Principal's Address

Where Heart and Learning Meet: Why Future Facing Learning Matters

At Chevalier College, Future Facing Learning is not just a modern educational framework; it is a lived expression of our MSC Spirituality of the Heart. It grows from the deep conviction that every learner is sacred, uniquely gifted, and called to become a person of compassion, wisdom, and action.

For students, Spirituality of the Heart unfolds as they:

• Encounter God’s love and presence through the experiences of learning, friendships, and engagement with community, with particular attention to the sacredness in everyday moments.
• Search for meaning through creative expression, moral questioning and personal reflection, and, as a result, listen deeply to the stirrings of their own hearts.
• Experience challenges, failures and successes and allow themselves to be changed, even transformed by what they learn.
• Confidently share their gifts to build up others and therefore contribute to a better world.

Just as encountering, searching, experiencing and sharing God’s love allows one to flourish, thrive and contribute to a better world, so too does Future Facing Learning create the conditions for students to know themselves, grow in capability, and live with purpose. The synergy between these two frameworks is not coincidental; it is foundational. One breathes life into the other. 

Just as Spirituality of the Heart is visible in the way students learn, grow and contribute both within and beyond our school community, so ‘Future Facing’ shapes how we teach, learn, and develop students as learners each day.

At Chevalier College, we pursue this approach because we believe students flourish most fully when they are not only equipped for the future, but are also anchored in love. They learn not simply to succeed, but to serve. Not just to achieve, but to give. And in giving, they come to understand that the greatest expression of the heart is to freely offer what has been freely received.

This is the kind of learning that transforms not only students, but the world around them. A Future Facing education – underpinned by Spirituality of the Heart – empowers students to become builders of community, agents of compassion, and bearers of hope, just as Jules Chevalier did, with Jesus as the example.

Greg Miller

Principal