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Who We Are
Mission Statement
HCGS exists to equip for leadership through a Christ-centered international education.
Vision Statement
Highlands Christian Grammar School’s mission is to provide, in partnership with parents, a well-rounded educational program which is Bible-based, Christ-centered, academically excellent, culturally sensitive, and supportive of individual personalities, needs and gifts.
Philosophy
We seek to provide an education which is Bible-based and Christ-centered because we believe that God’s truth is the foundation of all truth. We believe that God created, loves, and desires fellowship with each student. Only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can a student fulfil God’s plan for his or her life and achieve his or her maximum potential.
We seek to provide education which is academically excellent because we believe each student should acquire basic skills, knowledge, and understandings in each discipline. The curriculum should provide depth and width of exposure and experience while maintaining a Christian perspective. The school should be responsive to the dynamic, rapid changes in our world through constant, constructive re- evaluation of our program and teaching methods.
We seek to provide an education which is culturally sensitive because our students come from a wide variety of home cultures, each of which has its own important traditions and values. We desire to foster appreciation of these cultures, especially those of Papua New Guinea.
We seek to provide an education which is supportive of individual personalities, needs and gifts because we believe each student has dignity and worth, and is divinely equipped with a unique set of abilities and potentialities to be developed. We endeavor to use the staff and the variety of other resources God has given us to meet as many students needs as possible, trusting God to lead and guide us.
We believe that God has given parents the responsibility of training their children for Him, and that the cooperation of school, family, church, community, and other educational agencies will enhance the development of wholesome attitudes and worthwhile goals in the student’s life.
We believe that as an extension of the parents’ God-given authority, the teacher should seek to be an example, friend, and leader, as well as instructor, and strive to be aware of the personalities, needs, capabilities, and concerns of his or her students, individually and collectively. The teacher is entitled to the respect and co-operation of the students, administration, and parents as he or she seeks to fulfill these responsibilities.
We believe that as we apply these principles God will cause our students to grow intellectually, socially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually so that they may become productive, responsible citizens with a Biblical worldview, desiring to see the lost won for Christ.
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Curriculum
Information
As we are a Christian school, HCGS seeks to embody the principles of sound Biblical teaching in all our classes.
Expected School Wide Learning Results
We want to be:
- Developing our Christian faith
- Insightful Learners
- Responsible Cross Cultural Community Leaders
- Effective Communicators
- Collaborative Learners
- Valuing and Developing Individual Giftings of Ourselves and Others
Program Goals
We at HCGS seek to provide:
- An education which is Bible – based and Christ – centered (1-3)
- An education which is academically excellent (4-8)
- An education which is culturally sensitive (9-10)
- An education which supports individual personalities, needs and gifts (11-15)
- Educational community (16-17)
- Educational leadership (18-20)
- Educational integration (21-24)
The Administration, Faculty and Staff of Highlands Christian Grammar School will seek to:
- Provide a program and environment which glorifies God by regarding the Bible as His infallible Word to us.
- Encourage all students to forsake sin and to put their trust in Jesus Christ.
- Allow students to put their Christian faith into practice in witness, worship, and service.
- Provide a wide range of subjects and experiences within the context of an international instructional program.
- Provide adequate up-to-date books, materials, and facilities.
- Offer each student a course of study, which he/she can pursue successfully, and which will provide him/ her with the basic skills necessary for a satisfying and rewarding life.
- Afford every possible opportunity for a student to pursue a discipline to the depth he/she is capable of accomplishing.
- Provide instruction in how to study and how to develop good independent study habits.
- Teach each student to respect the heritages, customs and cultures of PNG and other nations.
- Help each student develop a personal identity as a citizen of his/her home/ destination country within the context of an international education.
- Promote the dignity and worth of each student.
- Include experiences and activities which lead to the enrichment and fullest development of the total person.
- Provide opportunities for each student to develop creative outlets of expression.
- Provide career guidance and educational information as needed.
- Provide for evaluation of the school program in relation to the students’ needs and the educational requirements of home or destination countries to facilitate re-entry.
- Foster a close working relationship among the school, parents, community partners and agents of education in the development of worthwhile goals and wholesome attitudes in the student.
- Give employees of mission organizations, and commercial students within the Mt. Hagen area the option of an international education as resources permit.
- Provide opportunities for staff-student interactions outside the classroom.
- Encourage and provide opportunities for teachers’ professional growth and creativity.
- Encourage teachers to conduct themselves in a manner that merits respect.
- Provide students with citizenship and leadership training and character development for effective Christian participation in, and contribution to, society.
- Encourage a responsible attitude to all creation.
- Provide opportunities which allow students to learn to make decisions which are socially desirable, individually satisfying and in accordance with God’s will for their lives.
- Encourage students with opportunities which develop compassion for those of different faiths and build skills for reaching them for Christ.
Historical Perspective
Highlands Christian Grammar School – (HCGS) was established in 2009, by Ray and Trish Bartel, as a school primarily for expatriate children of mission organizations in the area, and those of Christian and commercial families who desired to have an international-level, high quality of Christian education.
HCGS serves a student body of approximately 70 in Pre-school through Year 9. About 10% of the students are “missionary kids” of HCGS members or area mission groups. The remainder of the children are PNG children of HCGS employees, from expatriate and national families employed with businesses in Mt. Hagen.
Highlands Christian Grammar School is registered as a permitted school in Papua New Guinea. The teachers are salaried employees.
The school seeks to glorify God through the school program and relationships between all members of our community. There is an international perspective with a desire to meet the educational needs of the nationalities represented.
The Board of Directors
The HCGS Board of Directors meets quarterly to oversee Highlands Christian Grammar School. They review and approve annual budgets, policies, and programs, to advance the quality of the education provided. The Board of Directors consists of parent representatives, elected from Mission Aviation Fellowship s and commercial interests as well as a teacher representative and the principal. The Board has ultimate authority in school-related matters.
Accreditation and Affiliations
HCGS is classified as a permitted school by the PNG Department of Education. HCGS was a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
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