Last Monday and Tuesday, we welcomed parents into the school for the Secondary Parent-Teacher Interviews with the primary school hosting their sessions at the end of Term 2.
These connection points are critical to the sense of partnership that we seek to establish with parents. The opportunity to openly collaborate and communicate in the shared journey of educating our students is a central aspect of the life and heritage of Calvin Christian School.
I am enjoying the opportunity to gradually meet more of our parents. Part of the value of that for me, is to hear the stories of ‘why’. Essentially, why Calvin was chosen as the school for their family. Whilst I hear many stories about the academic preparation provided by Calvin, I have heard more parents mention the sense of community and the Christian faith and values that lie at its core as the key factors in their enrolment decision.
With this in mind and knowing the history of Calvin Christian School, you will not be surprised to learn that thinking about how we communicate faith and encouraging students to consider what a life of faith means in practice is a discussion that our staff are regularly engaged in. At the start of this term, our intrepid teaching staff spent two-days in Launceston, at the Christian Education National state conference listening to our keynote speaker, Dr Rod Thompson encourage us to consider how we share and seek to understand the Scriptures with our students.
“Done well and with an opportunity for student response and prayer, these devotional times communicate faith in action, the ‘lived faith’ that is more than mere head knowledge. ”
Openly sharing faith at Calvin begins each morning as our teachers and some of our students lead our ‘devotions’. Devotion times are an opportunity to apply the Scriptures to our own lives, an opportunity to bring the Bible to life, and for students to familiarise themselves with the Christian faith. Done well and with an opportunity for student response and prayer, these devotional times communicate faith in action, the ‘lived faith’ that is more than mere head knowledge.
Our vision is to be a “transformational Christian learning community” where our students begin to see the incredible connections as God speaks to each aspect of our lives, academic, physical and spiritual. Through their time at Calvin Christian School, we remain focussed on our roles of providing an excellent academic preparation for our students at whatever level we need to meet them, whilst actively communicating and nurturing a deep understanding of faith and God’s call to each of our students to be in relationship with Him.
I would encourage you to find out more about what a Christian learning community looks like at Calvin and trust that your child’s experience of the academic and spiritual life of our School will open them up to the possibilities of a life lived with God.
Scott Ambrose - Principal