Wycliffe Christian School (also known as WCS) is the largest independent Christian School located in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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History

Wycliffe Christian School started as a small school of 25 students based in a church hall in Mount Riverview

Mount Riverview, New South Wales

Mount Riverview is a town off the Great Western Highway about 2 km NE of Blaxland in the Lower Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 70 kilometres west of Sydney, Australia...

 until it moved into the Warrimoo

Warrimoo, New South Wales

Warrimoo is a village in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Warrimoo is located 75 kilometres west of Sydney, in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains...

 campus in 1977 under the name John Wycliffe Christian School, named after John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached...

, the man who translated the bible from Latin to English in 1382. Since moving to the Warrimoo location, the school has had 5 major renovations, the last of which being the construction of a multi-million dollar multi-purpose hall complex and 5th quadrangle in 2007.

Under the first principal, Robert Johnston, the school developed a sound reputation of Christian education and enrolments reached 700 students. Geoff Bowser replaced Robert Johnston as principal in 2005, 27 years after the School was founded.

In 2008 Wycliffe opened their 'transition' class which provides Christian pre-kindergarten daycare services