The Tatachilla difference

The college is part of a dynamic network of more than 40 like-minded Lutheran schools and early learning centres in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This network shares a common foundation and regularly comes together to share resources and innovate growth and leadership opportunities for students.

We are renowned for our performing arts program, focus on environmental education, voracious love of sports, expertise in athlete development, strong emphasis on living Christian values and more recently, our emerging agricultural science pathway.

Our teaching is delivered by passionate educators who have been hand-picked for their talents and commitment to student growth and wellbeing. We believe that teachers transform lives and have a critical role to play in shaping the hearts and minds of current and emerging generations at Tatachilla.

Our teaching style is designed to reflect the learning needs and aspirations of our students. This approach ignites motivation and fulfilment and inspires students to achieve personal excellence according to their abilities, passions and dreams.

We intentionally offer small class sizes in the junior years (Reception to Year 6) to best enable our youngest students to consolidate their foundational skills in literacy, numeracy, relationship-building and learning. The college believes that smaller class sizes give students a greater level of one-on-one attention from their teacher and more opportunities to develop their cognitive (and non-cognitive) skills.

Service learning is a crucial way that students from R-12 are enabled to serve the community in real and tangible ways while simultaneously achieving important academic objectives.

Unlike traditional community service, service learning at Tatachilla combines volunteerism with research, reflection and assessment so that students are able to broaden their knowledge and critical thinking skills for social change.

Service learning is important to many Lutheran schools in Adelaide and is a defining aspect of life at Tatachilla.

All Tatachilla students are taught to value themselves and draw strength from a strong sense of belonging to the earth, their God and their college community. They learn these life skills in an environment of trust, empathy, self-discipline, love and forgiveness.

No child at Tatachilla goes it alone. When we enrol a student, we enrol a whole family. We invite all families to walk alongside us in a partnership of learning and growth.

Our beautiful semi-rural landscape inspires a lasting love and guardianship of the natural world and allows our teachers to integrate the college’s environmental heritage into the curriculum, making it far more than a mere backdrop to learning.

We offer students a continuous and sequential education from Reception to Year 12 at a single campus, enabling them to enjoy an uninterrupted school journey and forge enduring relationships with their teachers, classmates, coaches and mentors based on a lifetime of shared experiences.