From the Principal
I am writing this article on the 40th Anniversary of the first day of school for Green Point Christian College – 17 February 1982. Seventeen Primary students came to class with one teacher in the rooms above the Little Coasties preschool. Today we have 1095 students from Kindergarten to Year 12 and occupy our own premises on about 17 acres of land which the school has purchased over the years.
Green Point Baptist Church had the vision and courage to start a private school and have been willing to see it grow and expand way beyond what the founders had originally envisioned or probably imagined. What many of you will not know is that Mrs Kerrie Rochford, our Year 7 Year Advisor and Drama teacher, was a member of the founding school committee and one of the team that worked tirelessly in the early days to support its establishment and growth.
The school company, Green Point Christian College Ltd has just over 50 company members who are all current members of Green Point Baptist Church and continue to pray for and support the school. The school has now joined the Melos Foundation which was set up by the GPCC Board to assist with governance, leadership and business administration of our school and for others who join the Foundation. The Melos Foundation nominates directors of the company thus relieving the Church of the burden of supplying all the directors from the Church membership.
In developing the vision of the pioneers, the school company has also established Yattalunga Valley Christian School which opened this year on the GPCC site as a special school for children on the autism spectrum. The company has also purchased a property of 1200 acres in the Brewarrina Shire with the goal of developing outdoor education activities for GPCC students and with the capacity to lease part of the property for the establishment of a boarding school for children from the Brewarrina Shire and other remote outback areas.
On this anniversary day we will be gifting each student a lapel pin commemorating the 40th Anniversary. An anniversary photo booklet has been prepared and is accessible via this link:
We give thanks to God for faithful and hardworking people who have contributed to our school and made it what it is today. We continue to develop it out of respect for those pioneers. During this 40th anniversary, we can say with the Apostle Paul who wrote to the people of Corinth nearly 2000 years ago: Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! It is only because of the gift of Jesus that we have had any reason to bring this school into being and to keep it going as we seek to use it to equip a new generation for life in all its fullness.
Congratulations to our 2021 students on their HSC results, please click on link below for HSC highlights and comments.
Photo: Deputy Principal, Mrs Jane McLarty; Principal, Mr Phillip Nash; Board Chair, Emeritus Professor Kevin Sproats; GPBC Senior Pastor, Rev. Phil Blair
Principal