Trinity Christian School, Canberra

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Trinity Christian School
Established	1980
School Type	Independent, Day
Location	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Enrolment	>1000
Employees	>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.

1 Facilities
2 Enrollment and staff
3 Curriculum
4 Extracurricular activities
5 History
6 Controversy
7 References

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Enrollment and staff

Trinity Christian School has more than 1080 students,^[2] and a currently-planned expansion will increase this number slightly.^[3] The staff of the school includes 76 full-time teachers, and 32 part-time teachers.

[edit] Curriculum

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

[edit] Extracurricular activities

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

[edit] 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.^[4]

[edit] Controversy

Originally because Trinity is an ultra-conservative Christian school it did not have a sexual education program and things such as teenage pregnancy and homosexuality where not spoken or educated about within the curriculum, this caused much dismay amongst many students and members of the community as it did not give students the opportunity to be educated in life issues that are very real amongst many students attending the school. This has since been amended.^{[citation needed]}