The Heritage Herald

What a wonderful time to be a part of Heritage Christian School. We are celebrating 40 years in 2023. 40 years dedicated to our purpose: Heritage Christian School exists to partner with families, and equip staff to develop highly capable students, of Christian character, ready to serve and enrich the community for the glory of God. Later this year we will hold a 40-year celebration event, and we hope you will join us for this - more details will come soon. 

This year, our focus is on ensuring the academic success of our students. We are ensuring that our reviews into results and analysis of data are used effectively to inform our practice, we are implementing a new student formation framework supported by our peak body: The Association Independent Schools (AIS) called Designing for Deep Learning, we are excited to see the success of our InitiaLit, MiniLit and MacLit programs. All these approaches, and others, are couched within our biblically informed Christian Worldview because we believe that faith and knowledge together develop students who thrive in this world and have an enduring purpose. The image above encapsulates our student formation framework. Think of it as our thoughtful approach to achieve our goal of developing highly capable students ready to serve and enrich the community for the Glory of God. 

I thank you for partnering in our endeavours this year and encourage us all to continue to reinforce the significance of consistent effort by our students in their studies. Our teachers are committed to their students and their progress, and we are excited to see what they achieve this year.  We look forward to you visiting school and participating in different events, being part of the daily learning of your children and hearing from you. 

To new families joining our school, I extend our welcome to you and pray that your experience of our Christian Learning Community is warm and inviting. We are excited for your children as they learn with us and look forward to their successes and for the deep relationships they will build. Thank you for partnering with us in this wonderful work.  

This year we also welcome several new staff, each of whom are high calibre educators and Christians, active in their local churches.  In Junior School we welcome: Renee Thomas teaching Stage 3; Jessica Morrissey teaching Stage 2; and Urszula Partridge, School Learning Support Officer. In Senior School, we welcome Bethany Rule, who will be teaching Visual Arts while Courtney Farlow is on maternity-leave; Eirwyn Davidson teaching Science; and Chloe Moore who will be taking Biblical Studies. Several of our new staff have recently moved to the area and we look forward to getting to know them and to learn from each of them and their extensive experience. 

Overall, I am thankful to our sovereign God who gives us meaning and purpose, for His son Jesus, whose death and resurrection mean we can be in relationship with Him, and for the gift of the Holy Spirit. 

I’m praying for a rich year of learning. 

Yours sincerely 

Matt Cohen 

Principal 

Please see the attachment and link below to access our Uniform Policy and how to purchase the Heritage School bag.  A reminder that the office sells our school calculators at the office for $30. 

https://harlequinkids.com.au/your-school/heritage-christian-school.html