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.