Vision for Learners

Learning Conversations

What does a thriving learning culture look like?  What does a thriving learning culture feel like? This week's Learning Conversations was a great example of exactly what a thriving learning culture looks like and feels like. 

The home - school partnership is critical to ensuring the holistic learning progress of young people. This partnership requires the commitment from teachers and parents/caregivers in equal measure. Students can see and feel the high support and high expectation environment and in turn see and feel the value that is placed on their education for themselves. It was heart warming to hear students and teachers talking about the learning that has taken place and parents sharing their experiences at home. These in-person conversations allowed for that personal connection to be made which is now easier to maintain through email and phone calls. As an educator, my main aim is progress; when students make progress in their academics, their understanding and living of the Vision for Learners and their overall personal commitment and engagement to their learning and the learning of others. Such a student learning culture can only be fully realised with the positive engagement of the home.

Regardless of the impetus for the conversation, families took the time to attend, understand the current state of play and commit to progress. The outcome was a palpable buzz. A buzz that centred around learning and improvement.

If families were unable to attend and still wanted to hear from the teacher and build this partnership, please make contact with your child's classroom teachers via email, phone or make a time to meet in person. If you have any feedback on how the night was structured, what worked well and what improvements could be made, please let me know.

Sandra Barry

Director of Learning

A Mission to Indonesia

2019 was our last student service trip to Indonesia to work with our three partnership schools- GKPS - SMK, GKPS - SD and GKPS -SMD. You may remember in 2020, that staff at the College organised food parcels for teachers in the schools as they were no longer being paid.

To start planning for this service trip to resume, two staff members, Helen Carter and Brenton Herne, joined staff from other Australian Lutheran schools with Indonesian partnerships in a trip to Indonesia to spend time at partnership schools and re-build connections. It was a time of sharing with other Australian schools about their partnerships, visiting partner schools, and planning possible itineraries.

This is a valued part of our College program and we look forward to the Indonesian service trip starting again. Thank you to Helen Carter and Brenton Herne who took 10 days from their holidays to help the College prepare and start to re-build the Indonesian service program.

Sandra Barry

Director of Learning