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We Offering a Prep to Year 12 Christian Co-Educational College with an approved Queensland Government Kindergarten Program; we provide a safe and compassionate environment where your child will be taught using a Biblical framework while meeting all educational requirements authorities. At Freshwater Christian College, we understand that parents are looking for a safe place where their children are nurtured and encouraged to reach their full potential. Our dedicated Christian staff support each student as they develop the knowledge and skills, experience, and character they need to take their place in the community. We offer Prep to Year 12 Christian Co-Educational College with an approved Queensland Government Kindergarten Program. We provide a safe and compassionate environment where your child will learn through a Christian Worldview. Our bright and fun Kindergarten program gives children an enjoyable 'introduction to school' experience that leads to a positive transition into Prep. Our Primary and High schools teach our students a love of learning in the pursuit of academic success. Located in Brinsmead, a suburb in the Queensland tropical city of Cairns, Freshwater Christian College has been supporting, encouraging, and teaching children since 1983. We are committed to partner with you to nurture your child's academic, physical, social, and spiritual development recognizing their strengths and talents. At Freshwater, we set high expectations for a child's growth and academic development. While we understand every child is unique, we truly believe every child is created with a Godly purpose and unique destiny. Our academic programs are designed to develop essential skills, problem-solving, decision-making, and character through Christian philosophy. Our curriculum is centered around a Biblical worldview while meeting the requirements of educational authorities. At Freshwater, we see sport and physical education as key factors in a child's development. They learn how to be part of a team, develop focus and commitment, and build confidence in a safe environment. Across our College, from Prep up to the Senior years, we focus on providing fun and engaging sporting activities and programs for our students. Our sporting and enrichment program (PGP) runs weekly as a core subject and provides our whole College with an opportunity to get active. View full school

Playgroups are held each week and provide a warm and welcoming space for carers and children. Two playgroups are offered and cater to children from birth to pre-kindergarten. Both playgroups flow to a gentle rhythm that incorporates kneading dough for honey buns, craft, indoor and outdoor free-play, singing, storytelling and fingerplays, and a shared morning tea and lunch (depending on the length of the session).'Stepping Stones' (for 3+yo) offers a longer session and is run as a Rostered Playgroup, enabling parents to leave their child if they are ready, in the care of Playgroup Leader Kelli and rostered parents. This provides an opportunity for the child to experience more independence in a nurturing environment, in preparation for kindergarten. Of course, parents may stay with their children for the duration of the session if they wish. Freshwater Creek Steiner School is an independent non-denominational Primary School, Kindergarten, and Playgroup. We are a small, rural school situated on 12 acres within a farming community close to the tiny township of Freshwater Creek and surf coast beaches. The purpose of Freshwater Creek Steiner School (FCSS) is to provide high-quality child-centered education in the light of the College of Teachers' interpretation of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy of pedagogy. In essence, Rudolf Steiner's education recognizes the soul faculties of the human being which emerge and develop during childhood. Our education is based on engaging the whole child working with the “head”, “heart”, and “hands”. Our curriculum and methodology use these faculties in the teaching of each subject area. In doing so, the faculties themselves are strengthened. Here at Freshwater Creek Steiner School, we aim to provide an education of the highest quality so that our students become balanced adult individuals, having developed a clarity of thinking, the sensitivity of feeling, and strength of will to enable children to participate fully and constructively in contemporary Australian society. Our Mission Inspire within the children a love of learning, a morality that strives for goodness, an appreciation of beauty, and a pursuit of truth. Inspire a sense of wonder and a healthy positive connection to the world, arising from a knowledge of and responsibility toward the individuality of themselves and each other. Inspire a sense of the spiritual dimension for life as well as a healthy respect for the physical. Provide an education of the highest quality so that our students become balanced adult individuals, having developed a clarity of thinking, the sensitivity of feeling, and strength of will. Provide our students with the knowledge, skills and values, and strength which will enable them to work competently in the world and to participate fully and constructively in the society contemporary Australia. Develop in our students a desire to extend learning throughout their lives and values which will enable them to find a path in life. View full school