St Paul's Lutheran Primary School

St Paul's Lutheran Primary School is an independent, co-educational, Lutheran primary school, situated on a 7.5 hectare campus in Caboolture, a northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1985 by the St Paul's Lutheran Church, St Paul's currently caters for approximately 375 students from Prep to Year Six. It is a feeder school to the Caboolture campus of Grace Lutheran College, its immediate neighbour.CurriculumThe St Paul's curriculum has a strong literacy and numeracy focus with specific programmes in pre-writing and reading, intensive phonics, structured reading assessment and development, and library skills. The teaching and use of ICT and technology by students and teachers enriches the learning environment and supports individual and independent research, publication and learning. Specialist teachers have lesson time with all classes from Prep to Year 6 in the areas of Library and Research, ICT, Music and Physical Education. Special Needs teachers give support to individual students and small groups by implementing appropriate programmes that are developed in consultation with the classroom teacher. St Paul's provides students with modern and attractive environments in which to learn and play.Co-curriculumThere are a variety of extra-curricular activities offered by the school. Some are weekly and others occur according to the school season. The most commonly occurring extra-curricular activities include the following: The St Paul’s choir which performs at civic and school functionsInstrumental Music lessons for band (brass, woodwind and percussion), strings (violin, cello and viola) and guitar (six string and bass)Tennis coaching before and after school on the school’s courtParticipation in the local ANZAC Day marchParticipation in the University of New South Wales ICAS testing program in English, Writing, Spelling, Maths, Science and ComputingParticipation in the local Maths Challenge competition St Paul’s students participate in a theatrical production every second year. These senior and junior musicals are very popular within the community. Almost all of the production cast and crew are made up of students, with directing taken up by teachers, and specialist teachers helping to instruct the children where needed.