![]() ![]() I really enjoyed the junior prizegiving last year and seeing the numerous ways our students have “stepped-up” to serve and give expression to our school values. Braving the fantastic winter weather that we enjoy here in Palmerston North and celebrating both the wins, and the character-building losses along the way. Over the years, it has been wonderful to stand on the sidelines of Hockey fields with other Cornerstone parents willing and cheering our sons and daughters on. As such, in many ways, I am no stranger to the school. Mrs Rose of course is the Team Leader in Year 7/8, and Harrison and Ashton have been attending Cornerstone since they started school.įrom my point of view, it is a real joy to serve in the same school my family is part of. ![]() ![]() In coming to Cornerstone, I join the rest of my family here. I have been impressed by the many supportive staff, parents and students that have popped in for a chat or a handshake to express their greetings. Thank you everyone for the wonderful welcome I have received starting at Cornerstone this year. Please drop in and say hello if you are over near the administration office or if you see me wandering around the school grounds. My office door is usually open and I love meeting people in our wider Cornerstone family. When not in school you will find me gardening or looking after our lifestyle block just out of Ashhurst casting a fly for trout down at some local river or walking the hills with a pack on my back. Together we have four grown-up daughters – two of whom are also teachers here in Palmerston North. On a personal level, I am married to Anne-Marie Mitchell who is also on staff here at Cornerstone Christian School as a teacher aide. In our modern world, learning can occur wherever and whenever you like, but good character develops when you are young, so that is our focus good grades, and achieving to one’s best, are a natural outflow of developing good character. Although our children achieve highly in their academic education and our school achieves excellent results on a national level, I believe that it is more important to focus on their developing character than their academic grades. We have a strong character development focus with an emphasis on our values of respect, diligence, kindness and integrity with an underpinning value of humility before God. Ultimately our key desire is that every Cornerstone student comes to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and develops their own relationship with God. I believe that discipleship is simply learning to live the way that God wants us to live and I love being part of this process in our students’ lives. In 2016, I was appointed to the position of Deputy Principal and in January 2020 I assumed the role of Acting Principal.Īs a school, we tend to focus on the holistic development of each child – or to put it more simply, their ‘discipleship’. I can honestly say that I have spent the last twenty years doing my dream job – teaching students across the wider Manawatu region – five of those as Teaching-Principal at Awahou School in the Pohangina Valley, and here at Cornerstone Christian School since mid-2008. It is an honour and a privilege to be a teacher and educational leader here at Cornerstone Christian School. Principal Chris MitchellNau mai, haere mai ki te te kura o Ihu Karaiti te Kamaka! ![]()
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