BalCC Yesterday Until Today

BalCC 1985 - 1990

A small group of parents met in the early 1980s with a view to establishing a Christian school in Ballarat. Eventually, a steering committee decided to commence in 1985 with one teacher. Under the leadership of inaugural Principal Mr Winston Broad, 22 students began their schooling at Carmel Christian Community School, with assistance from Mrs Rosemary Lindner in the infant section. The school adopted ‘Serve one another in love’ as the school motto in 1988. The school was hosted on the grounds of the Carmel Welsh Presbyterian Church, meeting first in the Bethel Hall, before modular buildings were purchased and installed on adjacent land leased from the church. Toward the end of the first five-year period, land was purchased in Vickers Street Sebastopol. Works were undertaken, including the building of the initial brick staffroom and toilet block. Near the end of 1990, the modular buildings were transported up from Carmel Welsh and sited where they are today.

Founding Families

We would like to pay tribute to the first families who sent their children to Carmel Christian Community School as pioneer students.

The ‘Brief History of the School’ written to celebrate the tenth anniversary in 1995 lists the fifteen families whose 22 children made up the students who began at the school in February 1985.