Groves Christian College

At Groves, we help our students to enjoy a full life now, and into eternity through developing their gifts and talents to serve and positively influence others. At Groves, our education is designed to help students discover the truth about God, themselves, people and the world. This equips and inspires our students to be better prepared to serve their families, communities, country and the wider world, to God’s glory and for the wellbeing of others.

My prayer is that in partnership with family life and for many church life, our children and young people will be well served by being educated in our Christian learning community. A community where: life enriching beliefs and values, academic rigour, practical skill development, and high expectations combined with caring support, will enable students to make right choices now and into the future.

Choices that will enable them to enjoy a blessed life as they live God inspired, purposeful, fulfilled, loving lives now and into eternity. I know this is what my wife, Julie, and I want for our own children; this is why in addition to family life and church life, we selected Groves for our own children.

Our Mission is to engage, equip and challenge students to live God inspired, purposeful, fulfilled, loving lives now and into eternity by being a learning community that is committed to:

• Expecting high standards of all through drawing forth and raising up the best in our students.
• Developing for all a spirit of hope and excellence through grace and truth.
• Unified and active participation from all in a spirit of fellowship.
• Compassion and justice towards others especially those who are marginalised.
• Affordability for families as a financially sound not-for-profit College in partnership with like-minded supportive families and students who positively contribute.
• Teaching that engages, equips, challenges and inspires across various modes of education to cater for the needs of families and students.
• Investing in ongoing improvement through research, innovation, and training.
• Operating with a spirit of excellence to reflect Gospel values in all that we undertake.
• Noble motives and patterns of thought that upholds what is good, right and true.

Our vision is to see young men and women with loving hearts and strong minds for God shine like stars as they pursue His purpose now and into eternity. Shining through values, virtues and character traits including:

Applied daily, we learn more about what it means to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul; and develop our ability to love our neighbours as ourselves as we put our values into action, such as:

• An ability to trust others and a hopeful resiliency to deal with the reality of life.
• Compassion and justice towards others especially those who are marginalised.
• Transformation that comes through discipline from within that helps us to overcome and achieve success so that we can bless others with our gifts and abilities.
• Integrity, inner peace, and strength of character to serve others with grace and truth.
• Operating with a spirit of excellence to reflect Gospel values in all that we undertake.
• Noble motives and patterns of thought that upholds what is good, right and true.

Ultimately, when we realise the reality of God’s Grace through the saving works of Jesus for ourselves, we mature in our desire to respond to His love by loving others, not in our own strength alone, but through the power of God’s spirit transforming, renewing and refreshing us daily to shine like STARS as we are:

• Secure in the salvation and inner peace of being reconciled with God that only the loving works of Jesus makes possible.
• Transformed by God’s Spirit through a lifelong process of character refinement.
• Always learning and growing.
• Rejoicing and praising God as His children as we grow in love for Him and others.
• Shaped for a life of significance as we achieve God’s purpose for our life through the service of others.