Faith Lutheran College - Redlands

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. Community has always been a huge 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, especially 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 make a determination 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 that present themselves 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, behaviour 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 wonderful to be part of a Christian community which constantly reflects to seek improvement, is dynamic in development and innovation in the pursuit of current best practice, all in a context which places Christian pastoral care of students as its highest priority.

Faith Lutheran Primary School was established by the Redlands Lutheran Parish in 1982. The initial enrolment was approximately sixty students. In the early years the members of the local Lutheran congregations showed strong and loyal support to this new and growing school. Many families gave of their time, money and talents to assist the school in those early years. Without such effort and dedication to the school, we would not have the school that is 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 special year where the curriculum is organised 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 give these young authors the opportunity to present original short stories and poems to their peers for positive feedback. Students are encouraged to experiment with a variety of genre and attend dressed as their favourite storybook character. At the end of each club meeting members are given the chance to form social bonds with likeminded peers over an afternoon tea. The outstanding efforts of our talented writers are published each month in the “Writer's Circle Magazine” and copies of this popular publication are distributed throughout the school.

1-15 Beveridge Road Thornlands QLD 4164
Phone : (07) 3820 5500
Fax : (07) 3820 5511
Absentee : (07) 3820 5525