Christian schooling seeks to involve students and families in education based on spiritual underpinnings. While morality and values are important for all schools and communities we believe it is the spiritual beliefs based on biblical teaching that provides the foundations and framework upon which effective education is based. Our relationship with God forms and informs the way in which we view life and the world.
Each person is of value in God’s kingdom and needs to be treated with dignity and respect. Hence teachers and parents have the responsibility to lead and model servant leadership. Parents have been given responsibility before God to raise their children, and teachers are given the same level of responsibility within the school community.
Our school vision statement and motto focus on growing, empowering and changing lives to equip them for service. We also seek to help them develop an eternal kingdom perspective where our decisions and choices have impact not only on the present but also for eternity.
Christian schooling should be a community of grace, love, humility and relationships. We seek to view each young person as being a person first, a student second and a Board of Studies candidate third.
Schools are naturally places of competing demands between being a compulsory place of learning and being an educational community. It is a place where rules, regulations, laws and standards walk alongside relationships, exploration, risk taking and personal and community development. A Christian school is a place where academic achievement, spiritual development, creative, and physical development are all given importance in an integrated approach to learning.
It is a place where different gifts, learning styles and abilities are recognised and supported. Gifts are developed for the purpose of service and empowerment rather than with a self-focus. It is a place where unity and harmony exist powerfully within a multidenominational, multicultural, multitalented, multisocioeconomic diverse community.