Halton Hills Christian School believes in bringing students into the light of God's grace in every aspect of life. This includes academics, sport, music, drama, computers, student council and any other activities that students participate in. Since our purpose is to glorify God in everything we do, we enable and encourage students to do so by providing them with an environment that is conducive to godly pursuits.
Highlights
Academic Excellence– We strive to exceed the educational goals set by the Ontario Ministry of Education as well as standards set by the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools. As a school, our students generally achieve above the national average on the Canadian Test of Basic Skills.
Accelerated Reader (AR)- A school province wide computerized reading program which allow students to read books at their own personal reading level. This program has over 100,000 book quizzes available. Each student then take a comprehension test on their reading. Vocabularies and literacy quizzes are also part of this program.
Athletics—A wide variety of sports are available-cross country, soccer, volleyball, basketball, badminton, track and field are offered as varsity teams. Intramurals are hosted for students at various times throughout the year.
Band– All students in Grade 7 and 8 participate in Band class and take instrumental music. Our band practices 2x/week to prepare musical pieces for chapels, concerts, church services and community events.
Battle of the Books- Students in grade 4-8 along with their trained coaches, have the opportunity to participate in an inter-school event that has them read a prescribed list of books and then compete with other schools to answer comprehension questions. It’s an exciting event!
Chapels– Are held once a month. Activities range from class presentations, to having local pastors or other speakers from Christian organizations to speak. These times are the corporate worship times for our staff and students. Parents are also welcome to join.
Choir– Students from Grade 1 to 3 participate weekly in Primary Choir as do Grade 4 to 6 students in Jr. Choir. Grade 6 also learns chimes. Grade 4 and 5 learn to play the recorders. Our choirs also perform for local churches and nursing homes on ongoing basis during the year.
Electives– On a bi-annual basis, students from grade 1-8 have opportunity to explore a leisure activity for 4 winter afternoons. Some examples are: pottery, horseback riding, writing and publishing.
Field Trips– Traveling to places outside of the school, extend our classrooms. Trips to orchards, Royal Winter Fair, Pioneer Villages and Ottawa are some examples of places visited during the year.
French– Our French language program begins in Grade 1 and continues to Grade 8. Students are given opportunity to learn to speak, write and read our second national language.
Community Service– Each grade participates in different ways to help out our community every year. As a school, we participate in food drive for the local food bank, collect items for Operation Christmas Child, host a toy drive during Christmas and/or hats/mittens drive during the winter every year.
Intergrade Connection– Younger grade students are paired up with older grade students for various classroom activities ranging from reading buddies to making crafts together to helping Preschoolers and Kindergarten students with their hats, mittens, and coats before they go home or out to play.
Musicals/Dramas– Each year the students and staff host a major musical production to celebrate a Christian holiday. All students from Pre-school to Grade 8 participate.
Science Fair– Every other year, students in Grade 1-8 participate in a school wide science fair. Several projects from Grade 7 & 8 are selected to go on and complete at the Provincial level.
