Geelong Lutheran College

Geelong Lutheran College St John’s, Newtown was established in 1962 to provide a quality education for the people of Geelong in a Christian family environment. St John’s is a Christian school promoting lifelong learning in a nurturing environment.

The St John’s Newtown campus is centrally located in the Geelong CBD and delivers a dynamic, engaging and holistic curriculum catering for the developing needs of learners from 3-year old Kindergarten to Year 6.

Geelong Lutheran College Armstrong Creek, established in 2009, is a co-educational Primary and Secondary school offering education for students from Prep to Year 12. Together, the two campuses operate as Geelong Lutheran College, catering for children from age three to Year 12.

The Lutheran Education system is the second largest non-government system providing for over 40,000 students across Australia. Lutheran education has a long and proud tradition of education since 1839, springing from a strong Lutheran desire to educate their children within a Christian context.

Today, Lutheran schools cater for students from a wide-range of faith backgrounds. Lutheran schools are well-known for their quality, values based Christian education.

Our vision is to be a leading, innovative, Christ-centred learning community that inspires students to be caring, confident and creative citizens. Geelong Lutheran College endeavours to achieve its educational mission through the following values:

• Wisdom – is more than knowing. It is the basis for making good decisions and giving a sense of direction. Wisdom has a scriptural basis. It is developed through knowledge and learning grounded in the Christian faith.
• Honour – is respect for self, one another and the community in which we live. It incorporates aspects of love, service, courage and humility.
• Purpose - is living with intention. It embraces our unique talents and abilities and gives us assurance, hope, mindfulness and direction as we go about our daily lives.

Our mission is, Geelong Lutheran College shares the mission of all Lutheran schools and aims to encourage and support students, informed and sustained by the word of God, to develop their God-given talents so that they may shape and enrich their world.