Above: Casey Central Secondary College principal Ian McKenzie with Narre Warren South MP Judith Graley and teachers Bethany Richardson and Lauren Cook welcome the new Year 7 students Jessie, Teagan, Zoe, Fatima and Nicole.
By Kelly Yates
CASEY Central Secondary College’s foundation students attended a year-seven orientation day this week.
The grade six students enjoyed a day of activities on Tuesday, after being welcomed by Narre Warren South MP Judith Graley.
The new college will open its doors in 2009 in temporary accommodation on the Hillsmeade Primary School site in Narre Warren South.
The school, one of the first Private Public Partnership schools, will open at its permanent site off Glasscocks Road in Cranbourne North in 2010.
Principal Ian McKenzie estimates the school will peak at around 1400 students, with a long-term enrolment of 1100.
Mr McKenzie, who was also the inaugural principal of Kambrya College, said the Government had ensured that the temporary accommodation was “above expectation.”
“The facilities branch of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has delivered a modern set of classrooms,” he said.
Mr McKenzie will implement literacy and numeracy programs at the new college.
“Each class will have no more than 20 students and two teachers with them at all times,” he said.
Mr McKenzie said he intended to create the best state school, which the local community could be proud of.
Casey Central Secondary College would adopt a “schools within a school” approach, where students were grouped into small, learning communities within the broader school structure.
