Mirboo North palace opened
THE $7.5 million redevelopment of Mirboo North Secondary College is now complete.
The Victorian Government has delivered on its election commitment to rebuild the school.
Deputy Premier and Gippsland South MLA Peter Ryan officially opened the new school on Friday, providing students with a modern and flexible learning space.
Mr Ryan said the government had invested $7.5 million in the 2012-13 State Budget to enable the school to complete the long awaited redevelopment.
He said the investment enabled the construction of a modern flexible learning centre that replaced the buildings from the 1950s, and included new classrooms for general learning, art, information technology, food technology, science, languages, woodwork, multimedia and metalwork.
The technology rooms are up to 30 per cent bigger than before, providing a spacious, comfortable learning environment.
“These new facilities ensure Mirboo North Secondary College can continue to deliver the high quality curriculum and learning opportunities for its 350 students both now and in the future,” Mr Ryan said.
“A key feature of this new centre is the ability for classrooms to be opened up in a number of ways to create lecture rooms, small study spaces, and meeting areas to best suit the activity taking place.”
Mr Ryan said Mirboo North Secondary College had an excellent reputation for high academic achievement in VCE and this redevelopment would ensure that continued.
“This investment means students wanting to go on to university will have the learning facilities they need to achieve their required ATAR score,” the Deputy Premier said.
“It also means for students wanting to pursue a trade, such as carpentry or metalwork, those wanting to prepare for a career in hospitality, on farm, or in the arts, they will have the facilities they need to best prepare for the career that awaits them.
“As the leader of the Nationals and as the local Member of Parliament, I am proud to open this wonderful facility.”
Mirboo North Secondary College principal Karen Lanyon said the school community was thrilled with the new facilities.
“When we began designing this project, we wanted to create a high quality flexible learning space that met the needs of the whole school community and this centre has definitely met that brief,” Ms Lanyon said.
“An important part of that brief was to ensure rural students had facilities equal to if not better than their city counterparts, and that is what this facility offers.
“This truly is an outcome years in the making and collectively we are extremely proud of the new facility.”
Ms Lanyon said the new centre had allowed staff to better link teaching programs with hands on projects.
“The new food technology area is at the standard it can be certified as a cafe, which allows students to get the feel of an actual restaurant, while the VCAL students are currently building a market garden to grow produce which will be used in the food tech area,” she said.
“Students undertaking the VCAL program will also learn about and the build a pizza oven to complement their learning.”
Mr Ryan said the students of Mirboo North Secondary College were nothing less than remarkable during the redevelopment progress, allowing a real success story to be the result.
Ready to learn: Deputy Premier and Gippsland South MLA Peter Ryan (centre) is as thrilled with the new facility at Mirboo North Secondary College as students, from left, Siobhan Hall, Harry Sands, Maddi Papa, Mackenzie Kerr and Nikita Schilke.
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