You're Invited!

Open Night at St Luke's is an opportunity to showcase the unique setting and contemporary learning environment inherent in our distinctive Catholic learning community.

Education is much more than results at the end of the St Luke’s 15 year learning journey. Through our Catholic faith based approach to learning, St Luke's Catholic College strives to support students to become young adults who can recognise, have access to, and take up opportunities that will grow them as compassionate people with integrity and moral strength to make right and just decisions. We do this by ‘Living the Good News’ as revealed through the Gospel of St Luke.

At St Luke’s, we actively encourage families who understand and support the Christian values and the culture behind St Luke’s commitment to nurture faith filled, curious children grow to become creative contributors and innovative problem solvers for a changing world to attend Open Night.

We have commenced our commitment to this vision this year with students from Kindergarten to Year 6. Extending upon this promising start, in 2018, St Luke’s will provide learning opportunities for:

3 and 4 year old students in our Catholic Early Learning Centre (CELC)

5 to 12 year olds in Primary school.

13 to 14 year olds for Years 7 and 8.

These ‘next steps’ in our growing story will ultimately see St Luke’s achieve its aim of establishing the ‘new normal’ for preschool to post school learning.

Although only in our first year, a strong sense of identity, purpose and confidence has quickly evolved. As we grow, we seek to be true to the best ideals that have shaped Catholic education in Western Sydney and also be alert to the lessons of research and the learning from experience.

In opening our College to the wider community, we acknowledge St Luke's Catholic College:

Is a Catholic College filled with rich Christian traditions;

Values respect for self, others and the environment;

commits to the development of social skills and enterprise skills in each child;

Strives for progressive, self-directed learning through a sustained engagement in a stimulating teaching and learning environment;

Prides itself on inclusive practices;

Encourages a balanced approach to life that integrates the spiritual, academic, physical and cultural

Insists on high standards of dress, behaviour, appearance, commitments and relationships, and makes no apologies in doing so; and,

Provides a safe and secure environment so each child can enjoy their 15 year learning journey at the College;

St Luke's welcomes all students and parents/carers to join with staff and students for our Open Night which will be held on Tuesday 28 March from 4:00pm. Preceding this evening, will be two Open Days where prospective families can witness learning in our agile contemporary studios.

You now have the opportunity to complete the attached Enrolment Form and forward it to: stlukesmarsdenpark@parra.catholic.edu.au

Enrolment Interviews will be held in the weeks after Open Night. Details and arrangements for those interviews will be given to prospective families at Open Night. In the meantime, I strongly encourage you to complete the Enrolment Form and access the relevant documentation required for interview.

For those who have not seen it, I leave with you the St Luke's promotional video.

For further details about our Open Days and Open Night, please see the image below or contact the College of 9854 3100.

Kind regards

Mr Greg Miller

Principal Leader

St Luke’s Catholic College

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Issue 2 · 03 Mar 2017

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