A low-fee, independent Christian school for everyone is planned for 120 Mudgeeraba Rd, Mudgeeraba. This development will provide Prep to Year 8 students in the local and broader Gold Coast Community with the opportunity to attend an independent school that embraces the core values of care, leadership, learning, connection and service, innovative learning environments and engagement with the community.
Village Yard is an innovative initiative of Hillcrest Christian College and will expand on the existing Village Yard Christian Early Learning. The school will offer a low-fee, double-shift educational experience designed to support the holistic wellbeing of students, socially, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Our future-focused educational approach incorporates personalised learning tailored to each child’s developmental level, interests, and learning styles.
Village Yard Christian School aspires, as an as an outreach of Hillcrest Christian College and Queensland Baptists to provide a world-leading, future-focused educational experience underpinned by a biblical worldview that is accessible to all and contributes to the broader community.
Two groups of children, in two Learning Yards, share the school’s buildings across the day. That keeps costs as low as possible and offers an alternative to the conventional day for families who want one. Every child does Gather, Grow and Give.
Proposed times are: Morning 7:30 am to 12 pm or afternoon 11 am to 3:30 pm. Your family chooses.
The well-being, emotional, spiritual and intellectual growth of each child, shown through the body, heart, hands and head.
Family, school, church and community work together. The learning environment is not just the third teacher; it is the child’s second home.
We prepare children for the future world they will graduate into.
Learning groups by stage, so children move at their own pace and older students model skills for younger ones.
From meeting an idea to guided inquiry, to independent use to sharing mastery in the real world.
Life skills built across learning: self-management, participation, creative thinking, reflection, enquiry and teamwork.
The best of the traditional with the best of the new: explicit teaching, inquiry, and ethical use of AI to personalise learning.
Village Yard embeds an educational philosophy that focuses on the holistic development of each child and educating for life; the wellbeing, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual domains of the child so that they have the knowledge, skills and attributes to Care, Lead, Learn, Connect, Serve.
Village Yard is built on the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model principle that it takes a village to raise a child and OECD Research for the future of education. The learning environment is not just the third teacher, it’s the child’s second home.
Through our unique educational model and the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model principles, we have combined a strong overall bearing model, aligning our school with the wider community and embedding our values and philosophy seamlessly across our school and early learning.
