Caloundra Christian College Built Environment Master Plan

I like this school because it is a small, close community. Everybody knows everybody's name and you feel you can say hi to anyone because you know who they are. - Caloundra Christian College, Toby, Year 9 Student (2020)

From the Principal

At CalCC, we are passionate about providing quality, Christ-centred education, creating strong foundations for life and for learning. We are building a campus where students can explore, create, share and achieve their individual potential. It is with great excitement that we share our Master Plan for Caloundra Christian College.

Our aim is to create an authentic learning environment where students are engaged in real-life learning about themselves and the amazing world they live in. Our Master Plan is forged within our heartfelt aspiration to see every student flourish, knowing they are unique and made in God’s image.

Within the pages of this Master Plan are the designs for our campus that will house this vision, a transformative space where young people will grow academically, spiritually and socially into their God-given potential. It has been developed specifically to encourage community and partnership, support quality, modern learning and to inspire creativity and problem solving.

Our Master Plan has been informed by the invaluable contributions of our school community students, parents and staff, and is the end-product of much prayer, planning, and visioning. It is a campus that will allow for CalCC to provide fantastic opportunities for our students to flourish both now and long into our future.

Vince Wakefield Principal

Our Foundations: For Life and Learning

Faith

We seek God with all our heart

Integrity

We do what is right, not what is easy

Compassion

We rise by lifting others

Courage

We stretch ourselves beyond what is comfortable

Question

We learn to question so we can question to learn

Create

We are created to create

Communicate

We seek to understand, then to be understood

Improve

We improve by failing forward

Our Future: Strategic Focus

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Together, creating an Authentic Learning Community, where students and staff flourish, with Christ at the helm.

- Caloundra Christian College Vision

1. Together Building strong communities and partnerships

2. Creating Future-focused, sustainable growth

3. Authentic Learning Engaging and challenging learners

4. Each Flourishing

Supporting each student and staff to flourish

5. Christ at the Helm Intentionally and overtly Christian

TogetherCaloundra Christian College has always had a reputation centred around a close, supportive community, knitted together in purpose and belief.

Our vision starts with that very notion.

“Together, creating an authentic learning community, where students and staff flourish, with Christ at the helm.”

Together is about partnership. It’s about community and it’s about belonging. At CalCC, we are intentional about togetherness, building a culture of support and partnership within the College and the wider community.

CalCC partners with our students, families, local churches, local businesses, and community organisations to create learning that goes beyond the classroom.

Our Built Environment Master Plan is designed with this togetherness in mind. The campus is purpose-built to support collaboration, encourage relational learning and living, and foster a sense of ownership and community.

Together, we are building a learning environment where everyone can flourish.

Key Master Plan Considerations

Coming Together

One of CalCC’s key priorities is community, both as a College and as a part of wider local networks. We seek to foster collaboration, support, sharing and celebration. Whether it is academic, emotional/social or spiritual, our students prosper when they are in community with others.

Our Master Plan seeks to allow for various experiences, supporting large College-wide celebrations through to small group brainstorming sessions; single-person or large scale performances; debates and public speaking opportunities; and real-life project based learning and small informal discussions.

Flexible Learning

In discussions with students and parents, it is clear that what makes a happy learner differs between individuals. Our students understand that they are not simply recipients of an education but are participants and owners of their education. Different learning styles and academic pathways allow students to make learning relevant to them individually.

The Master Plan seeks to enable greater flexibility and mobility of facilities, to strengthen connections to outdoors and increase opportunities for students to take responsibility for how and when they learn.

Learning by Doing

CalCC recognises that students engage in learning when it is rigorous and purposeful, incorporating problem solving, creative thinking and real-world situations. Learning by doing allows for the hands-on, practical application of knowledge through a design-based thinking approach that delivers an end-product. This is enhanced by collaboration across the subjects.

Our Master Plan honours this authentic learning style, providing space and facilities for students to create in real time; to collaborate and network across disciplinary areas; opportunities for the learning process to be on display just as much as the end-product; and areas where accomplishments are shared and celebrated.

Valuing Green Space

Students and staff expressed the importance of retaining and resuming green space in the College allowing for well-being, additional sporting and outdoor learning opportunities.

The Master Plan places significance on green space by reducing the built footprint, developing extra green space for a kitchen garden and soccer field, and extending a green spine down the centre of the campus, connecting ‘Town Square’ to the Primary Precinct.

I would really like a sitting space surrounded by trees and grass, where students can sit and reconnect with nature.

- Caloundra Christian College, Year 8 Student

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STAGE 1

New Year 4 to Year 6 building, including classrooms, breakout spaces, small group learning areas, staff areas, and meeting spaces.

Renovations to the existing G Block building to increase light, ventilation, connectivity to the outside, and accessibility.

Alterations and extension to the existing Resource Centre to expand the library and accommodate administration, uniform shop, and music and drama spaces.

Relocation, alteration and extensions to the existing Ball Court including a high performance gym, studio, and storage areas.

New Town Square and Science and Hospitality precinct including hospitality spaces, a cafe linked to Hospitality and Town Square, science labs, and staff areas.

Car park reconfiguration, new covered car park with green terrace roof, and extension to the College Green.

Master Plan Projects

STAGE 1

Upper Primary Learning Centre

The Caloundra Christian College Lower Primary Learning Centre’s exemplary learning environment has provided a standard and solid foundation for primary learning at CalCC. The next stage of the Master Plan is to extend this learning community to a purpose-built upper primary facility. This precinct will provide greater spaces for undercover, external and integrated play in learning.

Flexible, collaborative learning spaces will open out into learning commons and break off into individual or small group learning spaces. These spaces will cater for multi-modal learning, continuing the agility and collaboration that the students at CalCC value, while also creating spaces for focus.

Over three-storeys, the building will incorporate play and connection throughout the development including a large ground floor under-croft with amenities, more messy areas for science investigations and visual art, and spaces for staff collaboration and connection.

STAGE 2 Resource Centre

As the Living Room of the College, the existing Resource Centre has great potential to provide a welcoming hub for students to connect with each other, with the community and with the world beyond. More than just a place to read books.

The alterations to the existing Resource Centre in Stage 2 seeks to extend the building to integrate administration, IT support, music, drama, and independent learning. This will connect a number of resources in one location and create a vibrant space where students can connect before and after school in a supported environment.

The address alongside the new Town Square will create clear wayfinding for visitors and important connections to the common facilities within this stage for all students.

Master Plan Projects (Cont'd)

STAGE 3

Science, Hospitality and Town Square STAGE 4 Secondary Learning Centre

CalCC is a creative school where all stakeholders value the importance of learning through doing and sharing. Building on this, Stage 3 will incorporate:

• A new home for modern science learning spaces where students can be more collaborative and their discoveries more visible

• Hospitality spaces where learning, dining, and gathering are improved to reflect already high credentials in commercial cuisine. Connections to edible gardens and terraces, and a cafe adjacent the Town Square will extend students’ learning opportunities beyond the curriculum to real-world applications.

• A Town Square where the College can come together, undercover, yet open. This space will connect external and internal learning environments, offer display of student learning and be the vibrant heart of the College. It will be a welcoming address space for the College community and host many functions, including formal and informal student performances.

Following the completion of the prior stages of the Master Plan, the existing G-Block building will be available to re-purpose previously required specialist learning areas into general learning areas. Walls will be opened up to create transparent and connected Secondary general learning spaces which continue the agile and collaborative learning journey for students from Primary to Secondary.

The alteration works to the existing building will enable light-filled, open and connected spaces, creating joyful learning environments for students with views and connections to common and external areas.

External covered spaces on the three-levels of this building will be designed to create places for break out and reflection adjacent to internal learning and circulation areas. Balcony and access treatments will also create a welcoming aesthetic to better connect with the campus and filter and frame views to Caloundra and the context beyond the College.

STAGE 5 Indoor Sports Centre

Throughout the day, you can see students utilise the existing court facility. It is ideally positioned next to the car park where students can play a game before and after school, facilitating the well-being and sporting endeavours of the active learner. The court can be raised and moved slightly to manage drainage and create peripheral spaces on the same level. These peripheral spaces include a high-performance gym, studio (general learning space) and storage areas.

The enclosed Court in Stage 5 will remain transparent to the southeast for connection to a new extended College Green. This visual and physical connection between internal and external spaces will cater for extended health and physical education programmes and College and wider community events.

The Indoor Sports Centre in Stage 5 will complement the new Town Square and the College Green in Stage 6, being a third space able to gather the whole College community. It will add an important internal space to the adjacent open College Green and sheltered Town Square.

Car Park and College Green

Bringing learning, community and the built footprint together has been key to the Master Plan. The final stage of the Master Plan, through consolidating the built footprint, enables the connection of all buildings and green spaces with adjacent covered spaces. The extended College Green will provide more open green space and safe connection between Town Square and the Primary Precinct.

The College Green is a place where the school community can play, gather, showcase and connect to other adjacent spaces bringing flexibility, joy and connection to the campus and community.

Rearranging the car park will also enable safer and greener connections for the students and staff, improving pedestrian flow and vistas while decreasing the radiant heat effect of the car park footprint.

hands-on learning

Caloundra Christian College, Year 10 Student

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I should have the ability and freedom to teach others what I know as well as learn from others