Trinity Christian School, Canberra

Infobox Aust school private
name = Trinity Christian School


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established = 1980
type = Independent, Day
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city = Canberra
state = Australian Capital Territory
country = Australia flagicon|Australia
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enrolment = >1000
num_employ = >100
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homepage = [www.tcs.act.edu.au tcs homepage]

Trinity Christian School, founded in 1980, is a private Christian k-12, co-Educational school located in Wanniassa in the Tuggeranong Valley of Canberra ACT Australia.

Facilities

The campus of Trinity Christian School consists of colonial-style buildings, and in addition to classrooms, includes an oval, computer labs, a technology complex, a library, a music/drama studio, science labs, and a multi-purpose hall. [ [http://www.schoolchoice.com.au/find_a_school?cid=12344&pid=2702801 findschools.com.au] ]

Enrollment and staff

Trinity Christian School has more than 1080 students, [ [http://www.csa.edu.au/schools_res.php?keywords=&region=ACT&school=All_&stater=WA&x=1&y=1 csa.edu.au] ] and a currently-planned expansion will increase this number slightly. [ [http://www.canberrasydney.com/schools/trinity-christian/ CanberraSydney.com] ] The staff of the school includes 76 full-time teachers, and 32 part-time teachers.

Curriculum

Trinity Christian School provides honors classes in Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, Calculus, English, Chemistry, European History, Pre-Calculus, and United States History.

Extracurricular activities

Extracurricular activities include band, ISCF, Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, musical production, instrumental music program, dance festival and camps.

History

Shortly after its founding in 1980, Trinity was amongst three schools that were included in a proposal by the then Education minister, Mr Wal Fife. The idea weas that schools with falling enrolments should take in students from private schools. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9YcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Trinity+Christian+School%22+canberra&dq=%22Trinity+Christian+School%22+canberra&ei=F6B7R4eMD4fQiwHsgMmDBA&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1 School Ties: Private Schooling in Australia, Geoffrey Maslen, Muthuen, 1982] p. ISBN 0454004362 accessed date=January 2008

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