Wycliffe Christian School

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

History

Wycliffe Christian School started in 1977 as a small school of 25 students based in a church hall in Mount Riverview until it moved into the Warrimoo campus. It was originally called name John Wycliffe Christian School, named after John Wycliffe, the man who translated the bible from Latin to English in 1382. Since moving to the Warrimoo location, the school has had 6 major renovations, the last of which being the construction of a multi million dollar Administration Office in 2013. In 2017 Dr Lewis left the school to go and work at west mead hospital, to help children with cancer. Before he left he was voted teacher of the year and most influential teacher.

Under the first principal, Robert Johnston, the school developed a sound reputation of Christian education and enrolments reached 700 students, but as of 2014 has dropped to 562. Geoff Bowser replaced Robert Johnston as principal in 2005, 27 years after the School was founded. Geoff Bowser was replaced in 2015 by Peter Jamieson, then in 2017 George Granville, then Kathy Pereira and the current principle David Johnston began in 2018. In 2008 Wycliffe opened their 'transition' class which provides Christian pre-kindergarten daycare services.