| Liberton Christian School | |
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| Address | |
5 Hillary Street, Liberton, Dunedin | |
| Coordinates | 45°50′50.33″S170°30′45.8″E / 45.8473139°S 170.512722°E Coordinates: 45°50′50.33″S170°30′45.8″E / 45.8473139°S 170.512722°E |
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| Type | State Integrated Full Primary School (Year 0-8) |
| Motto | In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge |
| Established | 1982 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 4117 |
| Principal | Fiona Sizemore |
| School roll | 99 [1] (March 2019) |
| Socio-economic decile | 8 |
| Website | libertonchristian.school.nz |
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Liberton Christian School is a state integrated primary school located in Dunedin, New Zealand. Established in 1982, it caters for about 99 [1] children from new entrants to Year 8 in five classrooms.
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country has two main landmasses—the North Island, and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands. It has a total land area of 268,000 square kilometres (103,500 sq mi). New Zealand is about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland.
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Liberton Christian School is non-denominational and is operated by a Board of Trustees comprising parents, school staff, and proprietor’s representatives who are fully involved in its operation.
Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, is a synonym for anyone in a position of trust and so can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility to transfer the title of ownership to the person named as the new owner, in a trust instrument, called a beneficiary. A trustee can also refer to a person who is allowed to do certain tasks but not able to gain income, although that is untrue. Although in the strictest sense of the term a trustee is the holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary, the more expansive sense encompasses persons who serve, for example, on the board of trustees of an institution that operates for a charity, for the benefit of the general public, or a person in the local government.
The proprietor, Dunedin Christian Schools Association, owns the school property and buildings. In 1999 the proprietor entered into an integration agreement with the Minister of Education to enable the school to enter the state schooling system while adhering to its own special Christian character.
The Minister of Education is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the country's schools, and is in charge of the Ministry of Education.
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Its adherents, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, called the Old Testament in Christianity, and chronicled in the New Testament. It is the world's largest religion with about 2.4 billion followers.
