Noosa Christian College is a co-educational Primary and Secondary College, located in

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, near

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. The college is owned and operated by the

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and its sister college,

Northpine Christian College Northpine Christian College is an independent Seventh-day Adventist co-educational primary and secondary day school, located at Dakabin, on the north side of Brisbane of Queensland, Australia. The College is owned and operated by the Seventh ...

, is located in

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, approximately 1 hour south of Cooroy. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.

History

Principal Ross Reid established the school in 2003. It has grown into a

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school with a one-to-one laptop program for the Secondary College (Years 7 to 12). In 2011, the school celebrated its first graduation of a year 12 class. During the 2011 year, the Hon John Hogg, Senator for Queensland and

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, officially opened a new 2 million library funded entirely by the Australian Government Building Education Revolution (BER) scheme. Noosa Christian College is one of 55 Adventist schools in Australia. These Adventist schools have received A$100 million as part of the Australian government's education modernisation program. This is part of the A$14.7 billion total economic stimulus strategy that was available to all 9,540 state and private schools in Australia.

Spiritual aspects

All students take religion classes each year that they are enrolled. These classes cover topics in

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history and

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and

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doctrines. The student body meet once a week for a chapel service in two groups, one for primary students and the other secondary students.

Sports

The college offers touch football for Year 1 to Year 12, senior and junior boys and girls teams.

References

External links

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Queensland Education Department Schools Directory listing
Private primary schools in Queensland Private secondary schools in Queensland Schools on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Educational institutions established in 2003 Adventist secondary schools in Australia Adventist primary schools in Australia 2003 establishments in Australia Shire of Noosa Cooroy, Queensland {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub

History

Spiritual aspects

Sports

See also

References

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