Heritage Christian High School

We have entered a new calendar year. Heritage students have had their holiday break and have now completed the first semester exams. They now are looking forward to the second semester and the completion of another school year. We pray that God will continue to bless Heritage in the remainder of this school year.

This year the board has decided to sponsor student participation in the American Mathematics Competition and is paying half of the entrance fee. This program is voluntary for our students, allows them to be tested on their mathematics skill, and ranks them according to the national average. This program is very similar to the one that Heritage has participated in for Latin studies. Our students have participated in the National Latin Exams for the last two years. As a board, we plan to continue encouraging participation in these types of programs in the future.

The Education Committee is continuing in its search to find another teacher to help fill out our teaching staff for next year. We continue to run our ad in the Standard Bearer, and have interviewed several prospects.

The Board and Education Committee are investigating options concerning the most beneficial school day start and finish times for future school years. The board will keep you informed of any future decisions on this issue.

Our Web Committee has been hard at work keeping the Heritage website up to date and full of useful information. The Web committee is busy in the work of converting the format of our web site. Although you will not see this improvement when you go to the site, this back-up format will make it much easier to update the site with current information. If you have a chance to visit our web site please do so at: www.heritagechs.org

The Building and Grounds Committee has been busy over our holiday break. New lockers were purchased and assembled. The students existing lockers were moved from their present location near the Calvary Church office, to the basement lunchroom area. The committee has also been working with our Protestant Reformed Grade School on seeking out future land prospects for a combined location. The need to have our own building cannot be delayed much longer.

The Technology Committee has been working with the building committee, in planning for next year’s computer courses. The increase in the number of students may make it necessary to relocate our computer lab to another room. Options are being discussed and looked at.

The Finance Committee reports that our building fund stands at $566,547.00. We prayerfully ask for your continued support.

Some upcoming events we have planned are a Junior/Senior banquet (a time in which our junior class bids farewell to the seniors) and a class trip for the seniors, the details of which are still being worked out.

Heritage basketball teams are just wrapping up the season. For the first time, we have been able to put together a boy’s team consisting of 10 players. Our coaches for the boys are Dan Zandstra & Jeff Zylstra and for the girls’ team Kate Van Uffelen & Sandra Dykstra. Both teams have worked very hard this year. As a board, we would like to thank the coaches for taking time out of their busy schedules to help in developing our young peoples’ athletic skills and sportsmanship.

After 23 years as an Association for Protestant Reformed Secondary Education, we have reached the point of our first graduation ceremony, which will take place on Saturday, May 29. DV

We ask that you keep Heritage in your prayers. God has blessed us with a staff that is dedicated and committed to teaching from a sound Reformed base.

“Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my way. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.” Proverbs 8: 32 & 33

In His Service,
The Board