ANNUAL REPORT | REDEEMER RECORD – DECEMBER 2017
Principal’s
ANNUAL REPORT
MRS TANYA CROOKS Principal
New Principal
Master Plan
The year commenced with the arrival at the College of the fourth, and first female Principal. I was overwhelmed with the warm welcome that was extended to me and this has continued throughout the year. It has been a great privilege to get to know the members of the College community from the opening service held for our Prep to Year 12 students through to the final Celebration Ceremonies held in the final week. During my time this year, I have attended many events including the musical, art gallery displays, sporting fixtures and grand finals, robotic tournaments, eisteddfods and concerts.
Early this year, the College embarked on a master planning process in consultation with the College community. Architect firm Fulton Trotter, headed up by Mark Trotter (a former parent of the College), worked with all sectors of the community to envision what the College should look like from 2030 and beyond to cater for the future educational needs of our students. The College also sought expert advice from Tony Ryan, a learning futurist and Dr Stephen Brown of the Brown Collective, an international expert and policy advisor in the area of change management and organisational development in education. The driving force for this plan is the implementation of a College wide approach to teaching and learning focusing on the development of future skills, namely collaboration, creativity, adaptability, leadership, ethics, persistence, empathy, global citizenship, patience and excellence.
Added to this, many parents took the time to speak with me either informally or at various Parents and Friends meetings. I had the pleasure of hosting every student from Prep to Year 6 in the College Boardroom and my office to see what it is like to be College Principal. Some of my best ideas have originated from the exciting conversations that were had during these visits. I also had the privilege of hosting for lunch every Year 12 student. They shared with me their journey through Redeemer and their hopes for the future. Time and again these young people spoke about how they felt valued and supported by College staff and of the fine friendships they had developed with their fellow students over their time here. Curious, Courageous, Christ-led This year we focused on a whole of College theme – Curious, Courageous and Christ-led. We explored these concepts through devotions, staff professional development, Junior School Assembly awards, conversations and newsletter articles. Wherever I went, the community was able to speak about these concepts and how they were essential as part of modern life preparation. We saw these concepts in action through class work, co-curricular activities and service learning opportunities at all levels of the College. The College will continue to focus on these attributes along with its core values of Integrity, Care, Excellence, Service and Self-discipline.
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The 2030 Plus master plan will have its official launch at the start of 2018. Further community consultation will be held early next year to determine which projects will be chosen as the first stage of the master plan for a possible construction commencement in the early 2020’s. Celebrating 10 Years of the Junior School This year the College celebrated 10 years of the Junior School. From its inception in 2007 as a single stream P-4 school, with two streams of Year 5, to a triple stream P-6 school with just over 500 students today; the College has a great deal to be thankful for. Some of the activities held included the opening of a 25 year time capsule and the laying down of a new time capsule, donated by the Springwood Logan Lions Club to be opened on 4 February 2030 to celebrate 50 years of Redeemer Lutheran College. Additionally the Junior School hosted a 96.5FM celebration morning with the radio station broadcasting live from Fred Davey Oval.
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Reformation 50/500 Celebrations This year the Lutheran Church of Australia and all of its schools celebrated 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg church. Here in Australia we are also celebrating 50 years of unification of the Lutheran Church in to the Lutheran Church of Australia. As part of these significant anniversaries, Redeemer Lutheran College held its own Reformation service with students from Prep to Year 12. Our singers and musician joined a 300 strong choir to sing traditional Lutheran hymns at a joint concert with a number of other Lutheran schools at St Peters Lutheran College, Indooroopilly. Teaching and Learning Staff in both the Junior and Senior School have participated in a wide range of professional development activities this year. In the Senior School, there has been an emphasis on understanding and preparing for the introduction of ATAR from 2019 for 202 external examinations. A number of our staff have been appointed senior markers for subject exams across the state. I personally attended the two-day QCAA Principals Conference where all senior educational leaders were briefed on the upcoming changes and how to best prepare at the school level. A review of the senior subject offerings was undertaken in the light of the phasing out of old syllabus board subjects and the introduction of the new style “general” and “applied” subjects offered under ATAR. For example, Home Economics will be phased out statewide and students will now be able to take the new subject of Food Science and Nutrition. In addition to preparing for the new suite of subjects, the College has undertaken a review of its Curriculum Leader structure to balance workload for staff and to have subject specialists leading an integration of curriculum and ATAR preparation from Years 7 through 12. Our Current Year 9 students are experiencing their first taste of the new subjects in Year 10 next year.
Staff in the Junior School have focused on developing students’ future skills through multi-disciplinary project based learning and service learning. We witnessed wonderful examples of this approach in Year 2 through their STEM and Indigenous and Technology projects and in Year 5 with their integrated Art, Geography, English and Science unit on animals and habitats. Other year levels experienced new subjects such as Coding and Robotics. Across Prep to Year 12, all of our staff had a focus on developing units of work under the Art and Science of Teaching (ASOT) framework, with a unified pedagogical approach across the whole of the College. These activities are part of a five-year professional development plan that incorporates annual professional learning plans for all teachers and cyclical appraisal processes. NAPLAN Results 2017 In 2017, Redeemer’s NAPLAN results continued to reflect the academic success experienced across the College. For the fifth consecutive year, our student scores were higher than State and National averages in all areas tested in every year level. Tracking of cohorts over the last nine years continues to indicate that Redeemer students improve at a greater rate than their State and National counterparts. Learning Mentor Time This year the College introduced Learning Mentor Time (LMT). All students in Years 7-12 participated in the Learning Mentor journey, a program developed to enhance student learning and wellbeing. This innovative program will continue in 2018 with all students in the Senior School having two lessons per week scheduled with their learning mentor. One student, in their feedback to a recent survey, explained “more individual study time actually helped me to complete my work on time and made submitting my work that much easier. And the personal topics that were spoken about during LMT time was useful as they gave
me good strategies and ideas to cope with some of my problems as an adolescent.” Parents responded with “We have really appreciated the time and effort each individual teacher has taken to help mentor each student in such a time rushed era. I think LMT is a great program that with surveys like these will grow with strength each year.” The College will publish further feedback on the survey data at the start of 2018.Thank you to all those who took the time to participate in the survey. Redeemer Plus In 2017 Redeemer introduced Redeemer Plus to the Junior School. This program assisted in identifying students in our community who would benefit from further learning enrichment and extension. Over 30 of our Junior School students were involved across the year and are to be commended on their commitment to academic extension. In 2018 Mr Michael Trott will extend this program into the Senior School. Highlights to this program was our Year 6 students being awarded First place in the national competition held at the University of Queensland. Also of note was our rookie Year 6 robotics team who were awarded overall champions at the recent Brisbane Region competition of the FIRST Lego League competition held at Grace Lutheran College. This team then competed at the national competition in Sydney at the beginning of December. Performing Arts The Performing Arts year started with the highly successful musical, “The Music Man”. It performed to sell out audiences who were rapt by the professional level of the musical orchestra as well as the extremely talented cast. Comments from many of those that attended were that they would not expect to see a more professional production at a state or national level. Warm congratulations and thank you to all those involved, cast, musicians, backstage crew, production assistants and staff. This was also the last musical that Miss Rosilyn
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Frieberg will produce for the College. Miss Frieberg has produced the last 14 musicals over her 27 years at Redeemer. This year we also saw a number of events where Lutheran schools joined to extend and enjoy music making. Early in the year, Redeemer hosted St Andrews, LORDS, Faith Redlands and Trinity Lutheran Colleges for a workshop with ARIA Award winning A Capella group “The Idea of North” culminating in a joint concert in Redeemer Chapel. This was a spectacular event and a wonderful opportunity for our students to work and sing with professional artists. We look forward to more of these joint opportunities in 2018. Elsewhere our music groups had huge success at such events as the Queensland Youth Music Awards achieving first place for Intermediate Concert Band, Senior Concert Band and Senior Singers. At the Gold Coast Eisteddfod, Senior Singers once again were awarded first place. At MusicFest, Senior Concert Band was awarded the muchcoveted Platinum Award in the highest grade possible, “A” Grade Secondary concert bands. At the same competition Chamber Strings, Intermediate Concert Band, Year 6 Band and Junior Concert Band all came away with Gold Awards in their chosen category. This was an outstanding year of competition for our many ensembles, they and the music staff are to be congratulated on their hard work and fine achievements. Drama continues to provide students with wonderful opportunities to extend their art form and a number of wonderful productions were held this year”. Film and Television also celebrated a years’ worth of hard work at their film night as part of the Experience Redeemer Showcase evening. Redeemer teams entered the “Race Around Ekka” film competition and two of our teams placed second, an amazing achievement. Art has excelled this year in a number of areas. Kareen Haddad (Year 10) represented the College with a portrait entry in the Young Archie competition. A big congratulations to Ethan Cho (Year 9) and Simone Coetzee (Year 8) who were finalists in the Beersheba 100th Anniversary Art Competition. The annual Pavement Art competition across both sub-schools remains one of the House competitions
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where students can build relationships, and exercise their creativity in a fun and meaningful way. Once again, this year our Year 11 and graduating Year 12 students have their work displayed as part of an exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery. Camps The College sent students off to camps from Years 3 to 11 as part of our commitment to outdoor education. For the first time in a number of years, our Year 9 students attended Mt Binga Outdoor Education Centre, which is owned and operated by Immanuel Lutheran College. Students and parents found the experience very fulfilling and commented on the renewed emphasis on the spiritual development as well as physical and social development as a feature of this camp. Year 6 also had a fabulous time once again in Canberra. As part of our life preparation for our students the College continues to place an emphasis on developing holistic education. Sport Redeemer Lutheran College had a memorable year in sport in 2017. This was the first year that the College had competed in the Greater Brisbane Conference (GBC) competition. Overwhelming feedback from students and staff was that the matches were very competitive and promoted good sportsmanship. Overall, the College won thirteen premierships across the trimesters in the fields of Tennis, Volleyball, Netball and Soccer and placed second overall in the competition for all three trimesters - an outstanding achievement! All teams are to be commended for their perseverance and dedication to their sport. The College had a very successful JTAS season with a record number of teams fielded from Junior School students. Once again, parents and students reported high levels of satisfaction with the opportunities offered for students to develop their sporting prowess. Additionally the College was very strongly placed in carnival sports winning overall aggregate first place and per capita shield in the Logan District along with second place per capita for cross country and first place per capita for Athletics
Service At Redeemer, students are encouraged to be involved in community service activities. In 2017, Junior School students made a decision to donate their weekly chapel offerings to Gifts of Grace from Australian Lutheran World Service and set themselves a very lofty goal of raising $5,000 to partner with a village. Year 6 students went from class to class to encourage the community in it’s giving along with busking at lunchtimes and raising awareness among the crowd that attended the 96.5FM morning event. Along with a donation from a staff group, the students managed to raise over the $5,000 target. In the Senior School, the Student Committees enthusiastically ran activities including ReCykle raising money for the Leprosy Mission, World’s Greatest Shave raising funds for the Leukemia Foundation, and Lunch on the Green raising money for the Orange Sky Laundry. For the first time this year, 30 of our Year 12 ladies chose to cut off their ponytails to assist with Sister Snips, a charity that creates wigs for cancer patients as well as raise funds for Daughters of Cambodia which changes lives for victims of human trafficking. Across the whole College, students were involved in delivering Easter gifts to local nursing homes and Meals on Wheels, and sent over 60 Christmas gift boxes to third world countries as part of Operation Christmas Child. In addition to the numerous community service activities, the whole College continues to maintain support of the “Helping Hands” van. The yellow van has been in action now for three and a half years, and continues to touch the lives of those in our community less fortunate than ourselves. 2017 has seen strong support by students across the College as they have donated goods, and by Senior School students as they have given up their time on a Friday evening to help on the van roster. In the wider community, Our Saviour Lutheran Church continues to staff the van over the holiday breaks.
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Community
Bus
Our annual Grandparents’ Day was once again a great success with over 800 grandparents attending on the day. We are grateful for the involvement for all members of the school community as it enriches the lives of us all. Always memorable is our annual Anzac dawn service, which was much appreciated by the early risers. Additionally a Prep to Year 12 Anzac Day service was held later in the morning and it was wonderful to witness the whole community come together to mark this important national day. The College’s annual Redeemer Showcase held earlier this term presented a rich, diverse and very high quality display of student work from the Visual Arts, Design and Technology, Home Economics, Information Technology and Film and TV. This event, held in the Senior School Resource Centre, combined with the largest Twilight College Tour ever held with over 180 community members registered to tour the school and visit the Showcase.
After numerous requests from the College community to consider a dedicated bus run for Redeemer students, the College is proud to announce that this service will commence from the start of 2018. Further information about this initiative is available on the College website. We look forward to seeing our new bus used to transport students to camps, excursions, music and sporting events as well as to and from home each day.
Normally our biggest event of the year for the community is the annual Redeemer Fair. Unfortunately this year it was cancelled due to extremely wet weather. I would like to thank once again all of the volunteers, Parents and Friends Committee members who planned and worked so hard. The College has announced that the fair will be held next year on Saturday 20 May, 2018.
Farewells It is with sadness that we farewell staff, both teaching and non-teaching, who have served the College for a number of years. We thank each of them for their service to the families of the College and wish them all the very best for the future. This year we especially farewell Miss Rosilyn Frieberg who is retiring after 27 years at Redeemer and 40 years in Lutheran education. Also retiring after 28 years at the College is Mrs Karen Flowers who has worked in Senior School Administration. Both ladies were recognised with a Lutheran Education Australia Service Award for their long standing service to Lutheran education.
and non-teaching areas. The beautiful grounds, the cleanliness of our facilities, the smooth running of our IT platform, the efficient running of our Business Office and our Tuckshop and the care provided by administration staff at each of our receptions or in classrooms reflects staff who are professional and proud of what they do. I thank the College Council for their leadership of Redeemer this year. At the governance level of the College, the Council has worked diligently in such items as the Strategic Plan, the Master Plan, and a host of other governance matters. I thank College Council for their dedication, guidance and support of me personally over my first year as Principal. The year has indeed been full and very rewarding and I look forward to the year ahead as we partner with parents in the education of the young people whose care we are entrusted with.
God Bless MRS TANYA CROOKS Principal
Looking across the College, I see overwhelming evidence of hard working, committed and loyal staff in teaching
Redeemer Parents and Friends Committee presents
Movie Night Under the Stars FREE outdoor family movie night on the Chapel Green Saturday 3 February 2018 5.30pm – Food available to purchase at the Chapel Hub 7.00pm – Movie screens on the Chapel Green Redeemer Lutheran College, 745 Rochedale Rd, Rochedale
www.redeemer.com.au/events/movies
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AWARDS | REDEEMER RECORD – DECEMBER 2017
College Awards and
ACH I EVEM ENTS Y E A R 1 2 S E R V I C E AWA R D S Leadership Award - College Captains
Ashleigh Nicholls Connor Hurley
The Caltex Best All Rounder Award
Rachel Famularo
The Ron Masterton Trophy for Music
Peter Kleinschmidt
The Principal’s Award
Bianca Kempen David Kwong Lauren Wilson
McKenzie Trophy for Loyalty, Service and Leadership
Peter Kleinschmidt
The Rosilyn Frieberg Cup for Co-curricular Service
Nadia Ericksson
The Foundation Trophy
James Wissler
VA L E D I C TO RY AWA R D S C O L L E G E AC A D E M I C AWA R D S Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
Proxime Accessit
Holly Laurenceson
Dux
Daisy Zhao
Proxime Accessit
Sonal Chand
Dux
Leila Koppens
Arthur Wong
The Parents & Friends Award for Excellence in Ancient History
Peter Blakeley
The Judy Kuo Award for Biological Science
Callie Chew
The Dr Myra Seeto Award for Business and Commerce
Joshua Tai
The Peter Wu Award for Chemistry
Peter Kleinschmidt
The Glover Award for Excellence in Christian Studies
Jordana Monsour
Proxime Accessit
Ryan Feroz Shanice Timotius
Excellence and Service in Drama Award
Ashleigh Nicholls
Dux
Grace Farmer
TLC Training Solutions Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Clare Terry
Proxime Accessit
Sohini Kundu
The Sean Frieberg Memorial Prize for Economics
Joshua Tai
Dux
Rachel Chiong
The Noël Chan Award for English
Caleb Caswell
Proxime Accessit
Teresa Poon
Award for Excellence in Film and Television
Ashleigh Nicholls
Dux
Mikaela Clark
The Parents and Friends Award for Excellence in Geography
Claire Johnson
Proxime Accessit
Mikaela Logan
The Parups Waring Architects Award for Graphics
Jordana Monsour
Dux
Olivia Wormwell
The Home Economics Award
Lauren Wilson
Proxime Accessit
Caleb Caswell Nathan Lau
Award for Excellence and Service in Hospitality Practices
Alana Wiech
The Information Processing and Technology Award
David Kwong
The Lumsden Trophy for Dux of the School
Peter Kleinschmidt
The M,R&A Pennisi Award for Excellence in Information Technology Systems
Nathan Lau
Award for Excellence in Languages - German
Anna Stirling
Award for Excellence in Languages - Japanese
Tracy Wu
The Award for Legal Studies
Caleb Caswell
The Manufacturing Technology Encouragement Award
Bianca Kempen James Wissler
C O L L E G E S E R V I C E AWA R D S Year 3
Alexis Cho, Bethany Kotzur
Year 4
Jin Nishio, Abigail Thie
Year 5
Emily Henderson, Rhys Wood
The Jerry Krauel Award for Meritorious Effort in Mathematics
Nathan Lau
Year 6
Cindy Lee
The Parents and Friends Award for Excellence in Modern History
Peter Blakeley
Year 7
Sonal Chand, Mykaelah Ludcke, Jaimyn Seeto, Rhys Thurstun
Excellence in Senior Music Award
Peter Kleinschmidt
The Judy Kuo Award for Music Extension (Performance)
David Kwong
The Award for Excellence in Physical Education
Joshua Lie
The H & K Chan Award for Physics
Caleb Caswell
The Dr Nicole Seeto Award for Science
Peter Kleinschmidt
The Technology Studies Award
Connor Hurley
The Visual Art Award
Jamie Cosijn
The Simpfendorfer Memorial Award for Vocational Education
Jamie Cosijn
The University of Queensland Award
Caleb Caswell
Year 8
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The Anne Schmidt Perpetual Award for Meritorious Effort in Accounting
Isabella Daley, Shae Godfrey, Shanice Timotius
Year 9
Rachel Chiong, Pacey Mazzer
Year 10
Jack Thurstun
Year 11
Jasmine Buckley, Gabrielle Rochet, Brent Simmonds
Year 12
Callie Chew, Yoon Ah Chi, Connor Hurley
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AWA R D S P R E S E N T E D D U R I N G T H E S C H O O L Y E A R The Beth Stick Trophy for Debating and Public Speaking
Anna Stirling
The Sandra Pigott Award for Library Service
Madeleine Pollard
2 01 7 S P O R T S AWA R D S The Klupp Perpetual Trophy for Boys’ Athletics
Lochie Hamilton
The Farlow Trophy for Boys’ Basketball
Joshua Tai
The Kanowski Trophy for Girls’ Basketball
Chloe Stonehouse
The BG “Sno” Lindsay Memorial Trophy for Cricket
Peter Blakeley
The Anderson Trophy for Best and Fairest - Open A Soccer
Ky Wain
The Melissa Harris Perpetual Trophy for Girls’ Football (Soccer)
Lauren Hoy
The Logan Trophy for Service to Hockey
Rachel Famularo
The Redeemer Trophy for Netball
Claire Johnson
The Rowley Trophy for Rugby - First XV Best and Fairest
Lachlan Garbutt
The Boys’ Tennis Award
Steven Magin
The Girls’ Tennis Award
Catherine Hung
The Harris Perpetual Shield for Girls’ Touch
Johanna Vanstone
The Mark Garton Trophy for Boys’ Volleyball
Ky Wain
The Tanya Reedman Shield for Girls’ Volleyball
Alexandra West
Pierre de Coubertin Award 2017
Claire Johnson
Parents and Friends Association ‘Blue Spirit’ Award for Service to Sport
Chloe Dart Connor Hurley
Parents and Friends Association Sportsman of the Year
Caleb Green
Parents and Friends Association Sportswoman of the Year
Claire Johnson
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COLLEGE COUNCIL | REDEEMER RECORD – DECEMBER 2017
Report from
COLLEGE COUNCIL 2017 has been an exciting year at Redeemer Lutheran College. The College Community warmly welcomed Mrs Tanya Crooks to the role of College Principal. Mrs Crooks was installed into the role by the Bishop of the Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District during the College’s Opening Service on 2 February 2017, and she has enthusiastically taken up the role. Over the past twelve months, Mrs Crooks has worked tirelessly to progress the College, encouraging us to be Curious, Courageous and Christ-led.
MR ROSS WARBROOKE Chair
This was the year for the College’s biennial musical production. This year, the College presented “The Music Man”. All of the effort, teamwork and talent by the students and staff culminated in the performances that were presented at the end of April. I have been to a number of the College Musicals over the years and I am delighted to see that each musical reaches a very high standard. This year was no exception. The College Council sincerely thanks all the students and staff for their efforts to make each performance such a memorable experience. The Strategic Plan 2017 to 2019 was finalised at the beginning of 2017 and released to the College Community in June. This plan details the strategic directions that the College wants to prioritise over the next three years. These directions were developed following input from the students, staff and parents in the Redeemer Community in 2016. I take this opportunity to thank those students, staff and parents for making the time to attend the various workshops. College Council will be monitoring, on an ongoing basis, the progress of the College Management Team with the implementation of each component of the plan. I want to thank the staff, students and parents for their involvement and their enthusiasm in the development of the Master Plan for the College. This was an exciting time as we investigated how education and its delivery would look in 2030. We were capably assisted in this process by the Fulton Trotter Architect’s team. The Master Plan was released to the College in September. The plan contains a number of innovative concepts and will allow
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for the significant changes in educational facilities that are required to accommodate the anticipated future delivery methods. It is interesting to note that by the time that the Master Plan is fully implemented, facilities which were built a number of years ago will be of a similar vintage to the current facilities that are proposed to be replaced. The College is now planning for an introductory stage which will allow for the future smooth replacement of the existing facilities. The Redeemer Foundation is excited about the prospect of being able to assist with the financing of these projects. During the June/July holidays, the roof for the Chapel was replaced and other maintenance items attended to. With thanks to the College’s Business Office, the works were completed ahead of schedule and with minimal interruption to the workings of the College. I recently attended the College’s Sports Award evening and it was pleasing to hear that the College has performed very well in the Greater Brisbane Conference (GBC) for the Senior School and JTAS for the Junior School. I particularly want to thank the members of the Parent Support Reference Group for their time and input in 2016 to develop the “Shaping the Future of Redeemer Sport”. This development has clearly shown results this year. While the main objective of the Redeemer Sports program is to develop a healthy involvement of students in sport rather than the winning of pennants, it is great to have wins on the board. Similarly, the College’s music program has seen many ensembles win awards for their performances. Again, while that is not the main aim of the program, I encourage you to attend a music concert (a number are held each term) to hear the great music that the students are making. My observation is that they are always highly polished presentations. On behalf of College Council, I want to acknowledge the efforts of the volunteers who work on the P & F Committee. These people put in a lot of time to ensure that the opportunities for the students continue to be enhanced. While it was disappointing that the Redeemer Fair was cancelled due to weather
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College Council Profile considerations (the first time in the life of the College), it was clear from the state of the grounds on 21 October 2017 that the P & F had clearly made the right decision. I also thank the P&F for planning and providing the new barbeque facilities at Scurr Oval. These facilities were put into use in March. It has been exciting to hear about the team from the Junior School who are attending a Robotics competition in Sydney at the end of this year after having won the Queensland finals. Finally, I want to acknowledge the 27 years of commitment that Miss Rosilyn Frieberg has given to Redeemer Lutheran College. Rosilyn transferred to the College not long after it opened and has been involved in the transformation from a Secondary School to a P–12 College along with the associated increase in student numbers. Rosilyn commenced as an Economics/ Business Principles teacher and for a long time now, amongst other things, has been managing the day to day running of the College, organising the extensive co-curricular program offered by the College and ensuring that all new starters at the College are suitably welcomed to the College. We wish Rosilyn well for her retirement and pray God’s blessings for the future. I and College Council extend our thanks to all of College’s auxiliaries and their associated supporters. There efforts help to increase the experience of each student at the College. I welcome Judy Powell who has been recently appointed to College Council. Judy is a member of Our Saviour Congregation. I thank all the members of College Council who volunteer their time to function as the College’s governing body and who ensure that the College remains founded on God’s Word, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Our Hope is in Christ”
Michael Hoopmann Role on College Council As well as being on Council, I am a member of the Finance, Building, Grounds and Technology sub-committee. Qualifications Grad Dip Business Administration; Working with Children Suitability Blue Card. Occupation Business Consultant Skillset/experience brought to Redeemer Lutheran College governance from your professional career Property portfolio management; Risk management; Counselling; Project management; Business continuity. Association to the College Past Parent Home church/congregation Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Rochedale Summary of service in congregation/parish/ wider church Member of Our Saviour Governance Council. Summary of community service Red Cross; Neighbourhood Watch; Parents and Friends; Disaster Recovery. Where did you go to school? Nobby, Goombungee, Toowoomba and Oakey. What do you like most about Redeemer?
CU R R ENT CO LLEG E CO U N CI L M EM B ERS Chair
Mr Ross Warbrooke
Vice Chair
Mr Andrew Spyropoulos
Secretary
Mrs Sarah Dixon
Members
Mr Michael Hoopmann
Pastoral Care for students and staff is a high priority.
Ms Margit Hubbers Mr Cameron Jaggers Mr James Tan Mrs Judy Powell Consultants
Mr Shaun McKenzie Rev Robin Stelzer
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