Curriculum Prep

At Redeemer, our goal is to nurture confident, caring capable Christian citizens and we begin this alongside you in Prep. Because we view our students as capable, our Prep students are fully included in the educational programs on offer at the College.

At Redeemer, we teach the Foundation Australian Curriculum as required by legislating authorities; however, the way in which we teach is what makes Redeemer unique. The College also has on staff, a number of specialist teachers which allows our Prep students to participate in weekly Art, Music, Physical Education and Library lessons.

Curriculum One - Six

At Redeemer Lutheran College, Biloela the Australian Curriculum is used in all Key Subject areas.

HASS (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES)

In the Australian Curriculum, the Humanities and Social Sci­ences learning area includes a study of History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship, and Economics and Business.

SCIENCE

Science inquiry skills and practices are used to teach science at Redeemer. This increases an interest in science and expands students’ curiosity and willingness to explore. In doing so, students will increase their ability to solve problems and make informed decisions about current and future applications of science.

HEALTH

The Australian Curriculum Health content is taught by the classroom teacher.

CHRISTIAN STUDIES

Students participate in weekly Christian Studies lesson formulated with the Lutheran Education Australia Christian Studies Framework.

ENGLISH

We teach all three strands of the Australian Curriculum English program, Language, Literature and Literacy. We are guided by The Science of Reading (SOR) which encourages the teaching of skills through explicit instruction. We use a systematic synthetic phonics approach where learning letter/sound correspondance, the Heggerty Phonological and Phonemic awareness program, a structured approach to morphology and etymology to develop students vocabulary and comprehension skills through authentic rich texts. Writing skills are instructed using ‘The Writing Revolution Model, which combines teaching content and breaking the writing process down into manageable chunks. We also teach sentence and paragraph writing at level.

MATHEMATICS

The Australian Curriculum underpins Mathematics Instruction here at Redeemer. The content taught across the strands of Number, Alegbra, Measurement, Space, Statistics and Probability ensures that students develop mastery in Mathematics through the development and application of mathematical understanding and fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills. Students in Years 1 to 3 have access to Mathletics and students can attend weekly tutoring in Maths provide by our full-time Primary Learning Support teacher.

TECHNOLOGIES

In Prep to Year 8, the subject of Technologies comprises two subjects.
• Design and Technologies
• Digital Technologies
These subjects ensure that students benefit from learning and working with the traditional, contempory and emerging technologies that shape our world. Students
from Prep have access to Ipads and laptops to assist with their learning.

CHINESE

The importance in creating global citizens is enhanced through the learning of Mandarin from Years 3 to 8. This is delivered through an online language program
delivered by MEG Languages with classroom teachers as facilitators.

LITERATURE AND RESEARCH PROGRAM

Housed in the Resource Centre, the Literature and Research Program delivers weekly lessons focused on enhancing enjoyment and comprehension of literature while progressively developing research, referencing and information literacy
skills.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION LESSONS

Redeemer’s total Physical Education Program comprises several elements.These lessons are enjoyed by each year level once a week. The lessons are conducted by a Physical Education Teacher. Each term there is a different focus for the lessons but developing skills and aerobic fitness are always two key elements.

Term One:     Cross Country /Interhouse Cross Country
Term Two:      Athletics/ Interhouse Athletics
Term Three:   Sport activities, skill development, rules and team work
Term Four:     Swimming/Interhouse Swimming/Interschool Swimming

SPORT

For P-6 students a weekly Sport lesson of 45 minutes, where students enjoy playing games, is organised in Clusters. In the Senior Primary School this is a wonderful opportunity to play, and become familiar with, the more formal games like netball, cricket, soccer and basketball. Being arranged in clusters enables groups to be multi-age allowing students to mix with and get to know other students and teachers from different year levels.

DAILY FITNESS

In 2012 the whole school adopted “Play is the Way” as our daily fitness program. Play is the Way has a dual purpose of assisting the development of social skills and positive peer interaction. 20 minutes is spent three days a week.

INTERHOUSE COMPETITIONS

Redeemer Lutheran College, Biloela has two sports houses to which families are allocated – Acacia (gold) and Grevillea (red). The traditional Interhouse competitions are run for Cross Country, Athletics, and Swimming with the aim of 100% participation in Primary School and robust participation from Secondary School students.  

PORT CURTIS AND CAPRICORNIA SPORTS TRIALS

Students in years 5 onwards are also able to participate in Port Curtis Trials in many organised sports, Touch Football, Soccer, Rugby League, Netball, Swimming, Cross Country, and Athletics. If selected in Port Curtis teams students are eligible to go onto Capricornia Trials in which selection takes you to State Championships! We have enjoyed watching the increasing number of students from our school who are selected for these levels. Along with these formal elements, it is delightful to see how physically active our students are at each break playing handball, tennis, tiggy, soccer, cricket, and imaginary games in the exploration garden.

CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’ LEAGUE

The Christian Schools League inter-school sporting competition is where students can look forward to an interschool carnival involving several sporting codes.  Redeemer Lutheran College Biloela participates alongside Trinity College Gladstone, Emerald Christian College, Kingsley College Rockhampton and Discovery Christian College Agnes Water regularly.

THE ARTS 

Teachers and students at Redeemer Lutheran College, Biloela engage in a variety of Music, Art and Speech and Drama. The College has several bands and choirs, which perform on special occasions. Concerts and other performances are held at times to give students the experience of performing on stage.