40th birthday

40th Birthday Celebrations - Bookings are open

Eventbrite bookings for our birthday celebrations in October are now open.

Please share widely with past staff, students, and families. We appreciate your support to promote these special celebrations to the broader community.

Friday 29th October – Celebration worship with the school community, school tours and morning tea from 8.45am.

Saturday 30th October – Celebration evening dinner. Walker’s Arms Hotel, 6.30pm. Adults only $60 – including a 3-course meal.

Sunday 31st October – Praise and Thanksgiving community worship at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Para Vista, 10.30am. 

This Sunday service will also be Pastor Reid's farewell. 

A BYO family picnic on the school grounds will follow the service. Alternately, a BBQ will be provided (pre-orders and payment details will come later).  

Tours will be held throughout the afternoon.

Did you know?

The History of obtaining the first class rooms at Good Shepherd as told by Robert Marriott, one of the members of the first school Council.

When the idea of a school at Para Vista was floated and progressed in the Good Shepherd Congregation, I was chairman of the Congregation Stewardship Committee and a member of the school steering committee.  I was also a teacher and Deputy at Highbury Primary School and would pass the Hope Valley Primary School site during my daily commute.  When Hope Valley Primary School closed, I approached “Bill Buttrose”, the Head of Highbury and asked whether the buildings could be moved to our Para Vista site.  Bill had been born in a Lutheran Community at Robertstown and was supportive of the new Good Shepherd School so he advocated well for us and before long, the buildings were moved to Para Vista.  My memory is that the cost was very little, if anything at all.  Those were remarkable times in which God seemed to be answering prayers in amazing ways and using many of us to do unbelievable things. To God be the glory.

Additional comments from Merv Thiele:  

There were two double classrooms from Hope Valley.  Our only costs were the transport costs and the cost of refurbishing. This included second hand carpet from a bank in King William Street, which a large team of people removed one evening on trailers.  It must have appeared a strange site to onlookers, as this team removed carpet and office furniture.  Again, there was no cost for these items.