History and Philosophy

Wollongong Flexible Learning Centre is part of Edmund Rice Education Australia’s national Flexible Schools Networks responding to the needs of young people in our communities.

Wollongong Flexible Learning Centre is in Towradgi, NSW skirting the northern suburbs of Wollongong. Our school opened in January 2013 as the fourteenth school in the Youth+ Flexible Learning Centre Networks nationally and the first in New South Wales.

At Wollongong Flexible Learning Centre, we understand that young people often first and foremost need to learn how to be and how to be with other people. Our Four Principles of Operation – Respect, Honesty, Safe & Legal, and Participation – provide us with a framework through which we develop authentic and compassionate relationships within our school and surrounding community and we look for opportunities to use these Principles in our learning and interactions every day.

Services

Wollongong FLC workers aim to build trusting relationships and educational pathways for young people in the local community who are currently disengaged from education.

Learning

Wollongong Flexible Learning Centre is a co-educational secondary school, registered with NSW Educational Standards Authority (NESA) to provide courses to young people from Year 7-10. Our school has a strong focus on providing individualised programs of study that respond to the unique talents and needs of each young person.

Accredited flexible education services provide young people with an opportunity to re-engage in education in a supported learning environment. Our Transition to Work program enables young people to access Certificate Courses and other skill sets. We offer Certificate I in Access to Vocational Pathway and Certificate II in General Education for Adults.