HOW WE BEGAN

In the early 1960's there was a strong wish by the Lutheran families of Geelong for their children to receive a Christian education. St Johns Lutheran Church in Yarra Street then decided to start a Lutheran Primary School in Geelong. The present site at 33 Aberdeen St was purchased from Geelong Grammar School, and in 1962, St John's Lutheran Primary School was officially opened with 2 teachers and 56 pupils.

Due to a strong and ongoing commitment of the Geelong Lutheran community St. John's has continued to grow, change, and develop. This commitment is reflected in the family values and the ever present caring atmosphere that pervades every activity and event at the school. Our School Community continually blesses us by their commitment, care and support. We always enjoy learning of the many successes of our students as they move into Secondary school and adult life.

Today, St John's offers a high standard of education from Kindergarten to Year 6 and has a current student population of 330. We invite you to discover an exceptional place of learning, designed to open a world of growth for your preschool or primary child, where we encourage and nurture the academic, physical, emotional, social and spiritual learning of the individual student. 

St John’s has always welcomed and valued the support given by those in the Geelong community wishing to educate their children in a Christian environment.

• St John's Lutheran Church, Geelong
• Lutheran Education Australia
• The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA), Victoria district
• Lutheran Schools of the S.E. Region (which includes all Lutheran Schools in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania)
  

OUR AIMS

• Provide a thorough grounding in the Christian faith, and relate this instruction to the life of the child
• Provide a high standard of education as required by the Board of Studies
• Provide opportunities for creative and artistic activities
• Promote physical health and development of students
• Give each child the maximum personal and individual attention
• Develop in each child a feeling of self-worth
• Seek close co-operation with parents in the education and training of their child

MULTI-AGING

Multi-aging is a style of classroom organisation with its basis in sound educational belief that the individual child is important and learns at his / her own pace. At St John's we feel that the needs of all our children can be better met through multi-aging and the benefits it brings, than through traditional single level classrooms. Our multi-aging classrooms are organised into two classroom grades across the four Curriculum Standards Frameworks levels in Primary school. We have:

Level 1	Prep
Level 2	Grade 1 & 2
Level 3	Grade 3 & 4
Level 4	Grade 5 & 6

Multi-aging gives us a greater organisational flexibility, more effective planning support and workload efficiency for teachers and more varied activities for students while giving the children more time to achieve levels and consolidate learning if necessary. Children can progress at individual rates of learning suited to their own development. In the classroom, students are grouped according to their progress rather than their school chronological year. Children also develop positive attitudes to other children of different age groups and relate well to them, similar to the way they do in 'out of school' situations. We feel this is more natural for them.