HCS Structure

The Niagara Reformed Christian Education Association (NRCEA) operates Heritage Christian School. Since 1992 we have provided elementary and secondary education for the children of the Reformed Christian community. Membership in the Association is open to parents who enrol their children, and to other friends and supporters of the cause of Christian education, who are in agreement with the basis, purpose and Principle Guidelines of the Association. Membership shall be open only to those who are members of a church which subscribes to the Three Forms of Unity (the Belgic Confession, Canons of Dordt and Heidelberg Catechism) and/or the Westminster Standards.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors (BOD) is elected by the members of the NRCEA to set policy and to ensure that such policy is administered in harmony with the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association. The Board appoints the Principal to execute its policies in the daily operation of the school. The BOD appoints committees to advise it in its policy-setting role.

The Role of the Parent

As Christian parents in obedience to the covenantal promises made at baptism, we believe it is our duty to seek out and provide Christian (God-centred and Christ honouring) education for our children.

Parents are primarily responsible for teaching their children right from wrong and seeing that they learn obedience. The parent-controlled Christian school is an extension of the home. The school assists Christian parents in the task of educating the children. Parents should accept their own responsibility in determining the character of the school. Parents can do this by practicing vigilance so that all that is done is in accordance with the Scriptures.

To this end, parents must be thoroughly familiar with Biblical teaching and doctrine to be able to discern what is appropriate for use in the Christian school.

Parents are encouraged to serve on the school board, committees, and volunteering their time to assist the teachers in the classroom.

Parents are welcome to examine all curriculum and resource materials and give input concerning these things.

Parents should teach their children to respect and obey teachers as they do their parents. In this way the school can strengthen the nurturing of the children in the fear of the Lord which was begun in the home and is completed in the church.

Heritage affirms the close cooperation of home, church, and school in the education of the children of the covenant community, echoing the Biblical wisdom that "a threefold cord is not quickly broken." Ecclesiastes 4:12

"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6