FCS does not look or feel like a school. Visitors say it feels like a large family. The children are happy: not on their best behaviour, but genuinely, unselfconsciously happy.
The school has been this way since 1976. We have never advertised.
We aim for three things in every student: goodness, viability and academic competency.
Goodness first. Not because academic results do not matter (ours are among the best in the country) but because a person of good character will use their abilities well. A person without it will not.
Viability means the confidence and capability to stand on your own feet. Competency means strong literacy, strong numeracy, and a love of learning that does not stop at the school gate.
Our graduates demonstrate all three. They are confident, articulate and kind. They know how to work hard and how to be a good friend.
Enrolment at FCS is deliberately small. Classes average twelve students.
In a small school, nobody is invisible. Every teacher knows every child. Every child knows they belong. This is not incidental to learning. It is the foundation of it.
We spend less time on formal instruction than other schools. Our NAPLAN results are consistently nation-leading.
The reason is simple. When children feel safe and teaching is focused, less time achieves more. When a teacher wins a child's attention before the lesson begins, the lesson lands.
A week at FCS includes art, sport, drama, science, music, English, maths, free time and outings. We offer more of each than any school we know of. These are not extras. They are the school.
Every child at FCS has the right to be safe. Keeping children safe is the first duty of every adult in the school.
How we keep children safe
How to raise a concern
We welcome prospective families to visit. There is no substitute for seeing the school in person.