Hillcrest Christian College

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Hillcrest Christian College
Excellence in Christ
Established 1982
School type Private
Headmaster Keith Francis
Location Reedy Creek, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Enrolment http://hcc.auzgc.com/howenrol.asp
Colours Red, White, Green
Homepage http://hcc.auzgc.com/

Hillcrest Christian College is a private Christian school located in Reedy Creek, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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[edit] History

The early concept for Hillcrest Christian College began in the late 1970s when members of Reedy Creek Baptist Church (Palm Beach Baptist, as it was known at the time) raised concerns about the double standards they saw in secular education. They believed that, as parents, it was their responsibility to have a greater involvement in the education of their children and hence established a steering committee for the formation of a Christian School.

Hillcrest Christian College (then known as Southern Gold Coast Christian Community School) took its first students in 1982 when it enrolled 37 children from years 1 - 7. During these early years, the College operated on the Church grounds before moving, in August 1986, to its present site at Reedy Creek. During these years, the school has continued to grow and develop, both in numbers of students and diversity of facilities.

Since its inception, Hillcrest has remained a ministry of Reedy Creek Baptist Church to both the Christian and wider community of the Gold Coast.

[edit] Performing Arts

The central issue in Arts education is the quality of the experience - this is how motivation arises and learning occurs. In every learning situation, the quality of the experience has been found to be a valid predictor of engagement and of school achievement in general. It is therefore our aim to make these experiences readily available to the performing arts students of Hillcrest Christian College.

Music, Drama and Dance are an integral part of the school curriculum at Hillcrest. All children from P–12 are encouraged to become literate and creative through the acquisition of skills, knowledge and understanding in all areas of Music, Drama and Dance.

[edit] Sport

Hillcrest provides students with several outlets to the sports they want to play. They compete in the Northern Gold Coast interschool competition. Offering sports such as Australian rules football, Basketball, Netball, Rugby League, Soccer, Touch Football, Volleyball, Tennis and Cricket.

[edit] Basketball

Hillcrest's most popular sport bar none is Basketball with the opening of the Multi-Purpose Center in 2004 and an indoor Basketball court Hillcrest has invested much of their money into the sport.The schools team name is the Heat. The Hillcrest Heat is also the schools own gold coast basketball team that competes against other gold coast clubs.

[edit] Tennis

The school also plans to build a tennis centre in the not too distant future.