Montmorency Primary School ~ Our New School Plans
Stage 1: New Classrooms Building completed in July 2014!
Stage 2: New MPS Administration and Multipurpose Room Building to be complete by January 2015
Building Update - March 2014
Our building is really taking shape. It will be a unique learning space - able to support our culture and the development of exciting possibilities! We are still on target for a 20 June handover, giving us a week before the holidays to move furniture.
We started 2014 with 185 students and so will be entitled to a Mod5 double classroom as well as our core classroom building. These buildings are well configured learning spaces – a far cry from the old “portables” concept. The fact about Departmental Building Projects is that a “Core” building is built, in our case to house a notional 175 children, and then Mod5’s appear related to yearly enrolments. The good news is that we will never become the forest of portables seen in areas of rapid growth thus ensuring that the spacious grounds our children now enjoy will remain a feature of the school. Growth within the school is an aspect that will ensure better access to funding and resources but it is important to grow in a quality manner. It is so easy to look at big schools from afar and assume that everyone is being carried along in that stream and everything must be ok. Having come from big schools I really value the personalised and individual care and connection we have in this wonderful environment. The lessons we have learned about a small school need to inform our growth and development – we are so appreciative of you all for selecting our school and supporting our focus as we look forward to an even brighter future.
-Michael Otway, MPS Principal
Our building is really taking shape. It will be a unique learning space - able to support our culture and the development of exciting possibilities! We are still on target for a 20 June handover, giving us a week before the holidays to move furniture.
We started 2014 with 185 students and so will be entitled to a Mod5 double classroom as well as our core classroom building. These buildings are well configured learning spaces – a far cry from the old “portables” concept. The fact about Departmental Building Projects is that a “Core” building is built, in our case to house a notional 175 children, and then Mod5’s appear related to yearly enrolments. The good news is that we will never become the forest of portables seen in areas of rapid growth thus ensuring that the spacious grounds our children now enjoy will remain a feature of the school. Growth within the school is an aspect that will ensure better access to funding and resources but it is important to grow in a quality manner. It is so easy to look at big schools from afar and assume that everyone is being carried along in that stream and everything must be ok. Having come from big schools I really value the personalised and individual care and connection we have in this wonderful environment. The lessons we have learned about a small school need to inform our growth and development – we are so appreciative of you all for selecting our school and supporting our focus as we look forward to an even brighter future.
-Michael Otway, MPS Principal