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.