Pacific Hills Christian School

Adaptation and changes in the use of technology, and the delivery of education, are all moving at an unparalleled rate. Pacific Hills is at the forefront of this thinking and we are evaluating and embracing change as it comes, enhancing quality into learning results for our students, and equipping and preparing them for their future. At the same time we understand the value of providing a safe environment and the value of belonging to a school community where children, families and staff are respected, known and accountable to each other.

At Pacific Hills Christian School, we believe we can provide a unique education that will prepare our students for life in the marketplace, and help them discover their full potential, with the knowledge they have been created to honour God in the way they live their lives.

The purpose of Pacific Hills is to provide a Christian educational community as a centre of teaching, learning and serving excellence founded on biblically based beliefs, values and behaviour.

Mission Goals

We pursue our vision from a Biblical base by aiming:

To be authentically Christian:

• To start and end with knowing God in all endeavours
• To live under the authority of God’s Word, and to interpret it thoroughly and reasonably with the guidance of His Holy Spirit.
• To staff the school with people committed to live worshipfully under God
• To nurture and encourage students into a reconciled relationship with God through Christ.
• To work as the Body of Christ comprised by those of faith in the school community.

To provide quality education:

• To encourage and train students into a love of learning.
• To equip students’ minds to understand God’s perspective in all areas of learning.
• To help each child achieve his or her God given potential, by providing appropriate educational opportunities according to each one’s abilities, including those with intellectual deficits, the learning disabled and the gifted and talented, and those from varying ethnic backgrounds.
• To fulfil all government requirements to enable us to be an accredited educational institution.
• To have the students accept the Biblical principle of stewardship in relation to their gifts.
• To encourage and train students in work habits which can produce outstanding results in all school programs - spiritual, academic, cultural, physical.
• To encourage staff in their own development in all areas.

To practise Christian community:

• To create safe relationships through being just and fair according to Biblical principles
• To be compassionate and merciful as God is to us.
• To nurture and train students to accept personal responsibility for themselves (self discipline); to act within an ethos of service towards others; and to demonstrate an attitude of care for the environment.
• To encourage the involvement of those supportive of the school ethos who can assist in the teaching and learning at PHCS.
• To develop curriculum that explicitly addresses relational issues.
• To develop community life across all activities of PHCS.
• To maintain and promote K-12 unity throughout the school.

Christian philosophy rests upon revealed truth in the Scriptures - truth which is embodied in the teaching of Christ. This teaching includes the following propositions:

• God, Creator of all things which exist outside of Himself, is personally interested in humankind.
• God’s interest in humankind extends to specific individual interest in each person and all people will give an account to God.
• Humankind, created in the image of God, has fallen short of the mark. As fallen creatures humans stands in need of redemption.
• God has made provision for humankind to be redeemed through the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Christ.
• God as a God of justice will ultimately correct the imbalances and injustice, which exist in human life and in all of creation.
• All people are equal in God’s sight, as His “offspring”, but those who come to Him in faith enter into a new relationship – they are born from a new source of life.
• Humankind has a responsibility under God as custodians of the earth.