The triangle represents our Trinitarian God, three persons and one, indivisible God. Inside of the Triangle is found the Southern Cross, representing PNG along with its heroes and saints, who are models for our students. The cross represents the missionaries and the canoe head represents our local community of Vanimo. We are so blessed and honored to have God himself as our school patron, model and protector. In Him we are immersed together with all our reality for in him we live and move and have our being. On the top is the southern cross, as our national emblem and distinctive of our continent of Oceania. It also is the cross of effort, surrender and self-denial for a greater love that we would like to shine in each member of HTHS, that cross that is “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ Crucified the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:23).

The starts, represent the saints and national heroes that enlighten our path and inspire us to follow their examples, such as Sir.  Michael T. Somare, Blessed Pete Torot, Gabriel Pratahe, Lucas Leky and many other models of our homeland.

On the bottom of the same triangle, over the sea, is the missionary cross, a sign of the evangelization and its missionaries who were the pioneers in education in Vanimo. At the beginning of this school, it was the Passionists, and today it is the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word. Hence, one finds the letters that represent our institute: V.C.F.E. (Verbum Caro Factum Est: and the Word became flesh). On the right, we find a distinctive and traditional symbol in the West Coast Vanimo area, where the first school institution was stablished in Vanimo (Lote), which is the “canoe head”, artistically formed by the most historically prized fish and seabirds. The canoe head marks the course of the canoe and indicates where to paddle. In this way, we also seek to form the intelligence of our students, with an integral formation, so that later they can guide their lives even in the stormy seas, so that they know where it is worthwhile to spend the efforts and energies of their lives. Thus, Our Lord said “set sail into the deep” (Lk 5:4), as John Paul II repeatedly encouraged the young people of the third millennium “´Do not be afraid!´ Do not be afraid to enter oceans that appear to be stormy, to swim against the current¨.

The IVE Missionaries, together with the local community, form the bases of this school by fixing their eyes on the realities above and working together in the education of youths for the glory of God and the good Papua New Guinea.