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 Zion
Lutheran students get homemade, cooked from scratch meals for lunch
and a choice of yogurt, cheesesticks, smoothies, vegetables or can
make their own salad with our new salad bar. Students love the
changes that have been made to lunch and enjoy all the choices that
they have so much that almost 90% of students are eating hot lunch.
But, Zion Lutheran School offers so much more!
Academics are very important. The student/teacher
ratio is small, so every student gets special attention and help
when needed. Also, because of the small classes, group work,
teamwork and collaboration are normal occurrences in every classroom
and every subject. Zion Lutheran School offers tutoring twice a week
for an hour after school. Students 5th grade thru 8th grade have a
study hall with a tutor who helps twice a week.
Additionally, STEM is offered as a class for 5th and
6th graders. Students get to choose different electives every
quarter such as: Learning Chimes, Sign Language, Agriculture,
Newspaper Writing, Cooking, Christmas Program etc. Sometimes,
community members come in to teach the electives to give students
real life experience like: Braiding Hair, CPR, Stress Management,
etc.
Zion Lutheran School also offers a class, for
students in 5th – 8th grades, one day a week each year, which deals
with a different real-life experience. For example, one year,
students did a CEO program. The students selected a business they
would like to start and “received” a budget. The students had to
research what would be needed to start their business; had a guest
speaker from a bank to learn how to start and keep a check registry
and how to write checks; a guest speaker that owned their own
business to give them tips; students created fliers and a made a
“commercial” advertising their business. The final step was to
showcase their business to the public and sell their products. It
was a huge success!
Now, they are learning life skills, time management, stress
management, learning how to change a tire, creating their own indoor
garden that the produce grown will be used in the cafeteria in their
lunch, cooking, learning how to do laundry and fold clothes, etc.
Learning basic life skills will help our students grow to be
responsible adults.
Our staff and faculty are caring, loving, creative,
have personal relationships with every child in the school, pray
with the students, and do so many fun activities with the students.
If you haven’t seen our Christmas Program, you need to! The time
that the teachers and students take to learn the skit and all of the
songs, it is amazing!
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We are a family! When one student/family is hurting
we are hurting, and we come together and pray for them and do what
we can to help.
We have a very dedicated staff that puts everything they have into
Zion Lutheran School to make it the best they can. These are what
some former students and former faculty had to say about the school:
“This is a very friendly and family-oriented place to be.”
“This is a great place to be and we just want as many families to
know about it as possible. Every child is unique and special. Our
goal is to love every child and encourage them so they can become
the best person that God has created them to be, whatever role that
is in society.”
“When I think back on my time at Zion, I can honestly say that I
loved everything about it. No matter the difficulties I face or how
far I stray, I always find my way back to my faith and I know that
Zion played a significant role. My advice to any family considering
sending their child(ren) to Zion, DO IT!”
“Zion set the base for all my academic success throughout high
school and college.”
Yet, the most important characteristics that Zion
Lutheran School offers to our students are: morals, values, ethics,
being able to learn and talk freely about God, and serving in the
community.
Our students visit Vonderlieth Living Center to sing to the
residents, make cards for the military and seniors, help clean up at
the courthouse in Mt. Pulaski, have helped at IGA to stock shelves,
visited the Logan County Humane Society to spend time with the dogs
and cats. Students also help clean up the cafeteria after lunch.
Tuition is affordable; in fact, there is tuition assistance to help
those families who need it. We have students from Lincoln, Cornland,
Chestnut, Elkhart, Latham, Beason, and as far as Athens that attend
because they feel it is worth the drive.
Anyone is welcome any time to come and walk through our school. Come
join our family. You won’t believe what you and your child(ren) are
missing out on!
Kate Ross - Principal
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