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Gloria Dei Lutheran School
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PHILOSOPHY
Gloria Dei Lutheran School is a concentrated response to Christ's Word, "Suffer the little children to come unto me..." and "As you have done it to the least of these, you have done it unto me..." This school's ministry is both an expression of God's loving care and an example of how education and child care are best implemented. We, as Christians, are Christ's hands, minds, voices, and hearts in the world. Children come to Gloria Dei Lutheran School as a sacred trust. Parents place the lives of their children directly into our care, trusting that we will demonstrate in deed who we say we are -- the people of God -- sensitively aware, lovingly caring, and creatively positive, all with the consistency of faithfulness.
The guiding philosophy of Gloria Dei Lutheran School is to build on the natural excitement for learning that a child normally demonstrates. This school believes that the child's process of educational, physical, emotional, social, and religious growth can best be met by providing a Christian learning environment through teachers who have the capacity for loving and learning with their children. Our teachers are called upon to identify the child's "growing edges" and to stimulate, but not force, the students growth.
About
Our School
Gloria Dei Lutheran School is an
educational ministry of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Gloria Dei Lutheran
Church is located at 250 Fox Hill Road, on a four-acre tree-shaded site
adjacent to the Elizabeth Lake area and diagonally across from Willow Oaks
Shopping Center. Preschool through kindergarten classrooms are located at
the Fox Hill Road location. First through sixth grades are located across
the street on a five-acre campus at the Harris Creek Road location.
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The Principal is Linda K. Robinson. Ann Riley is the Child Care
Director. Donna Scherrer is the Grades’ Program Director. The
foundation upon which this school is built is the desire to excel in providing
opportunities within a Christian environment for children to grow academically,
physically, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.
The faculty members have been selected for their Christian life-style, their
interest in and concern for children, their competence and ability in providing
a solid learning environment, and their compatibility in functioning as a
unified educational team. These characteristics are considered by Gloria Dei
Lutheran School to be the essential elements in the pursuit of excellence in
the school's service to the community.
Gloria Dei Lutheran School admits students of any race, color, national and
ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally
accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, and athletic
and other school administered programs.
2 Year Old Toddler Program
5 – days a
week (Monday – Friday)
Full Day program
Preschool
Students must be three-years of age by
Dec. 31 of the school year they are enrolling. Preschool students need to
be potty trained.
Classes are offered:
2-days a week (Tuesday/Thursday)
3-days a week (Monday/Wednesday/ Friday)
5-days a week (Monday – Friday)
Childcare
is available before and after the preschool program.
Prekindergarten
½ day and Full day
Students
must be four-years of age by November 30 of the school year they are enrolling.
Classes
are offered five days a week with childcare before and after school if needed.
Our preschool and prekindergarten programs emphasize:
Socialization
skills
Having
fun while learning
A positive
first experience in school
Pre-reading skills
and phonics introduction
Arts and
crafts activities
Hands-on
science program
Music
instruction
Children’s
literature/library
Computer
lab & instruction – Pk’s
Physical
Education – Pk’s
Weekly
Chapel services
Kindergarten
Full Day or 1/2 Day
Students must be five years of age by
November 30 of the school year they are enrolling.
Phonics
instruction
Reading
Mathematics
Computer lab
Music,
library, and physical education on a weekly basis
Hands-on
science program
Weekly chapel
services
Elementary Grade Levels
1st – 5th Grade
Strong academics in a nurturing
environment
Phonics as an integral part of the
reading/language arts instruction
Math (A Beka program)
Strong programs in social studies and
science
Computer lab
Music and chorus
Library and research skills
Physical education
Art instruction and art history
Spanish program
Science lab
Weekly chapel services
The school average on the Stanford
Achievement Test (nationally normed) for the 2010 - 2011 school year was in the
81st percentile.
Middle School
Gloria Dei
Lutheran School offers a middle school program that includes 6th and
7th grade.
8th grade will be added for the 2012 –
2013 school year.
Strong academic core
with enriching resource/elective schedule.
Students will experience changing of
classes for all subjects.
Literature, language, composition,
science, social studies, and Pre-Algebra or basic math taught daily.
Laptops provided for each student.
Fully equipped computer lab. Computer
instruction to include Digital photography, Microsoft Publisher, Web Design,
and production of a school newspaper.
Variety of resource/electives
Physical Education
Units
Art - drawing, painting
Music – hand bells,
choral
Drama
Spanish
Health and First Aid
Library and research skills.
After school soccer team.
After school book club.
Offered at All Grade Levels:
Daily devotions in the classroom
Weekly chapel services
Fostering concern for others
Christian values
Teaching respect for authority
A nurturing environment
Loving, caring teachers
Transportation available
Childcare before and after school, holidays,
and summers
TRANSPORTATION
Gloria Dei Lutheran School
provides bus transportation for parents who desire this service. Your
child will be picked up at your home before school and will be returned to your
home at the close of the school day. Most areas of our community lie
within the boundaries covered by this service. If you are in need of our
busing service, please contact our Transportation Coordinator to verify
availability and if you are in our busing vicinity. For safety purposes,
our buses are not allowed to back-up to get in or out of a pick-up area.
An alternate sight would need to be established if a bus is unable to maneuver
on a street without backing up.
For more information please contact:
Ann Riley, Child Care Director
(757) 851-6292