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All Blacks find time for smaller players

The might be preparing for the big game, but the All Blacks still found time to play alongside some of their younger fans. Rugby players from six Dunedin primary schools were joined by six considerably older players from the slightly better-known New Zealand team at the Edgar Centre yesterday for a fun Rippa Rugby tournament. […]

18-year classroom block idea now realised

An idea that started almost 20 years ago has become a reality as Liberton Christian School in Dunedin opens a new junior classroom block. Eighteen years ago Dunedin couple Ross and Catherine Pettigrew bought No3 Hillary St in the northern suburb of Liberton with the idea that it could be used in the future as […]

Shout out from World Vision’s CEO

Liberton Christian School raised $6667 in the 2016 World Vision Famine. The money raised will go to help refugee children living in Jordan. The school’s extraordinary effort placed them as the top fundraising school in Dunedin, despite their small size, and earned them a ‘shout out’ from World Vision’s CEO Chris Clarke. “You might be […]

Food for thought

For the first time in 41 years, the focus of the annual 40 Hour Famine has changed to 40 Hours for Refugee Children, putting the spotlight on the Syrian crisis – the biggest humanitarian crisis of recent times. Liberton Christian School ran a sleep-over, simulating a refugee camp, at the school last night. Principal Fiona […]

School children take on inventive famine challenge

A group of school children are preparing to spend the night in refugee-like conditions to help raise money for those less fortunate. Liberton Christian School pupils are taking on the inventive challenge as part of this year’s 40 Hour Famine. And they’re looking to raise more than ever before. Source: http://www.dunedintv.co.nz/news/school-children-take-inventive-famine-challenge

Christian school expands with fourth classroom

An integrated Dunedin school battling the Ministry of Education to have its roll cap increased, has gone ahead and built a fourth classroom in the hope the ministry will approve the increase later this year. Liberton Christian School principal Fiona Sizemore said the school board of trustees applied to the ministry for the increase last […]

Dunedin school roll balloons

Liberton Christian School in Dunedin believes their ballooning roll is a sign of God’s blessing. Principal Fiona Sizemore said prayer was a key to the Pine Hill school’s growth. ”Our board of trustees is really committed to serving the Christian community—helping parents to educate their children in a way that honours God,” said Mrs Sizemore. […]

Roll booming at Dunedin Christian school

A ballooning roll at Liberton Christian School in Dunedin has again forced the board of trustees to apply to the Ministry of Education for a roll-cap increase to meet demand. Principal Fiona Sizemore said the roll was restricted to 75 pupils and, with present enrolments, it was expected the school, in Pine Hill, would be […]

Liberton – An Antipodean View

Liberton Christian School’s founders settled on its name in 1981. A vision of several Christian schools for the city was foreseen, and to include ‘Dunedin’ in the School’s name was viewed as unnecessarily restrictive. Liberton is a small suburb of Dunedin. Together with neighbouring Pine Heights and Dalmore, these suburbs are usually referred to collectively […]