This vision, combined with our values, provide our foundational direction moving into the future for our students and community. The vision statement has been very carefully crafted through many consultation sessions, engagement with our community, and feedback from our parent, student, and staff groups in particular, with each word being full of meaning and purpose combined with a call to action.
Faith is proving to be a dynamic community, moving with purpose and innovation, responding to current and future needs while holding firm to the crucial values that our students must have. The community has always been a massive strength of Faith, and the added component of being a learning community is most important for our students. As a learning community, the vital competencies of collaboration, cooperation, and team focus are added to the essential learnings that our students need. This is learning for all in the community. We understand that we all need to continue to grow and learn throughout our lives, mainly as we deal with the nature of an ever-changing world.
Service has always been a big part of Faith, and we acknowledge this in our vision statement and decide to continue to build this into our programs and the very fabric of who we are and what we do. This meshes splendidly with being globally minded and outward-looking, but the global thinking aspects are more far-reaching as well. The cliché of it being a shrinking world has never been more pronounced, with the opportunities present to our students while at the College and then as they move out into the world. Preparing our students to be global citizens is essential, and the College will weave these learnings into our program and community.
Excellence is the final word of our vision statement. It is a reference to all aspects of school life. It not only refers to high standards of academic achievement but strong values, high levels of effort, behavior, and the Christian values of compassion, service, humility, forgiveness, justice, and love.
An enthusiastic and committed Christian staff, together with the community, has developed a comprehensive curricular and co-curricular program to meet the various student needs within our Christian context. It is lovely to be part of a Christian community that always reflects to seek improvement. It is dynamic in development and innovation in the pursuit of current best practice, all in a context that places students' Christian pastoral care as its highest priority.
The Redlands Lutheran Parish established faith Lutheran Primary School in 1982. The initial enrolment was approximately sixty students. In the early years, the local Lutheran congregation's members showed loyal and robust support to this new and growing school. Many families gave their time, money, and talents to assist the school in those early years. Without much effort and dedication to the school, we would not have the school here today.
Faith Lutheran College, Redlands Junior School, is committed to providing an all-round education in a safe and supportive Christian environment. The Junior School curriculum is delivered in a stimulating environment with high expectations. The emphasis in the Junior School is on all children striving to achieve their potential within a rich and diverse approach built around the eight key learning areas and Christian Studies.
A well-equipped computer laboratory and classrooms serviced by a network of computers provide both Internet and Intranet access to students who are taught keyboard, literacy, and numeracy skills from an early age. The Prep Year is a particular year where the curriculum is organized to provide the transition between a 'play' environment and the more formal demands of Year 1. All students attend pre-school on a full-time basis.
Writer's Circle is an after school club whose objectives are to encourage young budding authors by meeting monthly and to allow these young authors to present original short stories and poems to their peers for the positive feedback. Students are encouraged to experiment with a variety of genres and attend dressed as their favorite storybook character. At the end of each club, meeting members are given a chance to form social bonds with like-minded peers over an afternoon tea. Our talented writers' outstanding efforts are published each month in the "Writer's Circle Magazine," and copies of this popular publication are distributed throughout the school.
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