OUR SCHOOL
School History
In 2011, Toongabbie Christian School celebrated 30 years of providing Christian schooling to hundreds of families.
The school was established in 1981 as a ministry of Toongabbie Baptist Church. Originally known as Toongabbie Baptist Christian Community School, the name was changed in 2001.
The school has grown from its beginnings as a small Primary school located in rooms at Toongabbie Baptist Church. In subsequent years classes were held at various locations, including Dunmore House at Pendle Hill. Through the mid eighties and early nineties, the current campus at Metella Road, Toongabbie, was established and developed.
Today, the school is a pleasant well-resourced campus that caters for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. With an enrolment of over 960 students and more than 100 staff, the school offers a dynamic and exciting learning environment.
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Christian Schooling
There is much discussion in the media regarding the nature of education and the role of the school. The current Government narrative which shapes education is as follows:
In this story, the nature of education and the measurement of its success is being reduced to the quality of student performance in national examinations. Students are not economic units and education is not a commodity. This is a reductionist view of personhood.
Education is all about the relationship between knowledge, learning and living life. The question fundamental to providing an effective education is the question, “What does it mean to live a truly human life?”
A Christian education holds out an alternative narrative to the surrounding culture and is firmly anchored in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a transforming vision for life that is about wholeness expressed in right relationships with the Lord, oneself and others.
Toongabbie Christian School is a Christ-centred learning community which is shaped by Biblical truth and led by the Spirit of God. Here students can belong and be transformed in every part of their lives. In partnership with our families and their churches, our goal is the development of the whole person in community with others, exercising their gifts in the service of the Lord.
We strive to grow young men and women who develop spiritually, socially, intellectually, physically and academically.
The teaching and learning that occurs is a core part of assisting students to learn to live well. It not only focuses on core literacy and numeracy, but the TCS educational program is holistic; integrating truth and faith, academic, community, service and the co-curricular program. Purposeful and creative learning environments promote the development of students’ gifts.