Your Child and ORLS

The Value of Christian Education

Our Redeemer Lutheran School offers excellence in Christian education. Dedicated and caring teachers encourage your child and promote a strong community within the classroom and school. We prepare students for lives of service on earth and for an eternity in heaven.

Academic Excellence

ORLS takes pride in equipping students for the next level of their education and life. Students are well prepared for high school after their time at Our Redeemer. Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is used to track student growth and validate the effectiveness of our curriculum and instruction. 

Seven-year average of 8th-grade MAP percentiles:

  • Reading 91%, Language 96%, Math 93%, Science 95%
..."They've been nurtured and loved by the teachers and staff, and now they are equipped to go out into the world and share their faith with others."
Nancy- Mother of 4

Educational Approach

Teachers use a variety of instructional strategies and approaches to reach their students' varied interests and abilities. Curriculum and instruction at ORLS follow a balanced approach. Teaching strategies like direct instruction, cooperative learning, project-based learning, summarizing, note-taking, and nonlinguistic representations are utilized. A variety of tools accompany instruction from textbooks to Chromebooks, manipulatives, songs, movement, and learning applications.

 

Multi- Age Classrooms

Multi-age classrooms provide a rich classroom experience. Older students develop leadership and mentoring skills while collaborating with younger students. Relationships are fostered over two years with the classroom teacher. Varied groupings can be utilized across grade levels. Multi-age classrooms mirror student interactions in the real world. The curriculum design supports multi-age learning environments. Classrooms adopt a family-feel as students alternate being the oldest students in the room, to the youngest the next year.

Classrooms

Our Redeemer offers excellence in Christian education and care for infants through eighth-grade.

  • Infants-K4
  • Kindergarten
  • Grade 1-2
  • Grade 3-4
  • Grade 5-6
  • Grade 7-8

Curriculum

The curriculum is designed to meet and exceed the requirements of the State of Wisconsin and the WELS. A detailed Curriculum Handbook is available to learn more about the skills and content and taught in each subject and grade level. Text series and programs provide a foundation for the curriculum at ORLS. For example:

Reading and Language Arts:

  • Superkids/Saxon Phonics
  • Shurley English
  • Spelling Connections
  • Literature Basals/Novels

Math: Saxon Math

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