You will find this on all our materials and displayed prominently around the school in classrooms, the MPC and so on.  Having established our purpose to help students to live well as God intended, we need a picture of what such a person might look and live like. 

The Graduate Profile contains five key focal points for us as a school which we trust parents will acknowledge and seek to support. We do not expect every student to conform to the profile by the time they reach Year 12, we in fact hope they strive to be increasingly conformed to it as they move on through life.

We begin with Godly in Character as the starting point. We desire that our students come to know God and enter relationship with him through what Jesus Christ has done on the cross. This re-union with their Creator leads to a transformation of their character so that they become an image of Jesus who is a living example for us of what it means to be fully human. To have Godly character is to exhibit the characteristics of the God-human, Jesus Christ, portrayed for us in the Scriptures.

To be collaborative arises from the belief that we are designed to belong to a group, to the family of God’s people, and to contribute to the harmony of the group and the welfare of society. Being collaborative means putting others first and at times laying aside our own desires and needs in favour of serving others and contributing to a good cause.

A life-long learner is one who recognises that we live in an amazing and complex world created by an infinite God so there is an unending supply of new things to learn. Growth is normal for a human being and a Godly person commits to a lifestyle of learning to be that person. They also learn about the world in which we live so they can exercise their commission to care for the world and develop it.

Creative and critical thinkers are necessary for us to fulfill the Creation Mandate to develop society for human flourishing. Being made in the image of the Creator God, we are naturally imbued with creativity which needs to be released and utilised for good. Recognising we live in a fallen and broken world means we constantly ask good questions about what is wrong and how can restore it. We don’t just accept things as they are but seek the truth, recognising that in our humanness, we will have limited understanding.

Finally, we are created for community so engaging in society is natural to us. We are individuals but we are first created for fellowship. We are called to engage with each other in helpful and supportive ways for the betterment of society. We do not live for ourselves but for God and others, so we look for ways to contribute through positive action to the flourishing of all.

Imagine what a wonderful world we might live in, if we all worked to conform to this profile. We seek to model this to our students and then encourage them to be like this.