Our Aims and Values

Our school is part of an active and supportive Parish Community.

We aim to provide quality education based on the Gospel values of love, justice, co-operation and genuine concern for others.

Working in partnership with our parents, our well balanced curriculum aims to prepare students to continue their education with confidence.

We strive for education excellence within a safe and happy environment.

Our Facilities

• Before and after school care
• Well designed and refurbished classrooms with computers and Internet access in all learning areas and classrooms
• Beautiful treed surroundings in a secure environment
• Large oval and soccer field
• Well equipped playground
• Large modern well resourced library with 16 computers for student/parent access
• First aid room
• One large multi-purpose room
• Uniform shop
• Indoor toilets
• Parish Church

Our Programs

We are proud of our comprehensive programs, which we are continuously updating and improving. They include:

• Religious education with School/Parish sacramental programs
• Health and Safety
• Parent education
• Swimming
• A Maths program which focuses on skill development and problem solving
• Perceptual Motor Program (PMP)
• A focus on Literacy from Prep-6
• Special Needs support
• Reading Recovery
• Grade 6 camp
• Information and Communication technology at all levels
• Anti-bullying program
• Literature Promotion via Library lessons, borrowing and Book Week celebrations
• Special friends' program
• LOTE (Language Other than English) Italian lessons and Italian day celebrations
• Seasons
• Regular fitness and sporting activities including interschool sports,Twilight Sports, PE lessons
• Visual and Performing Art displays
• Assemblies
• Concert
• Environmental education
• Music
• Multi-media education
• School Choir
• Hands on Science and Technology

Parent Participation

Our Parent survey reinforced the strategies that make St Luke's School what it is.

The most valued aspects of the school included:

• The dedication and commitment of teachers and staff
• Quality education
• The teaching of our Catholic Faith
• The school's friendly atmosphere
• The shared goals and values of home and school formalised through our School advisory board and the Parent and Friends Association.

Statement of Mission

It is because of our belief in the person and words of Jesus Christ that we place Him in the centre of the life of our Catholic school. Therefore we are motivated to create a climate permeated with the Gospel spirit.

St Luke's School is committed to the development of the whole person. Thus, through the assimilation of skills, knowledge, moral and social attitudes, each person is encouraged to take his/her place as a creative member of the community.

Our belief is that every person has an innate and special worth. Therefore, we wish to create here at St Luke's School, an atmosphere in which all who experience the community may grow in their own richness, fullness and integrity. Our administration, including financial, works towards creating this atmosphere. We believe this can be achieved in the knowledge of God's love for each of us, and by an increasing awareness of a response to His Presence in our lives.

"The Catholic school tries to create within its walls a climate in which the pupil's faith will gradually mature and enable him/her to assume the responsibility placed on him/her by Baptism." (The Catholic School, The Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, P.38)

We see this Catholic School as a vital part of the Parish community, with the Parish Priest as the leader of the Parish community and the principal as the administrator of the Parish school. As Pastor of the Parish community, the Parish Priest is seen as an integral part of the education and growth in faith of the children in the Parish school. The Principal and the school staff co-operate with and assist him in the fulfilment of this obligation through the religious education program which is carried out in the school and which shall be in accord with diocesan policies and guidelines.

Parents are the first and foremost educators of their children. Christian values and attitudes are taught primarily in the home, teachers, by work and example can merely reinforce these. The parents' privilege and responsibility to educate their children can be delegated in part, but never relinquished to the school.

We see the school community as an extension of the family. Therefore, parents must be involved in and work co-operatively with the school, as part of the team, if their children are to benefit from the Catholic Christian education.

The staff of this school understands that we share responsibility with the parents in awakening, nurturing and developing the child in his/her life of faith, and by embracing and communicating the teachings and heritage of the Catholic Church - bearing in mind the age and development of these primary school children.

It is desired that all members of our school community will work towards providing a happy and secure environment for all the children at St Luke's.

Our Logo

The four crosses represent the Gospels of Jesus Christ which give form to our life.

The distinctive cross - St Luke - the parish patron.

The bricks, interdependent and built upon one another, stand for ourselves as individuals as differently talented,
forming the Body of Christ at Wantirna.

The overall picture is the Cross of Christ, for it is in dying to ourselves that we rise to new life in Christ,
through others - in giving we receive.

Spaces in between the bricks represent space allowing the Spirit to move among us in growth and freedom.