Our Special Character means that:

• We are a non-denominational school, with a Protestant focus, with families from a wide variety of mostly evangelical churches. A condition for preference enrolment is that the church and family have a statement of faith similar to that of the school, and that the parents attend church on a regular basis.

• We believe that parents are the first teachers and that education is ultimately the responsibility of parents.

• We work in partnership with parents and encourage their involvement.

• We deliver the New Zealand Curriculum from a Biblical worldview.

• We employ committed Christians as our teaching staff.

• We seek to provide an environment where students, parents and staff experience Godly relationships.

• We rely on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.

• We exercise the right to live and teach the values of Jesus Christ, as expressed in the Bible and in the practices, worship and doctrine of the wider evangelical Protestant church.

• We are happy to enrol students from non-Christian or non-Protestant homes. Non-preference enrolments are limited by our Integration Deed, and the Proprietor determines the limit of non-Protestant families. This is in order to maintain our Special Character as defined above.