Pacific Coast Christian School

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. The purpose of Pacific Coast Christian School is to provide a Christian educational community as a centre of teaching, learning and serving excellence founded on biblically based beliefs, values and behaviour. The vision and values of a community form the foundations from which decisions are made. For this reason Pacific Coast Christian School intentionally upholds the following statements:

• We desire to start and end with knowing God in all our endeavours. To this end staff, will be appointed who are committed to live worshipfully under God. They will intentionally live under the authority of God’s word and interpret it thoroughly and reasonably with the guidance of His Holy Spirit.
• We will strive to help each child achieve their God given potential, by providing appropriate educational opportunities according to each one’s abilities.
• We endeavour to nurture, encourage and train students:
  • into a love of learning and a desire for excellence.
  • to accept personal responsibility for themselves.
  • to act within an ethos of service towards others
  • to display an understanding of God’s perspective.

We uphold safe relationships through being just and fair according to Biblical principles. We strive to be compassionate and merciful as God is to us in all aspects of school life. What makes Pacific Coast Christian School unique?

• Your children are encouraged to develop their gifts and abilities to their fullest potential by teachers who really care for your child.
• We provide an affordable, quality education for all families, emphasising Christian values within a caring Christian environment.
• Our fully trained Christian teachers deliver a comprehensive curriculum approved by the Board of Studies teaching and educational standards (BOSTES).

At Pacific Coast, we are passionate about working together to care for others in need. As we care for others as part of our national and international communities, we participate in mission. Working together in mission challenges us to think outside of ourselves and to think more broadly about the wider communities we are a part of. Mission is national and international service to our community.

Students and staff participate in serving other communities. Each year, students from Year Five to Ten attend a mission trip. This includes visiting other Christian schools and communities to serve them in meaningful and supportive ways. In the process of this service, student’s hearts begin to be transformed.

As part of this process, the act of service is critical in shaping how children view themselves within a community. Service enables a child, to understand who they are ‘being’, and how they ‘belong’ to a community. Serving enables children to work with others as part of a team. Working in a team teaches a child that they have strengths and weaknesses. Each child is gifted with their own ability to contribute to the team and there are others who have strengths they do not, this understanding begins to create humility which leads to empathy. When an individual understands their strengths and also their weaknesses, they develop an understanding of who they are within a community.

Franklin Roosevelt says, “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Some of our destinations include; Northern Territory, Western Australia, Goondiwindi, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, India, Nepal, Hong Kong and Cambodia.