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Lutheran Ormeau Rivers District School, known as LORDS, has grown significantly since it was founded in 2012 at Pimpama in Queensland, and it continues to flourish, with one construction project ready for the 2025 school year and another on the drawing board.
A versatile new Junior School building, funded with an LLL Loan, includes three GLAs (General Learning Areas), a large staff area and kitchen, offices for the Junior School leadership team, a large undercroft area for active play, and will welcome students and teachers in Term 1 2025.
"Our three Year 6 classes will move into the new building, which will provide the environment for a great finish to their Junior School experience at LORDS," Business Manager Stuart Halsall said.
"The three classrooms have been designed to enable connection with the outdoor environment, both in terms of opening up to outdoor learning spaces but also a connection with nature that go along with the views out to the surrounding bushland.
"The ground level of the building will provide brand new amenities which are always in demand in a growing school."
The Prep to Year 12 school, and kindergarten, is situated on a single, nearly 20-hectare site, about halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, that includes eight hectares of natural bushland that the school's more than 750 students enjoy.
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The school has plans to further enhance its outstanding educational offering with an existing open-sided structure to be extensively transformed into a multipurpose building - featuring retractable seating for 500 people and an AV control room - where assemblies, chapel services, events and sports can be held.
"The staff at LLL have been fantastic to work with through the process … nothing has been too much trouble," Stuart added.
"It's very apparent that LLL are together in mission with the school in their support of our projects."
It is hoped work on the new building will start in mid-2025, with completion about 12 months later.
Visit: www.lords.qld.edu.au
Photos: The new Junior School building takes shape (top) and an artist's rendering of the proposed new multipurpose building (above).
