St Anne’s opens for public viewing

A GLIMPSE OF NEW SCHOOL… Father Joe Taylor addressing over 100 people who turned up last week for the St Anne’s College community opening day and celebration of the Feast of St Anne. Photo: David Lee.
A GLIMPSE OF NEW SCHOOL… Father Joe Taylor addressing over 100 people who turned up last week for the St Anne’s College community opening day and celebration of the Feast of St Anne. Photo: David Lee.
A GLIMPSE OF NEW SCHOOL… Father Joe Taylor addressing over 100 people who turned up last week for the St Anne’s College community opening day and celebration of the Feast of St Anne. Photo: David Lee.
A GLIMPSE OF NEW SCHOOL… Father Joe Taylor addressing over 100 people who turned up last week for the St Anne’s College community opening day and celebration of the Feast of St Anne. Photo: David Lee.

APPROXIMATELY 150 people turned up to the almost completed St Anne’s College for a community opening day, where the school also celebrated and recognised the Feast of St Anne as well as 12 months to the day since the turning of the sod for stage one of the state-of-the-art school.

St Anne’s College principal, Dom Poppa said, “The day gave our families and the community an opportunity to have a look and gave people the chance to experience the different learning spaces.

“We have over 20 learning spaces that are a combination of project rooms, study nooks and studios as well as larger collective spaces.

“We had some great positive feedback and there was a lot of excitement from those who walked through the facility. Words like beautiful came out quite often.

“One of our ex-parishioners said schools have changed since their day. She said that she could see that every space at St Anne’s would be able to be used in a variety of ways and learners will be able to use all of those spaces.

“We are close to completion and hope to have a handover in mid August and we’re already working towards stage two. We’ve got a grant application in for stage two. Stage one will last for the first two years and allow for a capacity of 240 students and we anticipate we will start building stage two in 2020 to be ready for 2021.

“Enrollments are fairly healthy at the moment but we still have spaces available, which shows that the community is getting on board with what our school is able to offer and we’ve also had quite a few enquiries from families about on-going future enrollments.

“We are looking forward to having our learners start next year and to grow and move into the future.”