Services Offered

• Legal Covering

1. Faith Christian SchoolDE is a registered School of Distance Education and families enrolling their students P-12 will be meeting their legal requirements.

• Individual Education Plans

1. Students enrolled in this program have Individual Educational Plans that utilise a range of Quality Christian Curriculum to meet ACARA &Queensland essential learnings. We work collaboratively with parent educators to put together the best possible program for each individual student’s learning needs and situation. These programs may utilize commercially available curriculum or individually derived units of work to meet individual learning needs.

• Unprecedented levels of teacher contact, including:

1. Lessons on demand, utilizing the internet and telephone.
2. 4 home visits per year, with time for lessons and activities for student as well as time for parents to talk face to face.
3. 4 regional workshops per year and additional local activity afternoons.
4. 2 family orientated affordable camps per year.
5. Regular telephone encouragement and support.
6. The option of sample collection for portfolios and reporting being completed by your teacher within your home. This service is being offered to end the stress some parents feel facing work returns at the end of term.
7. Additional, locally based teachers employed part time to organise “get togethers” and support local activities each fortnight or as required.

• 2 summative and one formative report per year.

1. Reports focus on progress & effort, not just attainment or measuring against others.

• Annual, local, family orientated awards nights.
• Behaviour management support from an experienced parent and Teacher.
• Assistance for specific learning challenges.
• Regular online news bulletins (two per term)
• Pastoral Christian support.
• Informative Website programs and support.
• On-line Forums and Buy-Swap-Sell Curriculum market.
• Career counselling, Vocational Education.
• Clear paths to University,TAFE,or the workforce.
• SAT1 Preparation support.
• QLD Certificate in Education and Learning Account support.
• Endorsed Work Experience (& School –based Apprenticeships & Traineeships)
• Yr 3, 5, 7 Testing available.
• Access to and advise on Centrelink allowances available.
• Missions Trip opportunities.

Fees

Family fees for full enrolment and services are $300 per year. This is a flat rate, irrespective of the number of children involved. Missionary families are free or what they can afford.

Enrolment Procedure

Interested families need to have an enrolment interview with our Principal, before sending in completed enrolment forms. This is usually a telephone interview and is informal but informative -to help us understand your students’ needs and to ensure you have a clear picture of what is involved in Home Based Education with us.

Our Vision

Building a large central building to hold a large number of staff is very expensive and of little benefit or relevance to students who live hundreds of kilometres away. Our families are looking for more local resources, home visits, workshops and a support system that works for them, not the other way around.

The most cost effective way to provide this is to have teachers who are based locally, working from a home or Church office. The funds saved in travel costs and building costs can be put back into lowering the Student -Teacher ratio, and provision of learning resources. This decentralized model also keeps the focus on the needs of the students, instead of the operation itself.

It will also allow for an unprecedented percentage (per student) ofGovernment funding to be spent on tangible library resources to support our students’ programs. These resources will be managed with a new cost effective system to streamline traditional processes and turnaround times.

Families will also be encouraged to make suggestions for helpful resources to be purchased. From early readers, and instructional videos to chemistry or robotics kits, our Leading Teacher has the experience to realize the importance of budgeting for learning resources.

Future Growth

As student enrolments grow additional teachers will be employed. Our goal is to provide local area Resource Centres, staffed by suitably experienced support teachers who embrace the notion of Home Education, and who live locally. If, for example, there are eventually 35 to 40 students enrolled in the Rockhampton/Gladstone area, then a local teacher would be employed and be based there. The benefits of this model in service delivery to clientele are many. While maintaining a core Teacher to Student ratio of 1 to 40 or better, this decentralised model will ensure teachers are more accessible for “face to face” support.

Our Principal  

Jason Caldwell has extensive experience with Home Based Education and utilising a range of curriculums and Australian curriculum. Jason is based in Brisbanebut spends significant time travelling Queensland giving support to our Teacher and families, providing home visits and developing new services for families wanting to educate their children at home.

Contact

If you have any further questions or want to find out more about schooling your children at home please contact our Lead Teacher Mr Caldwell on: 07 3299 5357 or 0427HOMEDE