Hillbrook is a co-educational Anglican secondary school, with around 720 students, located in Brisbane's inner north-west. Our motto, 'In Balance We Grow,' underpins all our actions as a school community. Hillbrook offers an academic curriculum, fostering an integrated balance of personal, spiritual, intellectual, and physical growth. Our greatest aim is to empower young people to live confidently, capably, sensitively, and creatively in the global community and contribute to its direction.
Community is a fundamental human need, and like balance, it is in danger of being lost in western society. Research supports a link between communal school values and students' academic achievements. We strive to embody in the school's culture, for students, staff, and parents, a sense of community, a place where people share high levels of trust and respect for one another.
The fig tree, planted on Inauguration Day 1986, was a central symbol for the school's beginning. You will walk around our foundation tree each time you visit. The tree is a powerful visual metaphor for many things at Hillbrook: the growth of students and staff developing flexible yet strong foundations and the concept of balance.
We believe there is a spiritual dimension to every human life and strong evidence shows that young people are keen to explore this to seek deeper meaning in their own lives. Anglicanism is a form of Christianity that sees spiritual growth as a pilgrimage: a journey of exploration and discovery through a creative balance of scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. It is both inclusive and exploratory.
Students of any or no denomination are welcome at Hillbrook. All of our young people are required to embark on a personal voyage of spiritual exploration and compose their philosophy of life at the end of Year 12. As part of our framework, we have drawn from Rachael Kessler's eight principles as outlined in her book The Soul of Education:
Our Vision: To open minds, inspire hearts, and nurture dreams. Our Mission: To empower young people to make a positive difference. In carrying out our vision and mission, we develop students who are:
- Compassionate, ethical, and creative thinkers with a sense of curiosity, wonder, and hope,
- Able to demonstrate core academic knowledge and skills,
- Prepared for a productive, fulfilling, well-balanced life,
- Appreciative of their own and others spirituality, and
- Culturally and globally active.
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