Learn. Serve. Lead.

Kampong Speu, Cambodia

About our school

GTIS is a Christian school in rural Kampong Speu. We teach Grades 1 to 12. Our aim is to raise the educational standards of the children here, because education is one of the ways to improve standards of living and to raise the future generation of Cambodia.

The Glad Tidings International School campus in Kampong Speu
What We Stand For

Our mission, vision and motto

These three things shape how we teach and how we treat one another.

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Our mission

To deliver quality education in a Christian environment, equipping our students spiritually and academically to lead and impact the lives of one another, the people of Cambodia and beyond.

2

Our vision

God-Centered Thinkers, Intentional Learners, Nation Builders and Servant leaders That is what we hope each child who passes through this school will grow into.

3

Our motto

LEARN . SERVE . LEAD Learn well. Serve the people around you. Lead with integrity when your turn comes.

A class of GTIS pupils with their teachers in front of the painted school mural reading Learn, Serve, Lead, beside a board setting out the school vision
The pupils painted the motto board themselves — Learn, Serve, Lead — with the school vision on the board beside it.
Our Values

RICE: what we teach every day

Resilience, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence. The stalks of rice on our school crest stand for these four.

R

Resilience

Some days learning is hard. We teach children to keep going, to try again, and to finish what they start.

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Integrity

Doing what is right when nobody is watching. Honesty in class, in examinations, and with friends.

C

Compassion

Noticing when someone needs help, and then helping. Our pupils look after their classmates and their neighbours.

E

Excellence

Ordinary work done carefully and well, whether that is a page of mathematics, a football match, or a song.

Learning at GTIS

What children learn here

A full education from Grade 1 to Grade 12, grounded in Christian principles and built around the whole child.

A GTIS teacher with a class of pupils at their desks Grades 1 to 12

One school, Grade 1 to Grade 12

A child can start with us in Grade 1 and stay through to Grade 12. Our pupils sit Cambodia’s national examinations; the first Grade 9 class did so in 2012 and the first Grade 12 class in 2016.

The whole school seated in the hall for chapel, facing a cross on the platform Christian Foundation

A Christian education

We are a Christian school, and faith shapes the ordinary parts of the school day. We want to equip our students spiritually as well as academically, and to see them grow into people of integrity, discipline, resilience and compassion.

Two GTIS pupils in school uniform, smiling, with the school grounds behind them Beyond Lessons

Where character is practised

Five student clubs give pupils somewhere to practise leading and serving: Student Leaders, the Football Club, the Music Club, the Youth Brigade and the Alumni Club.

See our student clubs
Who Teaches Here

Looking after the teachers

A school is only as good as the people standing in front of the class, so the school invests in them deliberately.

1

Time set apart

Teachers and staff go on retreat regularly. The work is demanding and the school treats rest and reflection as part of it, not as time taken away from it.

2

Training every year

Educators from Singapore come out each year to train the teaching staff — so that what is taught here keeps pace, and so that teachers are not left to work it out alone.

3

Seeing other schools

Teachers are sent on visits to educational institutions abroad. Seeing how other schools work is one of the surest ways of bringing something back to your own classroom.

GTIS teachers and staff at their annual staff retreat
GTIS teachers and staff at their annual retreat — rest, spiritual renewal and professional learning together.
The original 2007 schoolhouse of Hope International Primary School in Kampong Speu
Our Story

From three pupils to a full school

The school was founded in April 2007 by Glad Tidings Church, Singapore, in partnership with ICM Singapore. It opened that October with three pupils and four teachers.

Read our history

Our school hymn

Pupils, teachers and staff sing this together at Glad Tidings International School.

TUNE: GLAD TIDINGS 8.7.8.7.D

Glad Tidings International School Hymn

“Bless Our School”

Key: A Major (3♯) Moderato maestoso (♩ = 72)
4 4 A E/G# F#m C#m Bless our school, dear God we pray, D A/C# Bm7 E7 A Make it safe by night and day. A E/G# F#m C#m Bless us with in - teg - ri - ty, D A/C# Bm7 E7 A Keep us in Lord Je - sus' way. E F#m D E Bless the teach - ers, Lord, we ask, A/C# D E7 A May they find joy in their task. F#m C#m D E Bless all peo - ple who serve this school, Bm F#m E7 A May they find your pres - ence true. A E/G# F#m E May our work be pleas - ing to you, D E7 A (Fermata) From now till e - ter - ni - ty!
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Grades 1 to 12

Thinking about GTIS for your child?

We teach Grades 1 to 12 in Kampong Speu, in a Christian school that works on character as well as marks — resilience, integrity, compassion and excellence. Call us, send a message, or come and meet the teachers. You are welcome to ask at any time of year.

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