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Please
welcome New Covenant Christian School to LCGS! Our members unanimously approved
at the Special Congregational Meeting on Sunday, April 26, a proposal to enter
into an agreement with New Covenant Christian School to lease our facilities for
its Upper School Campus, beginning Aug. 1 and continuing for five consecutive,
11-month school years through June 30, 2014. Celebrating its 10th anniversary
this year, New Covenant is a ministry of New Covenant Presbyterian Church, 128
St. Mary's Church Road, Abingdon. Operated in the Classical learning style, the
school also has a Grammar School Campus for children in pre-kindergarten through
grade 6 at New Covenant Presbyterian.
New Covenant's Upper School is
now enrolling students entering grades 7-11, and is presently housed at Calvary
Baptist Church, Bel Air. Our facilities will offer the campus a home much closer
to New Covenant Presbyterian.
Jean Armstrong, founding principal of NCCS,
told the congregation the school is making a five-year commitment to Good Shepherd.
During that time, she said, the school will continue to save money and look for
land in hopes of someday having its own campus with space for athletic fields.
"Children are designed by God to learn in specific ways," Jean said, adding "there
are no other classical schools in Harford County." She described a "trinity" of
styles in the classical school, which has made the school have slow, steady growth.
NCCS follows the classical "Trivium" of grammar, logic and rhetoric.
There
are 64 students in grades 7-9 this year at the Calvary location. The school's
vision is that students will be servant leaders. The first graduating class will
be in 2011. Space is needed initially for about 60 students in six classes, but
the goal is to grow the school to 120 students in grades 7-11, Jean said. |
